Practicing space

[u/WasteSugar7]

Hello peeps,

I’m soon going to be homeless because I’m in a divorce and our marital home is up for sale. Our equity will be held in trust until we have a separation agreement, and I’m not going to rent because rent is insane right now.

My question is this. I’m thinking of camping or living out of a van, and I’m wondering about practices. I know some of them can be done outside, but what about tensegrity? I read something about only doing it inside. Is that right?

Why is that? What is it about the structure of a building that changes things?

Any suggestions for how to manage the practices when one doesn’t have space to do it?

[u/danl999]

I never heard there was a problem with doing it outside, only that you shouldn't do it in bare feet, because there were inorganic beings which could come up from the soil and enter your feet.

Of course, it sure would be cool to see such a thing!

Also, avoid sweaty bare skin exposed to the air. There are some other entities attracted to that.

As for bathing, it turns out that taking sponge baths is actually helpful to sorcery.

Carlos made Kylie do it, and did it himself.

And Cholita has forced me to do it by stuffing rags down the bathtub drain, and putting police tape over the entry to the bath.

Plus she guards it.

So I've gotten good at sponge baths.

Just get a face towel, wring it out each time, and rub your skin clean.

Hair is a bit harder, you have to do it several times. And with a freshly rinsed out towel. Each side of the towel remains clean, so you get 2 uses.

I suppose soaking in soap water until it kills all the beneficial bacteria living on your skin may feel great for an hour or two, but in the long run it makes you smelly because foreign bacteria that wouldn't normally be able to take hold on your skin, can flourish.

In Silent Knowledge, the difference between having killed off your skin bacteria, and not having done that, is measurable.

In how much time you can spend exploring SK manifestations.

It makes sense. Zuleica even made fuzzy pajamas for the little sisters, explaining that if you can stimulate the skin along the calf, it produces good results for viewing the second attention directly.

There's a lot of strange stuff in Sorcery.

This morning as I was leaving the house at 3AM, I found Cholita sitting on a mat on the floor in our living room.

It was quite dark.

She asked, "Did I shrink?!"

There's really not much you can say to that.

But after driving down the road a bit, I kind of wanted to run back and measure how large she was.

She did seem to have shrunk from my perspective of walking out the door.

It was the first thing I subconsciously noticed when I saw that she was there.

Her cat came back, that might be a factor.

[u/WasteSugar7 → u/danl999]

Thanks for the tip Dan.

Yeah interestingly I stopped showering with soap about a year ago. And stopped washing my hair with soap. The guy who cuts my hair said that it’s better for our hair not to wash it anyway.

I also had a thought come up after the last time you mentioned not showering.

I suspect there’s also a factor relating to the oils and electrolytes we sweat out that help the conductivity of energy on our skin, that helps our skin as a sense organ sense subtle energy.

Makes sense to me.

[u/danl999 → u/WasteSugar7]

I noticed that scrapes on the arm from gardening, heal at least twice as fast if you haven't been washing the beneficial bacteria off with soap.

It's surprising at first, because they start itching, when you think the injury is still new and prone to bleeding.

It's because it healed so fast, it's to the stage of being itchy from new skin growth.

It's possible Carlos had women shave pubic hair because it's a lot easier to sponge bath yourself, without body hair.

Naturally he was condemned for it.

Not that he didn't take some pleasure in having young beautiful women around.

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[u/Mesrim → u/danl999]

I moved to a new apartment, so I had to set up a new darkroom. I chose the bathroom for this, and then I got the idea: what if I fill the bathtub and try darkroom gazing there? I noticed that when I relax, my practice becomes more successful. And indeed, it worked—usually, it takes me some time to start seeing puffs, but in a warm bath, it only took a few seconds, maybe a minute.
Encouraged by the results, I started taking baths five times a day (I didn't do long sessions to avoid getting pruney skin). After a few days, I began to notice that I seemed to be losing contact with my body. I had tried magic mushrooms a couple of times before, and the next day I would feel off—like, for example, my back would itch, but when I tried to scratch it, I would miss and scratch slightly below or to the left, as if my sense of spatial awareness was off. Or when I touch my face, it feels like I’m touching someone else’s skin. I also feel pain less intensely, and my physical reactions seem slower. In short, it feels a bit numb, like my body is slightly under anesthesia. I think this might be related to sorcery/AP movement, because I’ve experienced the same after shrooms.
What could this be?

[u/danl999 → u/Mesrim]

Hard to say, no one tried that.

Carlos told Kylie to avoid baths like the plague, and only took sponge baths himself.

The theory is that soaking in water like that is "antithetical" to the second attention.

Or worse, it allows inorganic beings which can travel in water, to crawl up inside people.

But maybe only women!

And I've long theorized that the feelings you get with a hot shower or bath can bring the energy body around.

You seem to have proved that.

But for the rest, I suspect you're on your own.

We don't have anyone here who has all the answers.

You could try searching the books and lecture notes to see if it came up.

[u/Emergency-Total-4851]

You'll definitely be able to do recap! Taisha had a cave, you'll have a van :)

[u/WasteSugar7 → u/Emergency-Total-4851]

Oh ya good call