a method for more silence

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mind moves body . instead of trying to stop"moving" mind , stop moving body. the idea isn’t mine ,it’s from yoga.

as you know ,Don Juan and Don Genaro were able to remain unmoving (and awake) for hours , and told Carlos to do so . Carlos reported this several times in his books . i didn’t notice the connection until i saw the idea in yoga . can you imagine how many obvious things we can miss?

the ability to remain unmoving and awake is a good sign of a silent mind . everybody can tell if it is so . and you can test it on yourself.

also trying to remain unmoving and awake is a good way to slow down the mind momentum.

so sit comfortably and unmoving , the only movement is breathing (EDIT: and blinking) of course. and try to remain still as long as you can.

they say if you remain like that for 2.5 hours and more , you will access something beyond.

i’m not an expert or pro , and i can’t remain still that long , but this method worked for me and cooled down my mind so i’m sharing with you.

thank you for reading!

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I believe you’re confusing cause and effect.

Being able to sit up all night listening in the dark, as Silvio Manuel had Carlos do, was only possible because he was in heightened awareness. In heightened awareness you’re already asleep. So you can’t fall asleep again.

As poor Juan. He’s experienced lingering heightened awareness, when it’s time to sleep.

And Carlos had been pushed into that state over and over, so by recommending to him to do that when he wasn’t in heightened awareness, they gave him a chance to naturally move his assemblage point to that familiar (but forgotten) place. Possibly they were getting him ready for integration.

But there’s certainly something to what you say. In Buddhism there seems to be a “copy the master” path to enlightenment.

And there’s plenty of Zen monks who believe if they imitate “Eat when Hungry, Sleep when Tired”, they’ll reach enlightenment by that method alone.

I just think it’s better to force silence until blood drips from your nose.

It’s faster!

But that path probably eliminates 75% of people who would like to learn sorcery.

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Keeping the eyes still and not letting them dart around the environment is also a harbinger of silence

:eye: not :eyes:

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I enjoy gazing, but sometimes I like darting my eyes around randomly and wherever my eyes land I’ll stay there just long enough to acknowledge something and then om off again. I dont stay there long enough for my internal dialogue to start before I look elsewhere. I dont do this often but it seems to stir things up a bit, not like a jolt but a slight gust.

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thank you for your clarification . good points.

I just think it’s better to force silence until blood drips from your nose. It’s faster!

i agree.

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correct . but please blink! don’t damage your eyes.

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good tip thank you i will test that

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the only time you may want to curtail blinking is during gazing practices.

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Don’t forget that there is in fact the, “right way of walking”.

That was Carlos’ #1 recommended method. But it has to be done with the gaze at the blurred horizon, and fingers curled.

Done as a regular thing, it will produce weird effects just like darkness gazing.

I’ve heard at least 2 reports of translocation.

(You walk into another world).

If you think about it, and knowing the spectacular results which come from inner silence, it’s odd that nothing happened in the Castaneda community for so many years. It simply became more and more dominated by angry men pretending to have learned sorcery.

It got so bad that we get bad players showing up in here, who feel self-righteous when told that no one has made it work. They get angry and suggest that’s an outrageous statement.

It’s actually rather obvious. Just type in “Toltec” and look on google images to see how bad it is out there. Pure mental masturbation.

What you should see is, “Oh my God!!! Did you know it actually works? Is there anyone else out there???”

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you are right . ego is extremely tricky to deal with. not everyone will survive. they will get trapped in their thoughts. and they will cause all those problems.

and when you go that far in this path , and pass a bridge and get to the other side of it , you will see people on the old side thinking they passed the bridge. you see the next bridge , and no one is really there with you. i kind of understand your pain.

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I’ve heard at least 2 reports of translocation.(You walk into another world).

wow ! i didn’t know it can do that!

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It’s actually quite common.

What’s rare is for it to be so stable you can stare at the things in the room.

I’m referring to doing it with tensegrity in a dark room, but the principle is the same with right way of walking. It’s just that I only know the 2 instances of doing it from walking, from which to draw. Being outdoors, both walked into a translocated outdoor place.

But I’ve done it dozens of times in a dark room.

Normally you glance around and see someone’s living room, but it’s faint and vague, and naturally Mr. DoubleTake disapproves. So you know it’s there, you feel good about that happening, but it still feels like it’s imaginary.

However, once in a while it’s so real that you can literally stare at a painting on the wall, and find the signature.

And you can scan your head along, noting what’s located where, and when you turn your head back they’re still there!

Anyone who put in some 4 gates dreaming knows, not even a very vivid lucid dream keeps things in the same locations, if you turn away.

So it’s not a dream.

I suppose it would be possible to try to see energy on the surfaces, to figure out if they had realness behind them somewhere.

And every translocation I can remember offhand, was back in time.

Usually 50 years, but one had to be 200 years back in time, at least.

I’ve never been offered “entry”, because you’re already inside that place. It surrounds you.

But when it’s on the wall and you gain entry, it’s real and solid, and it continues on as far as any world continues on. You could walk for miles.

Inside one of those rooms, I doubt you could even go outside it.

But the weirdest part is, that doesn’t occur to you.

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I forgot the coolest part.

Carlos heard of someone doing that, and agreed that happens.

Even if it’s you yourself doing it, and you know you’re not making it up, it’s still good to hear verification from an authority. It makes Mr. DoubleTake less angry about the situation.