Is there any specific way you should do the dark room meditation practice?

As long as you're not the type to easily fall asleep on your back!

We had a user last year who had physical disabilities and we came up with some solutions for them... I'm having a hard time finding the post now.

Anyway, Running Man, one of the Tensegrity passes listed on this page:

https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/tensegrity/not_doing

Is done laying down. And there are others as well, plus it being possible to modify existing ones to be done laying down or reclined. Doing Tensegrity while in a supine position, other than it's critical role in darkroom, can keep you awake.

For example if the pass involves foot movement, just dangle your feet off the end of the bed. If it involves arm movement, shift to one side of the bed so you can move your arm freely on that side of it. Then roll over, and switch sides.

Recap could also be done laying down. The sweeping head movement shouldn't be affected at all.

Are there video links for the not doing series? The first one, the outward paddling I have done my whole life. 'Dancing Feet' is what my daughter calls it.

Having a hard time visualizing a few of the passes, curious if there are video resources.

Thank you! The GIFs are so helpful. Currently not doing :P

The running man series is one of the most useful passes there is!

And to think private class students who had been learning from Carlos for years, made fun of it.

If it didn't take so long, I'd make a picture.

But imagine you are laying on the bed and have been forcing silence so long, that the room is no longer black.

A dream scene begins to form on the ceiling, but you can't sustain it because you get excited, and it goes away.

You glance down at your feet, and naturally you can't see them. It's pitch black!

But instead you see a fog has settled and covered your entire lower body.

It looks like one of those very old Sherlock Holmes movies, where they're hunting demon dogs in a vast bog. And the dips in the bog are filled with heavy mist.

You do the "running man" series, perhaps just the lazy ones that don't move the legs too much and only emphasize the feet, and the fog "ripples".

It's "fog that isn't there", in an absolutely dark room, and yet it looks like whitish or pinkish water sitting in a shallow pond, where your legs are barely submerged. If you moved your feet like that, endless ripples would form in the water.

And here it's happening too, but using magic!

The sight of that is HYPNOTIC.

But oddly, you aren't as excited as you would like to be. It just seems "normal" that humans can do that.

All this assumes you learn to get silent, so the assemblage point can move.

You watch the waves in the fog/water, and a woman's face appears on the ripples. As if she were enjoying the flow also, but couldn't change her "pose" more than twice a second.

Or like someone projected a 1990s "live" webcam of a woman's head, onto the "fog".

Now at advanced stages, there's no limit to what can happen.

You can bring out the double that way. A fully real copy of yourself, with super powers.

And to even try to name what it might do, is almost pointless. He's so powerful, you could remember a scene from the last Dr. Strange movie you saw, and he could do that too!

So there's no limit on him. But to motivate you, after gazing at the ripples and realizing how to get rid of even leftover traces of your internal dialogue, making the ripples rise higher, you see a scene on the ceiling.

It's the sky. A nice colorful sunset too!

You reach up to touch it, and see if it's real.

And you plunge through the bed, fall 50 feet, and land on the beach.

For real. There's nothing to tell you it's "a dream", other than it didn't hurt enough when your feet smashed into the sand.

You stand up to look around, but you screw up. Your internal dialogue comes back as you think how much fun it's going to be to lord it over your buddhist buddy, who's always talking about how cool Dzogchen is.

By the way, it's not...

So you got "book dealed" and lost it.

Meaning, you wanted to use magic to get attention or money from other humans.

A deal killer! You have to want MAGIC. And only magic. If you want something else, you're screwed.

In case you worry, I'm not making stuff up.

I've done that. In fact, I do stuff like that nearly daily.

Just because, I never skip a practice, and 3 hours is my minimum.

And I've done such things with that running man series too. The ripples are reliable, but only at a deep position of the assemblage point. Past the dreaming fog at the bottom of the map we have. Make sure to find the J curve map that has the railroad tracks forming the J. Look at the pictures. Bottom right, the tunnel. This is just past the tunnel.

Those passes are great when you're afraid to move too much, but need to keep from blanking out.

I suggest you run along the beach the instant you fall to it, to encourage the double to help you out like that more often. He likes activity, and also "projects".

And if you take off running the instant you hit the beach, it'll help stabilize that phantom world.

The double likes "projects" so much, the last day or two mine is wearing binoculars around his neck, hanging from a strap.

A witch threw it into my dark room from more than 6000 miles away.

He liked them.