Frederick Lenz Quotes
The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes here.
A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.
I am at the Continental Divide with the astral beings. They're most beautiful. They're most luminous. They have many shapes and sometimes their shape changes constantly, All kinds of colors.
The world is always chaos, but we pretend that it's not because it makes us feel better. In doing so we're able to go through it in a specific manner and form: That's the tonal.
Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.
Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.
The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.
The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself.
When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.
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.
The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.
When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.
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.
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.
The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.
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.
There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.
Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.
Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.
The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.
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.
The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being.
The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.
Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.
"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.
When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.
In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.
The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them to countless views of the nagual.
What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong.
When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.
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.
As we gradually open that bubble and allow the luminous being inside to come out, your second attention will develop and you'll begin to see, deal with, and become the totality of yourself.
The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.
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.
You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.
Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.
Until your physical togetherness increases, your development in the inner worlds will not increase.
Most of you are predominantly nagual. You have trouble with the physical life because you have devoted more of your attention to the mysterious side of your being.
As long as you continue to run away from the world, I will not be able to show you your luminosity.