[an early prototype of a C3rberus basic white work ‘philosob3t’ Wickerword Diagram]
[*] fasting
Traditionally the practice of ‘fasting’, the voluntary abstinence from food, is associated with health, longevity, or religious austerities. Often fasts are undertaken for reasons of purification, be they spiritual or metabolic. As mentioned last post, fasting is also part of the work upon Cerberus within Physical Alchemy. However this fasting is not of food stuffs: but includes the fasting of words, ideation categories, [re]actions, and deeds.
They function as *stretches* of the metametaphysical attractor [warped centre].1
But only if they are done correctly and auspiciously. In line with *when* and ‘by whom’ principles. Just as ill-advised fasting from food; or incorrectly and inauspiciously performed stretches can harm the organism, so too incorrectly sequenced and self-administered Cerberus-fasts can evoke unforeseen effects. Oftentimes mutating Cerberus whilst the person considers themselves making grand progress against its wishes.2
[ 📖 ] fasting of the word
The simplest of these fasts [*stretches*] is a basic version of word-fasting. One finds a specific key word, or phrase, that one says habitually and unconsciously: and stops say it. Simple. And difficult. If the word has the correct Cerberus habitual energetic binding to it – which it should to be connotative of a fast in this context – it is not so easy to abstain from its utterance. [These can be done solo, or sometimes with others assisting you in pointing them out.]3
The normal trajectory for these fasts is that one finds out that one speaks [and thinks] the targeted word/phrase much more often than one imagined, or was aware of. That the word slips out without the precursors being felt. This is an especially humorous, or horrifying – depending upon how ones’ self-irony is dialed – perception. Triply so when the person exhibits strong pride in their contemplative skills and situational awareness.4
As the fasting progresses, one begins to ‘catch the word upon ones lips’ – so to speak. To arrest its mental impulse before it becomes sound. Or at least catch it mid-speaking. This marks a change of stage of the fast.
The *stretching* proper has begun.
The next stage involves feeling the configurations of gross energetics and subtle tension through the body that preempt the saying of the word. There is always an impulse that differs significantly from saying non-charged wordage. It is this that we are trying to isolate and work within the alembic of the body. If this proceeds auspiciously it leads [eventually] to the loss of the charge of Cerberus-induced habituation around the word.
The energetic-knot is invested in the word is untied.5
So it becomes clearer why having a substantial degree of body awareness, physical repatterning skills, and contemplative experience is indicated as precursory to doing the fasts well. These Cerberus-charged words leave ripples in the prism of flesh that is our planetary bodies.
however
these skills
alone
are
many times
not enough..
as we shall find out below.
[….]
[*] how word-fasting affects the body
The fasting of specifically Cerberus-charged words and further ideation-clusters interact with the same latent layers of the body that the alchemical order stretches upon the physical body do. One must be able to feeel the metametaphysical terrain; and its interface with and within the body.
At the crossroads where flesh and word meet.6
Undertaken together these alchemical stretches and the Cerberus-fasting work cartographically upon the same dormant dimensionality within the body. Without the presentation of Cerberus as is now occuring it has been difficult to speak about just how vast the differences in terminology and actuality between the two – totally different but visually very similar – physical syllabuses of stretching I use, in fact are.
The positive qualities of the alchemical stretching syllabus [and therefore its value] are nearly impossible to speak upon up until one perceives and has certain understanding of the disenchantment [of the nature of Cerberus]7.
3 syllabuses of stretching within Physical Alchemy
There are [in fact] three syllabus of *stretching* within the art of Physical Alchemy, at present. Only the first one – ‘Repatterning Stretching’ – is really explainable to the layperson at present. Even then it is still an outlier for mant people, because of the models and paradigms used in the mainstream for the body; what a human being is, and is capable of. We will dive a little deeper into the terminological and paradigmatic differences between the different orders of physical work in the next Substack article. For now, here is a brief synopsis of the three different but interlocking stretching syllabuses:
[⚕︎] repatterning stretching [physical]
Repatterning Stretching [the preprepartory syllabus] is itself a different study than most extant methods of stretching that emphasis flexibility, conditioning of range, strength, and mobility. Repatterning involves deemphasising these – in preference to increasing the targetting of sensory and motor amnesia8; increasing the bodily awareness of the muscles, sinews, visecaral organs; working with tension-patterning and relaxation, and the release of the breathing. Flexibility increase, strength and the conditioning of range still occur, but in a different fashion than with methods that target these are primary goals.
[⚗️] alchemical stretching [physical-metametaphysial]
Alchemical Stretching is a work on opening a specific latent dimensionality within the body. It simultaneously [and paradoxically] increases the ability of the body to be used within the alchemical work upon Cerberus; whilst it alchemises the very patterning of Cerberus itself. It increases the sensitivity and perception of the *aesthetics* currents of Cerberus in oneself, others, groups, and the world. This is useful in combination with the third syllabus [below].
This syllabus also continues and deepens the work upon the qualities emphasised within the Repatterning Stretching syllabus – but adds in other dimensions, such as those of ‘atmospherics’ and *structure*; amongst other things. [….] What one looks for from alchemical strething is not flexibility, relaxation, bodily awareness; nor reduced insidious tension-patterning – these all happen as benevolent collateral – but reduction of the influence of the head of Cerberus afflicting the planetary body of the human being in question, and the awakening of the dormant faculities this produces [is the primary aim]. The intentionality and methodology are quite different than if one was simply seeking greater body awareness and increase in other physical traits, too.
[💡] *stretching* of the mindshape [metametaphysical]
So it is now seen that the word-techniques introduced within this article are part of a ‘secret third’ syllabus of *stretching*. One involving the metametaphysical attractor [the heads of Cerberus] via language and body. One primarily dealing with words, metaphysics, lore, humour, inspiration, certaing classes of syncronicities, ideation and *ideas*, and a few other things from my satchel of tricks – not physical postures or exercises. Though its absence of physical work in no means lessens its potency in transmutation of the body.
The mysterious and nigh uncharted continutity of the physical ←→ metaphysical ←→ metametaphysical is what facilitates the mercurial metamorphosis potentiality between these three domains; and is the golden thread woven between these three syllabuses of stretching. If one underunderstands the implications of these connections, profound shifts in ones world perspective occur. One enters into a neoalchemical worldview.
One can test the efficacy of these two deeper syllabuses, too – just as one can test form of postures, ranges of flexibility, or efficacy in breathing methods as worked within the superficial syllabus [Repatterning Stretching].9