Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.

Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.

You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself from what you have been.

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.

This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.

The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.