The nagual is the unknown. It cannot be talked about, it can only be witnessed.
There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual.
The deeper side of the study occurs on levels of attention your mind is not aware of, but that your superconscious mind is - what don Juan calls the nagual.
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.
What I do, the teacher of the nagual, is open up the bubble of your luminosity and allow the luminous being to take short excursions into the unknown.
When you can command the nagual you have a great deal of power, and people know it intuitively. They feel if they can plunge themselves into the nagual they can get anything they want in the tonal.
The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.
Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.
The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself.
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown.
One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.