Serving Complete exhibit here: [link]

Somebody asked me to work in this concept that is one of my favorite in the Carlos castaneda books. As it's hard for me to search and translate the concept in the books i tried to found a good explanation through internet and is very hard to find one but i think that this may be two good descriptions.



- "Tonal and Nagual.
The terms tonal and nagual were used in the esoteric School of don Juan Matus described in the books of Carlos Castaneda.
These terms denote two “parallel” worlds that comprise the universe — the world of material objects (tonal) and the non-material world (nagual).
We communicate with the world of matter through the so-called first awareness, i.e. the one which is carried out through the sense organs of the physical body.
To become able of cognizing the nagual, one has to develop the second awareness, that is, clairvoyance.
The term nagual had another meaning in this case: a person-leader who has mastered the nagual and is capable of acting in it and from it. In the School mentioned above, such a leader, i.e. Nagual, was don Juan Matus.
Below follow several excerpts from the book by Carlos Castaneda Tales of Power (in these excerpts the term nagual means the non-material world):
“The tonal begins at birth and ends at death, but the nagual never ends. The nagual has no limit. The nagual is where Power hovers.”
“For the nagual, there is no land, or air, or water. Therefore, the nagual glides, or flies, or does anything it can do in the time of the nagual, which is not related at all to the time of the tonal. These two things do not intersect.”
“The tonal and the nagual are two different worlds. In one you talk, in the other you act.”
(Castaneda C. — Tales of Power. "Pocket Books", N.Y., 1978)"



- "In the worldview of Don Juan Matus's (Carlos Castaneda books), reality is seen as multi-dimensional, multi-faceted reality that under ordinary circumstances human beings only perceive in part; the known part of reality with which humans are familiar is called the Tonal. The spiritual Nagual is that dimension of reality for which we are not conscious but is in fact constitutes the greater part of reality. Here the Nagual bears some resemblance to the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious. It has also been said that the Nagual is all that is, and that it condenses to form the Tonal. The Nagual and the Tonal as dual aspects of reality and being such are perceived either through the First Attention, where we experience the Tonal, or the Second Attention where we experience the Nagual. To Don Juan the Tonal is often associated with the masculine aspect of the universe and the Nagual to the feminine. The Tonal can roughly be linked to the concept of Ego or conscious mind. Three states are described in the text by Castaneda, the known, the unknown and the unknowable. When one is able to perceive the Second Attention they are considered "Seers" or "Dreamers".

This pic will be the background of the myspace of the italian "Toltec black metal band" Tal'Set, that is under construction actually and will be ready tomorrow. [link]

More drawings for this band


Photoshop+cintiq drawing no ref.

First time i tryed to paint a nebula. The results was not pretty good but i enjoyed and would like to try again.