I know that things can happen in darkroom and chair silence, but I do my best to focus on deepening internal dialogue silence and strive to hold it a teensy bit longer each time.
Foreign install and I are in a constant girl fight. And sometimes, when she takes a break from our fight, I catch a bit of the second attention. I appreciate that very much and thank INTENT for the help.
In DR....
I heard some whispering voice - no idea what the voices were saying - and I asked out loud (with a trembling voice). looking around the room, "who's there?"
Here's what I saw, briefly. It disappeared as I looked at it:

In Chair Silence, eyes open under mask, after Tensegrity, this showed up...

And then spinning umbrellas came to visit...

Let's keep practicing!
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The entry to the IOBs realm can be seen as a tunnel.
Carol Tiggs described it, and also pushed me into it.
But then Carlos described it in private class and even said one version of it had water in the bottom, with rocks he could step on to avoid the water.
Since it varies in how it looks, that's more reason to do this awake if you can, so that no one can claim it's just a meaningless dream.
It's important to keep in mind, when we talk about the inorganic being's world, that would only pertain to the two Allies of Carlos, which are not the same as other allies.
Taisha for instance had Phoebus and Globus.
Who followed her back from somewhere.
Not the same allies as far as we know, although I ended up renaming the ones Carlos passed on to us, to "Fairy and Minx".
They were too scary when he first released them to us.
I suppose Phoebus and globus might have followed Taisha and Florinda back from the same world.
The umbrellas give more evidence that tunnel might have been a view of the IOB world.
They don't have to appear as something scary!
> They don't have to appear as something scary!
One of my first IOB experiences a few days ago was a floating man's head with empty eye sockets, more like a cartoon. It didn't scare me though, maybe because it lasted a few seconds.
It's the old "dead eye" trick...
They love that gag.
Try complimenting them if they do that again.
If it's a new Ally, it'll have a look of disappointment on its face when it doesn't scare you.
Kind of like if you call the dog for dinner, and it arrives to find there's only water in its bowl.
I was a bit scared, but only because hearing whispers in my room in the night was uncharted territory. The shadow in the corner didn't look scary either, but it didn't stay long.
Interesting. In what way are umbrellas, evidence?
I assumed all the IOBs came from the same world...perhaps different parts, but same world. So, the tunnel would lead to an IOB world that different from Carlos's allies world?
Thanks for this clarification.
There’s a Reni interview on YT, she mentions “calling Carlos” and says, you’ll feel his energy over you like an “umbrella.”
If I can find it, I’ll DM it to you. Altho im sure it’s also in the sub.
Mmmm...is that for real? A "feeling" of Carlos? Even Dan isn't sure that it was Carlos he saw a few times in his own practices, so I wonder how sure this Reni is that Carlos "feels" like an umbrella. What does it even mean to "feel like an umbrella?" So, don't DM me the YT please. It'll just confuse me. Thank you for wanting to help me.
No, they can come from entirely different worlds. My Ally "Fancy" came from a frozen methane moon. I'd like to say it was Titan, but I never got outside her cave to look around enough to see what sights were in the sky.
And the IOBs can project anywhere in the universe, with the 2 allies of Carlos coming from "the center of the universe".
I believe Carlos just meant, a galaxy far, far away.
Since every point in space is now considered the center of the universe.
Science keeps "seeing" a little better each decade!?
That's good to know. Perhaps each "world" has a different "species" of IOBs. And the various "species" could perhaps teach us different things about sorcery. Mmmm...
Yep! I’ll look for the interview rn for you.
I’m not saying, it was CC. Your post just reminds me of Reni’s interview.
No worries. I was referring to person who said Carlos + feelings + umbrella, not you.
No worries!
In the video: The Secret of Carlos Castaneda 2018: at 1:07:46 Renata says, “his energy is like an umbrella.”
I do this as well. And when the foreign install rears its ugly head, I'm able to stop it quicker than the previous day. It's not as fast of progress as I'd like but it is what it is. Every day I feel more and more conscious.
This is a fight we can't lose! The alternative is what? Let it win and live in endless fantasizing the rest of our lives? Disturbing if you think about it. There is no option for me
You said it!!! We definitely can't afford to lose this fight with foreign install. Each day we win a very tiny bit and each bit makes a difference.
You're rockin' your practice! Let's keep forward.