Using Tensegrity and internal silence, and perhaps even some darkness to make it fully visible, you can learn to summon your energy body directly, without all the usual hard work of going through a fixed ritual of selected Tensegrity moves.
I won't say how, but you'll discover it. And it will be specific to you.
That's why in Taisha's book she was told it's ok to make your own tensegrity moves.
But JUST FOR YOU! Don't go astray and start making up new forms which contain no magic, so that you can gain from others by pretending to have new Tensegrity movements.
Carlos gave us 216 of them! Maybe our leaders should concentrate on saving the real ones, which have real magic hidden in them?
But for yourself, it's ok to modify them based on what you learn through practicing specific ones and seeing results specific to you.
In my own case, I can now just raise one arm in the right way, and a visible blue swarm of glowing clouds surrounds it, causing all self-pity to fall away.
If I can hold that, Silent Knowledge begins to stream as videos in the air.
Doing that around 2AM this morning, I got a flow of "knowledge" on these topics of interest. There's a lot more to it than this, and you'll find that in the advanced subreddit if you ever make it over there. But you have to earn it, by learning to move your own assemblage point daily, for real.
Unfortunately there's only around 50 in our community who can do that.
But it's better than NONE, which is what we had until 5 years ago when the castaneda subreddit was upgraded using old private class students of Carlos.
It seems, more of those original private class students may eventually become interested in helping restore the reputation and ACTUAL teachings of Carlos Castaneda.
Having noticed it's all gone astray since he died and it became nothing more than another con artist "energy" business.
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Can you talk a little more about how making wrongs right is the wrong intent?
I'm a public school teacher and sometimes I wonder if my profession drains my energy and contributes to my internal dialogue.
That's in the normal range of "feces" being flung at you, in the river of shit.
It's the petty tyrant thing.
A GOOD thing.
If you handle it properly, you get rewarded by intent with magical gifts to move you along further.
I wasn't talking about managing playground or teacher conflicts.
More like, why not go make Putin drop dead, Star Wars choking his neck wise?
That's not impossible.
But once you went down that road, you'd be doomed and unable to escape when it's time to go.
You have to constantly keep in mind, reality is just a flow of sensations and feelings from the dark sea of awareness.
And none of it is "separate" and something that "doesn't count".
One reason apprentices in lineages are told to leave their family and friends.
It's the same problem.
They drag you into something which ties up your awareness on pursuits which harm moving the assemblage point.
But your profession isn't an issue here.
That's more like, the current flow of reality you started out in, and which you need to learn to move your assemblage point daily, away from.
But going after Putin or the Chinese emperor (yes, he believes he's descendant from the Chinese royal family), would be "looking for trouble".
It's like adding on a new stream of reality you have to escape, each time you make a significant alteration to what's happening in the river of shit.
This is something you can "see" in Silent Knowledge, which is where it makes more sense.
Sorcerers don't go picking fights, even if they can always win them.
There's energetic consequences to "winning" a fight.
This is a fetter in Buddhism as well. Believing you’ve got to save others…
Best post yet. Thank you!
BEING-IN-DREAMING
Florinda Donner in conversation with Alexander Blair-Ewart - ~Dimensions Magazine - February 1992~
Abe: Now, on this long path, one of the things that's described in the literature is that the person, the seer and the Nagual, everybody, will reach a period of despondency, where they're sure it's going to fail, nothing's going to ultimately happen. And the reason I raise this is because I have a sense that this feeling is actually being shared by many people now. So, please talk to that for a moment.
Florinda: Yes, exactly. (laughter) I'm going to add to your depression (laughter). No, it is true. Something in us knows, and that's why there's the urgency with Don Juan. The imperative from the point of view of Nature is the perpetuation of the species, and we are no longer interested. We are interested in evolution, because evolution is an equal, if not a greater, imperative than procreation. Because if we don't evolve, if we don't mutate into something different, we are truly going to blast ourselves out of this planet, I think irredeemably. We have destroyed our resources, I mean totally. Whether we have fifty or a hundred more years in terms of time, as a planet, is immaterial. It doesn't really matter. We as a species are doomed. And in that sense, evolution is our only way out. And again, as Don Juan stresses, evolution is in the hands of women, not of men.
Abe: So, as a male, what do I do? I just sit here and wait for women to save the world?
Florinda: Yes and no. You see the man has to relinquish his power, and he's not going to do it, not peacefully. He's not. I'm not saying that, you know, you're beating your chest, saying "I will not relinquish my power". No, it's much more insidious than that.
Abe: Go into that. Talk about it.
Florinda: Well, I don't think it's ever stated. For instance, okay, here's these sensitive men who have been in men's groups, trying to come to terms with their spirituality, and have become totally in agreement with their wives, their partners, the female they are with- but not quite. There are certain things they will not relinquish, it's too threatening. Even this whole idea of the men's movement originally started out as a truly spiritual movement. But something in the male is threatened. It is this fear of relinquishing something that some of them do sense will have to be relinquished, for us as a species to go on. We certainly know that the female has to be given time, and has been given time in the past for something to evolve. For instance, for us to become erect, when the vagina had to change position, well, who had to adapt? The males. The penis had to grow larger. The female again needs time. And the male has to give her that time. From one point of view the male has to give the female time for the womb to try to switch into its secondary function.
Abe: And that can't happen if the man is relating to the woman sexually. Is that what you're saying?
Florinda: No. See, there have to be enough females who have that time that something will have to change in the womb. They have to drawn a new possibility. Don Juan said our evolution is intent. You see, that leap from the large reptiles to flying, this idea of wings, was intended. It was an act of intent
Abe: That's very interesting. So you feel that women all over the world currently, sisterhoods of different kinds, are intending a new human future?
Florinda: They're not aware of it. Some women, I think, are, totally.
Abe: So the man is now going to take a back seat in the evolution of the species.
Florinda: Exactly, right. Not a back seat. Again, those are words that define a positive/negative kind of connotation. No. You have to provide the time.
Abe: How can the man do that? Talk about that functionally.
Florinda: You see, we women are relegated to the status of second class citizens. No matter what power we have, we still don't have any real power. We don't decide anything. And even for us to talk in little groups, it's almost like banging against a huge iron door, because whoever decides, whoever's in power, is not going to relinquish this for the hell of it. Let's look in terms of politics, let's say Washington or your capital. I mean, do you think for a moment those men are going to even listen to what we're saying? Not in the least. But some kinds of pockets have to be found for something new to develop. Otherwise we're doomed. And this idea for us to save the planet, the environment, all we are really thinking is that we as a species will not survive. The earth will certainly survive; it might go into some kind of horrendous winter, but eventually it will come out of it. But we as a species will not survive.
Women's Workshop - March 1996
To: The Ixtlan Mailing List
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 02:06:29 -0500
hello my male friends!
the workshop jumped right into a great start with carlos giving a lecture. he said the position of the ap is opposite in men than in women. i don't remember if it's the shiny side in for women and out for men, or the other way 'round. the point is that because of this, men and women "perceive" the world in entirely different ways. he talked of the how the universe was female, and that the male is an extension of the female. he stated that the christian philosphy about women coming from mans' rib was nonsense, it was the other way 'round. men are an extension of us. he talked of how males are rarities, and because of this, they have elevated themselves to this point of importance. have subdued women, that society trains women to be of service to men. he says we are trained to forget or ignore the second function of the womb. that second function is that the womb is a "thinking" organ. not thinking as in "mind" but that it perceives. he said men are frail, that women have this large vast underlying area from which to pull from. men have to work their entire lives to see. and they see with the entirety of their bodies. whereas women see all the time.. with their wombs, but that we have been trained in the social order to not be aware of this. and that we should never allow a man to "dominate" us.. but that we should understand their fraility. males are rare, and they are frail. the social order in one way is designed to protect them. they are always looking for "mommy". :) and who raises these boys? women. it is ridiculous. we raise our little boys to keep us in our "place". he said that men and women have to work in unison for anything to work. and that when men see, they put it into a structure, whereas us women, we see and it is like "so?" because we see all the time. men categorize, taxonomy. they go on forever with it. which we have all seen on these lists... he said that mankind is on the way out, and the only way to survive is with evolution. but that it is the women who can create this evolution. women are the driving force. and men are the ones to implement what the women "see". so to speak. this email is from my own memory. i did not take verbatem notes.. and this is basically, the way i understood what his words were.. and also, some of it is his direct words. naturally, someone asked about their husband.. their kids. carlos said that he didn't want to see 50 divorces take place, but that we should not let the male dominate us. he said courtship takes all our energy. and why? if you want sex, then have it, but don't put in all the courtship "relationship" "love" thing..
if you don't like sex, then tell the your husband to go have it with someone else. he said women are trained in the social order to hate each other. to be competitive. he said that they are friends and all loving with each other, but then when a male enters the scene.. well.. all that goes out the window. :) women are the only ones who can do the evolution thing. it is up to us. he had us all laughing with acting out his talk about how a man does anything to a women, and then when the women is angry, he just has to act like a "poor baby" and the women forgive them and go to take care of them.. it was hilarious. :) but very true! he suggested to the women in relationships.. married or what have you, to go without sex, and just see what happens.
taisha abelar spoke the next morning. this is more difficult to remember. i'm not quite a "morning" person! :) she talked about her time in the trees.. and how after accumulating enough silence, she saw two female beings standing by her. she felt total affection and "safeness" from them.. she said they were scouts. she once asked them to take her to where they came from and she traveled down a tube. tunnel. they call this the "junkyard" of the universe. it is filled with all sorts of unrecognizable things.. anyway, there was a light at the end of this tunnel. she also said these were the two she has names for.. but i never seem to remember their names.. but you all remember hearing about them before. she said women are tubes. they have direct access and "membership" in the inorganics world. the inorganics world is a parallel world to our own. she said that any women who remains in total silence from anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour will see this tube entrance to that other world. but don juan had told her not to travel it if she didn't feel she had the energy. one can get lost in that world and never return. she said that the silence a woman holds before that tube appears gives her the sobriety needed to travel it.. where as men have to work years to gain that sobriety.
https://web.archive.org/web/20030711161549/http://www.nagual.com/ixtlan/notes/0396b.html
Thanks for posting this, it shakes me out of my tree some, our evolution is much less about procreation.
I found my energy body through years of ballet and graham modern dance technique. Graham technique is very grounded and rooted in the core of the individual for generating movement. Suddenly after years I am able to literally feel and move my energy within my body wherever and however I want. I’m still experimenting with ways to utilize this constantly. Unifying the body through the energy body can help prevent injury and greatly enhance strength by extrapolation of proper form from the awareness of the body/energy body dichotomy
"wherever and how I want"
Are you quite sure of that? It takes me about 10 minutes of gazing before I start seeing psychedelics in the air that I can maintain for hours at a time while completely 100% sober. Try it yourself (and I'm a beginner).
Oh I don’t see. Never could see energy. I feel it. I know where it is in my minds eye and I manipulate it at will. It stays connected to my core and I tether it in various ways to my environment
Uh huh... So you're not able to do "wherever and however you want".
Relative to the body. I’m talking relative freedom. Ultimate freedom is death…Carlos found that out.
Any beginner here has feelings in the body... Why not try this out instead of being so certain you can do "wherever and however you want"? It's fun...
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/aki0db/how_to_see_energy_in_3_weeks/
Look, I’ve got over 20 years of dance/kung fu/parkour training behind me. I know my body.
Come train with me whenever. Teach me what you know
Well then don't talk about "wherever and however you want".
The context prefacing that was “within the body”
Its relative to the body.
are you doing alright? You are trying super hard to control what I choose to say about what I know.
Hope it gets better over on that side
Uh huh... Well great talking with you too.
Samadhi doesn't even qualify as beginner's level in this subreddit. Take a look around at the posts.
We kick Yogi and Buddhist butt 60 times over.
You can calculate it from how far our assemblage point moves relative to Yogis and Buddhists, and the fact that we shapeshift, walk through solid walls, can remote view anywhere in time and space and travel there in our physical bodies, levitate small objects, and we do it all wide awake, completely sober, with our eyes open, without sitting there like a lazy grinning Buddha trying to soak up attention.
I think you're in the wrong subreddit.
We don't appreciate pretending in here.
It's harmful to others.
I’m not pretending…
I’ve got no qualms connecting dots between disciplines. It’s all one big thing anyway.
But honestly maybe I am in the wrong subreddit. Yall are almost as viscous as the r/zen gatekeepers.
Here's a sneak peek of /r/zen using the top posts of the year!
#1: Debunking Sectarian Lies - Part I: Zen Isn’t Buddhism
#2: To me Zen practice is like being 100% genuine at all times and at all places.
#3: The Chinese Roots of Zazen, a Zen Practice.
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Get lost butthead.
Your response brought me back. Probably not the intended effect…OR WAS IT??
Try this:
You're dishonest. Didn't notice what I wrote to you at all, just ignored it and started calling the only place in the world with REAL magic, and REAL understanding of reality, "narrow minded".
Didn't you notice I said "walk through walls"? Why didn't that get your attention?
Thus, you are in fact a "butthead" meaning, you have an asshole where your brain ought to be.
Metaphorically of course.
And we do everything AWAKE. No stupid meditation pretending.
Samadhi??!?
What a gigantic sucker you are!
You'll always be one I suppose, because you don't engage.
You're likely mostly a mentally ill person here seeking attention.
Nothing said to you will make any difference, because you aren't thinking rationally at all.
And unknown to you, you've been "sent" here by our enemies.
We get attacked in 3s.
When we make progress deeper into astounding Olmec magic the likes of which the world hasn't seen in thousands of years, we get more attacks.
In 3s.
Our teacher Carlos Castaneda warned us about it, and as hard as it is to believe, it's true.
I suppose humans aren't so hard to control.
It also seems as if you never read any of the books of Carlos, so one has to wonder why on earth you're plaguing this place?
Wore out your welcome elsewhere?
Certainly since you ignored my list of "impossible" things we do, you aren't looking to learn magic.
Or you would have been overjoyed!
Anyone who actually has real magic, is OVERJOYED to find more elsewhere. Especially if it's better than what they have.
But you're only after human attention.
It's also odd you complained about the Zen people.
I'm not going to go back and read your delusional complaints again, but the Zen people, though utterly clueless about meditation and consciousness, are about as tolerant as it gets with Buddhists.
Which are a very angry crowd. Seeing as how the Buddha is a Chinese fabrication.
So be nice and go away.
You're hopeless. Or someone would try to help you.
Just because you see some rare wild flowers coming up somewhere, does that mean you have to go piss on them, or even stomp them into the ground?
You also failed to even notice where you are.
No one in here EVER makes any money whatsoever off this topic.
You can't name a single other "system" or religion like that.
Which means we aren't paid to put up with bad men like you.
I expect one of the mods will notice and ban you one of these days. I'm just a visitor here, so I can't.
And for the last 5 years or so, they've had to ban 3 per week who come here to mindlessly attack.
You seem to be a lot worse than we usually get.
On average.
I’ve read the lot of his books. They’re great. Very informative about how to use power plants and utilize the practice of shamanism for healing or personal exploration of the unknown.
The fact that you let your emotions drive your speech is why you’re seeing inaccuracies in your assessment of me.
Who do you think sent me? Do they control the algorithm of Reddit so much so that they can cause this exact post to show up on my main feed as a suggested post? Or do you assume somebody told me to come here?
You teleport here right now and show me how you walk through walls and I will most certainly concede that you’re being honest.
For now, the extreme attachment you seem to be showing to my responses leads me to believe you’re no actual sorcerer. This isn’t a larping subreddit.
No they aren't!
You're making up stuff.
Look at this guy's history!
He thinks Ram Dass is useful.
I'm going to block you from viewing any of my posts or comments.
That's about all I can do here since I'm not a mod.
But I sure don't want to run into him ever again.
Since he's sitting at his computer rapidly replying, I'll just wait an hour and block him.
I’m on my phone waiting to clock out at work.
Dude your remote viewing ability is severely stunted.
Workshop - Omega Institute - Rhinebeck, NY - May 26-29, 1995
A man asked an astrological question about the Mayan calendar and Castaneda's group's role "in planetary evolution." After hearing the rather grandiosely phrased question, Florinda pretended to walk off the stage. Taisha answered "We don't think there is a correlation between what we do and Earth cosmology. The energy or power we draw on is beyond that, in my opinion. Our discipline is much vaster than the standpoint of ordinary earth and human interpretation. For example, where the scouts come from is way beyond human imagination, like places that have two or three rotating suns. The only answer for us as to what is happening now in our world is because Carol Tiggs returned."
source - http://sustainedaction.org/Notes/Omega_PtVI.htm
backup - https://web.archive.org/web/20000229034227/http://sustainedaction.org/Notes/Omega_PtVI.htm
Why bother saving the world if you can just go to a new, better one?
Find out for us!
I've got Cholita to worry about, so I can't.
Could be part of why Carlos gave her to me to protect.
The longest I stayed in a cyclic being world was 3 hours.
But I got lucky and didn't get mixed up with the locals.
By the way, if you ever do that you'll know it's something very unusual, because you remain lucid the entire time, you go in wide awake in your physical body.
So there's no mistaking it for lucid dreaming.
It's like walking out the front door of your house, and you're in an alien world.
There's no "transition". Not even one like with womb dreaming.
No lapses in memory, no blank outs.
Maybe if you stayed as long as I did interacting with the locals, you'd forget where you came from.
Que the twilight zone music...
Maybe...
We already did what you suggest, and forgot where we came from?
And this place is slightly better than the last.
Due to Netflix.
What you describe is the equivalent of Ram Dass speaking about “changing the channel” of consciousness. Great lecture really. I’ll see if I can find a link.
Ram Dass is an evil con artist who harms anyone who listens to him.
Looks like he didn't help you any!
You only show yourself more and more with these emotional responses.
I’ll see myself out. If I wanted conversation like this I would be in rocket league quick-chat on Xbox right now.
Peace dude. Good luck with your magic.
It's less about noisy emotion and more perfectionism of intent.
Damn that's gotta be some kinda speed run for exploding head around here.
I think some Native American mythologies involve mankind entering this world through a door/portal/mound. The only "origin story" I've heard of that suggests other worlds.
How is the experience of entering a cyclic world different from entering a recapitulation experience?
I don't want to get "stuck" in a recap memory (well, maybe, time travel does sound fun)
You can't get stuck in the past. It's long gone.
You're just watching a video of it, and when the video ends you'll be back wherever you started.
How long those can last, I have no idea.
But I suspect that even if seemed to last a full week, it might only be one hour here.
Thus Carlos and La Gorda believing that if they could lay their experiences "flat", they'd honestly believe they had lived 800 years.
Carlos sure did a good job of telling us everything we need to know.