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Grow in Your Sense of Presence
How would we use the Othila rune? If you would seek to grow in your sense of presence, commitment and investment in relationships and missions you undertake, marking and bearing this rune can serve to remind you of that. Meditation on this rune can strengthen the virtue of devotion, perhaps even piety if you value…
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Throwing the Bones
How do you do a rune reading? Well, have you heard of “throwing the bones/stones”? The stones are runes, and they were just as often carved on antlers as they were on anything else. Do you pick them out of a bag? You can just draw one, after of course handling and moving them for…
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The World as You Experience It
As you go about your waking day, your mind is immersed in a constant sensory register, and your subconscious doesn’t distinguish between information it gets from your outwardly directed senses, and your internal sense of your physical and emotion well being and state of mind. While you go about your day, the world as you…
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Dream Picture
Though you do not consciously perceive the associations your dreaming mind uses to make sense of your world, they are still present and active while you are awake. You encounter them in the experience that is sometimes called projection. Any meaning something seems to have for you, those first impressions you get on meeting anyone…
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People’s Dreaming World
Shall I describe most peoples dreaming world? The people in those dreams are generally very bland, and always doing something very important, seemingly anxious though it’s always hard to determine or understand the cause. The places in those dreams are always overblown, too full of objects and noise, and the emotional reactions always wind up…
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Dream Light
Shall we go into dream shaping? Actually, dream lighting. Let’s do that first. Dream light is psychic energy. The more vivid a dream seems, the more of your personal psychic energy is invested in that part of your mind, and you don’t have much control of how this energy is distributed. The conscious use of…
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Dream Shaping
How many people here care about ketchup bottles? Not especially. No. Intensely. Have you ever had an odd moment when, though you don’t normally care, the presence or absence of a ketchup bottle registered on your awareness and mood more so than usual? Sure. That was a dream event. The ketchup bottle mattering in that…
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Dreaming Life
Do you feel you need a reason to make your own dreams? I can offer one. The mind has a sort of immune system. The reaction is called cognitive dissonance and is also why your dreaming mind resists change so much. Now mostly, your dreaming mind is on the side of society at large, corporations…
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Geomantic Balance
Talismans. The word itself seems kind of intimidating, no? Yes, a bit. Powerful. Sounds like antiquity. And yet, they are perhaps one of the most basic tools of magical practice the world over. It can be hard to even track the variety of talismans there are. Typically, people think of some sort of pendant or…
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Hawaiian Nine & Lono
We [native Hawaiian] have a counting system based on 4, however we also interlace it with the number 5. They yield a 9. That gets spooooooky. Nine is the final number. May I tell you how ours becomes a nine? Hold up your hand, stretch the fingers apart a bit. How many empty spaces between…
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Freeze Frame Reality
So yes, the numbers and math, the grids and abstract lines… These are the rounding element of any talisman. Even something as simple as making certain the lines of text are straight fulfills this element. The symbols and words on a talisman would correspond to the horizon. They form a sort of map of the…
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Create a Pocket Reality
In a talisman, we can gather the aspects of reality we want? Yes, need to in order for it to be effective. The key thing is the idea must always come full circle. The picture must always be complete, and in fact most of the talismans you see for sale in curio shops are incomplete.…
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The Gods Move
I will describe things in a way that some traditionalist may object to. I don’t mean to offend anyone by it. I’m just drawing from my general sense of the cross cultural meaning of these things. How do you feel about time? About time in general? Yes. It moves too fast, and moved too slow…
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Kali Unites
Kali is seen as a destroyer not because of any evil in her. She is well above the potential for evil. What they observe is that many things in life are unstable. They can’t persist for very long. So Kali is the destroyer of evil because with time weakness inevitable emerges. Ah, time is the…
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Kali Is In You
Shall we move onto practice? Have I described the nature and character of Kali? Well, besides serving as a model to understand the natural world, the gods can serve as a locus for one’s personal understanding. Remember how earlier I said in order to be able to handle information people have to structure it into…
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Attainments
Siddhis, the attainments. We usually think of attainments as things we have achieved in our activities, new skills developed, new awards earned. For many people just having an income they can feel comfortable with is an attainment, but what is it to achieve something anyway? What does it mean that you have learned something even?…
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Powers
Now that I have the science out of the way… Even those who report having achieved one of the siddhis, the attainments, report that it takes a great deal of time and training. These are people who have devoted decades to meditation, but they also acknowledge that some people are born with one of those…
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State Over the Universe
Do these siddhis make up the ultimate potential of humanity? Perhaps, but according to the tradition that catalogued them, no. Ultimately, a siddha, one who manifests the siddhis, is said to be able to achieve a state “over the universe”, ascension if you will, and should they not choose to ascend into the shakti or…
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