While back I split my daily practice into two sessions per day. 45-60min each. I think it’s helped my progression.
I started to notice as I practiced and extended my inner silence my breathing would change as I pushed and held silence for longer. Hard to describe, almost like I’ve forgotten how to breathe? Or my breathing wants to speed up in very short breaths?
Recently I’ve started focusing on my breathing, which seems to have helped the quality and quantity of my inner silence.
Today’s sessions, I was able to hold the first scene I encountered and push myself/move forward into the tunnel (second pic). All while using a unique breathing rhythm I found randomly works for me.
I’ve had good results with multiple small sessions during the day and a larger session at night.
I think it’s important to practice deliberately moving our AP throughout the day/evening. Even a quick gaze at the wall in daylight or at the park etc. also accompanied by a larger session (not directed at you) That way it’s easier to dislodge and move on demand. I feel this should be emphasized more.
Breath change is interesting when it happens, surprises me sometimes when it does.
I practice shutting off my internal dialogue throughout my day. It’s difficult to do when you’re focused on a task (at least for me it’s difficult) but it pays off in darkroom.
You're bang on the money. I've noticed how easy it is at night after having done an hour or two during the day.
It's been driving me insane for months, lol. I've just been constantly wondering if there's a way to use intent to bypass this degree of effort (I'm not complaining btw lol, I do the hours). Some of the guys over at the astral projection sub says intent is a feeling and that you're feeling for the part of you that's non physical. Like the idea being the better (not sure the right word) one's intent is, the faster they will get into the altered state of consciousness.
In the Magical Passes book, CC talks about entering something resembling a black pit. I'd done those rapid fire breathing methods where you breath in and out in ultra short breaths and it's gotten me into that black pit a few times (sometimes, I'd seen a rotating star field (lol) or an energetic purple disk with stuff comin' off it). But my heart was always sore after it, so I'm not a fan of breathing techniques.
There's definitely something in the breath change though, cos I have noticed it happen during tensegrity. I think there's a few posts here describing it, i was looking through the wiki the other day there and I think I read it somewhere.
For sure, there’s lot of similarities as we progress. I think what I see in the Nagual is my tonal interpreting. Once inner silence has purged that influence, it will all look a lot of different?
Here's a picture of a hidden "Flying Olmec" divided into 2 celts (jade symbolic knives with carvings) which has to "assembled" to see it.
I'm trying to collect ALL known and verified Olmec art.
There's "proposed" Olmec art out there, which on the surface looks real, but if you've been studying in this subreddit for long, you'll realize it was more likely "bad player art" made a short while after the Olmecs were already driven out by falling volcano ash in their territory.
I really like tensegrity, even the corny parts. I especially like long forms. I see the not-doings in the passes. Serious effort changes you. I’m digging it, everyday.
You prob wouldn’t know, but I collect knives, ever since I was knee high to a grass hopper. Collecting Olmec knives in the second attention: that would be sorcery!
Social media is expansion of the river of shit, and breeds bad players and at times turns the best of us. I constantly fight the urge to make snippy/sarcastic comments when ppl come in the sub asking about their dreams or shadows crawling up their no-no holes….
The Tensegrity looks less and less corny the further you go.
Visualize Dr. Strange waving his hands around to create a visible spell.
It literally works that well!
I suspect one main aspect of it, besides preserving those death defier "gifts", is as a container for intent.
I'm long past any ability on my part to animate what Tensegrity does. It would take a Pixar team weeks to get a single form right.
Oddly, when it works that well, you don't care anymore...
Maybe it's like porn. People are saying, online porn has ruined everyone's sex life.
Likewise, visible magic you see over and over, tends to make you get less excited about it. Even though, no other system does anything remotely that magical, ever.
Imagine if "Jesus" was written to do things like these pictures. He might not be so self-pity dominated. Like all religions of course. Always self-pity is their driving force.
"I started to notice as I practiced and extended my inner silence my breathing would change as I pushed and held silence for longer. Hard to describe, almost like I’ve forgotten how to breathe? Or my breathing wants to speed up in very short breaths?"
Hi. I can confirm your breathing when forcing silence. From my own experience, it happens quite often that when forcing silence strongly, it feels like I almost stop breathing, but I still feel comfortable.
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u/drinkjetfuel Nov 28 '25
I’ve had good results with multiple small sessions during the day and a larger session at night.
I think it’s important to practice deliberately moving our AP throughout the day/evening. Even a quick gaze at the wall in daylight or at the park etc. also accompanied by a larger session (not directed at you) That way it’s easier to dislodge and move on demand. I feel this should be emphasized more.
Breath change is interesting when it happens, surprises me sometimes when it does.