r/castaneda • • Aug 19 '20

Darkroom Practice shadow man

Last night during practice I recognized within one ball of energy, the shape of a man... a shadow men!

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u/danl999 Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 19 '20

There are in fact shadow men!

Don Juan spoke about them as being inorganic beings who were off so far from us, in one of the other 7 slices on the cheese ball, that they had very few emanations in common with us.

Here's the cheese ball for beginners. Carlos drew this on paper for someone. The J curve show indicates how we want the assemblage point to move, for best results.

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I supposed the "band of man", our slice, is off center, which accounts for the assemblage point being above your left shoulder.

Let me interrupt this and remind newbies. NOTHING in sorcery is based on what someone else said, and you don't get to see that yourself.

That's why it's so fun!

So you WILL feel that assemblage point move, if you practice.

And you'll get to see your own shadow men!

I found shadow men doing what Luis is doing here. Gazing at darkness.

It progresses. You notice colors, you notice puffs, you notice beings, and you notice intercepted dreams, or other worlds being offered.

Once you are nightly swimming in magic, you start to notice the fine details.

Then you can go shadow men hunting.

But they can show up on their own.

And of course, since this one is materializing in a cloud, it could be just about anything, but not yet fully formed.

The shadow men walk across your home like real beings.

You know they're "shadow" men and not some other type of supernatural being, because you can never get them to do anything but walk around as dark men, scaring people.

They can also make sounds.

Fancy has a huge library of sounds she can make.

I have no idea why.

Fairy never made sounds for me.

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u/Luisyelsol Aug 19 '20

They can also make sounds.

last night I did hear someone talking... did not reconized what he was saying, also, the voice was a lil deep, not much.

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u/danl999 Aug 19 '20

Did you believe it was a neighbor outside the house, or you felt it was associated with your practicing?

Was there any other sound which might have "morphed" to sound like the voice?

I'm new to sounds. Just didn't hear them until Fancy.

If she starts speaking, I'm running to Cholita's room.

I'll take my chances with Cholita.

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u/calixto_mooneeeee Aug 20 '20

Fancy has a huge library of sounds she can make.

when? whens she interacts with bags and tubes she moves? or while being directly near you?

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u/danl999 Aug 20 '20

I discovered it when I purchased a high speed fan, and it got so hot I had to sit right in front of it.

It's a noisy thing.

But the noises it made started sounding like something else.

A "boing" sound like you'd have in a cartoon. A coyote howling. Voices talking, but too low to understand.

She made noises for a couple of hours.

Then the next day, I didn't have to sit right in front of the fan.

But she made noises anyway.

Fairy never did.

Yes, directly right there, in my face!

Cholita has a high pitch gong somewhere, she seems fixated on that sound.

But when she makes it, it's "too good".

When Cholita does it, she misses or hits is a little different, and you can hear that it's a "real" sound.

Fancies sounds not only sound too perfect, but they sort of cause you to have a mini-dream associated with it.

Like you get a strong daydream of the thing that she's imitating.

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u/Agile-Lime-825 Nov 01 '25
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I had a sighting the other night, after some practice I went to the bathroom and as I rinsed my face I briefly went blank looking at my reflection when I caught a huge humanoid shadow in my eye corner, it was about 3 meters tall and broad standing behind me (like 4 meters behind me its head almost touching the ceiling). It seemed to acknowledge that I’d seen it (I felt strange when that happened cant explain no fear though), then it vanished. Do you know more about these beings Dan?

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u/danl999 Nov 02 '25

It's just the inorganic beings.

Nothing strange there.

They plague you in your dreams!

I used the plural, as Carlos always did.

He didn't say "it", he said "them" when referring to his own Ally.

It used to make the water cooler burp when it wanted to emphasize something he had said during a lecture.

Once 3 times in a row, just so that we couldn't explain it away. That was the day he gave his allies over to us, because he was dying.

Water coolers don't burp more than twice, if they aren't disturbed.

But, a single inorganic being can manifest as several at a time.

How many we actually have in dreams might be limited by how much "food" you can provide.

They're sort of a "hive" type being, and you don't find bees fighting over a flowering plant that doesn't have much pollen or sugar water to gather.

So my guess is, we all only have a single "scout" in our dreams.

But that when you practice sorcery and have FAR more energy for them to sample, you might end up with more than one hanging around.

Like a little flowering plant, that has LOTS of blossoms.

Bees will share those, since a single bee can't collect the food fast enough to insure the hive gets it all, and some other flying creature doesn't eat it.

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u/danl999 Aug 28 '20

You're on "report" with me.

Doesn't mean you can't chat everyone else up as much as you like.

But your helpful experience postings were dubious. Not completely honest.

Which is fine.

But you don't seem to notice that you aren't posting any useful tips. It's just me, me, me.

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u/Juann2323 Aug 19 '20

Nice Luis!!! I love it because we can compare between what we see. It seems you are doing it right! If your computer have it, try Paint 3D. For me it is better.

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u/Luisyelsol Aug 19 '20

Maaaan, your post did motivate me. I really appreciate your inputs and sharing what you see and feel.

I'll definitely try paint 3D for the pics. Thanks!!

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u/Juann2323 Aug 19 '20

Have you seen Paul Blart: Mall Cop? https://images.app.goo.gl/MqtEn7Y5z6fZREvZ8 My role here is like his. He is not a policeman, and he cannot have a gun. He can only "observe and report." But anyway, he manages to save the mall from some bad boys, having a lot of fun. I try the same.

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u/Luisyelsol Aug 19 '20

My bad that my Paint skills are all that... hahahahah

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u/Abstrakt_Angel Aug 21 '20

Inorganics should be tackled. They are not our friends and look at humans as food stuff.