Do you know the Four Toltec Agreements?

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Do you know the Four Toltec Agreements?

And what if their origin was from Asia?

Learn more below

The Four Agreements are based on ancient Toltec wisdom and offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform your life to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

Here they are :

Be Impeccable With Your Word

Don’t Take Anything Personally

Don’t Make Assumptions

Always Do Your Best

Very simple, however memorizing and applying them long-term is much more difficult, just try 😊.

The Toltec were a society of scholars who were centered around Teotihuacan (near Mexico City) thousands of years ago.

The naguals (“masters”) of Toltec wisdom held ancient knowledge about a way of life focused on happiness and love, which they were forced to conceal and protect from conquest and misuse of power.

This way of life managed to be preserved and passed down through subsequent generations of naguals.

Don Miguel Ruiz is a modern-day nagual.

He wrote a book called The Four Agreements, published in 1997.

The book has sold over 15 million copies in the United States alone. It has been on the New York Times Bestselling list for over a decade and is published in 52 languages worldwide.

If you have never heard of this book, I strongly recommend it. Very powerful stuff.

Now how is that related to us Cintasia and to Asia ??

Marrying my Indonesian wife made me notice something striking: her features, dark hair, tan skin, almond-shaped eyes, bore an uncanny resemblance to Pocahontas and Native Americans.

Could there be a deeper connection?

Historically, Pocahontas was a Pamunkey woman, part of the Powhatan Confederacy in what’s now Virginia (USA), born around 1596. Her people were Algonquian-speaking Native Americans, descended from those ancient migrations out of Northeast Asia via the Bering Land Bridge

Since then I became obsessed by the striking resemblance between the people of Indonesia and the people of south and central America.

Curious to dig deeper, I consulted my 3 friends ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity.

Here’s what I found.

The resemblance (between Mesoamerican and Southeast Asian people) indeed sparks curiosity.

There’s no definitive archaeological or genetic evidence directly linking Mesoamerican civilizations (like the Maya, Aztec, or Olmec) with migrating populations from Southeast Asia. Most scholars consider them to have evolved independently.

The resemblance likely ties back to shared ancestry from a much older, broader population: the ancient groups that spread out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago. Both Indigenous Americans and Southeast Asians trace their roots to Asian populations that diverged over millennia.

It’s less about a direct migration and more about how human diversity can circle back to common ancestral threads, filtered through different cultures and climates.

Understanding cultural roots isn’t just fascinating, it’s essential when doing business across continents.

When in Java, don’t speak spanish to people even if they strongly look like Peruvian.

At Cintasia, we help you navigate these cultural nuances when expanding into Indonesia and ASEAN.

PS : We have written about 100 articles on doing business in Indonesia, about politics, economy, technology, culture, even some sector surveys especially in mining… Get them on our blog, in the NEWS section of our website.