Castaneda, in later years, also created illustrations of the second attention like we do in here

I also put together a simpler entry for our Silence Wiki, using multiple publications and a tiny but of paraphrasing, to help us better "understand" what is meant by intending silence. This is directly from don Juan:

"To venture into the world of sorcerers," he said, "is not like learning to drive a car. To drive a car, you need manuals and instructions. To enter into inner silence, you need to intend it. And the only way you could intend it is by intending it," he declared, "but not with your thoughts. Intend it with your intent, which is the layer beneath your thoughts. Listen carefully: Look for it beneath the thoughts; away from them. Intent is so far away from thoughts that we can't talk about or explain it without sounding idiotic, since it pertains to the realm of energy and not the realm of reason. We can't even feel intent. But we can certainly use it!"

“One of the most difficult things for a man of our day to accept is the lack of procedure. In the world of sorcerers, don Juan said, procedures and rituals are mere designs to force a focusing of interest and determination. (And not, necessarily, our interest). They have no other value. The trick is to reach the energy body, to attract it's attention, which will understand what's being intended on the level of energy. And for that you need to free some of your trapped energy (attention) from the world of reason and human socialization.”

That's the "pomegranate" color I suppose, and how text forms in Silent Knowledge.

I don't know if anyone is going to see it "form" in that much detail, but you're certainly going to find out that Silent Knowledge ("seeing") is very real, and quite entertaining.

At first you work your butt off to reach that level of silence, and when I first did I gave myself a goal to see 3 manifestations a practice session.

Which I couldn't do most days.

But after a while I could, so I increased it to 10. 10 "videos in the air", scenes on the bedspread, or even "text" in the air, although in my opinion that's just Carlos challenging us to witness different ways SK can stream, and not really a serious goal. Meaning, it's a strange goal to insist on reading it.

There's far cooler things than reading!

There's viewing, and there you are, inside the vision you're watching from the outside. You're literally in 2 places at once, and can focus on the one you want to perceive more fully.

That's at least 10% cooler than being a "reader"...

Continuous SK streaming follows perhaps a few months after you can reach 10 a night, and then "SK EVERYWHERE!".

That's where multiple streams are open at once, kind of like having 4 Youtube shows playing on your monitor...

Of course, at that point you're basically fully asleep. But with your eyes open.

So that why it works, starts to seem obvious.

And then, you get the strange idea that maybe you're just using the dreamer to get the sight, and it actually becomes "visible" to you. Like this picture.

There's more after that, but I suppose you'll have to get there to know what it is, otherwise we'll get beginners trying to skip to whatever they believe gets them the most attention.

Why on earth do people do that??? It's like living in a population of starving people, and someone discovers how to get some actual food, and tells others.

So some random bad player starts talking about how excellent that food is, even describing it in tedious detail.

When he hasn't actually done any work to get some, and certainly never tasted any.

What does that image with the diagonal yellow section, oval blue shapes and brown borders represent?

I believe the story goes that CC had time to greenlit the cover of Magical Passes before he himself passed. A hand with a sky in it seems very congruent with how he could read infinity.