The Chacmools
There was some whispered criticism of Tensegrity in private classes.
I believe this is an almost complete list:
1). This wasn’t in the books!
2). It’s just Howard Lee’s Kung Fu.
3). That lame movement? Who does he think he’s fooling?
4). Virginia's kind of hot when she does that. Mighty convenient way to get to touch the women.
5). Sure, there’s hundreds of techniques. More to sell at workshops.
6). Kylie is too scary.
I hope everyone who’s been in here for at least a few months knows how silly all of those are.
Except the part about Kylie being scary.
Just line up the Chacmools, and see how Kylie towers over them.
In that picture, Reni is sort of puckered up. At worst, she might kiss you.
Nyei is out somewhere in outer space. Or ready to be tickled.
But Kylie has your number! And Reni and Nyei combined, couldn't defeat her.
As to the techniques being effective, I’ve pointed out that fact that you can actually see energy while doing the tensegrity, and observe the redeployment claim.
Yes! It does!
When a little creature floating in the air flies over quickly to where you just redeployed energy, you can even ask him if it works.
I'm sure he'll smile.
And to get started gazing at darkness in silence, some tensegrity moves really speed up the process of finding colors and inorganic beings.
Especially the Westwood dreaming series.
Tensegrity can also assemble another world, when combined with extreme silence, and “the wall”.
And, you need it to manage entry to some worlds.
But when I read about how you could incorporate tensegrity into your daily life, “instinctively knowing” which move to do in a given situation, I was pretty skeptical.
I had visions of the tango expert Nagual giving his foot a little twist during the dancing, and claiming that actually did something.
I was so wrong!
It does.
To discover that, you need to get into heightened awareness and lose it, over and over.
You get into heightened awareness with 3 hours of gazing in darkness. It takes 3 hours to move the assemblage point that far on your own.
You lose it the next day at the office.
How long it lasts depends on the circumstances of the day.
EXCEPT, you can add a little tensegrity to your walk, do a few passes when no one’s looking, and keep it all day long.
You figure out what’s effective by watching your breathing.
In heightened awareness, the breathing is automatic. Only the stomach moves, and it’s as calm as a still clear lake.
Not to mention, you feel bliss.
During the day, the bliss starts to fade. You do tensegrity movements, and you notice that your breathing is fixed.
You’d forgotten it should be automatic. The bliss covers that up.
When the bliss fades enough that you feel like you need to go do some moves, the first thing you notice is that the natural breath is restored.
It's like a sigh of relief when it's restored to the perfect breath.
The bliss follows like an echo, around 10 seconds later.
(The same thing happens when summoning objects using intent.)
You also get feedback on which Tensegrity moves work best in a given situation.
Mashing energy is one you can even do while walking. You can do it in such a subtle manner, people won’t notice. Of if they do, they’ll just think you’ve got a sore heel.
But does the tensegrity really do something, or is it all about intent?
I have no idea.
But even a little hand wave towards the second attention’s assemblage point, has an effect.
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My first reaction is it's about minutely shifting focus away from the completely automatic behaviors that drive most of our days. Even complex physical procedures if done often enough become automatic, like an assembly line worker.
Flip your hand palm up for no reason, at a key moment, with the intent to signal your energy body...and it gets the signal that you want to maintain your position from last night, if you're somewhere this side of shifting back to it.
Since almost all of the practices and progress take place in the body (somatic), a somatic and not a mental signal is the most direct way to make that intent known.
And it is also a not-doing practice, breaking the routine of your usual movements. A very powerful not-doing practice.
I've read that over at r/DimensionalJumping
What, specifically?
I don't know how relevant this is, but I have remembered one exercise from the earlier books. Regarding the absence of passes in the books.
"He made me lie down and took my right arm and bent it at my elbow. Then he turned my hand
until the palm was facing the front; he curved my fingers so my hand looked as if I were holding
a door knob, and then he began to move my arm back and forth with a circular motion that
resembled the act of pushing and pulling a lever attached to a wheel.
Don Juan said that a warrior executed that movement every time he wanted to push something
out of his body, something like a disease or an unwelcome feeling. The idea was to push and pull
an imaginary opposing force until one felt a heavy object, a solid body, stopping the free
movements of the hand. In the case of the exercise, not-doing consisted in repeating it until one
felt the heavy body with the hand, in spite of the fact that one could never believe it was possible
to feel it.
I began moving my arm and in a short while my hand became ice cold. I had begun to feel a
sort of mushiness around my hand. It was as if I were paddling through some heavy viscous
liquid matter.
Don Juan made a sudden movement and grabbed my arm to stop the motion. My whole body
shivered as though stirred by some unseen force. He scrutinized me as I sat up, and then walked
around me before he sat back down on the place where he had been.
"You've done enough," he said. "You may do this exercise some other time, when you have
more personal power."
"Did I do something wrong?"
"No. Not-doing is only for very strong warriors and you don't have the power to deal with it
yet. Now you will only trap horrendous things with your hand. So do it little by little, until your
hand doesn't get cold any more. Whenever your hand remains warm you can actually feel the
lines of the world with it."
He paused as if to give me time to ask about the lines. But before I had a chance to, he started
explaining that there were infinite numbers of lines that joined us to things. He said that the
exercise of not-doing that he had just described would help anyone to feel a line that came out
from the moving hand, a line that one could place or cast wherever one wanted to. Don Juan said
that this was only an exercise, because the lines formed by the hand were not durable enough to
be of real value in a practical situation.
"A man of knowledge uses other parts of his body to produce durable lines," he said.
"What parts of the body, don Juan?"
"The most durable lines that a man of knowledge produces come from the middle of the
body," he said. "But he can also make them with his eyes."
"Are they real lines?"
"Surely."
"Can you see them and touch them?"
"Let's say that you can feel them. The most difficult part about the warrior's way is to realize
that the world is a feeling. When one is not-doing, one is feeling the world, and one feels the
world through its lines."
He paused and examined me with curiosity. He raised his brows and opened his eyes and then
blinked. The effect was like the eyes of a bird blinking. Almost immediately I felt a sensation of
discomfort and queasiness. It was actually as if something was applying pressure to my stomach.
"See what I mean?" don Juan asked and moved his eyes away.
I mentioned that I felt nauseated and he replied in a matter-of-fact tone that he knew it, and
that he was trying to make me feel the lines of the world with his eyes. I could not accept the
claim that he himself was making me feel that way. I voiced my doubts. I could hardly conceive
the idea that he was causing my feeling of nausea, since he had not, in any physical way,
impinged on me.
"Not-doing is very simple but very difficult," he said. "It is not a matter of understanding it but
of mastering it. Seeing, of course, is the final accomplishment of a man of knowledge, and seeing
is attained only when one has stopped the world through the technique of not-doing."
I used to try this exercise and have got the feeling don Juan described. Need to revisit it with current silence practices.
I use it all the time. Last night for example.
I trap dark energy with it, and use it as a lure for inorganic beings.
You can see the dark energy stuck to your hand, as if you sprayed glue on it, and dipped it into dust bunnies under the bed.
Carlos' allies are even attracted to it. Or perhaps more accurately, one of them can be summoned by pointing it.
The times when they've shown up might always have had some concentration at the base of it. Concentration as in, pointing things. Or spinning them.
I didn't notice the line don Juan mentioned, just some cobwebs.
But I've seen 4 lines that are in the hand.
They're about as long as the fingers, super bright yellow, and they vibrate as you watch them.
Almost violently. But the level of silence required to see that is profound. I suspect you even have to be in good health to pull that off.
Scooping energy that way last night, I had a sudden insight about La Gorda's flying technique.
(Because in the past I was scooping when I had some success with that technique).
The urine is part of you. Or was.
You're casting part of your body up into the air when you flick your fingers. Perhaps it can light up those red filaments you have to grab onto, in order to fly.
I suspect, if I get Cholita to learn that technique, she'll spit.
You should see her spit! It's like an angry Alpaca.
I've gotten it in the face twice.
No explanation for why. She was just angry with me when I got home.
In Magical Passes if I recall correctly CC writes that the stretches that DJ did when cracking his joints were in fact magical passes, just that he hadn't realised it until later when he was formally told about them. I can attest that a committed stretch with vigorous contracting of whichever muscles are involved moves the assemblage point, a little at least, to either change out of a mood or focus or get a ringing in the ears and some calm.
Another one in the books is cold showers, or dips in cold water in watering canals more like, which to withstand you can also tense hard all your muscles, especially around the midpoint, front at back. Try it out!
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How about the dance for death? Or the sorcerers way of sitting on one leg?
Or kicking the calf. Can't recall what that was for.
Of course, the gait of power is in there.
Tensegrity is all over the place!
We just got sucked into the wise old Indian shaman imagery and ignored the actual techniques.
By the way. I spent some of my childhood among American Indians. And competed for hot women at a local bar they frequent.
They're grumpy! And a bit racist.
The whole wise Indian thing is a white guy guilt trip misunderstanding.
I guess making amends for all the slaughter.
But the Indians I met are just not like those inspirational pictures of don Juan.
Best to forget that part of the story line and focus on the technical aspects.
Put down the feathers and medicine bags, and pick up the rocks.
I can't quite figure out if tensegrity works, or tensegrity intends.
The quote on our wiki about "Shifting Perception", the introduction below the links, implies we have no actual form. We're just making it all up as we go along.
Maybe anything will do.
If you're an old sorcerer, you'd like to intend things using the basics. Your body for example.
Catholic icon candles and liquor store Sai Baba incense are probably a little too hard for them to come by, so why not use what you have?
If it doesn't matter what you use to intend something, as long as you learn the doing of intending that way, why not just use the foot or hand?
Cholita goes to complicated lengths to intend things. As witches tend to do.
Torn money in the trash, hidden by an unpaid traffic ticket. Plus some stuff I don't recognize.
Rotting plants from her cactus garden in a tiny trash bin, with her favorite outdoor plush toy pineapple, sitting on top as a guard.
Until the fermentation is complete.
One past fermentation of hers took 3 months. An electrical cord, and a list written on paper. All underwater. It had to ferment until the list was invisible. I was chastised for disturbing it to get the power cord out of the water.
Or a bottle of sangria poured over my bed, with a dagger made from a broken drinking glass, carefully positioned under my heart on the floor under the bed, where I'll never see it. With the point up. And a $10 orchid plant carelessly laying on its side next to the dagger.
Puzzling what that might be intending...
A circle of homemade sand going around the house. It appears and disappears seemingly instantly.
Or my favorite since I found it two days ago. A sledge hammer and axe hidden behind some boards on the side of the house.
When I saw it she commented, "Oh, is this a day for open doors and ....?"
(Can't remember the non-sequitur second half).
Since I've never owned an axe or sledge hammer, it might have been easier for her if she just used her foot or hand.
Maybe a slap or a kick?
I suspect it's the same for tensegrity. You only need to wave or stretch a body part at the right moment, to get the magical result.
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I don't recall these!
In general this seems one of the differences with the old seers, who elaborated all sorts of ways of doing who knows what awful things:
I wanna get bogged down in a quagmire!
Why is everyone always putting that down?
We have no soup!
Even Campbell's Soup is better than nothing.
Let's not be snobby.
New rule:
I just made it up. Everyone can make up their own mind.
But my way is more fun...
Since the new sorcerers were so cool and wise, and found the way to freedom for us, it's our duty to go back and examine how the old sorcerers got bogged down in a quagmire, just so that we can warn future students not to do that.
We have to know what we're talking about, after all.
And the hard work's already been done by our lineage. We have a little time to kill on amusement park rides.
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Perhaps with the larger picture that the new seers brought it's fine to dip back into the old ways. The point seems to be to avoid getting stuck in a quagmire, but if you know the pitfalls, maybe that's possible.
Plus, there’s the internet now.
It’s pretty hard to get bogged down on magic these days.
That’s because once you get some magic to work, you become greedy and go looking for more.
Carlos did too.
And you have access to the entire world these days.
People interested in “practical magic” will get constant exposure to purists, only interested in exploration.
And I just don’t see how you could get bogged down.
The old sorcerers had dirt and rocks. That’s about it. Maybe a metal shank if they were wealthy.
So they got bogged down easily.
Much needed direction, Dan, much needed.
I myself am observing carefully how I internalized all the CC book stuff into an inventory of dialogue. At the center, it's always self-importance and the desire to be a sorcerer.
I thought I was reading a life-changing book that was going to teach me how to attain 'total freedom'. I now realize I was 'defeated' before I even started...
With growing awareness of little time for conscious “living” (4HL), perhaps the silence technique should be clarified to not scare people who suspect that it takes up their “free time”.
You can practice silence during work hours, during commute/food/loo, and the hours spent in darkness/silence during night/sleep-time have very restful effect like sleep, even more energizing if you get inorganics to interact.
(4HL=“4 hour life”=24h-8work-8sleep-4commute)
Excellent point.
I like to recommend driving as a good place to practice silence.
While driving, your internal dialogue is going nuts!!!
It’s like a test. The entire world is scrolling by, flashing images into your mind.
Can you be empty enough to have no feelings about them?
With most people, it’s like this:
Ooohhh... Donuts! No wait. My butt is too fat.
That guy's car is filthy, doesn't he care?
That's an old guy up front, you can tell by the hat. No wonder traffic isn't moving.
Damned Asian drivers! Stop means stop.
Hey, check out that babe! Need a ride?
It goes on and on.
Every car and place that goes by forces the mind to come up with an opinion about it.
You are literally watching your internal dialogue scroll by.
That's a good time to force yourself silent. While driving.
When you can cruise down the street and have absolutely no opinion about the things you pass, you've made huge progress.
But it can't be posturing or pretend. You really have to have no opinion at all.
Is it dangerous? Eventually.
You go through a period of spatial distortion. Time distortion too. If I get silent with Cholita in my car, the sky turns purple and yellow bands of light streak across it.
So there are some hazards.
But you have to be really far along. You can pull off at any point and switch to the chair, once you realize it is in fact possible to learn silence.
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But still, for a consistent progress we need both - daytime practice for the chatter + the deeper one in the chair?
From my own experience they seem complementary and strengthen one another. At least what I can feel recently.
I'd say, the biggest turning point is when you can be silent for 2 minutes, and weird stuff happens.
You repeat that over and over, until you fully realize, it's worth the effort after all!
Everyone is in doubt before that, regardless of what they claim. And the doubt makes it harder to sit in the chair and do what needs to be done.
Once the doubt is gone, you will eventually just make up your mind to be silent all day long, from now on.
After 3 days of hell, it's sort of ok. After 5 days it's pleasant.
But you still have to fight to keep it off.
There does eventually (3-6 months) come a point where silence can lock in on its own, and stay.
The experience is as if you had died. Dead and gone. No need to think anymore.
That gives you the unfiltered experience of wandering around in the world, which turns out to be familiar. It felt like that as kids.
Which gives you another way to be silent. You focus on that feeling you get from things, when you're silent.
Or, you can find your own petty tyrant, like Cholita, to help you force silence while shopping.
Another viable path. If you can find a Cholita.
Silencing the chatter for 2 mins or images part also?
Does it mean that you are always silent and your AP is drifting all the time or you still have to force yourself silent? For example, after your many years of practice, do you have to still force it to make AP move, summon the wall, etc.?
No, you don't have to get rid of the images yet. 2 minutes is enough.
Last question, no. The assemblage point gets more and more flexible.
If I practice 3 hours a day without fail, the instant I turn off the lights the room is filled with magical things and beings.
Or rather than instant I should say, when the shock of the lights going out ends.
If I skip a day, it takes 20 minutes.
If I skip 2 days, it takes 2 hours.
There's the rub. You CAN'T do 3 hours a day, if you have a job and a Cholita.
If you have 2 Cholita's of varying ages running around in your home, you're royally screwed.
Carlos had 16 at one point, including the real Cholita!
That's why, we need to find a daytime practice, so we can be practicing all day long.
I don't mean silence. You have to do that anyway.
I mean, find something that will move the assemblage point during the day.
The silence only means it CAN move.
It doesn't mean it WILL move.
I haven't found that hook yet.
I might have to resort to my old tricks.
Inorganic beings.
Staring at one of those moves it faster than anything I know of.
I just have to figure out how to find one reliably, during the day.
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So it means, that after we are dead, the dialogue still keeps returning maybe in the other form? And even you need to do a forcing silence practice or you are speaking about other techniques to pull/push the AP and silence is always with you?
Very relevant for me, and for many others, I guess. What it could be apart from forcing silence? Passes? Some gazing to do during the daytime?
Yea, it always comes back. But if you've gotten good at it, it's wordless.
You just take an inventory and find nothing at all. So nothing to talk about in your head.
I'm a big fan of Star Trek.
Imagine Quark goes into an abandoned ship with his inventorying notepad, sees nothing, clicks a key, and turns around to leave.
If it's full, he goes nuts in there and starts scheming.
That's silence in a nutshell.
Be like Quark is, when there's nothing to inventory. Move on, no profit here!
What else can we do during the day, maybe passes?
Man, those darned passes.
Stagnated for 22 years, that's what those passes did to the Castaneda community.
But I have to admit, they work as promised.
And I'm sure they're a path to move the assemblage point dramatically, because I did it at workshops.
I was just too stupid at the time to realize, if you find yourself on top of a mountain in the middle of doing tensegrity, don't just shake it off!
You should run around the workshop screaming with delight, to let others know about it.
My guess: moving the assemblage point with Tensegrity is too advance for new people.
For daytime, we need something else.
Sound maybe.
Flooding the eyes, sort of like gazing, perhaps.
Imagining a giant muffin in front of your eyes.
No, scratch that one. Too hard.
Inorganic beings for sure, but you have to be able to notice them.
They don't give up during the day! In fact, they get frustrated, and push your cellphone off a table, to get your attention.
But you have to be able to gaze at them for a sustained time to get the assemblage point to move.
A short visit won't do it.
Anyone notice, we're sort of repeating what the old sorcerers did?
They "became desperate for ways to move the assemblage point", as I recall.
That kind of helps build confidence in the story line. That it's all natural and inevitable.
So here's another daytime method: not-doing.
Who'd have guessed?
I just tried out the sound and tensegrity. I added imperceptible "mashing energy" foot movements to my walk.
And I listened carefully to the steps, while silent.
And out came an inorganic being!
Didn't hang out long enough. Or maybe I was too jazzed.
But yes, we can find a way to do that. To move the assemblage point in daylight.
We need a specialist.
I have a recapitulation specialist.
But a daylight dreamer?
I don't know of any so far.
Storytelling. It could be about storytelling. About intercepting or listening to the story that every single thing around us is projecting even inanimate objects and the forces of nature like the wind or a river. The memory of the world. Something we can't do if all we can hear is our own story, our internal monologue.
Like u/danl999's interception of other people's dreams during waking dreaming at night, when others are asleep locally.
If practically every living thing in existence has an awareness (both organic and inorganic), to vary degrees, then it must also have a dreaming body. Even insects and single cell organisms.
And it's projecting the story, the dream, during the day as well, all the time and what our own merged dreaming body or second attention can reach/interpret; parallel to our perception of this world.
And it may not necessarily be the dreams of what's right in front of us physically.
Sounds interesting, like a new way of relating to the world bypassing the inventory. But for me it sounds more as an inevitable consequence of silence, as Dan had described when he saw some lines and glow coming from the Sun.
Maybe here we need a broad spectrum of not-doings, both "behavioral" and "perceptual". Actually, Carlos described a lot of them in his books - breaking habits, becoming hunter, right way of walking, different shadow gazing techniques.
I have a student who uses after images. I don't quite understand it, but his dreaming attention is on while he's awake, if he closes his eyes.
That means he's halfway or more towards heightened awareness.
He keeps it going during the day by looking at a bright thing, like a window, then closing his eyes and keeping it in sight as long as possible.
We've all tried that a little, but he can keep it in sight for 30 minutes!
It's a little like the Fire Kasina guys and their candles.
I suspect it's easier to do that sort of thing at night. If you're driving and you get silent, you can notice that the road has an inverted colors echo in the sky.
Watching the dark road go by produces a colored streak across the left and right sides of the dark sky.
But we double take those away. It's another "eye defect", so we've learned to block it out.
If you don't block it out, it appears. And watching it is like watching colors in the darkness. It can move your assemblage point, if you're silent.
And of course, Carlos emphasized using Tensegrity everywhere. You can add a tiny bit to your walk.
All in all, we have to get the assemblage point to move. So our obsession is the same as the old sorcerer's.
If anything is wrong with emphasizing Tensegrity only, it's that in the course of doing that, people create inventories of how the movements should be, they set up a hierarchy of who's better at it, and so who has more authority, and they find their own "equals", and practice together.
Practicing in that hierarchy with their friends, they have a community feeling that magic will soon be coming.
It won't.
You forgot the main thing: you have to get that assemblage point to move, or nothing changes.
Most common mistake of a newbee: go find a community to belong to.
That's what everyone does. And obviously, it doesn't work. You might get a consolation prize. Like being the "leader".
But you won't get any magic.
You need to do the opposite.
You're Rogue 1 from Star Wars.
You're already doomed. That's why you climbed in the little space ship.
You aren't going to live happily ever after with your spiritually minded friends at home base. They're all doomed too.
Just fight on with what you have, focusing only on the next thing to blow up.
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You're warming me up to your stormtrooper analogy. Slowly. Though I don't see why you can't be both, a stormtrooper and a Jedi. To totally nerd out:
"The rarely used lightsabers of the Jedi Sentinels usually produced a yellow blade. Few in numbers, Sentinels had no superior titles such as Sage or Warrior Masters of the other two branches. Instead, they focused on practicing the variety of specialized techniques needed to be successful as a Sentinel."
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jedi_Sentinel ;
https://starwarslatinamerica.com/2019/12/24/why-palpatine-feared-jedi-with-yellow-lightsabers/
Isn't that where Anakin went wrong? Trying to be both?
Just because someone else failed, doesn't mean you will. The character of Anakin couldn't let go of his attachments.
He needed the Recapitulation!
Conversely, just because someone else succeeded doesn't mean you will.
It's all dependant on the effort/work you put in.
The search for the "middle path" between the Jedi and the Sith has featured heavily in the published non-canon books over the past decades.
Gray Jedi being another prime example. Refusing to adhere to either (or any) ideology.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Gray_Jedi
Maybe the new Jedi will be like that. I haven't seen the latest one, but I loved the last Jedi.
Rey just dives right into the dark side, questioning why someone wouldn't do that if it was useful.
My hero!
I am too.
Unfortunately, yes.. It wasn't the magical pill Carlos envisioned it to be.
This seems a very important topic indeed. Maybe flooding eyes with images as you have wrote and various stalking not-doings which Carlos has described in his books.
"The most important thing the new seers needed," don Juan continued, "was practical steps in
order to make their assemblage points shift. Since they had none, they began by developing a
keen interest in seeing the glow of awareness, and as a result they worked out three sets of
techniques that became their cornerstone."
"Don Juan stopped talking and stared at me fixedly. There was an awkward silence; then he
started to talk about stalking. He said that it had very humble and fortuitous origins. It started
from an observation the new seers made that when warriors steadily behave in ways not
customary for them, the unused emanations inside their cocoons begin to glow. And their
assemblage points shift in a mild, harmonious, barely noticeable fashion.
Stimulated by this observation, the new seers began to practice the systematic control of their
behavior. They called this practice the art of stalking. Don Juan remarked that the name, although
objectionable, was appropriate, because stalking entailed a specific kind of behavior with people,
behavior that could be categorized as surreptitious.
The new seers, armed with this technique, tackled the known in a sober and fruitful way. By
continual practice, they made their assemblage points move steadily."
Actually, don't count Carlos out. I suspect he planned the entire thing. Not using thinking. Using intent.
Look at the situation: It's not dire at all. There's still a base of practicioners, thanks to Cleagreen.
Some don't go anymore, but they aren't exactly angry. Not angry the way Carlos' private class students are.
If they hear something like, "Wow, at that last workshop someone brought out their Ally, and I could actually see it!", they'll flock back.
And the tensegrity instructors have in fact restored their energy body. They just didn't figure out how to move the assemblage point, so they could put it to use.
Maybe this subreddit will embarrass them into learning to do that.
Plus they're largely Russian. Russians aren't winy babies like Americans.
You should talk to some witches if you want to understand that. American witches argue about dark and light, and smelly potions and pretty amulets. Which crystals give off healing energy.
Russian witches summon demons and visit graveyards to serve the dead, in exchange for their help.
The American witches are steeped in the Tonal, the Russian witches seek the Nagual.
I'd say, things are going fine.
Let me add: the books are a map.
It's so obvious.
Let me explain:
Let's say you created a story. A total fabrication. But in it, every single sentence was designed to teach.
To explain to you, what can get you closer to magic, and what will not.
If the story is entertaining, you'll read it several times.
Now you have the map in your head. If you put in any effort at all, intent will gift you with stuff. Knowing the story, you pick the right way to go at every turn.
It's a map.
I agree, of course. If it wasn't him we wouldn't be discussing this at all and know about all this.
A treasure map for sorcery.
And it doesn't even have to be so obvious.
As an experiment, I'm producing 2 new maps and putting them out there, without any labels on them.
I have a witch helping me.
What do you think on the not-doings and stalking topic? In the above comment I shared some ideas/quotes. How relevant it could be?
I think both are manditory.
I just DON'T LIKE STALKING.
But once you're in heightened awareness and magic is visible everywhere, stalking might be nice, if it helps you to maintain or use the magic.
Plus, despite saying I don't like stalking, I do it all the time.
The not-doings ought to help too. Open the door with the opposite hand you usually use.
Drive to work a different route.
On their own, they're placebos. Well, maybe not-doing isn't.
But if you go around with absolutely nothing really happening, then tell yourself you're working your way up with your clever stalking behavior, then you have chocolate instead of vanilla for a not-doing, you'll end up with the fate of the other 99 private class students.
You'll go back to your old life.
You'll probably live it more like what you wanted in the first place, for having studied and given up sorcery.
But you'll still get nowhere.
Magic first, placebo techniques later.
Here's a tip for incorporating tensegrity into your daily life:
Don't get too mystical or precise about it.
You can't copy it precisely, if you're putting it inside your walk. Or how you move in the world. It'll be too noticeable.
Having people notice it will create more attachments (energy loss) than not doing it at all.
And don't get mystical about it, and think about what you might see, and how to see the same thing when walking.
Instead, pay attention to what the tensegrity feels like. What it does with the muscles.
Mashing energy is a good starter. It makes the muscles in the calves flex and release, slowly.
So that you feel the muscle pushing your heel up on one side, and letting the other heel fall slowly, to match the speed.
It's almost like an exercise only for that muscle, which rarely gets consciously used.
So add a tiny bit of it to your walking step, but don't just think about landing on the ball of the foot, and letting the heel come down slightly after that.
Pay attention to what the other foot is doing. The opposite.
Really? I thought we were trying to get away from the super secret elite warrior type mindset?
Is it simply being noticed by others, or the 'shame' of doing weird Tensegrity moves in front of the general populace.
I remember a practitioner who was a doctor at a hospital in South America who had almost no available time to practice. So he did Tensegrity movements while walking down the street, openly. Women would ask him what kind of dance he was doing.
But this was South America, land of mucho dancing.
That being said, I am by nature VERY private. Only a few actually use all or part of their actual name in their Reddit handle/username.
Both. Or neither, depending on the person.
Someone as empty as don Juan could probably squat and take a dump on the sidewalk, and it wouldn’t leave any traces in him.
For me it would.
Sorcery is all about feelings. I discovered that fact in the last 2 weeks, and then someone posted an inspirational quote where don Juan had said the same thing.
It's not something you'd notice, just by reading that.
I didn’t get it when I read it.
You learn about it, once you discover how to manipulate intent in multiple ways.
For example, you discover 10 different ways to manipulate intent in a dark room.
But there’s actually no procedure for any of them.
You just decide that you want to do that.
And then at some point, you “feel” that it’s going to work. If you don’t feel that, move on.
Some things you can do that way are dramatic, like doing Silvio Manuel’s weird steps movement that’s supposed to help you appraise a situation.
On the last step, you can be in another world. You just feel that you can do it, so you do.
In some cases, you feel that if you turn your head you’ll be looking down a tunnel.
True, it's the assemblage point that moves and changes us. And anyone starting out should remember that.
Nothing cool is happening, because your assemblage point hasn’t moved far enough. Even if you can get silent, that doesn’t guarantee it’ll move. And before it does, you'll fret. Despite being silent, you'll suffer a bit.
And true, you need to get rid of the internal dialogue, or it can’t move at all.
And true, there's images below that dialogue, and those must go because they keep bringing back the internal dialogue.
And yes, there’s a little man down there who censors input, in case something illegal tries to sneak through. Like a phantom dog running outdoors.
But in the end, you could probably sum all that up as "feelings". Or maybe feelings are what’s in common between all of those.
I’m not sure yet, but at the level of the Witches in Carlos’ group, things must get really weird.
Fluid. Non-linear.
Carlos' last books sort of hint at that. He's zipping all over the place, with no sense of distance or time, meeting don Juan here and there.
I believe that's actually possible!
Contrary to the "experts" on Castaneda, he wasn't being nostalgic.
He was finally admitting to us, what a mess sorcery becomes. You can't start out telling people about that. You have to relate it in an orderly fashion to begin with.
Yea, but if we hide them we're also repeating part of the map. One of the earlier Naguals hid them in tango dancing.
Carlos thought it was so important to hook people to the map, that he gave them funny names and made up stories about them.
So there’s an opportunity to summon intent, by hiding Tensegrity in things.
I've now hid 2 of the first forms from Carlos’ book on Tensegrity, in my walking stride.
I tried it out.
No one detects it. If they did, they’d just figure you had to pee real bad, or had a sore foot.
Result: The fine lines I advise everyone to look for in darkness (which are super useful for assembling another world), show up in daylight.
What does that look like? You’re walking along, and cobwebs ripple around you, as if someone with a leaf blower had just zapped a huge spider web, and all the strands came loose and flew around near your feet.
I supposed you could be doing tensegrity all day long if you put your mind to it.
But I also believe, you need to gain a little power from silence before there’s any point to adding Tensegrity to your movements.
You can’t imitate the effect, and skip the cause.