The Event Horizon

The tonal encompasses everything the intellect can conceive of. (Eagle, 163)

One’s person should be protected, but not defended. (Eagle, 15)

Emphasized emanations [are] the right side, normal awareness, the tonal, this world, the known. the first attention. The average man calls it reality, rationality, common sense. (Fire, 109)

This is my tonal, Don Juan said, rubbing his hands n his chest. our suit? No. My person. (Power, 119)

He explained that every human being had two sides, two separate entities, two counter parts which became operative at the moment of birth; one was called the tonal and the other the nagual.
The tonal is, rightfully so, a protector, a guardian–a guardian that turns into a guard. (Power, 120)

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded, and most of the time despotic. (Power, 121)

The tonal is everything we are. Name t! Anything we have a word for is the tonal, an since the tonal is its own doings, then everything, obviously, has to fall under its domain. (Power, 122)

…The tonal begins at birth and ends at death. The tonal makes the world only in a manner f speaking it cannot create or change anything, and yet it makes the world because its function is to judge, and assess, and witness. (Power, 123)

The tonal makes up the rules by which it apprehends the world. There is the personal tonal and the tonal of the times. (Power, 124)

The mind is a part of the tonal. (Power, 125)

Long (Power, 132)

…I wanted to show you that a warrior treats his tonal in a very special manner…its not my vanity I want to show, but my warrior’s spirit, my warrior’s tonal. (Power, 133)

There is no need to treat the body in such an awful manner, Don Juan said with a note of scorn. But the sad fact is all of us have learned to perfection how to make our tonal weak. have called that indulging. (Power, 136)

The tonal is very vulnerable. It cannot withstand maltreatment. (Power, 138)

There are, roughly speaking, two sides to every tonal. One is the outer part, the fringe, the surface of the island. That’s the part related to action and acting, the rugged side. The other part is the decision and judgement, the inner tonal, softer, more delicate and more complex.
The proper tonal is a tonal where the two levels are in perfect harmony and balance. (Power, 143)

A warrior does not ever leave the island of the tonal, he uses it.
…The warrior’s way is harmony–the harmony between actions and decisions, at first, an then the harmony between tonal and nagual. (Power, 155)

The tonal is made to give up unnecessary things like self-importance and indulging, which only plunge it into boredom.
The task then is to convince the tonal to become free and fluid. that’s what a sorcerer needs before anything else, a strong free tonal
One of the features f the tonal is s shyness…Its shyness unavoidably makes it shrink
The motion of the nagual. (Power, 156)

We are capable of much more than that. That is the nature of us as luminous beings. Our flaw is to insist on remaining on our monotonous, tiring, but convenient island. The tonal is the villain, and it shouldn’t be. (Power, 157)

All I can tell you is that we are fluid, luminous beings made out of fibers. The agreement that we are slid objects is the tonal’s doing. (Power, 158)

Your tonal has to be convinced with reasons, your nagual with actions, until one props up the other. The tonal mut be protected at any cost. The crown has to be taken away from it, but it must remain as the protected overseer.
Once the tonal dies, so does the whole man. Power, 160)

Sorcerers know that only by boosting the tonal can the nagual emerge…That booting is called personal power. (Power, 161)

The flaw of our reasonings is that nobody wants or seeks the extinction of the tonal’s rationality. That fear is ilfounded.
[If there are too many items on the island of the tonal] you won’t be able to sustain the encounter with the nagual.
The goal of a warrior’s training then is not to teach him to hex or charm, but to prepare his tonal not to crap out.
The island of the tonal must be swept clean and maintained clean. (Power, 174)

I’m the one who helped you sweep the island of the tonal. [Long-relationship between Genaro and don Juan] (Power, 175)

Long and detailed…(Power, 177)

He said that one of the aims of the warrior’s training was to cut the bewilderment of the tonal until the warrior was so fluid that he could admit everything without admitting anything. (Power, 179)

To maintain order means to be a perfect tonal, and to be a perfect tonal means to be aware of everything tat takes place on the island of the tonal. (Power, 191)

[The eyes of the tonal an how they perceive] (Power, 192)

In order to be an average tonal a man must have unity.
A warrior’s goal is to last; that is, he doesn’t take unnecessary risks, therefore he spends years sweeping his island until a moment when he could, in a manner of speaking, sneak off it. Splitting a man in two is a gate for such an escape. (Power, 193)

It has been my duty to help you in every matter concerning your tonal and everything I’ve done with you or to you was done to accomplish one single task, the task of cleaning and reordering your island of the tonal. That’s my job as your teacher. Genaro’s task as your benefactor is to give an undeniable demonstration of the nagual and to show you how to get to it. (Power, 230)

[By cleaning and reordering the island of the tonal I mean] the total change which I’ve been telling you about from the first day we met. I’ve told you countless times that a most drastic change was needed if you wanted to succeed in the path of knowledge. That change is not a change of mood, or attitude, or outlook; that change entails the transformation of the island of the tonal. You have accomplished that task. (Power, 231)

One should get to the agal without aligning the tonal, and above all, not injuring one’s body. (Power, 245)

Order in our perception is the exclusive realm of the tonal; only there can our actions have sequence; only there are they like stairways where one can count the steps. There is nothing of that sort in the nagual. Therefore, the view of the tonal is a tool, and as such it is not only the best tool but the only one we’ve got. (Power, 272)

Reason can only witness the effects of the tonal…(Power, 277)

That is the paradox of luminous beings, the tonal and the nagual. (Power, 278)

…The nagual is enticing beyond any statement, and warriors who are journeying into it find that the return to the tonal, or to the world of order and noise and pain, is the most unappealing affair. (Power, 283)

The tonal and nagual are two different worlds. In one you talk, in the other you act. (Ring, 269)