From my yesterday midday practice in the silence chair technique..
This is the second time I've tried this practice..
Following Dan's advice on reading text and also following some of Athina's advice on retaining more of the sights in practice, I managed to take a small step towards all of this.
When Whorl appeared I was quite excited but I immediately extinguished this feeling so as not to ruin my practice.
inside the Whorl some letters developed which had no connection between them only at some point the word Τόξο in the Greek language which means crossbow ,appeared.
at that moment the letters seemed to disappear and the Whorl to dissolve while at the same time opposite me was an iob which had the shape of Minx from the cartoons !
then inside some puffs texts appeared in many different fonts from old newspapers..
this time i managed to hold the sights a little longer than the last time
iob was laughing and had a playful look sometimes his face looked like a little child who is crazy or he would have an expression of excitement seeing me
i don't know if it was minx or some other iob who had this form
I think the appearance of the word in conjunction with this form could be him
He seemed to be having fun with all of this too
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Nice. Has anyone had the Whorls or purple puffs intrude into their waking day-to-day life?
What exactly do you mean?
Our entire practice, except for two-three; techniques, requires us to have our eyes open,
so we are waking..
I meant when you're out and about outside doing chores, errands, work etc. Do the visuals that show up during deep silence sometimes appear when the mind is highly active?
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/gd0vvn/sample_colors_in_darkness/
That’s a good post! Thanks for digging that up.
I personally have seen a puff; once in a strange way but it was probably because of a severe toothache I had..
Interesting. I've been messing around with perceptual uncertainties lately to help me stay awake at work and I noticed as I got better at holding one perception out of the 3 possible (lower left, upper right, and 2D flat) for a prolonged period of time, around 1-2 minutes, I started to see a dim transparent purple haze overlay the square. It took me a week or so to stop my mind from automatically switching perspectives every 2–3 seconds and I only noticed it recently so it got me curious to find out if the purple waves/puffs are not just native to darkrooms.
The practice can be done in daylight, it just requires more effort.
Gotcha. That makes sense.
Nice daytime practice! Fresh flowers from today!
Great daytime practice with IOB! Fresh flowers from today!
I'm a total beginner but after a tensegrity session, I'll see very small flashes of yellow light or an ultra quick strobe of light (like it's miniscule). Sometimes it does shock me.
At night sometimes, there, I will see dark black shapes, the size of a puff. Like you will see it only for a second or two.
continue and push for more silence each time, do small gazing breaks ( some “toy”will help you like silence stones) and then continue again with tensegrity
try to first cut off your inner dialogue from me,me,me thoughts and after from anything else..
remember you are trying to explore the depths of silence and not only!
the more silent you become the more you experience.
if something persists in your inner dialogue you can write it and then recap it.
and don't be afraid!!
Could you explain what you mean by silence stones? And are these gazing breaks practice in not-doing?
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/wtf826/silence_rocks/?share_id=0Lp3TJsTcLQ3CQpMtmjDg&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1