Nagual Quotes

#1. In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

Frederick Lenz

#2. The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The siddhas are developed through the tonal, not the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown.

Frederick Lenz

#5. In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.

Frederick Lenz

#6. The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.

Frederick Lenz

#7. I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

Frederick Lenz

#8. When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Most of you are predominantly nagual. You have trouble with the physical life because you have devoted more of your attention to the mysterious side of your being.

Frederick Lenz

#10. You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them to countless views of the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#14. "Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.

Frederick Lenz

#15. There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#16. As we slam you with more and more devastating blows of the nagual, at the same time, we strengthen and clear the tonal so that it can easily withstand them - so there is no loss in continuity of consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#18. It takes years for average persons in the nagual's world to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.

Florinda Donner

#19. In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#20. The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

Frederick Lenz

#21. A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely.

Frederick Lenz

#22. The nagual doesn't give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.

Frederick Lenz

#23. Your tonal must accept that the nagual exists and that it's beneficial and healthy.

Frederick Lenz

#24. What I do, the teacher of the nagual, is open up the bubble of your luminosity and allow the luminous being to take short excursions into the unknown.

Frederick Lenz

#25. When you can command the nagual you have a great deal of power, and people know it intuitively. They feel if they can plunge themselves into the nagual they can get anything they want in the tonal.

Frederick Lenz

#26. One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.

Carlos Castaneda

#27. One should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.

Carlos Castaneda

#28. You can make all the changes to the island of the tonal you want, you can take excursions into the nagual, but to push yourself into the reordering process is absolutely foolish.

Frederick Lenz

#29. The nagual is the unknown. It cannot be talked about, it can only be witnessed.

Frederick Lenz

#30. The deeper side of the study occurs on levels of attention your mind is not aware of, but that your superconscious mind is - what don Juan calls the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

#31. The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.

Frederick Lenz