3. POWER PLANTS
 
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS?
 
IT MOVES THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
..his urge to give me portions of hallucinogenic plants was but an effort..to shake my assemblage point and allow it to have a minimal margin of fluidity. TAOD,75....DJ said that he had used power plants at the beginning of my apprenticeship in accordance with a recommendation of the new seers. They knew by experience and by seeing that power plants shake the AP way out of its normal setting. The effect of power plants on the AP is in principle very much like that of dreams; dreams make it move; but power plants manage the shift on a greater and engulfing scale. A teacher then uses the diorienting effects of such a shift to reinforce the notion that the perception of the world is never final. FFW,286
You gathered your second attention with power plants... The nagual said that his power plants gathered the menacing side of your second attention in one clump, and that's the shape that came out of your head... that's what happens to sorcerers when they are given power plants. if they don't die, the power plants spin their second attention into that awful shape that comes out of their heads. SRP,249. (the power plants helped CC) by stopping your view of the world. In this respect power plants have the same effect on the tonal as the right way of walking. Both flood it with information and force the internal dialogue to come to a stop. the plants are excellent for that, but very costly. TOP,236. Those plants lead the apprentice directly to the nagual, and the ally is an aspect of it. TOP,237. the plants as being vehicles that would conduct or lead a man to certain impersonal forces or powers and the states they produced as being the meetings that a sorcerer had to have with those powers in order to gain control over them. SR,6
Only the smoke can give you the necessary speed to catch a glimpse of that fleeting world. SR,9. You could also see it (the guardian) without it (little smoke). There are scores of people who could do that. I prefer the smoke because it is more effective and less dangerous to oneself. if you try to see the guardian without the aid of the smoke, chances are that you may delay in getting out of its way. Your movements would have been too slow. To survive in that world you need to be fast as lightning. SR,132.
Seeing is not so simple and only the smoke can give you the speed you need to catch a glimpse of that fleeting world. It's rather a fleeting world that moves and changes. One may perhaps learn to apprehend that fleeting world by oneself, but it won't do any good, because the body decay with stress. With the smoke , one never suffers from exhaustion. The smoke gives the necessary speed to grasp the fleeting movement of the world and at the same time it keeps the body and its strength intact. SR,112.
That's what the little smoke does. One can talk and not notice it; or one can move thousands of miles and not notice that either. That's also how one can go through things. The little smoke removes the body and one is free.. SR,124. You were gazing at my face and saw it shining, but it was still my face. It just happens that the little smoke makes one gaze like that. Nothing to it. SR,159.
 
WHO ARE POWER PLANTS GIVEN TO?
 
POWER PLANTS ARE GIVEN ONLY TO EMPTY PEOPLE.
Power plants are given only to empty people. power plants were given to us because the Nagual was putting a patch on our bodies. SRP,231. (CC asks DJ why he gave him power plants) ..because your dumb..you're rather slow..and there was no other way to jolt you. There are other types of people, however , that do not seem to need them. TOP,10.you're plugged up and only the smoke can help you. SR,111. You could of used those four techniques to clean and reorder your island of the tonal..they would've led you to the nagual...but not all of us are capable of reacting to simple recommendations. You and I for that matter, needed something else to shake us; we needed those power plants. TOP,235
 
POWER PLANTS WERE USED ONLY BY SORCERERS WHO HAD MASTERED THEIR ART.
Power plants were used only by sorcerers who had mastered their art. Those plants were such a powerful affair that in order to be properly handled, the most impecaable attention was needed on the part of the sorcerer. It took a lifetime to train one's attention to the degree needed... complete people do not need power plants...but they would use them to get a final and total boost (to get into the other world) SRP,232...with his power plants you learned to go very far into that other world. SRP,281.
 
WHAT ARE THE DANGERS OF POWER PLANTS?
 
THE DRAWBACK IN TAKING POWER PLANTS HAD BEEN THE TOLL THEY TOOK ON MY PHYSICAL WELL-BEING AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CONTROLLING THEIR EFFECT.
The drawback in taking power plants had been the toll they took on my physical well-being and the impossibility of controlling their effect. The world they plunged me into was unamenable and chaotic. I lacked the control, the power,... to make use of such a world. SRP,232. Power plants had made you lopsided; they had made you cut through your attention of the tonal and had put you directly in the realm of the second attention, but without any mystery over that attention. SRP,250. They cause untold damage to the body. This is their drawback, especially with the devil's weed. TOP,236.
 
DESCRIPTION OF DISASSOCIATION
I had told him many times before, that what made me think I was ill was a series of disruptive sensorial experience that I had had as after effects of ingesting hallucinogenic plants. I went through states of total space and time discordance, very annoying lapses of mental concentration, actual visions or hallucinations of places and people I would be staring at as if they really existed. I could not help thinking that I was losing my mind. FFW,139.
 
DID DON JUAN NEED TO SMOKE THE POWER PLANTS?
 
HE HIMSELF (DJ) DID NOT NEED TO SMOKE ANYMORE.. (OR) THAT HE RARELY HAD TO SMOKE
He himself (DJ) did not need to smoke anymore.. (or) that he rarely had to smoke. TDJ,131... because the smoke is my ally. I don't need to smoke anymore. I call him any time, any place... I.. go to him freely. TDJ,131.
 
WHY DID DON JUAN USE ANTHROPOMORPHIC QUALITIES WHEN DESCRIBING THE PLANT?
 
A PRESCRIBED MEANS FOR DEVIATING THE APPRENTICE'S ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE REAL ISSUE, WHICH WAS STOPPING THE INTERNAL DIALOGUE.
I brought up the fact that he had described and discussed those plants in terms of anthropomorphic qualities. his references to them were always as if the plants had personalities. he replied that that was a prescribed means for deviating the apprentice's attention away from the real issue, which was stopping the internal dialogue. TOP,237 they are the allies of the man of knowledge....my ally is the little smoke but that doesn't mean that my ally is in the smoking mixture or in the mushrooms or in my pipe. they all have to be put together to get me to the ally and that ally I call little smoke for reasons of my own SR,39 The ally is not in the smoke..the smoke takes you to where the ally is and when you become one with the ally you don't ever have to smoke again. From then on you can summon your ally at will and make him do anything you want. SR,40.
 
THE POWER PLANTS ARE NOT AN ESSENTIAL FEATURE TO THE SORCERER'S KNOWLEDGE
It became evident to me that my original assumption about the role of psychotropic plants was erroneous. They were not the essential feature of the sorcerers' description of the world, but were only an aid to cement, so to speak, parts of the description which I had been incapable of perceiving otherwise. My insistence on holding on to my standard version of reality rendered me almost deaf and blind to DJ's aims. Therefore, it was simply my lack of sensitivity which had fostered their use. JTI,xiii
 
THE POWER PLANTS CAN ONLY AID
Power plants are only an aid.. the real thing is when the body realizes that it can see. Only then is one capable of knowing that the world world we look at every day is only a description. my intent has been to show you that. JTI,256.
 
DESCRIPTION AFTER INGESTING POWER PLANTS
Each of the peyote plants on the field shone with a bluish, scintillating light. One plant had a cery bright light. TDJ,145.
I walked through the peyote field calling the name that mescalito had given me. Something emerged from a strange, starlike light on a peyote plant. It was a long shiny object- a stick of light the size of a man. For a moment it illuminated the whole field with an intense yellowish or amber light; then it lit up the whole sky above, creating a portentous, marvellous sight... everything was alive. Everything had exquisite and intricate detail, and yet everything was so simple. I was everywhere; I could see up and down and all around, all at the same time. TDJ,146.
The peyote plant in front of me began to light up again, and before I could move my eyes the long light entered again. it hovered over me. I sat up. The light touched my whole body with quiet strength, and then rolled away out of sight. TDJ,147.
 
TYPES OF POWER PLANTS
 
MESCALITO
 
WHAT IS IT?
 
MESCALITO IS NOT AN ALLY..IT IS ANOTHER KIND OF POWER. A UNIQUE POWER. A PROTECTOR, A TEACHER
He advises. He answers whatever questions you ask. TDJ,45
Mescalito is not an ally..it is another kind of power. A unique power. A protector, a teacher... Mescalito can't be tamed (like an ally) it is outside oneself. He chooses to show himself in many forms to whoever stands in front of him, regardless of whether that person is a brujo or a farm boy. TDJ,53. Mescalito is a teacher, not a power to be used for personal reasons. TDJ,69. Mescalito is gentle, like a baby. Of course he is terrifying, but once you get to know him, he is gentle and kind... (he protects).. you can keep him with you at all times and he will see that nothing bad happens to you. TDJ,88.. but that does not mean you can make fun of him. because he is a kind protector he can also be a horror itself with those he does not like. TDJ,89.
Mescalito is a protector because he is available to anyone who seeks him. Anyone can partake of Mescalito. Not everybody likes Mescalito; yet they all seek him with the idea of profiting without doing any work. Naturally their encounter is always horrifying... when Mescalito accepts a man completely.. he appears to him as a man, or as a light. When a man has won this kind of acceptance, Mescalito is constant. He never changes after that... to arrive at that point..you have to be a strong man, and your life has to be truthful. A truthful life is a life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life. TDJ,104. He is just a protector and a teacher. He is a power. (he is not God)... Mescalito has nothing to do with ourselves. He is outside us. Mescalito is not the same (form) for everybody. TDJ,90. There are no common forms (for Mescalito.).. he appears in any form to those who know him a little, but to those who know him well, he is always constant. TDJ,91. He appears to them someimtes as a man, like us, or as a light. TDJ,91.Songs and naming Mescalito description. TDJ,103. He said that the smoke was an ally was unique, and I reminded him that he had also said the Mescalito was unique. He argued that each was unique, but the differed in quality.TDJ,138
He is like nothing you have ever seen. He is like a man, but at the same time he is not at all like one. It is difficult to explain to people who know nothing about him and want to know everything about him all at once. And then, his lessons are as mysterious as he is himself. No man, to my knowledge, can predict his acts. You ask him a question and he shows you the way, but he does not tell you about it in the same manner you and I talk to each other. TDJ,149.
And because it was available without any training, Mescalito was said to be a protector. To be a protector meant that it was accessible to anyone. TDJ,217.
At that moment I felt a great surge of wisdom engulfing me. A conjecture I had played with for three years turned then into a certainty. It had taken me three years to realize, or rather to find out, that whatever is contained in the cactus Lophophora williamsii had nothing to do with me in order to exist as an entity; it existed by itself out there, at large. I knew it then. TDJ,145.
 
WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE?
 
MESCALITO SHOWED HOW TO LIVE
Mescalito showed how to live... he has many ways of showing it.. sometimes he shows it on his hand, or on the rocks, or the trees, or just in front of you... it is a teaching in front of you..Mescalito talks to you but not in words..he talks differently to every man. TDJ,53. Mescalito takes you out of yourself to teach you. TDJ,54 (he teaches)..by showing things and tells you what is what. TDJ,89
Mescalito is a protector because he talks to you and can guide your acts.. Mescalito teaches the right way to live. And you can see him because he is outside of you. The smoke.. is an ally. It transforms you and gives you power without ever showing its presence. You can't talk to it. But you know it exists because it takes your body away and makes you as light as air. Yet you never see it. But it is there giving you power to accomplish unimaginable things, such as when it takes your body away. TDJ,138. DJ believed mescalito taught simplification of behavior. TDJ,217.
 
HOW DO YOU GET TO KNOW MESCALITO?
 
THERE WERE NO EXACT STEPS TO KNOWING MESCALITO; THEREFORE NO ONE COULD TEACH ABOUT HIM EXCEPT MESCALITO HIMSELF.
there were no exact steps to knowing Mescalito; therefore no one could teach about him except Mescalito himself. This quality made him a unique power; he was not the same for every man.
TDJ,53. You have to be taught his ways as a child is taught how to walk .... until he himself begins to make sense to you... and then you will understand by yourself. You won't have to tell me anything any more. TDJ,89.
 
YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT MESCALITO
The opinion of those who care to talk about him (Mescalito) is not worth much... You will probably talk about him up to a certain point, and from then on you will never discuss him. TDJ,90.
 
HOW DO YOU KNOW MESCALITO ACCEPTS YOU?
 
HE HAD ACCEPTED ME BY SHOWING HIMSELF TO ME AS A LIGHT, TWICE.
..the protector had accepted me and had made sure I knew that he had accepted me by showing himself to me as a light, twice. TDJ,149. You are on your own now.. the protector has accepted you. I will be of very little help from now on. You don't have to tell me anything more about your relationship with him. You know his name now; and neither his name, nor his dealings with you, should ever be mentioned to a living being. TDJ,148.
 
WHAT WERE THE SONGS OF MESCILITO FOR?
 
THE SONGS (OF MESCALITO) PURPOSE WERE FOR CALLING THE PROTECTOR AND THAT I SHOULD ALWAYS USE THEM IN CONJUNCTION WITH HIS NAME TO CALL HIM
the songs (of Mescalito) purpose were for calling the protector and that I should always use them in conjunction with his name to call him. TDJ,148.
 
DEVIL'S WEED (JIMSON WEED)
 
WHAT IS IT?
 
SHE GIVES THEM A TASTE OF POWER TOO SOON WITHOUT FORTIFYING THEIR HEARTS AND MAKES THEM DOMINEERING AND UNPREDICTABLE.
the devil's weed was my benefactor's ally (Julian) TDJ,56
She distorts men. She gives them a taste of power too soon without fortifying their hearts and makes them domineering and unpredictable. She makes them weak in the middle of their great power. There is a way to overcome it, but not to avoid it. Whoever becomes the weed's ally must pay that price. TDJ,56. Description of the parts of the devil's weed and what they do.
TDJ,57 (1st and 2nd paragraphs) to tame the devil's weed into an ally is one of the most difficult tasks I know. She never became one with me.. perhaps because I was never fond of her. TDJ,57. The weed is only used for power.. The man who wants his vigour back, the young people who seek to endure fatigue and hunger, the man who wants to kill another man, a woman who wants to be in heat- they all desire power. TDJ,65. I don't like its power! There is no use for it anymore. In other times, like those my benefactor told me about, there was reason to seek power. men performed phenomenal deeds, were admired for their strength and feared and respected for their knowledge. My benefactor told me stories of truly phenomenal deeds, that were performed long, long ago. But now we, the Indians, do not seek that power any more.... they do not seek its power, a power that acts like a magnet, more potent and more dangerous to handle as the root goes deeper into the ground. When one arrives to a depth of four yards- and they some people have- one finds the seat of permanent power, power without end. Very few humans have done this in the past and nobody has done it today. TDJ,67. The devil's weed has never protected anyone. She serves only to give power. TDJ,88 The second portion of the devil's weed is used for seeing. With it a, a man can soar through the air to see what is going on at any place he chooses. TDJ,105. The second portion of the devil's weed is used to fly. TDJ,127. As you learn more, and take it often in order to fly, you will begin to see everything with great clarity. You can soar through the air for hundreds of miles to see what is happening at any place you want, or to deliver a fatal blow to your enemies far away... she will teach you unimaginable things...(for) every man is different. My benefactor never told me what he had learned. He told me how to proceed, but never what he saw. That is only for oneself... (CC tells DJ everything) now...later you will not. TDJ,127. the devil's weed is only one path to the secrets of a man of knowledge. There are other paths. But her trap is to make you believe that hers is the only way. I say it is useless to waste your life on one path, especially if that path has no heart. TDJ,158.
You like flattery, and the devil's weed flatters you. Like a woman, she makes you feel good. The devil's weed also requires strength, but of a different kind. It is closer to being virile with women. The strength required by the smoke is strength of the heart. TDJ,160.
 
LITTLE SMOKE
 
WHAT IS IT?
 
THE SMOKE IS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO WATCH AND SEE
the little smoke only tells me what to do. TDJ,69.. It's not the same for everybody. many fear it and won't touch it or even get close to it. The smoke is like everything else; it wasn't made for all of us... (it is) the smoke of diviners. TDJ,70. the smoke is for those who want to watch and see. And in my opinion, the smoke is peerless. Once a man enters into its field, every other power is at his command. it's magnificent. of course it takes a lifetime. it takes years alone to become aquainted with its two vital parts; the pipe and the smoke mixture. The pipe was given to me by my benefactor... TDJ,70. I like the little smoke as an ally because it doesn't demand much of me. SR,40. its effect are so dreadful that only a strong man can stand the smallest puff. Everything is terrifying and confusing at the outset, but every new puff makes things more precise. And suddenly the world opens up anew! Unimaginable! When this happens the smoke has become one's ally and will resolve any question by allowing one to enter into inconceivable worlds. This is the smoke's greatest property, its greatest gift. And it performs its function without hurting in the least. I call the smoke a true ally! TDJ,70,71. The smoke will come. You will feel it. It will set you free to see anything you want to see. Properly speaking, it is a matchless ally. But whoever seeks it must have an intent and a will beyond reproach. He needs them because he has to intend and will his return, or the smoke will not let him come back. Second, he must intend and will to remember whatever the smoke allowed him to see, otherwise it will be nothing more than a piece of fog in his mind. TDJ,82. The smoke teaches but not as Mescalito does. TDJ,139 it does not show the same things. It shows you how to handle its power, and to learn that you must take it as many times as you can. TDJ,140. ..what I felt was its unimaginable power. And to handle that power.. one has to live a strong life. The idea of a strong life not only [ertains to the preparation period, but also entails the attitude of the man after the experience. He said the smoke is so strong one can match it only with strength; otherwise, one's life would be shattered to bits. I asked him if the smoke had the same effect on everyone. He said it produced a transformation, but not in everyone. TDJ,140. ..all that was needed with the smoke was the proper attitude. TDJ,141. the only secrets never to be revealed (about the smoke) were how to make the mixture, how to move around, and how to return; other matters concerning the subject were of no importance. TDJ,141. DJ told CC he had never seen anyone smoking before. TDJ,140.

4. CLEANING OUR WAREHOUSE/TONAL

 
WHAT IS CLEANING YOUR WAREHOUSE?
 
CLEANING AND REORDERING THE ISLAND MEANS REGROUPING ALL ITS ELEMENTS ON THE SIDE OF REASON
By now you must have realized that cleaning and reordering the island of the tonal means regrouping all its elements on the side of reason. TOP,245
 
WHY DO WE HAVE TO CLEAN OUR WAREHOUSE?
 
THE SECOND ATTENTION WAS REACHED ONLY AFTER WE HAVE CLEANED OUR TONAL
That attention was reached only after warriors had swept the top of their tables clean. SRP,256. The island of the tonal has to be swept clean and maintained clean. That's the only alternative a warrior has. A clean island offers no resistence; it is as if nothing were there...TOP,171. One of the sources of your bafflement and discomfort is that your tonal doesn't let go of your eyes. the day it does, your nagual will have won a great battle. Your obsession or, better yet, everyone's obsession is to arrange the world according to the tonal's rules; so everytime we are confronted with the nagual, we go out of our way to make our eyes stiff and intransigent. I must appeal to the part of your tonal which understands this dilemma and you must make an effort to free your eyes. TOP,169 .All are views that seem to be unchallengable; and as long as you three persist in using them, your bubbles of perception have not been cleared and the sorcerers explanation will have no meaning. TOP,247 She stressed that unless this storehouse is cleared out, there is no way for us to be what we really are. TSC,74. She explained that by storing energy, we can dissolve our preconceptions about the world and the body, thus making room in our wherehouse for other possibilities. TSC,111 after the tonal shrinks, the warrior is closing the gate from the other. TOP,173.
 
THE TONAL MUST TEMPER THE NAGUAL
the nagual by itself was of no use it had to be tempered by the tonal. They said I had to leap willingly and be aware of my act....the sorcerers' secret in using the nagual was in our perception, that leaping was simply an exercise in perception, and that it would end only after I succeeded in perceiving, as a perfect tonal, what was at the bottom of the ravine. TOP,251.
That's what a sorcerer needs before anything else, a strong,free tonal. The stronger it gets the less it clings to its doings, and the easier it is to shrink. TOP,153.
 
THE MORE ITEMS YOU DISCARD THE MORE YOU MAKE ROOM FOR OTHER THINGS
It proves to me, just like when you saw the shadows moving, that you're freeing your energy. You are beginning to empty your warehouse. the more items of your inventory you discard, the more you make room for other things. TSC,76.
 
HOW DO SORCERER'S CLEAN THEIR TONAL? (CALLED SHRINKING THE TONAL)
 
THE TEACHER TRIES TO GET THE APPRENTICE TO GROUP HIS VIEW OF THE WORLD ON ONE HALF OF OUR BUBBLE OF PERCEPTION (TONAL) AND THE BENEFACTOR OPENS THE BUBBLE ON THE SIDE THAT HAS BEEN CLEANED(NAGUAL) AND THE APPRENTICE CAN EXPERIENCE THE TOTALITY OF THEMSELF
. The art of the teacher was to force his disciple to group his view of the world on the right half of the bubble...the right half is the tonal. The teacher always addresses himself to that side and by presenting his apprentice..with the warrior's way he forces him into reasonableness and sobriety, and strength of character and body; and by presenting him..with unthinkable but real situations which the apprentice cannot cope with, he forces him to realize that his reason, although it is a most wonderful affair, can only cover a small area. Once the warrior is confronted with his incapacity to reason everything out, he will go out of his way to bolster and defend his defeated reason, and to that effect he will rally everything he's got around it. The teacher sees to that by hammering him mercilessly until all of his view of the world is on one half of the bubble. The other half of the bubble which has been cleared, can then be claimed by something sorcerers call will. TOP,245,246
We can better explain this by saying that the task of the teacher is to wipe clean one half of the bubble and to reorder everything on the other half. The benefactor's task then is to open the bubble on the side that has been cleaned. Once the seal is broken, the warrior is never the same. He then has the command of his totality. Half of the bubble is the ultimate center of reason, the tonal. The other half is the ultimate center of will, the nagual. That is the order that should prevail; any other arrangement is nonsensial and petty, because it goes against our nature, it robs us of our magical heritage and reduces us to nothing. TOP,246. The delicate manoeuvre of leading a luminous being into the totality of himself requires that the teacher work from inside the bubble and the benefactor from outside. TOP,245 The teacher's task is to rearrange the view, to prepare the luminous being for the time when the benefactor opens the bubble from the outside...TOP,244. the job of a teacher, insofar as the apprentice's perception is concerned, consists of reordering all the elements of the island on one half of the bubble. ..the teacher reorders the view of the world. TOP,245 My task has been to disarrange your ordinary view, not to destroy it, but to force it to rally on the side of reason. TOP,245
 
SORCERER'S DO NOT OBLITERATE ANYTHING FROM THE TONAL BUT ALTERS THE USE ASSIGNED TO THOSE ELEMENTS
the sorcerers' world called for a drastic transformation, the sorcerers explanation said that the island of the tonal was complete and not a single elment could be removed. Change then, did not mean obliterating anything but altering the use assigned to those elements.. TOP,234. If you then change the facade of self-pity, you would have shifted its place of prominence...one changes the facade by altering the use of elements of the island..(this means that you can't get rid of things on the island but since all things are equal you can change one for the other..like replacing self-pity with death as what you think about when you start stressing.)..self-pity was useful to you because you either felt important important and deserving of better conditions, better treatment, or because you were unwilling to assume responsibility for the acts that brought you to the state that elicited, or because you were incapable of bringing the idea of your impending death to witness your acts and advise you...TOP,234,235 Without using those four techniques you never could've succeeded in changing them..but changing facades means only that one has assigned a secondary place to a formerly important element. Your self-pity is still a feature of your island; it will be there in the back in the same way that the idea of your impending death, or your humbleness, or your responsibility for your acts were there, without ever being used. TOP,235 in order for self-pity to work you had to feel important, irresponsible and immortal. When those feelings were altered in some way, it was no longer possible to feel sorry for yourself..the same was true with all the other elements which you've changed on your island. TOP,235 there is no way to get rid of self-pity for good; it has a definite place and character in your island, a definite facade which is recognizable. Thus every time the occasion arises, self-pity becomes active. It has history. TOP,234,235 The only important matter is that the tonal of a warrior must be acquainted with other alternatives. TOP,174..
 
ERASING PERSONAL HISTORY AND ITS THREE COMPANION TECHNIQUES ARE THE SORCERERS MEANS FOR CHANGING THE FACADE OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE ISLAND
....erasing personal history and its three companion techniques are the sorcerers means for changing the facade of the elements of the island..for instance, by erasing personal history, you have denied use to self-pity; TOP,235
 
YOU MUST TALK TO THE TONAL TO GIVE UP CONTROL
 
IN THE BEGINNING, ONE HAS TO TALK TO THE TONAL. IT IS THE TONAL THAT HAS TO RELINQUISH CONTROL. BUT IT SHOULD BE MADE TO DO SO GLADLY.
In the beginning, one has to talk to the tonal. It is the tonal that has to relinquish control. But it should be made to do so gladly. For example, your tonal has relinquished some controls without much struggle, because it became clear to it that, had it remained the way it was, the totality of you would be dead by now.In other words, the tonal is made to give up unnecessary things like self-importance and boredom. The whole trouble is that the tonal clings to those things when it should be glad to rid itself of that crap. the task then is to convince the tonal to become free and fluid. TOP,153. The point is to convince the tonal that there are other worlds that can pass in front of the same windows. the nagual showed you this morning. So let your eyes be free; let them be true windows.The eyes can be the windows to peer into boredom or to peak into that infinity. TOP,170
 
A SHOVE BY THE NAGUAL IS ONE TECHNIQUE TO SHRINK THE TONAL AND ENTER INTO THE NAGUAL
A shove is then the technique for shrinking the tonal. One must shove at the precise instant; for that, of course, one must know how to see... once the man has been shoved and his tonal has been shrunk, his nagual, if it is already in motion, no matter how small this motion is, will take over and achieve extraordinary deeds.....your nagual took over this morning and you ended up in the market. TOP,154.
 
YOU MUST GET PERSPECTIVE ON YOUR TONAL, WATCH IT FROM A DISTANCE
..He told them that sorcerers were obligated to watch their tonals from a distance in order to have a better grasp of what was really around them..... average men does not have the grasp that a sorcerer has because an average man is right on top of his table, holding on to every item on it. SRP,255..
 
IS CLEANING YOUR TONAL EASY?
 
THE TONAL WOULD RATHER KILL ITSELF THAN RELINQUISH CONTROL
What you were doing this morning was absurd. You call it explaining. I call it a sterile and boring insistence of the tonal to have everything under its control. Whenever it doesn't succeed, there is a moment of bafflement and then the tonal opens itself to death...It would rather kill itself than relinquish control. And yet there is very little we can do to change that condition...(to change)..TOP,171.
 
IT TAKES A LONG TRAINING TO TEACH THE TONAL NOT TO GO CRAZY WHEN THE NAGUAL COMES OUT
No one is capable of surviving a deliberate encounter with the nagual without a long training. It takes years to prepare the tonal for such an encounter. Ordinarily, if an average man comes face to face with the nagual the shock would be so great that he would die. TOP,171.
 
WARRIORS KNOW WHEN TO SHRINK THE TONAL AND TO STOP IT
A grave issue for a warrior is to know exactly when to allow his tonal to shrink and stop it. This is a great art. A warrior must struggle like a demon to shrink his tonal; and yet at the very moment the tonal shrinks, the warrior must reverse all that struggle to immediately halt that shrinking. TOP,173...
 
DANGERS OF HURTING OUR TONAL
 
ONE SHOULD GET TO THE NAGUAL WITHOUT MALIGNING THE TONAL AND ABOVE ALL WITHOUT INJURING ONE'S BODY.
...I know that what matters is not to learn a new description but to arrive at the totality of oneself. One should get to the nagual without maligning the tonal and above all without injuring one's body. TOP,238
 
A SORCERER MUST TRY TO BREAK THE UNITY OF BEING ON THE TONAL WITHOUT ENDANGERING HIS BEING
a sorcerer, however, has to break that unity, but without endangering his being. A sorcerer's goal is to last..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. TOP,189
 
WHEN THE TONAL SHRINKS THE OPENING OF THE SECOND ATTENTION IS OPEN AND HE MIGHT BE SWEPT AWAY BY A REAL WIND IF HE DOESN'T SHUT IT IMMEDIATELY
But when his tonal shrinks, he is on the windy side, and that opening must be shut tight immediately, or he would be swept away. TOP,173. And this is not just a way of talking. Beyond the gate of the tonal's eyes the wind rages. I mean a real wind. No metaphor. A wind that can blow one's life away. In fact, that is the wind that blows all living things on this earth TOP,173.
 
YOU SHOULD NOT LET THE TONAL SHRINK ITSELF OUT OF THE PICTURE
...the problem here is not to let the tonal shrink itself out of the picture.TOP,173...
 
TO MAKE YOUR TONAL FEEL SAFE IS ALWAYS THE TASK OF THE TEACHER
At this point your reason admits that the nagual is indescribable, not because the evidence has convinced it, but because it is safe to admit that. Your reason is on safe ground, all the elements of the tonal are on its side... To make your reason feel safe is always the task of the teacher... TOP,267