Uuuhhhh....
Some of the Tensegrity forms might have been created, just because they amused the witches.
Who felt the men were too "stiff".
In the end, didn't do them any good. No one learned.
So let's make up for it!
There's no excuses now.
You'll have to go elsewhere, to find out when to shout "Eeeeppp, Eeeeeppp!"
Or whether that's even right.
I just can't do that.
And if late at night I hear Cholita shouting that, I'll be considering moving to Joshua Tree.
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I just reordered the three sets of notes we have for The Being From The Ground, into chronological order:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/tensegrity/animal_forms/being_ground/
It starts out with vocalizing STRENGTH in 1995:
“On the first strike with the left hand, say the word, STRENGTH…. On the first upward strike with the left hand, say: STRENGTH.” (STRENGTH is vocalized a total of 8 times during the pass)
Along with, also in the 1995 notes:
“Finish the above movements with beaks facing forward at eye level elbows down; place upper lip and teeth over lower lip, smile; maintain this grimace throughout the remainder of the pass.”
“Make 3 tiny circles with the beaks (the 2002 notes have the best description of this: ‘hands form into what was called a "beak" shape, where all four fingers press against the thumb on each hand) as you raise the hands up in front of you. The circles have been described as outward. Each time you do this little maneuver, you make 'little ground animal noises' [like barks or chirps]. “
In 1998 it became:
“Make ground being face by putting upper lip over bitten lower lip, and smiling. (Maintain this face for the rest of the pass!)”
“Hop paws upwards in 3 steps as though climbing, making your best ground being. bark at each hop.”
No mention of strength vocalizations.
And by the time the 2002 notes were written down:
“10. With both beaks together, dig forwards once then raise beaks slightly to shoulder height and dig forwards again. Raise beaks again and dig forwards a third time so that you are now digging at head height. With each digging motion make a short higher pitched animal sound (difficult to relay in words, but a little bit like a quick higher pitched ee-aw sound) that ends on a slightly lower note.”
…
“16. Finally, raise both beaks together slowly up above the head (like an elephant raising its trunk) and as you do so make the same animal sound as in step 10. but in a more protracted fashion lasting as long as you raise the beaks together.”
“In moving through these sequences cultivate a feeling that you are burrowing in various directions and that this is your joy to do so with alertness.”
Exemplar of why we say that Cleargreen, clearly, started to diverge (and become more creative/performative) with their workshops at around this time, because attendees weren’t moving their assemblage points during practice…and without perceiving anything “magical”, that would actually bring joy, they had to play act.
Yea, that's why I saved this one till last.
Pretty much anything I haven't done so far has been corrupted by Cleargreen, unless I missed it in my searching.
With the exception of some Jadey has that I didn't get around to doing.
But as far as I know, that's 3 max.
Even Gabrielle's Youtube can't be trusted. I didn't realize that until I had to look specifically for unchanged forms to animate.
This is what happens when people who never got the sorcery to work, teach with hopes of gaining money from it.
They have no restraint, based on admiring how cool our magic is when it's working.
It's very sad, but also kind of cool that this subreddit teaches people why all magic was lost from the world, and why it's so hard to bring it back.
I don't believe any people have ever understood this so well, before we came along.
Certainly there's no Yogis, Buddhist Masters, or anyone else, with that understanding.
I also believe but can't prove it, that don Juan was quite critical of other systems, but got censored either by Carlos, or the publishers.
It leaks out once in a while, in what Carlos said.
He probably even had locations in his river of shit metaphor, for Hinduism and Buddhism.
Which are more clever than we'll ever think up.
Buddhists might be the poop suckers in the river???
Yogis the turd eaters?
Daoists the shit smokers?
The AI didn't like it much...
This is the text of a Facebook post that popped up in my feed:
"When Carlos first started teaching paid workshops, which predominantly were movement workshops, many walked out.
What does exercise have to do with Carlos’s expansive stories around power plants and sorcery?
Carlos taught a form, called Being from the Earth, it involves pulling strange faces and making strange sounds.
At that time a famous film director, who Carlos thought was advancing nicely, was attending the Sunday classes in Santa Monica.
The sheer foolishness of the form though made him leave, shaking his head. He never returned.
Carlos looked around and said, “we all have our cubic centimetre of chance, it is often the thought of being foolish, or some other nonsense, that stops us from plucking it.”
To go deep into Carlos work means abandoning ourselves to it. Yet that self-important part of us, wants all the t’s crossed and the i’s dotted, before we abandon ourselves.
Don Juan arranged things so that you can never be sure of anything. (So the real question is) How deep (are you willing) to go?"
deep as in dig
It's easy to see in SK that it's very good to have so much variety in the Tensegrity, because you can pretty much make anything work, once you can sustain the purple zone.
So shapeshifting is inevitable with those forms.
Find out who he is, and I'll add him to our list of people to get back.
I wonder if it was the Ixtlan productions guy?
Certainly wasn't Bruce.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CChver44F/
I'm having a hard time getting the exact link to copy... keeps wanting to only link to the group the post was in
I'll try something else