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tonal & nagual,
Posted by: freespirit |
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17-Jun-2001-13:53:36 |
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Re: tonal & nagual |
There's a book by don Miguel Ruiz, A Toltec nagual,
"The Four Agreements".
Here's an excerpt from the Introduction, THE SMOKEY MIRROR:
Three thousand years ago, there was human just like you and me who lived near a city surrounded by mountains. The human was studying to become a medicine man, to learn the knowledge of his ancestors, but he didn't completely agree with everything he was learning. In his heart, he felt there must be something more.
On day, as she slept in a cave, he dreamed that he saw his own body sleeping. He came out of the cave on the night of a new moon. The sky was clear, and he could see millions of stars. Then something happened inside of him that transformed his life forever. he looked at his hands, he felt his body, and he heard his own voice say, "I am made of light; I am made of stars."
He looked at the stars again, he and he realized that it's not the stars that create light, but rather light that creates the stars. "Everything is made of light," he said," and the space in-between isn't empty." And he knew that everything that exists is one living being, and that light is the messenger of life, because it is alive and contains all information.
Then he realized that although he was made of stars, he was not those stars. "I am in-between the stars," he thought. So he called the stars the TONAL and the light between the stars the NAGUAL, and he knew that what created the harmony and space between the two is Life or Intent. Without Life, the tonal and the nagual could not exist. Life is the force of the absolute, the supreme, the Creator who creates everything.
This is what he discovered: Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God. And he came to the conclusion that human perception is merely light perceiving light. He also saw that matter is a mirror -- everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light -- and the world of illusion, the DREAM, is just like smoke which doesn't allow us to see what we really are. "The real us is pure love, pure light," he said.
This realization changed his life. Once he knew what he really was, he looked around at other humans and the rest of nature, and he was amazed at what he saw. He saw himself in everything -- in every human, in every animal, in every tree, in the water, in the rain, in the clouds, in the earth. And he saw that Life mixed the tonal and the nagual in different ways to create billions of manifestations of Life.... |
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