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This chat is for discussion among the practitioners of the Carlos Castaneda practices. · #castaneda_students-chat:reddit.com · channel c2_1rg

The chat channel attached to r/castaneda ran for 859 days before Reddit removed chat channels entirely. This is the surviving record: 22,265 messages from 332 people.

14 Jul 2023opened18 Nov 2025last message
859 days · 26.0 msg/day
22,265Messages
332People
427Images
4,162Reactions
2,042Replies
1,365Deleted

Every day the room was open

The room held its activity to the end.

Peak was 357 messages on 1 May 2024. Colour marks activity: solid is a busy day, grey is a quiet one.

14 Jul 202318 Nov 2025
busiest days middling quiet

What was actually being said

The room's own vocabulary

These are the words this channel used far more than the rest of the archive did — the in-jokes, names and shorthand that only make sense if you were in here. Median message length: 82 characters.

TermUses
tensegrity484
darkroom576
it's2,297
assemblage442
carlos892
cholita280
sorcery546
silence888
don't1,334
energy860
because1,079
iobs156
MeasureValue
Median message length82
90th percentile241
Total words223,754
Messages asking a question13.5%

Messages by hour, UTC

When the room was awake

A 5.9 to 1 swing between the busiest and quietest hour — mostly one region, with a scattering elsewhere.

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Arrivals, departures and bans, by month

It never lost more people than it gained

Departures stayed below arrivals every month. What fell away was new arrivals: 203 joined in the first month, 2 in the last.

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4,162 reactions

How the room responded

upvote
2,714
care
777
joy
370
facepalm
38
sunglasses
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surprise
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vq7naqwfa7081.gif
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feels_good_man
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39 stickers

And what it sent instead of words

unknown16snoo_shrug3karma3snoo_facepalm3snoo_joy2snoo_surprised2hamster2snoo_wink1partyparrot1snoo_dealwithit1

Reddit's chat reaction and sticker sets were removed with the feature. These are preserved copies.

Who was in here

332 people passed through. A handful carried it.

The top poster sent 8,107 messages. Below them the curve collapses: 90 people posted once and never came back.

ParticipantMessagesShare
danl9998,10736.4%
Emergency-Total-4851 mod2,54211.4%
TechnoMagical_Intent mod1,2315.5%
mathestnoobest8103.6%
slav_owl6182.8%
AthinaJ8 mod5842.6%
drinkjetfuel5772.6%
Ok_Guess_50363641.6%
lostinforever893521.6%
superr3461.6%
InnerArt35372641.2%
NumerousExtension9162501.1%

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18 Nov 2025 · the end of the log

The last thing anyone said here

No announcement, no goodbye. The archive simply stops. Nobody in this conversation knew it was the last one.

danl999We don't WATCH anything. We're sleep walkers! Let the Buddhists go around being "mindful" and watching their thoughts. That serves the purpose for which it was designed: To turn them into obedient zombies.
danl999We're trying to fall asleep, while continuing to act in the world as if we were awake.
danl999But falling asleep while staying awake is ANYTHING BUT boring. Once you do that, flashes of alternate worlds pop into your view, and the air fills with magic. Of course, you start thinking again, perhaps about how famous you'll become among your friends now that you've learned real magic, and so naturally it all fades away.
danl999And that's the point at which you actually start to learn sorcery. You have to learn how to witness miracles, without your internal dialogue, or any greedy motivations, returning.
danl999Right now, it's almost like you want to go to a big auditorium and ask questions of a "professor", instead of actually learning to do this yourself.
danl999That's how we were taught that people learn. By listening to "important lectures".
danl999But in fact, those are useless.
danl999Even super fascinating advanced physics becomes instantly meaningless, when your assemblage point moves to another version of reality.
danl999One day I'd love to stabilize one of those, and test out the "Rules" of physics. My guess is, they'd seem childish.
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