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Ever had a bad night, where you just couldn’t do what you wanted? Then don’t try!

I keep getting these cool ideas for a “shortcut”.

I’ve heard some others in the chat feed.

And I love shortcuts!

But there’s one fatal flaw in shortcuts.

They assume it’s “all us”.

They assume we can learn sorcery, through our own magnificence. And because Mommy put all of our crayon drawings up on the refrigerator. She told us we “are very talented”!!!

But in fact, we are not.

Our only hope lies with intent.

If we work hard, intent might figure out what we’re after, and “gift” us.

But if we work very hard on a “shortcut” we believe we have discovered, intent can’t figure out what we really want. Or what we need. I’m not sure which it really is, that motivates intent.

But Silvio Manuel had the right idea. When he needed something, he just shouted “INTENT! INTENT!! INTENT!!!”

By the way, Carlos made fun of a lovely young woman who went into the backyard of his compound, and supposedly shouted “Intent!!!”, all night long.

I can’t be sure I’m remembering correctly, but I believe he made the analogy of a cat in heat.

I suspect he was teasing her partly for fun (she became the topic of what putting in some work looks like). But also, for fear of the neighbors. His compound was well surrounded, including tall shrubs, but not enough to block a young woman shouting at midnight.

While trying to force my “shortcut” to work, Fancy pointed out some witchcraft potential in what was surrounding me. She wanted me to stop and smell the roses. She gets to smell them too, when I do that.

I’d already tried so hard to do what I wanted that my assemblage point had slid very far horizontally.

I tried to correct it, noticing it had slid right. I slid it left. I don’t know if that’s really “better”, but don Juan seemed to think so.

That’s where Fancy found something interesting. But darned if I can remember it. When she pointed it out, I mentally added it to a “bucket list” of things to do, if I ever got some free time.

Cholita started dancing at that point. Or stomping. Or maybe she was cleaning.

But she was definitely singing. Not 30 feet from me, but behind 2 walls.

The shock to my assemblage point changed everything, and I felt tired.

I lay on my side, to ponder why I was having such a bad night.

A couple of hours later I emerged from a dream I was sharing with Cholita, and the answer came to me.

You can’t TRY!!!

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Shit!

“You will find enlightenment when you stop seeking enlightenment.”

Unfortunately ALL members of the subreddits I visited believe they are enlightened by the simple fact that they are not looking for it.

But you found a way to explain that quote 100% practically, while J curving in darkroom.

Maybe we can create a flair in which we review these types of phrases, to make them 100% practical?

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Most everything truly wondrous comes to us from outside of ourselves, and only after we can successfully get out of our own way.

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It’s definitely possible.

Magic is always buried by greed.

We should explain that one too.

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From my experience the most extreme shifts of assemblage point arise when one is in a state of flow, when movements are effortless and intrinsically motivated.

Anything else sounds like a way to exhaust your self and come to hate the practice. I guess at the very least you can discover that exploring alternate states of consciousness is enjoyable and finally do it effortlessly.

I also feel like doing lateral shifts generally loosens the assemblage point making vertical movements easier, but maybe I don’t understand the space within which the assemblage point moves.

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Apparently you have a longer comment elsewhere. Juan mentioned this one.

Our goal is the one Carlos gave us. It’s been repeated in here many times, but things get buried.

Maybe if we had an FAQ, we could add that to it.

The goal is to clean the connecting link to intent, and then intent will direct us what to do with it.

You do that by daily moving the assemblage point all the way to the end of the J curve.

When the double comes out, you pay attention to his point of view, and yours, and you get the “here and there” points.

Two points of awareness.

Moving from here to there, you learn about the third point of human perspective.

Depth.

Once you see depth, the “abstract” becomes visible. It sort of “oozes” between all heres and theres, connecting them.

It’s aware, but probably not alive. Perhaps being “glue”, it is also stuck to all of the awareness.

The abstract is in the realm of silent knowledge, but perhaps on steroids. Some silent knowledge is mellow. The abstract is really hard to “flatten out”.

Through the abstract you get tunnels in time and reality, among other things.

You can use it to “re-run” past sorcerers, or even Jesus Christ if you feel like it.

Not that you get the kind of control to pick and choose.

You just get an “offer”, and you turn your head to relive that event.

But the goal is to clean the connecting link to intent.

Intent is our friend for life. Always has been.

I’m always a little worried when I hear, “what is the goal?”.

If you don’t love magic, just because it’s so fun, then you won’t practice, so there’s really nothing to talk about.

You probably have an advantage with the autism, so you aren’t as driven towards magic as it would normally take to get the cool experiences you do.

I also suspect you’ve redefined some things. Maybe gotten a tiny bit scrambled with power plants.

That’s common.

We had a person (got kicked out) a couple of weeks ago, who had redefined everything to fit with her ordinary dreams, so she could claim to have accomplished the “bad ass” things from the books.

Could have been a “he”, we never figured that out.

He or she just kept finding excuses to repeat the very few things, mostly not relevant, they’d accomplished. It became clear they only wanted attention, and not to work hard and learn.

The entire Castaneda community did that. It’s so bad, in the eastern bloc they now claim I’ve been taken over by IOBs, so they can explain why they don’t have to stop pretending.

In your case you aren’t pretending at all, but I suspect you’ve redefined some things, and it’s a big mess.

My story about the map to the gold mine is relevant. I’d add you as a skilled tracker, who went down a parallel trail. If I understood your situation better.

Where that skilled tracker is going, is up for grabs.

You’re almost like the death defier.

After all, the map repeats itself. From generation to generation.

Also, you’re a bit wrong about why people have trouble.

I’ve been teaching for 25 years now.

People aren’t confused about the goal. That’s just one of many excuses they use.

Having sorcery is always better than not having it, even in the absense of a goal.

Internal silence is always more pleasant, than that chattering internal dialogue.

No goal is needed, other than, would you like to keep suffering forever?

Truth is, the “confused” ones simply can’t find the time to practice, or don’t want to find the time, but they still enjoy the topic.

Or aren’t allowed to find the time.

And some have been even pretending for decades, that they are sorcerers. So they’re rather stuck. It’s like the “prettiest girl in school”, when she finds out she’s not.

She stands behind the lockers, and watches the competition to look for an opening.

And some in here are simply lonely. If no one kicks their butt, they’ll hang out because it all seems “important”. Something they’re missing in their life.

Some are too crazy to have any friends, and have to be accepted in here as long as they don’t mess things up.

The Jehovah’s witnesses really know how to make use of that type of person.

Which points out an important truth. All these “types” of people who won’t give it a real try.

You CANNOT teach individuals.

You need hundreds, to get just one.

Or, you need to do what don Juan and his lineage did.

Trick someone by teaching them something they badly want, while you teach them the real thing, without them knowing.

We can’t do that.

And the phony sorcery teachers out there also cannot teach an individual.

So this subreddit is all that’s between the loss of the teachings of don Juan, and keeping them around in their real form.

THAT’S my goal.

Nothing else.

Except to protect Cholita at the same time.

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Thank you for this. Don’t force it (except the silence) and you travel the J curve. In terms of shifting laterally however, does it make it harder to travel down the J curve when you come back to center so to speak?

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Carlos died, before he could explain things like that.

He wanted to! I wish you could all have seen the J curve lecture.

Carlos had to bite his lip at least 3 times.

He wanted to explain, but knew it would harm the people who like to pretend.

My guess: At the top, up to the green line, the average person roams at night in dreams, and women roam when on their period.

We’ve created little rabbit trails all over in there, and so our assemblage point can deviate in the dark room, before it gets below the green line.

And it’s thick off there in the rabbit trails. Too many bushes.

So you can’t as easily drop down when over there on the sides.

And, weird stuff becomes visible.

Once you look at the weird stuff, you’ll move more towards even weirder stuff.

So horizontal at the top, is likely what frustrates beginners from getting to the cooler stuff.

I’d dare to say, even the ones who think “nothing is happening” are actually shifting sideways just a little. At the very top, on the blue line, shifts feel like moods, with no magic at all.

Once you get below the green line, you naturally go down the middle.

Down the middle is “normal”. You “feel like yourself”.

Power plant users have carved dirt bike trails into the sand dunes, all over. Even as far as the red line.

Hey, watch those dirt bikes in the desert!

They kill tortoises by making it hard for them to crawl around, and spoil 100 year old bushes.

(Raised by anthropologists.)

The drug users have made things harder for themselves.

But pretty much no one makes it as low as the assemblage point can go before heading back up the front, so eventually you’ll get “back on track”.

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Good points thank you. I’ll keep these in mind for practice.