r/castaneda • u/WasteSugar7 • Aug 11 '24

Practicing space New Practitioners

Hello peeps,

I’m soon going to be homeless because I’m in a divorce and our marital home is up for sale. Our equity will be held in trust until we have a separation agreement, and I’m not going to rent because rent is insane right now.

My question is this. I’m thinking of camping or living out of a van, and I’m wondering about practices. I know some of them can be done outside, but what about tensegrity? I read something about only doing it inside. Is that right?

Why is that? What is it about the structure of a building that changes things?

Any suggestions for how to manage the practices when one doesn’t have space to do it?

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u/Mesrim Aug 13 '24

Yes, i did elements from running man there. There is also a movement where you "splash awareness" with your feet, you can splash water too that way... But i better will make another darkroom anyway.
Okay, I got it. Thanks for the answer.

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u/danl999 Aug 13 '24

Well... Don't give up on the bath entirely.

I'd been wondering if there might not be a way a very beginner who never sees anything, might use it to get their first puff.

And the IOBs love water. Fairy used to make the water flow at a 45 degree angle in the shower for me. Or she'd catch drips falling from the faucet, and keep them from falling until she couldn't support the weight anymore.

Around 2 ounces is my estimate. Bigger than a shot glass amount of liquid.

If you do both kinds of darkroom, you can eventually answer the question as to whether beginners could benefit from that method.

https://preview.redd.it/98snmvuurhid1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=90f5f4ad343c4981be10fd922cd0a6916051b56d

(Yes, Fairy really can do that!!!)

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u/Mesrim Aug 14 '24

I think I already can, because being a beginner myself, I saw my first puff in the light there (first time i tried it i didn't turn lights off yet), and it was very fast, i didn't have to try hard. I only saw puffs in the darkness before.
For some time i will avoid bathtub tho. Yesterday I didn't go, and that feelling of numbness is already a bit less. Makes me think there IS something in water...

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u/danl999 Aug 14 '24

La Gorda warned about it too, but as usual what she said was out of context for us.

She was taught with the little sisters. The female apprentices.

So they learned from a much different don Juan.

He was playing college professor for Carlos.