This weekend, I was out of town and practiced from a hotel room. It had a nice empty space for passes and a sofa with a chaise lounge for gazing. I woke up later than usual, began my passes, and had a good flow of color. I also noticed that the IOB presence was minimal compared to my usual sessions at home.
Tensegrity - I started the session with the Lifesaver pass, Transferring Energy to the Assemblage Point(AP) pass, Getting the AP Loose pass, and Forcing the AP to Drop Down pass. After that, I went through my typical - DVD Vol 1, Unbending Intent (mashing & stirring energy), Westwood series(center for decisions, recapitulation, dreaming, inner silence), DVD Vol 2 with the affection for energy body pass integrated.
Sat to gaze with my legs extended, had silence stones between my fingers, and started alternating between head sweeps and Running Man.
Utilizing a tip I learned from Jadey's Saturday Sessions, I used my hips to drive the motions of my feet during Running Man.
During gazing, I experienced several dream flashes. One showed a street from a sidewalk perspective. After that flash, I saw a birds-eye view of a street (like the top image in this post), which remained visible for a few seconds.
After the scene faded, I pressed internal silence harder and found myself focusing on a grey, oddly shaped surface. Suddenly, I found myself in a dream scene on a path near the large building (as shown in the bottom image). After that, a few feet / one meter in front of me, I saw a short video of the building and path, panning across it for around five seconds. I've seen a dream preview or video in the air before of flowing clouds against a faded blue sky. This was more exciting to me because there were buildings and a path.
When the video faded, I removed my eye mask and took notes. I didn't want to get caught in sleeping dreaming and forget what I saw.
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At first I used the leather weight in the running man pass but when Jadey told me this tip I also changed the “toy” and i put the crystals as the hands remain inactive during the pass..
The place we practice constantly turns into a power spot as it is saturated with intent, I have also noticed in other places that the appearance of iob is not so intense.
Thanks for that!!
I use the stones in my left hand and leave my right hand free. When I start gazing or when the sights in start fading I like to wipe the area in front of me with the palm of my hand. It seems to charge / recharge the space.
“The place we practice constantly turns into a power spot as it is saturated with intent”
This has been my experience as well, certain parts of my house feel saturated.
“I have also noticed in other places that the appearance of iob is not so intense.”
This is hit or miss for me, I’ve practiced away from home and had strong IOB presence. During the session I posted about, before performing affection for energy body my ID said STOP and started acting up. I brushed it off, but then I found myself screwing up the movement and forgetting the steps. Odd…
For how long do you practice tensegrity to have those results? I mean, how long have you been practicing and how much time each session?
Do you skip a day or two once in a while?
I've been practicing for a while but I am not consistent, the best I did was one month of daily practice with 1h sessions, and I perform the DVD 1, 2, 3 and the first 2 groups of the 4th.
I managed to see some dots, sometimes a flash of light by the corner of the eye, and once when I finished the series I did the affection for the energy body a few times and I managed to see 2 purple swirls flanking me vertically. Then I got caught up in ID thinking: omg this really works! I saw the swirls they talk about on reddit!
From then on I never progressed really, I struggle a lot to perform darkroom (I usually do it before going to sleep) because of the repetitivity of the movements and because I'm expecting something to happen.
I guess I will keep trying harder, after all, there's no other chance to get out of the river of shit. Now I see how the tonal has such a strong grip on us and why mankind is stuck in it for thousands of years; to enter the nagual is truly a sorcerer's feat.
Everybody is different, using my history as a benchmark would be a disservice to you. What I’d suggest is practicing every night, Dan’s recommendations in other posts is three hours.
My sessions are usually 2 to 4 hours long. I spend about an hour to an hour and a half doing passes and fit in gazing and recapitulation. I don’t miss sessions. I try to minimize my internal dialogue all day. Also, I make an effort to regularly my stress and emotions all day as well.
That’s great you’ve learned all of those passes. keep going with it practice every night. It takes a lot of effort, but to me the results are worth it.
I will apply more effort to it and raise up to 2h of nightly practice.
It's what Dan always says, I need to see magic to keep going, otherwise there is no motivation to it.
I'll sharpen my Intent, store intent with Tensegrity moves and lure out the double in the darkroom!
I've gone a few weeks where my sessions felt stale. Just keep pushing and practicing.
When I start gazing or when the sights in start fading I like to wipe the area in front of me with the palm of my hand. It seems to charge / recharge the space.
yes is very effective and give more sights
When I start gazing or when the sights in start fading I like to wipe the area in front of me with the palm of my hand. It seems to charge / recharge the space.
yes is very effective and give more sights
Yes I like that too. It does help to focus on tendon energy while wiping too.
Been meaning to tell you about this one because it was slightly on topic, IOBs and practicing away from our usual area. An IOB showed up like this on the ceiling when we were out of town in April. This happened after passes, gazing, and had lied back down on the bed. It showed up with the face that resembled 'Sinbad' then started flying around without the face and just a black center. I've only seen them show up like this once before.
It never occurred to me to use the silence stones during the Running Man series, I usually did them separately from each other. How correct is this and does it change the intention of the passes?
No it does not change the Intent of the Pass. If you are more silent performing the running man that way, its a plus.
Sorcery is about the manipulation of the Assemblage Point (AP) and Silence is the tool for that.
Deeper Silence = More Flexibility of the AP
In the magical Passes Book it is even stated, that any practitioner can tailor the passes to their personal needs (e.g. health issues, pain etc.).
The book is freely availbale in the Wiki by the way!
Silence is the Key to all the practices and glues everything together.
Can you point out where it says that in the book about personal needs? ( I'd like to know how he worded that evt)..
..the closest thing I could think of him saying something like that was:
" It is very important to focus the attention of the practitioner on some definitive aspect of the magical passes. However, that fixation should be light, funny, void of morbidity and grimness. It should be done for the hell of it, without really expecting returns".
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Sure. I fed the PDF to Chat GPT and gave your question to it.
Here is the Reponse:
Yes, in Magical Passes by Carlos Castaneda, it is mentioned that a practitioner can adjust the movements as needed.
Throughout the book, Castaneda emphasizes that while the Magical Passes (also known as Tensegrity movements) were passed down from the shamans of ancient Mexico and taught with precision, they are not meant to be rigid or dogmatic. He often refers to the individual experience and personal adaptation of the passes.
1. Individual Adaptation
Castaneda states that the passes can and should be adjusted to suit the practitioner's body, energy, and needs. He acknowledges that the original sorcerers themselves adjusted movements depending on the effect they wanted or the challenges they faced.
2. Tensegrity and Modern Adaptation
The introduction of Tensegrity itself is an adaptation of the traditional magical passes into a modern format. This transformation from the secretive teachings of the past to a more open and accessible form reflects the spirit of flexibility and evolution.
3. Emphasis on Energy, Not Form
While some precision is valued for understanding the energy flow, Castaneda repeatedly states that the purpose of the movements is to enhance awareness and redistribute energy — not to achieve perfection in form. Therefore, variations are not only accepted but often encouraged for deeper personal alignment.
In summary, yes — adjustment and personalization of the movements are acknowledged and even encouraged in Magical Passes. The key is staying connected to the energetic intent of the practice rather than adhering rigidly to exact physical forms.
I meant in the book as I' ve found out that chatgpt isn't a reliable reference.
As I said: I fed the whole Book PDF to Chat GPT and let it create a profound and sourced answer for you. I proof read it before posting it and it aligns with what I learned from my daily practice.
Did you even read my response? It even has paraphrased quotes from the book in it.
It took the Book as reference and gave you the answer you seeked solely based on its content.
The whole Introduction chapter is filled with hints towards its flexibility. Also If you watch the classes from Jadey you will see that sometimes slight adjustments will be made as well.
She and her Husband perform the passes with slight differences. For example: She sticks to the proper hand form from the Books, whereas her Husband enjoys spread fingers.
I tried both after that for hours, and they both have their benefits.
What matters is Intent and Silence. Just don't share your personal modifications.
But here is a quote from page 9 Of Magical Passes :
This allowed me to adjust the passes to my disease that kept me in bed. I restored my whole body striking in my bed, kicking in my bed. Then doing it seated, then slowly standing up for months, just researching every detail of the passes. Their essence.
I would have never believed it, but these days I am striking and kicking with absolute force without fatigue for hours. And when I am tired I just have to perform my passes to get in line again.
I solely focussed on Silence and upholding the Intent of the Reddit and the Sorcerers of Ancient Mexico.
Changes kept happening. So I kept it up, until I had doubts because of all the rigid quote wars in this reddit and so I read the book and took some time off from here and found confirmation for what should be intuitive anways.
I practiced the passes in silence and abandon without thinking about if its right or wrong. I just performed them.
So I have proven it to myself through practice, that it is a flexible system and that it works.
Whatever your prompting- you stoll haven't given me the source from the book, only from chatgpt. You "Let it create a profound and sourced answer.. for me( me?) Are you asking for an applause or something? I am questioning this because it' s easy to just go blurting out things which are supposedly in the books which aren't. It's on the same line as making up magical passes. Then to back up your point with chatgpt said it so it's true.My question was simple and you didn't answer it and neither did chatgpt. As for the rest I'm not sure what you're trying to prove, you're just avoiding answering the question.
Im not sure why you keep editing your comments instead of waiting for a proper response. I will post my response here then, as you made it extra confusing with these edits in the upper parts of the comment chain.
The original comment only contained this part before the Edit now 13 Hours later:
This is the edit 13 Hours later to misrepresent my reponse down below. This user is trying to manipulate the flow of events:
Quick Response: I let the LLM quickly analyze the language as I believed a quick summary of the Book would be helpful. You are projecting pretty hard right now.
My only Goal was to aid a practioner in their quest towards freedom by telling them that their Silence Stones would be alright to use. Ofcourse it is best to get by without toys or tools. Thats why I mentioned health and pain for better reasons. But if they attain more Silence, they will learn faster and also learn to let go of the toy eventually. The practice just works that way. You seem to be lacking in that regard and just throwing around words like "flyer".
I did not just Feed your question to ChatGPT, I ordered ChatGPT to only look at the PDF, analyze its language and give a quick summary of the main statements and ideas towards adaption, without adding any interpretation. Since the Book, and all of CC's books are about creativity, flexibility and adaptation when a Situation calls for it.
Anything that helps with Silence and a Shifting of your AP is of value to sorcery. Even a modification of the passes.
It should be obvious based on the principles of sorcery to adapt in your practice, based on your condition. If you only have one Arm. You will still perform the passes.
You are delusional. Kind enough? Who are you kidding? This must be a Joke! In my answer to your original unedited version I explained that I aligned the answer from ChatGPT with my own practice and observations to make sure it is not just bullshit.
You are full of shit and projecting it towards me. None of your interpretations about me hold true as you will see (cont.)
You are putting Words into my Mouth. And act like a scholar from university.
You seem to enjoy calling others out for the sake of it.
Ofcourse I avoided your question. I did not feel like engaging in inventory activites for something so obvious.
Using ChatGPT is low effort and needs no Applause. I just let it analyze the language of the book so you can instantly get to practice instead of collecting more inventory. I thought offering a brief overview could he helpful towards you and others. As it supported my personal experiences I deemed it post worthy. It was not a blind copy&paste effort. The other option would have been just not responding at all, since i do not store quotes in my head or in notes. I read something and instantly apply it. And then it becomes second nature.
I wrote my responses with absolute confidence based in hundreds of hours of practice. I know what I wrote is true. Especially since many Senior Members also work with Modifications, especially Dan, who is an old man. Something that many in here seem to forget. There is tons of comment chains in this reddit suggesting modifications. Just do not share them.
I have given you a quote, pointed towards Jadey and Her Husband that uses modifications, my interpretation and how I executed it with success overcoming the boundary of my illness by being creative. Something that Don Juan keeps stressing.
I also pointed towards the fact that the whole Intro of the book (49 Pages in my Version), keeps pointing towards adaptation. I re-read it again yesterday just to make sure.
Similiar to all the other books of CC I have read where adaptation is a common pattern.
So to me its obvious, that I adjust a pass when I am ill or hurt in order to keep practicing.
What would you do? Wait for a quote that allows you to do it?
Also you say " I think it would be interesting to pursue the subject further" while neglecting the fact that this is your ID. Because if you really were interested you would provide me with context or help me overcome my delusions by sourcing "counter quotes" with the Intent of helping me and others learn as part of your practice.
You seem Lazy to me. Why are you not providing me with "Counter Quotes"? Or Sit down and find quotes that actually support my claim and ACTUALLY prevent others from being hurt by my delusions, as you have compared me to the likes of Cleargreen?
(cont.)
My claim, if true, suddenly removes all excuses from practioners to not practice. If they don't adapt, then they are lazy. It is that simple.
You are the one that is neglecting the fact that actual learning happens in practice and not by crawling through quotes. How much more do you need?
If you wanted proof so badly, you could have picked up your favorite pass and try performing it sitting or laying down and see it for yourself, while figuring out how. It retains most of its quality with silence and proper intent.
The Beauty of this practice is, that you can fact check everything as part of the practice. No quotes needed.
Tensegrity in itself is a Modification of the original Ancient Magical Passes. So the spirit of flexibility, modification and adaption is directly built into the system. You just have to make use of it. Which I did when I needed it. I had no choice.
Reading this comment took you more time than creaing your personal proof.
These 5 things are the only things I actually remember or rather EMBODY:
Thats the only thing I need to practice and allows me modifiy my passes to keep achieving the goal of sorcery: TRUE FREEDOM.
The good side of this is that you offered me a chance to feel the effects of yesterdays practice even more, as I am typing this with pure focus, alertness and silence, after having studied the books and notes the whole night without sleep.
Just for fun I have spent the last 5 hours sourcing quotes without needing them. Not for you, but for others who lurk. Feel free to ignore this.
Demanding and solely relying on quotes to feel free in a system designed for absolute freedom seems like a burden to me though.
Quotes in a follow up comment.
From Magical Passes Book
Page 17
Page 22
Page 24 (Example of extreme Modification)
more quotes will follow
Page 34
And all throughout the descriptions of the passes. Adaptation is mentioned over and over again.
How could you have missed that?
From the Carlos Compendium Notes (Castaneda Compendium - All Notes & Periodicals.txt):
In my Notes I found a conversation from the Student Chat from a few weeks ago:
more quotes will follow
And I found this quote Just now in the compendium Notes:
And this is the Post from over A year ago that changed my mindset.
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/vnmg0b/the_signs_of_a_dirty_link_to_intent
If you do not put this knowledge to use, you will have just wasted a lot of time and energy. At least I know this is useful to others.
Studying this Reddit rather than the book skyrocketed my practice. I quit around the Fire Within and so far I do not feel like I am missing out, as I am engaging with the books whenever I hit a roadblock. That gave me even more time to practice and reduced ID by a lot.
As of now my personal practice gives me a lot to work on.
And my experience is proof that JUST PRACTICING will teach you much faster than treating this interlectually. Just like the seniors here keep claiming.
Because I figured all of this out with my sleeping mask on and observing my experience without having read about it.
I think there is a fine line between adapting and creating your own pass (which is wrong and Dan talks about it all the time)
I would even say there is a huge wall between adapting and creating your own pass.
so kinda new here, had some practice with medication and hemisync and have seen some of the described images. My question is what are the dvd's you are referencing? Not sure where to really start with learning this process. Love hemisync by havent really exited just got euphoric relaxation and some images.
Tensegrity - Official Volumes
How much blank out do you experience, going into, and then out of the waking dream scenes?
Is it stronger when they're more vivid?
Do you tend to ignore them due to the blank out, until you realize that's precisely what you were after?
Or you have clarity when you get cool results?
"How much blank out do you experience, going into, and then out of the waking dream scenes?"
My transitions into dream scenes happen suddenly. One moment, I'm doing head sweeps or looking at colors in front of me, and then next, I'm in a scene.
The Transitions out of a scene vary; if it's a quick dream flash, I usually continue my head sweep unless something is there.
In the instance of the street I posted about, after the dream flash, there was a quick transition with slight disorientation as I realized the street was zoomed out in front of me. Almost like focusing your eyes when trying to read something blurry, then it becomes clear.
"Is it stronger when they're more vivid?"
The transitions 'in' are the same. The transitions out of longer vivid scenes usually result in colored static on the ceiling or in front of me. Sometimes, my transitions out of a scene are more visual.
"Do you tend to ignore them due to the blank out, until you realize that's precisely what you were after?"
In general, during my sessions, I try not to ignore anything.
"Or you have clarity when you get cool results?"
Aside from a few outliers, I have clarity on my transition out of a scene and find myself gripping silence stones with my eyes open on exit.
Regarding blankouts, they've changed since I started practicing. As an example, in the past, to see a surface in the distance while gazing, I'd involuntarily blank out, and sometimes it'd appear. Now, maybe I'll notice a shift in vision to get the same result. If they happen, it's very quick and not as drastic as before.
If I find my chin on my chest, that's typically because I went into a sleeping dream and passed out.
I suppose there's going to be differences in the level of blankout people experience.
I've been surmising it might have to do with who's a dreamer type, and who's a stalker type.
But for beginners, just FTI (for their information) so we don't encourage that kind of thinking, stalker types are still good with dreaming. They just tend to use physical activity to move their assemblage points.
Whereas dreamers might rely more on silence and gazing.
Stalkers are NOT people who run around pranking their friends, to get attention as being knowledgeable about sorcery.
Those are pretty much just an excuse for doing nothing at all.
At least, so far in our community.
I got a few "I'm a stalker" answers when I tried to get private class students to come here and help us. They heard hundreds of private lectures, and picked up rumors on others.
So it's a serious shame we lost all but 3.
And why they have to make excuses like "I'm a stalker" is beyond me. Why not just say, "I'm too lazy".
It reminds me of a very handsome man I knew who attracted women like flies, so that he got used to telling the ones he wasn't interested in, "I'm gay".
Our private class went gay after Carlos died?
Not that they weren't in the first place. Carlos seemed to pick up a lot of gay people.
Techno theorizes that being gay puts you outside the normal "Happily ever after" marriage myth, and so might give you a slightly better chance to actually do work, and learn sorcery.
More free time.
But as it turns out, it didn't work out.
I just finished gazing and paid extra attention to the blanking out.
Doing head sweeps, if I pause and look at chromatic/ rainbow (crystalline) areas I’ll get a flash, I saw about five of those, no gap coming back, my head was paused mid sweep or wherever i had stopped.
Not a dream flash, but in front of me I saw a steel pot on an older style stove.
The bird IOB led me to look all the way to my right at more crystalline distortion and I had a longer dream flashes, I caught my chin going halfway down that time.
The eyeball I see was crystalline paused looked there, dream of a person that looked similar to me but younger kind-of mocking my head sweeps I pointed at him with right pinky. Came out of dream with a white surface in front of me with a 3d impression of the person.
I’ve noticed my blank out experience change since I first started.
https://preview.redd.it/06ined9f471f1.png?width=1179&format=png&auto=webp&s=1928095e45dd6d96626212ddc7a6df64a3564bc1
The dreamer stalker separation applies only to women since they are the ones that have these differences in their luminous eggs , men do both.
That's good to know!
Wish I could see the luminous eggs in that much detail.
But in fact there's so much to see, it's a bit confusing.
Maybe you have to learn to tune in that particular sight before it's not lost in all the other possibilities.
Or maybe you have to be introduced.
Like with shapeshifting into a specific form. Someone has to introduce you, or you get poor results.
Poor results just means, your werejaguar might look more like a strange wolf combined with a frog.
Could be, the same applies to seeing the luminous egg.
You have to be introduced to it.
No, that isn't the case.
"We had to know it for sure, in order to put you in your proper slot," he added equably. "Sorcerers are either dreamers or stalkers. Some are both."
It's pretty clear that a sorcerer is either a dreamer or a stalker.
However, everyone needs to practice both stalking and dreaming. Men are shabby, and women can master one or the other.
She assured me that a perfect recapitulation could change a warrior as much, if not more, than the total control of the dreaming body. In this respect, dreaming and stalking led to the same end, the entering into the third attention. It was important for a warrior, however, to know and practice both. She said that for women it took different configurations in the luminous body to master one or the other. Men, on the other hand, could do both with a degree of ease, yet they could never get to the level of proficiency that the women attained in each art.
It isn't the case that men aren't either a stalker or a dreamer, it's just that men are not very good.
The dreamer-stalker separation applies regardless, it's just women are able to master dreaming or stalking (but not both).
In the first quoted part was Don Juan talking to a Florida Junior which has to do with Women and second quoted part was Florida Senior speaking to Carlos and teaching him about stalking. Florida Senior didn't say men are not very good at it but that they could do both with ease. Since there isn't any specifications in their configurations in their luminous eggs about it they do both and probably from a character inclination go towards one or the other.
In our case here the only reliable stalking we can practice is in Darkroom to learn to stabilise favourable ap positions we find. We don't know what Florida seniors was teaching to her students so in order not to fall into the category of pretending doing stalking as people did all these years we can't suddenly separate dreaming as per stalkers or dreamers the way Dan did. From the books it was obvious they were doing the same things anyway. For example Josefina was doing crazy stalking in the second ring of power and she was a dreamer. For female apprentices dreamers teach stalkers and the opposite.
Yes, that's true. I suppose that I translated "a degree of ease" as "not very good" because I am prone to wanting to optimize everything. Since I can't master it, I am "not very good". It also isn't "ease" but "a degree of ease".
However, I still believe that Don Juan was telling the truth about the dreamers and stalkers to Florinda Junior, wasn't the Nagual Julian considered a stalker? And yes, it might be a character inclination in the case of men, but it is still a thing.
I also agree that the whole "I'm a stalker" thing that Dan was talking about is definitely a bad thing. I'm not defending that at all.