Do you feel as held back by old beliefs when you want to make a change? Or do you find it easier to move easier in the direction of your intent.
How has the practice of silencing internal dialogue affected areas of your life not specifically having to do with Don Juan/Castaneda sorcery?
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I used to prowl around the streets during the night, picking fights and drinking heavily. I failed out of university my first attempt as a result and worked in a call center. After I found sorcery and even just learned to keep myself very quiet all the time, I no longer pick fights, and I finished on the Dean's List in accounting (I decided on accounting because Don Juan learned bookkeeping with Julian).
Thank you for your response! My question arises after paddling through “the river of shit” for awhile, and feeling like I’m at the mercy of my nebulous “beliefs”. Almost like I can’t make a change unless I first “change the belief”. This causes me to not to take action. Lately, practicing more internal dialogue silencing, I find myself acting more spontaneously in the right direction.
Then keep at it! You need to hook to intent and practice too, because, quite frankly, this question is just kind of boring. It can't make anywhere near as much difference as it makes to me as you.
Decide if you like what Castaneda was teaching, and if you did, make a decision to follow it (and work hard at it). Something called you to Castaneda, and it's nothing to do with me.
Dan's at least 7x more impressive than me, I happened to look at some of his background for his companies for fun (public information only).
The stated purpose of this subreddit is to aid in restoring the reputation of Carlos Castaneda and the knowledge he imparted, by pragmatically applying that knowledge IN PRACTICE. This means that we are sticking to what really works, as proven by direct experience by long-practicing members. We need to make clear our intent to move away, as a community, from the mistakes others have made. Content that is at-odds with this purpose will, upon review, be removed.
Hello!
You need to read more in the subreddit before posting.
Your question makes very obvious the fact that you are interested in something else, and not in sorcery itself.
And also motivates other people to mental masturbate before making genuine progress.
You can instead put it in the students chat.
Standing in a mall:
"Hello! How are you today! Tell me intimate details about your personal life"
Llike honestly, sorcerers are all a little bit messed up somewhere (to be fair, I'd say all of humanity is messed up), and they can't help wanting to help someone, but exactly zero of anyone's life story can help anyone else to become a sorcerer.
No one can carry you up a mountain.
In fact we are not interested in helping anyone in particular.
Rather, we keep this place standing so that anyone genuinely willing to learn has their chance.
But if we leave room for those who are not interested, this would be a waste of everyone's time.
Dealing with beliefs/subconscious patterns 100% has to deal with sorcery. This is seen multiple times when Don Juan has to slowly chip away at Carlos’ Western belief set. He does this by providing confidence in a given area, confidence that motivates the Western person to see the practical benefit (in their western life) that also happens to help him progress in sorcery.
Maybe you were stucked in the first 4 books, and stopped reading??
Come on man. We are doing real sorcery here.
You just like talking, not learning it for real.
Get serious, read the subreddit and learn what stopping the internal dialogue really involves.
Cringe.