This happened on the 17th, I initially wasn't going to share it but remembered the night before I asked for something to post. The weeks prior were dry on the sub, and what was posted here was either low effort, or overwrought with AI, or borderline 'bad player' content that wouldn't have survived if posted last year.
I do miss how strict this sub was when I first started. We were expected to work hard and follow directions before participating or else the mods would sweep it away. A no nonsense approach from a strong mod team and strong practitioners. In my opinion, that helped push people to work harder.
There was a deeper sense of accountability, discovery, exploration here, and the results practitioners were getting spoke for themselves. Now as an example, we have multiple people using AI to interpret the books. While some might argue what we practice here is a technology and so is AI why not pair the two. In adopting this approach I feel like the sub is slipping from the high standards it previously had, and by not fighting for knowledge we lose potency in the process.
So despite having these and other concerns I asked for something to help encourage people to practice harder and to keep pushing forward and was answered with this experience.
I'm grateful to this sub and the people here. The books and this place hooked me, I've been practicing every day since and experiencing things I wouldn't have imagined.
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This really resonates. Tools can accelerate the process, but they shouldn’t replace the discipline, experimentation, and personal discovery that make the practice meaningful. High standards aren’t about gatekeeping—they’re about preserving the quality of the work and pushing practitioners to become better.
I also respect that, despite your concerns, you chose to ask for something that would encourage people to practice harder. That mindset is exactly what keeps a community alive and evolving.
Would you join the Mod team?
in fact, the exchange of experience in this field does not make sense at all, everything is in Dan's comments and Carlos's books, read and do. long stories and funny pictures about what someone saw somewhere don't help anyone, easy motivation to continue, no more.
An inspirational and motivating experience for sure! 🤩💖
Thank you for sharing. If there wasn’t the strong push and encouragement for practitioners doing their absolute best, and giving their all to deepen their silence and grow the magical possibilities of awareness, all by striving to move the assemblage point further and further, experiences like yours would completely escape possibility for most of us here—long-time community members and passerby’s alike
I never thought of just asking intent "let's go!"
But of course the problem is that once you plan to do that, you've messed up your link to intent.
The videos in the air eventually suck you in on their own but by the time that starts happening automatically, it's likely you've been at it a long time and it's soon time to stop.
So I've given up on that approach and have been looking at the "edges". Where the video in the air already overlaps with non-concrete things in the room.
I believe that's also the key to directly entering sleeping dreams, while awake.
Viewing the edges of reality windows takes even deeper silence, to the point that you have literally stopped causing things to make sense.
You have to get below where "a chair became a chair" to perceive that level.
Which of course is next to impossible, so what happens instead is that you get a new addition to the flow of "videos in the air".
You get the flow of sleeping dream fragments, into the room. Maybe, it's the energy body's own view of another realm? Whereas the video in the air is the tonal looking through the energy body's ability to channel silent knowledge streams?
Whenever a sub on a serious topic begins to fill it with "memes" or when I see kind of "manga / anime" stuff, I regard the sub as dead.