There's definitely something to the idea of "Energetic mass".
Florinda once commented that Buddhist chanting works, because they intended it to work.
But rather than a compliment, it was just a commentary on how energetic mass can get your assemblage point to move to meditative effect positions.
About 4-6 inches down the back.
So the Buddhist chanting produces around the same, or less, effect as a simple meditation technique.
Or praying. Christians have intended, that once you join up and start giving cash to your local church, you are "born again" and happy all the time.
Yogis have intended that their mantra, which replaces rather than removing the internal dialogue, can result in bliss and minor visions.
It's all pretty much the same thing.
But Sorcerers don't just move their assemblage points 6 inches, but rather they move them 23 FEET. All the way down the luminous egg, and back up on the other side.
The problem is, how to escape the pitiful green zone of meditation, and get to where physical reality itself starts to be flexible.
Carlos tried everything he could think of, but never got his audiences to stop socializing, and pretending to be doing real work.
It was pretty much "The dog ate my homework" from most people (meaning they didn't practice on their own at all), or "Look at my wonderful drawing I did instead". People did some work, but it wasn't the assigned homework.
So what's the cure for this problem?
Hard work, emphasize stopping the internal dialogue, and after you're truly on the right road and have seen a bunch of actual magic, "get creative" and focus on maximizing the actual tangible results.
Best if it's visual from what I've seen, because it's too easy to pretend "feelings".
Sooner or later you'll learn what stimulates visible magic, and one of the things which does is when you put your WHOLE BODY into the Tensegrity movements.
Which surely looks too silly to do in public, so just practice it at home on your own, until you figure out how to move the assemblage as far as possible, as fast as possible.
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Over the weekend I reviewed the passes I’ve been doing. I noticed, I’ve missed some appendage positions and pauses. With a lot of the passes, I’ve sped through movements or missed some minor movements altogether.
Practicing today I noticed some intensity (back)? Im also farther ahead with inner silence than when I started, so I may have found some nuance I was missing. For me, it’s good practice to review what I’m doing from time to time, to avoid getting sloppy or inserting made up shit.
It's all about how much energy we put into it. And I don't mean that in a magical sense. More like from a normal point of view.
If you treat it like a chore, it doesn't work as well as if you treat it like a beloved hobby you want to get right.
I totally agree! Being motivated and amped to practice is important part of it. If it’s chore you’re not really engaged or present and looking to get done and moving on with your day.
I’ve been listening to Wheel of Time audio book last few days. Scrounging for insights and things I missed.
Carlos seemed really enthused at the results of that book, which he says over and over were flowing from the wheel of time.
Which implies that's actually something like "the spirit".
At our level, it's hard to tell what's flowing from outside us and what's just a sudden insight we had, just like any normal insight you have when trying to do something complicated.
The tendency isn't to make a mistake in your own favor (believing it's magic), but rather to dismiss actual magic, as something mundane.
I'm researching "wheel of time" to figure out why there's a discrepancy in how it's described.
And saw this somewhat related quote from a workshop lecture Carol gave:
"The idea of the worshipper is antithetical to the mood of the universe," she said at one point. "The Dark Sea will fulfill the needs of warriors based on their degree of hard discipline," which she further described as, "The ability to focus all of your available energy on the journey to infinity -- to be free to change, to mutate into another more intelligent aspect.
It seems like the more the whole body is engaged in tensegrity and movement in each J-curve zone, the more feedback you get from the second attention in each zone. That’s probably just stating the obvious to all the practitioners here lol
It seems like I’m always in the middle of some kind of physical action while going about daily life and at least a tiny bit silent that strange perceptual changes or “glitches” to the continuity of reality occur. I’m going to have to try more deliberate tensegrity practice while gazing in daylight, too, and really focusing to deepen silence. Get more “intent”ional 🦾✨
I'm convinced it's possible (eventually) to use daily activities as "darkroom practice".
Meaning, once you realize what makes tensegrity produce more magic, you become aware of things that can't be put into words, but which can certainly be "done". "Go with the flow" kind of sums a few of these up.
And you can try to do that, each time you see an opportunity in your daily life.
Some kind of repetitious act perhaps, which is rather entertaining. Washing stuff in the sink perhaps.
You can make that produce puffs, dark energy, and SK visions.
It’s funny this came up. For the last number of weeks my DR sessions have been less energetic more anticipating, while my quieter moments in daily awareness have had noticeable bleed over. Like the energy I should be seeing in Darkroom is taking its time and crossing into my daily awareness. I can’t even explain or describe how it looks (same but different) after I recognize the feeling of intent is similar to dark room.