'lo my friends.

I hope this post finds you well.  As of late, I've had a few thoughts percolating about in my brain, and this one seems to be most urgent; in this post, I will be speaking on the subject of a meditation technique I learned recently.  This particular meditation comes from the Vajrayana school of Tibeten Tantra, and is geared towards helping us to understand ourselves on a deeper level, thereby allowing us to cultivate a sort of situational awareness.  This particular form of situational awareness centers around detached attachment and attached detachment.

To preface this entry, we, as human beings, tend to be ruled by emotions, so we don't usually put ourselves in the other person's shoes and endeavor to understand where they're coming from or see their other motivations.  We get lost in the moment, and then react on impulse, and this tends to get us into some really rough situations. The following meditation can be used to help cultivate the ability to interact with others without getting too terribly worked up about it.

That said, to understand the intention of this meditation, you must first understand and accept that every one of us is a multiplicity.  We are made up of different selves who are all interacting on the day to day, each of which are interconnected but different.  For some of us, there are wrathful selves, overly sexual selves, impish ones, and so on and so forth; these parts of ourselves, when uncontrolled and unrecognized can cause some major issues.

To do this, you will wish to get comfortable in a room where you won't be disturbed.  You're welcome to change into a robe, perform this naked, light incense, play music....do whatever it is that gets you comfortable and ready for extended periods of meditation.  When ready, close your eyes and focus on relaxing your body's muscles, piece by piece, bit by bit, so that when your muscles have unwound, you will be ready.

Begin to contemplate the different things you feel, and listen for the parts of you that cry out for attention and acknowledgement as you detach your focus from your earthly body.  Don't fight the meditation; just let those entities come forth, and as they do, acknowledge them.  If they seem unusually troubled, you can try talking to them and see what they say.  If you'd like, you can negotiate with them or find out what will help level them out, but do not get too attached to any one side of you.

This may be difficult at first, but eventually you will learn how to let this come easily.

With that said, do NOT attempt this meditation if you are not of sound mental and emotional health! This may exacerbate those issues, as this meditation has been known to cause some emotional discomfort; this is normal, but those who aren't mentally prepared could be damaged.  This serves as an initiation of sorts, and is the basis for more advanced forms of magical praxis.

Enjoy!

SE

'lo ladies and gents. hope this post finds you well.

As some of you are aware, over the past few months I have been in the midst of a less-than-amicable divorce.  While, ultimately, the end-result would be a good thing for me, being caught in the thick of things really didn't do me any favors.

The stress caused by the proceedings was severe enough that I lost control of most of the things directly pertaining to my own sphere.  I was still able to do plenty of work for clients, to impressive effects, but still I was left holding the proverbial bag until I got my $%*# together. As a result, for a time, things got more than a little crazy and chaotic in my sphere....I'd have bouts of bad luck, strange emotional problems, and various irritating minor frustrations cropping up. It was never anything particularly severe, but each of those "bricks" built up a rather impressive wall that was becoming difficult to break down. 

The act of getting my $%*# together involved working with Cassiel, in fact, as He's an angelic force associated with the sphere of Saturn.  Saturn being known for its ability to remove obstacles and set barriers, I've learned that the spirits therein are often uniquely skilled at making you own and take control of your mess....

..Well, that was just what I needed, and its exactly what happened.  In doing so, I learned something that I thought I'd share here.  My work made me realize where things had gone wrong: I had lost control of myself and my sphere by and through my own loss of faith in my abilities and skills. For a time, I questioned everything about me, everything that had happened between myself and my ex, was filled with doubt, and, perhaps most importantly, filled with a great deal of anger.

This period of internal dissolution and aimlessness had me so focused on trying to regain control by dealing with the little nonsense that I didn't realize, for a time, that all I needed to do was take up the wand and sword, so to speak.

The long and short of it is this: for "regular humans" (ie, folks who don't attempt to control the manifestations in their lives), losing control can lead to bills piling up, additional stress, problems at work, relationship issues, so on and so forth. The thing is, magical folk aren't really that different; our issues just happen to be compounded by our magical praxis.

Up until the point at which we lose control, we are spending inordinate amounts of time working with spirits who become participants in our kingdom.  As they gain our respect, so too do we gain their's, and as a result, like any friend, many like to try to help out.  Directing that help is important, as otherwise they don't really have a means of understanding what we want. Nevermind the influences of those less-than-savory spiritual forces who've been waiting for our loss of control to do what they want to do.

In essence, your spiritual kingdom becomes anarchy because everyone's rowing the boat and nobody's steering.  The act of taking up the wheel and being a taskmaster where necessary helps set our course aright, so its something that really cannot be overlooked.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards,

SE

Greetings and happy Monday, ladies and gents. I hope this posting finds you well, or at the very least, awake and functioning.

In my wanderings, ramblings, gnosis, and the latent digestion of such things, I've come to a greater realization with regard to how our folk affect us.  We often spend a great deal of time interacting with others and we often take more than we'd like from people.  This function is something that's programmed into us at a biological level, as evidence by the fact that we even respond to how other people's hearts are beating.  The links for such studies escape me at the moment, but sufficed to say, we are much more intimately linked than we like to admit.

We end up mirroring people we respect as a result of our focus on what they represent to us.  We instinctually try to live up to the ideal they tout in order to become better in their eyes, and that can be a dangerous tendency.  When someone is sufficiently strong-willed, they can project a great deal onto others and do a ridiculous amount of damage to that individual.

Its not at all uncommon for a mental patient, for example, to project his or her disease/disorder onto the doctor or that individual's spouse.  I saw and experienced this firsthand as a child, when my mother's erratic behavior and lack of moral limitation "infected" my father.  Not only did I witness him changing over the years, but I confirmed these changes with my family after the fact. Apparently, before he married my mother, he had a slight "bad streak", but it was never particularly volatile or violent.

We see the same tendency in schools, as noted by my significant other (she's a teacher); when a smart kid hangs out with the would-be thugs, the smart kid's test scores and schoolwork suffers.  If that same student suddenly starts hanging out with a bunch of nerds, his scores improve.

In short, our values are ultimately set by the clan we interact with. If your friends, wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, or some other such individual or group is intensely negative, you will behave the same way as a result of your interactions.  This may not be true initially, but eventually your Will will break down and you will fall in line with your pack.

The same interactions and changes occur with those of us who are religious, spiritually inclined, or to those of us who practice some form of magic involving interacting with spiritual forces.  Our very interactions with those spirits, for weal or woe, changes us on some level.  They, very literally, become a part of  our life and our worldview, changing us from within even if we don't expect it.  Its not particularly abnormal for a practicing mage's IQ to be raised as a result of working with planetary intelligences, for example.

I've personally experienced this over the years, as working with Zazel, for example, has helped me to become better at discerning limitations, exposing them, or strengthening weaknesses, even if this wasn't the goal of the work.  It fits perfectly with His Saturnine nature.

That being the case, we can respond to this external stimuli in a couple of different ways; we can either use this to our benefit, or we can try to run from it and become a hermit. I would suggest that we should use this tendency to our benefit rather than pursue the goal of shielding ourselves from influences from others.  It is, ultimately, futile to do so, as we're trying to escape biologically-programmed functions which help us to interact.

I would recommend that you surround yourself with successful folk that you can look up to and interact.  I'd also recommend that you take it a step further and actually work with spirits that will benefit you in such a way.  If you're looking to cultivate a sense of inner peace, either work with Shiva and Ayra-Tara-Ma or have someone else do the work for you. Just bringing an entity into your sphere can have far-reaching effects for the same reasons listed above.

Furthermore, cut the bad apples off the tree.  Make the sacrifice and move on with your life if someone isn't benefiting you.  Don't sit their and stew; it WILL come back to bite you if you don't heed this advice.  Compassion is great until it drags you down; if it does, it needs to be managed like any other emotion or instinct.

The TL:DR version of this is illustrated pretty well by Hopsin in the following music video:

The long and short of it is that in order to grow, we have to cut loose the anchors that hold us down.  If you want to get somewhere in life, make whatever sacrifices you need to, so long as they'll actually get you somewhere.  If that means that you need to ask for help, realize this and then make it happen.

There are plenty of resources, spiritual teachers, spirit workers, teachers, therapists, business contacts, and potential friends who can help you to change your life for the better.  All you need to do is reach out and work to make that occur.

If you should desire such assistance, contact me and we'll talk. If you're not sure what to do about your situation, but just want to do something general to help fix it, I can probably assist.

Take care and thank you for reading.

Regards,

SE

Greetings ladies and gents, I hope this post finds you well.

Jason Miller and I talked, recently, about his Strategic Sorcery course and his books, and I provided him with a testimonial which he later posted here, and I felt it deserved some follow-up here on my blog.  Jason's work is, frankly, great stuff.  It may sound a bit pompous of me to say so, but he's one of the few sorcerous folks whom I've got a great deal of respect for; its a very short list, and Jason's at the top of it.

As indicated in my testimonial, Jason is good people, and I've had results from grafting some of his methodologies onto my own spiritual practice.  Those who know me well, like family, friends, and long-standing clients know that I've been doing this sort of thing for, very literally, my whole life.  I love a good book, but that's never, until recently, compared to the information I've gotten from spirits, and I am decidedly not very shy about that fact.  Generally, I tout the idea of dialing them up first, being friendly and cautious, and working to form a solid relationship with them as a means to learning more about the occult and magical practice.  Its a rare joy to see and speak with someone who seems to feel the same way (this is my view of Jason and his work, to clarify).

I am particularly fond of his suggestions regarding the adamantine dagger practices, as well as his mentions of meditations, chakra exercises, energy work, and so on.  They, simply, jive with what I've been taught and take them to the next level.  Furthermore, they have been confirmed as being valid methods by the spirits I work with.  Sita-Tara, for one, had a few amusing words to say about one of the methods mentioned in the SS course.

That being the case, I'd certainly recommend taking that class if you want to take your work to the next level.  Its a good way to ensure that you learn a thing or two from another guy who really does know what he's doing.  His stuff does work; I've used it.

Finally, thank you, Jason, for being a pillar amongst this magical community.  You've granted me some serious inspiration, and I only hope that I can do the same for you at some point.

Take care, my friends.

SE

Ave, my friends.  As always, I hope my posting finds you well.

A couple of weeks ago, I got word from a client and friend of mine that some recent work I had done for her led to some striking paranormal manifestations.  Here are her words on the subject:

"since you did the ritual work for me, i've been seeing things in my room. it's difficult to describe, but it's like i'm seeing glimmers of spirits or whatever they are all over in here. no audible sounds, just visual. sometimes it's in the form of a light, sometimes a shadow. i'm a little confused, didn't know if it might be related to the ritual. this is something that is completely new. the most prevalent was something small (and a light form) move across the keyboard of my laptop while i was using it. it was very clear and made me jump when i saw it."

Given her reaction to these manifestations, I thought that I should share this information; these sorts of things do happen.  Sometimes they're striking or startling, so if you're going to study and practice the Art, expect that this can happen to you.  This result was simply from doing a bit of work to bless her; more potent rites have even more potential for this sort of thing.

Take care,

SE

Greetings, dear readers.

I've been working, at length, with a particular client of mine for several months.  Yesterday, he emailed me with a blurb that I got a great deal of satisfaction from, so I thought I'd share it while simultaneously using this entry to help others experience the same change.

That said, I feel as though some history is necessary, as it will better explain the circumstances behind the work.  Without revealing this individual's name, he came to me a while back because he was having difficulty with spirits mucking about with him and causing some moderate to severe problems as a result of magical work he botched.  In essence, he had conjured things that he couldn't banish and throw back in the hat, and it was really screwing up his life. Since that point, we've worked at length to correct much of the damage done; its been a learning experience for the both of us, to be sure.  

One of the experiments we used over this time involved the use of runic energy to reprogram him from the ground up, as discussed in this post.  Well, that brings us to the blurb he sent me yesterday morning:

"I actually can sense the change when I first met you and now. The
energy experiment was well worth it but this was extremely rapid. I
feel like i can function now. You have no idea how much it means to
me."

Aside from the fact that this has been a wonderful success for me, I'm more enthused with the fact that this work has been such a phenomenal success for him.  So few spirit workers, nowadays, seem to focus on the client goals, but I, for one, am thrilled that some work on my part was able to help him on such a level and in such a way.

Tooting my horn aside, we get to the meaty part of this post...

Since he had such great results, I thought I'd give you lot a taste of this work as well.  Herein, I am sharing the first sigil used towards the goal of personal growth, though it will be up to you to learn to use it effectively.  In essence, I will be leaving you to your own devices in that respect.

With that, here is the first sigil for reprogramming yourself:

If it helps you, please be sure to let me know.  If, after working with it, you're interested in taking the work a step further, please contact me and we'll proceed.

Take care,

SE