Tensegrity Types
You don't need to "see" in order to notice that our Tensegrity forms fall into categories. And yet, no one ever mentioned this at any recent workshops past when Carlos was alive.
I suppose because no one got it to work, so they gave up on the idea that there was actual magic to extract from Tensegrity.
I hope you know now, from watching this feed, that there's more than anyone ever dreamed of, hidden in the Tensegrity forms.
All of this is FULLY visible, but you really need to see it DAILY if you hope to travel the very (very) long road of our sorcery.
But why is there a Star Trek picture?
Because in fact, I do just what you see there, nightly.
It's how silent knowledge looks. Which you get to play with, after your practice for the night moves your assemblage point into alignment with that of your energy body.
You REALLY will see "videos in the air".
Minus the Star Fleet crew of course.
On a "good day", when you see a world you like, you can walk right through that portal into another world. In your physical body.
But a "good day" requires you to learn about impeccability and "saving energy".
Two topics our lazy community pretended for decades, never actually having a clue what either really means.
Because in fact, you can't be impeccable until you have real magic by which to measure your behavior.
If you claim you are before that, you're just a bad player in our community. Someone who harms others with their endless lazy pretending.
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There's a LOT of passive aggressiveness in your posts lol it says a lot more about you than you probably realize.
Stick around and read more posts. And notice the constant attackers. An average of 3 per week have to be tossed out, just to keep this place intact.
And, keep in mind that we almost lost it all. Everything was nearly destroyed.
I'm here through the blackmail of the Allies Carlos released to us, before he died.
And my behavior is completely in line with his own, since I spent years in private classes with him.
I'm sorry if I stepped on your groupie toes.
But this place is for learning the real thing, not for self-soothing with pretending.
Here's a typical attacker from 3 years ago, who now is stealing from people using pretending.
We nicknamed him "Running Crazy Guy", and you can go back in old posts and read what he was up to.
Translation: You're most likely clueless about what's going on and immersed in your own fake magic pretending.
I finally moved out from my mother's house, so now I can do darkroom properly. For now my practice is:
I've noticed that for now, some passes seem to do nothing, and some do a lot. Sometimes I just do those that do something perceivable. I think the other ones will be more visible down the J Curve.
My intent is to practice the dreaming group so much that I'll build up intent to move the assemblage point as far as possible. Intending dreaming awaken everyday.
In Silent Knowledge, all of them are so amazing, you might easily slow down and spend 15 minutes on just one of them.
I don't know that it will do any good, but try to emphasize the visual effects, rather than get used to them, and ignore them.
How can I explain that better?
Let's say there's a very tiny visual effect on the floor.
Some vague glow, or even some "fibers", though you aren't sure of that.
There's 2 ways to make a mistake and not utilize that.
One is to let it cause the book deal mind to kick in.
That's the common mistake.
The other is not to pay attention to it, other than the be pleased that it's working.
But to get it to move your assemblage point RAPIDLY, you need to flow more awareness into the sight.
I hate to use a physical analogy, but let's say you're traveling down the highway in the desert, where radio stations can be out of range.
You're stuck with Cheesy Mariachi music.
Of the worst kind! They even have an accordion player.
If Cholita were in the car, you'd have to listen to "¡Ay, ay, ay, no me puedo contener!"
Until you got close enough to the next small city, to receive a decent radio station.
But you hear a very faint one behind all the mariachi festival noises.
Sounds like rolling stones...
You need to tune that in!
Get your hand on the knob, and turn extremely slowly.
(It's AM).
Same happens during darkroom.
You NEED to focus unbiased awareness on the magical sights, for best effect.
Not ignore them, not think about what chapter of your book it could be in.
Just interact with it, by focusing your attention on it.
Carlos told Amy she had to get a job as a maid, and talk to her cleaning instruments.
Talk affectionately to her broom, her tray of cleaning supplies, and even to the furniture in the rooms she was cleaning.
It's a "relationship with intent".
So, try to do that, without going book deal mind.
I know very well the feeling of flowing awareness to something weird during darkroom.
The times I got the passes to actually do something visible were when:
- I forgot about doing the passes, I just did them without thinking, they went into "automatic" mode
- Something caught my attention
- And I got just the right balance between paying attention while not having internal monologue
That's when things happen for me. Usually a "proto video in the air" or a "proto IOB". I say "proto" because for now, they are still low resolution, and they go away very fast. But I know that once you get far, they become solid and stable. I've experienced going past this point some few times.
Sunlight glitter helps with the "realness".
So can "treating them as real".
Which can be simply talking to them, scooping them, putting your hands on both sides, even if you can't feel them physically, or anything else which you'd only do, if they were "real".
Even if ethereal.
I learned to stretch them like taffy, but still couldn't feel them physically.
And yet, they stretched out nicely!
Once stretched horizontally, I wondered how to stretch them the other direction, to make them flat like a sheet.
So I flipped the stretched puff up into the air, the way one might flip a blanket, to get it to land flat on your bed.
It not only behaved like a real blanket, but when it landed it created a real "object" for me.
A freeway overpass once. Giant, towering above my darkroom by at least 50 feet.
A dirt road stretching far past the walls of my room on another occasion. One I was able to jump up onto.
And a small clown car, right there in my darkroom on the floor.
Here's two more "Tensegrity Types". So I don't forget them.
EXTREMELY visible while doing tensegrity. It seems as if you just have to notice it a bit better, to amplify the effect.
And I suppose it's totally understandable that tensegrity would be designed to target different magical effects, since seers spent thousands of years discovering them.
One of the new types is "Crusted Energy Manipulation".
Lobster strike, moving dreaming energy from back to front, the initial move (now lost) to the mashing energy series, don Juan's weird catlike stretching.
My favorite is a bit of a creation of my own, but without actually modifying a form.
It can be done in many passes.
You just arch the back ,backwards, while pushing the chest out, arm down at a 45 for balance, and inhale deeply.
Some crusted energy from behind you comes off the walls, and you have a "patchy puff haze" flowing around.
I suppose a bit like "lazy gnats". Let's say in a forest filled with ferns and moss, you have bumble bees, flies, and gnats.
The bumble bees and flies are the puffs proper. Larger blobs of our energy body.
If you move your hand around in the ferns, they'll fly out.
But if you smooth your hand across the moss on the ground and rocks, you can "uncrust" some gnats, who lazily swarm around you in the air, waiting for things to settle back down.
At which point, they'll go back to munching on their moss.
In our luminous egg, that patchy awareness has hooked it self to the inside of the egg, and isn't coming off.
There may be a connection to recapitulation and how it "retrieves tied up energy" by going over memories from your entire life.
But someone would have to be able to see a person recapitulating to tell if there's a connection.
Or to see if it's easier to uncrust a patch before you do a thorough recap, then after.
We need more seers to find out details like that.
But the uncrusted energy forms a patch pink/purple haze around you, not nearly as smooth as the second attention fog, but none of the bits and pieces are big enough to call a puff.
And together they play a "video in the air".
Except it's surrounding you, and so you end up in another world.
The puffs can play movies inside themselves too, but it's self contained.
When uncrusted energy does it, it surrounds you and seems to play a unified movie.
Of another world.
So what happens is that ideally you stretch your back, inhale deeply and hold it, and a new world materializes around you.
But actually, that effect ought to work with anything that uncrusts energy.
Those tensegrity moves for example.
In the case of moving dreaming energy from back to front, it's going to be more like a "flow" of uncrusted energy.
And maybe not as patchy, since you didn't stretch or scrape it off.
In my case, the flow of pinkish light materializes the scene of someone inside a mirror, looking out.
But that's just because I've seen that clearly a few times.
Someone else would "located" something different and get used to that result.
In addition to "crusted energy manipulation", some magical passes also manipulate our connection between muscle memory, and our internal dialogue.
But at an abstract level. The connection between the internal dialogue and the muscle memory is like the connection between an annoying Californian, and guy who speaks some very alien language, in a very exotic country.
As a metaphor.
The annoying californian is all judgemental and superior feeling. It's the "ugly american syndrome". Applying his narrow social standards to foreign countries, sometimes complete ignoring what's going on there, in favor of focusing on somethin else which makes him feel superior.
Or like the EuroBuddhists who walked around private classes with their noses upturned, "smelling shit" everywhere, as Carlos put it.
Your internal dialogue can't fathom the flow of sentience of your muscle memory.
But you CAN notice the connection while doing tensegrity.
And weaken it. Retrain the muscles in specific movements, not to trigger the internal dialogue.
Not to have opinions about how it should be\have, what it means. Not to ignore abstract aspects of it which don't fit in with your eagerness to find fault in anything you don't understand.
Concretely, you gaze down in the darkness while doing tensegrity at a specific leg movement.
The "paisley" pass from mashing energy for intent. Where your right foot makes a large circle on the floor, counterclockwise, then it makes a smaller one inside that.
But there's also the stomping or heel touching movements, where you precisely tap the floor.
In Silent Knowledge you see ripples of blackness and dull golden light, emitted from the points of contact between the foot and the floor.
And those trigger your internal dialogue.
By forcing silence to the extreme, you get to notice that.
And break the connection.
You retrain the muscle memory to do movements silently. In fact, you retrain it to "notice" that movements produce ripples in reality.
Which only makes sense. Once the internal dialogue is gone, reality is quite flexible.
All of he possibilities, become possible again.
How many more tensegrity types there are I have no idea, but I'd guess and expect that there are at least 8.
These 2 brings it up to 5.
Except that there are some very interesting tensegrity passes for quite specific things.
Absolutely ignored by our community.
There's La gorda's sliding door pass, used to exit a room right through the walls.
And there's that "wheel of time" thing. I'm not sure if that's the same as the tunnel with furrows, where you can gaze down each furrow to see another permutation of reality.
And "jump grooves" to escape serious energy.
That was what Carlos was trying to do at the end, but he'd used up all of his energy trying to help us.
So he died.