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Inspiration! (companion thread to "Raising your Game II)

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:11 / 04.03.02

It's a bit of a slog at times, this magick lark: every so often you'll hit a plateau or a rough patch, and it'll seem like you're not going anywhere. When this happens it's easy to get all discouraged and slacky.

So this thread will be a freeform excercize in keeping each other motivated. What gives you a drive when things get boring and repetative? What gives you your metaphorical tin o' Spinach?

Go on- I know you're good for it.

22:34 / 04.03.02

My inspiration comes from various places but recently I have moved closer to the ocean. When I can and when I need it I go to the shoreline and do a little elemental magick. Just a simple cleasing of the obstacles with a small fire on the shore.

One more way I find inspiration is to get my hands dirty with some clay. I just don't try to create anything and let the clay take the form it wants...no pressure artwork..hehehe.

Oh yes, one more way...I allow my lover to ravish me with an erotic buffet of pleasure which my current is always good for.

~May Tricks

[ 05-03-2002: Message edited by: May Tricks ]

00:30 / 05.03.02

When things get stuck, I try to take my mind from it, to get distracted. TV, comics, RPGs. Let my inconsciousness do the work. Maybe even sleep. If I am feeling depressed (which happens when I can't get things moving) I go to my wife and ask her for a big hug and affection.
I do not get near to magick when I feel that way. I can't get into "magickal awareness".

02:07 / 05.03.02

I don't know I'm feeling a bit bored now... so I'll lurk about stealing your ideas.

edited to say: nice thread, MC. I needed it.

[ 05-03-2002: Message edited by: impulsivelad ]

We're The Great Old Ones Now

08:31 / 05.03.02

Often it's not so much that I'm bored as that there's too much noise in my life.

Day off.

Fruit juice.

Wander the tube going nowhere.

End up in Museum, gallery, hotel cocktail bar, Private Members Club in Denmark (this only happened once) or whatever.

Sometimes you just get the urge to go home and do something immediately. Other times you feel very relaxed. Either way - it works.

08:31 / 05.03.02

Change is the constant: if you don't see it happening, you might need to give it a little kick to get it rolling. Magickwise, if I get stuck the usual thing to do is to attend to all the mundane shit and forget all about magick for a while: a day, a week, a year even if that's what it takes to fire up again. Usually I find that I just need time to unwind and occasionally unlearn.

11:52 / 05.03.02

Getting lost in music and pictoral art.
Music is my drug.
Life is my companion.

My main inspiration in Medicine lore and Magick was self empowerment, over what was considered 'mental illness'. Through it I am able to take an active role in my own life and heal what needs to be.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. It helps me and it may help you.

To be in-sane, one must have 'sanity', to reject this model one will become 'un-sane'.

Don't take this wrong, but Barbelith inspires me, by presenting, persona, data and engagement.
challenges create solutions, solutions in practice makes wisdom

[ 06-03-2002: Message edited by: will it work wright? ]

15:15 / 05.03.02

I second Flame On's recommendations and add that for myself, prayer or selfless magick also helps to recharge.

Usually, if I'm feeling stuck it's partially because I'm too much in myself (or my constructs of self). A 'Can't see the forest for the trees' kind of thing. By doing work that doesn't focus on me at all, and really only concerns itself with the people I care about, people I don't know, the world, etc. I usually find myself reconnected to the world around me, no longer trapped in my own little drama prisons.

09:51 / 07.03.02

Ha.
My strongest inspiration comes from this very spot - BARBELITH - and it's contributors. I know that most have been complaining about what has been going on here but I chalk it up to the old adage " familiarity breeds contempt" Could it be that we have been taking this place for granted? I have yet to find another place where I receive the ammount of knowledge ( HA HA... Punny...) that I do here.
I hope in the coming months to do something truly incredible with the M.O.B. and watch it develop into the unstoppable unit this cell has the potential to be.
I hope to get internet at home...soon. ( So I can post with more frequency and stay in communication with you lot...Million appologies Lothar - BTW I did get the email and it was brilliant...I am composing my reply and you can expect it soon...)
The universe constantly kicks my ass to keep me inspired. I can't turn a corner without finding magic...and Barbelith builds my awareness and understanding of it.

er...

Was this what you were looking for Mordant? I have a feeling I went off on a rant here...

Oi vey.

09:51 / 07.03.02

quote:Originally posted by City-zen Rex:
Million appologies Lothar - BTW I did get the email and it was brilliant...I am composing my reply and you can expect it soon...)

Groovamanos* baby!

(*Let's Groove!)

Additional inspiration source: Really moving fiction. Stories! Magic's in the stories.

09:51 / 07.03.02

I get refreshed through Tongues. I thoroughly recommend it - there are times when you feel like you're going through the mill and can't verbalise what you're going through, or just plain feel empty. Glossolalia opens up the channel from your heart to your mouth, and finds a release for all the crap that's too big to address. If you can sing in Tongues, even better. There's been a lot of times in my life that I've needed to sing, shout, mutter or just moan and groan my way through all the unutterable stuff.

16:26 / 07.03.02

Road trips.

And, yeah, I need to get to the beach. Winter has dragged on long e-fucking-nough.

Need that salt water cure....

03:45 / 08.03.02

My inspiration comes from free form art ... be it dancing, doodling or finger painting. For that matter, grabbing the nearest ball point pen and drawing squiggles on my husbands back also works

Something that gets you physically involved and take your mind away from your magickal workings. Just doing something for the hell of it, with no real intent, other than to enjoy what you're doing. It's quite amazing what comes out of it.