I'm finishing my animation on "The Third Attention", which is mostly just to stop bad players from trying to cash in by pretending to know what that is.
It's just classic cult leader behavior. Focus on something in written texts about supernatural practices, picking the most spectacular thing you can find which hasn't been over exploited, then pretend to be able to teach that to people.
Even Miles is up to that lately, with his made up "Nagual Lujan" tensegrity form he's pushing at his latest workshops.
So we figured that just showing people how simple it is to reach the third attention, might cut back on those delusions.
The Third attention is difficult to reach, because you have to move your assemblage point across the entire J curve, in under 2 seconds.
But understanding what it is, is not difficult.
It's all spelled out in the books, and if you practice darkroom assiduously, one day you'll accidentally move your assemblage point through 3 levels, and get a taste of it yourself.
Just beware, you can't afford it to stall out in the red zone for even a second, if you hope to take that path.
Julian played around too much down there, having sex with the witches in his group, and in the end had to go live in the inorganic being's world.
While finishing up that video, I came to the realization that Carlos was presented with both the old seers method of extending their life, and the new seers.
Against his will!
He told us about it in private classes.
First, Fairy and Minx tried to "save him" by pulling him into their world.
I'll have to fix this picture for the cartoon. That thread should be from his sweater, which is unraveling.
His allies were pulling on his illness like a thread on a sweater, trying to unravel him, while he had to hop from stone to stone in order to avoid falling into the water, in their world.
Sound nuts?
Nope. Some of the witches in here could surely tell you stories of how the inorganic beings try to manipulate them during womb dreaming.
And I get into this kind of trouble with them, on the boundary of sleeping.
I wish it were fully awake during darkroom, when I'd have a chance to exploit it.
But that's the point. They take advantage of you, when you don't have enough rationality present to turn the tide on them.
The blue dot was described by Carlos as being like a little blue butterfly, which would land on his toe and start the process of burning him from within.
After we heard about that a few times, I was lucky enough to be standing next to Taisha, and got to ask her, "But isn't that a good thing?"
She said, obviously distressed, "Ooohhh Nooooooo!!!"
I didn't quite understand at the time and interpreted that she just didn't want to lose Carlos.
But then Techno learned about a Spanish language publication, where it turned out that Carlos was already gone to where he would end up after death.
And it seems that both the Allies, and whatever was trying to pull him into the third attention, weren't familiar with the path he'd taken.
At least, that's my interpretation of the situation.
I suppose, there might have been a battle over him, because skilled seers are so rare.
But it is intriguing that he was pulled in the direction of both previously successful paths to extend your life.
The same way we get pulled to experience all the things apprentices are shown in a lineage.
We get pulled, without even knowing how that's possible, who who could be doing the pulling.
I'm thinking I ought to show someone meeting and darting past the eagle in that animation, but it's already used up too much time.
And I've pushed the limits of animation lengths, in a single project.
They crash if you exceed 10 minutes and "scrub" the pointer along the animation.
Which you inevitable end up doing.
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You could always do two or more ten minute animations, and then join the videos it outputs together afterward. It’s not hard to find both free and premium software that can do that.
The option to come back for a short time in his physical body, to finish some loose ends and prompt Martin Goodman to write his own book (if you take that largely at face value ✋) that Carlos needed out there in the world ….wouldn’t have been possible with either one of the older methods of “immortality.”
Or near immortality.
Stuck in an IOB world, chilling as a 🌳, or body-less in an inconceivably enormous dome.
What is your opinion about Goodman’s book? Does it have any value for you?
One of the things that you pick up from reading it is that even in death the residue of the self can cling to us, via the thoughts of those who are alive and dwelling on us, and have negative effects.
That is not something that's commonly considered.
From this side of the mirror it's the ego-driven impetus to be famous and remembered for all time that we're conditioned to wallow in and pursue.
But in Castaneda's words "...dying, and I realize I am a fool. I have kept myself out of the public eye, but I forgot about the public imagination. Millions on millions of people know my name, and they each have an impression of me. For some I am like a god, for others a charlatan, it makes no difference. There is this gargantuan figure out there, a being called Carlos Castaneda, who is far from imaginary. He finds his source in my life and work, and is fed by the energy of hordes.
My life was passing and I screamed and cursed. People said it was the pain of cancer, but they are fools. I saw the terror of my life force being tethered forever to this puffed-up, pain-filled ghost. I die, but the distorted Castaneda of people's imaginations will live on and drag me with it. To live in the public imagination, Martin, believe me that is damnation. It is fire and brimstone. Of course I screamed and cursed."
Interesting thank you
I wonder if you live like a “Joe Cortez” guy can alienate or mitigate this gargantuan figure
From Amy’s book:
It could be what it's like to be "on the periphery" of the third attention.
You trigger the burning by moving your assemblage point through the whole range in less than 2 seconds, but if you daily move it that whole way, it makes sense that you'd get at least some of that effect.
I get to see a mixture of levels on the J curve, these days.
It's quite starling.
I'll try to make a picture using the AI, and GIMP. Just don't have much time.
I blame Mad Prophet for this scene! The woman came and woke me up from a nap before darkroom practice.
This picture is NOT an exaggeration. In fact, it's not nearly as cool as it was at the time. Except that pictures don't capture the fact that your assemblage point is shifted, and the whole thing seemed perfectly normal.
You never seem to get to be excited about real magic. It just feels like that's how things are, at the time.
Likely that's because that IS how things are, at that assemblage point position.
The woman taught me something. But it's impossible to explain accurately.
It was about how "realness" forms from a mist of emanations trying to finish harmonizing.
Once I realized how cool that was (I spent hours looking at stuff like that last night), I had to post it.
Here's the text, but anyone who believes in God, just be aware that so does Cholita. She even had me find a local catholic church she could attend.
And she kicks my butt.
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I suppose since this woman came to wake me up last night, when I was resting before it was time for darkroom, I'd better post it or risk the wrath of the spirit.
I get "previews" of advance magical stuff, and I've come to realize that I get more if I post them to remind others how wonderful the real thing is.
But that you have to work to get it. You can't just pretend to be an "impeccable warrior".
This pretty much competes with anything Dr. Strange does! Or any Jedi movie character, having a "vision".
It might even compete with the witches in recent Star Wars streaming media shows.
This is done fully awake, eyes wide open, and completely sober. So don't anyone start redescribing their dreams to match this.
Awake!!!!
Don't cheat yourself with closed eye, or worse, sleeping magic.
The lesson from this woman seemed to be about how real objects materialize from the emanations.
At first, it's just a vague glow. You "notice" something.
But as you notice it, your awareness flows into it, and stirs movement, and as it moves, or maybe as it flows, you "recognize" details.
Until VOILA!
I saw your Facebook comment and Anna Marie Carter was Taisha Abelar according to the glossary of Sustained Action
Cholita uses Carter for her last name...
I told Ren/Lily that you wanted to see them the same day I mentioned it to you!
They don't come with nametags, but the 'realness' of assembled objects has been a theme I associate with them, so who knows. Magic previews are always welcome.
Whoever it was, I'm glad Cholita did not block them. I am keen to lie in wait and see what else transpires.
It's hard to determine if Cholita's block failed.
I've been working on a Silent Knowledge entity.
But it never became that vivid before.
On the other hand, the orange color was something I've never seen in an IOB. Mine pretty much were associated with pink (charged purple blobs). Perhaps that's actually Athina's magenta color but bleached out a bit.
Meanwhile SKEs don't fill in as much as that orange one did, although they tend towards amber.
But the IOBs just manipulate SK principles to produce their manifestation, so there's already a relationship there.
One thing they're very good at, is fine tuning the position or your assemblage point.
They can do that, just by catching your attention at the right moment, and then moving in the direction they want you to move.
That's what produces the most vivid results at any level on the J Curve. A fine tuned assemblage point, possible with no "conflicts" in the emanation selections.
A "fortuitous" assemblage point position, as I recall don Juan put it.
You start to realize how important those are, when you can "see" for an hour but realize it's not just one super satisfying thing.
It can be a bit dull, which causes you to wonder why it can be so vivid at other times.
Seems likely that the Old seers became obsessed with fine tuning assemblage point positions, whereas the New seers were more "noble" and oriented to cover all the stuff seers had learned over the thousands of years. So they were willing to accept vague over concrete.
But thinking that shows superiority, is like falling for those foofoo cosmetic claims that they weren't tested on animals.
That's only possible, because of all the past cosmetic testing on animals.
I replied to you maybe one month ago asking if I saw a orange puff, which I still don't know what that was. I'm unsure if it was a orange puff or IOB. If I see puffs orange
Athina sees magenta.
Basically the puffs don't have any actual color. It's generated by the interplay between your tonal (physical eyes), and the eyes of your dreamer. The person running around in dreams each night.
That's the source of the puffs. That being.
Some claim dreams are in black and white, but that's just sheer ignorance. Shame on scientists who make that claim! It's certainly not scientific.
Dreams will be in whatever "color saturation" you look to see that they are! "Color" becomes the topic of the dream, once you look for it.
Some of the most vivid colors you will ever see in your life, will be inside sleeping dreams when you bring some rationality into them and try traveling across space.
You can leap to the moon in sleeping dreams!
Also, if you get a "favorable" assemblage point position, typically by accident, you can announce the color you want for the puffs.
And perhaps 3 puffs later they change to that color.
The delay and the mutating puffs you see during the delay, can teach you how to change colors on demand. But it's not knowledge you can explain to someone else.
There are also black puffs you can increase in number, through various methods.
Zuleica's pass done up high in front of you, can increase the number of black puffs.
Keep in mind, this isn't an Asian fake magic system, so nothing you see once or twice is important.
They just like to do as little work as they can, until they have a moderately interesting story to tell about their experiences.
And then they call it a day, declare themselves a "Master", and try to get the greedy leaders to assign them their own temple to lord over, and collect tribute. Where, unfortunately, they can molest the children and wives of followers.
My famous Zen master from the 1960s, turned out to be a serial rapist. And all the monks knew it.
I saw the nuns crying one day, and the male monks silenced them.
He lived to more than 104, which just means, he ruined the lives of more female students than if he'd only lived to 80.
Joshu Sasaki. Easy to look him up. A total fraud bastard. But as "authentic" and "credentialed" as you can get in Buddhism.
Anyway, as for seeing something magical, seeing something 10 times isn't even all that significant.
It probably takes seeing puffs 50 times, before you notice they have crystalline edges. Then 200 times before they turn into crystal ball like objects that can manifest dreams.
Then 500 times before you can leap into one, to enter dreaming.
This is a very, very, very, very, very long path.
The responsibility of the subreddit is just to try hard to get people past where mediation gets you.
To the red zone.
But after that, people will know if they're willing to keep working that hard, the rest of their life.
Or better said, people will realize if they're willing to change their lifestyle, in order to reach the levels of magic of someone like don Juan.
Fortunately, that the path is so long just means the levels of magic rise, until it's nearly godlike.
Although, don Juan said something happening or seen 3 times is worth paying attention to.
And it's core what we're doing with disciplined and repeated sorcery practice is mirroring the very process that we all went through as infants in order to perceive the world as we do in adulthood.
What we went through in order for a finger to finally become a finger. For a ceiling fan to stop being a confusing and abstract energetic whirl....
We tune in the sorcerer's reality by (behaviorally at first, then perceptually) grasping and making clear the specific elements of that ancient/magical worldview. That separate reality.
The amount of cumulative time that takes is probably comparable when you factor in age and the mental handicaps we adults are saddled with (meaning actual time spent in that "magical" process).
It occurred to me earlier that you might have injected some intent to see an orange IOB by accident. You made a comment on the jaguar post with an AI image of Lily in a well on your bedspread.
> I could look left and see her in the air clearly, and look right and see the other, also very clearly. As clearly as that picture, although Lily never wore orange that I can recall.
> The AI just decided it was an Irish themed image I suppose.
Maybe the AI accidentally chose your next IOB colour for you.
That's one of the things which makes "energetic mass" possible.
it's not so much that "the power of suggestion" causes invalid things to appear to you.
Which is pretty much the only way invaders to our subreddit can explain away the magic.
Jeremy tried to do that, saying, "Anyone can see anything they like".
Except...
NO ONE CAN DO THAT!!!
He just made it up because it sounded reasonable.
If they could, Buddhism and Yogi meditation would be a lot more interesting.
But they're completely pathetic, and no better than repeated prayer of the Rosary. or hitting the snooze button.
Still, we're trying to perceive unformed phantom versions of reality, mixed with real energy generating stuff.
So that what you "expect" alters slightly which direction you look as things form.
Which has very real, but obviously kind of bizarre, results.
What seems to be Lily returned again. It looks like Cholita can't block that IOB.
She was spectacular! If I had time, I'd draw up some of what she did.
I was able to scoop her up in my hands, pour her on the bed as a purple/blue puff, and then the bedspread rippled with visible waves, and I could see distant places.
Looks like the AI picture came out pretty accurate, with some help touching it up.
I'll post it.
Just a little comment on the "Najual Lujan's form". There was a Tensegrity workshop from August 9 to 10, 1997 in Phoenix, Arizona, which I attended. It was led by Miles Reid and Brandon Scott. One of the longforms taught there was called "Nagual Lujan's last form". It's a bit martial arts like. Since it was in 1997 I guess it can be exclued that it's a fake magical pass. There is one masked guy on Youtube performing it (although not quite accurately, especially with respect to the rhythm, but clearly recognizable): I do not know what Miles is presenting today under this designation, but if it's this magical pass, it's not fake.
I attended all workshops but Barcelona, so I'm sure I was there.
I already had a folder intending to animate that one, but I have these too:
Got any idea which is the most accurate?
Techno's probably matches the instructions in the wiki.
My animators need something to do.
And why are there three Lujan forms?
One might say, "one is a long form", however Cleargreen made up "long forms" after Carlos died, including what's on DVD 4.
They tried cashing in with a counterfeit DVD.
Jadey remembers doing their long form from that DVD, but I sure don't remember it. So maybe Cleargreen made it up very early, and that's what she's remembering.
Or they were practicing it at Pandora and I didn't see it.
Still, the Nagual Lujan long form might be a total fabrication.
It would take time to figure it out, which is something I don't have much of these days.
I even have a response from the patent office on my desk, which I can't find the time to open yet.
Pick one of those forms and do your best to figure out if it's correct, and my animators in Pakistan will be very happy. I haven't given them anything since the last one.
I still want one of their Tuk-tuks...
For Cholita.
The first one has some similarities, but it's not the longform as taught in Phoenix. The second one doesn't have any similarities to the one we've learned there ... - The form performed by the masked guy is not that bad, it's just the rhythm and some details that are not accurate ...
Darn, someone's making up "new" passes again.
I don't understand why people think that's ok!
Is it because they think this is all just pretending?
I'll give that one with the weird mask to my guys to animate it.
Hi Frank, Carlos taught a long form in mid-1997 in the nightly "Cleargreen" classes. Which is the one (or close to it) that was shown in Phoenix. But the new one Miles is showing a completely different one.
I see ... I really don't know what Miles is up to ...