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Self introduction/questions concerning an idea for a new group servitor

19:11 / 04.02.03

Hello all good people of the lith persuasion. I am new to this board, although I have read the articles on Barbelith for a year or two now. I always seem to dislike forums, but I can honestly say after reading and learning ALOT from the people here over the last three days, everyone here seems extremely cool and intelligent. So anyway, I have an idea for a servitor for the group that would essentially be a guide behind the wall of sleep. Ze would promote lucid dreams and wakeful remembering. I have already begun mapping some of the specs out, and the name I have is Yomada ada. By way of explaination on that, well, this is a servitor character in a novel I am writing and as everyone here no doubt knows, some of what I have written has begun to affect my daily life in short, sharp bursts, so I thought it would be cool to try and implement this, to help benefit the people on this site (myself obviously included) and to kind of try and amp up the effects of the hypersigil.
So my questions are, I have read about GEK and I want to do something similar with Yomada, as far as instead of milk and cookies You simply fall asleep with a candle burning to the east of where You lay (which guides him to You from the other side of sleep) and (heres the strange one) the song "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by Black Sabbath playing on loop (Now on the album this is track 3 and it includes a couple of other songs as well, so let's just say track 3 on the first Sabbath album looping, or go and jack the track from a file sharer, maybe someone out there has separated them....Ozzie is rich and popular enough now where I have no problem endorsing this, hehe).
Anyway, what I need to know is how to build these specifications into the servitor code? Is it simply a matter of doing it through the IF/Then flow chart, or something more? Any help would be much appreciated. And I would love to know what You guys/girls think of this idea.
Neville

23:51 / 04.02.03

Neville,

I've been thinking about this lately. I'd like a dream servitor just to help me remember my dreams with greater clarity, and to enable a better degree of lucidity. So I'm interested in this thread.

However, I personally wouldn't use a public servitor for this purpose. Dreams are very sensitive and highly aetheric reflections of the deepest reaches of an individual's psyche. I think it wise that dream servitors remain personal and private - I wouldn't want to inherit someone else's resonances in my own dreamspace so overtly. Similarly, as much as I love Sabbath, I don't think I want Ozzy reprogramming my brain any more than he already has... (Also note that any music played will specifically influence your dreams. You may want to pick something much more simple and noninvasive - Indian flute or something)

As far as spec'ing out the servitor goes, Phil Hine has some good suggestions for designing servitors.
To summarize:

1. Define general intent
2. Define specific intent
3. What symbols are appropriate for the servitor's task?
4. Is there a time element?
5. Is a name required?
6. Is a material base required?
7. Is a specific shape required?

The candle could be the material base. The music could be designated as a trigger or substrate, even an anchor to bind you to the conscious world. I think on it more...

19:15 / 05.02.03

Chris..
Thanks for the ideas. I had not considered the personal aspects of dreams as being threatened by a public servitor of this nature....I guess this is because I feel so submerged in this story I am writing and in it I approach the dream world as Lovecraft's 'dreamlands'...a sort of uncharted continent where we all go when we dream, thus the idea for the 'guide' waiting just across the threshold, ready to help weary travelers. I think You make a very good point though. Hopefully then we can use this thread to exchange ideas and perhaps general results on personal dream servitors.
The Hine instructions You include are helpful, but I have already had access to them in condensed chaos..I just have trouble relating the instructions to what I want to do. The fact that You drew the connection of the flame as the 'Anchor' is most helpful and may put me back on the right path.
As far as the music went, that was just what firebombed from my mind in the heat of storytelling, and it was as much a surprise to me as to anyone else. Typically I have these CDs I make on my pro-tools system that essentially distort and loop sound for a real ambient, zone-out effect, and these make perfect backdrops to magickal performances, meditations, etc. Sabbath would not seem a valid choice for something of this nature, but I am determined to follow what has already happened with this idea in my story, my hopes being that since the story seems to occasionally actively exert influence on my life, if I actively exert influence on my life via the story it will kind of snowball a bit. We'll see....

22:00 / 09.02.03

Well, call this what You will, but here is an update on this. It seems that although I have not launched my dream servitor Yomada Ada yet, just the process of the statement of intent/sigilizing it and tweaking the final programming has brought about results. At first I thought it was just a fluke. See, I really don't remember my dreams very often, and even less so with any degree of real clarity. However, I believe everyday since I sigilized Yomada I have had multiple, intense dreams which I wake up remembering in pretty stunning detail (not entirely mind You, but enough to make me impressed). What's more they are starting to become very mysterious, carrying an air of that strange, investigatve atmosphere which surrounds the synchronicity of my waking life. Today I slept for many hours, and dreamed many things, one of which directly pertained to my book and an answer on how to steer it's course.
It is now my hopes that after I launch Ada the other counterpart to hir programming, that of promoting lucid dreams, whill begin to step up.
As a final note, in the days since I sigilized Ada many close friends have also begun talking about dreams being stronger (and I have mentioned nothing of my intended servitor to them, nor have I directed it to them. I will stick with Chris23's advice on the personal nature of this type of accomplice

. Several of us have experienced dreams where we wake up, decide to do something and then seamlessly flow back into a dream that carries us through the intended task, only to wake up and realize we were, in fact, late for said task.