THE FIRST ATTENTION IS THE ABILITY OF AVERAGE
PEOPLE TO PLACE THEIR AWARENESS ON THE ORDINARY WORLD OF EVERYDAY
LIFE CALLED THE TONAL/ATTENTION OF THE TONAL
the capacity of average people to perceive and
place their awareness on the ordinary world of everyday life.
SRP,240... and described it as our awesome taken-for-granted
ability to impart order to our perception of our daily world.
SRP,240 the awareness of our daily world TAOD, ? ....it is the
consciousness that every normal person has developed in order to
deal with the daily world; EG,18. he added that ordinarily our
awareness is placed on the energy that circulates in the right
side of the double, which results in our ability to think and
reason and be effective in dealing with ideas and people.
TSC,236
WHAT
ARE THE OTHER NAMES OF THE FIRST ATTENTION?
FIRST DOMAIN/FIRST RING OF POWER/ RIGHT SIDE
OF MAN/NORMAL AWARENESS/TONAL ..where the first attention
prevails. EG,163. /EMPHASIZED EMANATIONS/THE KNOWN/THIS WORLD/
REALITY/ RATIONALITY/COMMON SENSE ..also called the first ring of
power SRP,240 a small one, called the first attention TAOD, ? the
right side of man. FFW,9 normal awareness. EG,163 The new seers
call the emphasized emanations the right side, normal awareness,
the tonal, this world, the known, the first attention. The average
man calls it reality, rationality, common sense. FFW,127.
WHAT
IS THE FIRST TONAL?
EVERYTHING WE ARE OR CAN POSSIBLY THINK OF IS
TONAL/IT RULES OUR LIVES/IT ORGANIZES OUR WORLD
the first attention in man is animal
awareness, which has been developed, through the process of
experience, into a complex, intricate, and extremely fragile
faculty that takes care of the day-to-day world in all its
innumerable aspects. In other words, everything that one can think
about is part of the first attention.. it is everything we are as
average men....by virtue of such an absolute rule over our lives,
the FA is the most valuable asset that the average man has. FFW,83
the tonal is in everything. The tonal which is in everything could
be easily apprehended by our senses, SRP,199 The tonal is the
social person. TOP,120 the tonal is the organizer of the world..
Perhaps the best way of describing its monumental work is to say
that on its shoulders rests the task of setting the chaos of the
world in order. It is not farfetched to maintain.. that everything
we know and do as men is the work of the tonal. TOP,120. The right
side, which he called the tonal, encompasses everything the
intellect can conceive of. EG,163 The tonal is everything we
are..name it!..anything we have a word for is the tonal. And since
the tonal is its own doings, then everything, obviously, has to
fall under its domain. TOP,121.The tonal is everything we know.
TOP,122. The tonal is everything..and that includes not only us,
as persons, but everything in our world. it can be said that the
tonal is everything that meets. TOP,122 the tonal is everything we
think the world is composed of. TOP,125 The important factor to
keep in mind is that everything we know about ourselves and about
our world is on the island of the tonal. TOP,124... the tonal was
the order that we are aware of in our daily world and also the
personal order that we carry through life on our shoulders, like
they had carried that table and bundle. The personal tonal of each
of us was like that table in the valley, a tiny island filled with
things we are familiar with. SRP,255..
THE TONAL MAKES SENSE OUT OF THE THINGS/IT
PUTS ORDER IN OUR PERCEPTIONS
At this moment..what is engaged in trying to
make sense out of our conversation is your tonal; without it there
would only be weird sounds and grimaces and you wouldn't
understand a thing I'm saying. TOP,120,121. ...order in our
perception is the exclusive realm of the tonal; only there can our
actions have a sequence.. TOP,263.Therefore the view of the tonal
is a tool, and as such it is not only the best tool but the only
one we got. TOP,263.
THE TONAL IS BUT A REFLECTION OF THAT
INDESCRIBABLE UNKNOWN FILLED WITH ORDER
The tonal of every one of us is but a
reflection of that indescribable unknown filled with order;
TOP,268. I've tricked your reason into believing that the tonal
was accountable and predictable...Genaro and I have laboured to
give you the impression that only the nagual was beyond the scope
of explanation; the proof that the tricking was successful is that
at this moment it seems to you that in spite of everything you
have gone through, there is still a core that you can claim as
your own, your reason. That's a mirage. Your precious reason is
only a center of assemblage, a mirror that relfects something
which is outside of it. Last night you witnessed not only the
indescribable nagual but also the indescribable tonal.
TOP,267
..the last piece of the sorcerers explanation
says that reason is merely reflecting an outside order and that
reason knows nothing about that order; it cannot explain it, in
the same way it cannot explain the nagual. Reason can only witness
the effects of the tonal, but never could it understand it, or
unravel it. The very fact that we are thinking and talking points
out an order that we follow without ever knowing how we do that,
or what the order is. TOP,267..
I can add now that through the reason, no
matter what we do with it, or how we do it, we are merely
witnessing the effects of the tonal. TOP,267,268.
THERE IS NO WAY OF DESCRIBING WHAT IS BEYOND
THE TONAL BECAUSE ANYTHING YOU SAY WOULD BECOME PART OF THE
TONAL
(what is out there beyond the tonal
island?)..there is no way of answering that. If I would say,
Nothing, I would only make the nagual part of the tonal. All I can
say is that there, beyond the island, one finds the
nagual....TOP,127
ANALOGY OF THE TONAL AS A TABLE IN THE
RESTAURANT
(analogy of tonal as a table in a restaurant)
TOP,124.
EACH PERSON HAS A TONAL AND THERE IS ALSO A
COLLECTIVE TONAL CALLED THE TONAL OF THE TIMES
The tonal is an island. TOP,123. There is a
personal tonal for every one of us, and there is a collective one
for all of us at any given time, which we can call the tonal of
the times. TOP,124.
THE TONAL BEGINS AT BIRTH AND ENDS AT
DEATH
The tonal begins at birth and ends at death.
TOP,122 there's no beginning; the beginning is only in your
thoughts. SR,177.
THE TONAL IS SHY AND SHRINKS WHEN EMBARASSED
OR FRIGHTENED
The tonal shrinks at given times, especially
when embarrassed. in fact, one of the features of the tonal is its
shyness... its shyness is not really an issue..but there are
certain instances when the tonal is taken by surprise and its
shyness unavoidably makes it shrink.. TOP,154. A sudden fright
always shrinks the tonal TOP,173
THE TONAL IS VERY VULNERABLE. IT CANNOT
WITHSTAND MALTREATMENT
The tonal is very vulnerable. it cannot
withstand maltreatment. TOP,137.
EVEN IF YOU ARE YOUNG YOUR TONAL CAN STILL
DETERIORATE
Youth is in no way a barrier against the
deterioration of the tonal. TOP,134.
OUR EYES REFLECT THE TONAL
Our eyes are the eyes of the tonal, or perhaps
it would be more accurate to say that our eyes have been trained
by the tonal, therefore the tonal claims them. TOP,169
HOW
DOES THE TONAL MAKE THE WORLD?
THE TONAL CANNOT CREATE OR CHANGE ANYTHING BUT
IT MAKES THE WORLD BECAUSE IT FUNCTION IS TO JUDGE, ASSESS AND
WITNESS/IT MAKES UP THE RULES BY WHICH IT APPREHENDS THE WORLD
the tonal is what makes the world. the tonal
makes the world only in a manner of speaking. It cannot create or
change anything, and yet it makes the world because its function
is to judge, and assess, and witness. I say that the tonal makes
the world because it witnesses and assesses it according to tonal
rules. In a very strange manner the tonal is a creator that
doesn't create a thing. In other words, the tonal makes up the
rules by which it apprehends the world...so in a manner of
speaking, it creates the world. TOP,123. the tonal did not create
anything, but only witnessed and assessed. TOP,139.
WHAT
POSITION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT DOES THE TONAL RESULT
FROM?
THE TONAL RESULTS FROM THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
BEING FIXATED ON ITS PRESENT POSITION
the fixation of the assemblage point on its
habitual position. TAOD, ?
WHAT
GREAT BANDS DOES THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT ASSEMBLE IN THE FIRST
ATTENTION?
OUR ASSEMBLAGE POINT ASSEMBLES TWO BANDS; ONE
IS THE ORGANIC BAND AND THE OTHER IS A BAND THAT HAS ONLY
STRUCTURE, BUT NO AWARENESS
The world that our AP assembles for our normal
perception is made up of two bands; one is the organic band, the
other is a band that has only structure, but no awareness.
FFW,182
THE FIRST ATTENTION IS HOOKED TO EMANATIONS OF
THE EARTH
She said that our first attention was hooked
to the emanations of the earth, EG,262
THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY TONAL
There are two sides to every tonal. TOP,141
One is the outer part, the fringe, the surface of the island.
That's the part related to action and acting, the rugged side.
TOP,141
The other part is the decision and judgement,
the inner tonal, softer, more delicate and more
complex.TOP,141.
SEEING
PEOPLE AS A TONAL: TYPES OF TONALS
WHAT
IS SEEING PEOPLE AS TONALS?
IT ENTAILS SEEING A MAN WITHOUT THINKING THAT
HE IS HOPELESS OR HELPLESS
It entails to cease judging him in a moral
sense, or excusing him on the grounds that he is like a leaf at
the mercy of the wind. In other words, it entails seeing a man
without thinking that he is hopeless or helpless. TOP,134.
HOW
DO YOU SEE PEOPLE AS TONALS?
HE SUGGESTED I SHOULD RELAX, SHUT OFF THE
INTERNAL DIALOGUE AND LET GO, MERGING WITH THE PERSON BEING
OBSERVED
He suggested I should relax, shut off the
internal dialogue and let go, merging with the person being
observed. TOP,135
WHAT
KINDS OF TONALS ARE THERE?
PROPER
TONAL: WARRIOR'S TONAL
only a warrior had a proper tonal, TOP,136 A
proper tonal..is a tonal that is just right, balanced and
harmonious. TOP,141. For a proper tonal everything on the island
is a challenge. TOP,143. to be maintain order is to be a perfect
tonal, and to be a perfect tonal means to be aware of everything
that takes place on the island of the tonal....it takes a gigantic
struggle to clean the island of the tonal. TOP,187. The proper
tonal is a tonal where the two levels (outer and inner parts) are
in perfect harmony and balance. TOP,141.Whenever you are in the
world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for
irrational crap. TOP,170
RIGHT TONAL:
AVERAGE MAN CAN HAVE IT
and that the average man, at best, could have
a right tonal. TOP,136.
ONE COULD TURN A RIGHT TONAL INTO A PROPER
TONAL. WARRIORS COME FROM THAT STOCK
one could turn a right tonal into a proper
tonal. Warriors come from that stock. TOP,142.. (question...Why
did all the warriors from CC's parties have lousy tonals? ..most
were losers)
AVERAGE
TONAL THE WHOLE BEING MUST BE ON THE TONAL OR YOU WILL GO
BESERK
In order to be an average tonal a man must
have unity. His whole being must belong to the island of the
tonal. Without that unity the man would go
berserk;TOP,189
HOW
DOES THE FIRST ATTENTION CORRESPOND TO THE LUMINOUS
BODY?
THE FIRST ATTENTION IS THE GLOW OF AWARENESS
DEVELOPED TO AN EXTRA SHINE BUT ONLY FIXED TO THE SURFACE OF THE
COCOON.
the first attention is the glow of awareness
developed to an ultra shine.. but it is a glow fixed on the
surface of the cocoon.. it is a glow that covers the known. FFW,84
HOW
DOES THE FIRST ATTENTION CORRESPONDS TO THE PHYSICAL
BODY?
THE FIRST ATTENTION BELONGS TO THE PHYSICAL
BODY
the first attention belongs to the physical
body. EG,252.... it encompasses the awareness of the physical
body. EG,18.
WHAT
ARE WE CAPABLE OF PERCEIVING IN THE FIRST
ATTENTION?
WE CAN PERCEIVE LESS THAN ONE THOUSANDTH OF
THE HUMAN DOMAIN
We perceive not all the human domain but
perhaps only one thousandth of it. TAOD, 15 and that small portion
is still further reduced, to a minute fraction, by the constraints
of our daily life ...FFW,59,60
PERCEPTION IN THE DAILY WORLD IS TWO
DIMENSIONAL
the world of daily life consists of two points
of reference.. our points of reference are obtained primarily from
the sense perception..our senses perceive and differentiate what
is immediate to us and not. Using that distinction we derive the
rest. POS,226...examples are..here and there, in and out, up and
down, good and evil and so on...our perception is two
dimensional.. with no depth...POS,225