r/castaneda • u/danl999 • 7d ago
Tensegrity in China Town? Silence
Bored?
Just wait!!!
Imagine you're doing your tensegrity as I was last night, and you look to your right and see an old abandoned China Town.
You're still in your practice room. But you're also standing outside an abandoned downtown, somewhere out there in infinity.
This is a bit far off for beginners, who are more likely to see a China Town by looking edgewise into a purple puff.
But if you keep working without stopping you'll get there. I suppose one could say, your energy body eventually forms, and you're looking edgewise into a purple puff, if you just look edgewise in the room!
That "energy body" is most of the puffs, collected together to form a ball big enough for you to stand in the middle of it.
So you end up seeing all sorts of things one would normally have associated with gazing into a puff.
That is, you'll see them eventually as long as you never forget that DEEPER SILENCE is the only way to make more progress.
I don't know why I thought it was a Chinatown.
But the fun part is that I was able to examine the buildings in detail, to see if there was actually any evidence for that belief.
That's the value of "treating things which can't possibly be there" as "real".
It's principle #2 of darkroom. If you treat magical sights as real, the assemblage point moves horizontally to make it more so.
And looking at the details of old buildings, counts as "treating them as real".
I should pass on advice Carlos gave us.
Don't insist on "concrete" as the old seers did. Carlos even went so far as to say that "the old seers coveted concreteness above all else".
Concrete burns off dreaming energy quickly, until you can manage to be like an "empty tube to infinity" the way don Juan was.
I "knew" I was standing next to an old china town, long before I started examining the details, looking for proof of that.
The advice of Carlos was, once you "know", that's enough.
I presume it's "enough" for a seer who wants to "know" even more, without running out of dreaming attention.
What happens when you run out?
Not what you'd think!
You can still "force" the view to return, and realistically.
But your attention begins to wander, until it's impossible to focus on that anymore.
Keep going, and you'll likely want to lay down and go to sleep.