As controlled awareness (Eagle, 4)
The most fierce thing there is. (Eagle, 13)
The residue of consciousness, the second attention, was brought into action, or was harnessed, through exercises of not-doing. (Eagle, 135)
More complex and specialized; unused emanations; The concentration required to tell if one is having a dream is the forerunner of the second attention.
Also called left-side awareness. (Fire, 66)
How do I balance my second attention? You have to do dreaming the way we do it. Dreaming is the only way to gather the second attention without injuring it, without making it menacing and awesome. Your second attention is fixed on the awful side of the world; ours is on the beauty of it. (Ring, 285)
That area was the domain of what he called the second attention, or the attention of the nagual, or the attention under the table. That attention was reached only after warriors had swept the top of their tables clean. He said that reaching the second attention made the two attentions into a single unit, and that unit was the totality of oneself.
Losing the human form was the essential requirement for unifying the two attentions. (Ring, 293)
The Nagual called the moment when the second attention hooks on to something stopping the world. (Ring, 294)
Once you can stop the world you are a gazer, and since the only way of stopping the world is by trying, the Nagual made us all gaze at dry leaves for years and years. I think it is the best way to reach our second attention.
Everything the Toltecs do is very simple. The Nagual said that all we needed to do in order to trap our second attention was to try and try. (Ring, 295)
The Nagual told me that when the second attention has to be called upon to assemble itself, all that is needed is the motion of opening that door (the crack between the worlds). That’s the secret of the Toltec dreamers once they are formless. (Ring, 298)
A four-stage progression from idea to a state of being. (Dreaming)
Definition of
The result of fixing the assemblage point on a new position. (Dreaming, 16)
Intending in the second attention (the twin position of dreaming). (Dreaming, 231)
The mystery of intending in th second attention.
The secret of the twin positions; falling asleep in dreams. (Dreaming, 237)
Two faces of the second attention: focus on the world or focus on not what is in or of this world. (Eagle, 20)
Focus not on material things, but on spirit, true flight into the unknown (not on trivial shields). (Eagle, 21)
- We are luminous beings.
- We are able to unravel different facets of our awareness.
- The unraveling brought about by deliberate effort or trauma.
- Atlanteans were the focus of someone’s (or a group) second attention. (Eagle, 26)
Right of center at hip level, center of assembling for the second attention; Stroke with palms. (Eagle, 196)
The surest way to make a hit on the second attention is through ritual acts, monotonous chanting, and intricate repetitious movements. (Eagle, 250)
The point where the second attention assembles itself. (Eagle, 252)
From the moment the body learns to make the dent, dreaming is easier. (Eagle, 254)
Supurb center of perception on the outside of the calves–relax or sooth. (Eagle, 255)
Fretting was proper only in the first attention, the second attention was calmness itself. (Eagle, 260)
Our first attention emanations are hooked to the earth while our second attention, the dreamer’s obsession serves as a guide. (Eagle, 262)
I had to use her voice as a line to pull myself. (Eagle, 263)
The Event Horizon 
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