08-28-2008, 12:00 AM
I read in one of the books that the new nagual's energy body is open up in half and his "nagual" is pulled out.
"Do you know why we called Juan Matus the Nagual?" Nestor asked me.
I said that I had always thought that that was their nice way of calling don Juan a sorcerer.
Benigno laughed so loudly that the sound of his laughter drowned out everybody else's. He seemed to be
enjoying himself immensely. He rested his head on my shoulder as if it were a heavy object he could no longer support.
"The reason we called him the Nagual," Nestor went on, "is because he was split in two. In
other words, any time he needed to, he could get into another track that we don't have ourselves. Something would come out of him; something that was not a
double, but a horrendous, menacing shape that looked like him but was twice his size. We call that shape the nagual and anybody who has it is, of course, the
Nagual.
"The Nagual told us that all of us can have that shape coming out of our heads if we wanted to, but
chances are that none of us would want to. Genaro didn't want it, so I think we don't want it, either. So it appears that you're the one who's
stuck with it."
They cackled and yelled as if they were corraling a herd of cattle. Benigno put his arms around my shoulders
without opening his eyes and laughed until tears were rolling down his cheeks.
"Why do you say that I am stuck with it?" I asked Nestor.
"It takes too much energy," he said, "too much work. I don't know how you can still be
standing.
"The Nagual and Genaro split you once in the eucalyptus grove. They took you there because eucalyptuses
are your trees. I was there myself and I witnessed when they split you and pulled your nagual out. They pulled you apart by the ears until they had split your
luminosity and you were not an egg anymore, but two long chunks of luminosity. Then they put you together again, but any sorcerer that sees can tell that there
is a huge gap in the middle."
"What's the advantage of being split?"
"You have one ear that hears everything and one eye that sees everything and you will always be able to
go an extra mile in a moment of need. That splitting is also the reason why they told us that you are the Maestro.
"They tried to split Pablito but it looks like it failed. He's too pampered and has always indulged
like a bastard. That's why he's so screwed up now."
"Do you know why we called Juan Matus the Nagual?" Nestor asked me.
I said that I had always thought that that was their nice way of calling don Juan a sorcerer.
Benigno laughed so loudly that the sound of his laughter drowned out everybody else's. He seemed to be
enjoying himself immensely. He rested his head on my shoulder as if it were a heavy object he could no longer support.
"The reason we called him the Nagual," Nestor went on, "is because he was split in two. In
other words, any time he needed to, he could get into another track that we don't have ourselves. Something would come out of him; something that was not a
double, but a horrendous, menacing shape that looked like him but was twice his size. We call that shape the nagual and anybody who has it is, of course, the
Nagual.
"The Nagual told us that all of us can have that shape coming out of our heads if we wanted to, but
chances are that none of us would want to. Genaro didn't want it, so I think we don't want it, either. So it appears that you're the one who's
stuck with it."
They cackled and yelled as if they were corraling a herd of cattle. Benigno put his arms around my shoulders
without opening his eyes and laughed until tears were rolling down his cheeks.
"Why do you say that I am stuck with it?" I asked Nestor.
"It takes too much energy," he said, "too much work. I don't know how you can still be
standing.
"The Nagual and Genaro split you once in the eucalyptus grove. They took you there because eucalyptuses
are your trees. I was there myself and I witnessed when they split you and pulled your nagual out. They pulled you apart by the ears until they had split your
luminosity and you were not an egg anymore, but two long chunks of luminosity. Then they put you together again, but any sorcerer that sees can tell that there
is a huge gap in the middle."
"What's the advantage of being split?"
"You have one ear that hears everything and one eye that sees everything and you will always be able to
go an extra mile in a moment of need. That splitting is also the reason why they told us that you are the Maestro.
"They tried to split Pablito but it looks like it failed. He's too pampered and has always indulged
like a bastard. That's why he's so screwed up now."