The Unpredictable Breath of Nagual Sculptures

In a brief text from 1989 entitled Nagual Art, William S. Burroughs reminds us that in the books by Carlos  Castaneda, Don Juan makes a distinction between two different universes: Tonal and Nagual. The Tonal universe is the daily universe of cause and effect, which is predictable because it has already been recorded. Meanwhile, Nagual is an unknown, unstable universe, open to the future. In order for Nagual to be fully realized, the doors must be opened wide to chance. The magical thinking in Carlos Castaneda’s work distinguishes the duality inherent in the order of things: one is Tonal, which is a recording of reality, almost a statistical confirmation, and another, Nagual, which derives from the eruption of randomness, capable of opening up to new and unpredictable forms of reality.READ MORE