A few months ago I posted about seeing sparks during passes for a few months since before that. Following up on that: the sparks have become more and more frequent! I think it's probably a few times a day that I'm seeing them now, usually while doing passes. When it's not during passes I usually spot them mid head & torso turning.
I've been sort of "expecting" to see them and I'm a little surprised if I do a set of passes and don't see any. Which is funny to say because I was shocked a few months ago when I realized I had been seeing them just barely noticing until they got really "in my face".
I've steadily been doing the first 2 intent series daily. And more often doing sets of the Westwood Series. I've been trying to catch "sunlight glitter" daily. It's actually kind of fun squinting and tracing sun bounces off car windshields or windows.
I have not kept up very much with Recapitulation process, though I have been adding to the list of people with brief descriptions after I meet them.
Anyway, that's it, just sharing an update on the sparks.
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Yeah, be mindful of the expectation for things to show up.
I don't think expecting to see things has any influence on it. Seeing the sparkles regularly is what got me expecting to see them.
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I've been seeing them too.
Cool. Have you noticed any particular passes show them? Or maybe it's the sunlight glitter
I haven't been doing "passes" 😅.
Nice. Sparkles are always nice.
There's a long list of "things to see" as long as you keep learning deeper and deeper silence.
I'd say first "stuff", then "puffs", then "alternate realities", then "phantom realms", and finally Silent Knowledge.
However, I learned last night that Silent Knowledge isn't necessarily a final sight along the path.
And that maybe Carlos pointed us to a sight even further than that when he decided we couldn't be trusted to stop our internal dialogue, and created the long passes which came with the instructions to "focus on muscle memory".
I interpreted that to be like focusing on the puffs, to aid your ability to stop the internal dialogue.
Meaning that Carlos had come up with visible magic, that we could find before it became visible.
Except it didn't work.
Now I can see that there's also a "here and there" thing going on, with where our attention focuses.
And between the here, and the there, is the abstract.
So he might also have been expecting that each time we tried to focus on the muscle memory's idea of what's going on, we might catch a glimpse of "the abstract".
Which isn't invisible.
Just because it's abstract, doesn't mean it isn't perfectly visible.
It just means that you can't talk about it, write about it, or think about it later on.
But it's FULLY visible.
Here's an example of the best I can do, to show what it's like when "the abstract" is visible during tensegrity.
You discover that each movement "rips" reality a tiny bit and the abstract spills out into view.
The abstract seems to be low in emanation count. Which might explain why you can see it, but not talk about it.
This example is as close to what I was witnessing when I started to notice you can see the abstract at the end of most movements in a long form. Not the entire form. But each movement that seems to conclude at a point, and then flow to the next point in the long form.
But it's not at all what I was looking at. And doesn't capture the total loss of rationality while viewing it.
Is "the abstract" meaning really far away on the AP position?
No, it seems to exist at all assemblage position points.
As best I can figure, it's a bundle of very few emanations. Not enough glowing to be "real", but enough to be perceivable.
So it doesn't "make sense".
At the time you are perceiving it, you don't really notice anything is wrong with it.
It's only when you return to your normal reality and try to remember it, that you realize there was something seriously wrong with it.
Carlos never defined it well as far as I know, but he did talk about it in private classes more times than I can count.
He also discussed "abstract dreaming" a time or two, and I suspect the women are most likely to discover it. Since he was reacting to the experience a woman had.
Just think of it as something you can clearly perceive, which makes no sense at all when your assemblage point returns to its normal position.
But while perceiving it, you can even be interacting with it as if everything were just fine.
I suspect eeryone has experienced it. Even non-sorcerers.
The "feverish dream" is likely a perception of the abstract.
Really, it makes perfect sense that it would exist.
We only assemble a TINY fraction of the emanations available at any given assemblage point position.
Maybe you can perceive little clusters of those, which are normally discarded as not being useful?
If I had to guess, I'd say that Carlos flying around the Eucalyptus trees with Genaro, in a fuzzy animal outfit, was mostly "abstract".
That was where don Juan wanted to show him the Nagual and got Genaro to do it.
It's VERY EASY to completely misunderstand that story...
As people do for much of the books.
Then they even get angry if you try to explain it to them. If it doesn't match their existing faulty understanding.
What you wrote reminds me of https://centerforgermanphilosophy.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Search-for-Logically-Alien-Thought-clean-searchable-copy.pdf
At least they're trying. But there's no way you can do what they suggest without completely stopping your internal dialogue, so that your assemblage point drifts into an exotic place.
It sounds like they're trying, from their normal fixed assemblage point, to peer into the unknown.
Won't happen...
And worst of all, their actual motivation is surely just to get attention from other humans.
it's a vicious cycle.
I'll see if I can manage to get t he AI to draw what ZI was looking at for hours last night.
But it's unlikely.
I suppose if I had to give it a name, I'd say it's the "borderline Abstract".
When I got up to practice, I had continuous silent knowledge in every tiny part of the dark room, except that it was never concrete enough to be satisfying.
I had to be satisfied with the fact that it was continuous, and without any effort.
As if SK could be "extracted" from any point in space.