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New to darkroom gazing
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Hello, I am new here and have just recently heard of Carlos and this subreddit. I’ve been reading the posts and sidebar picking up the knowledge I can whilst listening to some of Carlos’s audiobooks. I have some questions I hope you could answer.
My room isn’t completely dark so will wearing a mask with my eyes closed be as effective?
Can I listen to shamanic type music while doing darkroom or would this interfere with my inner silence?
What tensegrity moves can I do sitting down as I don’t have much space where I practice?
Do I do tensegrity before or during?
What is sunlight glitter?
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Searching and reading in here will answer all of those questions. Use reddit's built-in search which has received some improvements as of late, or some of the search tools linked in our FAQ; and our Wiki.
There are no shortcuts.
Show up every day and put in best effort; that's the only secret, since we don't have a powerful sorcerer slapping us on the back and plunging us into more magical (unknown) aspects of the universe. We need to provide our own motivation...and nobody else can give that to you, not really, if you don't have a strong spark of it first.
Others can only help, somewhat, to fan it into a flame... and only if you allow it.
Thanks appreciate the response
Get it as dark as you can muster. Decide if being able to open up the windows in your room and get sunlight through them is really that important. If your windows are new and you don't have a problem with moisture condensation, seal them up light-tight and get a battery operated light of some kind in case you're worried about the power going out and not being able to light up the room.
Otherwise you probably have electricity and can flip on a switch in order to see.
And nix the music until you're further along (if ever). I highly doubt it will be anything but detrimental to you at this point, unless you're using it to mask some environmental noise you can't control. Maybe switch to white noise, or a loud fan etc .
Thank you, I have blackout curtains but some light escapes from underneath. Would blackout goggles work? Im wondering because I don’t know if I need to actually see the room (even though it obviously must be dark) if my eyes are open but I see pure black will I still see the puffs and iobs?
Open eyes is an intent thing. Inner versus outer focus.
Or at least it's the most accessible way to telegraph that switch. If the light leaks aren't that distracting to you, kudos, but if they are a pair of super dark, shade-5 or greater, wraparound-style welding sunglasses (ones without a strap that goes around the back of the head) are more comfortable than Goggles.
Waiting till it's dark can also eliminate those remaining light leaks, unless there a bright outside/street light shining into your window. Again, consider sealing the window if your situation allows it, with layers of black paper with tinfoil sandwiched between them (cheapest), and tape. Or sheets of thick vinyl from a hobby or upholstery store, put up with tacks, and edged with artificial fur.
Ok that clears a lot up thank you
So I can’t just put black tape around some glasses? I need shade 5 welding?
If black tape works, then use it. Make sure whatever regular sunglasses you use are wraparound so that your peripheral vision gets screened as well.
I have an aversion to looking extra dorky with taped glasses 🤓. I mean, who knows who could show up!?!
And I don't like being blocked by an opaque layer, like tape. Prefer to instead be screened by the darker tinted lenses. Makes you feel less cut off somehow. But that's just a personal preference.
Ah ok, so all I have now is taped glasses I will try until I order the shaded ones, thanks
I got a pair of these last year and can confirm what the other reviewers have said about them being darker than what they're rated for:
Pyramex Safety Shade 3.0 Safety Glasses, Scratch-Resistant (SB7950SF) https://a.co/d/6CW0z4u
Be sure to select the 5.0 IR filter option
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\> Can I listen to shamanic type music while doing darkroom or would this interfere with my inner silence?
Try it for us!
Unfortunately, so far the "music lovers" all flaked out as far as I know.
Keep in mind, only 1 in 100 are willing to put in actual work to learn magic.
I used to think that was odd, but one of my managers (at my business) informed me it's the same with employees.
He joked one day you could scrap the other 99, and keep just the one who could direct an AI to do all the work the 99 used to do. Very slowly and expensively.
But, keep in mind that shamans are "assholes".
Officially.
This isn't shamanism at all.
It's sorcery.
Shamans come from the "men of knowledge" of the Olmecs.
Possibly the enemies of seers like us.
And in this subreddit, the "shaman types" tend to attack and have to be kicked out.
Same as back then 4500 years ago when the Olmec government was at its peak.
Thanks Dan! I will try without music this time.
Darn...
Stairway to Heaven!
That might inspire your Ally.
Fancy played some rock song for me while she was trying to teach me to go directly into dreaming.
I looked up the words, and it was very appropriate.
Took me days to figure out what she was up to.
Haha hopefully I’ll have interesting experiences like this one day. I know it will take a lot of patience
No more than learning to play the trumpet well.
It's really not that difficult.
Oddly, people just can't find the time, even though they can for a hobby they love.
I think it's because we've all learned that any system claiming magic is full of shit.
So don't waste too much time on it.
Of course no one will admit that, but they do know it somewhere deep in there.
Carlos postulated that the planet had been taken over around 10,000 years by a specialized type of inorganic being from Pleiades star system.
But please don't think we have wacky theories, like scientologists.
My "visiting" ally (spirit) "Lily", who seemed to belong to mad prophet in here, taught me to travel to any star anywhere in the universe.
And I did!
Fully awake, sober, eyes open.
You just "swipe" the ceiling away, find a star you like, use your fingers to "zoom in", and pick a star.
Then simply leap. For real. In your physical body.
Traveling at what I estimate to be, 1 billion light years per second.
Fully visible the whole time. And you never fell asleep, nor can you explain how such a thing is possible.
It just works.
So I got the idea to check out the "Pleiades story".
I wanted to see if it was true, and possibly find the home world of our invaders.
Lily stopped me. Said if I went there, I'd never get back.
They'd put me in a cage.
She dropped a huge cage right in front of me, at my feet.
I got to examine it.
For real.
We don't mess around or read "sacred scrolls" and drool over how much power "Guru Divine" had.
Especially since that old Hindu bastard had to sit with his eyes closed, and fall asleep into a dream to do such things.
Oddly, we can't get very many interested in this.
We just get attacked, endlessly.
So that the "flier" theory of invading aliens suppressing magic, seems possible after you watch the flow of new people in here.
But I'd still like to see one of those aliens.
I’ll keep at it, sat in silence in the dark for hours today with no results but I didn’t expect much. I’m sure it takes time. Thanks for taking the time to respond
It sounds like you believe "silence" is not talking.
That's not it at all.
I'll test you.
How many seconds can you go, without a single word popping into your mind?
We aren't trying to take a "vow of silence" here. La Gorda admires monks, but I have a few in the family and know first hand, monks suck big time!
If you actually sat in silence as you say, the world would have ended and you would have found yourself in another reality so different from this one, you'd pee your pants the first time.
It can't go any other way! Silent? World comes to a halt.
This one is a construct of our internal dialogue, issuing commands to the emanations on how to "skim".
Are you familiar with "skimming the emanations"?
I really need a cartoon on "what is silence?"
I'll have to purchase a few monks in camel hair robes with ropes for belts.
I purchased a very lovely set of chimps. A whole "Chimp Family".
Just $79.
No, i know silence is silencing your thoughts. I was silent at times but then noticed thoughts popped in. I guess I need to be able to maintain the silence for longer
It has to be 2 minutes to dislodge the assemblage point.
It's more than most can manage, even after decades.
Even 30 seconds is terribly difficult!
It's decades (\~30 years for me), unless you just put a thick stick in your mouth and bite down on it, like Clint Eastwood would do in a western when the barber was removing an infected bullet from his chest.
However, the good news is you can look all over and find that westernized Buddhist "masters" all admit "Enlightenment" is just removing that internal dialogue.
So when you get rid of it, you'll officially be "Enlightened".
Their problem is, they never do.
They "alter" it with meditation techniques, their assemblage point moves down to the green line, and self-flattery and ego take over since they now officially get a little "Zen Master" throne.
Or Rinpoche throne.
Once that happens, they never go further and actually learn to be silent.
Imagine you're doing tensegrity moves in darkness (I hope you make sure to do those), get silent, and find you are literally standing on the top of a mountain, looking down at a jungle.
And that's a "mild" experience for sorcerers.
I erected a freeway pass just north of Tokyo, in my darkroom by stretching a puff and flinging it into the air.
While Cholita did that trick Ren and Rey did in Star Wars, remotely viewing me through a pink tunnel from outside the house.
...is music that bad? i have my radio on when i do it because i'm scared to death of hearing something move-
If the music has themes of river of shit obsessions, like "love, love, love", it might.
But more important is just to practice, and not worry about the details until you discover a reason.
I used to like to reward myself with Mars bars.
Chocolatey nougat, caramel, and a chocolate outside.
Reni would get an aneurism over that.
Which is likely why I had a drawer full of them.
But as i moved further and further along the J curve, I discovered how my own body reacts to food, and had to give those up.
If I'd spent all of my time thinking about how bad sugar is, the way Reni likes her followers too, I might never have actually gotten around to find out for myself.
I'd already feel I was working hard, to pass on the Mars bars.
Don't you do that. You seem to be engaged in it, from what I can see.
Thinking about working, instead of working.
hehehe yeah you got me, i'm too focused on thinking about working instead of working and yep the songs i like have that "love, love" theme to them 👀
You're living up to what we're learned about young people.
They never get around to cleaning their room.
yeah my room's a mess rn, that's why i have to do the running man on my bed :P
ok yeah you're right music does screw it up rn, every single word my radio puts out makes me think of a word somehow connected to it :P so i'll have to turn it off or smth
Get an eye mask that you can open your eyes under like this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095C7H62X?ref=nb_sb_ss_w_as-reorder-mobile-t1_k0_1_12&=&crid=DUZMX65L1KAD&=&sprefix=black+out+ey
But this one presses on your nose a bit depending on face shape. That way you can have a portable darkroom and keep your eyes open.
Today i ordered full black contact lenses, they come tomorrow... i will see how that goes.. maybe i can do darkroom in a full open field in daylight, infinite space for tensegrity.!! (i will need some eye drops)
So as long as I have my eyes opens for the intent it I can still witness the same experiences?
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The home world of our invaders sounds pretty interesting to me. Must be a parallel one.