Necromantic Practice


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We are discussing necromancy. Keep in mind, I can discuss many things that I may or may not practice.

Necromancy is actually very simple, as well as being highly controversial. It has been called a lot of things, and maybe one of the clearest is bone reading. Do any of you have in your possession the remains of one of your loved ones, like an urn with ashes or something? My own deceased family members urns are buried.

My Mom wouldn’t like anything like that in the house. It would be uncomfortable for her. Ah, good point. People have an intuition about the remains of the dead, and it’s often not rational.

Now necromancy isn’t what it’s commonly shown as necessarily, but necromancy is as old as Shamanic practices themselves. Necro = dead, and mancy = knowing or knowledge.

It is more than just being able to call up spirits at will? Yes, actually. In a sense, it’s the first idea anyone had about death, the afterlife, and prayer. Originally, people didn’t see the dead as “dead and gone”. It was sort of a big mystery about what exactly happened to the animating force or “spirit” when they died. Nor was it understood exactly what the significance of the remains was, but they intuited something was there.

I think it was less a mystery to many old Shamanic cultures. I will agree with you that it was less of a mystery. Originally, the idea of calling to and contacting the ancestors wasn’t seen as evil. Nor were the dead seen as merely impotent spirits that could mutter things to you only.

So they influenced the world more? Yes. They didn’t really have any scientific notions. For one, people just sort of intuited that however the mind worked, that in all likelihood it could still work, and they had the experience of the spirit of the dead still living on in their dream time. This is why there are so many superstitions about sleep. If you dreamed of your dead Granny or Grandpa, in their view it was your dead Granny or Grandpa, and oneiromancy, or divination by dreams, has and has always had a connection to necromancy.

What does oneiro mean? Oneiro = dream, but more literally it was a reference to dreaming spirit. In old dream beliefs, what happens when you are in contact with that world was seen as having really happened. So the dead could make things happen ,and by practicing necromancy you could contact, and not only communicate, but ask or even compel favours from the dead. It’s linked to another discipline known as aeromancy. The conjuration of airy or “etherial” forms” not really connected to some of the idea it is today.

READ:  Spiritual Sacrament

Now as the Shamanistic views sort of fell away, and people moved into an agrarian and thus city dwelling culture, no one really escaped the mysteries of death. Honestly, can anyone really get those ideas out of their mind? It’s as prevalent as our view of life.

That death is bad you mean? Well, some fear, but no. Some cultures do not view death as bad, and they are seen as more “necromancy tolerant” cultures. Voodoo has elements of necromancy, and the old Druid traditions did as well. Necromancy later became sort of decentralized, but even western Europe didn’t truly rid themselves of their “mediums” though they weren’t called that back then. But with the rise of organized religion, and the more or less equivalences of religion with nation, necromancy sort of went underground especially in Christian dominated countries.

They needed to keep death a mystery? Yes.

They needed to not have their heads cut off for being witches etc. Well yes, necromancers faced very real threat.

Was it because the only spirit they want you to know about is God, and any others were evil or considered evil? Actually, no. It was viewed in later cultures, specifically Christian cultures, as pagan. But it was only later viewed this way, and this is not a Jewish view. It’s uniquely Christian. That the only way a spirit could come back was through the agency of Christ, and therefore a necromancer couldn’t possibly be contacting the dead. It had to be demonic spirits.

Doesn’t Christianity teach there is no reincarnation? Orthodox Christianity does. It goes against their teaching of the resurrection doesn’t it?

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive

~science,mysticism,spirituality~

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6 responses to “Necromantic Practice”

  1. Death Bringer Avatar
    Death Bringer

    Hi I am interested in Necromancy and i wondered if it is practiced today and weather it is a wise study to undertake?

    1. Travis Avatar
      Travis

      Necromancy takes multiple forms. They aren’t all known as necromancy today. Mediumistic trance is one popular modern method. Shamanistic spirit journeying is another. The values behind various necromantic practices vary widely and reflect the values of the culture that discovered the individual practice.

      You should not engage in any practices that violate your core beliefs and values. But you would likely be able to find a necromantic practice that is acceptable to you.

    2. Random Forest Avatar

      As a practicing Necromancer of 14 years, I would strongly encourage against it. It’s an absolute certainty that the more seeking you do, the more you become sought after, inadvertently facilitating your own lifelong multiple “haunting”. I didn’t know anyone even vaguely knowledgeable about it when I was 22 and took up an interest. Let my experience caution you this: Once doors are opened, they can never be shut again. Necromancy is a minefield of Pandora’s boxes with Hope left in the bottom. If you choose to pursue it anyway, the best knowledge I can impart on you is this: They can, will, and do lie. Never think you are ever beyond harm and be reverent. It wouldn’t hurt to also adopt a personal resolution to not speaking ill of the dead.

      1. Kane Avatar
        Kane

        How shall one master these arts? I would like to grow knowledgeable of and pursue these practices. I do not wish to use any out of greed nor selfishness, as I have the utmost respect and acceptance of any entity and being. I wish to practice both black arts and white arts as they call them. I do not trust the internet, as I am replying to someone claiming to be experienced. Would you enlighten me with reliable sources and your personal opinion on the path I wish to travel? I am nothing but serious and plan to go about this the same. @Random Forest

  2. Luke Avatar
    Luke

    How would I go about asking a dead friend for advice?

    1. Travis Avatar
      Travis

      There are a number of ways. Lucid dreaming is perhaps the most readily available. Keep in mind that you are interacting with a real person possessed of their own free will and they may have other issues affecting them.

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