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too much pressure is applied they panic, throw-up, become ill, have hysterics, call the police or a priest
or a psychiatrist, or end up permanently traumatized. Sometimes they experience a blinding but
one-sided illumination and become fanatics for a one-sided point of view. Real, detectable shifts in
consciousness outside the "normal circle" are to be entered into warily, and the determined ritualist treads
a thin line between success, and physical and psychical illness. A neophyte in Tibet swears that he or she
is prepared to risk madness, disease and death, and in my personal experience this is not melodramatic -
the risks are real enough. It depends on temperament and constitution - some people wander all over the
planes of consciousness with impunity, some find it extremely stressful, and some claim it never did
them any harm (when they are clearly as cracked as the Portland Vase). The grosser forms of magic are
hard to do because body and mind fight any attempt to move into those regions of consciousness where it
is possible to transcend the "normal" and create new kinds of normality.
The switch into magical consciousness is often accompanied by a feeling of "energy" or "power". Reality
becomes a fluid, and the will is like a wind blowing it this way and that. Far out.
There are several traditional methods for reaching trance states of consciousness: dance, drumming,
hallucinogenic and narcotic substances, fasting and other forms of privation, sex, meditation, dreaming,
and ritual, used singly and in combination. These notes deal only with ritual. Magical ritual has evolved
organically out of the desire to reach normally inaccessible regions of consciousness and still continue
living sanely in the world afterwards, and once that is understood, its profundity from a psychological
point of view can be appreciated.
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General information: Charging a Candle with your Personal Energy
Posted by: Nyxks on Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 04:35 PM
While ritually anointing your candle, visualize a pure white beam of light coming down to
the earth, entering your body through the top of your head.
Envision the energy of these beams of light flowing through your body and mingling
together, finally concentrating on your hands, causing them to feel warm and tingly.
Now continue stroking the candle until you feel the energy from your hands transferring to the candle.
Your candle is now charged with your personal energy and magickal intent.
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General information: Empowering Elementals
Posted by: Nyxks on Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 04:29 PM
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