I think I’ve asked about this pass before(?) it’s from Taisha’s Unpublished book. I asked chatGPT to illustrate from the text. Appreciate anyone interested kicking in some pointers, or even other references for it.
Here’s the excerpt:
She stretched her arms out to each side and took a deep breath. Then she raised her arms to her shoulder level and bent her elbows, keeping the palms of her hands facing down. She squeezed her shoulder blades together while her arms barely moved at all. Then exhaling slowly and evenly, she brought her arms around to the front and placed her palms together with her finger tips pointing upward.
- This movement tightens the bands of energy across the chest. By pushing the chest outward, and the shoulder blades backwards, the energy lines that are sagging become taunt again. That bar across the chest of the energy body serves as a shield. Things bounce off it and that gives one a sense of confidence when facing the world of doing.
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They taught that one, at least to the women as I recall.
So it’s a pass for women?
Maybe not. I remember doing it too.
But at some point, they created passes for each sex, and at a given workshop, or even in private classes, men didn't do women's passes.
Apparently that wasn't entirely true for women. They did the men's passes occasionally.
It's not! u/Bilissss mentioned it, but just in case people don't read the whole thread, this pass is Massaging the Glands Around the Shoulder Blades from Tensegrity Vol 1.
It was taught at workshops like all the passes in the video, not just to women.
There’s a few differences/moves with hand positioning in Taisha’s Cloak of Confidence that Massaging Glands Pass doesn’t do. I recorded your example of Massaging the Glands. I’ll upload to Ai and see if it can combine and better illustrate Cloak of Confidence. I’ll send it to you for review?
I was thinking Massaging Glands Pass produces same results as Cloak of Confidence?
The main different is the last part (which the video version doesn't have), where after doing the shoulder blade massage, she says "Then exhaling slowly and evenly, she brought her arms around to the front and placed her palms together with her finger tips pointing upward." Which, I believe is just a closing, but not the main part of the pass. It's not that it produces same results as Cloak of Confidence, IT IS the same pass, even if that closing were, in fact, part of that pass.
What I mean by closing, I mean something akin to the usual pass closing we use in all the other passes, which isn't part of any particular pass, but we use it when we finish up a series of repetitions like in:
Awh…..that makes sense and thank you!
I was actually unfamiliar with repetitions and closings. It’s my own fault, I jump around looking for passes that fit me and whatever I’m up to, and some passes really attract me; Being from Sky/Ground, or Opening Oneself to Intent, I’ll integrate passes into my day, separate from practicing. Cloak of Confidence is one I’d adapt to my day.
Do you perform this closing after repeating a given pass or after a group/series?
I’ve seen you do this closing in your Westwood Series videos, but I hadn’t read about it anywhere. What’s the purpose behind it?
Normally the closing is done after pass repetitions, that is after a single pass, or after a long form.
Just out of curiosity, I checked how Kylie does it in the video, and she uses the same closing I use. So is the closing part of the pass? not really, that's why I believe the last part of the pass as described in Taisha's book is a closing and not part of the pass. But who knows, it could be just a slight variation - but it is definitely not a different pass.
Hey Dan, aside or outside of Darkroom Practice, can we use passes to bolster or support our activities in Daily Awareness?
(It’s something I’ve been doing, but not as a replacement for actual DR practice). When I’ve needed to accomplish different tasks or settle and focus I’ve used the passes to help slow/silence my internal dialogue and focus myself, I’ve got a lot of reading/learning to do, hunting, snowboarding, etc…when I have the privacy and time.
You think passes are meant to be used in this way?
Yes, Carlos emphasized this.
Even saying he had "saturated us", and when the time came we'd know which pass to use.
However, learning to move and hold the assemblage point is the process of intending it, for a specific situation.
I suppose you could learn to do it in multiple situations, but it's probably a lot easier not to try to do that at first.
Once you can move it extremely far and get cool stuff to happen, THEN is when you might want to try another situation.
Like going from darkness to sunlight. Or from watching silent knowledge stream in darkness, to trying to do that using the sky.
Skipping from one thing to the other seems ill advised to me, and it's more of something a person who can't move their assemblage point at all would do, thinking more ways is a substitute for it actually working. And because they don't actually have control over their time, so some days they can't do their main practice at all.
Not good...
There's a reason "Pastry Classes" exist.
And have nothing to do with "Grill Master" classes.
Awesome thank you. You managed to answer another question I have about moving the AP around. I’m not there yet, but I’ve been thinking about it m, as I make 1 step forward and two steps back trying to progress.
I’ve been maintaining daily practice sessions and trying to fit inner silence and specific passes into my time at work or play when it seems suited. Building the muscle memory.
It never gets easier...
I don't mean, it doesn't get very easy to move your assemblage point.
But it never gets easier, to make more progress.
The magic gets cooler and cooler.
But then you look at the books and say, "Hey... I want to do THAT!"
In some ways, the books force us to duplicate how Carlos learned.
He got the nagual's blow, and then had to remember the magic one event at a time.
We know all the magic ahead of time, but have to figure out how to do it by ourselves. One thing at a time.
I think I’m starting notice and experience what I do in my daily awareness is affecting the intensity of my AP shifts. Conserving energy and trying to gain a bit matters. Do you subscribe to that?
Sure!
It's the "positive" use of greed.
To be greedy for more magic, without interfering with which variety you get, or expecting anything in particular because your greed knows no limits, is the best motivation for learning sorcery.
And perfecting your daily behavior is key to getting "free stuff" when you practice.
Stuff you seemingly don't have to work hard to get.
it's "saved energy".
An easy way to visualize it is that if you stopped to give $10 to a homeless woman, and then that night you had a fantastic experience during darkroom, and then a few days later the same happened, you'd eventually take to carrying a stack of $10 bills around in your pocket.
I think the greedy for more is a good way to describe it. Free stuff I don’t have to grind to get is even better - I might be a bit cranky and impatient with other ppl, they feel so draining. Then I’m like, man, I’m just like that….I’m draining to myself and others. Part of impeccability is neither, energy conservation.
Always appreciate your posts and insights. I gotta say the analogies, the pro motorbike vs tricycle was legendary good! 😂👏🏼
Could you please refer me to the post of the analogy of pro motorbike vs tricycle plz🙏
I’m looking.
I remember seeing it also, ill look for it now too!
You need a Cholita around...
You get free magic. But only very rarely. Certainly not enough to make up for how awful she can be.
But, there's no other source of free magic!
Hopefully she's moved on from that small cartel controlled city in Mexico she ended up in, after warning 1000 miles from Mexico City.
She figured out how to pick up money I send her.
Wasn't easy...
I suppose that makes her my Eligio (or was it Emilito/) who goes out and finds stuff, and then comes back to show Carlos.
Is that a "courier"?
We don't even know the basic sorcery terms yet!
How sad...
Oh I have a Cholita, she’s loony toons, in married women way - she’s got radar, so I dunno wanna say to much about her and set it off - I’m also running the risk of pissing off all the witches on this sub - lol living dangerously
I kinda imagine Cholita working as currandero for cartel soldiers and gets protection and free rein to wander and work her razzle dazzle.
Eligio was CC’s courier, but ended up attached to DJM’s party cause of CC’s 3 chamber issue. They say, Eligio was the best. It’s likely, someone will see this reply and copy/paste the specific quotes.
No, I don't save AI pictures.
So maybe Cholita is my "courier" now?
I wouldn't mind sending her anywhere in the world that she wants to explore, for as long as she likes.
Living HERE is what's expensive. I don't know anywhere else that costs as much as here. Not even Moscow or Tokyo.
Maybe she could even go to Tibet, to find out for herself they're a bunch of evil fakers?
Except, you have to feel sorry for the countries she visits.
It'll be interesting to see if she comes home this time, knowing she doesn't have to.
California is expensive, just as, if not more than where I live. I recently seen comparisons. Apparently a lot of expats are relocating to Uruguay I’ve been looking at it, but I have a few more years before I can make a big move like that.
You really have to wonder what she’s up to and who she’s actually encountering other lineages or witches?
Uruguay???
I forgot that even exists.
Maybe when Cholita comes home, I'll suggest she stop going exclusively to Mexico, and consider Uruguay.
And I'll ask her to keep a look out for real magical systems that aren't just about stealing money from people.
Ya, use to be Costa Rica for us snow Mexicans, but Uruguay is the new expat landing pad. I knew a lot of Americans in Costa Rica I was surfing with. Couple OGs from Venice beach. CR saw unrealized gains and started taxing gringos; ez money.
Forgetting Uruguay exists, makes it best kept secret. Check it out.
I believe, I'll figure out how to get those folded travel brochures, for some candidate countries. And put them in Cholita's little "travel trash bin" next to the fire place. She bought a wicca trash basket, and put a travel magazine in it, right by the fireplace, as a decoration.
or a spell...
I'll just slip a Uruguay brochure in there! She'll notice it eventually.
If I put it on her desk, that'll make her think I want to get rid of her.
Man, I’m curious to know what she’s been up too. She lives rent free in my head via the sub.
What if she doesn’t come back? Do you care?
I'm not sure.
She's horrible to me almost always.
But then, she's got that dark energy.
And I get freebie magic from time to time.
After I sent her some money, her double stuck itself out from a crack in reality, and banged on a metal pot to make sure I noticed.
I've never seen that before...
However, when she's not there, I get to use the bathroom.
That's kind of nice...
When she's home, if I use it she spends 2 hours cleaning it later on that day.
So I just stopped. My business office is only 1 mile away.
What do you mean by, "I have a Cholita"??
What kinds of stuff can you do with the assemblage point?
We have a map of what happens at each location along the way, taught to us by Carlos as an "emergency measure" when he knew he would die, and subsequently filled in with the experiences of people who got there.
Everything you see there on that map, someone, and these days multiple people, did.
Our beginners kick the Buddha's self-pity filled butt, and put all Yogis who have ever lived, to complete shame.
What can you do? It's not uncommon to find yourself violating the laws of physics, teleporting, being in 2 places at once, shapeshifting for real (no drugs, wide awake, eyes open, walking around), real open eyed remote viewing, time travel in your physical body, flying to distant stars, walking through solid walls, visiting heaven or hell, etc.
We kick butt! And you can see actual pictures of what you can do, with instructions and commentary by others, going back 6+ years. Right here.
Best of all, not a single person in here makes money from helping others.
You can't find that anywhere else.
In fact, everything else out there which claims to be magic, is too lame to even talk about once you realize what's possible.
Here's that map:
Do heaven and hell exist?
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That's a question sorcerer's are unable to answer, even though they can visit both, over and over.
I've visited heaven around 6 times. I've used it to get over hangovers on business trips in Asia, where using drinking as hazing for business deals is the normal routine.
Hell I've only looked into, when a giant crack split down my practice room and I could walk over and look in.
You can also visit God, and sorcerers remind their apprentices "Don't forget to ask for something."
If you do, God himself is likely to remind you.
But is it real?
How about you learn to do this, fully awake, eyes open, completely sober, and add your opinion to whether those really "exist".
Sorcerers have to give up on caring about that, because it only limits your access to the multi-verse.
A better question to ask might by, can YOU do this.
And yes, you can!
But it's more work than most people are willing to do because they get lured into fake magical systems where nothing actually happens, but everyone is friendly and the effort you make to practice their techniques is close to none.
Which is probably good, because they don't actually work.
Where do you get the knowledge for how to do it when one doesn't have access to insider secrets?
That's why this subreddit is here. There's also discord, instagram, and facebook.
No one is here for their own amusement, or to make money off others, unlike all the fake magical subreddits.
If you want to learn, start studying in here. Focusing on the wiki on the side, or the "pinned" posts at the top.
And read the books of Carlos Castaneda, Taisha Abelar, and Florinda Donner. So you see how much fun real magic is.
However, I can tell you how to learn ALL of this, based on a single thing.
The truth is, there's nothing to learn in sorcery! Not a single thing.
Because once you learn to stop your internal dialogue, and sustain that, all of the knowledge any human has ever know, or currently knows, or will know into the future, flow to you.
Topic by topic.
So just learn to stop your internal dialogue!
The problem with that is, people aren't honest with themselves.
Because if they were, that "silent knowledge" would already be flowing.
Thus, you need some "help" to prove you really did get rid of your internal dialogue.
That's the "puffs" of your dreamer that you see in pictures.
Seeing those, wide awake with your eyes open and completely sober, and on a daily basis (not just once and you get to write your "autobiography of a yogi" best seller), is the proof you stopped your internal dialogue.
I made a map from a lecture Carlos gave, on how the "assemblage point" moves automatically, as you hold your internal dialogue off for longer and longer.
If you didn't see the J curve map, I can point you to it. But it's in the wiki.
And remember this: Sorcery CANNOT be taught.
You have to either learn it yourself, be given to an old wizard at 3 years old, or have a lineage of sorcerers stretching back to the fall of the Toltec empire, take you in as their "replacements".
There's no other path we know of, to actually learn real magic beyond simple meditative effects.
Cool!
This pass is exactly the same as Massaging the Glands Around the Shoulder Blades from Tensegrity Vol 1, it just has two names;
Jade has shown it on live as well, that's where I saw this reference to it written..
Thank you
you are welcome!
I usually insert ‘Fluidity foot’ here in my passes. Feels like they pair nicely.
What volume is fluidity foot in?
I learned it here at 15m:45s from one of Jades Saturday classes.
When I go through Vol 1 I insert it before the ‘massaging glands around shoulder blades’ for me, the pass fits well there.
I like to do Fluidity foot and Massaging glands throughout the day.
Cool! Thanks
Are you sure it is the same pass? In the Vol 1 video, Kylie doesn't place her palms together with that pass.
I simply said what I saw written, also apart from closing the pass as written in the book, everything else is the same..so maybe it's an alternative version? It could be answered by experts on the subject of "tensegrity".
I think there’s some differences with the hands and hand additional movements.
Have to find Jadey’s example, if she says, this is the Cloak of Confidence Pass, thats a done deal, we have it. Otherwise, combine and try and have Ai illustrate again. Put it out for review.
24:30 It's the moment that mentions it.
Thank you again - appreciate it
Exactly, the first part is only a preparation to get the arms in position, but not the pass itself (where it says "She stretched her arms out to each side and took a deep breath. Then she raised her arms to her shoulder level and bent her elbows, keeping the palms of her hands facing down."
The image in this post is not correct.
I made a picture for discord chat. Seems like a waste not to use it.
Eventually, the Tensegrity can be used as a passage way into the sleeping dreaming realm, directly from both awake, and eyes open walking around.
It's a level above how Carlos and Carol Tiggs likely went off into shared dreaming in the books. They seemed to be laying down on a bed somewhere, to go in.
But in fact, Tensegrity can open "cracks".
I suspect that any long form can do that.
I ended up with someone coming out of the dreaming world, to taunt me.
Was it actually Cholita?
She was definitely pleased with me late last night, when she managed to pick up money in a cartel controlled town where she's wandered inside of central Mexico.
And I'd stopped remote viewing her because she wasn't in present danger.
So it's fully possible it was indeed her.
But if it wasn't, I'm not sure that's not as cool. Might be even better.