Communing With Nature
The next step I would have to outline for learning the path of Magick is literally, becoming one with Nature. First of all it is naturally rejuvenating; the green color is healing, the sounds and sights are stress relieving. There is a lot of peace to be found in just quietly sitting in the woods someplace, or up on a rock outcropping where you see for miles, or sitting on large flat rocks in the middle of a stream soaking up the sunshine. In our absurdly fast paced world, it’s nice to slow down. But that is not all of it. Nature has a voice all it’s own. There are patterns to be found, and messages to be recieved for those patient and centered enough to listen. In ancient times this reading of the patterns was called Augery, and Julius Caesar among others studied this venerated art.
When I say patterns, I mean that you will see there is a pretty set likelihood you’ll see a squirrel, or a sparrow, and then there are the likelihoods you’ll see something more rare, like a deer or a heron. If you see something that is outside of that normal range of experience or frequency, usually it’s a message. Everything you see in Nature carries with it some sort of unconcious meaning. There are books that you can buy that have lists of things you could see and interpretations of them. Animal Speak and Green Witchcraft are two books that I know of that have these lists, but you can also look to dream interpretation books as well. A good example I can think of is when I started falling in love with certain individual from my past named Jeff. I walked out my front door to go to school, and there was this spectacular red flower growing on the front path that I swear to the Lord and Lady, was not there the day before. I looked up the meaning and sure enough it had to do with love and passion. Another example was right before I started trying to move “off-grid”, out in the woods, pretty much by myself. I saw within the span of a few days, several herons, it’s like I couldn’t get away from them, and I don’t usually see so many. So I looked up their meaning and generally they are associated with rugged self-determinism. As I see it the whole environment is directly reactive to our unconcious. It is plastic and ever changing, and every species has archetypes associated with it. I was out walking yesterday I started seeing these strange red bushes down by the Rock river. Now one of the first things that was impressed upon me as I began my little sojourn yesterday was the big-ass powerline spanning the river, but I also noticed the amount of birds there were. That’s a good sign as to the health of the river, that means there are lots of bugs to feed on. But then I started noticing these curious flame red shrubs. They were identical to the normal brown ones, except in color and then it dawned on me, I think the shrubs were adapting to the increase in electromagnetics in the area, and given the color, red, I think the plants are ticked. These are my musings and observations. For all I know those shrubs could be there for any number of reasons, but my point is the patterns. Pay attention to the trees and shrubs and flowers and wildlife, they will tell you alot. They manifest according to Divine will and for those who are listening, there are lessons to be learned.
Centered Perception
Okay so you start out by knowing yourself as I outlined in the stability and foundation section. The next step as I see it is to really understand what is going on in the world. I think far too many of us live in this isolated world, where the only real input is the TV or a person’s circle of friends that they’ve had their entire life and who all think alike. You need to step out into the world that you don’t know, you need to step out into the unknown. I’m not saying leave your friends behind. Your friends will anchor you, and they are true treasures, never burn those bridges. If you never associate with new people however, you’ll be stuck in the same rut of perception you’re whole life. Do something out of the ordinary, go someplace you would never go. Face your fears, and walk in the front door of your own worst hell. Think about what would be your exact opposite and go there, meet those people. For me my opposite was becoming a stripper, and I did it for 9 years off and on. It was the craziest, weirdest most depraved thing I have ever seen, but I would not trade in the experience it gave me for all the world. I also willingly became a single mother, twice. I stayed in abusive relationships where I had a gun held to my head, I was punched into a wall and I was raped just to see if I was cheating on the individual. I did things that no sane person would want to do, but I did it because I wanted to truly know. A person from my background can easily become isolated, and fall into the trap of elitism. It’s standard in the world I came from to go to school, go to graduate school, get married, buy a nice little house in the suburbs, have a nice little career, live and die without ever knowing a day of discomfort, but it is also a life of never knowing anything truly real. I guess my point is you need to see the poles of our world. All the world is an interplay between yin and yang, creation vs. control, and if you never see another’s perception your world will forever be a mind-numbing gray area. You need to know the dark to truly know the light.
With a centered perception you will also start to see other things, things you would never guess, other-worldly things. I see ghosts, and “demons” and “angels”. Sometimes you will see them as actual entities, orbs of lights, concious shadows, spirits that are green in color, sometimes you will see them manifest in the people you’re interacting with, such as unreasonable anger, attachment, pyschic abilities in person that doesn’t usually have it. There is a whole other world that people fail to see because they are so sped up and so off balance that they are literally blind. It is a regular occurance for me to see these things, and even though I’ve been seeing these things since I was four, I still haven’t gotten used to it. When you look at the world through tranquil eyes, you will see these supernatural things have a direct relationship with our “reality”. It’s like a fish in a pond in a rainstorm. The raindrops (spirits) cause ripples in the water (our world). The fish (us) have no concept of rain (unless your a catfish, i’d consider the shamans and witches of the world to be the catfish), and so are left to wonder at the causes of this phenomena. I’m sure all sorts of theories would be posed in this world to explain this unseen force, but the truth is that it is something “otherworldly” that’s doing it. It’s the same thing with supernatural. Children naturally have the ability to see these things, but most of us by the time we reach adulthood have turned away, either because we were told to by our parents or we didn’t have the stomach to keep looking. But even if we do not see things, does not mean it’s not there. Talking the ostrich approach is only hurting you, and your development as an enlightened human being. Make no mistake there is some freaky disturbing stuff out there, but if you ever want to find heaven (heaven is within you I might add, as is hell) you must look, you must understand.
Believe me you may emerge from such a venture as I am proposing half crazy or even dead if you’re not careful, but you must know these things, you have to understand how the world truly works, to be able to tinker with it. It is the price any adept pays, you will emerge so changed that few will understand you, and it can be a very lonely path. You’re free to walk away at any time, but know that even a short jog down the path will change you, even if you do not follow it through to the end. For those who can handle it, there is the ability to change anything, to have everything you’ve ever truly desired. Notice I say truly, not everything we think we desire is actually what we truly want. Sometimes what we want is unconcious, and we do things without knowing it to bring about this hidden desire. Make sure you really know yourself, I cannot stress it enough.
Magick Outline
I’m in the process of trying to get myself organized for my next opus, and I am realizing I have a lot of stuff stored up in the proverbial drawer in the back of my head when it comes to Magick, so I have begun an outline, for my own use, but I figured maybe you all would like to have an overview as well. So here you go, this is what you can look forward to, and by no means is this outline static, it may be changed, rearranged, edited, whatever. Basically this is what you can expect in the coming months.
I. Introduction-Stability and Foundation
II. Basic Magick
a. Centered perception-shut off your TV, get out there, throw yourself into life headlong, both the good and the bad and figure what is really going on in our world
b. Commune with Nature-the matrix of life, patterns, Augery, becoming one with the Earth
c. Herbology (both mundane and magickal), Aromatherapy and ritual use of oils and scents, Crystals and Metals
d. Animals-familiars, totems and spirit allies
e. What is Magickal Energy/Force?-life essence, transmuting negative to positive
f. Dreamwork and Dream Interpretation
g. Divination-talking to the Divine-I Ching, Runes, Tarot etc.
h. the Triple Goddess-women’s mythos/life stages/rites of passage
i. Basic Spellwork-Watchtowers and Elements, purification, space clearing, the Lord and Lady, the Sabbats and the Wheel of the Year
III. Intermediate Magick
a. Chakras-Hindu/Vedic thought
b. 5 Element theory-Taost thought
c. Egyptian Bodies
d. Correlation of the three afore mentioned disciplines
e. Auras
f. Implicate and Subimplicate Order-the World tree and the illusion of reality
g. Chaos vs. Order-Chaos theory and the concept of order masquerading as chaos, the Tao and the concept of patterns in Chaos are the Will of the Divine
h. Contact with Spirits-ghosts, angels and demons
i. Myth and interpretation
j. Mythical creatures and beings
k. Correlation in Dieties, constellations etc.-a discussion of Liber 777 and the concept of all the Gods are one God and the Truth behind all the religions
l. Symbolism-the pentacle/pentagram, the hexagram, the rose and the lily etc.
m. Intermediate Spellwork-dedication, true names, personal link with the Lord and Lady, spellwriting theory and manifestation
IV. Magickal Theory
a. Light vs. Dark-pros and cons of paths, concept of balance, Taoist perspective of yin/yang, creation/control
b. Heterotic Universe-Divine intercourse of God and Goddess
c. Radiance vs. Magnetism
d. Energy Vampirism-constructive and destructive uses
e. Chaos Magick-upping the probability-a mathematical perspective
f. Psychology of Spellwork-human conciousness a universe unto itself, theory of baby universes
g. Ancestral Substrata-Ancestor Veneration and the concept of roots and identity
h. The Afterlife-a shamaness’ view of heaven and hell
i. Spellwriting Patterns
j. Sound-The Voice of God
V. Advanced Magick
a. Breakdown of Reality and Stability-Magickal Relativism
b. Sexual Alchemy-Mass of the Holy Ghost, Tantra and the Sex Magick of Isis
c. Intoxicant Uses during Rites-pros vs. cons, sacred herbs
d. God and Goddess Invocations
e. Shapeshifting-Plasticity and casting glamours
f. Sacred Geometry and Numerology-the universal language of mathematics
g. Advanced Spellwork-Invoking the Gods and serving Truth
VI. Selections from my Grimoire
a. A Pagan Wedding Blessing
b. Earth Mindfulness Spell
c. Invocation of Ma’at
d. Protection Spell
e. Wisdom Spell
f. Destruction of the Greedy-a sacrifice spell
g. miscelaneous spells and energy work and their outcomes
Repent and ye shall be saved!!!
Okay, so I have thought about the post I wrote last year about “solutions to the problems” a lot. When I wrote it I thought I had made it clear enough that I had meant tribal kings with a place for anarchy and that I was not talking about revisting the old outdated monarchies of Europe. Apparently I have not clarified that enough and it saddens me because I feel it has overshadowed the entire post about other solutions that are indisputably good ones. I have gotten more feedback about that post than any other and it has been negative. I realize that such an idea could be considered unpatriotic at best, but you are talking to a person who not only was born on the fourth of July, but also has an Uncle Sam (I’m not kidding). Patriotism is something that has been imbued in every fiber of my being since birth and fundamentally that is why I started writing this. Because I love my country, I started writing about the things I have seen threatening it. As to my thoughts on government I do not agree with the system we have in place. But that does not make me a traitor. Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism. I would die to defend my neighbors and fellow countrymen, and it is hurtful to know that people think less of me and my ideas because they are so different. Therefore, I am separating the post in question. I am omitting any mention of government and will be creating a separate post devoted to that subject after I finish the magical series I am working on, because it does tie into it. It has over shadowed the entire blog, things that definately should not be missed. You will also note that I finally finished the mining section. Anyway I made a mistake putting a revolutionary idea like that in the way that I did. I am not talking about really anything that has even been seen before and it was stupid of me to slip it in like that to let people’s preconcieved notions run rampant. So it back to the drawing board for me:)
