Things to play with in the Dark Room
Instagram seems to bring in a variety of people interested in magic, and not saddled with the Castaneda baggage. Lots of shroom advocates, some star people, some astrologers, even some Nietzsche fans.
As we make sorcery easier and easier, through learning the rules of darkroom gazing and burning an intent path for others to share, more and more "other systems" might pick up some tips.
Such as, you don't have to pretend? You can have the real thing?
That's up to you guys. Carlos saying you could do this wasn't enough. Me saying is a little better, but I might be a crazy guy in prison lockup for all anyone knows. What we need are so many people doing this, and making pretty pictures for show and tell, that no one can deny it's working. And that it certainly looks to be magic.
The only new thing in this picture is the silence toy. I had no idea those existed.
Thank Taisha for it. What she wrote in her "new" book was stuck in my mind last night.
Fancy noticed it, and decided to "improve" on it.
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I wish I'd had Lidotska's chain. It's a "dark room prop". 30% silence perhaps. But it wasn't in the scroll back.
Darkroom props are actually very common, and warrant inclusion. Those are probably where there is some lingering idea in the nearly silent mind, and intent picks up on it.
You could in fact use those to shift the assemblage point horizontally, very far. And get spectacular results.
Without having to move all the way down the J curve.
The "beacon toy" is similar. Good for a lateral shift without a change in depth.
I love the % of silence!
Any you disagree with?
There's also stomach aches. I'm convinced those are mostly tensing stomach muscles, as the assemblage point gets near the bottom.
But how far the assemblage point has moved is not directly related to the silence levels.
Yes, they seem appropriate to me.
As accurate as we can be with these topics. As accurate as saying that I have your Fairy.
We still need to manage the IOB tag-names and the silence-meter.
Is her book translated in English? Is there any resource available for that? Thank you.
The person who gifted us with the spanish version said he'd try to get the English.
I believe it exists for 2 reasons.
Taisha is an english speaker. Writing it in spanish would be kind of odd.
And Cholita had a copy in 1997. She showed it to me. It had a title. I could read it.
But Cholita is a nomad. It's long lost.
What’s the name of this book?
It's Taisha's unpublished manuscript, with working title "Stalking with the Double" or "Stalking The Double'"
Available here:
https://reddit.com/r/castaneda/w/booklist
Let me clarify the % for newbies.
Silence DOES NOT MOVE THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT!
It only allows it to move. Something else has to pull on it.
That stuff in the image pulls on it. But, each one only becomes visible if you manage to reach that level of silence. And, if you can sustain it a while.
Let's say you instantly reached 50% silence.
That would be like releasing the break on your car, which was pointed downhill, on a very gentle slope.
You still have to wait for it to move all the way down the hill. It's slow.
So if you had Minx in the room (Devil's Weed), you wouldn't be able to see that 50% silence thing at first. The "Beacon Toy".
You'd be able to see Minx as an intent disturbance of some kind, maybe just a puff of smoke.
The full on "toy" would materialize slowly, until you "recognized it", at which point it would rapidly finish forming, and intensify in brightness.
If your internal dialogue resumes, it's like putting the brakes on. Won't keep drifting.
If you keep that up (talking to yourself), it's like switching the car back into reverse and turning on the engine, because you forgot something back at the top of the hill.
In part, sorcery is about what you left where, and whether you care about it anymore. We use recapitulation to remove caring about it. But you can't entirely remove what you left laying around.
Which is another reason silence toys are nice. You always remember where you left them, even if you can't get back there easily.
Those become competition for the glitter of daily life. An alternative happy thing to think about.