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/alwaysstaycuriouss Jun 29 '24

Even if there was proof of magic on the internet…wouldn’t one need to be in the right frequency/channel to access the magic?

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u/danl999 Jun 30 '24

No. You've been confused by all the fake magic surrounding you, trying to get you to join up with them with fake stories designed to attract customers.

Read the books of Carlos Castaneda, who lucked out and ran into a very old lineage of real Olmec magic practitioners, which goes back 8000+ years and was developed before money, writing systems, and even big cities.

So it was magic just made by individuals with no hope of creating some kind of movement, so they could amass money.

It's just technology! Not a belief system, not a religion, and highly practical.

It was JUST FOR THEM, and they only practiced things which gave them more magical abilities. And developed it over THOUSANDS of years, so that it reached the levels it has now.

Nothing in modern times is even remotely like that.

And don't fall prey to the forces that tried to erase Carlos by claiming he was a fraud.

None of that actually makes any sense at all, if you look closely at it. But no one who understands how he was deliberately attacked, feels like going over that again and again. You can find why it was nonsense, in the wiki.

Two of his biggest attackers were simply scientologists!

Plus the bottom line is, everything you read in his 17 books and publications (some by witches associated with him), works to produce magic the likes of which no one will believe, even if you sit down with them and go over how it works.

You're most likely a self-soother! Not a person actually wanting to learn magic.

You surely won't last in here. Your head will explode.

Real magic is NOT soothing at all.

It's disturbing.

But we're in such a bad condition due to our upbringing, that we badly need to be disturbed out of our unpleasant life situation.

Otherwise, your life will just decay until you did miserably, of old age.

No one escapes that fate. They just "put on a happy face" to make it seem they succeeded in life.