I finally had a longer Darkroom Session yesterday after being away. Not much to report. Later that evening, I was in bed reading Taisha’s (Unpublished Book) stalking with the double; when in my left eye a face/mask presented and hovered, the image was stable and clear, it didn’t move with my eye movements. It wasn’t very friendly looking. After a number of seconds, I had an unusual blink of my eye and it was gone. After that blink, I had a second fleeting image of a forest in my right eye, but I couldn’t hold it; like the mask. In hindsight, the forest was bright and looked superimposed in my dark bedroom.
Seems to me, the images weren’t viewed with both eyes, but were split, and corresponded with the eye on the side they were on. That’s why I decided to post - It was strange and usually when something is strange….sorcery
My Ai buddy whipped up the face/mask image and it’s pretty close.
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Why would you think it's a "hallucination"?
Inexperience
It sounds like you practiced magic, saw something incredible.
Were you sober?
I was reading Taisha’s Unpublished book, totally sober, I’ve been sober for months/maybe even year(s). I wasn’t doing anything outside my normal bedtime routine. My DR practice was many hours earlier that day, and wasn’t attempting inner silence while reading.
It didn’t catch me off guard, or surprise me, I reacted as I would seeing a sock on the floor, it was commonplace to me. What’s interesting is the mask, was only in left eye, and I had an involuntary blink/twitch that cleared it from my vision. The forest scene was brief. My memory is of the mask, and my iPad, and then Forest superimposed in part of my room. The mask looked cgi, had a quality of extra realness that stood out, it hovered and had a slight sway as if air currents were minutely moving it. The forest was too brief to describe the quality or detail.
Maybe while reading Taisha’s book my AP shifted and I didn’t notice the shift? Experiences and changes can and do happen from the books. That’s my best guess; I’m open to other opinions.
Appreciate the reply and interest 🙏👊
This type of stuff will happen more and more as time goes on.
Your assemblage point will not be fully stable as long as you are working.
This is why it's so special doing it while awake. It's really like you've stepped into an alternate world. Anything is possible!
Btw, no, you were not hallucinating!
Thank you.
Wanna ask a related question. I’ve read that auditory changes are noticeable when the AP shifts, donsenrior practitioners also experience this or consider it true?
I don’t notice any changes or feelings of well being while practicing inner silent or doing DR, but I definitely notice increased hearing where silence seems magnified and at other times my ears will “sorta” pop and seem to mute, but I can still hear. Do you or anyone reading this thread experience similar auditory enhancements or can affirm that auditory changes are indicative of AP shifts?
Yes of course!
All sensory data is generated by the dark sea of awareness.
Look up "listening to the sounds of the world" or you can start reading from Chapter 14-Chapter 15 of A Separate Reality if you prefer the books. (part of 14-All of 15)
It has happened to me many times that when I read Castaneda's books, my inner silence becomes so much that sometimes I fall into a deep sleep.
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I’m reading Taisha’s unpublished book. It’s def affecting me and pushing me to put in the work.
from https://archive.org/details/carlos-castaneda-all-books-in-one-complete_202311/page/n981/mode/2up ? Where does it start?
Where does what start?
Where did you get Taisha's unpublished book? That link has a list of all books but its many pages so I'm wondering where Taisha's unpublished book starts in that collection (or if not there, what's the link?)
I’m not sure I got it from the Archive. I’ll DM you the copy I’m reading, it’s a PDF.
Could I please get a copy too? Also thanks for sharing. I’ve seen some weird stuff outside of darkroom recently and also puffs during recap which I didn’t think could happen. I convinced myself it was hallucinations, or deluded pretending and this post has given me a bit of a jolt realising that it might not have been false at all.
I’m not able to send the pdfs via DM, but if you drop me your email via DM, I’ll send what I have.
I think what I discovered via this post and subsequent chats; we changing, our practice is opening us up to intent and as our dialogues settle and quiet down, we get noticed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/booklist/older_file_links/
Techno! Stealing home to save the day again!
Thank you ser 🙏
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/booklist/older_file_links/
Thanks
Hallucination = prejudice of modern society designed to shame people into ignoring sorcery and witchcraft effects.
Better than that, "She art a witch! Kill her immediately!!!"
Damn you’re good. That really makes sense. Connected some big points for me, thank you.
Claiming hallucination is a great scientific cover and escape goat for my reason and common sense to prevail. Using hallucination lets me remain seperate from the double, the other worlds/realities around me. I can deflect the experience, pay no mind to it, it was merely hallucinatory, reason and common sense remain intact and prevail.
and then I can…..
Burn the witch!
Cholita finally got around to burning a picture of me she had in the fireplace, "just in case".
I looked a month ago to see if it was still there, but there were only ashes.
I'm not sure what that spell is supposed to do.
I have this image of you and Cholita on Dr.Phil and Cholita levitates Dr.Phil….
You can say, better hope she doesn’t burn your pic Doc…..yikes!
No one who can do that would do it in public.
That's a death sentence, with no possible gain.
We have access to 600 worlds that we can live in!
Gaining attention in this one, only bars you from the 600 and puts your life expectancy in big danger.
They still burn witches these days!
And there's plenty of mentally ill religious fanatics, who will do it if no mob comes along.
https://www.uq.edu.au/research/article/2024/05/%E2%80%98witches%E2%80%99-are-still-killed-all-over-world-pardoning-past-victims-could-end-practice?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Are there any resources on info on the 600 worlds?
Don Juan had assured me that the displacement and the fixation of the assemblage point could be realized at will by means of the sorcerers' iron-handed discipline. He said that the sorcerers of his lineage believed that there were at least six hundred points within the luminous sphere that we are, that when reached at will by the assemblage point, can each give us a totally inclusive world; meaning that, if our assemblage point is displaced to any of those points and remains fixed on it, we will perceive a world as inclusive and total as the world of everyday life, but a different world nevertheless.
Don Juan had further explained that the art of sorcery is to manipulate the assemblage point and make it change positions at will on the luminous spheres that human beings are. The result of this manipulation is a shift in the point of contact with the dark sea of awareness, which brings as its concomitant a different bundle of zillions of energy fields in the form of luminous filaments that converge on the assemblage point. The consequence of new energy fields converging on the assemblage point is that awareness of a different sort than that which is necessary for perceiving the world of everyday life enters into action, turning the new energy fields into sensory data, sensory data that is interpreted and perceived as a different world because the energy fields that engender it are different from the habitual ones.
He had asserted that an accurate definition of sorcery as a practice would be to say that sorcery is the manipulation of the assemblage point for purposes of changing its focal point of contact with the dark sea of awareness, thus making it possible to perceive other worlds.
Don Juan had said that the art of the stalkers enters into play after the assemblage point has been displaced. Maintaining the assemblage point fixed in its new position assures sorcerers that they will perceive whatever new world they enter in its absolute completeness, exactly as we do in the world of ordinary affairs. For the sorcerers of don Juan's lineage, the world of everyday life was but one fold of a total world consisting of at least six hundred folds.