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Thanks Vadrice, Zoom, Cass and Ed.
It's been 4 days he's been missing now, and my parents said they'd phone if they had any news... 
Ed, Tennis ball madness, ha! I was kinda thinking the same thing when I drew it... I'll try the mantra, cheers.
Cass, I was meaning to post my technique, and a report of how it went. I'm not entirely sure if calling it a technique is overstating it's case a little. It's vaguely based on what I know of Shamanism, or at least the psychology behind the states of conciousness behind it. Although I'm sure Lothar, and indeed many others here, could easily point out a dozen places where I'm going wrong... What I did was this.
1. Prepare the ritual music ( this consisted of tuning my guitar to DGDGDD, my current favourite tuning, recording a riff using Sound recorder, reversing it, adding echo, speeding it up, adding echo, and then putting it back at normal speed and direction, so it sounded... frazzled. Then I loaded it into a drum machine emulator (hammerhead, by Bram Bos, great software) set it at 135bpm (which, with 8 beats per loop,apparrently corresponds to a delta brainwave frequency), threw in some drums, until I had something sounding pleasantly weird).
2. A quick Banishing- I was planning on doing this: http://www.choronzon.com/efsd/cafcross.html
but the shop where I buy my favourite brand of hypercaffinated coffee was sold out,  so I just used my ultra-minimalist banishing, which is to simply visualise myself in a green bubble.
3. Then, I started to play rhythm guitar along to the loop I played earlier, in theory as a substitute for the shamanic drumming that shamans use to get into a trance. I don't have any drums, so I improvised.
4. After I felt adequately entranced I started to visualise myself as a red-clad lesbian Bast-worshipper. I then visualised myself sitting in a desert, skinning up two joints, one for me, and one for Bast. I then proceeded to dance and smoke my J and started to visualise Bast coming over the horizon.
By the time she was halfway towards me, I felt (or at least percieved I felt) a prescence and thought to myself, OK, she's here, outside the visualisation rather than in it. I offered her the joint, and told her my problem, and asked her for help. She seemed maybe a little stand-offish, which I suppose you would be too if asked for help from a complete stranger. I then visualised her becoming huge, and me sitting on the palm of her hand. She then blew me away like dust and I opened my eyes.
5. Then, a quick Banish-With-Laughter, and I was done.
I have very little experience with Deity work though, other than the occaisional prayer and dedication to Eris, so I don't know how well it worked as these things go, and part of me is just like, 'oh you just imagined it...' I'm hoping, at the very least, if I committed any major Chao-shamanic Bast worship social faux-pas then Bast is willing to forgive on the basis of inexperience, and that we presumably agree about the validity of the goal...
Oh, by way of thanks to all who charged the sigil, I'm going to do another sigil for good luck to all who charged this one (it'll probably be next week sometime). So keep an eye out for £/$20 notes in the street, now may be the time to ask out that person you've been eyeing up for the past 6 months, and so on! |
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