Return of The Warriors: The Toltec Teachings

• Understand the nature of the Toltec warrior's path as Mares presents it: not a warrior in the military sense but a spiritual warrior who wages war against the encrustation of habit, conditioning, and the self-pity that prevents full engagement with life as it is
• Grasp the concept of impeccability as the path's central discipline: how the warrior's unflinching honesty about their own behaviour and its impact, combined with the willingness to act with full accountability for that impact, creates a form of personal power unavailable to ordinary self-deception
• Recognise the recapitulation practice: what it consists of, how it works, why the systematic review and energetic recovery of one's complete personal history is considered by the Toltec tradition to be essential preparation for the higher stages of the path
• Learn the stalking and dreaming disciplines as Mares introduces them: how the warrior systematically manages their personal power by eliminating energy drains (through impeccability) and how the development of controlled dreaming begins to open access to dimensions of awareness beyond ordinary waking consciousness
• Appreciate what Return of the Warriors adds to the Castaneda literature: the specific ways in which Mares' more systematic presentation makes explicit dimensions of the teaching that Castaneda's narrative approach left encoded in story — and what the combination of the two approaches reveals about the tradition as a whole