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I find it odd that you spent so much time arguing Dan and educating everyone on comparative religions and then said you don’t care about seeing.
The whole point of post-castanedism is to verify his theories in practice via direct experience.
There is no more value in eloquently presented philosophical propositions. The internet is already littered with that junk.
It’s time to empty our bags and to silence that pesky little chatterbox.
That’s the “poor baby me” position of the assemblage point.
The entire world is stuck there. Feeling sorry for themselves, all day long.
They hide it by attacking and bullying other people, so that it makes them seem tough.
Or, they get clingy and run to mommy for comfort all the time.
I get both kinds in here. Doesn’t sound like you are the “run to mommy” type, which I suppose is better than nothing.
Just learn to bully your own self, instead of others.
Get rid of that. Not the magic around you.
Regarding “MANY” places: they are many but maybe not THAT many, as human band is ~1/10 of total cocoon volume, and front plate takes 1/5th of volume, there might not be THAT many complete worlds to assemble (600?), and most will have at least some parts shared?
If a complete world needs roughly 1/10th volume, 1/5 is taken by front plate, and avoiding any overlap, only 7 other completely unique worlds seem to be available, all others will have some shared parts.
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That afternoon, I saw ten luminous beings in slow motion. The voice of seeing guided me to witness in them everything don Juan had told me about the glow of awareness. There was a vertical band with a stronger amber glow on the right side of those egglike luminous creatures, perhaps one-tenth of the total volume of the cocoon. The voice said that that was man’s band of awareness. The voice pointed out a dot on man’s band, a dot with an intense shine; it was high on the oblong shapes, almost on the crest of them, on the surface of the cocoon; the voice said that it was the assemblage point.
When I saw each luminous creature in profile, from the point of view of its body, its egglike shape was like a gigantic asymmetrical yoyo that was standing edgewise, or like an almost round pot that was resting on its side with its lid on. The part that looked like a lid was the front plate; it was perhaps one-fifth the thickness of the total cocoon.
(Possible) Breakthrough for all Dark-Room Practitioners, is the OP’s title for this post. And the original content was:
The Ganzfeld Effect is the name used by modern sciences. The practice of dark room gazing isn’t particular to the work and lineage of Carlos Castaneda.
In Tibetan Buddhism, there’s a practice of staring at the Tibetan letter ‘A’. In Yoga, the practice is to stare at a candle. In recent times, people have researched the phenomena and called it the Ganzfeld Effect. It’s done using a sheet of paper tied over the eyes, or cut up ping pong balls, or they now make googles, and a red light is used to get an even illumination over the visual field (with the exception of the goggles,- which have the light built in). This creates a featureless view which is similar to the featureless view of darkness. The difference being that results are instant for people who use the method I’m describing here.
An additional thing that is done in this technique is the playback of static. I think this, and the featureless view, has to do with sensory deprivation. There are three types of static, - white noise, brown noise, and pink noise. I prefer brown noise.
That’s the Ganzfeld Effect, it’s application, and if you think it can be useful to your dark room gazing, then there’s a reason I’ve said all this.
Sensory deprivation tanks may be another way to improve gazing results. I think a faraday cage could be useful. Michael Harner said a lot about shamanic drumming. He said that the tempo is what invokes a deep state. There are also theories about the frequency (Hz) of the drum. I think there are studies that monitor brain waves and the influence of sound.