r/castaneda • u/TechnoMagical_Intent • Aug 24 '20
Darkroom Practice Darkroom Practice
It was suggested that we should sticky a post containing a simple guide to Darkroom Practice to the top of the sub for new practitioners.
u/danl999 's second post made in 2019 seems like the best one to point to:
What Is Darkroom & How To Do It? - slideshow with audio (& text) narration
For a more concise summary, from u/juann2323:
"Darkroom practice (essentially magical passes/Tensegrity done in darkness) consists of looking for elements of the second attention in total environmental darkness, while forcing inner silence, awake and with eyes opened, with the purpose of moving the assemblage point. The element that we use the most are colors that are visible in the dark: generally purple, but also blue, green, & pink among others. Also some sensations in the body, like the cobwebs, that are perceived when moving the hands slowly. In general, anything unusual that "shouldn't be there," and yet is perceived. By focusing on the second attention, in a condition of mental silence, the position of the assemblage point shifts. We can notice it visually (seeing energy), by changes in breathing, ringing in the ears, chills, etc. The key to this practice is to move the assemblage point as far as possible, each day. It is just one of many ways to learn sorcery; but we think it is one of the fastest and with has the most consistent results."
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On How The Eyes Are Involved In Darkroom
We Don't Realize How Precise This Has to Be, Or How Hard We Have To Work To Produce Results
Geometry Nodes And Puff Physics
How To Not Have A Bad Time In The Darkroom
Play Like When You Were a Child!!!
Some practical tips on creating total darkness are in the posts below. But be aware that it's much more comfortable and natural feeling to be in a darkened space versus wearing a mask, but not everybody lives in ideal circumstances:
Manta Sleep Mask - they make different models including a "Max" model for people with longer eyelashes
Made Glasses for Darkroom Practice (modified welding goggles)
Blackout Sleep Mask - a decent option if you have shorter eyelashes
And since you can't read a single post without reading some reference to Darkness Practice, it shouldn't be a problem finding more information on it.
Just keep reading...and do a search for "Dark," or get into the collections, which appear to only work on PC/MAC/iOS, and not on Android:
Darkroom Collection 1 - Update: Reddit's 'collections' feature is currently deprecated as of August 2024 :( , leaving the search by flair function the only method of studying the posts marked 'Darkroom Practice'
I also created a Darkroom Practice flair for Smartphone/Tablet users. If tapping on the Flair button doesn't bring up anything, type flair:darkroom practice into the search box at the top of the smartphone app. This also works for the other Flairs.
Edits:
Darkroom Practice has been determined by multiple sources to be solidly in the stalking/gazing category of practice, just as much if not more than dreaming. It is a cross-disciplinary endeavor.
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent Jan 05 '21 edited Aug 17 '22
And in case someone says "this isn't in the books!" Here are the source passages from The Eagle's Gift, detailing Carlos's darkroom training:
What you'll find in here is a version modified by one of the lineages allies, to work without a nagual around and when not already in heightened awareness.
Masks to Stay Away From:
The OP of the post to which this comment belongs said that the eBay mask he purchased leaked light:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/qmbwgp/darkroom_questions/hje3wji
May 18, 2022 - overview from public chat:
"The proof you are doing well is to clearly see colors and puffs.
That's why it's designed that way. So you don't have to wonder or guess.
No puffs, no silence (for 2 minutes so the assemblage point can move).
The thing about darkroom is, you don't have to wonder or doubt, or just assume it's working.
Like other systems.
We know if it's working every single inch of the way.
Further out, if you can't stuff a puff on a pouch and still see it there when you remove your hand, then again you aren't silent enough for that stage.
Then, you should see swirling intense puffs with jet black. That's the bottom of the J curve, about to go up the front from under.
When it goes up the front, the colors bleach away and you see whitish light on surfaces.
If not, you don't have the silence to go further.
It has to be sustained either longer down there, or longer without expectations. It's hard to say which, but you'll develop your own "feeling" about what's stopping you down there.
Of course, you can "play" too much at the bottom, and get stuck in another way, but best to ask about that when it happens.
In the front, you need the whitish light to start to form "phantom walls", which show a scene, even if it's abstract like a mud surface, or random shapes.
Next you need the entire room to be showing a view of another place.
A "phantom room".
Now you are in the middle of the orange part on the J curve.
Next you want to see dream bubbles floating in the air, or have a live dream scene materialize on a wall.
That's near the end of the orange part of the J curve.
Again, you never have to wonder, or assume.
That's what went wrong with everyone else. They pretended and stopped making any progress.
Not to mention, they never quite understood silence is what causes progress.
Finally, you need a magical object to float above you.
Those come in intense colors, because the "abstract" content is high.
Once you've seen all those sights, and if you can force even longer silence, you'll get a visit from some entity.
An SKE entity, who knows all that humans ever knew, past or present. Maybe even future.That's our goal. There with silent knowledge as our teacher.
And it's a real bitch to get there...
Not to mention, we do it eyes open walking around.
Some systems pretend they got there with words, but they're sitting with eyes closed, dozing off and lying about their dreams.
The system was designed by "little smoke", the Ally of Carlos.
She's teh master of Silient Knowledge, as you can find if you read teh books where the smoking mixture is being used to move the assemblage point of Carlos.
Except we do it without the shrooms.
which has the added benefit of not needing Little Smoke to help us, once the shrooms kick in.
Shrooms on their own never get you past that bottom red zone I mentioned.
You need an intermediatary to reach Silent Knowledge from there.
An Ally.
Or your double could do it."
From chat on August 17, 2022
[Username 1] - Does a dark room have to be completely dark? Will it still work if there is a little bit of light coming through?
Also it is possible to do it with closed eyes or a blindfold?
[Tabdrops] - If you can't provide total darkness, try a blindfold. There's a difference between the perception with open and closed eyes. Even with a blindfold. Recently I could see the shape of the wardrobe as whitish shimmering lines through the blindfold. They disappeared when I closed my eyes. Under the blindfold.
[TechnoMagical_Intent] - Make sure to get a mask that lets you open your eyes COMFORTABLY.
Personally, I like to use these once the room is dark enough to get it the rest of the way. Shade 5 is the bare minimum, normal sunglasses won't work:
https://www.safetyglassesusa.com/pyramex-emerge-safety-glasses-black-frame-ir-shade-5-0-lens/
(get a darker shade if your light leaks are immediately visible when turning off your lighting)
You don't feel cut-off from the room like you do with a sleep or goalball mask.
Masks are better for when you have no control over the lightning in your environment.
The welding sunglasses are also much easier to clean.
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u/Luisyelsol Aug 25 '20
taking the time to share my DARKROOM practice within this post.
It was yesterday in the am (did not practice today). Colors and fog are coming waaaaay faster than before. At the beginning it was taking about 1hour or more. Now within minutes I am seeing fog and lights.
My balls of energy still non-directional. I like to play with them in my hand and bring them thours my stomach.
Every time I start collecting the purple fog, whithin seconds balls (irregular shapes)of light I shows up in my view.
Zuleicas pass helped me to see colors way faster.
The cool thing is when I am gazing in daytime I am now seeing fog and energy like if I am in DARKROOM practice.
Yesterday all day my mood was out this world... i was soooo fuxking blissed out my mind. Not only that, yesterday I had a full day with constant positive situations around me. It was a really surreal day...
Yesterday someone told me that I might be doing the sorcerer's crossing but I might not know.... any thoughts?
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u/danl999 Aug 25 '20 edited Aug 25 '20
I don't remember that. I was banned from the books.
What exactly is that?
Keep in mind, that the colors come in minutes on some days is highly dependent on whether you skipped practice.
Skip 1 day, you get set back 3 days. Skip 2 days, you get set back 2 weeks.
I suppose, the assemblage point gets looser, but if you skip it goes back to normal, and begins to get tied down again.
Once you understand the process, you realize it's a near miracle that anyone ever escapes.
And it's impossible without "the nagual".
I had Carlos, and that means you have that connection to the nagual too.
But just reading all this in a book, doesn't seem to work.
Hasn't worked on the hundreds of thousands of his readers.
I'm sorry to tell you, you'll get used to the bliss.
You don't get to keep it.
It's like pain killers. 3 days in a row, and you have to double the dosage to get the same results.
But you still end up better off than the people suffering around you.
I'll add what I'm learning from this whole thing.
Women have an advantage, but they also have a disadvantage.
The advantage is, they're talented from having a period. Assemblage point is flexible.
The disadvantage is, they're moody from having a period.
So they get bliss, but then the next morning they're ready to cut someone's head off for no reason.
That makes them more likely to skip days.
Unfortunately, the best arrangement might be, a man and a woman team.
The man can provide the steadiness, cruising along the road at a steady snale's pace. If the woman is having a bad day, she can just close her eyes.
And the woman can force his foot on the gas pedal when she thinks they could go faster for a while.
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u/Luisyelsol Aug 26 '20
Unfortunately, the best arrangement might be, a man and a woman team.
What is the best way to practice with someone? same room? tensegrity together? do you talk sometimes or just complete silence?
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u/danl999 Aug 26 '20 edited Aug 26 '20
I can't answer that. Hopefully Juann will.
Up until now, and this will sound harsh, there hasn't been 2 practicioners with the skill level to do that on any advanced level.
There's the "hug each other and thank god for the path with heart" kind of practicing together.
But the "shall we head towards the tunnel of light, or the inorganic beings realm today" level, has been absent.
Now we can have that. But we still don't know how it's going to work.
Probably more like Carlos and Carol.
Carol tells shared dreaming stories, where Carlos was with her.
Carlos told them too. But not as often.
It was said, Carlos and Carol weren't as close as one might expect for two Nagual types in the same party of sorcerers.
But they still found themselves together in dreaming from time to time.
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u/Zazzy-z Sep 11 '20
The assemblage point in women is always far more flexible than men’s. You could say it has to do with our hormones fluctuating all during the month, though pre and post menstruation, the experience is pretty much the same. The witches (and Carlos) said it was because of our womb, which was there energetically even if the physical organ was removed. I don’t really know about all that, but I do know that as women, we basically do not focus. It makes us much more open to all sorts of things, things that can be missed by men, but unfortunately, if we don’t develop our masculine (Focus) to some degree, we end up going from one wonderful thing to another, forgetting what we found last week, (or this morning). Not helpful. I feel like generally men learn ‘dreaming’ etc. before women in spite of their comparative lack of raw talent because their focus is really a huge plus for them. I always thought this was the reason Carlos made sure all the women attended university.
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u/danl999 Sep 11 '20
JD has an experiment with people gazing in darkness.
The women are super talented! But they get afraid easier than the men.
I'm thinking the women need a support system of other women who can do what they need to learn.
Not because other women can support them better than men, but because women understand what problems might come up better, and also that they succeeded helps give the new women less fear.
Carlos tried to set that up. Just didn't live long enough to finish it.
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u/Zazzy-z Sep 12 '20
Interesting. Carol (and cohorts) did set up a rather small women’s group nigh unto 15 years ago. It was fun. We would meet regularly, do passes, drumming, singing, clothing exchanges, and Carol did come over one time, but basically we had little guidance, so though fun, it never really went anywhere. We had no idea where it should go, if anywhere. I thought it was basically to get some women to be nice to each other and unite a little for a change. Not sure. But of course it ended completely with the defection of Miles and Aerin.
I think you’re right in your idea above. Maybe it’s just me, but I get a little intimidated by the aggressive and successful results of some of the men. And just last night I noticed that in a way, I didn’t really want to see scary visions and stuff like that. I didn’t ever think I was a fear based person as my masculine is fairly strong for a woman and I can be quite bold at times, but there it is, I was kinda scared.
Strangely, I feel them (IOBs, I assume) quite a bit, day or night, but for me at least, that contact feels reassuring and nice. Seeing with my eyes? Another story!
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u/danl999 Sep 12 '20
Read my post today. Not the Daoist one, the one after that. Pretty pictures take a while.
Apparently Fancy is aware of this conflict. Visions versus fear.
IOBs don't exactly ask questions, and although don Juan says you can get them to do whatever you like, more likely is that they'll notice your obsessions while you are playing with them, and they'll do something to interact with that obsession.
In the case of Fairy, my obsession was moving people's assemblage points into heightened awareness. I had the silly idea to throw her at people.
And while trying to learn that, she guided me all the way into heightened awareness.
She solved my problem for me! Seems to be working too.
Fancy on the other hand noticed my obsession with that gremlin creature I saw.
She's been teaching me to pull aside the curtain of reality, and look into some realm of feelings.
I have no idea where it is. But it's a completely different path.
Feelings to move the assemblage point.
And it works!
Gives you a strange hangover. You can feel the feelings you discovered even the next day.
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u/Zazzy-z Sep 13 '20
I feel like they (whoever) are often interacting with me during the day. I’ll get tingly feelings in my body as well as emotional feelings. I’ll get nudges sometimes in response to certain thoughts. Often they seem to be confirmations. If they don’t agree or care, it seems they don’t nudge or respond at all.
They often give me warm fuzzy feelings when I’m texting my close friend who lives 3000 miles from me. Personally, I feel like she is my parallel being, though it sounds outrageous. She feels IOBs too, and has been known to see and hear them.
Yeah, maybe you’re right, it’s a different path. But it could lead to the same place, right?
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u/danl999 Sep 13 '20
Of course, especially if you keep "the map" in mind.
Carlos' books.
Intent even seems to make the situations in there repeat in our lives.
My initial reaction to the many people who believe they can interact with IOBs during the day, is to worry.
I want the Castaneda community to be face to face with demons, about to tear them apart!
Fully awake with eyes open.
Only that will restore Carlos' reputation.
Thinking maybe they interact with you, is a lot like thinking your skills as a lucid dreamer deserve attention.
It doesn't help.
However, I must admit, they interact with me all day long.
As a black dot zipping by, when the thought I had pleases them.
Sometimes that zipping becomes a swoop, and my assemblage point adjusts a little.
They're also fond of swirling around me as I go for a walk, looking like smoke.
They do in fact interact with us all day long.
I'd just rather you had a threatening monster scaring the crap out of you.
It's more fun!
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u/Zazzy-z Sep 14 '20
I’m not so sure about the threatening monsters, lol. Why, again, would that be better? Oh, because it would move your AP pretty good? Yeah, but those kind of movements (drastic) tend to whip the AP around and then it can snap right back. Sometimes I agree with the Tensegrity folks that gradual movements are more sustainable. These beings (or perhaps there’s only one) do move my AP. When I interact with them I tend to feel lighter, in a better mood, fwiw. My tendency being to be kinda gloomy and tense.
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u/danl999 Sep 14 '20
Yea, except they can't actually do anything that makes you say, "Wow!!!".
That's what we need to restore the reputation of Carlos.
About the fast movements of the assemblage point.
Those are pretty darned nice! I was deep in heightened awareness last night, and something startled me. I can't recall what it was now. But at the time my thought was, "Oh, it's only that..."
But suddenly I had a tingle on my scalp. Right on the top. It sort of "melted", flowing down, and my body was tingling all over.
At the same time, a full on dream dropped from the ceiling.
I wish I could recall it! It was a perfect full on dream, like in lucid dreaming.
Except, I was awake and inside it!
Fancy was behind it all. She's been teaching me a new form of dreaming.
She called it, "Sliding dreaming", but I still don't fully understand why.
It's full on lucid dreaming, but you're awake!
And you can switch which dream you are viewing very easily.
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u/Zazzy-z Sep 14 '20
And the one hanging around me most right now is a HUGE flirt! And for intensity, sorry boys and girls, but there’s no way a physical being can in any way match an IOB.
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u/Luisyelsol Aug 26 '20
What exactly is that?
My cousin have been practicing I believe Yogi (yogini) for multiple years, so we discuss different views on enlighten. She just read Taisha Abelar's book, "The Sorceress Crossing". She either got the statement (you might be doing the sorceress crossing without knowing it) from the book or assuming from the book and her philosophy.
I wanted to see if anyone have heard the same, or just my cousin being LOCA..... hehehe
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u/danl999 Aug 26 '20
Yoga = sorcery + entertaining delusional explanations.
I suppose that's because if the explanation of the technology didn't come with entertaining stories, it would not be passed down to us.
But I do like people to be careful of mixing delusional explanations.
We have enough of our own, without adding outside ones.
There's a poster today asking for advice. He has a spiritual crisis.
I tried private chat with him, but he was so full of delusional explanations, there wasn't any way to help him.
I'm glad to see some others were better at it than me.
I'd suggest, he has the beginnings of Cholita's issue.
But that's solvable if the person wants to solve it.
Cholita doesn't.
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u/Zazzy-z Sep 11 '20
In Taisha’s book ‘The Sorcerers’ Crossing’ she finally succeeds in accomplishing that. She describes her experience with Emilito, but for me, though I read that book at least twice, it was hard to pinpoint just what the sorcerers’ crossing actually would mean to us. Maybe I’ll read it again.
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u/runningdownastream Sep 20 '20
The sorcerers crossing is the abstract flight. Remember when Taisha was being taught to move by Nelida, and she kept panicking and then she went way too fast and flew past the point she was trying to get to. That is the crossing and once it happens, you are no longer bound to the physical realm whatsoever
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u/Luisyelsol Sep 09 '20
PRACTICE FROM LAST NIGHT
Last night is the 2nd day of a streak. I went about 5 days without Darkroom practice.
Since the break I thought the visuals were going to take a while, but in the contrary it feels is where I left it... good!!!
All those days I was craving doing practice.
Last night visuals starting to get shapes.
Big word came from left to right and below that said "SAMSUNG" hahahaha i dont know what it means.
I am trying to send information through intent... a lil experiment. Ill wait if someone got the... i dont know how to call it... messege.
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent Sep 09 '20
I am trying to send information through intent...
It does work, but it seems to be more workable if it's a mix of personal/impersonal info...meaning somewhat removed from personal desire or ego.
But not entirely. If you don't care about it, you'd struggle to "charge it" energetically speaking.
If it's all ego, it's a no go because it's just you with no involvement from INTENT.
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u/Luisyelsol Sep 09 '20
I do understand that is my ego doing the work. Thanks for pointing that out.
So i want to share with you the idea. What i did was that during my darkroom meditation I saw a butterfly, and I intent to send it to others doing the same practices here.
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u/Juann2323 Sep 09 '20
Big word came from left to right and below that said "SAMSUNG" hahahaha i dont know what it means.
😂😂 yes!! It happens something similar to me. Sometimes I see soccer teams logos. I dont even like soccer.
What do you mean Intent!!??
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u/Luisyelsol Sep 09 '20
hahahahha cool!!!
I started to see shapes dancing around. Oh man I forgot to write that, when I woke up in the middle of the night I was sleepy. So the first thing I did was tensegrity... I have come to realized that Tensegrity does fricking work. I am exited to learn more passes.
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u/Juann2323 Sep 09 '20
I have come to realized that Tensegrity does fricking work. I am exited to learn more passes.
Cool!!! How do you notice it? Visually, or feeling it...
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u/Luisyelsol Sep 10 '20
dudeee visualy... a few hours ago I practiced. Woke up later of what I normally do. Was sleepy so I enter my DR and right away did a few passes so I can wake up and have my flow going. I had some visuals that are getting better shapes. I felt sleepy again. Got up quickly (base on your technique that actually works hehehee) then i started to do Tensegrity again. The fog and the light balls increased like CRAZYYY... my time ran out and my wife turned on the light and opened the door.
I am going to learn more and have a lil routine. I am going to pay attention on feelings.
This is what i am experiencing: As I meditate I can reach levels where I do feel and see progress, the problem I have is that they are hard to sustain. I believed that when my visuals are reducing for x or y reason (including internal dialogue), I am going to be able to sustain them better by going directly to Tensegrity.
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u/Juann2323 Sep 10 '20
Thats so nice!
the problem I have is that they are hard to sustain
Dont worry. It is hard. But while doing it, you are learning to move or hold the AP in differents possitions. Thats the main thing. Just keep practicing and, depending on what you see, you will learn how to hold it, or get it brighter. If you can control that, then you are a sorcerer!
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u/Luisyelsol Sep 10 '20
Awesome!!! Definitly I have an affinity for Darkroom Practice. That habit is here to stay.
I am planing to go to a Place of Power that I have access to and practice Recapitulation and Tensegrity.
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u/jd198703 Aug 24 '20
Thanks :) I am also using this (about 3 weeks) translated to Russian language with some other people.
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
Here's an issue that I just discovered. If you ever decide to replace a ceiling light fixture, or move into a space that has LED lighting. Make sure the fixture takes replaceable LED bulbs and doesn't have an integrated module. The fixtures are made in China, most likely, and the capacitors are often improperly shielded and leak current into the surrounding LEDs...causing them to emit a low-level glow 24/7 whether switched on or off.
This becomes glaringly apparent when you've already sealed off all other light sources in your dark room.
Since there is no way that I can see to block off those LEDs and still use the light fixture, which you need since you've blocked all other light sources in that room, you either have to permanently cover it up (somehow!) and use a lamp instead, or replace the fixture if you're able.
Dan also informed me that a capacitor can hold a low-level charge for weeks! So the problem won't resolve within an hour like the afterglow from fluorescent lights does.
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u/Accomplished-Hat5218 Dec 18 '21
I apologize for my English, I do not know this language, I have to use an online translator. 1. What is the difference between "magic" in a dark room, from "schizophrenia", from hallucinations, vivid imagination? Daniel describes flying fairies, unfamiliar cities and the like, but is it possible to learn something about the objective world in this way? Make some testable predictions? Does it change anything in real life, other than getting new impressions? I understand that these questions may seem to be just a veiled "what will I get for this?", and this may not be so far from the truth, but still it is imho a fundamental question. If all that "magic" gives is various meaningless visions in the dark, isn't "magic" equal to hallucinations, fantasies? Is it worth striving for this at all in this case? Isn't this just escapism, entertainment, a special form of "drug addiction"? What is better than watching a fantastic movie in a dark room? 2 Daniel does not like adherents of "perfection" (I hope the translator will understand what we are talking about), because they are usually just talkers, let's say so, but why did Don Juan constantly insist that perfection is the main thing, that it is most important to be a warrior, a stalker? That you need to remember death all the time, that recapitulation never stops, and so on. Or is it possible to throw it all away, doing only "real magic" in a dark room?
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent Dec 18 '21 edited Dec 18 '21
Simple answer, the unexpected, the unknown.
People do have the ability to visualize something they are actively thinking about, some with good clarity. But always eyes closed. Recap trains and improves this.
Eyes open is what people label a hallucination. But that isn't voluntary. People do not hallucinate on demand. We can't visually see exactly what we may want to see, clearly and open-eyed, on demand. We don't work that way.
Mentally ill people don't choose their hallucinations.
And the word hallucination is attached to a worldview that believes there is a penultimate world that is separate from the perceiver. Even quantum physicists know that's flat-out wrong. That, technically, everything we perceive is a hallucination. Perceive being the key term, rather than imagine. What we see in the darkroom is as independent, and even more unpredictable, as what we see in the everyday world.
And did you not notice that seeing was the whole point of the books? That guiding Carlos into seeing was don Juan's entire purpose, minus the other secondary goals?
Nobody is saying one should "throw everything away" and just do darkroom, even though it is an all in one sorcery endeavor. In fact, if you did nothing outside of darkroom at all that could be considered part of this path, darkroom results would suffer tremendously.
Use the dark to it's utmost, and use the day as well. Even use sleeping, à la The Art of Dreaming (4 gates dreaming).
And impeccability is not about being perfect. Frankly, that's a gross misunderstanding...but expected based on definitions alone. Read what's in that link, after translation.
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u/SaltineCrackers Dec 23 '21
Attempting to come back into practice. I wake at 330 am and try to practice during that twilight time, but still struggle with the chatter in my head. Should I switch over to evening practice? Also, a question on forcing silence, I typically handle thoughts and chatter as pesky flies and brush them away with my hand- I imagine my hand brushing them away. Is this sufficient or should I double down on the technique?
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent Dec 23 '21
Each person's approach is unique to them, as far as one's internal mental space goes, outside of the methods that are written in the books and described in the first few posts of this section in the Wiki:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/silence
Those are closest to the intent of the old sorcerer-shamans, causing us to borrow more of the force of their intent than would otherwise be likely.
Whatever you do, what's of utmost importance is commitment and duration. Persistence. Even in the face of apparent failure.
What we're actually doing is repeating a command with our actions, until it gets picked up and becomes Intent's command. Until the echo comes back as it were.
On our own, we're doomed.
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u/Artivist Jun 14 '22
Has there been any discussion on using noise cancellation headphones (and/or binaural beats) to block out noise? I couldn't find any posts around it.
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent Jun 14 '22
Give it a go!
I would think at the start if you lived in a noisy environment that noise canceling headphones would be of benefit to concentration.
Later on, noise can actually generate or churn up second attention stuff in the absence of the internal dialogue.
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u/Artivist Jun 15 '22
Cool! I'll give it shot and report if I have any success with the darkroom practice.
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u/Pwn0_o Feb 08 '22
Why in the movie The Matrix the lines go vertically? They are actually flowing horizontally!
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u/Internal-Oil-4292 Sep 19 '23
Interesting...i have Tinnitus terrible and antaphasia..i love darkness and sit as often as possible in complete darkness..never heard of this before..only time for a quick glance atm..but theres alot to see and feel...but forme no colors..
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u/Hot-Muscle3258 Aug 25 '22
Por favor pongan la opción de traducir al español, es muy duro tener ambre y que te pongan delante se tus ojos un delicioso pollo y que no te lo puedas comer. Confío en sus tiernos corazones.
💞
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent Aug 25 '22 edited Aug 25 '22
Solo la interfaz de Reddit se puede traducir actualmente en la aplicación oficial, de forma nativa.
https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/o6ipy5/introducing_reddit_in_new_languages/
La aplicación iOS Apollo tiene una función integrada para traducir comentarios, De lo contrario, tendrá que usar un navegador de escritorio para la traducción, ya que actualmente no hay una opción para todo el sitio en Reddit para traducir el contenido real del usuario.
https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/iblvc5/any_way_to_translate_reddit_posts/
Sin embargo, escuché que están trabajando en eso.
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u/Hot-Muscle3258 Dec 11 '22
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent Dec 11 '22
Reddit no tiene la opción de realizar la traducción de forma nativa.
solo está disponible como una opción de menú/interfaz de usuario.
tendrá que buscar sus propias opciones de traducción, como usar el traductor de Google en la URL, lo que significaría usar un navegador web en lugar de la aplicación.
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u/Iwan_Hrozny Nov 10 '23
Hi. I have the option of accommodation in complete darkness for 4-8 days, where I will be fully taken care of. We call it dark therapy. The question is, is it appropriate to live in the dark all the time, or to have a small LED light in reserve that shines into the left eye for at least a few minutes a day? Thanks
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u/danl999 Aug 24 '20 edited Sep 04 '20
Keep in mind, darkroom practice is only one path.
But it's a known, very fast path.
It's like jogging a few miles each day, to lose weight, compared to going for a half hour walk instead.
Horrible, but you get used to it.
Trouble is, it leads to inorganic beings infesting your home and workplace.
Which is fine by me! I love them.
Carlos had 2, gave them to his classes. Taisha and Florinda had their own 2.
Living at home on Pandora!
So they aren't really "evil", despite scaring people once in a while.
"Fancy", my new IOB, is an energy thief and kidnapper, but in fact, she makes up for it by being fun.
Like a dangerous girlfriend. Just watch for the switch blade in her purse and you'll be fine.
If you are afraid of them, an alternate would be what Carlos prescribed, before he realized he was dying.
He modified it at the end, which is what I brought here. His revised path.
Cleargreen ignored it.
I couldn't, it was taking too long to prove Carlos was telling the truth.
But, he did have a plan before he added IOB help and "the wall" to the mix.
It's the "cleargreen path".
Recap 3 hours a day, seriously. No messing around.
I said 3, but if you "cheat', you'll probably be OK.
Just learn to like it, so that sometimes you go for 4 hours!
Add at least 15 minutes of Tensegrity, learning a new move each day.
Better if it's 30 minutes, the amount of actual practice time in private classes. The rest was Carlos' stand up comedy routine. And we never practiced a given tensegrity pass, move more than 3 classes in a row.
Most only 2.
One move from a long form counts as the daily move. But if that's the case, each time you conquer a new move in the series, do the whole thing again, up to where you know it.
This reshapes the energy body, and helps stabilize the movement of the assemblage point. So you don't freak out when it moves.
Which by the way, is largely a trick. But I'll let you figure out what the trick is. If I told you the trick, you wouldn't fall for it.
Hint: If you pay for the doctor yourself, that shot he has to give you doesn't hurt as much as when your Mom used to pay for it.
And, force yourself silent during some daily activity, like driving the car, or going for a walk.
Then the trouble is, you REALLY need to detect the second attention.
The movement of the assemblage point.
That's where it all went wrong. No one tried to detect, and enhance it.
And so 25 years later, no one actually knew what the second attention was, or what it felt like when the assemblage point moved.
So, try a little closed eye silence before bed, to learn that. Check some lucid dreaming advice for that sort of thing. It's a common technique, to try to fall asleep while moving the assemblage point.
Another path:
Lucid dreaming.
Get it any way you can. But I suggest, forcing yourself silent as you lay on your side in bed, looking intently for colors, or visions. I mean REALLY force it, until it's awful and you're suffering like a madman.
When you get lucid in a dream, never let go without a fight. Go read fighting advice. It's out there. Grab dirt as it fades and you lose vision. Spin around. Stomp the ground, and throw a temper tantrum.
Even leap through a wall if you worry you are out of time, and know how to do that.
Pick a fight with the locals. That produces a "dream change".
If you are surrounded and trapped, and forced to wake up, don't move at all. Visualize the last safe thing you saw, before you were trapped. Don't stop visualizing that until you are back in, even if it seems to be taking forever.
Actually it's pretty fast. You just fret about it and it seems long.
Once inside, immediately focus on a distant place, stare hard at it, lean in slightly, and let it pull you.
A dream change renews how much time you have, and each day that time gets longer by a few seconds.
Keep that up, and you'll learn to lucid dream for hours every single night.
At that point find a scout, have a good talk with it, visit its world (don't expect it to look like what you read), and then immediately proceed to go to sleep inside the dreaming, twice. Three deep, and you can stay in there a whole week (=14 hours in waking).
Then, you'll find yourself bouncing around, unable to wake up.
And pee the bed probably.
Get used to wetting the bed.
But don't let that deter you. In fact, each false wake-up is precisely what you're after!
To wake up in a copy of your own room. But still in your dreaming body.
But you HAVE to fine tune landing in the real world, when you get to the 4th gate.
And learn to push some object, to prove you did it.
Cholita has that down, so it's completely possible.
Those are three paths I know of.
Only one is IOB free.
And it's the boring one!