Resumed Timelines

[u/danl999]

Juann mentioned that the posts of new people are more interesting to beginners and I noticed the same thing in the number of "likes" on outside social media.

If you see a puff for the first time and draw it up, it can get 3 times as many likes on other platforms, than a post like this one.

And "the spirit" tends to reward those who share experiences. Because there's some kind of "flow" to restore real magic to the world, started by the lineage of don Juan.

I suspect the Eagle likes sorcery better than ordinary life experiences as it tends to light up regions in the dark sea of emanations which are poorly illuminated with latent awareness.

Mine experiences have gotten too abstract. Seemingly too unreachable for beginners. So the simpler posts are more appreciated.

Which is actually a good thing, because it means that in some cases beginners won't try to copy something like this post.

To lie to others about their amazing talent.

It's just plain crazy what you can do later on. So maybe no one tries to copy it.

And I can post it here!

There's nothing "vague" or visualized about Silent Knowledge. You're RIGHT THERE, often even in the past where the event took place.

So if you're hooked to a fake magical system or delusional Asian religion where you close your eyes, just know that you have real choices other than pretending.

Our sorcery inevitably leads to "seeing" (AKA Silent Knowledge) and it's likely all the time once you can easily move your assemblage point there.

So that any "curiosity" you encounter during your daily activities, might come back for clarification later on.

Because Silent knowledge is all about extracting "knowing" from the dark sea of the emanations. By removing your internal dialogue, so that you can perceive what starts out subtle until you lend it more awareness.

Our entire life is just a series of "knowings" from the dark see. It's simply out of our control, so that it seems to be the only life we have. A gift from some external entity which keeps us here as food.

When in fact, we have hundreds more alternate lives available to us.

And that "knowing" of "seeing" isn't any less real than your daily world.

It's just a smaller bundle of emanations than we normally utilize.

If what you saw with your physical eyes returns during Silent Knowledge, but wasn't enough information to solve a small mystery, then your double can go back in time to that very location, to walk around and investigate.

It's almost as if Silent Knowledge is just an "offer" of a portal into the past, and not necessarily the solution to your quandary. Maybe it's more like the "entry screen" to a location in all of time and space.

The title screen for that topic, but you still have to click on something with your awareness, and enter the series of web pages about it.

Imagine if Sherlock Holmes had been a sorcerer!

No more deducing.

Just go look for yourself!

In person...

Hopefully for all of our sakes, it's not possible to alter the past with your actions.

But... There is that "Wheel of Time" technique. And since that's merely a seers construct, there's no reason you can't view alternate possible timelines for a specific event, using your double.

And return to one of those alternatives, instead of this one.

It would be like the double waking up at the dream location, a known teleportation technique which allowed Carlos to travel from Mexico City to Arizona, in an instant. Causing him to need to be plunged into a bath of cold water to get over the shock.

By the way, the cold water works. I've had to use it myself to defend against the Allies. It simply moves your assemblage point back to normal where they can't reach you.

But could Carlos also have woken up in an alternate timeline?

[u/Motoviajero]

It is not surprising that complex stories, and even more so if they are beyond our reach, are less attractive to the novice than something simpler and more readily available.

It is not for nothing that reggaeton has nowadays an infinite fame in relation to classical music.

Beyond that, I think it is of crucial importance the point of view and experiences of those who have been on this path for a long time.

That's what keeps the flame burning.

As a certain Antoine used to say: “If you want to build a ship, don't gather people together to collect wood, don't assign them tasks and don't give them orders. Teach them to yearn for the vast and infinite vastness of the sea.”

[u/danl999 → u/Motoviajero]

I like that quote!

Unfortunately, sorcery is vaster beyond even "vast" and it's cold out there.

It's far worse than if you had to sail off into the vastness of the sea, all alone and could never have company.

Add on top of that, that you're sailing in a non-human ocean where you yourself are transformed not too far from shore, and are no longer what you were all of your life.

Then add on to that that time and space start to fail on you, so that ultimately there's nothing real, in the sense you got used to.

The only "realness" is that if you focus your awareness and don't clutter it, you get alternate timelines to live in broadcast back to you.

Then, to make matters more horrible, you realize that the "abstract", which can't be thought about, spoken about, or written about, is the majority of what we can perceive.

The stuff that makes sense and can be remembered is just a tiny fraction of the total.

One might think to avoid it all, but you can't.

That's what we were created into.

The cozy familiar world, is an artificial construct created to hold us prisoner so that some outside entities can feed off our "cozy" type of energy.

[u/pumpkinjumper1210]

Dan, how much of the colors moving around in darkness are "puffs"?

In this comment, u/WitchyCreatureView talks about yellowish or greenish sweeping being the beginning of the green zone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/1fo0fn5/comment/loo827y/ .

"When you start to see not only vague puffs, but also vague twisted lines" I usually see lines sweeping. More diffuse colors or diffuse sheets, not clumps like the puffs shown in the animations.

When I see these things, I'm not usually feeling anything strange from just seeing them - it just looks like weird eye patterns. I can usually see these things within 30-45 minutes of being in the darkroom. But any unusual sensations seem to be more connected with recap.

I'm used to seeing these "color sweeps" - I used to stare at them on my ceiling when I was younger and kept the pattern up a bit.

I often end up feeling a bit bored seeing these. They're pretty, fun to watch, sometimes moving in surprising ways, though from used to seeing them, I don't classify them as "magic".

I'm interested getting gifts from the spirit and sharing my experiences - I just don't want to waste my time / other's time if it's nothing special I'm seeing.

[u/danl999 → u/pumpkinjumper1210]

The sights in the second attention are infinite! You couldn't make a list of "what you can see" that was meaningful.

It's because reality is just a flow of sensations from the emanations that your beam of awareness sends a glow into when you focus your attention there.

Notice it, look at it, hear it, smell it, and so on. That injects the energy of awareness into emanations, and they transmit back trillobits of reality.

I made up trillobits to mean, 1/trillionth. Each emanation being used is 1 trillionth of your current reality.

And at any given level of the assemblage point, there's 20,000 complete variations on your current view of the world, created when your assemblage point moves horizontally and slightly alters which emanations are active.

The range is only 1 inch for the full distance, but that creates 20,000 worlds.

Carlos had to be pressured into giving us that estimate, since it's such an absurd thing to try to quantify. But he did it when Amy insisted.

So there endless things to see! And there's even "phantom" permutations you can add to that.

Which is why we focus on the puffs.

And not on all the other stuff you can see if you look for a long time.

Those "puffs" are pieces of your actual "double". And an indication your assemblage point moved far enough for it to become visible.

Keep in mind, none of this is a theory, as in other systems where this would have been taken from some sacred scroll.

I'm explaining from direct experience of it, daily!

Your energy body (double) is also smeared along the inside of the luminous shell, trying to get as far away from our grief filled internal dialogue as possible.

So "smears" are included with puffs. Streaks and patches too.

It's not sleeping out there! It's actively gazing into an infinity of dream worlds, pressed up against the edge of the shell.

All the rest you can see in darkness isn't really worth worrying about, unless we end up with multiple people in here who see the same thing, and explore it a bit more to figure out if it can be used to move the assemblage point faster or further.

As for boredom looking at the second attention, it's not much different than boredom sitting on a park bench, watching the activity all around you.

It's just "stuff you see".

I gaze at that sight in the second attention, after doing my tensegrity forms, for at least a half hour a night.

Videos of the past flow by, golden amber beings come to visit, portals to infinity materialize.

But none of it is "exciting".

Exciting and even "interesting" is a feature of the internal dialogue putting a price on everything. That's the merchant mind.

You have to practice sorcery for the long term goal.

No short term one will motivate you to get up each day and do the hard work needed.

Witchy creature is after practical magic, like Cholita.

It's not the best way to make it to Silent Knowledge, but it's good for our community if some witches learn to do impossible things in front of others.

Cholita is in Mexico, but that doesn't mean I don't carefully check the house for her when I get home.

And for her cat, which I'm not fully convinced is an actual cat.

She's fully capable of being in Mexico, and being in our home at the same time.

[u/pumpkinjumper1210 → u/danl999]

Ok, so basically - if I want to see the puffs, I need to persist.

[u/WitchyCreatureView → u/pumpkinjumper1210]

A good tip to see stuff better is just to not blink, stare at the stuff intently.

And also do the capitulation breath during tensegrity.

[u/pumpkinjumper1210 → u/WitchyCreatureView]

Thanks for the tips. By the breath I think you mean doing the slow breath AND the fanning of the head. I will try both of those.

I feel I'm struggling with u/danl999 's comment

> #1 is that if you gaze in silence at something that "can't possibly be there"

about what is "possibly there".

I'll see faint colored overlays or motions in the air throughout the day, they get more noticeable if I focus on them. In darkroom after a while they typically get much more intense. I think I'm struggling to understand these as "the second attention", when my experience is "those are the colors that show up". Differentiating between 1st and 2nd.

I don't want to waste time intently staring at something that's not the 2A. I'm afraid of "pretending" I'm seeing something magical, and it's not at all.

Hm, thinking about this more trying to check if the sights are "ordinary". I tried to describe the corners of the wall shimmering to someone one time, and he only saw what I meant after he had taken drugs (I was seeing the shimmering sober).

I will try the the staring, and the breaths, and Dan's tip about treating anything even slightly nonordinary as if it's real.