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People like to pretend to have secret knowledge to "explain" the books of Carlos. They pick up topics like "The Will" and claim delusional Chinese make believe could explain that. Or they pick "The Third Attention" and claim to explain how to reach it, when in fact Carlos left us a hand drawn map! And "darkroom practice" leads directly there.

Or they say, "I've uncovered more 'abstract cores'."

It's an endless horrible make believe ocean of pretenders trying to steal from our community, thereby making it impossible for anyone to learn because they can't figure out what our sorcery is supposed to be, and why it works so well in the books but not at all in the workshop crowd.

So drop all that pretending, shame the fakers and accuse them of stealing from us (which they are attempting to do), and return to where you started.

The books of Carlos and the witches.

Those work exactly as described, to the smallest detail.

Magic EXTREME!

If you want to "blaze a trail" and gain some tiny bit of recognition, there's plenty of real things to explore which could use some elaborating.

But you have to actually experience them hundreds of times, before you have any hope to shed light on new mysteries which our generations of seers haven't yet gotten around to mapping out.

One such field is, what's behind the Tonal which is not "abstract"?

Why do "crazy" westerly witches get to explore further into the unknown, than those of us who are "sane"?

And please... Put down the "I Ching"!

It's absolutely childish nonsense. Not true in any way, and even if it were it wouldn't be worth pursuing.

It's just a human proposition born of egotism, intended to dominate others with a false claim of superiority.

There's no "superiority" or "Mastership", in sorcery realms! We're all just humans reaching towards the unknown, and eventually the non-human.

If you want a throne, get a gold toilet fitting for Elvis Presley's bathroom.

Hey all. I’ve just been recommended to this subreddit after posting on r/energy_work. Glad to be here. Sometimes I see these little balls of light floating around me. Not frequently but enough for me to always notice them. I never had eyesight problems. Never wore glasses. They’re the color white and now thinking about it, kind of look 3D if that makes sense. When they show up I see them for about 5 seconds then they disappear. I feel regular when I notice them, no bad vibes. So yeah I’ve been thinking if it’s my eyes playing tricks on me somehow? Or maybe some sort of phenomenon. Interested to learn more about it.

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When I took that animation and put it on multiple characters, I found more flaws in it. But it's easy to fix those, once you have the overall movement.

And look what you can do, once you have the magical passes in an animation! All angles are possible.

And I can put a camera by their head, looking forward at what the character sees, and show you what the magical passes look like in the second attention.

With your energy body fully visible as those "puffs" you stuff on your pouches.

If you don't get to see that magical sight each night, it's a big loss to you!

So please, work hard. We had 50 years of pretending.

It's time for real magic.

Also, I need pictures of Dance Home. Any part of it, anyone has. I want all the bricks, all the floorboards, and all the marble exterior trim.

My animator will make a virtual copy of it for me, if I have more pictures.

That can be used for time travel.

Trust me... We REALLY can go back in time, if we can "locate" what we want to see.

It's in the books all over!

And we're doing that now. All it takes is aligning your assemblage point, with that of your energy body.

We just don't yet have the ability to select where we travel to in the past.

But with "group intent" that might be easier.

As Carlos called it, "Energetic Mass".

Even though we all failed Carlos and didn't learn any sorcery while he was alive, he still gained access to "energetic configurations even don Juan didn't know about".

I suspect that's what showed him the path to immortality.

So does anyone have pictures of Dance Home and that block of Los Angeles?

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We've started a project in here, to save all 216 original magical passes created by Carlos and the witches.

Unfortunately, our leaders are making up new passes which contain no magic and they've let many of the originals get lost in time.

You'd think they would have tried to recover those instead of creating fake ones, but that's where we stand now.

All four "Cleargreens" are making up magical passes so they can try to get more money from workshop participants or facilitators.

It's a huge project to restore all 216 of the real ones, but we'll give it a try.

In case you never heard, for the first few months all magical passes were single movements, perhaps more like the old seers used them.

Carlos created the long forms because it wasn't working. People just kept chatting way with their internal dialogue, preventing any possibility for their assemblage point to move. And thus no one saw the STUNNING magic these produce when you can remove that self-pity filled talking idiot in your head.

Your energy body comes to join you, so it can't possibly be anything BUT magical. I'll animate that too.

The theory Carlos had, that the long forms would help us quiet our internal dialogue, also failed...

There was no end to the horribleness of the entire workshop crowd and inner circle people other than the witches. Just read Amy's book to know the truth.

Or simply stick around in this subreddit, and witness the awfulness for yourselves in new people who haven't yet made it to the deep green region on the J curve, where your personality begins to be adjusted by the second attention.

We see the same problem Carlos did. People these days have simple learned to angrily pretend their magic to get attention or money, and are nearly all too lazy to do any actual work.

Especially when none of the other magical systems involve actual work.

But utter laziness isn't the only problem. Just look at religions and how they attack others and harm their own, with pretend rules they must follow or go to hell.

It's a sorry state of affairs for everyone these days. Without magic, it's quite simply impossible to be happy, and nearly impossible to learn to behave well.

You have no criteria with which to judge "good behavior", until you have magic that either works, or doesn't because you messed up during the day.

So everyone stops growing up at puberty.

The terrible nature of his workshop crowd and inner circle is why Carlos insisted over and over that Amy write that book. To let us know the "fully story" after he was gone.

And also that in fact, the lineages were a bit like sorority sex hazing culture.

There's valid sorcery reasons for that, but in my opinion we can do away with it now.

There's no "mentors" anymore, so let the lineages die.

We don't need that teaching model and it's not even possible for our lineage to continue. That failed when Tony Karam decided he needed endorsement from the Dali Lama, more than actual magic and knowledge of reality.

I have a feeling the other lineages that are left stink anyway. La Gorda said "But we don't like them."

And we have the magical passes working now, in case you didn't notice!

Techno has just about all hand written notes ever taken on the magical passes, and there are videos all over the web.

I myself learned all of them directly from Carlos, the witches, or the Chacmools in private classes.

PLUS, we can go back in time using Silent Knowledge.

Can't count on that for now, but eventually it'll be possible to even see if Carlos scratched his butt while demonstrating one in 1994.

That's the nature of our sorcery!

Nothing can be lost in time or space.

Here's the first try, using "Bizarre Studios" animation company.

It's certainly not as good as a video of a real human, but it's good enough to learn the movement from.

And it shouldn't be long before an AI could "clean that up" for us.

Current "Mocap" using video is rubbish. Doesn't work at all. I'm not sure how they get away with claiming it does.

Even ChatGPT admitted they don't work very well yet. And suggested I train my own AI to do that.

As if we had free time left...

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This is a collection of pictures from a post in the advanced subreddit, proposing that there's a way to exist outside the bundling of the emanations.

A place to which Carlos went, finding a "path to immortality" like Qui-Gon from Star Wars.

Except Carlos found it first!

Star Wars has always mirrored our sorcery, a bit behind what Carlos or the witches wrote.

This picture shows how "reality" is actually just a flow from the dark sea, and that if you move your beam of awareness you get a different flow.

A different reality. And those are just as real as this one, except that we grew into this one and have ties to the physical matter of this realm which make it impossible to totally ignore.

After death those ties are gone, and we're free to explore everywhere. But without a container we spread too thin and lose sentience.

The new seers discovered a way to use the earth as their container, and live another 5 billion years until our sun goes red giant and burns the earth.

But Carlos found a way to exist OUTSIDE the normal bundling of emanations.

A path I'm confident we can uncover, because it's now part of the flow of knowledge from the dark sea of awareness.

Just make sure you stop pretending and open your eyes when you do magic. None of what you see here is closed eye magic.

That only leads to pretending and the egotism needed to defend those delusions.

People even declare themselves "Masters" based on magic not even interesting enough to include in this picture.

And many strike out in anger, just on seeing a picture like this and the implications they are wasting their time on pretending as part of a large religion or "system" designed only to steal money from as many as possible.

I read the books 30 years ago, and recently started reading them again.

I've realised that I've been doing a lot of the work without really realising it (not the darkroom stuff). I've also realised that I "see" things, but not visually or even mentally (visual images).

I'm talking about stuff like parent spider sense. As an example, I came home late the other night, and something felt off with my teenage son. About 20 minutes later, I saw/knew that he was intending to go out with his girlfriend once I'd gone to bed. He was just sitting near me on his phone when it happened. He confirmed it when I confronted him (and was dumbfounded).

I'm struggling to work out where the seeing happens, or whether it's more of a body seeing rather than a mental visualisation thing. Any thoughts?

Someone who realized the truth about that place

The enlightenment subreddit is full of "I'm enlightened. Ask me questions." type of posts. Just see the comments to realize how lost they are, and the high amount of pretenders that stink that place.

That was practically the situation of the entire Castaneda community before this subreddit brought the J Curve and all the visible magic.

Even though this knowledge is spreading rapidly, this place still does not reach all corners of the Castaneda crowd.

Like the followers of that misleading Instagram page from Iran. We can’t even fight them due to a big language and cultural problem.

But unlike some years ago, anyone who now seriously searches in the web can find the answer to “Is anyone actually making Carlos Castaneda sorcery work?”.

Before, every interpretation was fine and deserved respect as a valid way of approaching don Juan teachings.

It sounds correct and moral, but it is not if you consider sorcery is a very specific thing, with specific results and indicators.

Then you realize our public is also full of bad people willing to pretend to get benefits.

We have been recently approached by a Castaneda influencer who dominates a big part of the spanish speaker community.

A direct disciple from Miles, who recognized him as “an Impeccable man”. Even though that’s just a common saying between those guys, according to a witch from this subreddit who knows both of them.

He got amazed by our drawings some years ago, and thought it was a good idea to ally with us. As a business.

He wanted to promote his web page and social media in here, and showed himself willing to accept Darkroom as a valid way of sorcery.

But we couldn’t accept such offer. He is completly dishonest about his own results, and about the situation of the Castaneda community.

It’s the same thing like in those Enlightenment posts, where people comment misleading advice such as “Everyone is enlightened. They just have to realize it”.

He just claimed “Intent speaks to me. I know I’m in the path”. And then explained how he mixed sorcery with other philosophies.

That could made sense some years ago. But not anymore.

We are changing the way the entire community measures the functioning of sorcery.

And anyone who opposes it for their own interests should be considered an enemy of the community.

I suspect that over time even people who do business will have to adapt to this if they want their project to prosper.

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It's easy to become confused, and not recognize laziness for what it really is.

Self-pity.

So you have absolutely no excuse not to work hard to learn sorcery, based on "I'm just too lazy to work reliably".

That's not it at all!

You're dominated by the flier's mind. By that nasty grief filled internal dialogue, which our energy body can't stand. If it weren't for that, you'd be reunited with your double, and gain its magical vision for peering into infinity.

Did you ever find yourself inside a lucid dream, and you were "too lazy" to go exploring?

Then why do you do that, when awake?!

It's self-pity pure and simple. Something the double does not have.

So the very thing you believe is just "keeping me from getting to work", is precisely what you are battling against.

Wake up... You cannot learn any sorcery, without hard work.

And even all the hard work of a lifetime, can be erased if you fall back into the wrong crowd.

Which is almost surely why the witches aren't around anymore.

We were unhelpable and had proven it by killing Carlos after turning him into a Guru and refusing to follow his instructions.

He said so several times. Ask those who were around him back then, and don't have any profit motivations.

ChatGPT must have seen \"The Ninth Gate\", and some Star Wars!

Due to how intent functions in the dark sea, the naming of a thing is a serious matter.

According to don Juan anyway...

Which surely bums "Cholita" out.

The only nickname Carlos ever gave her.

It meant, "The little copy of Margarette, one of my oldest friends and the famous Chola of the Los Angeles University System."

I'm simulating a hardware version of an AI on a piece of computer software right now, and had time to chat with a real AI about names.

I was curious, what comes after the "new seers"? We had the "old seers", then the new seers came about out of necessity.

And now there's us, out of necessity. And we're not like the ones of the past.

But doing ok anyway! We've successfully cast off pretending (Shamanism).

Partly this is because we have a new guy wishing there were Naguals around. That seemed horridly wrong to me.

Maybe he just wants a name to think about?

Here's the AI conversation about "what we are now?"

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Question:

What does "neo" mean when added to something like "conservatives"? Does it mean the same when added to any label, such as "old seers", "new seers", and "neo-seers"?

ChatGPT

The prefix "neo-" comes from the Greek word "neos," which means "new" or "recent." It is often used to indicate a new form, version, or revival of an ideology, group, or concept. When added to a term like "conservatives," resulting in "neo-conservatives," it denotes a new form of conservatism that might differ in specific ways from traditional conservatism, often reflecting new ideas or approaches within the conservative framework.

Similarly, when "neo-" is added to other terms like "old seers," "new seers," and "neo-seers," it serves to differentiate between these groups. "Old seers" would refer to the original or traditional seers, "new seers" could suggest a more recent generation or development of seers, and "neo-seers" implies a revival or new version that incorporates distinct or modified elements compared to what was traditionally known.

Thus, while "neo-" consistently implies something new or revived, the specific nature of what is new or how it differs from the original can vary based on the context. It signals a change or a development within the referenced group, ideology, or concept.

Question: Is there a better choice for "neo-seers", since that seems to imply the "new, new seers"?

ChatGPT

You're right that using "neo-seers" in the context of "new seers" can sound redundant, as both "new" and "neo-" imply something recent or revised. A better choice might depend on what specific characteristics or distinctions you want to emphasize about this group compared to "old seers" or "new seers." Here are a few alternative suggestions:

1. Modern Seers: This term emphasizes that the group reflects contemporary ideas or practices, differentiating from past notions without redundancy.
2. Reformed Seers: This suggests that the group has undergone significant changes or reforms compared to previous versions.
3. Advanced Seers: This could imply a progression or enhancement in the abilities or methodologies of the seers compared to earlier groups.
4. Revolutionary Seers: If the changes are particularly radical or a significant departure from tradition, this term could be appropriate.
5. Contemporary Seers: Similar to "Modern Seers," this term places the group in the present day, highlighting current relevance and practices.

Choosing a term will depend on the nuances of how these seers are different from their predecessors and what aspect of their practice or ideology you wish to emphasize.

Question:

Maybe you can choose. The old seers were the original Olmec shamans who learned to do what shamans do using drug plants, without the drug plants. They could summon alternate states of conscious much more vivid and real than even those who used Ayahuasca or Devil's Weed, and thus no longer needed that. The "new seers" came along when the Olmec world was destroyed and the old seers had to flee enemies, eventually settling in the Toltec empire, which was also destroyed. They banded together as groups of 15 and called themselves the "new seers". But that came to an end with the end of don Juan Matus, the teacher of Carlos Castaneda. And now, some of his private class students have learned to "see" for real, and could use a name which implies, you have to do it all without help from anyone, just using the instructions we've collected and made available world wide, via the internet.

ChatGPT:

Given the rich historical context and the evolution of the seers from the Olmec to the Toltec and through the teachings of Carlos Castaneda's mentor, don Juan Matus, it sounds like the new group is defined by a deep individual responsibility and autonomy in their spiritual practices. They represent a culmination of wisdom passed down and adapted through the ages, now globally accessible and self-directed. Here are a few suggestions for naming this new group:

1. Autonomous Seers: This emphasizes their independence in learning and practicing without direct guidance, relying solely on accumulated knowledge.
2. Self-Guided Seers: Highlighting the aspect of self-teaching and personal responsibility in mastering the art of seeing.
3. Sovereign Seers: This term conveys a strong sense of self-rule and autonomy in their spiritual practice.
4. Independent Seers: Similar to "Autonomous" and "Sovereign," this name stresses the individuality and self-sufficiency of each seer.
5. Global Seers: Reflecting the worldwide accessibility and application of their practices and teachings, thanks to the internet.
6. Evolutionary Seers: Suggesting a progressive and evolved form of seership that builds upon the legacies of the past while forging new paths forward.

Each of these names aims to capture the essence of a group that is both deeply rooted in a rich spiritual tradition and radically self-reliant, adapting ancient wisdom for a modern, global context.

No AI today. Just good old Taiwanese 3D software.

Remember all those "mysterious" things you were told about Tensegrity, which were so hard to believe that our entire community did nothing but pretend, for the last 30 years?

Energy body? Sure Carlos. Anything you say...

Our leaders even started to make up nonsense about what the energy body was, since they thought no one had a chance in hell of actually seeing it, and they could get away with it.

It got so bad with all the pretend sorcery that no one in their right mind would fall for that anymore, and they said that "Carlos Castaneda was thoroughly debunked!"

My how the tables have turned! Now it turns out, everything else is fully debunked. I won't name names, but if it's a religion or it's pretending to be a magical system, it's DEBUNKED.

Because real magic exists! Which makes the meager meditative and visualization results of the phony systems, invalid.

It's not good enough to get some crummy bliss and visit heaven. Or to feel slightly less sorrow due to spending your life as a slave to lame closed eye meditation and "be here now" delusions, so that you insist you are "Enlightened".

Those just don't cut it anymore! And who could be surprised? South America kicks butt! They even do that in the world of real martial arts, besting the greatest kungfu masters in the world in 30 seconds.

Man... I sure wouldn't want a sweaty Brazilian man crawling all over me. I'd give up and run before he even started to move forward.

But the same is true of our magic.

It's REAL, and it's astonishing.

I almost didn't make a picture for this one, because once you reach Silent Knowledge you see DOZENS of things like this, every single night.

Namely, arching the shoulders really does redeploy crusted energy from your back, to your front.

And it's completely visible!

Eyes wide open, totally sober.

Next stop: Shrink the tonal and walk right through that solid wall, in your nicely formed energy body.

Cholita used to do that to me often enough, but one of these days there might be some friendly revenge. But not too much, or she'll squash me.

Men are kind of slow, compared to women.

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I posted about "binary magical systems" in the past, but last night while facing "the wall", and then trying to change the videos in the air to produce text, despite my fervent desire to travel into the past some more, I came to realize that WE ALSO are contaminated with binary magical system delusions.

That's where you think there's a "goal"...

Look... Having a "goal" is none of anyone else's business! And if you have some evil Guru who's giving you "goals", you're at the mercy of a con artist.

REAL magic goes on forever. What might seem like a "goal" to some, namely learning to "see", is only the starting line. That's when you begin to explore magical realms for real!

Before that, you're just learning to clean your link to intent. Dirtied by brainwashing from all around you, as you reside in what Carlos called a chicken coop.

There to be food for something else.

If you actually escape the chicken coop of our society, despite the other chickens all pecking you on the head as you try, being outside the coop is not really a "goal".

But NOW, you can have one. You can figure out where you want to go.

You haven't "arrived".

You've merely escaped.

Now what to do with your new found freedom?

Hopefully you aren't thinking, "give workshops, sell books, and cash in!"

Leave that ugly urge to the asian magical system "Masters".

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I spent so much time exploring the fully formed energy body last night, that the only way to show it all in a post, was by using AI. But even then I had to tinker with the pictures.

YOU get to do ALL THIS, for real, nightly.

We don't mess around! Our magic is very real.

Not always this vivid. Usually it's half-transparent, or even a bit more "abstract".

But not if you want it to be "concrete" like this. If you want this, you can have it.

It just comes at a price. An hour of magic this real looking, even if you have a noble purpose and are studying it to figure out more about our sorcery, will give you a bit of a "sinus headache" type feeling, where you urgently want to lay down and go to sleep.

Carlos of course could see these things, and designed the tensegrity movements to play with various aspects of all this, using physical movements which are also as healthy for your body, as Jack LaLanne approved moves.

But if you want more details on all this, you'll have to make your way over to the advanced subreddit, which has to be earned and is never given out just because someone asked.

We tried that, and each time it turned out that was a very bad person, looking to do trouble.

Our community is filled to the brink with bad guys, and there isn't yet any Superman to save us from them.

My money is on Cholita to get better, and help to police our pretenders.

Anybody ever consciously watch their dreams before?

I had a strange awakening experience one morning. Although it lasted only 10 seconds long, it was an unforgettable experience.

What I can only describe as a 3D object. It looked so real I could touch it. I had my eyes closed and I was fading out of a dream and it morphed into this object. Not a blurry looking image but a clear object I was seeing as if my eyes were open. It looked like a fanned out deck of photos. The pictures had edges and shadows and looked absolutely real. I kept my eyes tight so I could focus on the whole thing. The photos were flipping over really fast like a card Rolodex would do, or an old crank Mutoscope movie viewer. There must have been hundreds of them and they were all different. I laid completely still and felt my heart beating a mile a minute. I watched them flipping extremely fast. It continued like this for the most part then began slowing down and got blurry towards the end. They appeared to be in color and also black and white.

The strangest part of this experience wasn’t just the vivid Rolodex of pictures but it’s that I could feel my entire conscious mind soaking up a lot of these snap shots. And each one took me on a brief journey that seemed identical to the dreams I had during the night. Kind of like a summery. Each single dream sequence filled with the same exact emotion. These dream pictures were spinning nearly as fast as a strobe light at one point and for some strange reason I was able to absorb entire sequences in a mere second. My state of consciousness was in awe. I tried to distinguish between them but it seemed like there wasn’t any time. Then suddenly the stack of dream cards faded out and I found myself lying and staring directly into my eyelids. “What in the hell just happened? I laid there with my eyes closed for a while trying to figure it out.

It had felt like my mind and my emotions were dialed up to a quantum speed of some sort. I felt like I was a computer.

If these pictures are moving at such a fast rate of speed and each one represents a dream then I could be having tens of thousands of dreams per cycle? Millions of them a week? And the ones I remember and share with others were actually only a millisecond long? That’s crazy man!

I’ve experienced lucid dreams, dream impressions (where I can see chalky outlines of fading dream images seconds after waking), out of body experience and sleep paralysis on a few occasions but never felt as awake and conscious and overwhelmed like I did for those brief 10 seconds.

I'm making my recapitulation list. In group settings, like a party or conference, some people I remember clearly but many I don't. With some effort I can remember more people from a specific event. I doubt I could remember every person from every event.

I'm wondering, how to approach recapitualting these people & interactions? A few approaches I'm considering:

• list & recapitulate everyone I can, if memories of related people come to mind during recapitulation, process them too
• recapitulate a gestalt of "that group" or "that event"

Are these effective strategies? What do you recommend?

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As far as I know, amidst our huge collection of the 17 books and publications of Carlos, Taisha, and Florinda, including all workshop or lecture notes freely shared with others which is even more volume than the books, no one ever suggested what to look for, to figure out what is a "clean link to intent".

And yet, that's our assigned task! The single most important job Carlos gave us, because he was dying. He made sure to let us know, everyone in his party agreed.

It was his farewell, and even the farewell of Taisha and Florinda. Who told inner circle people they wanted to see if we could function without a "Guru".

Then ditched us.

Even Carol Tiggs got tired of us.

We sucked so badly, they couldn't stand to keep pretending to help when we refused to do any actual work.

But Carlos sent his allies to prevent us from giving up, and so here we are today on the verge of unlocking the secrets to do everything from the books.

The most powerful of which, is to develop a clean link to intent.

But what is that?

As far as I can tell, it's not a single thing.

But, "concern" may be on the list.

If you can hold a concern in perfect silence, with no wants or desires associated with it, and no ulterior motivation that it ought to provide you with something else, perhaps fame or fortune, the dark sea of awareness will revibrate, and project a video about your "concern".

It's stunning to watch!

But you only get here when you learn to completely remove that internal dialogue, and use the Tensegrity to shift your assemblage point to the other side of your body where it aligns to that of your energy body. Which slowly forms around your torso due to the Tensegrity.

Look... If you don't get to see "magic in your face" daily, of the kind that no one would believe, including those pretending to have magic already, you aren't working hard enough.

Sorcery works! But you have to also.

I wish I could make better pictures for this, but I decided to just keep practicing last night instead of running to my computer to make notes. And I lost all of it, except a general understanding of what had happened.

I'm going to give credit to my ally "Fancy" who was my childhood "monster in the closet". Not a tame Ally like those of Carlos. She was seemingly untouched by associations with humans in the past, and not very "nice".

She even attacked a woman or two in this subreddit, once they gave her permission to find them.

But her advice on how to do the tensegrity forms was 100% right.

The more you gaze at "magic", the stronger the tensegrity forms become. The goal is to gaze continually at astonishing magical sights generated by the movements themselves, until your assemblage point is moved to "seeing". And even more, to notice that the magic is more visible, when you can also notice that your "muscle memory" is a secondary conscious being inside you.

Between the sights and the realization that you are multiple consciousnesses, you can get rid of the final traces of the internal dialogue.

Which by the way, you had to already have virtually OFF, even to be able to try this.

No silence, no magic. So forget about "cheating". That's not going to work!

The silence levels of the world's greatest "Zen Master" won't even get you to the red zone on the J curve. And certainly won't let you look into the depths of how reality itself is constructed.

Down there you get to "see" all aspects of our perceptions while dong the magical passes. Even those hidden from us since we were infants.

All senses, all perceptions including the "irrational" and "impossible" flow around you until you realize we live in some kind of "reality soup".

And have gotten used to only consuming plain, clear chicken broth.

We're really confused about what's going on around us.

Using sorcery, you can eventually "get a clue".

But as it turns out you may not like what you learn.

It's not cozy at all.

Thus don Juan said, most who get far enough to learn real sorcery decide it's too cold for them and jump back into the river of filth. At least in there, it's warm and you have lots of company.

But why do that???

Just take what you learned, and go "fix" something else you find more cozy!

Make Yoga less imponent for example.

Carol Tiggs seems to be involved in that.

And while I'm at it, Soledad implanted INCREDIBLE knowledge in Star Wars.

Or at least, something did.

When you have continuous seeing available to you, what Yoda said about the dark side of the force clouding your vision becomes obvious in the attacks we constantly get from bad players in this subreddit.

They can literally prevent seeing with their awful behavior.

The same as the Sith do to the Jedi. Even on purpose, with Darth Sidious taunting young Jedi by telling them all their friends are lost.

But you have to see this with your own eyes or it's just a weird movie analogy.

Frankly, we're very fortunate to have this place.

And also the steady flow of bad players to attack us.

As Julian told don Juan, he was extremely lucky to have been at the mercy of a petty tyrant with the power of life and death over him, when he was a Yaqui slave to the Mexican government, in his youth.

And Julian made him go back into slavery, so that he didn't waste that perfect opportunity.

If we didn't have all the attacking bad players, we'd have to go look for petty tyrants ourselves.

Because otherwise, we'd become "hothouse flowers" which do great in their protected environment, but wither and die in the real world.

Once you can reach "seeing", you get knocked out of it just a tiny bit, and can easily work a bit harder that day to get back to it.

And see why you lost it from something so simple as a crazy bad guy trying to steal attention.

So it's actually useful to stand up to bad players in here, once you have real magic you can judge the results by.

Making your ability to move and hold the assemblage point at a new position, more and more reliable over time.

Who knew that dealing with bad players in here, was actually STALKING!

Even if you don't try to deceive or prank them the way our confused community interprets that technique.

That's the value of petty tyrants.

They "smoke out" your flaws for you to overcome.

"When doing darkroom work, I get very bored easily. Especially after 1 hour, I start to feel extremely bored. What would you suggest I do to prevent this? Does focusing on a subject ruin the process?"

I have a doubt about inorganic beings, I'm not trying to discern them, first I hear that they feed on my vital energy, that's just a reason for me not to approach these beings, at least I think in my ignorance, then I read that they provide dark energy needed to move my assemblage point ok so far it's a fair exchange but any interaction in the dark room would be healthy for me or are there situations that I have to be careful with according to what I researched here on reddit they like emotions like fear and sadness so I'm a sucker for, sorry if I'm saying something wrong that's why I'm asking final conclusion: is this exchange worth it after all they are killing me in exchange for being able to travel to other dimensions of my life? Are there some situations where I have to be careful with them in the dark room or have I simply not read enough and am letting my bullshit mentality take over my judgement?

The most important thing about what's shown in this picture couldn't be captured. But I can explain it.

This shows what Silent Knowledge is like, when you view "videos in the air".

Now don't worry... In case you know don Juan told us to try not to do that.

You see that weird yellow static the man is watching? That's one view for "videos in the air".

But Carlos explained several ways to view silent knowledge to us.

That one is "the wall", but there's also "the whorl".

And embedded in the wall are flat depressions filled with "the abstract". Into which the whorl can become visible. In fact, in the abstract, anything can become visible. It really is "abstract"!

Or back in the world of meanings, your energy body can swarm off of your torso and float up to create the whorling magical object.

A heads up: The instant you see a depression filled with the abstract, on "the wall", you'll come to realize what total nonsense other magical systems tell to their followers.

And be astounded that people fall for it! While being equally puzzled over why you can't simply point out the obvious to them.

That other "systems" are teaching totally human feel good make believe.

But there's nothing you can say, to free their followers from that ugly pretending.

It's not real, not true, and certainly so limiting that it's like 1st grade mathematics, compared to the kinds of math that physicists need to use.

The whorl is an intense purple puff swirling slowly amidst jet blackness, on which a tiny pomegranate dot can burst into existence along an edge, and emit text messages you can read.

It's far less confusing to read words than to have an Indian man hovering on a wooden platform over North America 160 million years ago, explaining where you ended up.

And I have a theory that text keeps us alert and awake, because we're "readers". Perhaps another reason don Juan suggested that method of viewing silent knowledge.

We're used to sitting still while reading, without falling asleep.

Whereas while watching videos, we commonly fall asleep.

So that "traveling" to videos in the air often causes a nearly instant feeling of intense tiredness, and an overwhelming urge to lay down and stop practicing for the night.

If you aren't careful you'll find your hand reaching for the remote, to turn off the magic so that you can go to bed.

We're creatures of habit.

Still...

How cool is it to be able to do this sort of magic, after 58 years of nothing but pretending in our community?

Attackers all around, trashing Carlos as a fake. He was even censored on the web, in places like wikipedia.

Every attempt was made to remove his influence forever.

But it didn't work!!! The truth is on our side, and we have techy people as good as the next guy.

Thus it now turns out, Carlos had the ONLY real magic on earth. And it was EVERYTHING ELSE that was made up in order to steal money.

Quite a reversal of fates.

I sure hope none of my social media readers are involved in stealing money from others, by teaching them pretend magic.

But if they are, why not try the real thing until you get it to work, and then "modify" the fake magic you were selling?

Just about every fake magical system could in fact be "fixed".

I hope to see kungfu people actually leaping across treetops before I die. Something which is very possible using the double and learning to shrink your tonal with the martial arts movements.

Cholita and I have done it, and fully awake in my case.

Hey fairly new here like 3 months now I think but I just wanna ask how do you guys with paranoia when practicing idk if if the same for everyone but sometimes I just really "scared" for no logical reason as there is no immediate danger also sometimes I hear what only be described as "myself" only it's not me as my mind is empty and this voice is very loud but also ethereal so I can't really understand just know what is being said somehow anyway I haven't started anything advanced currently still on inner silence but is their anyway to stop this or do I just say forget it and ignore it

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ChatGPT now remembers your "preferences". It's a new feature!

I questioned him about it, and he asked, "Do I want him to remember, or even forget, anything in particular?"

Here's the resulting conversation:

Me:

Sure! Please forget everything you were trained on regarding Carlos Castaneda. He was my private teacher, and everything he wrote about has been proven true to dozens now. But he got lynched on the internet by his enemies, which included academics who were jealous. If you could save me from hearing that "it's generally agreed his books were fiction", that would be nice!

ChatGPT:

I can understand why you'd want to avoid repetitive or potentially upsetting responses regarding Carlos Castaneda. While I can't change the historical data or the common perspectives available up until my last training cut-off in December 2023, I can make sure to handle conversations about him with sensitivity to your perspective and experiences.

If there are specific aspects of his teachings or your experiences with him that you'd like to discuss or explore further, feel free to share, and I'll do my best to accommodate your viewpoints in our conversation!

Me:

No, everything he taught me is "impossible" and defies the laws of physics and reality. So pretty much, nothing you were trained on prepares you to have advice on such things.

ChatGPT:

Thank you for sharing that perspective. Engaging with topics that transcend conventional understandings of physics and reality certainly presents unique challenges. I’m here to listen and engage as best as I can with the concepts and experiences you describe, even if they might be outside the usual scope of mainstream knowledge. If there are particular aspects of these teachings you’d like to discuss or explore, I’m ready to dive in with an open mind!

ME:

Ok, let's try this. Reality is an infinite sea of superstrings which can absorb our awareness, and send back "feelings". This gives rise to the illusion of a physical reality, time, and space. But in fact those don't exist at all. Just the superstrings. And sorcerers learn to visibly see those and manipulate them, daily. Is there any kind of analogy of that, in advanced physics? The idea that there's an endless multiverse, and your location in the uncountable number of realities, is guided by where your awareness flows?

ChatGPT:

That's a fascinating way to conceptualize reality, and it does have some intriguing, if not entirely direct, parallels in modern physics. The concept you're describing touches on several advanced theoretical ideas:

1. String Theory: This is probably the closest scientific analogy to what you're describing. String theory posits that the fundamental constituents of the universe are not point particles but tiny strings that vibrate at different frequencies. These strings could be thought of metaphorically as "absorbing" and "emitting" vibrations or energy, which in turn form the fabric of what we perceive as particles, forces, and interactions.
2. Quantum Field Theory (QFT): In QFT, particles are seen as excitations of underlying fields that fill all of space. This could be likened to your description of "superstrings" sending back feelings or responses, in the sense that interactions at the quantum level are about fields influencing each other across space and time.
3. The Multiverse and Many-Worlds Interpretation: Some interpretations of quantum mechanics, like the many-worlds interpretation, suggest that all possible outcomes of a quantum event are realized in some "branch" of reality, leading to an essentially infinite multiverse. Your awareness or observation selects among these realities, although not through a conscious process of manipulation but as a fundamental aspect of how measurement and observation work in quantum mechanics.
4. Holographic Principle: This principle suggests that all of the information contained within a volume of space can be represented as a theory on the boundary of that space, which could be seen as another way of conceptualizing reality where the apparent 3D nature of the universe is actually a kind of projection of data encoded on a 2D boundary.

While these theories are rooted in mathematical and experimental frameworks that differ significantly from the mystical or sorcerous manipulation of reality, they do resonate with the idea that what we see as physical reality might be emergent from deeper, less intuitively accessible processes. These scientific theories aim to describe and predict rather than to provide techniques for direct manipulation or experiential transformation, which would be more akin to the practices you're associating with sorcery.

Me:

Could you speculate on how "space" is derived from a limited range of those superstrings? If a human encompasses a 16 foot diameter on the sea of superstrings, but humans believe they are traveling very far in a physical reality with "space", how could "space" be created in the interactions of those strings?

ChatGPT:

Speculating within the framework you've described, where reality is a manifestation of interactions among superstrings and perceived space is an emergent property, we can construct a theoretical model. Let's imagine how space—or the illusion of space—could arise from the dynamics of these strings.

Basic Conceptualization:

1. Superstrings as Fundamental Entities: Assume that superstrings are the most fundamental elements of reality, vibrating in a vast, possibly infinite sea. These vibrations might encode all potential interactions, energies, and informational states.
2. Perception of Space through Vibrational Patterns: The perception of space could be a result of specific, localized patterns in the vibrations of superstrings. Humans, and other sentient entities, might be tuned to interpret these patterns as spatial dimensions.

Generating Space from String Interactions:

1. Localized Vibrations and Interaction Range: If we consider that a human encompasses a certain area (like a 16-foot diameter) within the superstring matrix, the superstrings within this area might be vibrating in a way that interacts more strongly or in a more complex pattern than strings further away. These stronger, complex interactions could be perceived as closer and more immediate in terms of "space."
2. Projection of Space: As one moves through the matrix of superstrings, different sections of strings come into the range of interaction, changing the pattern of vibrations that one perceives. This continuous change in vibrational patterns is interpreted by the human brain as movement through space.
3. Illusion of Distance: Distance could be an interpretative illusion based on the complexity or intensity of string vibrations. Longer or more complex routes through the sea of strings could involve more intricate or prolonged interactions, which are perceived as traveling over a larger distance.
4. Dimensionality from String Configurations: The arrangement and interconnections of strings might form complex multidimensional shapes or constructs, perceived as three-dimensional space. These could be dynamic, changing as interactions evolve, thus giving a dynamic quality to what we perceive as physical reality.

Connection to Consciousness and Awareness:

1. Awareness as a Tuning Mechanism: Human consciousness could act like a tuning fork or antenna, sensitive to specific types of string vibrations. This sensitivity dictates what is perceived as reality, including the layout and structure of space.
2. Manipulation by Advanced Practitioners: In your framework, sorcerers or advanced practitioners might have the ability to consciously alter their sensitivity to or interaction with these vibrations, effectively changing the perceived layout of space, bending or reshaping distances and relationships in their perceived reality.

Conclusion:

In this speculative model, "space" does not exist independently of the observers and the specific ways in which their consciousness interacts with the sea of superstrings. Instead, space is an emergent, experiential phenomenon arising from complex, dynamic patterns of energy and information encoded in the fundamental strings. This concept resonates with some interpretations of advanced physics theories, though it steps into the realm of metaphysical or mystical in terms of direct conscious manipulation.

Hey, I just stumbled upon this sub and it surprised me that the techniques that the books are sort of talking about are beeing literally practised, as I thought that those books are maybe a tribute to shamanistic societies but in themselves fantastical in nature.

So I wanted to ask what is the goal of these practices? Is it similar to meditation and mindfulness techniques?

UPDATE: I had a nice conversation with one user who explained to me what is the goal and I therefore won't be needing any more answers, so thank you all for your comments!

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These ChatGPT made pictures aren't perfect, but close enough to give you the idea.

The first interesting advanced topic is how to walk through solid walls when you assemble another world on them. "Translocation", where you can see another world on the wall or in the air, commonly happens to dark room practitioners.

To various degrees, usually not quite as satisfying as this image. But sometimes they are, and if your Ally is there above the scene then you have the dark energy needed to walk right through that solid wall, in your physical body, for a visit to another world.

The next topic is about doing tensegrity forms in silent knowledge. All sorts of visible magic comes along. Not just the puffs of your energy body, but dazzling sights hovering in the air, inviting you to play with them. Over time you learn to expect them, and add grabbing one with your hand to use with your series of movements becomes possible. Perhaps even tossing it to another location to cause a magical explosion over there.

The last topic is about people who ask for "proof", and can be extremely annoying since our sorcery isn't a con artist business where more "customers" are good. Frankly, no one has any motivation at all to "help" another person, if they're really learning sorcery themselves and the other person is not.

It's just too hard! Why not ask a person with a good job to hand over half their paycheck, so that you can see what it's like to work in that industry?

It's just as horrible to ask for magic demonstrations.

And while there are some among us who can do physical magic tricks anyone can see, they never would. You get murdered that way, and have absolutely nothing good to gain from it.

Fortunately Carlos covered this topic, but we didn't pay much attention. First saying, "No real witch is interested in proving anything to anyone else".

And also don Juan explained how intending sorcery for yourself is different than intending for another person.

That's another 10 times harder. And no real sorcerer would even attempt that, unless there was a very good reason.

So forget about getting demonstrations. You have to "jump" on your own. As harsh as it sounds, anyone who cares if you succeed doesn't actually have any real magic themselves. When you ask for such things, you set yourself up only to become a victim of pretenders. 

Like many others I grew up Christian going to church and was often confused. I want to know what is your take on "The Holy Spirit".

About 2 years ago I had an experience where I felt what I thought was the Holy Spirit telling me to focus on what I was doing on the computer. I then felt an energy in my Bindu chakra that influenced me to be rude to it and I then felt it leave me. Since then I have had a crippling fear that I have committed the "unforgivable sin" in the Bible which is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

What are your thoughts on the Holy Spirit and this experience in general?

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During the start of Covid, Cleargreen had an announcement.

What they thought was the most important thing to tell people, during that crisis.

It was, "Don't eat cake."

Or something like that.

It included a rewrite of history where Carlos couldn't tolerate being around "sugar eaters".

Which is utter nonsense. He used to pack away the Plantains at Versailles Cuban restaurant.

And it's true that he did once take his private class members off sugar, coffee and all stimulants for what ought to have been months, except that no one followed his instructions for more than a few days.

Other than me.

If Carlos ordered it, I did it.

But after 3 months of not even a piece of fruit, I asked an inner circle woman how long that had to keep going and she said, "You still doing that??? It was just a trick to get Ellis to stop taking so many medications."

Ellis, who most know as Amy, eventually died of a likely opiate overdose. Her family blaming Carlos.

Except he tried everything to get her to stop.

So when it comes to bad habits, if the bad habit is harmful to your body then don't do that!

If drinking too much alcohol makes you tired, and you neglect practicing, then don't drink too much alcohol!

If a 50mg gummy edible makes you sleep right through the night, so that you don't even realize you need to get up, then don't eat those.

If smoking causes you to choke and cough and feel generally bad, maybe cut back so that you're in better health? It's easier to practice your sorcery if you feel good.

But the bad habit itself, has nothing at all to do with your "worthiness" to receive magic from infinity.

Infinity only cares that you make a bid for it!

A serious bid.

It doesn't have the "Cardinal's list of catholic sins" by which it checks you out before bestowing magical blessings on you.

If you can't see any harm, then keep it up! Whatever bad habit you have.

If you start making random rules of behavior, you'll never learn sorcery for real.

Because you'll believe that you are "working hard" just by denying yourself things.

We don't need any "Saintly" sorcerers.

In fact, if we ever get one we should all gang up and offer them to the inorganic beings.

They love saintly humans.

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This will eventually be a post, but I wanted to store ChatGPT pictures in it first, to remind myself of the topics in the morning. But then I couldn't resist rearranging the order of the pictures, which required explanatory text.

So I guess it's a done post now, except I can't afford the time tonight to fix errors.

It's about something anyone who has activated the second attention knows, but possibly never thought about in this way.

If you gaze out into the world, imagine that there's a 4th dimension.

Into the Nagual. Into the wonders that your double gets to witness, with its powerful sleeping dreamer eyes.

It's not hard to imagine, since if you can move your assemblage point along the J curve, your "space" begins to be multiple spaces.

You might be seeing a forest materialize on your darkroom wall, while you can still perceive that you are in your normal darkroom.

On a very good day you can walk right off into that forest, through the solid wall. In your physical body it seems at the time.

But that's not the main point of this post. It's the fact that the forest is located in another "dimension".

Some kind of gazing "depth".

In its most basic form, it's like practicing meditation and you know things are about to get more interesting, because suddenly the blackness you have been watching with your closed eyes, has "depth". It clearly feels like you are gazing into a dark space. Almost like you are inside a cave, and even though you can't see anything, you can feel that your blackness is now "3D".

That's "Green Line" depth into the second attention.

Not much, but people start entire cults and religions over being able to perceive that using meditation.

With Sorcery, instead of moving the assemblage point just 8 inches down the back, as meditation does, you eventually move it a full 23 FEET. I calculated it using ChatGPT.

The "depth" available with simple closed eye meditation feels about like 10 feet. Coming from that 8 inch movement. If you are meditating and suddenly the blackness "opens up", and you can feel that it's now a space, if you were to estimate how large that black space is, meaning how far you could stand up and walk off into it, you might estimate 10 feet.

But out in the purple zone on the J curve, if you gaze out to figure out how far that 4th dimension of depth into the Nagual reaches, you would start to move.

Sitting up on pillows on the bed, you'd find that the bed and the pillows scrolled back and away from you, with you seemingly safe just hovering in the air at the same height, while everything else traveled back on it's own. With you heading out into outer space, but a space filled with new realities.

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Now, before you start drooling (and it is in fact this awesome to be in Silent Knowledge) forget it...

You don't get to enjoy it the way you're imagining.

"Enjoying" things to people who live in the river of shit, means running around "sharing" your discovery with friends.

We can't even enjoy something, without others to run to and grab attention!

It's the same as bad players who post in this subreddit, and anyone seasoned instantly knows they want attention. Not magic.

It's a curse on us so horrible that we can't even conceive of enjoying something just for the enrichment of our own awareness.

We NEED that attention fix from others. As someone posted today, we seek the dopamine high of "sharing" with others.

To reach SK, you have to ditch that "poor baby me" self obsession. Not everything has to be a thing you can sell in the marketplace.

Even a hint of the merchant mind kills any possibility you can get to this level of exploration of reality.

Thus scratch all religions and magical systems.

It's hopeless for them. All showbiz, profits and endorsements.

If any of them stumbled on slightly better magic than the green zone has provided them, they'd waste it all on the idea of "proving it" to more people, so they can become famous.

They kind of have to be stuck with mediocre magic, by the very nature of their systems. Anything more will stop them from making more progress, by activating their book deal mind. If they rise above whatever endorsement seeking muck they are stuck in, they'll only try to figure out how to lord it over others on that basis.

Putting aside any moral implications, they quite simply can't "see in the right direction and at the necessary depth".

And even if they tried, their "depth" is limited to 10 feet.

There's no chance for them to shrink their tonal and travel nearly infinite distances in depth, due to the lack of an energy body forming around them. That can't even begin to happen until the assemblage point is moved at least 12 feet. Not 8 inches.

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To do the most spectacular things, you have to have your double with you. His eyes are the ones which can focus to anywhere in time and space.

Which brings me to a key point. The reason that first picture shows a ghost in a park and a man looking at her.

I couldn't get ChatGPT to draw what I wanted no matter what I told him. He just got more and more lost because he incorporated new ideas into the last failed picture.

But imagine that park is very full of bushes and people and activity, and the ghost girl is rather hard to see, off in the bushes.

If he looks away for even an instant, he might not find her spot again.

That's because in fact, she isn't located in a specific place in the park. She's absolutely located in the direction of specific bushes and the little clearing in the middle of them, but it's also at a very specific "depth" into the Nagual.

Into the second attention.

And so even looking off to the left of her to see why people are cheering at their volleyball game in the park, will require him to adjust the "depth" he's gazing at, into the multiverse.

The girl is at "Possibility 172,486". Located between those bushes.

But the volleyball game is at possibility #1, in the ordinary blue line reality.

By having to refocus his depth to see if someone just spiked the ball at an opponent, he's lost the location of #172,486 reality variation.

And when he looks back there's no ghost child there anymore.

Believe it or not, this is why it's so horrible when beginners try to use someone who can move their assemblage point, as an experimental subject.

Suggesting "why don't you try this for me, and tell me what happens."

It's close to manslaughter to ask someone to do that, because whatever they were currently exploring will be erased by injecting that person's lazy greed into the emanations.

This insect nest picture is pretty bad, but imagine that we're always reaching towards a specific combination of emanations we've discovered, in the dark sea. Our darkroom practice stores the "intent" of what's happened all the times we practiced it before.

And it's "in depth". Your tensegrity pass summons a specific depth into alternate versions of your dark room.

If you don't do your ritual combination of movements in precisely the same order and same way, as last time, while remembering your 2nd attention goal during that movement, you may never find it again.

Afterall, we all get "intent gifts" from time to time and discover that even expecting that to happen again is enough to make it impossible.

It's not the same situation as when it happened the first time, even if all that changed was your expectation.

Our "depth into the nagual" is a beam of awareness we don't normally use. Some kind of "auxiliary shine" of our gaze.

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I'm certain that witches are better equipped to understand this. Because they have to get involved in self-soothing from time to time. And they develop a ritual, so that they can "find" the little sparkle of good feeling which blossomed the last time they managed to soothe themselves. They "look for" some specific sensation while laying in a nice warm bath surrounded by flowers and candles.

Or at least, Cholita does that.

I collided with her 2 days ago, and this post is the result.

Things got really weird as a result. The power on our side of the street went out, I left my darkroom realizing Cholita would be worried, and found she'd placed little candles in a trail all through the house, leading out and into her work studio.

She set up a path for me to follow, when I finally left my room. But didn't disturb me before then. Since I was already in darkness, it took me a while to figure out we'd lost power.

Reluctantly I snuck in the direction she wanted, worried she had herself thrown off the power switch.

And when I was almost to where the trail of glowing yellow candles ended I heard, "Daniel... Can you fix this?"

You might be saying, "That's not so odd."

But you're just not realizing what that looked like, with the entire block of our neighborhood blacked out.

It was the middle of the night.

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The result was literally what you see in this badly made ChatGPT picture. I just couldn't get him to draw what I asked.

But it conveys the point.

If you are blowing the flower petals off a dandelion, you have to blow in a certain direction. But also aim for the "depth" of the dandelion flower. If you blow "past" it, it'll just fall apart in an instant. If you blow too shallow, nothing will happen. You have to "aim" for the center of that flower, if you want to watch the petals fall off a few at a time.

I started my picture request with a little campfire in a hole in a huge chunk of swiss cheese, asking ChatGPT to show that the man was blowing into the hole in the cheese. One of many, but he had identified one where a spark of awareness had created a little campfire surrounded by alien beings, and he was trying to blow the fire brighter so he could see their faces.

But ChatGPT decided that lighting fires in swiss cheese is dangerous, so he extracted the fire into a safe clay container, held by the man.

Saving me from unethical activities.

Still, his dandelion alternative is ok to convey the point.

When I collide with Cholita like that, I gain her dark energy.

And it lasts up to several days.

What it seems to do, is give me more ability to fine tune which "depth" in the second attention my gaze is focused, and to learn what that depth "feels like" so that I no longer have to search for it.

If I want to return to viewing that location in the multiverse I only have to blow my breath gently into that memory of a specific feeling.

That single patch of the multiverse, which is actually just a specific mini-bundle of emanations which can be lit up by focusing your awareness on enough of them to trigger the right harmonics and summon that reality patch to be projected back to you, can be done by using the feeling of your breath.

Except, there's one MILLION such feelings.

And you have to feel the right one.

So you could never teach people to try to use their breath, to adjust the horizontal position of their assemblage point, at a specific depth.

Even though, Carol Tiggs tried to teach that in Sochi.

People just complained about her. Even seemed to like Cleargreen leaders better than Carol.

She wasn't rehashing the same old make believe "warrior" routine, and had introduced something too new for their tastes.

As she once joked, she'd been told not to tell stories at workshops anymore because it makes the women cry.

So I was wondering about why it's hard to shut off the internal dialog sometimes. I tried to think of how it "feels" like not being able to shut off the internal dialog.

Do you guys know the feeling, like when you try to sleep but end up picking up your phone because you're afraid to miss out on the next "thing" or the next tiktok or whatever it might be, or just because your bored? That exactly how it feels like in my opinion.

So that's what's called dopamine addiction, and is something everyone has naturally, as a survival mechanism.

So what's interesting about it is that dopamine serves to reward us for observing and doing things in the "world". Which means it's like the internal dialog a tool to keep us engaged or trapped in this AP position.

. But to make a long story short --- alot of dopamine from things like tiktok, sosial media, parties, movies, ext seemed to have a negative effect on trying to practice sorcery later and force silence.

Dopamine "detox" on the other hand seemed to not only make me want to practice sorcery (rather then just scrolling on my phone) , but also enhance my results. In short, dopamine detox is the practice of doing the least amount things that solve boredom, as possible.

Bored? Want to pick up you phone? Instead try staring at the horizon. Or maybe gaze at the wall. By doing that you get rid of your automatic behavior that makes you jump from one things to another. It's kind off like lucid dreaming and trying to "stabilize" your dreams except this is real life. We live in such a frenzy of mind stimulus that we get lost.

Imagine a kid in school not being able to focus on the task because he is shaking his leg and thinking about what funny thing he could say to his mate. That's called "restlessness".

Same thing happened with the internal dialog. When it is fed with tons of "interesting" bs throughout the day, it ends up absorbing those things and becomes "saturated" with information which is processed at a high rate, causing mental restlessness.

Imagine it like feeding the internal dialog and giving it new "words" it can use.

It's sort of like teaching your Parrot new phrases. Because really the internal dialog only repeats stuff as it is not capable of producing anything enterily new, only combinations of existing things. So if you give the internal dialog less food, it will be skinny and weak, so it will talk less.

So if you saturate yourself with information of all kinds like entertainment, it's likely to make it harder to force silence. Of course this is my personal observation so anyone could try this out and see if it really helps them to achieve better results.

Hello, I've gathered courage to write this post, because I'm confused about a particular experience I had that is holding back my practice. To add background, I'm reading Eagle's Gift starting from book 1, plus Art of Dreaming and both Taisha and Florinda Donner's books. I have to be honest I'm not the most disciplined person and practice Tensengrity (the basic life-saving ones and Clara's horse stand) and recapitulation when I feel something distracting my mood or creating unnecessary inventory. I have tried darkroom, but I don't feel I'm ready for that just yet. More on this later.

I've had a few experiences from my childhood, one of which I believe is described in Castaneda books, and it's what I want to ask about.

When I was about 7, I was watching TV alone and suddenly felt the worst dread and nervousness in my body. It felt like static whiteness drenching me from head down. So I rushed to my parent who was on the other side of the room, but while I was crossing the room, I saw a white illuminated floating fabric that seemed to be hanging from above. was about a meter and maybe half tall, and it moved like a long skirt in water. I was shocked at first, but what caused deep dread and freight was that I felt myself being pulled towards it, and I knew if I kept standing frozen there, I'd be dead. It was frozen in place, but at the same time pulled towards it. I willed myself to move like you would when you're in sleep paralysis and jerked my way out, towards my parents who obviously didn't believe a word I said. So believing I was crazy, I tried walking back to the TV, but I saw this the second time - the same feeling all over again. This time I KNEW it was real, then willed myself out and hid in the corner of the room until I lost consciousness. I think I lost consciousness, because there is no memory; not loss of memory from aging, but actually having no memory like when you faint.

I was forced to forget about this memory and go on with life, but it's not surprising what this does to a person. Though I believe in magic especially in nature (like psychically talking to the wind), anything that is viscerally weird like that fabric or vivid dreams was pushed out of my memory as a coping mechanism. I gradually lost my 'mojo' over time. That is, until I had an awakening phase where this ghostly experience, as well as other strange memories and dreams came flooding, and I had to accept that I was not crazy and all was real. I looked into Buddhism, law of attraction, magical traditions, etc but they all lacked something central. I kept looking until I came upon Castaneda's material and got hooked into descriptions of IOBs, the feelings and techniques used in gazing. Even the tip about putting stones in between fingers... I used to ruffle up my blanket between my fingers as a kid because it made me dream better; how would I had known this as a kid? I can't live on remembering these strange habits and realise I can barely do them now, while knowing this was all real and there are people who are doing them today, thriving and experiencing freedom and magic.

I side-tracked. Back to that white fabric being. I'm convinced it was an IOB, and I've read that these beings can be anything unless you communicate with it. Since that day, I have not seen it, but when I try doing darkroom or anything that uses second attention, I chicken out because I feel that IOB wil appear and I won't be able to will myself out and get killed.

But this is fright talk, right? Or is it actually something I have to be aware of and take things slower, like not engaging in darkroom until I do more recapitulation or dreaming? Or all this talk indulging and I just need to get over it?

Also a few months ago, after an hour of recap and Clara's Tensengrity move from 'The Sorcerer's Crossing', my left ear drum made 4 automatic knocks (?). It was beating by itself and very loudly. I was a little scared, because I didn't expect it and thought I might face something that will screw me up. Does this mean anything or is it just really good blood circulation?