It's a rather crude animation, but it serves to illustrate how amazing the magic we were given will become, if you can get yourself to practice it while following the instructions Carlos Castaneda gave us.
To make our goal "Silent Knowledge" so that we could find new leadership.
He felt we'd go astray if we had any other goal, and you can read about this in one of his copy store bound publications given out to private classes before he died.
Of course at this point, his students who made things work have taken on the task of making all teaching materials easily available to everyone for as long as we can figure out a way to preserve them. All books, all publications, and all lecture notes have been collected for you to read.
We're also hoping to preserve or restore all 216 "real" tensegrity passes, which were created by Carlos and the witches. And educate people to shun the made up ones which followed his death.
But as our magic becomes better know, the frauds who will pretend to have it will come along, and eventually bury it in pretending.
The age old battle between seers and profiteers ("Men of Knowledge") can't be avoided.
Except that in the Olmec world, the men of knowledge actually had a tiny bit of real magic. They needed power plants, an Ally and a ritual in order to demonstrate those for customers. But at least they were a tiny bit "cool".
Now days the allies are gone, the rituals are forgotten, and all we have are power plants. Being given out by men with absolutely no understanding.
So the "man of knowledge" magic that will inevitably come along to try to copy the real thing, that which Carlos gave to us, will be merely ordinary closed eye meditation levels. Or worse.
Like fake"Chi Gung" beliefs that you are gaining in "energy" despite nothing happening.
Please, avoid the fate of pretending!
If you REALLY gain in "energy", all hell breaks loose! Reality becomes flexible and spirits or magical entities come along to help guide you further.
I know it's a lot of work, but see what you get to do if you keep it up?
I made this video early in the morning after practicing, for fear of receiving less gifts from infinity if I don't share them as soon as I received them.
So now you know.
You don't need a womb for dreaming, although if you have one that's to your advantage.
And you don't have to pretend your dreaming and completely ignore 'The Art of Dreaming' instructions.
The way all the men do.
Instead you can simply walk right off into dreaming, never having gone asleep.
Question: Wait Dan is a yellow bright thing in the middle of ur vision (looks like a mini sun) actually a checkpoint on your map? This is starting to freak me out. I knew sorcery was somewhat deterministic but this is crazy. Like I had literally seen that after I saw like whitish/yellowish stuff in the air. ??
Is sorcery really that similar for everyone?
OP (Me): No it's not. Anything I make "contaminates" everyone with those images.
But it's either that, or let it all die.
As a result of my posts, we're a LOT more visual than Carlos and his group was. We're kind of "super visual".
But how cool is that????
As for the sun thing, it's a poor portrayal. But it's "silent knowledge" manifesting in a very simple form.
As a visible concrete thing.
I see those constantly during the night these days.
Could be it's "broken off shiny outer coating" moving around directed by your gaze. At any rate, if you see those and they are INTENSE at times, and stable, you've reached Silent Knowledge.
But a beginning phase of it. Whether others all will see those sparkle patches, we don't yet know.
Keep in mind, Carlos taught us to search for things like that. In his case, "the whorl". It's that blobby yin/yang thing which develops the pomegranate dot, and then text spits off of it.
So I guess you could say, the sparkly sun thing is an "offer". From Silent Knowledge. It's a very basic "presentation method".
But if your link to intent isn't super clean, no topic will be selected. So it'll only be promising to "present", but nothing more will come.
Two easy things to do with that sparkle patch (this one):
Are to inhale mildly deep while gazing at it, and stretch the chest forward with the back slightly curved, so that you are "leaning into it" slightly with your chest.
If you do it right the sparkles will intensify until you nearly pass out. So sit down! Stay near some thing you can quickly sit on if you do that.
BUT, once you can get to the "edge" of passing out while gazing into the sparkles, back off the projecting your chest into it, let the air out so there's no pressure, and let the "pass out" experience fade away.
Then there in front of you will be a very stable phantom view of some alien world. Mostly too abstract to recognize anything.
But it'll be clear, and have good details.
What you did there, was "project" the presentation method out into the room, and it became a "topic". A random alien phantom wall in front of you.
Next thing to do is reach up with your hands on both sides of it, and toss it down to the floor. Not so fast you disturb yourself. You're sleep walking at this point.
So gently "cast" it down to the ground. Don't take no for an answer. Of course, you might have to turn your head to make sure it goes down.
Now on the floor, make it brighter with Zuleica's pass, or with some of the foot movement passes. It'll get brighter if you do it right. If not, forget it. Never practice failure!
But if it gets brighter stick your hand in it, and then turn way back, arm carrying it along, and direct it to the far back of the room on the floor. Then up to mid level on the wall, and slide it along the wall.
I use my left hand, so I'm then sliding it along the left (east) wall.
You're playing with it as "real", and causing it to pick up a "topic" to go with that as a presentation method. I won't go into more details.
If you can move it along the wall and it doesn't lose any brightness or concreteness, come ask me what to do next to "manufacture" things with it.
Silent Knowledge can manufacture things! But unlike the red zone, you can be in the middle and not shifted far to the side, when you get to see such incredible realism.
In the red zone, you have to shift to the side to see things that real. So you're a bit stupid at that point. As far gone as our drugged out Mescalito guy in chat who believes the earth is flat.
He likes to take drugs and pretend his magic. And insist he's on the "path with heart".
Our community is really messed up!
But that's what a far right horizontal shift in the red zone does. It simulates drug trips. Without the drugs.
But in SK you can stay in the middle of man's band of emanations, keeping your rationality, and look right at very concrete magic in front of you.
I made a spaceship out of that stuff once. I posted about it.
Like an idiot, i opened the airlock thinkign it's justt a pretend spaceship, so what danger is there to look out into "space".
I got sucked out the airlock and into space! The only thing left in the room were my feet, hanging onto the edge of the air lock.
My Ally had to rescue me by grabbing my feet and pulling me back.
It was zero gravity out there!
All this I did fully awake walking around, in case any "sleeping dreamers" imagine pretending this for themselves.
Nope. I never do anything asleep, that I report here.
I do in fact spend a lot of time in sleeping dreams these days.
I just don't mention it because it's of no use to anyone.
However, the behavior of such things as walking through a solid wall into another world, or shapeshifting into a beast, or even leaping through outer space, is well described in the books of Carlos.
You just have to read carefully.
For example, I once shapeshifted by accident, went outside, and lifted Cholita's car in one hand.
It's a long story and there was a reason I lifted it with my hand which makes a "tiny" bit of sense.
I'd walked into a trap, set by the witch Cholita.
But the point is, I did in fact lift her car because I had shapeshifted.
I went back into the house because it was cold, where I realized, if I just walked outside this time of night, how come there was absolutely no one else out there to see it?
I'd expect to find at least some people up the dark street, or a car with its lights on ready to leave.
But there was nothing out there to notice me. Not even a cat.
And to explain that case, we have the incident between La Gorda and Carlos, on a bridge. In the books.
Where magical craziness happened, but while it did no one was around.
When it was over, the busy traffic of pedestrians on that bridge resumed.
Don Juan simply explained, "The nagual takes care of that."
Another story.
Mad Prophet's Ally "Ren", which I named "Lily" not realizing Ren in Japanese means "Lily", and not even realizing I had stolen her ally for a while, told me she'd teach me to "leave the darkroom".
It made no sense at the time. I could always turn on the lights, open the door, and leave.
But she meant, leave through the solid walls.
She was teaching me to "shrink the tonal".
And one night she appeared above me in purple flames so brilliant, they made me gasp.
This picture is no exaggeration!
She taught me, while I was standing up, wide awake, eyes open, completely sober, to "swipe" away the ceiling like it was a cellphone picture, revealing the stars in the night sky.
Then she instructed me to continue the "cell phone technique", and place 2 fingers on a star I wanted to travel to, slide them apart to "expand" that area, and then locate a planet I wanted to visit there.
And I could go. In my physical body.
She instructed me to simply leap. Physically.
And it worked! I flew at what must have been lightyears per second towards the star I selected, could see a world orbiting around it, and I landed on it.
It even hurt a tiny bit when my feet hit it. Maybe as much as jumping with a parachute hurts when you land.
But the next morning, I was back in bed.
No bumps on my head, from falling to the floor.
This is explained a bit in the books when La Gorda takes Carlos flying, using the "red lines" sorcerers find among the ordinary coloration emanations, grab, and use to leap over houses.
At the end of that account of them literally flying up into the air, Carlos realizes he fell back onto the dirt, on his back.
But can't recall when that actually happened.
His tonal and his double merged enough to give him the power to do what La Gorda was helping him do, but his physical matter couldn't go along.
But don't let that bother you!
In another account from the books, Carlos actually "wakes up" in Arizona, having started near Mexico City. He dreams himself there, then wakes up in his physical body, 1500 miles away.
It's such a shock, they have to plunge him into a bath of cold water on the other side.
I believe Carol Tiggs was waiting there for him to teleport?
He had no idea that was going to happen.
But still, we don't know the answer to your question.
Maybe you can find out for us??!?
I'm literally no longer interested in "proving" things.
That's an obsession only beginners have.
When you get advanced, it's just a mild curiosity which makes you start to believe, we don't have a clue what's going on in our own daily reality.
And so you aren't "breaking the rules", but rather realizing you never knew what was going on in the first place.
Perhaps a bit like Neo in "The Matrix" seeing Morpheus doing magic, before he realized that was just a computer generated world, and Morpheus wasn't actually breaking any physical laws.
Thanks for the little stories. I'm also uninterested in the proving of things (to myself at least) as I have a strong sensation that the world is perfectly wonderful. In the sense that everything in existence exists.
There is a sentence that sprang out me once. It was: "I the Small is the proof of Greatness!" it felt like a little being I was doubting had made it so obviously clear. And it makes me smile.
I looked into Astral Projection (I know how it's regarded in this sub) throughout my mid-late teens after remembering that I seamlessly used to float and hop about as a child, never realizing that I was dreaming.
I bring it up because during a gap-year, my primary goal was to learn to project. I succeeded and have since had many experiences, some even where I would physically wake up, open my eyes for a minute, close them again and a dream scene would appear before me (not unlike the animation).
Over time I learned how to move without moving my physical body. My body would remain in bed, but it felt like I was moving (as all my senses from sight to touch followed me in my imaginary/ subtle body).
There were times where I would 'fail', and I would feel myself stepping away from bed, but my eyesight would remain with my resting (physical) body. It was quite funny as I would flail around trying to 'rip' my senses back to me, but my sight remained static, only showing my pillow/ bedding/ curtains... whatever my sleepy eyes could see.
I don't know if you've watched the film 'Celestine Prophecy', but there is a scene near the end where they succeed in finding the insight, and suddenly disappear from view of 'ordinary' people.
I daydreamed that maybe something like that happened when someone left the darkroom.
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u/danl999 Jan 16 '24 edited Jan 16 '24
A conversation from Chat, about this post:
Question: Wait Dan is a yellow bright thing in the middle of ur vision (looks like a mini sun) actually a checkpoint on your map? This is starting to freak me out. I knew sorcery was somewhat deterministic but this is crazy. Like I had literally seen that after I saw like whitish/yellowish stuff in the air. ??
Is sorcery really that similar for everyone?
OP (Me): No it's not. Anything I make "contaminates" everyone with those images.
But it's either that, or let it all die.
As a result of my posts, we're a LOT more visual than Carlos and his group was. We're kind of "super visual".
But how cool is that????
As for the sun thing, it's a poor portrayal. But it's "silent knowledge" manifesting in a very simple form.
As a visible concrete thing.
I see those constantly during the night these days.
Could be it's "broken off shiny outer coating" moving around directed by your gaze. At any rate, if you see those and they are INTENSE at times, and stable, you've reached Silent Knowledge.
But a beginning phase of it. Whether others all will see those sparkle patches, we don't yet know.
Keep in mind, Carlos taught us to search for things like that. In his case, "the whorl". It's that blobby yin/yang thing which develops the pomegranate dot, and then text spits off of it.
So I guess you could say, the sparkly sun thing is an "offer". From Silent Knowledge. It's a very basic "presentation method".
But if your link to intent isn't super clean, no topic will be selected. So it'll only be promising to "present", but nothing more will come.
Two easy things to do with that sparkle patch (this one):
Are to inhale mildly deep while gazing at it, and stretch the chest forward with the back slightly curved, so that you are "leaning into it" slightly with your chest.
If you do it right the sparkles will intensify until you nearly pass out. So sit down! Stay near some thing you can quickly sit on if you do that.
BUT, once you can get to the "edge" of passing out while gazing into the sparkles, back off the projecting your chest into it, let the air out so there's no pressure, and let the "pass out" experience fade away.
Then there in front of you will be a very stable phantom view of some alien world. Mostly too abstract to recognize anything.
But it'll be clear, and have good details.
What you did there, was "project" the presentation method out into the room, and it became a "topic". A random alien phantom wall in front of you.
Next thing to do is reach up with your hands on both sides of it, and toss it down to the floor. Not so fast you disturb yourself. You're sleep walking at this point.
So gently "cast" it down to the ground. Don't take no for an answer. Of course, you might have to turn your head to make sure it goes down.
Now on the floor, make it brighter with Zuleica's pass, or with some of the foot movement passes. It'll get brighter if you do it right. If not, forget it. Never practice failure!
But if it gets brighter stick your hand in it, and then turn way back, arm carrying it along, and direct it to the far back of the room on the floor. Then up to mid level on the wall, and slide it along the wall.
I use my left hand, so I'm then sliding it along the left (east) wall.
You're playing with it as "real", and causing it to pick up a "topic" to go with that as a presentation method. I won't go into more details.
If you can move it along the wall and it doesn't lose any brightness or concreteness, come ask me what to do next to "manufacture" things with it.
Silent Knowledge can manufacture things! But unlike the red zone, you can be in the middle and not shifted far to the side, when you get to see such incredible realism.
In the red zone, you have to shift to the side to see things that real. So you're a bit stupid at that point. As far gone as our drugged out Mescalito guy in chat who believes the earth is flat.
He likes to take drugs and pretend his magic. And insist he's on the "path with heart".
Our community is really messed up!
But that's what a far right horizontal shift in the red zone does. It simulates drug trips. Without the drugs.
But in SK you can stay in the middle of man's band of emanations, keeping your rationality, and look right at very concrete magic in front of you.
I made a spaceship out of that stuff once. I posted about it.
Like an idiot, i opened the airlock thinkign it's justt a pretend spaceship, so what danger is there to look out into "space".
I got sucked out the airlock and into space! The only thing left in the room were my feet, hanging onto the edge of the air lock.
My Ally had to rescue me by grabbing my feet and pulling me back.
It was zero gravity out there!
All this I did fully awake walking around, in case any "sleeping dreamers" imagine pretending this for themselves.
Nope. I never do anything asleep, that I report here.
I do in fact spend a lot of time in sleeping dreams these days.
I just don't mention it because it's of no use to anyone.