Sorcerers are far more powerful than we understood.
But for the general Castaneda community, it's a big waste.
All they want to do is pretend.
"I'm more impeccable than you!"
"I know more about the books than anyone!!!"
"I'm a 4 pronged Nagual too!"
"Oh yea? I'm a FIVE PRONGED NAGUAL!"
The horrors of pretending are endless.
But it's not always a bad thing.
Pretending.
A sorcerer storyteller can bring things into existence, which never had any corresponding physical matter.
He can narrate phantom realms you can share.
Cholita does that for me. I'm still longing to return to the "road to hell" she showed me.
It was rather lovely.
So imagining stuff may be fatal to people who wish to learn sorcery.
But once you have learned sorcery, and once you are a member of a group of powerful students of sorcery, it's possible to share dreams even without going to sleep.
But you guys in here, need to find puffs.
And play with inorganic beings.
Learn how to move the assemblage point through silence.
Later, you can become storytellers for real.
Just remember. Each Tensegrity long form tells a story of its own.
And until you can perceive those, you have no chance for the "gone solo" kind of storytelling.
So don't blow your trumpet until you learn how to play it?
Doesn't go well in this subreddit.
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So not to change the subject of this post, but...
Do you use the software called blender to make these images?
Have you experimented with making AI generated images like on midjourney, etc?
Blender, Character Creator, Iclone, and Gimp.
Plus PC Paint.
AI images don't interest me. Other than their potential to bring about the end of the world.
Nothing in here is about trying to make flashy druglike pictures, to get attention from others.
That's the psychonaut delusion. That any old drug vision is great, and a sign of learning.
When the opposite is true.
Still the show biz guy eh?
How's your "alternate" system idea working out for you?
Faster, better, more inclusive?
I can't remember what your gimmick was. There's so many who try to suck off followers to something that doesn't even exist, just so they can pretend to be doing well.
When are you going to actually learn some sorcery instead of just seeking attention from others?
My question completely pertained to outside of this realm of the subject matter of your post. I am trying to learn some Industrial Design skills to see how I can apply it at work as a Process Engineer. And not to sound cliché or a brown noser, I have always liked your animations.
It still completely misunderstood the pictures.
Those contain embedded "intent".
Sometimes the post itself isn't really worth it, except for a tiny piece of intent hidden in the images, which no one is likely to notice.
Using an AI would eliminate any of that.
But, it looks to me like if you want to learn animations, people still largely use MAYA.
Blender might overtake them eventually simply because it's one of those "open" systems anyone can add to or modify. And no one is charging.
Maya on the other hand, is very expensive. And you have to pay yearly.
Which perhaps makes it inappropriate unless you want to get a job with Disney or something official like that.
To just get "gig" work, there's now something kind of like Uber where jobs are just there to do, like picking up McDonald's and delivering it to a specific address.
They tend to be things involving making a certain character look good, and then animating it smoothly to do what the job asks for.
Which means, to satisfy the job you just need to make a video of your character doing what they requested, from multiple angles.
And give them the files when you're done.
And never have to actually meet up with anyone.
For that sort of thing, character creator and blender are adequate.
Character creator, because given a full picture you can easily duplicate anyone in an hour or two.
Blender for when you can't.
And blender will do multi-character animations, whereas character creator only allows 1 main character.
They want you to buy "iclone" if you plan to animate full scenes that have more than one actor in them.
But both are less than $500 purchased together, permanent license.
Maybe even less if you look around for sales.
And blender is free.
If you didn't have any resources at all, blender is the choice. You can make any pixar cartoon, using blender alone.
And make it look better than Pixar did.
But it would be nice to own GIMP too, if you were using just blender.
GIMP is free too.
And then on top of that, you'd do well to learn how to run PC Paint.
Gimp doesn't actually do much drawing. You can, but it's trouble.
If you learn all 3 free programs, you'll get a job.
And then they'll tell you what to learn next.
I get what you mean by that now.
I actually did Lyft while searching for a real job, and I hate that shit 🤣.
Thanks for the information on the animation stuff, part of it is to see how I can create desigs and layouts at work, I am experimenting with MS Visio and Fusion360 at the moment. But I am wanting to see if animation can give me a new angle that I maybe missing.
Apart from that I am also wanting to see what AI generated images can create. Lately I've been watching youtube videos on people that created AI generated images like this one for example
Chromelords 1988
They'll be making all movies eventually.
With Humphrey Bogart back, and so real you can't tell it from an original.
The studios will be out of luck. There won't be anything they can offer over AI generated ones.
I agree.