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i choose these two practice because they are body based and easy and beginner friendly . compared to Silence, Recap ... which is mind based and difficult and too soon for me as a beginner .
i will do 15 minutes of tensegrity , and 2 hours and 45 minutes of gazing . totaling 3 hours. every day.
i'm not gonna flood this sub with my posts , every day i will update this post only , so come back here if you are interested .
you can also participate and comment on this post and update your comment every day and record your progress/experiences/struggles.
or mods can create a special thread for this challenge so all of us can go comment there and record our progress . this would be a lot better .
these group challenges would make it easier to commit to some practice . enough of fooling around . let's do some real work.
challenge started at 2023-02-12
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Day 1: 15m tensegrity (preparing intent long form) , 2h 30m gazing, heard a voice once, a bit scared me . falling sleep ALOT during gazing (was tired)
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Day 2: tensegrity 15m , gaze 2h , super sleepy. should do it during day not end of day. heard a weird noise . had a moment of "nothing to think about".
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Day 3: busy day. only done 1 hour of gazing.
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Day 4: -
- Day 5: tensegrity 30m , gazing 30m
- Day 6: -
- Day 7: -
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Day 8: -
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Day 9: tensegrity 8m, gazing 10m
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Day 10: gazing 20m . it was the first time that i really enjoyed gazing practice. i could feel it's effect on internal dialogue.
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Day 11: gazing 25m
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Day 12: gazing 30m
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Day 13: had to travel
- Day 14: on travel , will do some the next day
- Day 15: -
- Day 16: -
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- Day 18:(2023-03-01) -
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51 Comments
15 min of tensegrity seems low to me, why did you choose to do only 15..?
you can choose how long you want ! just mention it in your records. if you have more time and can do more , do! it's not restricted .
There's an introduction to gazing on this page:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/introduction-practices/#wiki_-5._gazing , maybe you can include that in your post please?
thanks. totally fine by me . this message is pinned! wow! i should really really
commit to this . good test
There's an introduction to gazing on this page:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/introduction-practices/ , maybe you can include that in your post please?
done . feel free to edit the post ( if reddit has such things )
No, only you can edit a post that you made.
Darkroom practice won't work without inner silence. But give it a try.
To be honest I would rather suggest that people do Recap and Tensegrity for 30 days starting out, or get Silence Stones and bear down for a good portion of the 3 hours, but recap requires more preparatory work (unless you're recapping the events of the day).
And the stones have to be either found, or ordered, first...which can take time depending on where you live and resource availability (unless you just get some pencils with flat sides and use those instead, after cutting to length and sanding if they're painted).
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/silence
is it okay to just have stones for the left hand? would it matter if i had stones in one hand and random objects in the other like maybe sticks or something?
According to Carlos and Dan, yes it is acceptable to only have ones for the left hand if that really is all that you can source. But patience is a virtue and you'd be surprised what you can find if you put your energy to it, and give it time. And it will feel so much better to have a balanced set of...whatever.
So best practice would be to start using the ones for the left hand, while you're searching or sourcing for more for the right.
ok thank you :)
yes powerful practice i did it before . but as you said , without silence , it would be kind of wasting time . after this challenge i may be ready for that .
You need silence to get the most out of it though... and if you are going to be doing gazing it's implied that silence should be done with it
Don Juan instructed La Gorda to gaze at dried leafs as a starting point .
later she said to Carlos : if you also gaze at leafs for hours every day your thoughts will stop .
That's the fastest path of all!
Gazing. Not necessarily at leaves. Just any gazing.
But no one keeps it up.
I'm not sure why.
Could just be, there aren't enough using that path.
And it's not that people give up because leaf or fern gazing is boring.
But more because, 99 out of 100 always give up. No matter what technique they are using.
It's well proven in this subreddit!
And so far maybe there's only been 99 serious leaf gazers in the modern history of mankind.
So we didn't get the 1 that will keep it up.
By the way, "the caretaker", a silent knowledge entity of mine, like Porfirio of Nestor in the books, claims to know about sorcery 100,000 years ago.
He said that mankind back then didn't see sorcery as "different" from anything else. So it's difficult for us, who do, to understand what they did.
For them it was like making stone cutting tools, traps for fish, or any other survival technique.
They had no spoken language, and thus 0% "book deal mind".
And leaf gazing was their most common technique.
Because they did a lot of hiding from predators, in bushes and trees thick with leaves.
It was an attempt to increase their survival skills, while trapped in a tree waiting for a predator to give up on them.
The claim was, they could go "bush hopping".
Teleporting from thick leaves surrounding them in one location, to another that they'd studied well with leaf gazing.
As crazy as it sounds, you can do the same thing during recap.
Just find yourself in a "better" part of the house, where it's not as boring as it is inside your recap crate.
Your double causes it.
But to make it "valid", the tonal has to wake up, in the new location.
Easier for the ancient seers. They didn't have social pressures telling them that's not possible.
People mostly gazing at some smartphone screen nowadays! The amount of fragmentation going on, in terms of attention span is horrible nowadays!
Actually we could modify that to be a sorcery technique!
I do DRG using my cellphone from time to time.
I combine it with sunlight glitter. Gaze down through the screen of the phone, while it's angled to catch the sun, then I find "3 layers of glitter".
And watch the lowest level.
Where my Allies often show up to scare the shit out of me.
It's one thing to "think you see one" down there.
The light glitter takes on a "coincidental shape".
I've even seen, "coincidences" where it looks like Fairy wrestling with Minx in there.
But the big shocker is when one of them, down in the cell phone, "notices" you watching them.
And suddenly turns their head to face you, and you can see their face clearly.
Better get a good cell phone cover that can take a fall, because you'll drop the phone the first time.
I'll animate that.
I couldn't make a still work.
But animations have no problem with "layers" like that, properly aligned to virtual space.
i believe that . ancient people were pure.
were they? for some reason this comment left a bad taste in my mouth. ancient people were just trying to survive the best they can.
to intend something specific is far more difficult than that. Purity is crystal clarity able to create anything...
if i remember correctly , in one of the books Don Juan said there was a time when humans were dominately on their Nagual side.
Dan also has talked about the era before agriculture and money , and how humans could easily meet and see and learn from IOBs .
you can try that! just go live in nature for some time, and see how it clears your . imagine always being in nature and knowing how to survive. perfect environment to naturally become sorcerer.
Hi Dan,
I started gazing a few days ago and I really like this path, found out some dry leaves in nature then brought it back with me but I would like to know if I'm on the right track though..
I hold it in my hand then gaze at it but after some time, the leaf just disappear, it literaly merges with my hand until I don't see it anymore, am I doing it right..?
What are we trying to accomplish with gazing except silence ?
Is it problematic to use the same leaf everyday (I guess it will become a power object) ?
Also I feel like I'm discovering my eyes, last time I went for a long walk while forcing silence, I started to walk while blurring my vision, I learnt to switch from clear to blur as I wish without crossing my eyes and could get it to a point where everything around me made no sens at all, I'm pretty sure I looked like a degenerate doing it, with a serious face as if I was about to kill someone but anyway, forcing silence was much more easy that way. Is it usefull to do that or am I just wasting my time ?
I'll be excited if we get a hard working gazer!
It's the #1 fastest path in sorcery.
But no one keeps it up!
Leaf disapears in hand is like "green zone" level leaf gazing.
You could in fact make a list for us, of "weird stuff" you see while gazing, and we can post it if it has enough variety.
Sparkles are common too.
The edges of things are sharp enough to trigger the second attention to decide there must be "something else" there too. So you see a weird sparkle. Those are intense, like a red, blue, and yellow dot, somehow connected together, and exploding on the edge of a leaf.
You can also "doze off" or "blank out", and see an entire tiny dreaming object.
That object is often an inorganic being trying to gain entry to your "dream".
Not knowing you don't have the skills to sustain it. But IOBs will take any interactions they can get.
> Is it problematic to use the same leaf everyday (I guess it will become a power object) ?
Cholita does that. I wouldn't go near her leaves, without big precautions.
She takes a fancy to them, and hangs them up in her garden.
> Is it useful to do that or am I just wasting my time ?
If you can induce mini-blackouts or super fast dreams you barely notice until you force yourself, it's working.
But Taisha liked to simply say, you are "accumulating seconds".
When you reach the right count of seconds of silence saved up, you turn into a witch.
Or something like that.
I have a different point of view. You aren't saving anything up.
You're learning to be silent longer each time.
But if you stop practicing, the time you can be silent gets shorter again.
And you have to reach 2 minutes for "weird shit" to happen.
Yes I will definitely try to map it see if I can find some kind of Jcurve with this.
I remember finding something weird weeks ago while practicing outside, after more than an hour gazing at a rock accross the river, I decided to come back home and on my way back, I was "seeing" faces in every trees. It was the very first time I noticed it, I will see next time if it happens again.
You can teleport with gazing also. You saturate yourself with the other location, in perfect silence, and your double comes out to go take a look.
I suppose it's not much different than the technique Taisha uses in her last book, to do kungfu on the floor while laying up in the tree house.
I had plans to show a group of Taiwanese how to do that on the side of Mt. Ali.
They don't reject sorcery in Taiwan.
But I came to realize, you can't teach specific individuals without an entire lineage behind you.
Same thing Carlos discovered, unfortunately.
What do you mean by saturating yourself with the new location, do you feel / imagine yourself being there with as much details as possible, eyes awake ?
And do you think there's absolutely no lineage left in the world, no more benefactor alive to teach indivudals..? I thought about traveling to Mexico some day in the future, see if I have enough personal power to meet a benefactor there but to be honest I'm a bit affraid ahah
Gaze at it in silence until it begins to "change". And then see if you can get it to "zoom in".
But you don't have to learn this technique. It happens during darkroom automatically when you can move to the deep red.
No lineages?
No, there's probably near to 9.
Different than ours though. La Gorda said, "We don't like those guys."
None that you can find out about however.
Carlos already commented on that, making sure everyone knew all you hear about are fakes.
If you hear of a new lineage, it's just some very bad man with a cult of mentally ill people. And 0 sorcery.
There's no reason a real lineage would expose themselves to the public in any way!
They don't need money. The lineages are all likely very wealthy. That's what happens when you exist unbroken for 800 years, giving all the belongings to the next generation.
Even your old underwear becomes very valuable, after 800 years.
Carlos himself was "importing art" when he picked up Cholita, who happens to specialize in that.
She ended up with customers in Hollywood, given to her by Carlos.
So you can draw your own conclusions.
I had a computer back there that might have had pictures of some of it.
But Cholita wouldn't let me extract the hard drive for her.
The computer itself can't be fixed anymore. Apple refuses.
> meet a benefactor there
All benefactors you might find are just crazy men.
Likely eyeing your wallet and your butthole.
Typical trick is to drug you up claiming it's to teach you sorcery, and then rape you.
It's common enough that if I post that remark, I get private messages from people confirming it.
If you hear "benefactor", you have a crazy guy.
And the "benefactors" were for the Men of Knowledge.
We DO NOT want to be those lame guys.
They're only 1 step up from meditation zombies on the scale of knowledge.
Read more. You've got "first 4 book" fever.
It's easy to get over that by remaining in here and reading stuff.
A recent comment with a more experienced users view on what should be emphasized at the beginning:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/10t7r08/some_words_from_the_eagles_gift/j7g6uuz/
Just add a heaping portion of silence to whatever you choose to do, and notice (and then "allow," which takes practice) whatever's "odd" that presents itself...and work on not getting kicked back out of silence by your reactions to it.
thanks for helping ❤
It's a good idea, but keep in mind.
You NEED to be doing Tensegrity DURING DRG.
Otherwise it won't work 1/8th as well.
If you have a space problem, you could do what you say. Do "real tensegrity" for however long.
But also find some "small" movements that take around 20 minutes to complete, and can be done using whatever space you have. Repeated puff scooping and stuffing would count. Pandora's box. Zuleica's pass can also be done sitting. Running man series too.
Wiggling the fingers on the spot of the second attention, is also great. That becomes both visible, and you can feel stuff just like Zuleica said.
Main thing is, you NEED a "container", for DRG intent to store into.
A ritual or routine, which transforms into magic over the weeks of practicing and "noticing" results.
Otherwise you'll mostly fantasize and spoil the 2 hours and 45 minutes.
And you won't get the help of your double, who LOVES tensegrity moves.
thanks for helping ❤
Can you please explain what you mean by a container?
And can you please describe the wiggling method? Didn't find a description in the reddit.
Thank you.
A container is any conceptual boundary that lets you perceive "this", versus "that".
A "family" is a container into which intent stores. Shitty intent filled with grief and self-pity, but it's still a container.
But so is the tensegrity. Each form is a "thing" where if something happens doing that thing, than it's now in the "set of all weird stuff that can happen when doing tensegrity form X".
I knew that "set theory" had to be good for something!
As for wiggling the fingers, I believe this picture shows what you're asking about.
But there's reference to it in Eagle's Gift, if you search for "Zuleica", and keep reading from there.
It's 18-24 inches out from the stomach, and 4 inches to the right.
But it becomes visible later on, so just wiggle around there until it does. Takes months perhaps but in the meantime you'll see lots of fun stuff.
And don't worry. It gets VERY creepy if you work hard. As in, a blue ball of energy forms vividly because you wiggled there, and off walks your double. It just materializes, and decides to leave. While you watch!
I'll have to include that in a cartoon.
Thank you. This answer helped me.
I don’t understand what this tensegrity is. what are the movements and what do they look like? Where can I find them?
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/tensegrity
Every time some one posts one of these wiki links it’s like getting lost in another universe and I go down the rabbit hole totally confused. Is there video posted anywhere showing the techniques? I would actually like to do dark room properly employing some technique I can build off of instead of sitting there for an hour if I’m not making progress. will read this though thanks
There's wonder down this Rabbit hole:
I see that it actually had video I think I will watch. Gotta not get lost in the threads
Just be aware that while the spoken descriptions in the official vids might sound "new agey" to some (Castaneda did NOT appreciate being described as the father of the new age movement) the mood is anything but flakey.
As reflected by Kylie's intensity in those vids.
Why have you slow down so much?
that is the first phase , you will start strong for a couple of days , but your mind tries to go back and you will drop the practice .
that is why most of us don't practice . we stop there . we may repeat this first phase , but we never decide to practice for at least 30 days .
we should not stop at that phase , if you go on , slowly you will have more willing towards really practicing . do it and see .
right now willing to practice is a lot stronger in my mind . eventually , it will happen .
Interesting so far only my body is messing me up my alignment is wacky and the nerves in my legs are pinched
I think the idea of documenting the progress is great. I will also take part, but i don't want to stick to just listing the activities, i also want to describe my experiences with them. Maybe it's possible to stalk myself and get to know my habits even better or even see my progress. In any case, the documentation keeps me connected with the intention of learning sorcery. Furthermore, this post should also serve as a motivation for others.
Challenge started at 2023-02-21
Day 1:
This morning i already practiced tensegrity for 30 minutes (the westwood series; 2 times the first group and 2 times the second group). My eyes were covered with a blackout mask as i don't have a dark room. It was very difficult for me to stop the inner dialogue. He kept showing up. But i will try to remain without expectations and see what happens. I will also keep reminding myself (all day long) to observe the inner dialogue and to calm it down.
Nevertheless, I could perceive purple puffs. I don't know if it's the same puffs you're talking about, cause these seemed to be very vague.
I also looked at the sun with my cell phone for 20 minutes (sunlight glitter). It is as if i can perceive countless circles, which remain in their position with complete peace. It's like looking into another world. There's even something calming about it. In any case, I will try to do this exercise every day cause i am loving it.
I feel like my attitude towards all of this is changing. It's like it's going to be natural. I'm curious how it looks in 30 days.
--- Maybe more this evening.
A little update. I have done another 30 minutes of tensegrety in the afternoon. The same series as this mornung. And another 15 minutes of sun glitter. I really like it.
Furthermore i practised the first 5 movements of the third group (dreaming) i think tomorrow i will do the rest. And now to have some fun i will go for DRG and try to get some purple puffs and play with them. More tomorrow.
Day 2:
Day 3:
Today was the first time i was doing darkroom for 60 min straight. I have done tensegrety the groups mentioned above each 3 times and after that i was walking around. Before i started tensegrety i have done 5 min of sunlight glitter.
At the beginning of darkroom and tensegrety my inner voice was calm. During tensegrety the inner voice started a few times but each time i tried to put my attention back to the moves. I think i haven't seen any purple puffs at all.
During the day i tried to keep up the inner silence. But like the days before it is still like pain in the ass.
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Can't tell from your Day 1 part but are you collecting glitter before or after your darkroom practice? Make sure you get the glitter before your practice cuz if you gather glitter after, you'll just waste it on turbocharging your normal sleep dreams. It appears that glitter gathering resets everyday. Also, do tensegrity in the darkroom; you'll see the results! Effects will be dim but you'll see it!
Thank you for the advice.
At the moment i try to collect the glitter throughout the day and i am doing tensegrety primarily in the darkroom except when i am practising new forms.
Let me join in. Plan to practice silence with stones in darkroom for 3 hours daily. And do unbending intent long form at least three times (or running man for the lazy days) during this 3 hours
13/03/23
3 hours of DRG, unbending intent 3 times. Blacked out during last half hour
14/03/23
DRG 3 hours, unbending intent 3 times
15/03/23
DRG 3 hours, unbending intent 3 times. Dozed off in the end.
16/03/23
DRG 3 hours, running man. Was dozing off so hard that it seemed more like a nap than a practice
17/03/23
DRG 3 hours, unbending intent 3 times. Moved from semi-dark bedroom to pitch dark bathroom. Makes a huge difference in terms of visual - saw vague purple fog. Too bad can’t do unbending intent in full dark
18/03/23
Skipped practice
19/03/23
Skipped one more day due to hangover
20/03/23
DRG 3 hours, unbending intent 3 times + running men in darkroom on a lounge chair. There were occasions when purple fog became brighter and moved faster
21/03/23
DRG 3 hours, running man 2 times. Was really tired and dozed off after second hour.
22/03/23
DRG 3 hours, unbending intent 3 times. Kinda dosed off in the end, but I vaguely remember that my eyes were open when the timer rang.
23/03/23
DRG 3 hours, running man. Lazy practice on a bed
24/03/23
DRG 3 hours, unbending intent 3 times
25/03/23
Skipped practice
26/03/23
DRG 2 hours, unbending intent 3 times.
27/03/23
DRG 3 hours. Did unbending intent 3 times, after that moved to bathroom. Tried to figure out which moves from unbending intent I can do in here. While doing it, a childhood memory popped in, I’ve sat down to recapitulate in place. And after few head sweeps purple fog formed into a puff! It wasn’t the brightest thing I’ve seen in darkroom, but definitely the biggest bright object I’ve seen. It seemed to be around an inch in diameter. Gazed at it for 5 seconds and then it disappeared
28/03/23
DRG 3 hours, unbending intent 3 times
29/03/23
DRG 3 hours, running man. Lazy day
30/03/23*
DRG 3 times. Can’t remember if I did any tensegrity
31/03/23
Skipped practice
01/04/23
Skipped
02/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Running man and unbending intent 3 times
03/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Unbending intent 3 times. Dozed off during last half an hour
04/04/23
DRG 2 hours. Unbending intent 3 times
05/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Did running man for around an hour. Followed by Zuleica’s pass. After that saw a few hypnagogic images form for a second from a purple fog
06/04/23
Skipped practice for 3 extra hours of sleep
07/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Unbending intent 3 times and running man plus Zuleica’s pass
08/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Unbending intent 3 times + running man. Dosed off during last hour
09/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Running man. Dosed off again after second hour. Should stay away from my comfy bed at the end
10/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Running man. Also did that Zuleica’s harp technique. That’s useful for not falling asleep
It’s sad to see that everyone gave up!
I’ll extend challenge for another 30 days. This time I’d like to learn new long form (probably westwood series, need to look for a description here). I’ll use Zuleica’s fingers wiggling technique instead of stones, as it really helps me to not to succumb to sleep. And running man for that lazy days
12/04/23
3 hours DRG. Did running man sitting. There was vague fog following legs movement. Have been noticing such things before, but never with legs, only with hands.
Practice seemed terrible without silence stones, I couldn’t make myself do that wiggling and eventually fell asleep
13/04/23
Skipped practice
14/04/23
Skipped practice
15/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Did a small set of different passes - running man, lifesaver, Zuleica’s, and beginning of a series for decision making (still learning the moves)
16/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Running man, a series for intent. Started to use silence stones again. Without them I find it hard to silence thoughts. They kinda give a “leverage”
17/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Did a bit of sunlight glitter gathering. Also, finally setup my bedroom to be fully dark, so no need to spend hours in bathroom from now on.
18/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Did set of different passes. Unbending intent is way more interesting in full darkness, jumping even a little bit is quite scary.
19/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Gathered some sunlight glitter. Again did different passes (first bits of series for decision making, Zuleica, lifesaver) once in a while during darkroom and walked around to stay awake. Had a few images pop up for an instant in front of my open eyes
20/04/23
Skipped practice
21/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Started from recapping the day. Gathered sunlight glitter, did running man, Zuleica’s pass and wiggling, decision making passes and lifesaver. Dosed off
22/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Started from recapping the day. Did same set of passes and dosed of in the end
23/04/23
Skipped practice
24/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Recapped two days. Did same set if passes. I go to sleep right after the DRG, and I can swear that I saw a face formed from purple fog when I closed my eyes. With a creepy smile on it
25/04/23
Spent 1 hour recapping the day
26/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Recapped the day. Did almost no tensegrity. It felt like I fell unconscious for the whole practice
27/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Quickly recapped the day. Did same set of tensegrity passes
28/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Recapped the day quickly. No tensegrity, just laid unconscious for 3 hours with opened eyes
29/04/23
Skipped practice
30/04/23
DRG 3 hours. Racapped two days. Did running man. Saw quite a lot hypnogogic images in purple fog when forcing silence. Dozed of for around an hour after
01/05/23
DRG 3 hours. Recapped the day. Did series for decision making, lifesaver, Zuleica’s techniques and some individual passes from unbending intent. At some point, vague purple fog changed to very dim yellowish. During last hours eyes were closing involuntarily
02/05/23
DRG 3 hours. Gathered sunlight glitter in the morning. Used reflection from phone instead of staring directly. Recapped the day. Did all the same passes plus affection for energy body
03/05/23
Skipped the practice
04/05/23
DRG 3 hours. Recapped two days. Did same passes as previously. Sat whole 3 hours in the room maybe for the first time (usually went to toilet or checked time on phone). Didn’t fell asleep because never laid down, it’s crucial.
05/05/23
DRG 3 hours. Recapped the day very quick. Did the same passes
06/05/23
Skipped practice
07/05/23
DRG 3 hours. Finally learnt full series for decision making point. Recapped two days quickly. When doing affection for the energy body, I see a purple swirl starting to pulsate. Fell asleep eventually because was very tired
08/05/23
Candle gazing 3 hours, followed by 30 mins darkroom. Noticed that eyes “shake” when focusing for too long on fire, bringing perception back to normal. This shake constitutes of quick changes of perceived image, between the ones that left and right eye see. Consciously switching dominant eye (when both are open) seems to prolong ability to focus
09/05/23
Skipped practice
10/05/23
Skipped practice
11/05/23
DRG 3 hours, kinda. Was very tired and fell asleep right away
12/05/23
DRG 3 hours. Did similar set of passes
22/31 days practiced, 61 hour in total. Learnt passes for decision making point. Tried gathering some sunlight glitter. Feels like it wears off since I gather it in the morning and practice in the evening. Started to practice recap a bit
Wow that's a lot of practice time! But damn, barely any puffs for 3 hours/day for a month? Hmm maybe you need to get more energy? Did you try gathering sunlight glitter everyday? 10 minutes/day should be good. Also, doing a good variety of different tensegrity forms work better. You will find that you'll hate doing some long forms repeatedly but others, you feel you can spam non-stop in the darkroom. You should be able to see clouds forming the rough shape of a body when doing the Affection for the Energy Body pass. Effects will be super dim and faint at first but that pass attracts the double to come visit better than the other ones.
Edit: Now that I think about it, I didn't practice as much as you when I first started but it still took me about 3 months to see anything notable. Just gotta keep doing it and you'll get a nice intent gift, I'm sure of it. Just don't expect it hah
Thanks for advice!
I didn’t gather any sunlight glitter, because the weather was absolutely awful, there were maybe like 3 sunny days. Usually it was snowing or raining. But that’s something I will definitely try when the weather is sunny.
Yeah, looks like it. I already hate unbending intent long form. But running man - I can do it for hour non stop and enjoy! It feels though that I kinda “spoiled” unbending intent form. I learned it few months ago and it was enjoyable back then, but now I’ve turned it into routine and it sucks
Affection for the energy pass is something I’ll try, thanks for suggestion!
I would like to continue the challenge. I’ve made a short “vacation” from darkroom practice, but honestly, it didn’t felt that good. Even though there’s always not enough time to do things that I’d like, like watching Netflix, playing games or getting drunk with friends when I practice, when I don’t practice, all that feels like a waste of time.
The day is way longer now, and my darkroom becomes actually dark only around 10 p.m. Still can’t get away without those 8 hours of deep quality sleep, so will adapt practice a bit - focusing on silence with a stick and recap
22/05/23 Day 1
DRG 3 hours. Fell asleep during last hour. There was very vivid purple fog when I did Zuleica’s pass and my forearms were quite visible behind it in full darkness
23/05/23 Day 2
3 hours practice. Tried silence stick, couldn’t bare more than half an hour. Fell asleep in the end
24/05/23 Day 3
3 hours practice. Half an hour of silence stick, a bit of passes from usual set. Fell asleep 20 min before end
25/05/23 Day 4
Skipped practice
26/05/23 Day 5
4 hours practice. Silence stick for 50 minutes, new personal record.
27/05/23 Day 6
Skipped practice
28/05/23 Day 7
1 hour of practice. Stick silence
29/05/23 Day 8
3 hours. Stick silence, tensegrity, silence stones
30/05/23 Day 9
DRG 3 hours. Slept few hours at evening to practice at night
31/05/23 Day 10
Cant call it a practice, fell asleep right away. Schedule change took its toll
01/06/23 Day 11
DRG 3 hours. Did some tensegrity
02/06/23 Day 12
DRG 3 hours
03/06/23 Day 13
Skipped ptactice