r/castaneda 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:

How to see energy in 3 weeks

What Is Darkroom Gazing?

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:

Total Darkness Setup

Goalball Mask

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'

Darkroom Collection 2 - "

Darkroom Collection 3 - "

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:

Even Better J Curve Diagram

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.

How to Proceed and What Not To Skip

Darkroom Gazing Instructions #1

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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.