We live in a river of filth.
The river of filth has myths that get passed around, to give people hope. It’s the myths alone which keep people from sinking to the bottom.
The myths include very old accounts from people who managed to crawl to the shore and shouted back to the people stuck in the filth.
Through great effort, some of those managed to get 4 or 5 others to crawl out.
But they went back in. And they passed around the myth, so they could increase their own allocation of river of filth goodies. As horrible as the river of filth is, it does contain some things which are considered desirable.
Donuts for example. Sex for sure.
Now here’s a problem. If you manage to climb to the shore and look back, the inhabitants are going to badmouth you. Try to get you back into the river with them.
They don’t want to hear that you can climb out. It hurts their feelings.
And maybe their pocket books, if they are river of filth “hope sellers”.
So they will lie to you, the way the phantoms lied to Genaro when he stopped the world and couldn’t find his way back to Ixtlan.
In our case the lies are going to be, “Anyone can do that. It’s just the stuff the guys in red hats are doing. Have been for thousands of years. It’s nothing special.”
Another group of people will insist the “invaders of the dark dragon realms” club has other techniques, and your teacher obviously stole them.
They try to pull your assemblage point back to the mud.
And they can! If you are experienced in dark room gazing, you know that sometimes you need to get up to practice, but you feel sorry for yourself. You doubt it’s even worth it. You start to feel worry you’ve been tricked, or you are wasting your time.
Carlos warned us about this. Search for “Up from your Toes!” to see it in the books.
But, one of the things you learn in darkroom gazing is, that will completely go away if you just get yourself up and start working.
You’ll be traveling to another world, accompanied by your magic spirit teacher. For real.
In an hour or two.
And when you do, you’ll realize that our very being is a position of the assemblage point.
But you have to get out of bed. That’s the key. That one moment when you have to decide if you’re going to go back to sleep, to end the suffering of feeling sorry for yourself.
I suspect that feeling is even worse once you learn to get into heightened awareness. Because you aren’t used to it.
So here’s what you need, to protect yourself from the cult of the red hats, or the invaders of the dragon lairs.
When they say this is all old stuff, and stolen material, ask where?
Who’s doing it? Point me to it!
You’ll start to hear, “Well, uh. There’s plenty! It’s all over.”
But insist. Show me on the net. Show me students who learned. Not a bastard parasite selling mental masturbation.
Show me his students.
You’ll get none. That’s the weird thing. Don’t believe that no one has tried finding it before. Carlos tried. I tried. I suspect some of you will become obsessed and try to figure out why there’s no magic out there.
You won’t find it.
But you will get the run around, with people insisting there’s lots of “masters” all over doing this.
They claim that because they run from con artist to con artist, thinking that’s how you learn. And finally they become a con artist themselves. It’s a “business”.
If you really drill down, they point you to some ancient writings. Or to some mysterious guru who had many followers.
Like Yogananda. Muktananda. A famous Zen master. A legendary Daoist.
But ask them, if the Daoist “Hierarchy of Heaven” is such an amazing thing to view, that it proves your Daoist master is worth listening to, how come he didn’t notice, there really is no fixed hierarchy of heaven?
How come the famous Yogi sees different beings?
How come the Buddha had even more different characters he encountered?
If they’re so wise, how come they can’t agree on reality?
I suppose the excuse is that there are many paths, and many truths.
You buy that?
A general principle in science is, the simpler explanation tends to be true.
If you take what they all have in common, and analyze it, you end up with Castaneda’s sorcery.
Absent the bizarre religious nonsense.
So don’t let the people still stuck in the mud, bully you into accepting that what they are doing, in the river of filth, is the best thing you can do.
The techniques from the books are not copies. They aren’t stolen.
And there’s no one out there doing them. There just isn’t.
If there were, it would generate some excitement and it would be visible on the web.
Also, there’s no use for inventory, when it comes to pulling yourself out of the river of filth.
The huge inventory you carry only makes you sink deeper.
So the inventory peddlers, the people who will insist Carlos stole this technique, or it’s all the same as something else they know more about, are simply people on the verge of sinking to the bottom of the river.
Arm yourself! Don’t let the inhabitants spoil your intent.
Doubt means, less intent gifts.
Always shopping for something else means, you must not need anything.
So less intent gifts.
Looking around as if you haven’t yet found the “best thing” will reduce your intent gifts.
You’ll end up with even more doubt for your trouble. Maybe intent will even give you an insight, which leads to further doubt.
You chose a different path. The path of dispelling doubt. So you get doubt gifts.
Confusing yourself thinking, “this is just that other thing” means, you’ll get the mud of the other thing.
Instead of an Angel or Demon appearing and offering to help teach you magic (Abramelin reference), you’ll get a little pile of shit when you start dark room practice.
Mud tracked into your practice area, from the river of filth.
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