D.) FIRST ATTENTION

WHAT IS THE FIRST ATTENTION?

 
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