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Ritual Dark Mirror

Perhaps a less controversial form of twisted ritual. The path of the Heyoka. In short, the clown shaman. The Heyoka was considered completely insane, but insanity was seen as the same as inspiration and they were not actually insane. The tribe just didn’t try to reason with them. They accepted their paradoxical behaviour, but the…
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Ritual for Deconstructive Purpose

Dark Metaphysics has been about the dark side of metaphysics and magickal practice. I mean to explore all the things that people find spooky about what might be happening in the magickal word and among magicians. Today, we are talking about twisted ritual. It is its own form of ritual because it specifically involves practices designed…
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Fight Before Fighting

In martial arts, some claim to be able to disrupt your chi and make you weak. They can, because they fight you before actually fighting you. They have developed an awareness of their own chi advanced enough that they can recognize chi patterns in you, and they deliberately shift their state to exhaust yours. Not…
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Wizard Friendly

Everyone familiar with Myers Briggs? The five wuxing categories (earth, fire, water, wood, metal) actually exist in Meyers Briggs even though they only use four terms. The recombination of these four terms into distinct sets is the category of wood. This is why wood people make good trainers and educators. How do the categories match up…
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Integrity in Spiritual Practice by Kimberly Wilson

The pursuit of a spiritual life, contrary to popular portrayal and belief, is not marked by devil-may-care, experimental, or self-indulgent practices. To be sure, there are many counterfeit brands of spirituality that claim to change lives and heighten spiritual awareness, but these programs are more akin to (and sometimes are) drug usage than they are…
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Wuxing Cycle Of Creation

Shall we choose a specific focus and give the wuxing take on it? Suggestions? Art? Perhaps states of mind, which relates to art and problem solving as well. You cannot think in only one category. You will naturally think in all five (earth, fire, water, wood, metal) but perhaps you may be conscious of only one…
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Patterns Of Chi

Today, science is recognizing many of the patterns older disciplines based their lore on, if with severe qualifications. But the Chinese yearly zodiac also corresponds to a cycle of the five categories of earth, fire, water, wood, metal. It’s not just, say, the year of the ox, it’s the year of the fire ox. They…
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Force Of First Cause

Magick is the esoteric component of any activity. There have been magickal practices involved in fishing, hunting, building, you name it. If it’s old enough, it has a magick connected to it, and there are even some new magics. Today, we are talking about one of the oldest systems on the planet. No body knows…

