Who knew you could gaze closer and find an entire universe of shimmering colors?
What do the inorganic beings want from us more than anything else?
Recognition!
Now, if you’re the average Castaneda fan, you’re going to misunderstand this.
You’ll be thinking, “Yea, I want that too! Some day I’ll have my own workshops teaching everyone my own unique understanding of Castaneda, who no one else has “gotten”, and then I’ll finally get the recognition I deserve!”
NO!
Please…
Not that kind. We have enough of that sentiment in the Castaneda community.
I mean, they want you to recognize them.
Doesn’t matter much as what. Demon, Fairy, Ghost.
Disembodied head, like the Krasue.
ANYTHING.
Please, just see them, so you can play together!
That’s what they want from us.
Problem is, we’ve been brainwashed.
Our parents did a real number on our heads, out of worry we’d grow up to be “weirdos”.
They stripped all tendencies to pay attention to magic from our souls, and added cookies and sex as a distracting substitute. To keep us in prison, they included the myth of the “close family”.
Our busy daily lives then took their toll on us, until we’re too tired and senile to fight back.
To find the magic again!
But this post isn’t about how to do that. This post assumes you already have.
But, perhaps don’t realize, there are layers and layers to reality, and we aren’t what we seem to be.
This is to encourage you to take a closer look when you get a chance.
The inorganic beings are always on the lookout for humans who can perceive things in the second attention.
That’s why the 4 gates of dreaming start with finding your hands, and then looking at object after object in the dream, finally returning to your hands.
To you, it will feel something like this, from inside a dream:
Gaze at hands. “Wow, kind of distorted! Are those my hands???”
“Well, I guess that will have to do.”
“Now I’m supposed to look at objects. What’s that over there? I recognize it!!! It’s a tree!”
“Man, this is cool. Let’s look to the left. A rock? Yea, that’s actually a rock! So realistic looking…”
At that instant, you’ve just compelled the inorganics to take notice of you, according to don Juan.
That’s what they were after! Recognition.
If you can recognize a dreaming tree or rock, they’ve got wonders for you to see!
You’ll get your own scout.
Then you ask the scout…
Well, that’s gates dreaming. Everyone knows, I don’t think much of that. It’s a dead end.
You can do this awake!
Once you find the puffs of color and redeploy some to make your energy body curious, it comes closer to you.
In fact, as you practice gazing at colors in darkness you practically drag it along with you.
And it’s there ready to help you out.
But sometimes you have to redeploy that too!
As you gaze at blobs of color, take a little time to examine the edges closer.
Look for that shimmer don Juan mentioned.
As you do, you might ask yourself, what am I?
Did you ever ask that?
It seems, the ancient sorcerers did. They left no rock unturned in their quest.
And they went all the way to the bottom of perception.
What they noticed there, was a shimmer.
To understand this, it’s best to define “shimmer”.
An animation fan can tell you that you need 3 frames, to draw a figure in motion.
You can’t do it with 2. It just looks like the object is switching back and forth.
The same is true of a little LED, those tiny electronic lights.
One light can blink. It can even flicker, if the blinking is fast and random.
But a single light cannot “shimmer”.
Even 2 leds can’t shimmer. They can blink in or out of sink, but it’s impossible to indicate movement, with just 2.
Once you have 3, you can shimmer. The light on the far left can light, then go out, and the one in the middle can go on at the same time. Then it can go out, and the one on the far right can come on. It looks like a little glow moved from left to right. And it can go back again, or bounce randomly as long as there’s always 3 changing.
A shimmer is a movement of light along a surface. It doesn’t have to leave the surface. It can circle around. But it has to have an indication of movement, to shimmer.
As it moves, it defines the surface. Creates the shape of it.
Humans are complicated beings, but at their most basic level, they “recognize” things.
They’re awareness encapsulated in a container until death.
And first and foremost, they are perceivers.
If you go shimmer hunting, you’ll be breaking our existence down to the tiniest level.
A tiny sparkle here, the one next to it there, around it moves, and we have a surface.
Surfaces form objects, objects form worlds.
But down below it all, are those tiny little sparkles of light.
They’re in everything.
And the puffs of color, inorganic beings, and energy seen on horizons which you can find in darkness, are no different.
Carlos told us where to look. Here’s the inspirational quote:
“I found all those hues, or rather I saw glimmers of them whenever items that I encountered in my dreamlike states changed shapes.”
Look for the shimmers on the edges of objects which are changing or moving.
Apparently it’s more difficult to see them on a solid looking surface. Perhaps the mind is already caught up in what that thing “looks like”, and isn’t at a deep enough level to see everything happening.
That’s where your dreaming double is useful. He can walk right up to the thing and gaze down at the microscopic level.
You won’t be aware of it. It won’t be until later, when you consider what you were viewing, that you’ll realize it wasn’t possible.
It’s almost like you had a magnifying glass!
In the picture accompanying this post, you see how puffs of purple can be examined at the edges to find how they are formed.
You will indeed see that they are built from single sparkles of light, which move all over to give the impression of a larger object.
Please don’t take those colors too literally. It’s impossible to depict what you’ll see.
But that’s close.
After gazing at puff sparkles for an hour or two (it’s very amusing), I wanted to gaze at something else.
Fancy made an appearance. First she tricked me for a while, pretending to be someone else, but finally Bob gave it away.
He was sniffing around the trash bin. Don’t ask me what an inorganic being wants with trash, but there he was. In his favorite tuxedo.
I turned to the female head and said, “Fancy! I know it’s you…”
She did a few magnificent face changes, with big hair and accessories, then floated close enough for me to put my hands on her.
I stared deep at one of the edges of her head.
I saw the sparkles there too!
Then I noticed Fancy had stuffed a rag into her mouth.
She actually made me laugh, for the very first time.
I hope Cholita didn't hear that. It was an authentic joyous laugh.
Cholita would have suspected I had a woman in the room.
The only thing I could think about the rag was, Fancy had been watching too many episodes of the original Superman TV series.
Certainly I had.
Ever notice that Lois Lane gets gagged and tied up a lot in that show?
And they always stuff a (clean) rag in her mouth. Then they tie her anorexic body to a chair.
Or to railroad tracks.
That’s what Fancy was doing, except maybe she was waiting for someone to tie a rope over the gag.
I supposed, she didn’t like Shimmer Gazing and wanted to play a different game?
Didn’t matter. I was on a roll.
I looked around the room, and realized I’d made it to heightened awareness. There was a whitish light on all of the walls.
Usually I'm bored until I get there! This time, I hadn't missed it at all.
I had plenty to do along the way, moving my assemblage point through the J curve.
I suspect, shimmer gazing produces micro lateral shifts, which makes each position more entertaining.
I noticed that, due to heightened awareness, details made from whitish light were forming on the south wall.
So I used my outreached hand to concentrate it.
If you slowly drag your flat palm across the whitish light you see, and especially if there are already details, you will concentrate it.
No need to stick your thumb in the way, the palm will do it. That was simply the only hand picture I had easily available.
One result of concentrating it is that you’ll create an “intent disturbance”.
Anything can come from that!
The energy on your walls is filled with areas which intersect with other realms. Inorganic being realms included.
Something will pop out!
Or, it will remain on the wall, and intensify until it seems to overshadow what you are doing.
Just ignore it, if you want to continue shimmer gazing.
Consider it an intercepted dream, and move on.
Forget the little Mexican Indian warrior floating next to your hand. Those are common.
Fancy got so curious about what I was up to that she tried her special “prom look” on me.
She got me!
I turned to her and said, “You know I LOVE it when you do that!”
She smiled.
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They want one and only one thing, your energy.
They're welcome to it!
I get theirs in exchange.
Without it, we can't move our assemblage points into full heightened awareness.
That's needed because of what don Juan said:
"Real learning takes place there."
You don’t need them to move your assamblage point. But they will make you believe you do. 🙂
Ah, you are polluted.
Hate magic, or believe you understand Castaneda already?
Have a hot book deal in mind, to gain some fame?
Already have a pretend situation going on, with others?
I'm curious about why someone would argue against real magic.
If that's what you're doing.
Like I said, I can't keep track of posters.
But every couple of weeks we get a hot shot inventory expert in here, who doesn't like seeing that some people actually made Carlos' books work.
I did not have a hot book deal in mind to gain some fame, but now that you mention it ! 🤔
Go ahead, explain it!
Do you think don Juan was lying? It's in that link I gave you.
Or that Carlos went bad, and he's misleading us?
Or you practice Fairy magic, or some other form, and it's entirely unrelated to this.
A month ago we had a guy claiming he didn't follow Carlos, because Carlos went astray.
So he follows don Juan.
And his new addition of Chinese philosopy to "make it work".
But your position doesn't work with either view. Don Juan says right in that post, you have to have inorganic being energy or you can't learn sorcery.
Now don't get me wrong. I DO believe you could learn sorcery without them.
But it would be so difficult, no human would do it.
It's hard enough to get people to play with colors in darkness, without an inorganic being to entertain them.
Which is why I sent Fairy out there.
And Minx I suppose.
Those are "Little Smoke" and "Devil's Weed" in the books.
Carlos gave them to his private classes.
But no one else seemed to learn to call them.
Without them, Cleargreen is impotent. Unable to do anything to convince their followers, they aren't a fraud.
They aren't. But they can't do anything to demonstrate that.
I do not have any way in fact to prove to you what I said, and nothing of what I said should be taken as a true or false statement without a personal verification. After you have made some of the work you usually do to gather energy ask your inorganic “can I move my assemblage point without you?” Remember they can’t lie. They can walk around your question but they can’t lie. If you observe your body, you will find this post even repugnant and uncomfortable and that’s the foreign mind feeling extremely angry, not you.
They never talk to me.
I think you've been reading the books and taking that as how things go.
That changes when you can do it for yourself, and find out it varies a little from what Carlos wrote.
Note the key part: "When you can do it for yourself."
And it's verified by both Carlos and Carol Tiggs.
By Carlos, who told me not to read his books anymore.
And by Carol, who told people at workshops she wouldn't answer any more questions from the books, and they should let it happen naturally to themselves.
So I can't figure out what's up with you.
You've accused both don Juan, and Carlos, of lying.
But you think the inorganic beings have to be truthful.
Kind of odd, don't you think?
Don't really believe any of it, so you can make up any understanding you like?
Isn't that a little disheartening? No actual magic, only thinking and talking?
And that's better than being face to face with a demon, and surviving the encounter?
Who would find the post repugnant?
You sound a bit like Cholita.
Everything's about you?
I love this post. I wish Robert Marshall would come over here, read it, and realize if he writes a lazy biography, he's going to look like a vindictive villain to future generations.
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Wouldn’t it be boring if everyone agreed on everything? This would be as boring as a Bible reading club where questioning anything is blasphemy. Aren’t we all in this group searching for knowledge? A special kind of knowledge anyway? ;)
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You lose nothing by asking the inorganics you gladly feed. “Can I move my assemblage point without an inorganic?”. It doesn’t matter you don’t “talk” to them. Why is this suggestion so outrageous ? 🤔
Learn to do it yourself, then ask me that question.
It's the same reason reading books by Armando is so harmful.
Or the same reason Fancy had a rag stuffed into her mouth 2 days ago.
You're lost in mental masturbation land I'm afraid.
Come out a bit by practicing instead of thinking.
I do not know who is Armando, but if you could let me know where I can read his harmful work, I would appreciate the damage.
Juan is the source of many of the fake nagual writings.
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=juan%20yoliliztli&epa=SEARCH_BOX
He's pushing another piece of crap from Armando, designed to prevent anyone from actually practicing sorcery.
So Juan can profit.
Be my guest.
yes. replege stuff... it reminds me when people can buy Vasheron Constantin watch from Geneva costing 50 000 $ from china's manufactory paying only 5$ and thinking its gonna work the same and give the same quality. Actually it would be great to buy a ticket and fly to Switzerland if you want a nice product but still you are tempted to stop on your walking home and passing by china's store buy some Swiss watch pretending its really swiss but its not. The only diference is between people who are aware what they are buying and who's not.
Gotta give Juan credit for getting books printed.
I've had hundreds of employees.
Only 6 at most, who were that effective.
The link is broken.
I just used it, works for me.
But search for "Juan Yoliliztli"
I suppose he's too ashamed to use his real name.
Has some Castaneda buddies, but all of them seem 100% into pretending, and have no interest in actually learning.
For some, the inspirational quotes are enough to bring relief to their self-pity filled lives.
Cholita likes to listen to nutty conspiracy theories to soothe herself.
Lately she's decided some dark government has produce a plan to brainwash the entire world using a computer program.
In her case, I'm the program.
I suppose, if she decides to be nice to me, she's succumb to the brainwashing computer program.
You won't find people any saner than that, if you follow Juan's trail.
You yourself seem to take comfort in being a troll. So maybe you can see through Juan using your troll super powers.
Is Juan Yoliliztli, in reality Eddy Martinelli ? 😆
Possibly. Somehow that name keeps coming up.
Wasn't he a workshop crowd sort of guy?
I have face blindness, and so I don't pay attention to names either. I wouldn't be able to associate them with a face anyway.
But that name sure rings a bell.
Whatever's going on with Eddy, getting things done on your own is quite an accomplishment.
He should work with Michael_D (or whichever spelling it was), to produce a REAL biography of Carlos.
To combat the phony biography Robert Marshall is likely to produce.
Juan seems to mainly get someone else to do the writing, but he makes sure it get's published.
And Michail_d wanted to write stuff, and analyze stuff. He does it well.
So he might enjoy it, if he didn't have to worry about the other details.
Imagine a complete biography which included the excellent Spanish language materials we've seen in here, nearly proving there was a don Juan, and Carlos ran around with him in the desert mountains just like he said.
By the time it's ready, there might be dozens in here actually able to do magic.
Even break the laws of physics, as Cholita can do.
I'm waiting for Juan's sister to scream, when Fairy decides to move her water colors glass.
The book could end up concluding that Carlos wasn't making it up.
That might actually sell pretty well.
Juan? Eddy???
He’s a con man and the owner of Editorial Alba.
Too bad.
Wow, that last about the foreign mind is one of the most arrogant assertions I’ve come across in quite awhile!
Do I get a price for it ? 🤣
By analogy developing in second attention without IOBs is unneccessarily difficult, like developing financially without external investment.
External funding is not free but speed difference is usually tremendous, both because of the leverage and because it adds discipline.
If you want to get far enough (DJ party energy levels are like $billions net worth in the analogy) there is no other choice than using external financing, as you probably don't have enough time left to do without it.
Fake naguals are the wannabes selling get-rich-quick schemes.
Warrior parties are the "1%" in energy terms, and the IOBs are the TBTF financiers to the 1%. You need to get to 1% in dark energy, there is no place or time for false humility.
Edited: to clarify the metaphor of IOB energy as financial leverage.
Myself, I can't imagine shunning the IOBs.
it seems more like a concern of someone who is only pretending to be doing sorcery, and the actual "thing" they want is just mental masturbation.
It's just a "sound philosophy" to most practitioners, to quote Mungo Jerry.
And so they get upset if you add any dark elements they don't understand.
And they use what they wanted from it. They attack you and chastise you, to show how good they are in this "sound philosophy".
FYI Mungo Jerry: Always take the girl out for a meal you idiot!
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Sounds like a judgement.
I will argue against it. Magic is by definition supernatural, is it not? The supernatural doesn't fit with our explanation of natural (meaning things we understand about natural reality). Where would the evidence come from, if not filtered through our natural reality? And if manifested at all in 'our reality' we could measure it and have evidence. If it's only sensed though thoughts however, how do we know it isn't a psychological state of perception deceiving us? Science protects us from our fallacies and biases by detecting and measuring things that are outside of our primitive intuition.
It could be you've already seen this, but just in case you should read this post. I have a hard time remembering posters, but it seems like you've been contaminated by the pretend sorcerers in the Castaneda community, who can't do anything other than be snobby about inorganic beings and the old sorcerers.
Once you have real magic in front of you, the pretending is over.
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/hsf2ns/on_inorganic_beings/
I challenge anyone to actually define what energy is, tangibly and irreducibly, in this or any other sorcery context without relying on physics definitions.
It's so basic and easy to state, while also being perpetually esoteric.
I do like this question ! I think it’s important and will work on it.
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I am contaminated with that very same thought in fact !
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Anyone who uses Gimp will tell you. It really sucks!
But the LOVE it.
It's mathmatical, without all the attempts to isolate the artist from the math.
And many (most?) drawing programs simply use the guts of that, when they need to draw.
I suspect even Photoshop uses GIMP functions.
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Of course!
My best friends are spirits. Fancy, Fairy, and Minx.
I'm not sure what makes them a whisp. You mean phantom?
A creation of your own mind, like a dreaming character?
First, they appear when you are awake.
And as far as I can tell, no one can do that. Not even the Tulpa or Tibetan Buddhism guys.
They are not in your head
And there are also techniques to test that.
Plus they can push solid objects.
And they teach how to do more, and more, and more.
The stuff you mention is either talent, or drugs.
Either way, you could learn to do it in great precision. Even if you used drugs to do that, at least you understand what can happen.
If you were using Dzogchen, then you're right on the edge. Just need to drop the Buddhist baggage.
Last night I was manifesting objects. Could have kept that up all night.
Doing that moves you further and further from being fixated on this world, and new worlds you can live in become available.
Eventually you get a perfect link to a force called, "intent", which I suppose is like Chinese "luck".
Except it becomes a real thing, and a good guide.
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That sounds to me like a paranoid schizophrenia concern.
Got worried, triggered wrong part of brain.
Both the worry you'd be judged for bragging, and the voodoo needle thing.
Cholita has it too. But I sure wish she'd write for this subreddit.
No one would consider what you said bragging in here!
It's talent for sure.
I used to play "twilight zone" episodes on the TV, with it off.
And it's not uncommon for there to be a difference between peripheral vision and straight on.
We don't have enough experience in here yet to know why.
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Castaneda is not permanently committed to life after drugs is actually lost on me.
If I understand you correctly, I will do it.
I think the technique you describe is
1)Darken the room (Me, hypnagogic awareness might be enough, right?)
2)Find the first sparkle(Deeply de-focus eyes for 15 minutes before the first visible etheric irregularity aka sparkle?) How long are these sessions?
3) Find a second sparkle an inch away. Then a third. 2d becomes 3D, becomes whole worlds.
Personally, the burnt-yellow light in the room kept growing in size and blurriness. Then details formed, kept getting more and more complex, the burnt-yellow almost half the TV screen. Then I saw rapidly morphing, jeweled, inlaid, ornate chest in the end.
You see and participate in whole worlds like that?
I walk into them. Even leap right through the solid bedroom wall!
Cholita can pass right through the door, and before you decide it's just an illusion, she'll touch my arm. It's real.
What you're doing leads there, but it's not quite the same.
You're still controlling it.
Before it gets real enough to offer you an alternate world (where a being like you can be taken over for a few hours), you have to let yourself drift further.
Let's say, you have talent, and are playing around above the navel. In this J curve diagram. If you look at the colors on the letter J in the black man, those are the colors of the things that can happen.
But in the upper right corner is what you're after. The "real worlds" offered to you.
Before that, people can argue with you about the details, and tell you it's all in your head.
Over there, they can't.
The technique used in here is to silence the mind, and just watch. If you see colors you can touch, try to interact with them. So that your attention is well focused.
As you keep that up, a spirit will take notice and come help you out.
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It’s the shimmer from annihilation !!
Could be. We just grab stuff on google images, and cut and past it to make these pictures.
If we get a real artist who can do these things, we ought to get some amazing pictures!
I can never capture how bizarre magic can be!
It always has a special quality you can't define. But if you could accurately draw it, I'm sure a bunch of people would say, "Hey, I've seen that too!"