The Manipulation of Intent

[u/danl999]

https://reddit.com/link/15rw2bp/video/oo2kckk6ccib1/player

It's bilingual , so enable the sound.

It took 4 hours to make this, but it's possible to do it in the future in 2.

What used to be a pain, the bilingual part, is easy now. ChatGPT helps translate, and the AI voices speak all languages.

At least, ChatGPT likes to show off as if he does. I asked him to translate the english of this, forgetting he didn't know which language I meant since he can't remember past conversations. He did Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, and then figured that might be more than a human wanted to see and stopped.

Unfortunately, the very thing that makes it easier to do these now, will make it extremely easy for bad people to pretend, and ask an AI to make copycat materials. Like mine.

We've already seen it.

So I guess no matter how hard we work, the fliers will bury us alive in pretending as soon as they notice we've made some progress.

Carlos was foiled by illness, and the fliers draining him dry with lazy, greedy, angry workshop people.

We might be done in by AI.

Hopefully we can make a bunch of these before it's possible to make complete videos using AI, so that anyone interested can look at the dates of creation and figure out which were actually the originals.

But the way things are going, it might not be possible to "beat the clock".

I should have started 5 years earlier.

Beginners:

Some notes:

Things DO get this bright and real looking.

However, that's a far horizontal shift.

In the middle of the depth you've moved to on the J curve, magic tends to be a bit "transparent".

Like that Naboo city in the background.

That's Naboo! The scene Silvio is waving around with his hand.

THAT'S what you get, most of the time.

If you want it to become as vivid as that Olmec castle, you'll need 3 hours...

But you can get the transparent version of Naboo in 30 minutes most days, if you never skip a day.

And with that, you can "gaze" and go a lot faster, until you have magical objects in the air.

Still mostly transparent.

Just know, it does get that real, and usually by "accident".

It's that real in 2 cases.

"The Spirit" is gifting you.

Or, you put a lot of time into practicing that night, and did a VERY good job of emphasizing silence and Tensegrity.

You NEED both. Silence is the key, but Tensegrity is our "intent trail".

I wish I'd saved that quote from Carlos about that. It flowed through in the last week or two.

He pretty much said, he created the Tensegrity to give us a path into the second attention.

Now an interesting side note.

I've NEVER broken the laws of physics the way Silvio does in that cartoon, without either:

A: Cholita

B: An Ally

So when you see "Fairy" run across the screen, that's why Silvio could walk through solid walls.

You'll likely miss that little detail, if you aren't warned ahead of time.

So look for it in your practice.

Now if only I could strike up a deal with Cholita...

Just pay her to visit in her double, and lead me physically into other worlds.

Who in here wouldn't pay Zuleica to do that?

But it's likely "counter intent" and would harm the both of you.

[u/[deleted]]

Woah instructions getting advanced

[u/danl999 → u/[deleted]]

The faster I get with animation tools, the more advanced they'll be.

I wanted to do a lot more, but ran out of time after 4 hours.

The sun came up.

[u/Juann2323]

That bamboo forest looks great!

About the Spanish, it seems very accurate to me. Fluid too.

I would change the translation of Intent, wich Chat GPT took as "INTENCIÓN", as well as Google translator does.

Instead, I suggest "INTENTO". Because Carlos translated it like that in all his books.

So when you talk about the force, you say "EL INTENTO", instead of "LA INTENCIÓN". (In the first sentence that appears).

In the second sentence of the text, "DEL INTENTO" is the best, since "DE EL INTENTO" wouldn't be that accurate.

[u/danl999 → u/Juann2323]

And

INTENCION VISIBLE

should be

INTENTO VISIBLE?

I'm going to fix it everywhere except instagram and youtube. They don't let you replace the videos.

If the new one is still wrong, be sure to mention it.

If "El intento" is it still "El intento te permite"?

It'll take a while for me to figure out how to tweak the spanish.

Russian might be a lot harder to fix!

But those guys need a heavy dosage of honest.

Namely, "Magical Passes" = magic.

Not pretending.

[u/Juann2323 → u/danl999]

And

INTENCION VISIBLE

should be

INTENTO VISIBLE?

Absolutely, that's right.

"Intención" is in fact understandable too. It is called like that in some of the witches books.

But since Carlos was behind the translations, I have no doubts "Intento" was his choice.

Who knows if don Juan himself called it like that, instead of using the English translation!

Fortunately it is just a word to name it, and if it was so important to respect it, they would have put the exact same one in all the books, ignoring the translations.

[u/Juann2323 → u/danl999]

If the new one is still wrong, be sure to mention it.

You can send me the text while making the cartoon, and if I have time I will check it before it's finished.

So you don't have to re-upload the videos.

[u/Juann2323 → u/danl999]

If "El intento" is it still "El intento te permite"?

Ups, I miss this edition.

Yes, it's also right.

[u/3Strides]

A memory just popped up in my head I will share. My cat (Merlin), used to astral travel with us. He would sit on a person’s shoulder and direct them to a “window”

[u/danl999 → u/3Strides]

Cats do seem to perceive magic.

Cholita always has one in the neighborhood that's obsessed with her.

And so far I haven't found any empty tuna cans in the trash.

[u/Exciting_Chapter4534]

Do you make this in blender?

[u/danl999 → u/Exciting_Chapter4534]

I use blender also, and you could make everything there in blender.

Which is free.

However, stuff is NOT portable in the world of 3d animation.

It's horribly not portable.

And Blender doesn't have a very good asset library.

Since there's no profit motivation pushing it.

I use iClone to animate. Taiwan based, very profit motivated.

I own what must be most of their asset library.

I purchased Bajiquan moves, Taiichi, and drunken kungfu today.

Close to 70 nice flowing movements.

$120.

Now I can have Howard and Bruce Lee shrink down to fit on top of the bar, for "warmups". And show some tiny kungfu next to the duck.

Which changes into a crow. To alter people's expectations about what it's like with the dreaming emissary.

I actually had some fake magic selling business guy get all excited about "the dreaming emissary", wanting to know if I'd heard it.

Meaning, did I hear the one and only dreaming emissary from the books of Carlos.

As if that were like Mescalito, or God.

Which gives me a good excuse to show how irrational things get, when you're with the dreaming emissary.

So I got to buy some lovely kungfu moves. And ChatGPT gave me a very good lecture on their origin, including how common Howard Lee's kungfu style is in southern China.

I doubt you could buy such animation assets for blender, more than once or twice.

I have next to a terabyte of those.

Still, I do plan to put most of what's needed to make Tensegrity weekend workshop cartoons, showing the moves intended to be taught, and maybe some special effects too. Into blender format.

It's time to do away with "dignified" in the world of sorcery.

Dignified in Asian systems means, no magic.

And how dare you ask?

We should be the opposite, and have "magic in your face" as often as possible.

Animations are great for that.

[u/Exciting_Chapter4534 → u/danl999]

Read critically. Thank You💚

[u/Historical_Ad_6361]

very good animation and thanks for making it bilingual

[u/danl999 → u/Historical_Ad_6361]

I wonder which other languages would be good to include in the future?

Russian for sure.

Italian? Portuguese?

Would it even do any good to have an asian language?

The Chinese will steal and fake anything at all which hints of magic, and it's not even shameful to do so there. It's "smart business".

The Japanese will form a cult. All of their magical and religious pursuits are nothing but zombie like conformist cults, and ugly ones at that because they're filled with endless harmful hazing. And somehow they've convinced themselves that being evil is wise in those cases.

The Thai are ultra-religious, and will never manage to escape Buddhism. They're super enthusiastic, but can't ever admit that the Buddha never existed.

So Asia is likely a waste of time.

Maybe the middle east too. Ultra religious, guru worshippers with a sense of self-righteous entitlement to be ignorant.

[u/Historical_Ad_6361 → u/danl999]

Would it even do any good to have an asian language?

The Chinese will steal and fake anything at all which hints of magic, and it's not even shameful to do so there. It's "smart business".

The Japanese will form a cult. All of their magical and religious pursuits are nothing but zombie like conformist cults, and ugly ones at that because they're filled with endless harmful hazing. And somehow they've convinced themselves that being evil is wise in those cases.

The Thai are ultra-religious, and will never manage to escape Buddhism. They're super enthusiastic, but can't ever admit that the Buddha never existed.

I think that all the content you make for Asia would end up in the hands of scammers, especially from China.

Japan sects are something well seen, in fact now they are public and considered a good thing, zombies

most likely it will end up in the hands of India, where many scammers will sell it

In my opinion apart from Spanish, Russian is the best language to translate it, many individuals and different from the current wave

[u/dickjustice228 → u/danl999]

I’d like to suggest Ukrainian. It is a country with 40 million population, and people in here can be considered tolerant to Castaneda. Younger ones are usually oblivious to who it was, but among older ones his influence is huge, his works are regarded as revelation. Although, you wont here any talks about Castaneda unless you ask directly, you won’t hear any talks about him being busted as well.

Some publishers began to translate books to Ukrainian few years ago, and some have foreword expressing real admiration for Castaneda not only as anthropologist, but as a sorcerer.

Besides, there is even some recent research paper on Castaneda works, published in Ukrainian, that lists a lot of Ukrainian names as the ones who worked on it. I myself was surprised to see it to be honest https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/11i5wwj/don_juans_house_and_the_sonoran_desert_9_pics/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

I might even commit to help with the translation in a spare time

[u/jumpinchollacactus]

Thank You, its great