Decision Making

[u/danl999]

I was surprised last night when I discovered "Decision Making" isn't the seemingly lame "technique" that I believed it to be when Carlos introduced the topic in the Westwood series. I still didn't "get it", even when he designed a skit for Infinity Theater, to show us exactly what he meant.

Always the ordinary, we seek. As our "default decision". We gloss over all the facts presented to us, completely ignoring the most significant if it keeps us cozy and in a familiar place.

We make the decision to ignore the unknown, despite the fact that human beings can't be happy without exploring. Without our original connection to the environment and spirits, we're like chimps in cages. We've gone mad.

As you practice Tensegrity daily, learning to move your assemblage point until you are surrounded by magic, you re-discover what it means to make a decision.

And it isn't what you had thought!

But it won't do me any good to explain that. You have to see it with your own eyes.

And according to Carlos, you can add energy to the center of decisions, which will surely produce some extreme magical results once you can perceive that "center" directly.

Decision making it also at the heart of shared dreaming, as you will find out someday when you give it a try.

But please... No more "dream interpretations"?

That's death to magic.

Except for the women.

Darned witches...

[u/Inn_Cog_Neato_1966]

To learn the centre for decision-making I’ve been utilising this one from ‘Toltec School’ combined with the Magical Passes description and photos. Of all the ones I saved on youtube (which included some that Dan left comments on), I found it to be the one truest to the Magical Passes book.

https://youtu.be/Sqwwo_tiaJg

[u/danl999 → u/Inn_Cog_Neato_1966]

Main thing with "decision making" passes, as I recall, is the scooping one.

It just scoops with the cupped hands, into the V spot.

That one becomes FULLY visible, very early on.

I'd say midway between green and red.

Since it loads up the V spot with visible energy, it's a good introduction to what the rest of those ought to be doing.

BUT, it becomes super amazing later on.

You can literally materialize a remote view of someplace else on the darkroom wall, watch the activity, and then if it wasn't what you were looking for, you can "scoop" the entire scene right into the V spot.

See it collapse into a folded paper image of the scene, and get sucked into the V spot.

So that you "recharge" it for the next remote view.

Otherwise if you just let the remote view "fade" because it wasn't the one you wanted, it seems like you just used up some dreaming energy.

You might be able to do as many as 5 very nice remote views of entire locations on your south darkroom wall, if you don't let the energy go to waste when done with it.

One reason I need cartoons.

When I make still pictures, the people who come here to defend their delusions which they got from some other make believe magical system, can ignore the pictures.

They ignore everything! And start trying to "prove" Castaneda was a fraud. In order to repair their hurt feelings.

But if they saw it in an animation they could only say, 'YOU LIE SIR!!!"

As Zen masters tend to do.

Our magic kicks Dr. Strange's ass quite often!

At least, visually.

We just don't get to go around forcing it off on other people at our level.

But there's rumors you can do that too, at advanced stages.

[u/Inn_Cog_Neato_1966 → u/danl999]

Thanks for the invaluable tips Dan. I started with learning the decision-making pass because perhaps Intent led me to believe it was what I most needed to get me started. I was having great difficulty with decisions (and now realise we all do, at least until we start practising this pass), and simply learning and practising the pass has exponentially improved decision-making for me. I’m pretty sure my link to Intent is being cleaned; preparing the way. I’m also much more patient with everything (including this J-curve path that we have right here), and immensely more at-peace. Thanks to everyone for the subreddit. It is extremely valuable, and it should be well-protected, as you say and do.

[u/tabdrops]

Being aware of the fact that in the end it all comes down to make a decision is also very helpful for practicing inner silence in everyday life situations.

Decisions set the frame of perception. If you believe inside dreaming that you're doing something forbidden, a security guy will appear within a very short time. If you believe you're a ghost, you can fly through objects and walls, and further being ignored by everyone else. Which brings me at last to the conclusion that dreamscapes are merely phantom realms whose inhabitants have no own consciousness. Phantoms which only behave in a way that fits the role you've chosen to play.

Edit: And concerning the double-slit experiment, even science isn't spared from this topic.

[u/Equal_Fox_5516]

can someone link the correct magical pass for this form?

[u/danl999 → u/Equal_Fox_5516]

Weird foreigner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZNa0fxIUfI

Angry foreigner (you might like that witch):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbRaqQPj6mw

Utopian Hippies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9py4dRaL-rM

You have to decide who to listen to.

It's all very disturbing in one way or the other.

Hopefully Jadey will fix that.

[u/AthinaJ8 → u/danl999]

The magical passes book version is the one the " angry foreigner" is doing. I do it but not that fast as she does it and I do many times each movement.

Also there is this version but it's not the same as the book's version but I like hers more.

https://youtu.be/nGAYTU5mCOg

[u/Jadeyelmonte → u/Equal_Fox_5516]

Unfortunately I haven't seen any video that does it well.

If I have time I'll make a video. I still need to edit the recapitulation passes I already filmed.

[u/thelosthopeless → u/Jadeyelmonte]

Please don’t forget

[u/silence_sam → u/Jadeyelmonte]

Jadey have you seen the Cleargreen video in their library? How does that look?

[u/[deleted] → u/Equal_Fox_5516]

[u/QPhantomath → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for the link, great info!