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I've never gotten around to wrapping myself up tight like you mention.
Never could have find something close enough to those fluffy pajamas!
So it's good to hear they might not be entirely necessary. And that things like this may work,
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JXRGLXK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_4nrxFbD4PB2NF "sensory compression vest" for people with autism
Or a weighted blanket.
I believe they also make compression leggings/sleeves for athletes and whatnot.
Did I miss answering one of your comments? I got flooded by questions yesterday, and recall seeing you mention that your outdoor colors don't look like the darkroom.
If I didn't reply, ANYTHING you can perceive, which is "not really there" is huge bonus points!!!
It's like a rope you find tied to a bush, which has a sign saying, "Follow me".
If you get silent and watch the thing that "isn't really there", the assemblage point moves.
Carlos saw a big purple streak across the blue sky, and if he gazed at it videos started playing above him.
Just like that book cover! Did you know that book cover (and ALL of them), is a "real thing"?
Carlos taunted us with his book covers. I suspect he even chuckled to himself when he saw how nice the hard cover editions looked. I still can't figure out what he's telling us in Art of Dreaming. It's a lot like darkroom goggles.
https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Shamans-Thoughts-Universe/dp/074341280X#reader_074341280X
He is listed down in Authors/Interpretors section of this page in the Wiki:
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/additional_resources
For his book The Four Yogas of Enlightenment - Guide To Don Juan's Nagualism & Esoteric Buddhism
Oh good! I was just reviewing my log of all the books I've read since I was a teenager, and some of the earliest one's we're from Orson Scott Card's [Seventh Son/Red Prophet]( series (cool and illustrative of sorcery, linked cover art):
https://www.amazon.ca/Hatrack-River/dp/B00071L2W2#immersive-view_1649195177529
I think the ones that were taken down were the audiobook ones, where someone whipped up a computer voiced version that Audible/Amazon saw as a competitor to their $ versions.
BTW, they just released:
Tales of Power https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P8ZFLNC/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_Z82NFV046SND5X5ZZ87M
Says it's #1 in the Occult category.
That was the last remaining book of Castaneda's to get an audiobook release.
>holding the fingers in a claw like that
Are the fingers separated and fingertips drawn as far back and as close to the palms as possible?
Like this? https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/hand-collection-85937635 Or like this http://www.med-health.net/images/10448052/image003.jpg
These are the individualized user options you see in the Reddit app on Android for sorting comment order.
Users can choose any option, which invalidates any order the poster may have intended. So all you could do is put Part 1, or Oct. 18, 2019 at the start of the comment to let those interested know your intended order.
Update: even if you, like me, live in an area that's flat as a pancake and utterly devoid of stones of any kind because it used to be the bottom of the ocean...you can still find your silence stones, it will simply take patience.
Over several months I kept a constant lookout and over that time probably spent, cumulatively, days actually looking for them one at a time. Eventually I had more than I needed and had the pleasant task of culling the sub-par ones.
If you tried to make your own like I did, you'll probably find that anything short of stone or possibly dense heavy metal won't give you the ease of entry into silence you need at the beginning. Wood, even oak, simply isn't heavy enough, even if you shape it to make sharper contact points with your interdigital skin.
Example: http://imgbox.com/IYrgyi3T
Rounded water-worn stones with flat sides are MUCH better, and far more stable and practical in total darkness than quartz crystals; they're also more comfortable over the hours. Which makes for one less excuse to not practice.
And all that work making the oak ones and searching for your stones counts toward your cumulative efforts for silence. INTENT is always watching, especially after voicing your intent out loud.
Another method I just latched onto is "letting the world pass through you" or witnessing and not commenting on and judging it. Like a stone with a hole through it in a flowing river. If the hole wasn't bored all the way through the pressure of the water would push and pull the stone every which way...just like the internal dialogue traps us inside ourselves.
I bought the Teflon Tensegrity Balls from cleargreen's website back when they were still listed:
You may be able to acquire them through more old school means (phone call, going in person to a Tensegrity seminar etc.).
I also have these metal Chinese exercise balls that have bells inside that tone when you work them in circles with your hands. You can get them in smaller diameters. I wish I had solid gold balls! What would I do with them 🤫
The use of the balls is explained in the book Magical Passes, and I think in the video as well.
I'm afraid this article will go away, so making a post with it isn't practical.
I'll just put it here, so people can see it now.
Summary: People hallucinate all the time, so science is reconsidering how reality forms in our minds.
It's nice to see that science is reconsidering how we perceive the world:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/hallucinations-are-everywhere?utm_source=pocket-newtab
I wish I'd had that a few days ago, when "the voice of reason" in another group told me, children don't see strange things!
Neither had he ever seen such a thing. So stop claiming our internal dialogue is imposed on us, and blocks our view of magic.
(It was topical over there).
People just make stuff up, and if they believe you can't prove otherwise, and it sounds like common sense, they believe they've scored some points for science and mankind.
Virtue signaling I guess.
If you want to combat that (it's not worth it), you have to stop, back up, and analyze what they said.
Often it's a trick to get you to shut up, and has no relation to the conversation.
If it's 50% made up content, you have to point it out. Not argue about the content, argue about the fact that they're intellectually dishonest.
We don't get much of that in here, thankfully.
Best of course is to not get into that, but sometimes you're called on.
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it all sounds great, but that 500 character limit on posts/comments is a real bitch
many of u/danl999's posts and comments would never fit into that constraint
Can you copy some passages?
Was McKenna the one going from crystal shop to crystal shop back in the late 80s, with a drum?
Or was it another person?
I first learned about Carlos handing out with anthropologists back in the 60s.
They were studying (partly), Ruby Modesto, out at Morongo. Also John, the devil's weed sorcerer.
https://www.amazon.com/Not-Innocent-Ears-Spiritual-Traditions/dp/0960446206
Ruby scared the bejesus out of me. But the little house she lived in was where I had to hang out, when I was there. My father spent hours and hours at a time there, because of the printing press and museum.
Ruby was far more advanced than McKenna, being the tribal shamaness.
And she also did not learn to visually see her spirits. Or to summon them without drugs.
It was a tragedy if you ask me. She summoned them using Devil's Weed tea, could talk to them, was friends with them, but she never learned to physically interact with them, in the real world. Awake, without drugs.
So when I say it was a tragedy for her, that applies doubly to McKenna.
Except he was famous, so people get a little miffed when I say it.
Myself, I think he's a bad figure in the Castaneda world. Holding it back while cashing in on it.
And no one cares when I say it was a tragedy for Ruby.
There were some interesting characters there at Morongo. I get a little paranoid when I try to figure out who I was hanging out with at 9 years old.
Most of the commercially produced Ganzfeld masks are quite pricey. I want something for daytime practice that won't disrupt circadian rhythms with prolonged light deprivation, and fits that sweet spot of price/function.
These start at $100 USD
For the ones that were giving me nightmares to feed off my fear, I used a defensive trick I read. Pretty sure it was in this guy's book.
Imagine your fear gets expelled as a black cloud all around you. Pull the energy back into you and pull it down into your abdomen. It helps if you already know a breathing technique when you tighten your abs and suck your stomach in while inhaling to concentrate energy down there.
You can take it a step further, which I did and enjoyed very much, and actually suck the energy from the parasitic IOBs feeding off of you. Suck 'em dry like a vampire until they're just a hollow shell that you discard. Sounds cruel, but that's what they get for torturing me. Fuck those type.
As alternative approach to Recapitulation, try read Victor Sanchez books about practical approaches to Castaneda teachings (something like this https://www.amazon.com/Teachings-Don-Carlos-Practical-Applications/dp/1879181231). His approach in some sense more methodical then castanedas, so may be you will find something interesting there including group working with Recapitulation.
Also if you know Russian, I can recommend to you works “Dream-hackers”, but I am unsure their books was released on English :(
And another writer with a feminine perspective, Joan Wulfsohn author of "Stalking Carlos Castaneda:"
In 1972, professional dancer Joan Wulfsohn underwent a double mastectomy. And her soon-to-be-ex-husband abducted their three children and spirited them away to a foreign country. “I should have died,” Joan writes. But she didn’t. Stalking Carlos Castaneda chronicles her journey back to life by way of lessons learned from stunning transvestites and music hall dancers, teen porn stars, a brain damaged boy, Eastern holy men, Western supermodels and a certain aging sorcerer. It is the story of how one woman learned to live a magical life—bound not by spells and hexes but rather filled with wonder and transcendence.
"I began to learn the art of stalking because I needed to. Carlos' teachings were harsh and even unloving. But I had lost my children, my breasts, my community- the world as I had known it had crumbled and I dared not allow myself to soften or slide into self pity. The teachings emphasized impeccability, ruthless self scrutiny and a relentless striving for self discipline; they were offered in terms of self deprecating humor, honesty and poetry; they insisted on the potential nobility, divine illumination and awesome magical powers that are the natural heritage of man."
You could get her a "boyfriend pillow,"and there are a bunch of even more extensive and novel designs:
The Original Boyfriend Body Pillow Blue https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0046GK1AI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_vgDUDbXGDYJJP
and a weighted blanket:
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I think this book does the best job of any I've read of clearly explaining training some of the things I listed above. It's a real treasure.
My personal favorites are standing meditation and stillness meditation. I could go on and on, but it's really better if you're asking the questions!