I’m reading his books and there’s too much narrative for me. I just want to read the book with all the practical advice and techniques
I’m reading his books and there’s too much narrative for me. I just want to read the book with all the practical advice and techniques
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You could get a really good start by reading the content here
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/aki0db/how_to_see_energy_in_3_weeks/?share_id=sSEkK0zF0DGTn_titH9Ad&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
I can’t open that link for some reason, I’m on the app. Is it the wiki?
Make sure to explore the wiki in time it has an incredible amount of knowledge.
So to start you should learn some tensegrity forms you like ( memorising them ) and start doing inner silence. Read about forcing silence in the wiki. Our main practice is darkroom click the Darkroom link I inserted so you get to a post with a short video about what is darkroom and how to do it.
If you want to find reliable tensegrity videos to learn for free look here on the tensegrity part of the wiki or join our discord server and go to the tensegrity resources.
Here's all you need to know.
Stop your internal dialogue.
That's it.
Seeing happens when you do that.
HOWEVER, you'll get lost if you haven't read the books.
It took hundreds of years of using power plants for the pre-Olmecs to learn to see.
And then thousands of years for them to find the path you saw in the books.
Without attaching yourself to that path you'll only get a small distance, and likely confuse yourself into exploiting other people as a "guru".
Here's a cartoon. There's more you can watch.
You can see what "seeing" is actually like.
It's pretty much "alternate timelines" if you become familiar with what's going on.
Most people focus on pranking your friends if they only read the first books, considering "seeing" as a way to lord it over others.
It's not like that at all.
The more you see, the more you leave others alone.
Here's how seeing works, and that woman is my cartoon of "Little Smoke" from the books. Carlos left his allies to help us.
The wiki and this sub is focused on practical techniques. How do you not love Carlos' books tho? That I don't understand.
I like them but I think they’re missing practical, helpful advice.
The practical advice and techniques are scattered throughout the narratives, but I suppose when I was younger I too felt let down that the concrete answers I was looking for didn't seem to ever coalesce.
Are there any specific techniques you use from the books? Do you lucid dream?
Yeah that’s how I feel. I do like the narrative but I need actual techniques
Carlos, Taisha, and Florinda all laughed when people suggested lucid dreaming was a valid technique to learn sorcery.
And for the last 55 years. not a single person learned any sorcery by that method.
With literally millions likely trying that.
Waking dreaming is what you need, if you actually hope to learn.
How do I waking dream? Is there a book you recommend?
You'd have to read all of them if you want to get it from a book, and even then you might not realize you could gather all that into a single technique. Perhaps Eagle's Gift has the most about it.
I learned it from Little Smoke, the Ally. And also private classes.
But this subreddit explains it in great detail, with pictures.
Over and over.
Best to just forget it and move on. You don't have an actual desire to learn this and it's not fake magic like everything else out there.
Doesn't do any good to learn some, but not actually practice it seriously.
It's pointless unless you learn to move your assemblage point, by stopping your internal dialogue.
Try Daoism. There's thousands of pointless techniques you could memorize.
And YouTube has excellent videos on such topics.
As other have suggested, the wiki here is a good place to start.
I read the books before practicing Darkroom and learning how to move my Assemblage Point, and then after, and I was honestly shocked at how many specific "techniques" are described in the books that I had completely missed because I had no idea what I was looking for the first few times I read the books.
I actually bought a new set of soft bound copies so I could mark them up with highlights and my own comments, and it is a never-ending endeavor to this day.
There is a saying about how an intelligent person is one who knows they don't know much of anything because they are aware of how much knowledge is out there that they do not know, while a less intelligent person thinks that they can easily learn "everything" because they have no awareness of all the knowledge out there they don't know.
Sorcery is much like discovering how much you don't know, but once you find a true thread of Intent to follow, the vastness and interconnectivity takes care of itself. Intent guides your way like a lamp and true experience hones your ability to discern what is real and what is pretend.
I see a lot of questions like this on Reddit and the easiest answer is to just practice and everything else will fall into place.
I recommend Darkroom for everyone, because the discipline of stopping your Internal Dialogue to move you Assemblage Point is the foundation everything else is built.
Any questions you have before you get started are only distractions. You really do get all your questions answered once you find that thread of Intent.
All else is just wasted breath, like trying to describe how to swallow to someone who doesn't know that the body will just swallow when presented with food. Intellectualizing the process doesn't help teach the process. You just have to try to swallow.
They are there but you just can't grasp them yet. There is nothing to learn with sorcery other than to save your energy. Once you do that, you can shift your assemblage point.
Do recaps and stare in the dark. You'll see things that "shouldn't" be there, and feel some weird effects (while completely sober). Guide is in the sidebar how to do recapitulation breath.