The notion of Men of Knowledge, Toltecs, and the warrior’s path first came into the public domain via the opus of Carlos Castaneda. Many have been on a mission to prove him wrong and label him a charlatan. Unmasking and debagging and disproving generates a lot of clicks and kudos.
“Look at me aren’t I clever, Trevor?”
In his narratives the Nagual don Juan is wise in plant and fungal lore. Juan takes the piss a lot and makes Carlos trip his nads off. He makes him sew together the lips of lizards. Nevertheless Carlos got an Anthropology Ph.D. for his work at a respectable university in California. Juan is part yokel-part shaman. So for him to remain wise in his own context out bush is more acceptable. In general I’ll speculate that things flaky are more acceptable in California than in London or Oxford, old chap.
What would happen should such a being end up in a world top ten university trying to teach fee paying undergraduates? How long could such a charlatan maintain his disguise?
My own personal view is that a true man of knowledge should have a wide subject coverage and that should include “modern” versions of science.
Théun Mares outlines a putative organisational flow chart:
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So the not doing of a Toltec might be to act as a mainstream science academic for over a decade, publishing papers, writing grant applications, raising venture capital and filing patent applications.
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Could a Toltec fake science know how?
Could a scientist fake Toltec know-how?
Would the Toltec be the not doing of the scientist or vice versa?
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