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Mindfullness as Self-Development

2/11/2019

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When endeavoring to work with spirits, self-development becomes a substantially important concern. How are you to perceive or work with them if you've failed to put yourself into a mode that allows for this kind of awareness?

We've discussed mindfulness via meditation many times over in the past, but how does one apply that to their day to day lives? The answer is simple, but the act isn't quite so: work to remain aware of what's occurring in your periphery at any moment in the day. 

When you're in your cubicle and responding to emails, take out your headphones, quiet the music, and keep your eyes and ears open to hear what's occurring in your immediate vicinity. Become aware of both the little and the big things, and simply take a mental note of them so that you can reflect on those details later in the evening. This might seem incredibly mundane, but spirits tend to interject between the words others speak, and they do so in moments of silence or pause. Sometimes this will manifest as a disembodied voice, or other times you'll mishear what others say in a way that actually gives you more information.

Its easy to write this off as a hallucination or a misdirect, but this is where the mindfulness comes in. If that information you've "misheard" ends up being correct, continue to follow it. If you do so correctly, you'll find yourself stepping-stoning your way into success with both the mundane and spiritual worlds, increasing your grasp of the conceptual knowledge needed in both. 

Magicians work in this world and the next. Thus, you should endeavor to do the same if you wish to be more readily able to conjure and work with spirits to advance your position.

Regards,
SE
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Awareness

1/5/2014

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I've been doing some thinking and meditating, as usual, over the past wee while and had a thought that seemed meritorious and worth sharing.

I've long read and heard from spirits that awareness is the key to being successful.  Sure, its a bit trite, and so it gets passed over and relegated to one's notes, but seldom to folks really think about what that actually means.  I fell into that category, and never really thought much about it until I got the inspiration to do so.

It occurs to me that if knowledge of a thing changes the behavior of that thing, then awareness is key to manipulating how something changes. By becoming aware of a situation, we are influencing its outcome per Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. With that in mind, it becomes readily apparent that we should cultivate awareness as best we are able.

This is where meditation comes in, as its a tool that allows us to shift our awareness inward, outward, towards a specific idea or event, etc.

With that in mind, if we're striving to do magic, we should be meditating our butt's off. ;)

SE

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Inspiration when it has faded.

11/21/2013

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When inspiration hits, it's a wonderful thing. The trouble is that it's not always forthcoming in an hour of need thanks to pressure and stress and sleeplessness in response to that upcoming deadline.

In times of issues like those, magic tends to be particularly useful. The stories of old are riddled with magical draughts of inspiration-given, so clearly our ancestors felt much the same way about the subject at hand.

When in doubt, I'd recommend conjuring your muse to form and effect and let him or her appear and inspire.

To do so, you will need several things:
  • Water (preferably spring water)
  • Wine (red wine, not white)
  • Basil
  • Bay leaves
  • Blessed thistle
  • 1 red candle
  • 2 violet candles
  • Abramelin oil
  • A heat-proof surface of sufficient size to encompass the work


When you've obtained your materials, sprinkle them with holy water and ensure that they've been cleansed and repurposed to your needs.

From there, when ready, setup your altar. Place the spring water to the right and the wine to the left. Between the water and wine, place the two violet candles and singular red candle in the shape of a triangle with the point away from you; the purple candles should be closest to you. Sprinkle Abramelin oil on the candles and the herbs, being mindful of safety precautions, then place the herbs in the center of the triangle in the a shape like so: \|/. Say a quick prayer, then light the candles and meditate for a while, grasping the intention of your work and the nature of the conjured muse.

In time, inspiration should come. If it doesn't, you've either done something wrong or there's something amiss in your sphere that you will want to look into.

Enjoy!

SE

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The Importance of Knowing One's Patterns

4/14/2013

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Greetings folks.

As a follow-up to my earlier post, today I am going to talk about the importance of understanding one's patterns.

If you think about human nature, the way we think, the way we act, and how we tell each other apart, it rapidly becomes apparent that we are creatures of habit.  We like the way a specific sandwich tastes, or how a combination of food and song go together, or even how our routine is laid out; we adhere to our preferred patterns to the best of our ability, regardless of what is best for us.  If you doubt this, just look at what happens with folks who smoke, drink, or drug themselves compulsively on a daily basis.

Having said as much, its also important to understand that human beings are vulnerable whenever their pattern is interrupted, as it is at that time that they are between patterns, upset, frustrated, emotional, and not usually thinking clearly.  As a result, it is possible to manipulate folks by getting them to start unhelpful patterns that are self-destructive or otherwise problematic.  

This is readily apparent when one considers such phenomena as the "mid-life crisis", during which a person, assumedly of middling age, decides that his or her pattern is no longer satisfactory and goes to staggering, sometimes ridiculous, lengths to change them.  Often times, the individual believes that these radical changes will allow them to reinvent themselves, and sometimes they are right. More often, however, such behavior is resultant of not knowing one's patterns and being unaware of how to modify them constructively.

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During times like the mid-life crisis, most folks are easily manipulated and give themselves up to peer pressure.  Just look to the desperate housewives syndrome for further examples on the subject.  Older women will take younger men to bed in hopes that it'll make them feel alive, often being conned out of their savings and left once they're dried up and no longer fun for their new "boy toy". Older men fall for younger women, and end up being strung-along as "sugar daddies", never finding what they want.

Those are perfect examples of how folks are vulnerable through mundane means when their patterns are interrupted.  Now, to switch gears, we can also see the same thing in a magical and metaphysical light, though the dynamic changes slightly.  Fascination is, very literally, dangerous, to both men and women, as it is the surest means of bewilderment and befuddlement, for we're distracted and thereby open to attack.

To illustrate this, have you ever seen a person who, to you, struck you as so attractive and different that you couldn't help but stare at them and try to figure them out?  You get carried away in their presence, get heady, and willing to do what they ask of you, purely because it seems right?  That's fascination and glamour at its base; pure, raw, and powerful....it causes you to drop your guard and your jaw.

A skilled witch or sorcerer can use the temporary state of dulled awareness and general susceptibility you take on as a means of imprinting sigilized commands or sending a spirit after you.  I've had experiences where I was fascinated by a woman just long enough for her to tear open my root, draining me of energy very quickly; its what proved to me that it doesn't take much, and it doesn't take long.

In order to stop this from occurring, we need to be able to notice our behavior as it starts. That's where meditation, as mentioned previously, comes in.

There are means of defending oneself, but to do so, you must first have the awareness to know when such a slight is occurring.

Regards,

SE

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