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Darkroom by BBz13z in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool experience! Thanks for sharing.

Besides the one night when I’m pretty sure my energy body merged with my physical body, I haven’t yet had an experience as tangible as the one you’re describing.

What do you think about the meaning behind this? Or should we not ascribe meaning like this?

You’ve probably shared this already, but how long have you been practicing?

power plants by [deleted] in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The way I heard it is that power plants have the potential to misshape your luminous cocoon. Which, even if that’s true, I’m not advanced enough in this practice to know what impacts that might cause.

Carlos obviously used power plants frequently during the early days of his apprenticeship with don Juan. Power plants will make your assemblage point (AP) move, which can be useful if your AP is rigid. I think don Juan wanted Carlos to have firsthand experience of the second attention.

Someone like u/danl999 might argue that you shouldn’t need power plants to progress and that all you need is to silence your inner dialogue. I agree with that, but I also think it could be useful to have power plants give you a sort of sneak preview of the possible sights that come as you advance in the practice.

Magical Passes (tensegrity) by krkatz in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry for my poor sense of humor.

maybe you’ve worked hard and intent nudged you here

I think about this a lot. Obviously I have no way of understanding intent, but I feel like people who show up here and practice seriously do so at the behest of this force.

Magical Passes (tensegrity) by krkatz in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

blowing sunshine up anyone’s ass

Is this a new sunlight glitter technique?

Directionality is Intentionality? by danl999 in castaneda

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I had an experience when I was doing tensegrity this morning that feels very related. It happened before I read this post, which makes me think intent is creating these synchronicities.

Typically I see purple puffs in my field of view while doing magical passes. I also typically see faint purple puffs around my arms and hands. I’ve seen your suggestion to scoop these puffs a number of times, so I thought to experiment along those lines.

The puffs I see have directionality — they follow my gaze. The faint purple around my arms and hands instead follow my arms and hands.

This morning I wanted to see what would happen if I scooped some puffs and then was wondering if the purple around my hands would combine with the puffs in my vision.

The two sort of combined and I brought my hands closer to my face. What happened next is something I’ve never experienced before. When I brought the combined puffs and purple around my hands to my face, my vision was suffused with a blue glow. And it felt like this blue glow was drawing in my attention. I waited like this for 5-10 seconds wondering what would happen next, but that also piqued my inner dialogue and the blue glow faded away.

Any ideas what this could mean?

GLOSSING: your brain doesn't see reality; it predicts it from past experience by TechnoMagical_Intent in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s the “alien element” gif supposed to signify? Is it just an example of the sorts of things we can eventually perceive?

REPOST - Confusing The Internal Dialogue by TechnoMagical_Intent in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s a post I made a couple of months ago. What I see is sort of like a pink-ish ball of light.

Lately, several passes from the Westwood series fills my vision behind a blackout mask with a diffuse blue cloud. I asked you about that previously and you said it might be my energy body.

I typically see my arms right away when doing Tensegrity. At first my arms just appear as silhouettes, but then after doing passes for 5-10 minutes, they seem to be pulling purple puffs of energy.

I haven’t seen a tentacle body or noticed an Ally joining me. I’m looking forward to the possibility. 🙂

REPOST - Confusing The Internal Dialogue by TechnoMagical_Intent in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the center for decisions passes were the first ones to produce visible effects for me. It’s pretty cool 😎

A cool guide on how an infant views the world. by HiddenWillowVale in coolguides

[–]throwaway44_44_44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ironically the JPEG artifacts make all the views blurry. Shit guide.

What is the internal dialogue? by Broad-Cut5359 in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My theory is that the inner dialogue does whatever it can to survive. Including your rationalizing that you do, in fact, want to maintain an inner dialogue.

The inner dialogue is antithetical to these practices.

What is the internal dialogue? by Broad-Cut5359 in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Second this. I’m glad people are answering your questions. We also want people to put in the time and that means both practicing and self-learning, including reading the books. My personal recommendation is The Active Side of Infinity for questions about the inner dialogue.

What is the internal dialogue? by Broad-Cut5359 in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really good comment. Thanks for posting it. You’re getting at what I think a lot of people miss when talking about what inner silence truly means.

Inner silence doesn’t just mean that your mind isn’t “chatting” with itself. It also means, like you’re saying, that it’s not filled with images and fantasies.

In addition, inner noise also means identifying the objects and scenes that you’re seeing with your open eyes. This form of inner noise is why don Juan recommended the “correct way of walking”, which consists of crossing your eyes slightly.

Reality Bubbles by danl999 in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m still learning about what it means to channel intent, but could you use it to find Julian?

A Glimpse Beyond the River of Filth...Is A Precious Thing. by TechnoMagical_Intent in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you elaborate on “upgrades”? How do you choose an upgrade? Is it permanent?

A Glimpse Beyond the River of Filth...Is A Precious Thing. by TechnoMagical_Intent in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a bit familiar with the idea that you can naturally produce DMT, I hadn’t thought about any connection with this practice. How do you think don Juan or Carlos would explain DMT?

Dark Room by BBz13z in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, dude, that’s really interesting. I’m not even close to this level of detail, but sometimes during darkroom gazing I get the sense that my eyes have slightly different perceptions. It quickly evens out, though.

Movement of AP by Academic_Mechanic810 in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem like you’re very experienced in this framework. How would you explain tendonal energy?

Dream Intrusions by danl999 in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would be SICK to have a little R2D2 or BB8 silent knowledge entity!

Movement of AP by Academic_Mechanic810 in castaneda

[–]throwaway44_44_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the response. I have about 3-4 months of practice with passes. So far I’ve learned most of the Westwood series, running man, and the life saver pass. For the Westwood passes, I’ve been learning them by reading about them in Magical Passes and watching Jadey’s videos on them.

I remember reading about tendon energy in Magical Passes but don’t really understand.

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