quote:Originally posted by expressionless:
Fascinating posts, zma. I’d be really interested to hear more about the sub-conscious tricks (don’t know whether you’d mind describing a few) and the distinction between that and the NLP related techniques.
Heh, to justify your own words...
I'd say that the NLP-tricks have a lot to do with outwards interaction with other individuals, to use keywords and resonant words in order to influence/sway others. This function in many ways a sneaky rhetoric trick, the usage of powerwords to provide hooks that the audience is going to respond to. Another use is to find keyword-constructs and to use these as primers for poetic chants, memetic constructs, etc, wich again can be used as reference points for the subconscious work.
The sub/bi/under-conscious work I see more as a priming of the Self with key-images unrelated to specific formulated concepts. This would involve un-defined visualization-strings that you loop through to empower a symbol, empathic states of remembrance, conditions you are able to set yourself into, ways of combining movement with visualization that do not express formulaes as much as states of desire/non-desire.
Its the difference between formulation of intent and approximate completeness of being. To me, basic sigilisation (write, fire & forget) is a very nice but *easy* tool and lacks in many ways the complexity of the more "serious" majikal systems (Golden Dawn, Taoist magic, Ifa, etc.). Subconscious-programming to me offers a way into such complexity without the props and ritual rigidity. The "ritual keys" are translated into personal strings of association wich again sublime the unexpressed desire of the symbolic primer. Or to put it another way: The normal magiCKal way is to issue a word (complex or simple) of command, while the subconscious magic is more like setting a harmony into a already existing structure of harmonies, effecting change through passiv existence.
Does that make any sense? Formulation vs. essential being, intellectual structuring vs. structured primed intuition?
M.K. |
