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Ego As Metaphor
Our metaphors teach us a lot of spiritual truth, and not only that. They give us images to form brand new insights. My own spiritual practices are metaphor heavy. I haven’t found an older path that was a fit, so I have explored many metaphors to identify and come to understand what I am experiencing.…
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In The Mystery
When it becomes habit to throw off the “Who I thought I was” then ego just becomes a cramp that you shrug off without effort. Just a sensation, and no longer any limitation. For me, I have a neural quirk there. I can’t form the patterns that congeal into “habits” very well. So to have…
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Human Thinking
Human linear binary thinking does well if it can manage even a ternary deviation, let alone anything beyond. We can barely get the third option, but can. Though there seems to be a lot of need for assistance there in general. Ultimately everything is information. Right now humans would need a technological boost, and well,…
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Dream Logic
We are talking about dreams. Not dream interpretation, though I can touch on that some also, but about dreams and the dreaming state. Anyone care to share what they understand to be the state of being we call dreaming? I think in some form or another, we don’t leave the dream state. Excellent, and yes.…
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Collective Dream
Are you awake now friends? I think I’m awake. I tend to think silly thoughts so my dreams come back as silly. Dreams are meant to be cryptic? Sometimes they seem so off the wall. They are as cryptic as your own thinking is. That’s kind of scary considering there are some odd images in…
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Domain Of Experience
How do you experience keeping secrets from yourself or the wider “conscious”, if I may call it that? Freud spoke of the irrationality of a part of the mind he called the ID. Well… Rationality is a joke, but that’s beside my point. There is a domain of human experience that goes on all the…
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The Real World
About this “not real” nonsense. Shall we explore reality? The only thing you or anyone else knows, or can know of reality, is the personal or the interpersonal. But even the interpersonal will have your personal adaptation inevitably, and does it do any good to label anything “unreal”? What action does it let you take?…
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Field Of Experience
An example of dreams opening us up for what the world is saying: I was on holiday with my best friend who I trusted completely. When one night I dreamed that she was communicating behind my back with an ex-lover, and I became so angry in the dream that during the next day I was…
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Applied Elemental Philosophy
Perhaps I should rephrase the topic of elemental magic. It would be more “applied elemental philosophy“. The practices in question rely on perhaps a simple observation that has even been made by science. That there are a finite number of states of being. Not only that, but these states constitute broad domains of energy and…
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Personal Elemental Magic
On a personal level, elemental magick is a great way to clarify problem solving. Every aspect of your reality falls into one or more elemental domains, as do various aspects of your health and personal growth or skill development. So to stick with the four element system for now, every sector of your life could,…
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Interpersonal Elemental Magic
Elemental magick applies on all levels and to everything. Sorry if that sounds grandiose, but I am not trying to puff it up. It really is that extensive. On to the interpersonal level of elemental magick. People very often say “I just don’t know what to do with that person.” Well, honestly, it doesn’t take…
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Exoteric Elemental Magick
Let’s bring elemental magic out into the world, shall we? The exoteric elemental magick, everything external to you, still falls into one of the elemental domains. Ever notice fiery people tend to like spicy food and favour the color red in their clothes or possessions or both? Down to earth people tend to like a…
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The Fifth Element
I will wrap up the subject of Elemental Magick with addressing the mystery of the fifth element. I have found wuxing to be the best model for explaining it. Pronounced wu-shing. It is Chinese alchemy/hermeticism for lack of a better parallel. In it, they do not use the element air as that corresponds to chi…
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Call For Communion
Does anyone know, what is invocation? A call. It is that, but there is more. Anyone ever hear the term conjuration? It was originally a term describing an oath and then became used to describe what would amount to a court subpoena. It was a call to appear. The reason I point this out is because…
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Practice Of Invocation
On to why you might practice invocation. There are two basic reasons. One is that when the spirit responds it shares its perception with you. Allows you insight you wouldn’t otherwise be privy to. For a period of time, you see as the spirit does. The other reason is that if it’s called for, you…
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Practices Related To Invocation
Image magic is an invocation of your intended spirit/idea? Good question, and it can be a prelude practice, but actually falls more into the realm of conjuration. Because for the period that you are focusing on the image work, it is external to you. Invocation can lead to conjuration as you seek a spirits blessing…
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Paths In Invocation
As you invoke the spirits, you accomplish two things. You learn from them, and thereby claim some of their wisdom as your own. You can use it even without calling for their help, and the same thing that applies to people applies to spirits. You rise or fall to the level of the company you keep.…
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Genius Loci
Everyone familiar with conjuration? Calling spirits to be present at your working? Most people think of the spirit world as being a sort of phantom world that is meshed with the material world. This would be a mistake. You have, for the sake of our discussion, two selves. Your flesh and blood self, which I…
Category: Light Metaphysics
I will be exploring more specifically the ‘psychic and paranormal’ phenomenon. Perhaps they will help you understand more about yourself. As Derek Acorah is quoted, “Everyone who is born to the Earth has the psychic ability lying dormant.”
Do I have concrete psychic/spiritual experiences? Indeed. I am defined medically as autistic, meaning I’m “self absorbed.” I experience the internal processes first. The neural structure that screens things and slows down sense impression for processing doesn’t work for me. Sensory impressions come to me like abstract input and I interpret stuff “strangely.”
I “order” information in a certain way, and I have no subconscious as others understand it. Dream like imagery is a part of my waking experience, so forms a psycho sensory gestalt. Someone I meet in person, her personal presence her personality and any symbolism, form a fused construct in my mind, and I have a language focus because it provides a framework for cognitive organization. Even incorporating some terms from languages other than my birth tongue.
For myself experience and practice came first.
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” Aristotle