In my case I have been able to achieve silence by observing my internal dialogue. The more you look at it, the slower it becomes until it disappears.
I prefer not to fight myself because I am not sure what I am and I don’t know exactly what I am fighting against. That is why I choose to “reach” my goals harmoniously, without forcing. I don’t know if it’s the right way but when you’re alone in these matters you have to ride it as you can.
Could you elaborate more on that please?
When someone is persistently and desperately pushing people’s buttons to get attention giving them that attention serves only to fuel their egomania. So withholding attention, ignoring them and reacting in opposition to their expectations, dismantles the key element of their manipulatory pathology.
Paying attention to those that hate it nearly always bears fertile fruit. People that are low key, just doing their thing without regard for how people perceive them, are key figures of real learning in our lives. Individuals devoid of virtue signalling and who strive to help others before themselves.
Crib note version: Pay attention to those who do not seek exterior validation.
It was Carlos’ left eye, and I always thought it was cataracts. But he seemed to benefit from it, while reading off the wall.
Regarding his loss of sight, I came across this story that apparently he told in a seminar in Mexico:
HISTORIA DE LA PERDIDA DE LA VISION DE UN OJO. Seminario de Mexico/centro-asturiano
Don Carlos comentó, que en uno de sus viajes a lo desconocido, había encontrado un mundo donde la visión era de 360 grados, situación no posible para las características del ser humano. Dijo que al entrar a dicho mundo, lo atrapó la fuerza centrífuga que obligaba a dicho tipo de visión y que el al girar tan imprevista y desproporcionadamente, había perdido la visión de un ojo. Creo que se refirió a la perdida de un ojo.
“Don Carlos commented that on one of his trips into the unknown, he had found a world in which he had 360° vision, something impossible for humans. He said that when he entered that world he was seized by a centrifugal force that made this way of seeing obligatory, and that at being spun around so unexpectedly, he’d lost sight in one eye.”
So what’s the procedure for visiting another world, in case anyone is interested?
Minus the damage to the body of course.
There’s none! It’s just something we can do, if we get silent.
You can add in a physical technique or some sort of pseudo meditation technique, to help select the direction the assemblage point goes.
And such things, for example the “gait of power”, also help further deepen whatever silence you can come up with.
Repetitive physical movements can help reduce the internal dialogue. That’s why they’re often called, “moving meditation”. It’s why Carlos made the tensegrity long forms.
(I never liked those. How about you just use brute force to turn it off, instead of trying to hypnotize it?)
In the case of the gait of power, it puts the calves up near the chest, so that the extra sensory ability (energy body points of awareness) can be concentrated.
You’ll learn about that directly if you keep following Zuleica’s path (especially the harp playing and feeling for sensations there). I wasn’t joking about those tiny ants.
But really, just scoop some colored spooge from the darkness, spread it all over yourself, keep getting silent, and eventually you’ll change worlds.
At first I supposed it’ll mostly be lateral shifts of the assemblage point. Phantom worlds you wouldn’t really want to talk about much, because they just seem like a nutty dream.
Cholita’s all caught up in lateral shifts. And as don Juan said, there’s a lot of human junk in there. Stuff we discarded as not being suitable for our current world.
But if you start out awake, you won’t mind the craziness! Plus you won’t be able to explain where your real body went, while you were in there.
That’s even cooler!
After some phantom shift experience, you’re sure to get the better downward shifts. And the worlds will be harder to dismiss.
I wish we had more people from private classes, because Carlos went into quite a bit of detail on the various positions the assemblage point could take. I just don’t have a memory for such things, and being banned from the books didn’t help retain it all.
For instance, down about 8 inches and to the right are the worlds of insects. Or at least, that’s one I sort of remember. Maybe the magical passes for crossing phylums have that knowledge embedded in them.
I’ll ask Cholita about it. She’s starting to accept sorcery explanations for her condition. She even asks questions.
The cool thing is, she remembers all of the instruction from private classes. I just need to get it to resurface.
Bottom line: Sorcery is easy. Not unfathomably difficult, as we’ve been led to believe by the remains of Carlos’ apprentices.
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It’s funny how Mexicans will often call Carlos, “Don Carlos”.
I’ve always just called him, “Carlos”, and no one has punched me for it so far.
Cholita ONLY calls him, “The Nagual”. That gets confusing, when I want to talk about “the nagual” as our alternate being. She stops me to clarify what I mean.
The witches taught her to do that. I guess it’s some female sort of thing, which is beneficial to learning. Like, make him into something magnificent, to show some intimacy?
Women → intimacy → commitment.
That was Carlos’ “you have mail” message from Cholita. Unfortunately, she forgot the message.
So I’m perplexed about the “intimacy” part. He didn’t quite use that word.
Was it permission? Do I have to? Can I avoid it?
Darn. End of message.
It’s very common in Mexico to add “don” before an elder’s name. Middle-aged and elderly menial workers especially are often accorded this honorific. And bosses…
So it’s like the very confusing “sifu” which is used in Mandarin, even to address taxi cab drivers?
Carlos used to get called, “Sifu” too. I’m not sure who on earth was doing that in class.
I just now remembered it.
I imagine, just only really used if you know the person’s first name. You could refer to a third person as “don” (or doña) without knowing their name, but probably not use it a sole term of direct address.
So I’m perplexed about the “intimacy” part. He didn’t quite use that word. Was it permission? Do I have to? Can I avoid it?
I’m not a regular Cosmo reader but I gather men tend to assume “intimacy” to mean “sex”, whereas for women it may mean something more like a close and personal connection. I can’t say what Carlos may have meant but he was a man after all…
Darn… I’m afraid I’m in the “close personal connection” realm. I’ve existed there since Carlos told me to be celibate.
As for Carlos, as Cholita put it, “He just loved to fuck, that’s all. What’s the big deal?”
I’m afraid I’m in the “close personal connection” realm.
That still implies commitment!
What’s the big deal?
Sex between people in authority with a subordinate is a sticky scenario. The extent of the subordinate’s consent can be hard to determine.
It’s also possible Carlos was just trying to sperm as many apprentices as possible.
But don’t think about that too much. You don’t want to look on the walls in the porno book store.
I guess they don’t have those anymore.
I’d better explain. There used to be purple goo on the walls there. At least, if you had a black light it was purple.
Don’t scoop it. And if you do by accident, don’t apply any tensegrity moves to smear it on your abdomen.
About commitment and Cholita. It’s not uncommon for her to go on for 10 or 15 minutes, about how much she despises me. And that includes vicious details on why.
But in silence, all I notice is that we sure seem to be together all the time.
Last night she was going on about how I “needed to get a life”.
I kept thinking, I used to have one until…
Once the gazing becomes a little “weird”, that means there’s some second attention content in there.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by weird?
Try some gazing for real and you’ll understand it. Shouldn’t take more than an hour if you use fern leaves with good shadows.
I’m not sure there’s any benefit to having it described to you.
I’ve been battling this issue for a while now.
I can’t draw up most of what I see in darkroom.
It’s not helpful to beginners anymore.
And it’s too hard to portray in still images.
Animations might fix that, but there’s still the issue of telling people too much.
And their tendency to seek glory by looking for the “most important” stuff they can.
I might try to figure out how to make a cartoon about a magical petty zoo.
Where people miss seeing any animals at all, because the zoo owner gives them a brochure that’s just too good.
So the kids try to look for the rarest animal in the petting zoo, almost stepping on all the normal ones, in their zeal to get attention.
Doesn’t work very well right now though.
I’d have to figure out why magical animals might be offended and not be visible if you had a specific one in mind, and only cared about seeing that one.
But it’s clearly a problem in the subreddit.
Just watch the new posters who obviously are only after attention and will even make up stuff to get it.
Try some gazing for real and you’ll understand it. Shouldn’t take more than an hour if you use fern leaves with good shadows.
I’ll try that out. In the past, I have used the sky where I see colorful small dots if I silence the mind.However, no skulls like the ones appearing to Cholita yet.
Where people miss seeing any animals at all, because the zoo owner gives them a brochure that’s just too good.
Is this similar to how when people go to visit famous monuments like the pyramid in Mexico most of them don’t actually look at the pyramid but are busy taking selfies for their instagram account?
Just watch the new posters who obviously are only after attention and will even make up stuff to get it.
That’s true and I have been guilty of that. Our attention seeking self tries everything it can to get out of doing actual work.
However, no skulls like the ones appearing to Cholita yet.
Cholita is crazy advanced.
But also crazy.
>Is this similar to how when people go to visit famous monuments like the pyramid in Mexico most of them don’t actually look at the pyramid but are busy taking selfies for their instagram account?
Maybe I’ll make it a mexican petty zoo, near the pyramids.
I just changed my folder and added that.
It’s possible this subreddit actually exists mostly to produce new learning materials. Because books are outdated.
And everything we did up to now, was just so that we understood what to put into the cartoons.
Certainly if we do make a “perfect” set, they’ll be around hundreds of years or more.
And this subreddit will not.
> Our attention seeking self tries everything it can to get out of doing actual work.
New cartoon to show that. I think it’s natural to humans.
in fact, I always used to tell potential employers that lazy programmers are a good thing.
As long as they’re very good.
They’ll put it all off out of laziness, and when they’re almost in trouble they figure out a much faster and better way to accomplish what’s needed.
Mostly to get out of work.
in fact, I always used to tell potential employers that lazy programmers are a good thing.
That reminds me of a friend of mine who automated his work with excel at work using a scripting language and had to consciously reduce his output to match those of his peers for fear of getting caught.
He got most of his work done within the first half an hour and played video games for the remainder of the day.
People like those are the ones who start companies in the silicon valleys. Not the ones who slog for hours doing repetitive tasks.
AIs are writing usable code these days.
I keep getting samples.
There’s one AI that can “un-obfuscate” code.
I only started running into that nonsense in Asia, and it came from Russian programmers they hired.
No comments, no meaningful labels.
The AI takes code with single letter labels and no comments, and makes appropriate labels. Adding explanatory comments.
That look like some Linux guy wrote them.
I wonder if they have a “personality” setting?
“Give me comments as if written by an Autistic Forth programmer from the early 80s.”
Or, “I want comical but meaningful comments, with a slight tendency towards sarcasm.”
This is what I got from one of these AIs:
Give me comments as if written by an Autistic Forth programmer from the early 80s
As an autistic Forth programmer from the early 80s, I would say that Forth is an incredibly powerful and efficient programming language. Its stack-based architecture and conciseness allow for lightning-fast development and execution of code. The fact that it can be implemented in such a small space is a testament to its versatility and utility.
One of the things I love most about Forth is its simplicity. The syntax is straightforward and easy to learn, making it an excellent choice for beginners and experts alike. Additionally, the interactive nature of the language allows for rapid prototyping and debugging, making it a joy to work with.
Another great aspect of Forth is its community. The Forth Interest Group (FIG) has a wealth of knowledge and experience, and is always willing to help out and share insights. The FIG also organizes regular meetings and conferences, providing a forum for Forth programmers to come together and discuss their work.
In summary, Forth is an excellent programming language that has stood the test of time. Its simplicity, efficiency, and community make it a valuable tool for any programmer.
I want comical but meaningful comments, with a slight tendency towards sarcasm."
Sure thing! Here are a few comical yet meaningful comments with a slight tendency towards sarcasm:
“Well this is just great. Another day, another infinite loop.”
“I swear, if I have to debug this one more time I’m going to start pulling my hair out… which would actually be an improvement, because at least then I’d have some hair to pull out.”
“Why do we even have this function? It’s never used and it just takes up valuable memory space. Oh wait, I think I see a comment here that says ‘TODO: Delete this function’. Well, it looks like someone was procrastinating. Good job, past me.”
“I thought this code was supposed to be self-documenting. More like self-defeating if you ask me.”
“Looks like we have another classic case of premature optimization. We’re optimizing for speed, but at the cost of readability. Great job, guys. Now no one will be able to understand this mess.”