Version 2007.11.09

## Encounters With The Nagual - ©2004 by Armando Torres

ENCOUNTERS WITH THE NAGUAL
Conversations with Carlos Castaneda
by ARMANDO TORRES
FIRST LIGHT PRESS
FIRST EDITION, NOVEMBER, 2004
First published in Spanish, November 2002
ISBN:968-5671-04-4
Front cover design: by Luis Salgado
Back Cover Illustration of Carlos Castaneda: by Cesar Rangel
Title: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE NAGUAL
COPYRIGHT 2004 by Armando Torres.
All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication is allowed without written permission of the editors.
Published by First Light Press
TheNagualBook.com

I would like to express my gratitude to all those who have helped me on my path, and especially to Carlos Castaneda, for bringing a sense of beauty and purpose to my life.

I dedicate this book to all those who know what I am talking about.

- Armando Torres

### Contents

- Preface
- Introduction

- Part One - A Romance With Knowledge

- The Sorcerers’ Revolution
- Self-importance
- The Path Of The Warrior
- Awareness of Death
- Energetic Drainage
- Recapitulation
- The Threshold of Silence

- Part Two - The Dialogue of Warriors

- Section 1

- Conceptual Saturation
- An Inventory of Beliefs
- Believing Without Believing
- Practicing Silence

- Section 2

- The Minimal Chance
- There Is No Need For Teachers
- To Know Oneself

- Section 3

- Power Plants
- The Trap of Fixation
- Dreaming and Awakening
- The Door of Perception
- The Dreaming Double

- Section 4

- Teaching the Art of Stalking
- The Mark of the Nagual
- Stalking the Petty Tyrant

- Section 5

- Perceptual Homogenization
- Predators of Awareness
- Losing the Mind
- Movements of the Assemblage Point

- Section 6

- The Survival of the Assemblage Point
- Cyclical Beings
- The Sorcerer's Alternative
- The Final Choice

- Section 7

- The Seers of Ancient Mexico
- Journey to the Roots
- The Antennas of the Second Attention

- Section 8

- Validating the Nagual
- Return to the Essence
- I Believe Because I Want To

- Section 9

- A New Stage of Knowledge
- The Appointment Is With Dreaming
- Bringing The Teachings To The Masses
- The Magical Passes

- Section 10

- The End of the Lineage
- The Evolution of the Path
- The Seers of the New Era
- Intellectual Preparation

- Section 11

- The Task of the Nagual
- Encounter in the Crypt

- Part Three - The Rule Of The Three-Pronged Nagual

- Introduction
- The Omen
- What Is the Rule?
- The Origin of the Rule
- An Impersonal Organism
- Assembling a Party
- The Structure Of The Party
- The Purpose of the Rule
- Three-Pronged Naguals
- The Portion of the Rule for the Three-Pronged nagual
- The Task of the Seers of Today

- Part Four - The World of the Old Seers Today