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Regarding unbending intent and moving AP
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unbending intent was also the force
engendered
when the assemblage point was maintained fixed in a position which was not the usual one. -DJ Power of Silence p. 108
Google's definition.
engender verb cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition)
Is that the case
because
of the sustained effort required in holding the AP in an unsual position? Or simply
because
of it being elsewhere than the average man's position?
In other words, if someone accomplishes to re-habitualize his AP at another spot(initially through sustained intention) such that it eventually no longer requires sustained deliberate effort, would that then still "engender" unbending intent or not?
Context: The Power of Silence, p. 108
..."But you yourself told me that moving the assemblage point is so difficult that it is a true accomplishment," I protested. "It is," he assured me. "This is another of the sorcerers' contradictions: it's very difficult and yet it's the simplest thing in the world. I've told you already that a high fever could move the assemblage point. Hunger or fear or love or hate could do it; mysticism too, and also unbending intent, which is the preferred method of sorcerers." I asked him to explain again what unbending intent was. He said that it was a sort of single-mindedness human beings exhibit; an extremely welldefined purpose not countermanded by any conflicting interests or desires;
unbending intent was also the force engendered when the assemblage point was maintained fixed in a position which was not the usual one.
Don Juan then made a meaningful distinction - which had eluded me all these years - between a movement and a shift of the assemblage point. A movement, he said, was a profound change of position, so extreme that the assemblage point might even reach other bands of energy within our total luminous mass of energy fields. Each band of energy represented a completely different universe to be perceived. A shift, however, was a small movement within the band of energy fields we perceived as the world of everyday...
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Man, you like to torture yourself instead of actually learn!
I feel that you're laboring under the old belief that no one had made this work.
So you're going around using the same old material you've probably been pitching elsewhere for a long time.
If not, you came up with the same old waste of time stuff.
Either way, you're starting with the premise that there aren't 2 dozen people in here who actually understand this from experience, a good 8 to 10 of which can assemble other worlds.
You're looking for "problems" to share with others.
Instead of trying to learn.
The name you gave yourself makes it obvious, you're an inventory warrior.
But you harm new people with your queries.
Universal rules of bad players:
They have user ID names that make it obvious, they're looking for attention.
Their ID has no history to allow you to check out who else they've been trolling. They made it, just to come here.
They don't come in here to learn, they come to post as soon as possible.
The natural reaction to this place, "Holy Shit!!! It really works???" never comes.
Because, they don't care or didn't notice.
Often they aren't even aware of what's going on in this subreddit at all. They never bothered to look at anything, and feel that's just fine. It's a public forum isn't it?
They don't care about others. Just their own "rights".
They over post, when they have nothing worth telling because their sorcery knowledge is all pretend.
They rely on people being afraid to challenge them, to allow them to get away with what's obvious to everyone except them. They're not going to be helpful. They want to break things.
Their posts actually harm others, because they like to add doubts so that people will feel like they need them, to get answers.
Their heads explode on the way out, and they curse everyone.
At the point, something interesting might happen.
Not often enough, but at least it's something to look forward to.
You get to find out their evil plan for world domination.
Maybe they've used a combination of Zen and Chinese Sage knowledge, to finally solve the mystery of how to make Carlos Castaneda's magic work.
And they're going to reveal themselves soon, as the first to understand sorcery.
But they didn't notice, that problem has been solved.
We just need more people to put in the work to learn.
We know how to learn. We just need people who get past the mental and ego nonsense.
So a subreddit apparently can be made "Restricted: Anyone can view this community, but only approved users can post," which is middle-step that would still allow the posts and wiki etc. to be indexed and searchable via Google and archive.org. But that is too extreme, and would require that everyone that wanted to join be added manually...which is way too much work for the mods.
So a better solution was to add some programming to the automod so that only people whose account is older than 45 days can comment, and once their account is 90 days old and they've received 4 comment upvotes, only then can they can make a full post.
Should remove low effort posting, attention seeking, and impetuous trolling, and also encourage reading and practicing before contributing. Because it will be mandatory.
Sounds good to me.
I wish I had "contact tracing" for where the latest bad players came from.
So I don't go over there to recruit anymore.
But the most screwed up Castaneda community has got to be, Facebook.
It's for old people you know...
I see our impeccable warrior has deleted his impeccable account.
I'm afraid, he'll get another and try again.
Instagram has some potentially bad players. But they're younger.
And hooked to something besides Castaneda.
Our old people Castaneda politics probably don't interest them as much.
But if you look at their Instagram, and they have some pretend magic going on, and you politely suggest you could turbo charge that for them, their head pops (doesn't fully explode).
It's as if the entire world is eating plastic food, but if you suggest a real sandwich might be better than the plastic one they have, they freak out.