Advice from Silent Knowledge publication
In the long run simple techniques are usually the most valuable.
As if any extra explanation was directed at the part of us that doesn’t produce the magic. So why feeding it?
According to the Silent Knowledge publication, the important thing of this particular one is to manifest that point on a surface. That’s all needed to obtain a total and solid perception of Silent Knowledge.
The only proposed condition is to be in internal silence.
But man… how many dots do we see in the early J Curve? Maybe 30 per hour? They are not ‘that’ pomegranate dot.
Nor is the same thing as gazing at a puff. Even if it looks like a dot, and it seems pomegranate instead of purple!
Seeing puffs usually means our assemblage point moved far enough to produce authentic magic. Not direct access to Silent Knowledge yet.
So yep, sorcery descriptions are the worst nightmare for reasonable beginners. That could be why Don Juan decided to avoid too many details in the technique.
He even claims there could be a lot of results, like text or movies.
But back to our interests as Darkroomers, what if gazing at that pomegranate dot takes for granted many sorcery achievements?
Such as a fluent assemblage point or enough energy for dreaming.
If you ask me, this technique works producing vertical shifts of the assemblage point at full speed. And it can be done at different ranges of the J Curve.
That means we might already have crazy magic going on in front of our eyes before it becomes possible!
Don Juan didn’t give that kind of detail… But as J Curvers, we discovered many more:
Like the weird thing that manifesting the grenade color point is not always the “coolest” option. Cartoonish world vs. ‘a dot’?
Except in the practice, it really makes the difference. It means much more than those descriptions!
So as parameters, can we make a rule that wherever we are located in the J Curve, it should always provide “clarity, perspective, and increasingly ‘pure and perfect’ silence”?
In contrast to side shifts, which make magic “real, elaborate, morbid and complicated”.
The pomegranate dot definitely doesn’t work like the puffs. A few minits of gazing at it are enough to break the solid view of the world and kick yourself elsewhere.
It is the result of detecting Intent among the bundles of emanations.
But come on… we are suppoused to do that at every single step in this path. Isn’t there even some difference from that other technique where we “Manifest Objects in Air” in the dark room?
I’m afraid not. It just changes the expectations we have of Silent Knowledge.
Even expecting a pomegranate dot is harmful, in my opinion…
Shit, so no procedure?
From 0, just summon the force, and that’s all?
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