A Quote by Frederick Lenz

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
American - Author
February 9, 1950 - April 12, 1998

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.

Frederick Lenz

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

Frederick Lenz

You can make all the changes to the island of the tonal you want, you can take excursions into the nagual, but to push yourself into the reordering process is absolutely foolish.

Frederick Lenz

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.

Frederick Lenz

Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

The siddhas are developed through the tonal, not the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

The nagual doesn't give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.

Frederick Lenz

Your tonal must accept that the nagual exists and that it's beneficial and healthy.

Frederick Lenz

I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

Frederick Lenz

In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.

Frederick Lenz

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way

Carlos Castaneda

Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

Frederick Lenz

As we slam you with more and more devastating blows of the nagual, at the same time, we strengthen and clear the tonal so that it can easily withstand them - so there is no loss in continuity of consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?