I have been seeing things in the dark all my life and have been searching for answers, I see the purple puffs along with gold and didn’t know what they were,
I’m able to morph the puffs and get them to turn into different colors and numbers,
Although it feels a little different I’m unsure if what I’m experiencing is tensgeirity because the violet purple/gold takes up my whole field of vision
But how do I begin to scoop them I’ve read through some of the darkroom games but any sort of advice would be greatly appreciated
I apologize if this is too much to ask
About me:
(I’m in my 20s and female)
(I’m new to this sub)
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I apologize if my writing is bad,
thank you for reading
Read through all of The wiki on Darkroom practice. You will find answers to everything and much more
thank you for the help im gonna look into it rn!
If you have a laptop or an iPad (iPhone?), clicking/tapping on any of the posts with a Darkroom Practice flair will get you into the 3 collections (each is limited to under 100 posts by Reddit):
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/ifu1bv/darkroom_practice/
thank you so much!! i was looking through these last night
Do you see those colors and shapes when listening to sounds/music or when it's quiet, too? If it's the former it could be a case of Chromesthesia - a perceptual phenomenon that translates music into different colors; one of the most famous people experiencing this perceptual phenomenon is singer Lorde.
If you see these colors and shapes even when it's quiet with eyes closed AND open alike, then it's magic. :D If you only see stuff with your eyes closed, then idk... doesn't seem like it...
Btw, "Tensegrity" is a set of exercises for the energy body/double. Those exercises, which are also known as "magical passes" can help you improve on the path of knowledge, it should allow you to interact with your puffs and build the body double.
i dont think i have chromesthesia, although that would be so cool
I am able to see the colors whenever it is dark, eyes open or closed, just sometimes if im listening to music/asmr/podcasts it intensifies it, esp if its a song i enjoy (music gives me internal quiet) im unsure why but quiet isnt required for me to see the colors, i can see it if i stop my internal dialouge and if my inner voice is speaking im still able to see it
so im not sure if im seeing what you guys are describing, i hope that answers your question (:
sometimes if i concentrate i can do it in the light too but it takes so much effort and im unable to control the colors,
thank you so much for explaining it to me!! I'm gonna continue looking into Tensegrity after I learn how to do directionality
What do you mean by doing "directionality"?
I mean that when I am seeing the colors or the wall it follows my eyes/ wherever I’m looking, and isn’t in a fixed position, it just feels like a filter over my eyes rather than spatial awareness
The only time it’s happened for me when there was this red light sparkle that seemed alive??? And it was in a fixed spot even if I looked away it would still be there when I would look back but rn the colors are just where im looking
I hope that explains it
Also I might be using the term incorrectly
I was referring to this post I was just using the terminology wrong 🤣
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/x394xi/directionality_vs_nondirectionality_and_how_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Ah, I see. I’ll check out that post.
Also may I ask which video maker do you use to make your darkroom practice examples where you show what you’ve seen?
I use After Effects.
Thank you!
The gold interests me more than the purple.
The purple is your dreamer. The person who runs around in dreams.
In the waking world we call it, "the energy body".
It floats around as puffs that are sentient, if you are in darkness and can be silent.
In the middle, in your body, is the "tonal awareness".
You seem to have some of that "riding along" on the purple.
The yellow or golden puffs have rationality and purpose, the purple power.
Women don't need any instruction at all.
They just need to feel they aren't wasting their time, and then pick something to practice daily.
Switch as much as you like, but insist on concreteness of you won't get anywhere convincing.
It's important for women to feel they can do so much, no men can argue they're just crazy.
Cholita the witch who lives somewhere in my house or yard can move small objects by gazing at them, raise me 1 foot off the ground with a single touch of her index finger, has a visible spirit which can move objects, and can be in 2 places at the same time.
The Tensegrity will activate forces stretching all the way in time back to the Olmecs, the source of all magic in Mexico.
If you learn magic for monetary gain, it will seriously limit what you can learn.
Because it will pollute your mind.
Spirits can manifest on the puffs, you should look for small faces.
Talk to them! Don't have to use sound. Weird grimaces are as good as actual talking.
They like to see you move, as much as you'd like to see them move.
No one likes a pet that just sits there staring into space.
😆😆😆 okay, Dan, I hear you.
I forget, you have an Ally? Hard for me to keep track.
If you interact with them too much, and suddenly there are two of them, look behind. Past them, to the scenery.
You'll be surprise if you've never seen the IOB realm before.
As best I can figure, they pick up enough energy to summon their "co-being".
And between the two of them, they can bring you to their world.
There's so much we ignored about this topic.
For example, if Little Smoke can come from the center of the universe, why did Phoebus and Globus get stuck here, following the witches back from a visit elsewhere?
What portion of the energy body of those beings, is needed to call it "stuck"?
Can local IOBs get stuck here? The ones that live on earth naturally?
Do they manifest differently during darkroom, because they don't need to share a puff with your double?
We all got so book deal obsessed, we never thought honestly about things.
We should instead have been looking at the machine gun (a movie analogy), asking ourselves "What does this red button on the bottom do?"
Or to quote another character from that movie, "Always read the manual first".
We didn't bother. Just glossed over it.
I don't have an Ally. I haven't even seen purple puffs yet. What you desribe sounds pretty cool.
The most impressive thing I ever saw were green sparks:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videoreference/comments/wu6b99/dark_room_day_2_video_reference/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
I also saw a dark purple pulsating swirl:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videoreference/comments/xyzj3v/dark_room_day_61br/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
And a green cloud:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videoreference/comments/x8m73u/dark_room_day_62/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Yep, those are all the real thing.
Good job!
Maybe we'll get a lot of people capable of producing stuff like that, and form a cartoon company.
Unpaid of course. But people who can make 3D animations have no trouble at all finding work they can do at home.
I was looking online. Endless little companies asking for help, if you can only use blender. Or other programs.
But they want you to have a history in art or animation.
So helping make cartoons is profitable in the long run.
Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me with kindness, ive been searching for answers for months, ive posted in r/Psychonaut and r/visualsnow but I didnt really get any answers, in r/visualsnow people had similar experiences to me and they didnt know where it was coming from,
and you're right!! when i dont feel like theres any doubt around me i'm more confident in myself and what I can do,
I think i used to see IOBS when i was a lil kid, there was this one sentient truck with arabic all over it and these funny little red fuzzy squiggles,
I definitely will try to interact with IOBS if im able to come across any
also Cholita sounds like a cool lady!!
i think what im going to work on now is directionality whenever I get the chance
:D
Except one day Techno might have to announce that Cholita finally got rid of me.
Otherwise, yes. She's wonderful.
also what do you mean by "riding along" the purple,
im still looking through everything and havent come across this term, would you mind explaining it to me if thats alright
>Except one day Techno might have to announce that Cholita finally got rid of me.
and hopefully that doesn't happen lol xD
I'll add a picture of it to that post I did today, with the zoo graphics. You can add pictures, but I just hope it doesn't decide to replace the big picture. I haven't figured out when they do that.
Wait 2 minutes.
I'll add a comment above or below it.
thank you so much your post was helpful, the visual aids really help,
also which animation maker do you guys use?
I'm using Gimp, Blender, Character Creator, Headshot, Iclone, and Unreal.
A lot of tutorials to go through.
Thank u, I downloaded blender last night I’m gonna try and learn
Blender's good! But man those tutorials...
Do the ones they recommend first, but then go for "Blender Guru" guy and make a donut.
I suppose you could do it all in blender, including making a final video with audio.
But it's a little hard for making actual characters. CC4 is better for that, but a bit pricey. So there's free characters out there.
I'd get the free blender add-ons like the architecture one.
I'm copying Dance Home where Carlos taught. Should be photorealistic using only blender and the architecture add-on, which has premade windows of all types, easy brick surfaces, and stuff like that.
Alrighty sounds good I’ll do so,
I also think picsart and videoleap are awesome editing tools for IOS (and free for the most part) esp for a beginner (like me) but they def have lots of advanced tools as well!
Maybe anyone who edits well can "fix" the strings of animations and sound I make.
It's an awful lot of work to produce something that doesn't seem like "Clutch Cargo" from the late 50s, in comparison to Pixar.
Or video games for that matter.
We also could use "custom clothes" makers.
I need a "Tensegrity police woman" outfit that isn't too obviously such a thing.
She's the guard in the cartoons. Carlos always had guards.
We only get one of each type around him.
The Tensegrity police woman gives Cholita, oops..., the Westerly witch, orders to follow Shaman Running Bob around to see what he's up to.
Shaman Bob will teach what not to do. Big time.
Last night I thought maybe Bob would start a Buddhist meditation class, where he's smiling like a wise guru surrounded by students, someone outside the rented hall looking through a window comments how peaceful he looks with that huge Buddha smile on his face, but inside the room Westerly witch is holding her nose because Bob merely farted.
Knowing before class, they loaded up on burritos at Lucy's, a favorite haunt of private class people.
And that's why he smiled. He knew the rest of the room had to smell it, and couldn't say anything. A very Asian custom I might add. There's even a running Japanese joke that westerners "Can't Smell the Air". So they're easily taken in by Asian deception.
That cartoon designed to be a lesson on the egotism of those images of the smiling Buddha, sitting with eyes closed like the lazy con artist he was.
Without confronting that image directly. I suppose the cartoons have to be more subtle than I like to be in person.
Shaman Bob's face is actually Greg, who stalked Carlos with a video camera, was a scientologist, and who my failing memory says got kicked out of private classes for a "counter intent" question he asked.
Oddly, people felt sympathy for him. They just "didn't get it".
As to why some things got a bad response from Carlos, and some did not.
We have that problem in here too. People just can't see the obvious at first.
What do you mean by people don’t see the obvious at first ?
Also have you guys thought about potentially making a discord server or branching out to
tiktok ?
Also the clothing idea sounds so cool !!
also if you reply with concepts/photos you’d like used, I can turn into an informative meme format
edit: i forgot to say but im able to edit videos fairly well on video leap
https://discord.com/invite/Qfu6yw2
thank you
They couldn't tell a "me, me, me" question from a good one. Or even from a bad one, but asked sincerely.
It was the "me" type questions designed to try to steal attention from the class, that got people kicked out.
We have a couple of "ME"ers this very moment.
Watch for it!
Can you give an example of a “me me me” question and an example of a good question
There's a great one in the lecture notes. It would be nice to find the precise question, but this is the best I can do.
Carlos was giving a lecture in a bookstore and a man said something like, "At the 3rd gate of dreaming I...".
Carlos stopped him. He said, "It's impossible to reach the 3rd gate without internal silence. Come back in a year when you achieve that, and we'll "talk shop".
The guy was actually trying to get attention for himself. Not asking a legitimate question, because in fact he had likely not even made it to the second gate.
And, the 3rd gate is almost surely waking dreaming, not sleeping dreaming. That's the reason for the "twin positions".
Not to mention that at the second gate you spend time in the dreaming emissaries world! Getting lectures on amazing magic every night.
Someone who asks about the 3rd, and isn't jumping up and down screaming how cool the 2nd is, is a liar. Pretending their magic.
That guy probably had found his hands (1st gate) no more than 4 times over a year or more, and then decided to pretend any dream into being 4 gates dreaming because he couldn't do the real thing often enough.
He gave up on following instructions in favor of pretending any dream he could remember was going to help him learn sorcery.
It's nearly universal in our community. We had a new guy "bragging" about his decision to ditch the rules, just 2 weeks or so ago.
A sorcerer can see that instantly, but I suppose it's hard for people who are not sorcerers to see when someone "Goes Monroe".
Here's the definition of what it means to "go Monroe" on facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2286705621488545&set=a.1585701564922291
It means you decided to pretend your magic, and go find a support group and "certification" from an "authority" for your pretending.
Other such questions are when someone is trying to demonstrate their vast intellectual knowledge of something that's essentially shit, like a European or Russian philosopher.
Wanting to engage Carlos in a conversation between "peers".
Carlos tolerate that with the europeans in private classes, but only because they'd traveled far just to attend a single class. So he didn't want any tantrums among that group. Most were hopelessly lost in Buddhism, with their noses up in the air all class, as if they smelled shit at Dance Home.
I seem to recall one about, "Didn't Husserl say that deconstruction was essentially the process of..."
That's a me, me, me question.
Husserl was another angry bad man, trying to steal from others with mental mastubations. Some mental masturbations can seem very clever and inspiring, but they're still useless nonsense.
All of the Buddhist descriptions of "higher states" are useless nonsense. Harmful even.
The Allies would slaughter Husserl. Deconstruct him for real.
Essentially any insincere question designed to call attention to the person asking it, so he can get human attention, is a "me" question.
But it's not what you think!
You'll hear that in a judgemental "me" fashion yourself.
"Me" is an assemblage point position between the toes.
Where the beam is focused tight only on the emanations down there.
It's a very narrow view of reality that centers around the idea of a "you" which needs defending from the cruel world, and doesn't get the respect it deserves.
It's created by parenting when we're a child.
But didn't have to be. It's just a side effect of everyone being insane from consignment in cities, no access to spirits, and fake or no magic in their life.
Women can see this clearly, but they also feel under attack from the world, so t hey don't do anything about it.
But if you are stuck in "me" and grief, overflowing with worry, women know they can lay in a hot tub with candles and a nice smelling flowers, and "drift" into being a different person.
Hard to hold it, but they know how to let go of "me".
What they don't realize it, you aren't required to go back!
Frankly, once a person can move their assemblage point to SK or even to the deep red zone you realize everyone is insane, and homicidal.
And the only reason that's not totally obvious is because we've been thoroughly brainwashed with knowing the steps you have to take not to "trigger" everyone around you.
It's pretty horrible.
Thank you for explaining again I appreciate the amount of time you take to articulate what you mean
It's good practice for cartoons.
Might be able to catch young people before they get brainwashed by all the fake stuff out there.
And maybe even shame some asian "systems" into coming up with something that works better than the crummy green line.
Chi gung people out to be able to see the energy too! They just don't realize that.
Same for Tai Chi!
How would Techno know?
I have student(s) elsewhere. Nothing to get paranoid about though.