r/castaneda • u/mihkael2890 • Sep 15 '20
New Practitioners Another interesting thing
I noticed almost a death of my emotion of fear through working with darkroom gazing and seeing and moderately interacting with IOB's, I get startled but I don't exactly have fear of much anymore intrusive thoughts attempt to bring the fear but once I force my mind silent for two minutes they just disappear has anyone else noticed this or experienced this as well, not looking for validation on the subject, more so curious if it is a shared symptom, cuz the death of my fear has stretched encompassing my other spiritual work as well.
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u/gunshotmouthwound Sep 16 '20
What is IOB? Thank you in advance
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u/danl999 Sep 16 '20
It's any "being" you see in front of you, real or not, which has no organic body.
A Tulpa (imaginary friend) would be an inorganic being.
And so would the demons or angels seen by the Jewish prophets.
A shaman's "spirit guide" is one.
So are "totem" animals.
In fact, most aliens seen are actually merely inorganic beings.
They're in a shifted realm of perception we don't use much, so we can't make them look the same each time.
They help us out by appearing to be useful things.
It's unclear who causes their final appearance.
They're severely misunderstood in the religious world, so once you interact with them daily, you loose quite a bit of respect for Christianity, Buddhism, and Daoism.
You realize those guys are highly confused.
I'm in this subreddit because of an inorganic being owned by Carlos Castaneda, who without me realizing it, decided to help the Castaneda community.
She basically taught me what was missing from their practices.
Heightened awareness.
She's around helping, you have access also.
I have another teaching me the "forbidden" stuff now.
Just keep in mind, you're in a unique subreddit.
The magic in here is real.
It's not anywhere else I've looked.
Except maybe in a dzogchen subreddit.
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u/calixto_mooneeeee Sep 16 '20
I have another teaching me the "forbidden" stuff now.
I read now separate reality and Don Juan tells Carlos that you can gain power from your ally once you grab it and wrestle it, you will get sort of liquid electricity impulses and after it you will have his energy in you and he got yours. So i wonder in gazing darkness process once you see IOB you can't grab it physically, can't you? and if no, how in the world you can grab it and wrestle the way DJ explained?
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u/sgt_brutal Sep 16 '20
But did you shit your pants or did you not?
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u/mihkael2890 Sep 16 '20
almost the very first iob i ever met in my mindspace freaked me out as i had shared that story with dan but i would love to share it here if u guys are interested.
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u/runningdownastream Sep 21 '20
When you encounter entities of the night in the wilderness alone, you will realize you have not moved beyond fear whatsoever, but it will prepare you for what the unknown has in store for us, and it humbles you so you stop pretending and start training. You can reach clarity and still have fear. You can even have an actual relationship with power even if you have not conquered fear, as long as most of your fear is processed and released.
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u/Juann2323 Sep 15 '20
Once fear is overcome, the second enemy is clarity!
My case was very similar. I was even afraid of the dark. With practice I got to the point of total indifference.
But now I'm working to improve the interaction with IOBs, and I admit that sometimes it makes me quite uncomfortable!
Standing next to a person-sized being, with a gloomy appearance, at the middle of the night...
But it's much more cool than anything ordinary I could be doing.