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Toltec Wisdom on The Tonal 2: Time and Self

(For an introduction to the Tonal, a basic concept in Toltec wisdom, read "The Tonal" on The Tequihua Foundation's website at www.tequihuafoundation.org/articles/toltec/tonal.html.)

When we create the Tonal, the world around us, we're using certain abilities of our consciousness to divide the highest vibration that comes to us, what the American Book of the Dead calls the Clear Light. We begin to break it apart, and then we put them in certain places, and the world is created. This is done instantly, automatically. We break experience into fragments, so it seems this experience is now and what will happen tomorrow is later. And the memory, which is actually stored in the muscles, seemed to happen before.

Time itself is a function of thought. There is a psychological time, if you want to call it that. "Tomorrow I will die but right now I have these petty concerns." "Right now I am jealous, aggressive, lusty, a slave to drugs like coffee, sex, and alcohol, but I'm working on myself and tomorrow I will not be." It's a division that we create within our consciousness.

There is that presence that one encounters after death when your components of consciousness have been stripped away from you. You find yourself in this place that has no past and no future, no "I." So when you get to the top of the pyramid, you no longer have it divided in four quadrants—but just one center and the infinite around you.

Time and space are simply two essential components of our human consciousness. We could not see the world as we see it if we did not divide the infinite into here and there, now and then. Time and space do not exist independent of us. It's a reaction that happens after our consciousness experiences the eternal "now." Actually, "now" doesn't quite cover it. That makes no sense either. There is no work into doing that. The first movement of consciousness is the realization that "I" is a point in a circle that has no circumference. That is one of the first and purest realizations and everything breaks from there. Believe it or not, this makes sense and when you read it again, it will make sense.

You create that center just as a relationship. But the center you create is the same center I create in its function, but not in its appearance. It's apparent, not real.

We're really in a universe that has no constriction of time, space. Theoretically, we understand it in quantum physics, but hard to realize it in consciousness.

The one that says to the prophets, "I am God," is a big liar. Yes, if he is a messenger, it's a different story. The messenger itself is not guilty of the "I AM."

Thought by itself is creating this isolation from everything else. There is this thought that says, "I AM." How this I AM has been filled is part of your personal history. But the first thing you got is the I AM, and then the experiences and input from trusted adults and peers gave you the fill-in-the-blanks. But the I AM is part of the operating system. It was like a blank slate.

For now just understand eternity as the unending; it never ends. If you can, feel that anxiety of something that never ends.

Five minutes in Hell: that would be an eternity.

Thinking thought has the I AM. Whenever you think, "I am a man," "a woman," "black," "white," "human," "Muslim," "Christian," it's the "I am" that creates a division. It is the basis for an ultimate illusion. The illusion is not the world. It's not maya; it's not the world of trees, people, buildings, and the rocks. That I AM observing that, that is the basis of that illusion.

Koyote the Blind

Koyote the Blind is an Hablador (Master Storyteller) in the 10th-century Toltec tradition. He is also the one responsible for bringing the Aka Dua to the public in the Western Hemisphere. The Tequihua Foundation has attempted to assist him in that aim.

The Tonal is excerpted from the book Teachings of a Toltec Survivor by Koyote the Blind. The book is a record of the magically created performance of Koyote during the twelve weeks between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice in 2007.

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