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@BojackHorseman so, let's begin Actually, if you have these kind problems, rituals should be easier for you to follow, because we can say that the practice of magick is a "meditation in motion", often requiring you to bounce from a place to another with attention. If deep down you know these "forces" are utlimately you, you won't have a problem dealing with them. Also, not every type of magic deals with spirits and entities Es.: check "Advanced Magick for Beginners" by Alan Capman. The path i'm following give you a ritual that doesn't involve entity, and it is used both fot spiritual and material attainment. My statement was "way i be able to recieve 50€ by 18/05/23". I did recivie the money through a football bet and long due loan coming back. The next day i found 130€ on the ground of a metro station. It was the first time i did magic to obtain something a never found free money on the ground before, let alone so much. So it definetly isn't just a motivation enchanter. But you also need "magical links" to make this procedures work. Jeson Miller "The Elements of Spellcrafting" has been a good read recently, and it delves into these mechanics. This is another misconception. Magick is actually highly logical, the problem is that at first it seems nonsensical because it deals with so many unknown factor, and it takes time to understand these factors. When i look at old books like Agrippas "Three Books of Occult Philosophy", i can't help but think this guy knew so much stuff we don't. And if you know a bit of spirituality you also know that science is great but has it's dogmas as everything else. I see were you are caming from. That's me aswell. I've always tried to understand "how it works", but there so much confusing shit that makes it difficult for you to get an opinion of it. Skimming through though, there is good stuff. All im going to share an overview of what the field has to offer. notice that magic functions both spiritual work and material attainment. i'm avoiding super old stuff as is kind of hard to read (avoid Crowley at first). Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Capman The Elements of Spellcrafting by Jeson Miller Financial Sorcery by Jeson Miller High Magick by Damien Echols Rituals by Damien Echols Practical Sigil Magick by Frater UD Kabbalah for Health and Wellness by Mark Stavish You may also find important to learn the meaning and corrispondences between The Tree of Life, The Planets and The Zodiac Signs ------- In video format, search into these two channels and you will have a good overview of what magick is and what it can do.

@Loveeee

@Rasheed Working with drowsiness, from the book "the Mind illuminated" "In meditation, drowsiness usually leads to brief moments of sleep. Within a few seconds of falling asleep, postural muscles relax and your head nods or your body starts to fall. Then you wake up with a sudden jerk as muscle reflexes pull you upright—the so-called “Zen lurch.” Of course, if you’re lying down or sitting in a comfortable chair, you might sleep for a long time. (This is why you shouldn’t meditate in these positions unless arthritis or some other health condition absolutely requires it.) If you’ve just jerked awake, within a short time you’ll probably feel dullness setting in again, like a heavy cloak. When this happens, you have a great opportunity to investigate how dullness develops and turns into drowsiness. If you closely observe what happens, you’ll notice that coming out of drowsiness is distinctly unpleasant. You would probably prefer to stay there. However, by resisting the urge and returning to the practice, you’ll usually experience a comfortable state where you can still follow the breath, though without the same intensity or vividness or clarity as before. This is called subtle dullness. It eventually leads to strong dullness, in which attention still clings to the breath, but the focus is weak and diffuse, and the sensations vaguely perceived. The drowsiness that precedes falling asleep feels like trying to see through dense fog. The breath often becomes distorted, transformed by dreamlike imagery, and nonsensical thoughts start drifting through the mind. Eventually, you do fall asleep. Working with subtle dullness as it arises can be quite productive, but struggling against strong dullness that’s already present doesn’t work well. So, if you’re drowsy or have already dozed off during a session, you must first rouse the mind out of dullness. Then you can work with dullness as it starts to return. Here are a few “antidotes,” roughly in order of strength from mild to strongest, for rousing the mind from dullness: • Take three or four deep breaths, filling the lungs as much as possible, and hold for a moment. Then exhale as forcefully and completely as possible through tightly pursed lips. • Tense all the muscles in your body until you begin to tremble slightly, then relax. Repeat several times. • Meditate while standing up. • Do walking meditation. • Worst-case scenario, get up, splash cold water on your face, then go back to practicing. These work because they stimulate you, not only physically, but mentally as well by increasing the flow of external stimuli into your mind. In general, always do whatever is necessary to re-energize yourself back to a state of alert awareness. When drowsiness returns quite soon after you’ve roused yourself, it’s called “sinking,” which feels like being caught in mental quicksand. Sinking is a sure sign that you didn’t re-energize the mind enough. Keep using stronger antidotes until the drowsiness doesn’t return for at least several minutes. But try not to do more than necessary, or you’ll create a state of agitation!"

@Sugarcoat

To start a quest you don't need to know the exact details of your goal. all you need is the right set of theory and practice, then intuition will do the rest. The quest to enlightment equals to knowing what i am and what reality is. Pieces of the puzzle will reveal themselves through time that both confirm and negate your expectation. What you are tring to say, maybe, is that ultimetly this is a non-destination, beyond time and space and outside of any cause -effect correlation, which is true, but first one need to take the train and "get there" what you're not getting is that awakening is attained through a balance of "holding strong" and "letting go". Bot are fundamental. All poeple have a mixture of both. But relying on one of the 2 too much is going to cause problems. With "Holding strong" i mean Studying, practicing systematicaly, discipline, not quitting etc. Holding strong has to start with a desire. You have to put in effort. Then comes the letting go. You can't deny that a clear state of mind is more conductive to enlightment then when you are drunk or groggy. If you thing i'm wrong, then you are negating dozens of lineages in the world whose methods have been proven right in centuries.

@PurpleTree more than that, i would say that ego is an activity of mind, a pattern that repeats over and over. what we call ego can be divided in a certain set of sensations that repeat in a certain sequence as a pattern, over and over. What a profound awakening does, is dismanteling part of this pattern repeat again and the rest of it is seen through, not just as "me". Take a look at this interview and see, expecially answering first question, how he refers to the ego as a "pattern"

@Sugarcoat I'm willing to bet most of those who have/had a profound attainment followed some kind of practice/took psychedelics systematically. You won't become enlightened by chance as much as you won't compose a great music piece by chance. Sure, just doing it doesn't equal success, but surely encreases our possibility. i don't know what you what you mean by "enlightenment is nothing", i never wrote that. I would say that enlightenment is a change in the context of existence that is usually preceded by some kind of activities a would define a change in state as a change in the content of existence. As i wrote, enlightment is a change in context. Nontheless, a clear and present state of mind is certainly mere conductive to awakening then being drunk for example.

@Sugarcoat - Ultimately true? Yes. The probem is though, whenever we try to give advice to "someone else" we are inside a realtive framework in which it has been proven effective through the ages to presuppose the ignorance of the other "individual". That's why, relativetely speaking, that's bad advice, beacuse it will demotivate people to incorporarate the axiom of dedication on their path. Also, if what you said was correct, the archetype of a master wouldn't even exist. Most master give you paractices because they know the dangers of talking too far above the level of the disciple. This "already enlightened" thing was pushed by new age circles that distorted the teachings of advaita and such., who are indeed clueless about awakening @Yimpa She is talking to somebody, or at least she is pretending to if she is here typing on a keyboard. Don't reduce to Absolutism. For 99.8 percent of people pure Truth is unsueful. you got to give them something inbetween.

@Sugarcoat this is the worst thing you can tell to someone on the spiritual path

so are there any chances he actually gets convicted and possibly confined?

@Vagos of course the answer, again, is yes. Whatever is present right now in your experience is ultimatly real. The point is though, the dicotomy real/unreal have been framed by our materialistic society cause it needed a category to discard al phenomena considered unuseful or even threatning to our survival. That's where your question is coming from.

@Ajay0 as it has been told to me, our magnetic body swaves in an out of us through the moon phases: New moon=magnetism complitely inside the physical body; Full moon=magnetism completely outside the physical body. Magnetism carries memories, impressions, emotions, desires etc. During the new moon day your magnetic body is super sensibleand directly impressionable by phisical acts. Those hours are pretty important to spend on purification work and fasting and chilling, you can use a new moon day to make a prayer in order to recieve something. cause it's like planting a seed in the dark of earth. On the other hand,during a full moon is when life force reaches its climax, bringing the the fruits of your past actions. magnetism is in the ether. This would explain all strange phenomena linked to it. Hope this helped

@Vagos you are conflating mundane and spiritual frameworks here: commonly speaking an allucination is a personal perception that doesn't appear in the "outer world" for others to see it. Spiritually we can say tha either everything is an hallucitation or nothing is, because every fenomena truly hasn't a location nor a "possessor", both Mental constructs.

@PurpleTree Well, that was basically an Arahant (highest attainment in Theravadan Buddhism) that tells how he prays and the mechanics of it. I think it's pretty good advice. It shows you that prayer/spell casting/magic is part of every contemplative tradition. If you haven't found the podcast useful i don't what you expected to understand through your post. Feel free to elaborate if you want.

@Phil King You would create a federation that periodically evaluates the work of these checkers, degrading or upgreding them based on their mistakes. Of course no system is perfect and there would be still room for possible corruption, but just by establishing this fundation we would benefit of more honest information by the media. Moreover, what you are saying is like: "who judge the judges?". As i've said there is still space for corruption in these institutions but it is cerainly better to have the judicial system around then not.

@PurpleTree Well, certainly it's both. Originally, prayer was intended more like a visualization mantra. But every tradition has kinds of prayers more akin to what you are describing Coincidentally, i was listening to a podcast where D. Ingram (hardcore meditator) shares how he "ask the universe" for certain things in his magical practice, i invite you to listen to it so you can get so you can idea of how these techniques can get integrated in a meditative path. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-hill6/episodes/Magick-its-not-what-you-think--An-interview-with-Daniel-Ingram-Part-Two-efjkek This is the 2 part, in which he talks about his practice. There are 3 parts in total.

@PurpleTree I think you can interpret praying as connecting your tiny soul to an archetype that can make elevate you. you are drown to it little by little like a magnet. When thoughts are directed towords something, that something becomes part of your reality over time: so yes, prayer is actually good if your aim is correct.

@Leo Gura When master of chronicle meets master of lie things ain't looking good i think...and it makes you wonder how many of these demons are still around and manipulative enough to not get caught... Do you think official fact checkers are going to be a thing in the near future? Wouldn't solve this mess but atleast it's a start.

@Yimpa absolutely

@Yimpa yes, that's exacly what i wrote. Reality flows imperturbably no matter what.

@Yimpa Of course realizations have many levels. At the higest decostruction possible (Spiritual experience, Peak of a trip, death) surely everything collapse, but i was speaking more on realitive terms. Realizing time is a construct doesn't mean that the notion somewhat desappear from your conception of reality, otherwise you wouldn't be able to function as a human.

@Someone here 1) if only everyone truly would get this...so much more peace. 2) "..The universe is hostile, so Impersonal. Devour to survive So it is, so it's always been..."

@Simple Success As an identity you are defined what you are. If you start detaching from this "what", you switch from identity to Being, you start to be just for the sake of it, without being this or that. Every good mediation technique trains you to be in tune with this untied being. Notice your search for a utility in this. Nothing happens exacly beacause nothing ever happens to/in Being. Doing things make you to focused with the outside world - so doing nothing for long enough calms the agitations of mind. A calmer mind make you more easily in tune with your nature.

@Vlad_ that is exacly how all your existence as Vlad came about Deep is not truly deep if you need confermations

@Paul5480 humans are not immortal unless they are trained to couagulate a body that can survive deep pleep and the after death period. usually someone that can do this can rimember his past incarnations and therefore be considered "immortal". Most poeple are so attached to material fenomena that they never develop this body, resulting in complete unconsciousness after death and obliteration. Pure Cosciousness is a whole other matter. It's infinite and eternal. If it was a glass, the concept of death would be just a little stain on it.