A Being From the Sea (AKA: Beam me up Carlos)

When it was obvious Carlos would die and nothing could stop it, he tried a bunch of new ideas for how to get people motivated to work, so that he could actually teach sorcery to at least one person, before he was gone.

Didn't work...

However, the good news is he released his two allies, and they waited 15 or 20 years, before doing something about it.

They blackmailed me to see if I could fix the situation.

I failed for 5 or 10 years, but then someone pointed out, "Hey! There's the internet now. Something Carlos never had. Endless new people."

Well... They didn't quite say that, but Carlos liked to change the details of his stories too, to make them more poignant.

At any rate, I got lucky and found a subreddit likely created by Cleargreen originally, where no one was stopping people from posting real experiences.

And here we are now!

This weird form came at the very end of Carlos' attempts to teach us, along with a short sword form I wish I could get my hands on, and apparently a bunch of "not-doings" that Laura from private classes (Jadey) is going to revive.

At which point, I'll animate them!

For now, here's a bizarre Tensegrity pass which will do AMAZING things if you reach silent knowledge, and let it do its magic.

It would work in the red zone too, but not if you're hoping it will work. That's why I say you have to reach the purple zone if you really wish to turn into a crab.

It would have to be done in SK ("seeing") before there's any chance you'd shapeshift, while expecting that to happen.

I'll avoid it for now. I don't think Cholita would like having a giant crab prowling around our home.

Never doubt that shapeshifting works.

It does!

Awake, eyes wide open, and completely sober.

In your physical body.

This animation is "raw". Just as I get it from my animators. It needs some adjusting for sure!

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14 Comments

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u/Emergency-Total-4851 6 points 2025-04-29 19:02

>before there's any chance you'd turn into a giant crab.

There is only one response to that.

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u/danl999 8 points 2025-04-29 19:24

I added it to the posts.

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u/Mescalito3 1 points 2025-04-29 22:25

As far as I know, transformations into lower frequencies was not advised. That was reserved for low-tier brujos.

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 1 points 2025-04-30 23:56

The source movement notes and video demo (informal) for this pass is on this wiki page:

https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/tensegrity/animal_forms/

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u/danl999 2 points 2025-05-01 10:20

I'll do the ground being next. Was that the "horsey" pass??

I didn't look at it yet, but if it's in Jadey's garage, it's endorsed by Fairy.

She's been there.

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 1 points 2025-05-01 15:02

Being From The Ground was first presented in Mexico in 1995. But the pass this post is based on, The Being From The Sea, was first presented in August 1998.

The presence of the sticks being a telltale signature of the influence of Carol Tiggs, and the fact that Cleargreen really didn't have enough time (having many other things to juggle) to come up with that many passes in that first year (or so) after Castaneda's passing.

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u/danl999 2 points 2025-05-01 15:06

I use Carol Tigg's techniques daily, and find them quite insightful, if not a bit too advanced to do beginners any good.

Corey of course wants to use her personal history to take Carlos down, ignoring that his timeline proves she was around Carlos for 24 years!

It's a pity she gave up on us.

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u/danl999 2 points 2025-05-01 15:27

Remind me to add a caveat when I do a final animation of it using Dance Home, and showing special effects.

Maybe I'll get Grian to give a warning, using his "history of sorcery" book.

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 1 points 2025-05-01 16:04

along with a short sword form I wish I could get my hands on

Tensegrity Workshop - June 20-22, 1997 - Barcelona, Spain:

Shamanistic Theater

The two youngest girl made two performances of shamanistic theatre, in which they danced, among others, some Spanish folk songs with spanish dresses and, executing magical passes in such an volatile manner that the passes were the dance itself. This performance was very appealing, funny and ingenious. The rest of the Trackers, Brandon and Miles, in pairs, performed long magical passes, one particularly was exceptional, an exhibition with knives. Tensegrity does reveal many aspects, this one was very warrior like.

At the end of the workshop, just after the show, Florinda started to dance as well, quickly followed by all the audience. The workshop ended with an explosion of joy, people dancing all over the place.

Tensegrity Workshop - July 20, 1996 - Westwood, California:

After a few words she brought out the starlight trackers. They were the blue scout and the mother of the little girl. The blue scout is CC's daughter and the other is the cyclic being from last year, I think. They had leather gloves with silver tips on each finger as well as mod looking mirrored sunglasses (snake eyes) They were strange looking and serious about the form they did which we were told was the snake.

Then Renata and Nyie Murez did the crab set. They were the pre-dawn trackers and squeaked as they did their strange set. Carol spoke after they were done. Oh, by the way, Florinda and Taisha seemed very delighted with the sets. Anyhow, Carol said that properly, the order should have been that set, the Crab first and then the snake and then the next which was a knife set, but that costume changes necessitated the order.

The knife set involved double daggers and was very beautiful, and was Carol indicated, originally done with human bones, rounded on one end for the V-Spot, with writing. The nagual Luhan designed them as attempts to kinesthetically get to the state of internal silence and to the abstract, he substituted metal knives.

Carol later in the lecture said that the sets gave some energy for the things she would say and do that night.

Carol talked about her absolutely terrible “me” ness when she first met don Juan. She said he'd make up derogatory nick names for her but she would always try and make them into something admirable. Names like “Prickwithears”, or “Seven Layer Butt”, or “Fat Butt”. Ultimately, Carol pointed out that our minds, no matter our perceived notions, are all alike.

Apparently, there was an earlier 🦀 set that they performed as infinity theater. So maybe the one from 1998 is a rearrangement into a solo pass?

I don’t believe anybody has ever located any notes for a snake form….

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u/danl999 3 points 2025-05-01 16:22

Darn... We really need that time travel.

I've started "vanishing" in the last week, while trying to time travel.

But it's not time travel.

It's some weird zone between worlds.

I came back last night, with knowledge of some "tools" used by the old seers.

Not bones though.

Flat pieces of bark that got bleached is what they looked like to me. Or wood that got worked smooth into 3 or 4 inch square sheets.

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 3 points 2025-06-24 16:41

u/Bilissss found something on the net!

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u/danl999 2 points 2025-06-24 17:06

Darn...

I thought I had seen one like that at Chalcatzingo, in that video. But I don't want to look through the whole thing.

So I asked the AI, and it drew what it believed was there. But it wasn't this one.

That sure looks like a crab!

Which could imply, that "Being from the Sea" movement was a death defier "gift" to our lineage.

We won't know that sort of thing, until we rescue Julian.

And put him into Cholita????

If she volunteers.

If not, maybe one of her cats.

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u/millirahmstrudel 3 points 2025-06-24 20:36

"I thought I had seen one like that at Chalcatzingo, in that video. But I don't want to look through the whole thing."

i think it is the same as the one in the chalcatzingo video. at 9m35s you can see it, link should directly jump to the sequence:

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u/danl999 3 points 2025-06-24 21:08

So there really is a crab on it!

And it's Olmec.

Except, in the video I don't really see the crab...