Carlos Castaneda Tensegrity - Westwood Series: Inner Silence (all 15 moves)

"The Series of the Five Concerns: The Westwood Series". Group 4 - THE MAGICAL PASSES THAT AID THE ATTAINMENT OF INNER SILENCE: all 15 movements.

Please see my other videos of individual movements for movement description and commentary.
Demonstration is based on the book "Magical Passes" by Carlos Castaneda.
Suitable for all ages, both genders, any level of ability. Please consult your physician before trying these movements.

The following text is extracted from "Magical Passes": INNER SILENCE.
~~Don Juan said that inner silence was the state most avidly sought by the shamans of ancient Mexico. He defined it as a natural state of human perception in which thoughts are blocked off and all of man's faculties operate from a level of awareness which doesn't require the utilization of our daily cognitive system.
Inner silence has always been associated with darkness, perhaps because human perception, deprived of its habitual companion, the internal dialogue, falls into something that resembles a dark pit. The body functions as usual, hut awareness becomes sharper. Decisions are instantaneous, and seem to stem from a special sort of knowledge which is deprived of thought verbalizations.
Human perception functioning in a condition of inner silence is capable of reaching indescribable levels. Some of those levels of perception are worlds in themselves, and not at all like the worlds reached through dreaming.
Inner silence, in don Juan's understanding, is the matrix for a gigantic step of evolution: silent knowledge, or the level of human awareness where knowing is automatic and instantaneous. Knowledge at this level is not the product of cerebral cogitation or logical induction and deduction, or of generalizations based on similarities and dissimilarities. There is nothing a priori at the level of silent knowledge, nothing that could constitute a body of knowledge, for everything is imminently now. Complex pieces of information could be grasped without any cognitive preliminaries.
Don Juan believed that silent knowledge was insinuated to early man, but that early man was not really the possessor of silent knowledge. Such an insinuation was infinitely stronger than what modern man experiences, where the bulk of knowledge is the product of rote learning. It is a sorcerers' axiom that although we have lost that insinuation, the avenue that leads to silent knowledge will always be open to man by means of inner silence.
Inner silence must be gained by a consistent pressure of discipline. It has to be accrued or stored, bit by bit, second by second. One has to force oneself to be silent, even if it is only for a few seconds. If one persists in this, persistence overcomes habit, and thus, it is possible to arrive at a threshold of accrued seconds or minutes, which differs from person to person. If the threshold of inner silence is ten minutes for a given individual, for instance, then once this threshold is reached, inner silence happens by itself, of its own accord, so to speak.
I was warned beforehand that there was no possible way of knowing what my individual threshold might be, and that the only way of finding this out was through direct experience.
Don Juan explained: "Every human being in the world is aware, in general terms, of seeing energy as it flows in the universe. However, only sorcerers are particularly and deliberately conscious of it. To become conscious of something that you are generally aware of requires energy, and the iron-hand discipline needed to get it. Your inner silence, the product of discipline and energy, bridges the gap between general awareness and particular consciousness."
Don Juan stressed the value of a pragmatic attitude in order to buttress the advent of inner silence. A pragmatic attitude is the capacity to absorb any contingency that might appear along the way.
The effects of inner silence are very unsettling, and the only deterrent to this condition is the pragmatic attitude which is the product of a superbly pliable, agile, strong body. For sorcerers, the physical body is the only entity that makes any sense to them.
Don Juan further stated that the physical body involved both the body and the mind as we knew them, and that in order to counterbalance the physical body as a holistic unit, sorcerers considered another configuration of energy which was reached through inner silence: the energy body. He explained that what I had experienced when I had stopped the world was the resurgence of my energy body, and that this configuration of energy was the one which had always been able to see energy as it flowed in the universe.~~ (Acknowledgements: www.scribd.com )

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[theiceman74]

so can you relocate?

[carlangasyque]

do you know whats mean tension??? tensegritty?? nice for you (learn all the moves) but try to practice whit elegance and force like an martial arts... good luck!!