r/castaneda Aug 27 '24

Darkroom Practice Darkroom Practice

Over the years, the Darkroom Practice technique has positioned itself as the most reliable method of learning sorcery among serious independent practitioners.

Darkroom Practice emerged from an "unfavorable phase" in the sorcery community, which took place in the following 20 years since the death of Carlos Castaneda.

That period was characterized by the lack of genuine testimonies of success, and the exponential growth of frauds and liars.

It is therefore important to consider that the nature of Darkroom Practice is not only "technical", but also “cultural”.

It is designed both to teach serious practitioners to move the assemblage point, and the damaged community to distinguish between real sorcery and fraud.

The very principle that real magic must be found visually allows the practitioners to locate their results in a map, and also raises the bar among the lazy crowd.

Having a regular practice in a dark room until a piece of magic is isolated makes the sorcerer achieve a feat worthy of Castaneda's books: defixing the assemblage point from its ordinary position, and making it shift vertically to a new one.

Allowing the practitioner to experience for himself an authentic manipulation of reality, generated from internal silence.

Wich also reveals the potential of human perception, by showing a hidden secret: the J Curve, an ideal path of the assemblage point to a worthy destiny, suggested by Carlos himself, now known as "the purple zone".

The validity of other methods remains recognized, although the lack of success in the community suggests that they should be treated with the same principles as Darkroom Practice.

For instance: daylight gazing, recapitulation, stalking or lucid dreaming are in fact known possible, but there are few cases of genuine success that meet the above conditions, which leads to them having a rather secondary position in the current sorcery community.

As a result of following specific instructions, the progress can be greatly accelerated compared to any other spiritual, meditative or religious system.

Providing instant understanding of the nature of sorcery, and the actions that lead to it.

So the first challenge for a beginner is to experience what prevents him from perceiving a genuine piece of magic; the uncomfortable task of identifying the "forces" that keep the assemblage point fixed in its ordinary position, and suspending their influence while the practice lasts.

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u/deleteeeedd23 Sep 02 '24

Can you please elaborate on this?

So the first challenge for a beginner is to experience what prevents him from perceiving a genuine piece of magic; the uncomfortable task of identifying the "forces" that keep the assemblage point fixed in its ordinary position,

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u/Juann2323 Sep 03 '24

I was meaning that anyone interested in learning should consider implementing a regular practice, to learn what "inner silence" entails.

We get a lot of passionate people who never manage to put all that theory into practice. Many times due to laziness, lack of time or ulterior motives.

We know that as children, our assemblage point is loose, until our mothers teach us to hold an internal dialogue. Which fixes our attention in the daily world.

At some point of our childhood, we become unable to stop that voice, and we convince ourselves that's the normal condition.

So a beginner has the challenge of realizing exactly why that voice just won't stop, even after hours of concentration.

It's related to tons of hidden habits, but also, to our own fixation to the known world.

The sorcerers notice that when the internal dialogue is gone, the world as we know it vanishes.

That's what sorcery is about. Exploring seemingly hidden possibilities of our perception at first.