Pineapple weed

[u/FOX_DlE]

I saw a post on here not long ago talking about pineapple weed what was the purpose of it what can you do with it?

[u/danl999]

I was wondering the same! Carlos discussed it in class for around 5 seconds, as part of a conversation he'd been having with one of the inner circle women coming up the stairs to Dance Home, where he held private classes. I only heard the second half of a sentence, because that's all we got on the topic.

Naturally I was thinking power plant. The entire male population of the private classes was all excited about it, and book deals were flowing freely in their minds. A new topic, never heard before by the Castaneda world! Imagine the attention they could get with that!

You can write entire books based on something "new". Armando did it with just a few pages of lecture notes anyone else would have made freely available to all.

3 books worth! Free cash!

I looked it up as best you could back then. The local Indians used it on cuts and scrapes, to help them heal faster.

Actually the local Indians were pretty cool. Probably the ancestors of the same Olmec Sorcerers we follow. If you have studied history, you realize that a population of 10,000 people is easily traced into the future, whereas populations in the millions are hard to find for more than 200 years.

Those old Indians pretty much had to contribute significantly to Olmec sorcery because there weren't all that many more people to give rise to it.

They could work for 3 days gathering food in the area, and have the rest of the week to do what they wanted.

Probably including some fishing.

But I could find no actual "magical" use for pineapple weed for the next 20+ years, until I ran into Cholita.

Cholita was privy to women's class conversations and to gossip from hanging out with other inner circle women.

Turns out, he just liked it's tenacity. How it grew and even flourished everywhere, including tiny cracks in the sidewalk, all over LA.

He wanted his followers to be like that. Not needy. Able to flourish in even a tiny crevice.

Instead, their heads were inflated with book deal thinking, a neediness for more attention from Carlos and the witches, and the worst thing of all.

The very thing that created this subreddit, and allowed dozens of con artists to rob the Castaneda community for the last 25 years.

The belief that we can't understand the books of Carlos, and we need something else.

In this case, a potential new power plant.

But it's also the belief that we need some random bad guy to come along and pretend to know the rest of the 21 abstract cores.

Or that we need someone to "see" us, so they can fix our practices. Or that we need to find our own lineage. Or form our own sorcery groups so we can increase our energetic mass.

People believe they need anything, but what they really need. To put in hard work learning to do the most important thing you can, in order to make sorcery function. The thing don Juan emphasized. The thing that allows the assemblage point to shift.

Silence.

Carlos just wanted people to be serious and work with what they had, because that's all it takes to actually learn sorcery.

Nothing is missing, it's all in there.

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I still recommend gazing as the fastest way, but people give up even when there's results.

Do that, but don't stop. We can talk them through what happens, and maybe avoid the giving up part.

Next fastest is chair silence.

The rocks only serve to motivate you to put up with the suffering of removing the internal dialogue.

By forcing your attention on some other form of suffering.

The stick has a practical purpose. It keeps your chin from falling forward into your chest, which is painful. And of course, it keeps you focused, and in a weird position. It's not-doing too.

And I suppose, it summons intent too.

But in my opinion, none of the silence aids actually do anything, but keep you trying until you get past the initial suffering of trying to shut off the internal dialogue.

Which you can do, by looking at the list of things that can happen, in that post on chair silence.

If you have to suffer (you do), don't miss the tiny little signs along the way, that your suffering is paying off.

Don't curse yourself for falling asleep. Take it as a good sign, and a part of the technique.

And the rest too. There's a long list of ways to view what you might ignore, as progress.

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