A City Street and Stone Buildings In The Darkroom

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This weekend, I was out of town and practiced from a hotel room. It had a nice empty space for passes and a sofa with a chaise lounge for gazing. I woke up later than usual, began my passes, and had a good flow of color. I also noticed that the IOB presence was minimal compared to my usual sessions at home.

Tensegrity - I started the session with the Lifesaver pass, Transferring Energy to the Assemblage Point(AP) pass, Getting the AP Loose pass, and Forcing the AP to Drop Down pass. After that, I went through my typical - DVD Vol 1, Unbending Intent (mashing & stirring energy), Westwood series(center for decisions, recapitulation, dreaming, inner silence), DVD Vol 2 with the affection for energy body pass integrated.

Sat to gaze with my legs extended, had silence stones between my fingers, and started alternating between head sweeps and Running Man.

Utilizing a tip I learned from Jadey’s Saturday Sessions, I used my hips to drive the motions of my feet during Running Man.

During gazing, I experienced several dream flashes. One showed a street from a sidewalk perspective. After that flash, I saw a birds-eye view of a street (like the top image in this post), which remained visible for a few seconds.

After the scene faded, I pressed internal silence harder and found myself focusing on a grey, oddly shaped surface. Suddenly, I found myself in a dream scene on a path near the large building (as shown in the bottom image). After that, a few feet / one meter in front of me, I saw a short video of the building and path, panning across it for around five seconds. I’ve seen a dream preview or video in the air before of flowing clouds against a faded blue sky. This was more exciting to me because there were buildings and a path.

When the video faded, I removed my eye mask and took notes. I didn’t want to get caught in sleeping dreaming and forget what I saw.

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At first I used the leather weight in the running man pass but when Jadey told me this tip I also changed the “toy” and i put the crystals as the hands remain inactive during the pass..
The place we practice constantly turns into a power spot as it is saturated with intent, I have also noticed in other places that the appearance of iob is not so intense.
Thanks for that!!

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I use the stones in my left hand and leave my right hand free. When I start gazing or when the sights in start fading I like to wipe the area in front of me with the palm of my hand. It seems to charge / recharge the space.

“The place we practice constantly turns into a power spot as it is saturated with intent”

This has been my experience as well, certain parts of my house feel saturated.

“I have also noticed in other places that the appearance of iob is not so intense.”

This is hit or miss for me, I’ve practiced away from home and had strong IOB presence. During the session I posted about, before performing affection for energy body my ID said STOP and started acting up. I brushed it off, but then I found myself screwing up the movement and forgetting the steps. Odd…

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For how long do you practice tensegrity to have those results? I mean, how long have you been practicing and how much time each session?
Do you skip a day or two once in a while?

I’ve been practicing for a while but I am not consistent, the best I did was one month of daily practice with 1h sessions, and I perform the DVD 1, 2, 3 and the first 2 groups of the 4th.

I managed to see some dots, sometimes a flash of light by the corner of the eye, and once when I finished the series I did the affection for the energy body a few times and I managed to see 2 purple swirls flanking me vertically. Then I got caught up in ID thinking: omg this really works! I saw the swirls they talk about on reddit!

From then on I never progressed really, I struggle a lot to perform darkroom (I usually do it before going to sleep) because of the repetitivity of the movements and because I’m expecting something to happen.

I guess I will keep trying harder, after all, there’s no other chance to get out of the river of shit. Now I see how the tonal has such a strong grip on us and why mankind is stuck in it for thousands of years; to enter the nagual is truly a sorcerer’s feat.

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When I start gazing or when the sights in start fading I like to wipe the area in front of me with the palm of my hand. It seems to charge / recharge the space.

yes is very effective and give more sights

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When I start gazing or when the sights in start fading I like to wipe the area in front of me with the palm of my hand. It seems to charge / recharge the space.

yes is very effective and give more sights

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Yes I like that too. It does help to focus on tendon energy while wiping too.

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It never occurred to me to use the silence stones during the Running Man series, I usually did them separately from each other. How correct is this and does it change the intention of the passes?

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so kinda new here, had some practice with medication and hemisync and have seen some of the described images. My question is what are the dvd’s you are referencing? Not sure where to really start with learning this process. Love hemisync by havent really exited just got euphoric relaxation and some images.

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what are the DVD’s you are referencing

Tensegrity - Official Volumes

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No it does not change the Intent of the Pass. If you are more silent performing the running man that way, its a plus.

Sorcery is about the manipulation of the Assemblage Point (AP) and Silence is the tool for that.

Deeper Silence = More Flexibility of the AP

In the magical Passes Book it is even stated, that any practitioner can tailor the passes to their personal needs (e.g. health issues, pain etc.).

The book is freely availbale in the Wiki by the way!

Silence is the Key to all the practices and glues everything together.

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How much blank out do you experience, going into, and then out of the waking dream scenes?

Is it stronger when they’re more vivid?

Do you tend to ignore them due to the blank out, until you realize that’s precisely what you were after?

Or you have clarity when you get cool results?

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Everybody is different, using my history as a benchmark would be a disservice to you. What I’d suggest is practicing every night, Dan’s recommendations in other posts is three hours.

My sessions are usually 2 to 4 hours long. I spend about an hour to an hour and a half doing passes and fit in gazing and recapitulation. I don’t miss sessions. I try to minimize my internal dialogue all day. Also, I make an effort to regularly my stress and emotions all day as well.

That’s great you’ve learned all of those passes. keep going with it practice every night. It takes a lot of effort, but to me the results are worth it.

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I will apply more effort to it and raise up to 2h of nightly practice.

It’s what Dan always says, I need to see magic to keep going, otherwise there is no motivation to it.

I’ll sharpen my Intent, store intent with Tensegrity moves and lure out the double in the darkroom!

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I’ve gone a few weeks where my sessions felt stale. Just keep pushing and practicing.

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Can you point out where it says that in the book about personal needs? ( I’d like to know how he worded that evt)..
..the closest thing I could think of him saying something like that was:
" It is very important to focus the attention of the practitioner on some definitive aspect of the magical passes. However, that fixation should be light, funny, void of morbidity and grimness. It should be done for the hell of it, without really expecting returns".

..

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Sure. I fed the PDF to Chat GPT and gave your question to it.

Here is the Reponse:

Yes, in Magical Passes by Carlos Castaneda, it is mentioned that a practitioner can adjust the movements as needed.

Throughout the book, Castaneda emphasizes that while the Magical Passes (also known as Tensegrity movements) were passed down from the shamans of ancient Mexico and taught with precision, they are not meant to be rigid or dogmatic. He often refers to the individual experience and personal adaptation of the passes.

1. Individual Adaptation

Castaneda states that the passes can and should be adjusted to suit the practitioner’s body, energy, and needs. He acknowledges that the original sorcerers themselves adjusted movements depending on the effect they wanted or the challenges they faced.

“What counts is the energetic effect, not the exact repetition of form.”
Magical Passes (often paraphrased or implied throughout the introductory chapters)

2. Tensegrity and Modern Adaptation

The introduction of Tensegrity itself is an adaptation of the traditional magical passes into a modern format. This transformation from the secretive teachings of the past to a more open and accessible form reflects the spirit of flexibility and evolution.

“Tensegrity is not a fixed system, but rather a living, changing body of knowledge and practice.”

3. Emphasis on Energy, Not Form

While some precision is valued for understanding the energy flow, Castaneda repeatedly states that the purpose of the movements is to enhance awareness and redistribute energy — not to achieve perfection in form. Therefore, variations are not only accepted but often encouraged for deeper personal alignment.

In summary, yes — adjustment and personalization of the movements are acknowledged and even encouraged in Magical Passes. The key is staying connected to the energetic intent of the practice rather than adhering rigidly to exact physical forms.

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I meant in the book as I’ ve found out that chatgpt isn’t a reliable reference.

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I think there is a fine line between adapting and creating your own pass (which is wrong and Dan talks about it all the time)

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As I said: I fed the whole Book PDF to Chat GPT and let it create a profound and sourced answer for you. I proof read it before posting it and it aligns with what I learned from my daily practice.

Did you even read my response? It even has paraphrased quotes from the book in it.

It took the Book as reference and gave you the answer you seeked solely based on its content.

The whole Introduction chapter is filled with hints towards its flexibility. Also If you watch the classes from Jadey you will see that sometimes slight adjustments will be made as well.

She and her Husband perform the passes with slight differences. For example: She sticks to the proper hand form from the Books, whereas her Husband enjoys spread fingers.

I tried both after that for hours, and they both have their benefits.

What matters is Intent and Silence. Just don’t share your personal modifications.

But here is a quote from page 9 Of Magical Passes :

Don Juan’s comments in this respect were that ritual had lost its impetus as new generations of practitioners became more interested in efficiency and functionalism. He recommended to me, however, that under no circumstances should I talk about the magical passes with any of his disciples or with people in general. His reasons were that the magical passes pertained exclusively to each person, and that their effect was so shattering, it was better just to practice them without discussing them.

This allowed me to adjust the passes to my disease that kept me in bed. I restored my whole body striking in my bed, kicking in my bed. Then doing it seated, then slowly standing up for months, just researching every detail of the passes. Their essence.

I would have never believed it, but these days I am striking and kicking with absolute force without fatigue for hours. And when I am tired I just have to perform my passes to get in line again.

I solely focussed on Silence and upholding the Intent of the Reddit and the Sorcerers of Ancient Mexico.

Changes kept happening. So I kept it up, until I had doubts because of all the rigid quote wars in this reddit and so I read the book and took some time off from here and found confirmation for what should be intuitive anways.

I practiced the passes in silence and abandon without thinking about if its right or wrong. I just performed them.

So I have proven it to myself through practice, that it is a flexible system and that it works.