My drawing program GIMP updated, and the new version is a DISASTER.
Did I ever mention how much I dislike programmers... Especially these days when they've given up the illusion of keeping software compatible with past versions.
So this isn't as good as it could be, but shows a very interesting thing.
You can MIX dreams with the waking world.
It doesn't have to be one or the other.
How is that possible?
I have no idea...
But it seemed to be a consequence of an inorganic being's "dark energy" mixing so well with my purple puff energy, that there was a finely spotted texture below the inorganic being's face, and each "dot" of purple that was so well mixed with the jet black energy, had a tiny dream fragment in it.
All together, perhaps they could be "assembled" into a full dream?
I got tired of waiting, and because in such a state of enhanced magic you just "know" how to do things, i reached back into the last dream I could recall, and pulled pieces from it onto the bed.
I suppose, there's really no limit to what our magic can do, and since we're no longer bound by the lineages or the apprenticeships to the old seers, we'll get some very surprising new things to experiment with.
Or maybe, Silvio and don Juan already knew about this, but it just wasn't mentioned in the books because you can't possibly teach someone how to do this.
They have to find it on their own.
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I always thought merging the 2 worlds was a basic premise of Casteneda's books.
But I could have a simplistic idea of what you're trying to convey.
Merging the dream world with the waking world, yes. By passing through virtual barriers, such as "the wall of fog".
But reaching into a dream you had an hour ago, and restoring it by pulling pieces out into the waking world, was never mentioned as far as I know.
Hey Dan, is Pandora’s Box Pass animated and on the sub?
It's listed alphabetically in this section:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/tensegrity/not_doing/
Thanks big dog 🫡🤝👊
Probably, but I animated it using my mocap suit, which turned out to be a $4500 waste of money. So it's not very good.
The hands are supposed to push together, not at an angle.
It's a rather simple idea. Compress a puff. But also, stir it a bit.
Then release the compressed "intent".
https://archive.org/details/pandoras_box_202511
Hopium - I’ll be able to interact with a purply puffy using this pass 🤞
Carlos thought it was important enough to teach it as the first "real magic" he was going to show us in class.
Naturally no one saw any results, and started saying "Carlos has lost it".
I used to use this pass to manufacture zombie assistants.
Kind of like having a "shadow being" around.
A tree spirit, the way Zuleica used them to stabilize Taisha's assemblage point.
One of them hung around for nearly 2 days after I made it using that pass.
As best I can figure, those are parts of your energy body.
Based on that, I got the idea that your energy body can "subdivide" a few times, before each part is no longer sentient.
But it's all "red zone" activities.
Best to sample it, and move on.
I’m noticing, somethings different with my silence. It’s more real, more silent, the pretending is gone?
I dunno it’s always hard to explain/describe. It’s evolving or better higher quality? I could go on and make less sense as I go…
You only really start to understand it, when you can get silent knowledge to flow, based on whether you can reach a good enough silence level.
And at that point, it is indeed sleepwalking.
Before then it's silence that you caused with your efforts.
Which can still get you far along the J curve, but a time does come when it's very different than you imagined.
Hey man, thank you. For always replying, for darkroom, for what you post, thank you 🙏