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There are many traditions that claim to change the physiology of the practitioner, not just the psychological makeup.
Internal alchemy, various tantric practices, but also ceremonial magick are meant to do this.
One way of seeing it is to say that "energy" that oft used word that seems to be used for everything, is simply air, or oxygen. In Yoga it is prana. In ceremonial magick, though not written down in books alot, the breath is a vital element of how you do magick. I.e. Vibrating godnames etc. wheras the mind colours and visualises the energy you 'imagine' rising from your hands or however your tradition does it, the words, vowels etc shape and change the breath that leaves your mouth.
Now, doing ritual, visualisation etc will, [at least according to these traditions] cause the air\prana\energy that you are working with to bond differently to your blood\body\astral self. Which is one of the reasons that blood is so sacred. thats where the "energy" is.
The body is a temple after all...
This will naturally cause a changes in metabolism. faster metabolism, increased resistance to ilnesses etc.
One of my older practicing friends has lilved with canser for a very long time. Whereas the other patients on the ward with the same symptoms are almost completely confined to bed, my friend is f*cked for a day or so after chemo but then is up and about, working, doing the magickal work and being the leader of one of our temples. According to my friend this is because of the ceremonial work, the yoga and ayurvedic cooking. all of which I might add, is still in the fringe of modern science that claims that these things don't "do" anything.
Personally I have had a much easier time with my hayfever which used to completely screw me up for 3 months of the year;
I have also found that a healthier body leads to better magick, and practicing magickians seem to try and get healhier. That is a blanket statement, but I have seen it happen enough times to notice the pattern. |
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