Hi there. Very new to all of this in general. I just feel very drawn to all of it I'm not sure why. I have the black out goggles and have been doing the dark room daily. I am trying my best to recreate the trenagriety moves but I have to be honest I sometimes feel it's transitions into something that is intuitively coming out of me. So far I see purple and white puffs that I kinda push around with my hands and I have seen everything focus on what looks like a movie theater screen and some kinda white energy is inside the screen. When I go outside color is so different like the world doesn't look real and I see the energy flickers or whatever it is called. It also seem like dark shadows kinda fly around me in the dark room and I get a chance they're checking me out. I have no idea what I am doing but wanted to share. Thank you
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Don't forget that the whole idea is to lure your double out of the dreaming world, and into the real world.
Did you see this map?
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/mtfwhb/even_better_j_curve_diagram/
So the only way to lure your double into the real world, using darkroom, is to get rid of your internal dialogue long enough that your double doesn't absorb your grief if it gets too close, then use the tensegrity to scoop its energy from where it's hiding around 4 feet away all around you, and then to "stuff" balls of the purple on your energy storage areas. Those are shown in this picture.
The biggest mistake you can make is thinking this is all about seeing puffs, and not realizing nothing is going to progress unless you learn to remove your internal dialogue, and lure your double out to merge with you.
You'll know you're getting silent, when you can see the yellow puffs, under the purple ones, and then use those to form power objects like you see on the right in this picture. Those allow amazing magic!
Thank you this is so very helpful and kind
Watch this cartoon first so you understand what you're doing during darkroom, and why it produces magical sights:
Then watch this cartoon, to see the 3 main methods for time travel. One in our physical body!
There's absolutely no exaggerations in these.
Why would any of us make up stuff?
We don't earn money from all this hard work. And there's no organization, no meetings, no books, no video courses.
We only get paid if more people learn to do what you see at the end of that last one.
The more that can do that, the easier it becomes for all of us.
That's how reality works!
Also you should know, once you can do some of this cool magic, making pictures of it and posting it, gets you rewarded by "infinity".
There's a force in that dark sea, which encourages people to move off into seldom viewed realms.
As best we can figure out, the universe wants to become aware of itself, in all places.
Thank you very much
Having no idea what you're doing is not a detriment for beginners.
AT ALL.
In fact, holding onto presumptions will strongly inhibit things.
Most of the usefulness of the knowledge in the books, and the workshops in the 1990's, starts to come into play only after those first steps have been taken with as pristine an outlook as you can muster.
Just like a map is only actually useful when your wheels are on the tarmac and you're going down the road, and not when you're at home in your easy chair fantasizing about all the wonderful adventures you assume you'll have.
Our community Inventory Warriors would be akin to a nerdy GeoGuessr who doesn't own a vehicle, is afraid of flying, and has never left their home town.
Are we allowed to listen to music in the early stages of practicing?
Don’t think about it in terms of allow and disallow.
This isn’t a religion, with a set of codes of behavior.
It’s always about what makes things go more smoothly, and what acts as anchor keeping us in place.
If you can avoid or get past ear-worms (having the lyrics of a song stuck in your head 😣) then listen away. Might even be good practice for your silence muscles. But if no, then try instrumental before employing more draconian measures.
Thank you :)
See the comment just below, please.
Oh! I didn't even consider that people would think it was a good idea to listen to music WHILE practicing 🫤
I thought that would go without saying
I was writing about listening to music outside of practice time.
Alrighty, glad that's cleared up 😄
I don't know about that necessarily. The music can pulsate the energy to a certain rhythm, or the force of the music can twist the puffs the same way the physical body can through tensegrity.
Carlos did drag a record player into private classes on occasion. And a few times there were several classical music compositions played during running man, and possible another one of the not-doing passes.
And these during one of the workshops in 1997: https://web.archive.org/web/20030718200418/http://nagual.com/ixtlan/notdoingcd.html
It's inner silence.
I get the shadow blobs, darting shadows, creeping shadows. Par for the course.