Reality According to Toltec Shamanism: Nagual’s Library

Here we are, born into a world in which many of us feel like strangers. A world we never fully understand. A world in which something seems to be missing. A world where we spend our entire lives searching for ourselves—and for others.

Searching for God, if He exists. Does He? And if so, what is the meaning of all this? Enlightenment? A return to paradise? A return to the Source? The purging of our sins through successive reincarnations?

Or is all of this simply a vast cosmic coincidence of life and experience, where being good or bad doesn’t really matter, because there is no reward or punishment?

In this book, we will present the Toltec worldview of reality. We will delve into a philosophical and metaphysical vision of the world. We will attempt to address many of the questions human beings have—questions that, according to this path, can only be answered through the warrior’s way.

We will begin by breaking down what reality is, and how it emanates from a Source. From there, it will be necessary to explore the energetic components that make up all living beings, so that we can move into more specific ideas:

What is the assemblage point, and how does it help us perceive?

What are the right-side body (the tonal) and the left-side body (the nagual)?

What perceptual tools—both physical and energetic—does the human being possess?

The two ways of perceiving: through reason and through will. The location of perceptual centers and how they function.

Intent, or the connection to the Source.

Beings that inhabit other realities: inorganic beings—those without a physical body in our plane, yet still perceptive entities.

The path of knowledge has no return. The moment you begin it, you already know too much to go back to your former life.