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 In the Toltecáyotl or Toltequity, the teacher and benefactor prepare the apprentice selected by the power, after a long training period with techniques to "cleanse the tonal island", to get him "out" of the tonal island and glimpse at the immeasurable and frightening nagual presence. In fact, all humans at the time of death, when the tonal island bubble breaks, are ravaged by the nagual uncontrollable force. Totality enters and melts us in its immensity.

For occidentals the irrational is something that must be surpassed and exterminated, as superiority is conceived from reason (men are rational animals). However, other civilizations in the world have developed "irrational" knowledge ways or not arising from reason. Toltequity is one of them.

As an interesting point, in this chapter, Don Juan tells Castaneda that when a man has learned to save energy, the power sends him a "teacher" to turn him into an apprentice, and when the apprentice manages to save more energy, the power sends him a "benefactor" to make him Toltec, nagual or "witch". Hence we believe that a Toltequity "reader" has enough work to just try to start the techniques that Castaneda mentions in "Journey to Ixtlán" to begin reducing his personal significance. "The eyes may be windows to contemplate boredom or glimpse that infinity...

When you're in the tonal world, you should be an impeccable tonal; there is no time for irrational garbage. But when you are in the nagual world, you should also be impeccable; there is no time for rational shit...

"Nothing else I can tell you, except to follow all Genaro movements, without exhausting yourself. Now you are testing whether your tonal is full of trivialities. If your island has too many unnecessary objects, you will not be able to meet the nagual."

—What would happen to me?

—You could die. Nobody can survive a voluntary meeting with the nagual, without a long preparation. Takes years preparing the tonal for such a meeting. As a general rule, if a common man one day meets face to face with the nagual, the impression is so great that would kill him. The warrior preparation goal then is not to teach him spells or witchcraft, but to prepare his tonal so that he does not to fall on his nose. A most difficult enterprise. The Warrior should be taught to be impeccable and to be completely empty before he can even conceive attesting the nagual..." C.C.

THE NAGUAL WHISPER

As it was noted, the tonal is the basis of everything we are and we perceive as human beings. The common man must possess a "unity" in the tonal island. Without the consistency given by this unit, people can lose their "mind". Rationality of human being balance their world; it is the tonal instrument. For ordinary people it is enough to live with "half" of their potential; they settle for it because that world is regularly safe and comfortable. But human beings who wants to live with their self-totality, must enter the dangerous and comprehensive Toltequity or "witchcraft" path. Breaking the tonal unity, its coherence and rationality, if not carefully done, can put humans in serious danger.

The tonal is very fragile and does not allow to lose "control" of reality. Even so, Toltequity proposes, as a path, to open and reduce the tonal island, but without hurting it