[5] from word-fasting to ideation-fasting
Just as one progresses with physical exercises when they no longer elicit a potent change within the organism, so it is too with the fasting of Cerberus. Charged-words are just the tips of the tendrils of the extent of Cerberus’ covert infiltration of the body, emotions and mentation.
If one is successful in entering the hinterland of the terrain of Cerberus via the simultaneous use of alchemical stretching and word-fasting; or either alone [or via other means]; the next step is to fast from ideation-clusters controlled by the head of Cerberus one has afflicting their body. This will most likely not work, and will create wrong results, if one attempts it without the correct *terrain* being accessible and mapped to a degree, prior to beginning. Which in my experience and observation seldom happens from most forms of physical training, regardless of whatever other boons they may bestow.10
The work upon the middling metaphysical layer is tricky whilst the person presumes they have fully selected theirs. The ideation-fasts are one way of generating a shock that this is not fully the case: but only if the alembic of the body has been properly set up. Otherwise you are met with an array of ‘internal refusement factors’, lying, adamant stating they already understand and have done such works [or more advanced works], mutation of patterning, and the like. This is often seen in those who firmly assume the stance that they are open-minded.
The middling layer of the metaphysical is usually approached via generation of resources from above [the physical] and below [the metametaphysical]: this is to say indirectly. The person needs to come these perceptions on their own. To see how their metaphysical body can be as tight, alien, uncharted, unconsciously accumulated, and habitual as their physical body. To see that the world has many veiled layers to it, interacting in powerful and unseen ways with those layers that are known or partially known.
[🌀] the fasting of ideation
After initial incongruences surrounding the eruption of the *reenchantment* work within the craft of Physical Alchemy had been worked out to a certain degree, a waiting patiently for the opportune moment to test out some of the Cerberus fasting on experienced practitioners commenced. Practitioners with combinations of contemplative praxis, and multiple bodywork and physical modalities – luminaries of different sorts.
The parameters were: they had to ask me directly about what I was doing with Physical Alchemy + possess a deep embodiment of multiple body methods [with wider and more balanced selection the better] + experience and active ongoing contemplative praxis + having some familiarity with the source texts materia for that period of time [Gurdjieff, Berman, Rolf, et al].
If these parameters were met AND the person asked for a basic exercise or practice in from the work upon Cerberus, the follow ‘idea-fasting lite’ were offered:
C3rberus: to never to talk about, mention, ‘debate’, discourse, pontificate, or in other ways discuss ‘politics’ [local, country, religious, geopolitics, gender, and so on] with just myself. They need not change anything in the slightest in regards to what they personally believe on any of these issues; nor stop reading, watching the news, or talking to others people about these topics. The fast functioned only when talking with one person – me – hence it being ‘lite’ fasting.
C2rberus: for the emotionally warped head of Cerberus, one of the lite fasts was to never mention the goings on of their immediate family [parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles, et al]. Again: this was just in my presence. I demonstrated that I rarely [if ever] mentioned the activites of my blood relations; and that this in no way meant I did not love them. Simply that it wasn’t habitual for myself to unconsciously and copiously speak about them in conversation. C2rberus often possesses different degrees of ‘family-intoxication’, hence the nature of the fast. A secondary more word and phrase specific lite fast I gave to this head was: not to say the phrase ‘How’s business going?’, or its ilk to me. You could also use words like ‘value’, ‘passionate’, ‘fierce’, ‘side hustle’ ‘hack’, ‘property investing’, and so on. Again, this is for anatomicalreasons.
What happened was equal parts twilight zone and cosmic jest.
In every conversation I had with these selected candidates from the time I offered the fasts – almost a decade ago now – until this very day, they unanimously failed the fast.
Sometimes it happens in the opening sentences [particularly the ‘How’s business?’ one]. Other times it would feel like the conversation was over, that I had finally had a fasted-conversing: then like clockwork Cerberus appears and the words are uttered [unbeknownst to the person].
Again; these people were selected for expertise in multiple body awareness dominant modalities; onging awareness and contemplative practice; and familiarity with the prima materia the fasts were deciphered from.
And these were the lite fasts.
The real ones would involve parameters such as, for instance for C3rberus: total fasting from discussion, posting or commenting on social media, considering, pondering, watching the news, reading about, arguing, writing on, sharing, ‘educating’, ruminating, and so on; all forms of politics with all people [including oneself], no matter what occurs in the world to spark outrage and ‘bloodlust of speech’ about it. For years [essentially until the charge has dissipated completely]. The aim is sabotage of one of the primary mechanisms of Cerberus’ architecture.11
These fasts work as exercises unto the arcane anatomy of Cerberus.
But it is not so different to seeing movement pattern discrepencies, or postures being out of alignment. Indeed: these very people were adept at these methods of somatic perception. And so it was with not small astonishment that in early descriptions I gave of the work upon Cerberus, I was more than once met with violent ‘internal refusement factors’ [metaphysics recoil] in regards to some seeming sacrosanctity of thought12.
As per last entry [‘what is medicine for one, is poison for another’]: it can actually be quite benefic for C3rberus to begin to genuinely enquire to people: ‘How’s business going?’ and to feel good about them having success in their work; or about their families health and well-being; and so forth. Not so much for C2rberus asking about ‘politics’ because of secondary-colourings involved, and disenchantment-conflagrations around these topics in a C3rberus world age – but there are other fasts of C3rberus that are auspicious for C2rberus to feast upon.13
For those wondering, C1rberus word-fasting [with an Australian dialect filter applied] might include but is not limited to: fasting from saying ‘fuck’, ‘fucken’, ‘cunt’ [including ‘mad cunt’, ‘sick cunt’, et al]; ‘mate’; talking about ones favourite footy team; about cars; about debt; about memes; about gambling odds; about conspiracies; about aliens; about qi; about MMA; fasting from complaining about being fucked by the government, or the banks; about any fluid or substance that exits a body [human or animal], and so on and so forth.
[🎭] a voice of ones own
every body
values
self expression
wants
to be
more
feel
more
themselves.
wishes
to find their
unique
voice
to express themselves
fully.
Indeed; many avande garde body work, embodiment, and movement methods have this as core within their ethos and praxis. So in regards to this, the claim that alchemical stretching leads to one finding more authenticity of self expression – of finding ones own voice – is hardly unique.
What is different is the making explicit that there are a huge mass of unknown factors actively14 getting in the way of this very human wish. That we have to dissolve these before our natural essence can shine through as ourselves. So we make a grand study of what ‘false authenicity’ looks like. How it moves, how it shifts shape. How it mutates and coagulates. The words it speaks, the books it suggests, the courses it takes. This is not a pleasant study, if one has been pursuing these ends for many moons. By studying the anatomy and mutation phylogeny of Cerberus we can see through clever forgeries, passionate imitations, and off-brand modalities.