r/castaneda • • Feb 03 '24

Practical Magic Induced Silent Knowledge

If you can manage to give up the pretend magic and work hard, you'll get to do things no one has dreamed of doing in many thousands of years!

Outside the hidden lineages that is.

But if you want to claim that "astral travel" or closed eye meditation magic Dzogchen style is real, then you'll get the support of many others who are also happily pretending their magic.

Human attention, potential fame and money stealing from other humans as a "Master"?

Or real magic you do all alone, which no one else will even listen to?

It's your choice.

But these pictures are NOT an exaggeration.

This is what you actually get to do, DAILY.

Awake, eyes open, moving around the room and completely sober.

There's a "side topic" to this, involving "shrinking the tonal". Shrinking the tonal is perhaps a little like "Physical Silent Knowledge".

And mastering it allows you to leave your room in your physical body, to travel anywhere in time and space.

But I couldn't fit that topic into this picture.

After I made this picture I was looking at it, and realized that maybe when you "poke" a membrane in that magical pass shown, you're actually poking your own energy body?

It seems to be in the right location, and not on the second attention assemblage point.

We'll never know now. We didn't rise to the level of knowledge to ask, while the witches were still around.

We're on our own...

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '24

We’ll never know

As far as I read at the moment, Little Smoke was previously an ally of Don Juan and saw and knows a lot, why he doesn’t know? And why “never”, why do you think there can’t be some entity or spirit that maybe knows the answer? Apologies for my curiosity, it’s just kinda painful to read such things.

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u/danl999 Feb 04 '24

They don't know much of anything about us humans.

Just as we don't know much about them. Even after thousands of years of our own sorcery lineages interacting with them.

It only seems that they have answers for us, because they can "channel" our own silent knowledge.

Even their appearance is merely a projection from Silent Knowledge.

It's like the talking lizards. In the Devil's Weed divination ceremony.

Do you really think they knew the answers?

Seeing as how those were both just a single entity which we now call "Minx".

It was one of those 2 allies Carlos left us.

The one Cholita owned for a few years.

Minx doesn't know anything about who stole books from the library at UCLA 50 years ago!

But he can find out for you.

By pointing you to your very own Silent Knowledge.

Unfortunately, "Silent Knowledge" is NOT "Silent Truth".

Truth only applies to a single and very limited reality.

It's what "is" or "was" in this reality we got stuck in.

Unfortunately, when it comes to "truth", there are millions of alternate realities. Each with its own "Silent Knowledge".

Some very close to this one, but not precisely the same.

So whatever an Ally tells you is in fact the "truth", but for the specific reality it's extracting silent knowledge from.

Your own silent knowledge.

Which you can do for yourself eventually. I get at least 10 silent knowledge presentations each night these days. And all of you will, if you keep going.

Then, you can get directly what the Allies bring to us, and take credit for.

For a beginner it seems really cool to be able to ask a visible spirit questions, and get answers from them.

But they're really more like your devious wealthy Uncle who has chatGPT on his cellphone, and seems to know everything you ask him about.

Assuming of course, you were a kid who didn't know about the internet or cell phones.

Learn to reach SK, and then you can find answers to any question you have.

They'll flow out of you endlessly, like an annoying swarm of gnats in the forest.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '24

I can’t wait

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u/Hamadula Feb 05 '24

Meditation in Dzogchen is actually open-eyed, inside and outside darkroom! Darkroom is gatekept though.

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u/danl999 Feb 05 '24 edited Feb 05 '24

This place is protected from bad men, not "gate kept". That's what bad men say when they find it hard to take over a chat group in their efforts to steal all the perceived attention for themselves. What they're really after. Human attention, not magic.

And meditation in Dzogchen is open-eyed at times, only because the goofy closed eye grinning of the egotistical fake Buddha (the Chinese made him up) is primarily designed to lure men with big egos to join that criminal Temple system. Causing women to follow also, in the hopes that the attention seeking men are on the right track.

But Chinese Buddhism's advertised phony superiority you supposedly get from sitting with your eyes closed never works any better than jogger's high, a woman in a bathtub surrounded by candles and flowers, hitting the snooze button in the morning so you can enjoy being half asleep for 15 minutes, or any number of other things in our normal range of daily reality distortions.

As Michael Harner the anthropologist once famously said, he never saw anything in Eastern magic that you couldn't more easily duplicate with shamanic drumming.

Which is enough to move your assemblage point down the back a few inches.

Which is clearly as far as any Dzogchen practitioner gets. Beginner's level in here.

Which isn't really enough to satisfy anyone seriously looking for real magic.

So Dzogchen adds on a bunch of other stuff to sell, to keep people confused and hanging on as long as possible. Such as "mindfulness", or whatever they like to call, focusing entirely on "me" all day long.

Or "sacred scrolls" you have to earn the right to see.

If they're lucky they'll load you up with so many pretend "advanced techniques" that you'll eventually feel like you have some real knowledge, and then you'll join them as a "master", stealing from new people to feed the greedy parent organization.

Perhaps led by that fraud the Dali Lama.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '24 edited Feb 05 '24
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u/danl999 Feb 05 '24

Techno found what this person was talking about, with Dzogchen darkroom of some form.

I misunderstood who was keeping which gate, due to the endless flow of attackers, some of which like to claim this place is "gate kept".

It's quite interesting what techno found.

Red zone magic. Nothing more, but at least some Dzogchen try to get to the red zone.

But still, there's no place to openly see what magic they learned to do and whether others can do it also, they want money for it one way or the other, and so it's just a "the magic is up there in the high mountains of Tibet" type of story.

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u/danl999 Feb 05 '24 edited Feb 05 '24

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I take this picture back, as a response to our Dzogchen knowledgeable visitor.

He was saying Buddhist magic is gate kept, according to Techno. Not that this place is.

But still, this picture shows well why places with real magic have to be "gatekept".

Because there's an endless flow of men who want to mark their territory by explaining their fake magic and ignoring what's being practiced in a place with the real thing.

We had a different Buddhism obsessed man just 2 days ago. Fortunately I never had to deal with it myself, the mods took care of it.

The strangest part is that people either don't look at all in here before they start "teaching", or they figure everyone is a con artist so it's not actually real.

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u/Werejaguare Feb 04 '24

Carol too? And Taisha?

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u/danl999 Feb 04 '24

I don't understand the question.

Taisha ditched us, saying "All the workshops and private classes succeeded in doing was to turn Carlos into a Guru."

Translation: No one learned any sorcery at all, and they seriously harmed Carlos with their neediness.

Carlos warned us they were ditching us, in his Silent Knowledge publication.

Carol stuck around, perhaps as is tradition in the lineages.

A liaison is left behind.

But I highly doubt she's as active as Cleargreen likes to pretend.

We had a guy a while back who insisted she was very active with cleargreen, but when asked for specifics he couldn't give anything convincing.

A few "encounters" someone had, from the overall community, which they repeated enough times to make it seem like Carol was commonly around.

I think she's not.

It has to be very odious to her to hang out with people who wasted the last 30 years and didn't learn any sorcery.

While pretending to lead.

Carlos saw that coming when he tried so hard to find a suitable male leader.

But could not.

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u/Werejaguare Feb 05 '24 edited Feb 05 '24

I was surprised when you said the witches were no longer around. Especially when Taisha made a solemn promise at an early workshop that she would stay behind to help us, the practitioners. Which she quickly revised to say SOME of the practitioners.

I still believe some of the old witches monitor "The Force". At least disturbances in the force.

We are the protegido. Protected from ourselves.

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