How Do You Know: The Toltec Warrior's Question That Destroys Scientism and Reclaims Personal Power
- Anaam
- Jun 10
- 4 min read
Welcome! today we are talking about something that might shake the very foundation of everything you think you know. the question is simple but powerful.
How do you know?
How do you know anything you believe is actually true? not because someone told you. Not because you read it in a best selling book. Not because a yoga teacher with a serene voice and a thousand dollar training certificate said it from a polished wooden stage - but because you yourself have verified it through direct personal experience.
This is the single most important character attribute a warrior can develop. The average human being moves through life carrying a mental library of ideas that were never theirs to begin with. They were handed over like cheap flyers at a busy intersection. A thought about chakras. A belief about near-death experiences. A certainty about energy bodies or spiritual hierarchies or what happens after you die. But ask them how they know, and the answer is almost always the same. Someone told them. Or “everyone believes it so it is obviously True” (shape of the earth anyone?). Or they read it in a popular book. All basically hear-say.
Let us take the example of chakras. The word itself has been butchered into a dozen westernized pronunciations. Shaakra. Sheykra.Shakraazz! Anyway, It does’t matter how you say it. What matters is that almost nobody who speaks about them has ever actually seen one, felt one, or verified their existence outside the theater of their own creative visualization. You sit down. You put on a meditation track. You focus on your root chakra, then your sacral chakra, then your solar plexus. And guess what happens? You feel something. Of course you do. Where attention goes, energy flows. That is a basic principle of Tai Chi and internal martial arts. If I ask you to send energy to your left hand right now, you will feel something in your left hand. That does not prove there is a mystical spinning wheel of light at that location. It proves you have a nervous system, an imagination, and the ability to direct your awareness.
Here is a better question. What if I wrote a book tomorrow and declared that everything you have been taught about chakras is wrong? There are not seven chakras. There are thirteen. Or twenty-two. Or none at all. How would you know I am wrong? You could not. Because the entire framework is built on hearsay. One person said something. Someone else repeated it with more confidence. A third person added a diagram. And before long, a million people are nodding along as if the truth has been discovered, when in reality a very efficient marketing machine simply did its job.
The same applies to near-death experiences. People come back from the brink and tell miraculous stories about tunnels, bright lights, and deceased relatives holding their hands. It sounds beautiful. It sounds comforting. But here is the Toltec Warrior’s perspective. The only way you can truly convince me about what happens after death is if you are dead. Not almost dead. Not ‘clinically dead’ for two minutes while a surgical team revived you. Dead. If you are standing in front of me as a disembodied spirit describing the other side, then I am willing to listen. Until then, you are an alive person telling me a story about something that happened while your brain was undergoing extreme physiological stress or a biological shutdown protocol that scientism in all it’s religious glory has no clue about. That is not verification. That is a narrative.
Nothing in this entire existence can be known with absolute certainty. The universe is intentionally designed as an endless mystery. Every time you try to tie a loose end into a neat little box and label it with a sharpie marker, the mystery shifts and laughs at your effort. This is not a weakness of existence. It is the very nature of it. As warriors, we do not run from the unknown. We do not plaster over it with borrowed beliefs and second-hand knowledge so we can feel safe and smart and spiritually advanced. We live inside the mystery. We breathe it. We let it be vast and uncomfortable and undefined.
What you must do starting today is question everything. Not in a paranoid or cynical way, but in a clean, surgical way. Ask yourself with every single piece of knowledge you carry: Did I arrive at this through my own direct verification? Or did someone hand it to me? If it was handed to you, what was their source? And who handed it to them? Eventually, you will trace almost everything back to nothing. Just a chain of people passing along ideas like a game of Chinese whispers that has been running for centuries.
This is not about becoming a lonely skeptic who believes in nothing. This is about reclaiming your personal power. Because every time you accept a piece of unverified hearsay as truth, you give away a little piece of your energy. You fill the mansion of your inner world with needless furniture that someone else designed, someone else built, and someone else convinced you to buy. After a while, you cannot even move through your own house because it is so cluttered with things you never truly wanted or needed.
The Toltec Warrior’s path is different. You develop enough personal power to verify what is true for you and discard the rest. You learn to think critically, not because you are angry or rebellious, but because you respect your own perception too much to let it be colonized by the loudest agenda in the room. You do not need to know how many chakras there are. You do not need to know whether Don Juan was a real historical figure. You do not need to know what happens after you take your last breath. You only need to be present in this moment, right now. And from this moment, ask the only question that matters. How do I know?
Walk in freedom,
See you next time.
Anaam
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