Don Juan asserted that the essential feature of his sorcery was shutting off the internal dialogue…Stopping the internal dialogue was an operational way of describing the act of disengaging the attention of the tonal.
Don Juan had also said that once we stop the internal dialogue we also stop the world.
(Ring, 306)

The crux of sorcery is the internal dialogue, that is the key to everything. When a warrior learns to stop it, everything becomes possible. The most farfetched schemes become attainable. (Power, 93)

A teacher, from the very first action he performs, aims at stopping that view. Sorcerers call it the internal dialogue, and they are convinced that this is the single most important technique that an apprentice can learn. Precedure described. (Power, 236)

There are two major activities or techniques used to accelerate the stopping of the internal dialogue: erasing personal history and dreaming.
Stopping the internal dialogue, is however, the key to the sorcerer’s world. (Power, 240)