Version 2006.04.01

## "Tales of Power" - ©1974 by Carlos Castaneda

The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; the second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; the third, that it aims its beak to the skies; the fourth, that it does not have a definite color; the fifth, that it sings very softly.

- San Juan de la Cruz, Dichos de Luz y Amor

### Contents

- Part One: A Witness to Acts of Power

- An Appointment with Knowledge
- The Dreamer and the Dreamed
- The Secret of the Luminous Beings

- Part Two: The Tonal and the Nagual

- Having to Believe
- The Island of the Tonal
- The Day of the Tonal
- Shrinking the Tonal
- In Nagual's Time
- The Whispering of the Nagual
- The Wings of Perception

- Part Three: The Sorcerer's Explaination

- Three Witnesses to the Nagual
- The Strategy of a Sorcerer
- The Bubble of Perception
- The Predilection of Two Warriors