From now on, I'll just make sure each video works in all formats. So I don't have to go back and redo them.
At this point I only have to click two switches to alter the text for a final "rendering", and then just keep stuff framed in the middle so it can be cropped to cell phone. Cropping is easy in free tools.
But there's no way to have all that text, which is the confusing part. The text doesn't match the talking.
I just blocked the sides, this one is not actually good for a cellphone.
But it's enough to see, and offer criticisms.
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thank you for these videos. Maybe it shouldn't be this way, but I find that this subreddit and these new forms of media definitely help to keep me trying even though I have had few results so far.
Don Juan used to do amazing magic on the first meeting, for his new apprentices.
He leaped over a house for Carol Tiggs.
We don't have that!
Even Carlos couldn't provide it for his students.
So it's almost a miracle if anyone keeps going, void of any "proof".
I figure the least we can do is show them precisely what the rewards are.
But we'll need more people making videos, with no obvious profit motivations.
I'm trying to make one on behalf of Athena, but with her explanations of the magic she perceives.
The skill level to make those is a bit too high for others to learn it with no obvious job plans in that regards.
But maybe I can make them for others, following their descriptions.
"Juan's Fairy Land". He could produce an outdoor red zone spectacle!
For those who make one with my help, it's a lot better when it's on the Silver Screen.
At the time, it was cool.
But you were in a "don't care" state from having your assemblage point moved.
And it felt "unreal" even if it was vivid.
So even the person producing the video will find it pleasing.
It "cements" the experience.
I first encountered some of the work via a retreat, in the UK where I live. It was a 4 day workshop which was essentially learning some passes, interspersed with dialoging personal history.
I left the event feeling 'something' was different. My mind was quiet, and essentially remained so for a few weeks. It was that internal change that showed me there was something deeply powerful about tensegrity.
It's such a shame that the practices haven't been taken on by more people. I truly believe that with time, this sub reddit with the media you and other have been creating, will result in more people taking the work on. Apart from rare and expensive workshops and the books, I don't know how else people can find out what is out there waiting for them. This page has become my go to resource. Hope you dont mind me continuing to ask the odd stupid question. Thanks again
Does the username imply you view Tik Tok?
We have a debate going about whether we want Tik Tok people ending up here.
But the cellphone format videos are likely to end up over there, even if we don't post them.
No, I used an Inuit word meaning bare/naked (ussertok).
Such a large percentage of people are on TikTok that I expect you are right that content will find its way there somehow.
Any kind of short form media has obvious inherent flaws, but I also expect that the casual viewer wouldn't bother to look further into this unless they were already somewhat curious about Castaneda or sorcery.
I can't play the video. I have an older phone and the reddit app doesn't work. I'm using the web version...
Dan, what do you think if you write all the important information of this subreddit in a PDF file and put it for free download in online bookstores? That way, this information will never be lost and it will be promoted in many Internet groups supporting Carlos.
There's no copyrights on any of it, so do as you please.
I was thinking of uploading all of the pictures I made to internet archive, but haven't thought through that yet. Some are worth doing that, some are not. And too much work to decide.
I have videos on there now, to make it easier to download and use them.
Most will have the CC-0 copyright. Meaning, there's no restrictions on usage.
Some will just have a warning that if you're claiming you can teach sorcery or working with someone who does that, you can't use them. Otherwise it's ok.
I don't know how much it costs for full page colored images in Amazon "print on demand" books, but you could make a lovely grimoire by selecting the pictures explaining "practical magic" topics.
There are only 2 or 3 genuine Grimoires in existence, as far as I've been able to locate. While being able to afford any of them, even the ones 450 years old.
And one of the "genuine" ones is just a few pages, with the rest scattered in Babylonian libraries they still haven't uncovered.
Hollywood sci-fi movies on witchcraft love to show "grimoires" (spell books), but the ones published for sale (starring mostly in the 1700s and reaching a climax in the 1800s) are all fakes made by bad players.
Any "real" ones were likely just books witches made for themselves.
Cholita might have one somewhere.