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Life change and magickal growth. How do I go about it?

 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
19:21 / 05.06.02
Does what it says on the tin.

I'm looking down the barrel of a flight home; it's pretty certain. So I figure that there'll be a lot of shit happening, and I want to harness this in a way that's going to give me a spiritual kick in the arse.

And with this, I need your help.

I'm already planning on getting more physically friendly by dint of the Alexander Technique, following my common sense, and some big rave-ups from meme buggerer. Hooked to this will be a spontaneous reignition of my yoga. I'm also planning on following up my tarot and chaos plans, and doing more, finally, about that OBE thing. Or kaballah. And trying to wrap it all in hagakure stillness.

Can some magick heads - if you know me offline, even better, as you'll have a shambling hulk to link it to - give me some ideas? Yes, this is perilously close to (is) newbie, and yes, I'll be happy with a READ THE FUCKING MANUAL! answer with links. But I do need your help. My net time's limited at the moment, but any help will be greatly appreciated.

I'll be in the ether with yer, yet!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
19:22 / 05.06.02
And of course, off-board talking-off-the-ledge by PM is welcome, too.
 
 
cusm
20:14 / 05.06.02
It sounds like you're off to a grand start already. Whatever you do end up studying, try to apply it to everything you are doing or seeing. In that way, the escoteric wisdom encoded in systems like the quaballa, yoga, tarot, or whatever you study, can become evident. Escoteric study gives you tools and relations. Apply things to them, and then watch the syncronicities happen.

Out my ways, we have a word for it: Sekret Messages. Ok its two words, but the point is to describe when suddenly some mundane situation clicks together with magickal study and you get that rush of understanding and enlightenment from what might have been something as simple as a line from a song on the radio at the right time.

The trick: pay attention. Volumes of syncronicities speak in little details. Just keep what you want to understand in your mind, do what you're doing, and pay attention and you'll see the answers pop right out at you. Especially if you jump into high energy situations like raves

Have a blast, its a great ride.
 
 
grant
20:57 / 05.06.02
I suppose the best encouragement I can offer is to pay attention to all the little details. Hope comes from the strangest little things, using the most peculiar pathways....
 
 
Rev. Jesse
22:56 / 05.06.02
Why are you looking for a "spontaneous reignition" of your yoga, rather than taking an active role in doing yoga?

If you want something to happen, esp. when that thing is under your power and will only affect you, just do it.

For OBE's Spirit Web has some great resources.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
17:08 / 06.06.02
So the consensus here seems to be towards embracing synchronicity?
 
 
cusm
18:14 / 06.06.02
That's only half. You've still got to actually study and work on something while you do it, so the syncronicities mean something to you
 
 
angel
10:42 / 07.06.02
For me it all works as a lifestyle thing. You have to do the work, but I see it is an ongoing change process, rather than a single step action. The learning never really ends, as once you think you have learned something, you are really just opening yourself up to working on the next level of meaning.

I think we've talked about where I am coming from on this before Rothkoid, but this is a subject I am always happy to 'chew the fat' on, as it is a subject rather close to my heart.

Contact me in real life and we'll go for a drink, wave the super encouragement pom poms and solve the world's problems.
 
 
Sebastian
18:04 / 07.06.02
Sekret Messages.

The trick: pay attention. Volumes of syncronicities speak in little details. Just keep what you want to understand in your mind.

So the consensus here seems to be towards embracing synchronicity?

That's only half. You've still got to actually study and work on something while you do it, so the syncronicities mean something to you


I agree, synchronicity is the start up key, the beginning of magickal life, and in this regard each synchronicity can be considered as an intitiation building towards a next one. Attention is critical, simply because in normal waking consciousneess feedback will occur precisely through the means the individual will most easily disregard as meaningless, just because that's how he became to built his world, by discarding all the "non-sense" the universe was literally pouring into his senses.

As years pass you can literally build maps upon maps, blocks upon blocks of magickal meaning. Now, I would add that this building of meaning is also part of the second half as Cusm says, while you work on something.

You see, the universe, your universe, has a lot of agendas, some of which you might have written, and others not, and you express them neurologically, so to speak, and semantically, by assigning meaning, so at some point you have to start deciding what each synchronicity means and enact upon it to realise it, mobilising all your resources and intent, so you become the syncronised and the synchronicer, you become a source of feedback to the super-source and further change becomes evident, as you start fulfilling your own agendas, and thats for me the ultimate actioning of magick and transformation.
 
 
akira
20:04 / 07.06.02
And remember sometimes the change can come fast, and when you build blocks and look further and further into things and get the thousand mile stare you might need something to come home to. Tea and toast at night does it for me, stops me head from disapearing up me arse.

Does that make sence or am I just stoned?

peace - akira
 
 
Seth
11:10 / 08.06.02
I recommend starting a dream diary (if you don’t have one already). Times of change can produce incredibly meaningful dreams, often detailing thoughts, memories and emotions that you are repressing. By recording everything as soon as you awake and working through the symbols, you’ll probably end up with an incredibly accurate journal of the true state of your mind when you compare the records of processes that your sleeping mind undertakes with your waking thoughts.
 
  
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