I preface with I am still new, and I have not studied or practiced enough, but I am attempting to build my understand and starting my journey.
I have read Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and
there are several things that I read that made me pause having read A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
-Dreaming, that men and women have different experiences with said technique
-Lews Therin in Rand's head not quite the same but possibly as a source of knowledge in a sense
-The "Oneness" or the void, it sounds kind of like Silencing the inner dialogue
I know the book is just a story, but in media, "The OA," Star Wars(directly influenced by Castaneda's teachings from my understanding, something that blew my mind away), even other systems like The Dao, there seems to be teachings in them or pieces that ultimately across the world and time have evidence of practices working and being implimented if in different levels like a history teacher and a salesman both using powerpoint at different levels of proficiency for different purpose. Even like I believe the concept of the final mission or however its worded from don juan of being to create a body of energy seperate from the organic being aligned to the "force ghost" or commentary from Damien Echols and the solar body. I just see so much similarity and "truth" sprinkled across its weird to me that theres such a divide and a lack of effort to coordinate and focus on these things, even the bible and the spirit and the afterlife.
Are these things just people doing the same thing like developing a painting technique at the same time at different places?
Also is silencing ones inner dialogue something that only occurs in the darkroom or is it like being in flow state
Is silencing your mind a way to describe purposely altering brain waves or like tibetan monks mediating and melting snow circles around them?
I don't really know who to talk to about these things so I am just yapping and wasting time but I appreciate any that is given.
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People both intuit the truth, but also figure out how to create inspiring words, which allow you to extract any meaning you like from them.
It's a classical asian con artist technique. To create "inspiring" words which typically are actually designed to induce the reader to self flatter.
Daoism is such a religion. Nothing in it stacks up to the narrative of where it came from, and nothing in it is true.
It's all "pretty fantasy" like your book series.
And that "body of light" is something seen in meditation. Not at all what we're talking about. People see, in meditation, whatever they've been told to see.
Watch a cartoon. It shows what meditation is, compared to sorcery.
Our energy body is fully visible all day long, eyes open and completely sober.
Even when you're just walking around at lunch you can see when it's in place.
It has nothing to do with meditation or astral planes, or whatever that make believe system is claiming.
I'll see if I can my animation software to show what it looks like, when you've restored your energy body and look to see if it's there.
It can go off to play in another reality, or hang out around you.
But in either case, it's REAL and fully visible.
Not some meditation fantasy.
Everything you're mentioning is made up for taking money from people who don't know any better.
Using pretty, self-flattering words.
Which typically only make the problem worse. Such as with the Buddha's "Noble Truths".
Those are the worst possible thing you can internalize! A self-pity manifesto designed to trap you in a very old hindu cult, converted to a Chinese crime syndicate.
I check for my energy body when I get up to practice at night. If my energy body is puffs, I know it hasn't fully formed but can be manipulated for magical effects. That makes for very fun Tensegrity practice.
If my energy body has formed a bubble around my torso, I know I can produce magical effects using Silent Knowledge (seeing). So I'll get to see little scenes and distant places, associated with the tensegrity long forms.
The energy body has to form, to allow "seeing".
If it hasn't formed but is still puffs, you can look through the puffs to produce limited, topical "seeing".