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okay so i’m going to put my scepticism and personal opinions aside for now and just take this as a kind of personal experiment and focus on the potential practical dimension of all of this.

so where do i start? i am starting on the wiki in the sidebar (it’s a lot of reading though so it will take me a few days), is there anything else i should consider? do i need to read all the books or will the wiki suffice? what are the priorities/things i should focus on most? what keeps coming up is darkroom practice i noticed.

thanks!

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Focus on inner silence. All the practical/pragmatic exercises that are presented here and in the books stem from that, or rather work on aligning us with that intent.

Easiest, quite frankly, is so come by some Silence Stones (do a search or find them in the list of posts in the Silence section of the Wiki) and bear down with them. It will teach you what a horrendous struggle it is to switch our beam of awareness off of attending to the inner monologue. The social self.

Next is to do the preparatory steps for recapitulation, specifically the list. Or you could just start with recent memories that are fresh, and work on the list in parallel.

And learn some of the Tensegrity passes, which should be practiced in twilight first until you’re familiar enough to perform in total darkness.

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I tried to understand it myself just by reading through the subreddit and looking at all the pictures and it didn’t work for me. I was so confused because there is so much particular jargon here that I was very lost. I didn’t really want to read the books, because that’s a commitment and I’m a commitment phobe. But it became evident that I was holding myself back from any progress or deeper understanding if I didn’t. One of my problems is I don’t have a lot of time to physically sit and read, but I have time to listen when I’m driving to and from work, and when I am doing my chores and other small stuff. So audiobooks it is!

Here are the first three books on Spotify. . It made it very easy for me to get a grasp on what was going on. These books are wonderful just for the story’s sake alone. The rest of the books are on YouTube thankfully. It has become my daily habit to listen to these books every time I drive. I look forward so much to my drives now. I now also sit outside every evening and listen for an hour while I gaze at my flowers on my porch. It has become a most healing practice. I have made it through seven books since the beginning of the year and the change in me has been lovely.

You’ll start to notice little attitudes of yours shifting. You’ll look at scenarios that you encounter in life differently. You start to understand the intent in yourself, but you really start to feel the intent from others. Everyone online in the subreddit talks about their dark room experiences which is so wonderful, however I have noticed the most delightful change in my day-to-day interaction with my fellow human. I am not as angry as I used to be. I don’t feel like a victim anymore. I have way more patience than I ever knew was even possible. I also don’t dwell and fret over past encounters that used to give me stress. I don’t fret over future events that would give me anxiety. Peace of mind and well-being is one of the awesome outcomes.

What this work does is change the way you view the world. It teaches you to utilize and reclaim your own power by shifting your awareness. It is worth it to put the time in to understand it. I hope this perspective helps!

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I’m 51 now and read the Castaneda books in my early 20’s, while taking fairly regular psilocybin and mescaline journeys. As synchronicities go, this is a good one.. as I hadn’t thought of Castaneda for a long time, then checked if there was a sub for it, then saw your comment posted 2.mins before. The universe and living on earth, is a really cool place to experience life. Quite something..

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I think you might be on to something here!

We never “formalized” this realization.

Carlos made Jadey leave her friends and family. Which she said wasn’t all that hard, because she had traveled to another country to be with the group.

But he still asked.

Cholita had to have a real job, which Carlos gave to her. And give up smoking. And cut her hair short.

He gave Tony Karim a task too, which Tony refused so he’s now a confused chubby church leader in Mexico.

He asked a private class to “Walk to San Diego”, which is 110 miles. Starting right after class.

No one did. All gone now except Cholita, Jadey, and me.

He also told everyone, including people at workshops, to go outside and shout “INTENT!!!” to signal a desire to learn to be silent.

And let’s not forget the intensely complicated Devil’s Weed rituals.

Which resulted in talking lizards!

Maybe that’s why I could never get Minx to speak in his lizard form.

No ritual, no reward.

It’s how intent works.

So possibly it’s a good idea to emphasize to new people, something which requires they take at least a little real action to signal they’re serious.

Like find your silence stones yourself.

Which could include online shopping.

That’s modern “gathering”, out of our biological drive to hunt and gather.

To be silly, we could make a list of “Awful Sorcery burdens to take on so as to prove to the spirit that you’re serious”.

Let them pick one!

Read all 17 books.

Walk 50 miles to a mountain.

Have sex with a scary witch.

Ditch your friends and family forever.

Or, go find some rocks that fit between your fingers.

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Changing one’s perspective is truly considered a big step in a person’s life. However, this change in perspective can also be achieved through reading other books or searching on YouTube and Instagram through psychology and psychotherapy pages. So nothing special happens except that you continue to make excuses for not taking real action and ultimately settle for small normal changes. What is important is the realization of a reality outside of your perception. Seeing something that will never convince your mind and logic. A big shock to your logic not due to psychotropic substances. But in normal circumstances while cutting off your inner dialogue. Or repeating a strange unnatural act for days that confuses you and ultimately receiving a very strange reward from the spirit that shocks you every time you remember it. So try not to convince yourself. And now that you’re driving, pull over and walk and scream out loud and ask for intention and request help from infinity in your silence exercises.

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I promise you that if you put aside these two psychologists and practice stopping your inner dialogue, it is enough to observe the air in the room, both during the day and at night, and then you will easily see strange things that are all real. Try to feel the air and see it physically. The synchronizations you receive are very normal and have more of a warning aspect than a beautiful and good sign. You can spend all day trying to cut off your inner dialogue second by second and witness magic all around you.

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I would have actually walked 110 miles to another city, if Carlos had told me as an act of intent!

Last night because of “walk 50 miles to a mountain” I walked to a beach on Plum Island and then to a forest called Maudslay before back to my house. You could see on satellite images how massive that stretch is.

When I fell asleep my assemblage point moved to my legs, and I fucked an inorganic being, taking an amount of dark energy from it I can’t comprehend using words. I was penetrating it (my whole arm was inside it!), though it was very dominant.

Have sex with a scary witch. If I knew where to find one.

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The men were too lazy and mostly only interested in book deals.

So they didn’t even stick around to discuss it after class, the way 4 women did.

One of the men even asked the next day, “what’s in it for us?”

Felix.

Who wrote a book so fast after Carlos died, it was surprising you could even get something published that fast back in the 90s.

Then he went on tour and lecturing, explaining how “Carlos went bad”.

And created his own “system” using delusional Hinduism, saying “I’m cyclic with Reni, so…”

The men were hopeless. Possibly Larry or Leigh hung out a half minute, but then gave up when the realized I was trying to get people to actually do it.

I pulled out my credit cards and said we didn’t have to sleep on the road or go hungry.

But the women would have lost their living situations, if they took off on a walking trip that might have taken a week.

So none would go.

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Hi All, beginner here from the Philippines. I started doing Tensegrity 2 weeks ago and immediately I noticed my physical issues went away. I also started with Recapitulating. The only thing is every time I go to sleep it feels like party. I turn off my lights when I sleep and I see green jedi swords waving at me. One night a guy jumped at my stomach and that hurted. After recap I saw a shadow staring at me. Is that normal and what should I do?
(Btw, I can’t join the chat.)

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You wouldn’t do it by yourself?

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If you’ve subscribed (clicked join) to the sub then the new chat channel should show up in your list of chats (DM’s) in the Android and iOS apps. Should also show up in desktop browser:

https://chat.reddit.com/room/!tKQ1Tkh_QPODHU2ij5Kddg%3Areddit.com

Nobody can be added to either the new one (you join on your own) or the older one (that functionality is gone).

And if you’re a woman, then seeing Jedi Swords (in particular), is not out of the ordinary if that’s a latent mental preoccupation of yours.

Or if you’ve ever thought about that more than once or twice, really.

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I suppose not. Because I didn’t.

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Have sex with a scary witch.

These are quite rare?

How common are sorcerers and sorceresses in America, per capita?

Each region?

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Males 0.

None.

Carlos said so himself when asked about it. He said it was because, “No one was willing to change their lifestyle.”

And if you stick around this subreddit, you’ll understand why in grizzly detail.

It’s depressing how difficult it is to convince anyone, despite their claims of an interest, to put in just the amount of work it takes to learn to play the trumpet well in 6 months. Or the amount of time basketball fans put in practicing.

I suppose you could estimate there’s 70 male sorcerers still living in “new seer” lineages, but that’s about it. And another 70 females of that caliber.

If there were some people doing magic elsewhere, the many spies in here would have located some and brought it to here with a post about it.

But they found nothing.

And there’s the internet now, so it’s all visible.

How many women you can’t say because all women are witches.

The question is, how many who can move their assemblage points very far, the way Cholita can. So that they become like the evil witch in a Dr. Strange movie.

Very few I’d say.

Most just make it to the green line, and self flatter.

Call it a day.

Going further is too much work for all humans.

Speaking of evil witches, Cholita is blocking me from bathing.

How she got that idea in her head I don’t know, but it’s possible she scans the “sorcery news”. Likely on Facebook.

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Where to start.

Including the advise also given in these responses, the following passage from The Sorcerers’ Crossing came to mind where Don Juan demonstrates the movement of the head and breathing that are to be used when recapitulating ones life:

Page 132:

“Your movements are too jerky,” he said in a low murmur. “Breathe like this.”
He inhaled deeply as he gently turned his head to the left. Then he exhaled thoroughly as he smoothly turned his head to the right. Finally, he moved his head from his right shoulder to the left and back to the right again without breathing, then back to the center. I copied his movements inhaling and exhaling as completely as I could.

“That’s more like it,” he said. "When exhaling, through out all the thoughts and feelings you are reviewing. And don’t just turn your head with your neck muscles. Guide it with the invisible energy lines from your midsection. Enticing those lines to come out is one of the accomplishments of the recapitulation.

He explained that just below the navel was a key center of power, and that all body movements, including one’s breathing, had to engage this point of energy. He suggested I synchronize the rhythm of my breathing with the turning of my head, so that together they would entice the invisible energy lines from my abdomen to extend outward into infinity.

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Speaking of evil witches, Cholita is blocking me from bathing.

Oh? I am an an autistic female, not a schizophrenic one.

If there were some people doing magic elsewhere, the many spies in here would have located some and brought it to here with a post about it.

But they found nothing.

And there’s the internet now, so it’s all visible.

Daniel Lawton vs. Daniel Ingram cartoon fight scene? Something like this, except maybe Ingram gets defeated badly because of his weak Buddhist magic (Ingram = Voldemort because he doesn’t have hair):

https://youtu.be/eAHDS5Rn4kg?t=22

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Dumbledore turns out to be gay in the next one.

What’s next?

James Bond was gay too, all along?

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I am also quite gay, though I don’t have an identity based on it.

Mhmmm, if you wouldn’t die (“pass away”) as a result you could ask Cholita if she’s had sex with a woman.

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Gay’s fine.

Just as long as you’re not actually Hanskey.