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Running out of time (and magick)

 
 
The_Player
22:33 / 21.08.02
Hi 'lithers!

Just a little question: when you're working 10 hours a day, (trying to) sleep 7, use the others to things like moving from house to work and vice-versa, eating, bathing etc, when and how do you reserve time (and a clean mind) to work your magick properly?

Please, opinions, helps, suggestions!

Player
 
 
the Fool
22:49 / 21.08.02
Use small magic. Make mini versions of bigger things. Set aside 10 minutes before bed or a little time when you wake up. Do something when going to work (some traffic/pavement magic) or while eating (yummy food magic) or bathing (tantric shower magic) or sleeping (have a lucid dream). Make you day magically without changing it at all...
 
 
cusm
23:00 / 21.08.02
I have this problem as well. I don't get much ritual time anymore, save on occasional weekends. I make up for it by contemplating things during times like driving when my body is busy but my mind isn't needed, doing mental housecleaning and such. I also get a lot of it out by chattering here during my work hours, which has been a great outlet for me to keep thinking about things. I'd love for the time to spend hours in meditation or in ritual space, but that's not going to happen. So, I do what I can to live in a magickal reality while busy with otherwise mundane things.
 
 
ciarconn
23:49 / 21.08.02
Do magick while on your other activities, (or not-do your activities), a lor of the game of magick is the attitude, the perception. Try to perceive magickal realities inside your work
 
 
SMS
03:57 / 22.08.02
Mohandas Gandhi didn't need much sleep. I'm sure part of this had to do with his very nature, part of it had to do with his deeply spiritual life, and part of his deeply spiritual life had to do with his nature. If it doesn't cut down on the amount of sleep you need, I'd bet using magic could be used to help you be more efficient with your time.
 
 
Sebastian
12:31 / 22.08.02
In those circumsatnces, I am prone to go for the "social" weird side of magickal deeds. Approaching people in a charming, uncompromising way just for the casual conversation in public transportation for example is usually challenging and entertaining. I can be quite talkative by the way. Most of the craziest things I have said to people disguising magickal intentions were in such occasions. I am usually asked if I am serious or just joking, to which I can only reply what would be the difference in any case. Go read The Ninth Revelation summarised, or whatever new agey crappy thing taht teases you, and then drop something about the magickal nature of the universe in the middle of a conversation to a complete unknown, as if you have just had all the experiences that confirmed that to yourself, or as if you were the perfect common-sensical embodiment of it -the "as if" here is the most important, cause if you are convincing to the other his own conviction charges you up, and no matter how mocking you are, you get to feel his feedback. Just do it and then you tell me.

Look after kids and try to engage them in the playful conversation of a passer by -just try not to raise any alarming suspicion from his parents- and drop him a magickal advise on dreams, helper entities, whatever it is he is not probably listening from his parents. Kids are very receptive to this sort of things, and if you manage to turn on their own magickal flame you will have done the same for yourself, and someone from "the beyond" will be pleased indeed.

I also once distributed flyers with a sigil on it. I was buying some chocolate candy -I tried to make sure that whomever would receive it would actually see me buying the candy- then turn to someone, if a girl better, and gave hir the candy with the flyer, indicating no compromise, but that she had to carry the flyer for a while and then give it to someone else. I also left the flyer on chairs at caffeterias, buses, wherever. I was recently thinking of doing that with Gek, by the way.
 
 
Chaos is relative
18:11 / 22.08.02
In my early training I was taught not to fool myself into believing that I did not have time for 10 minutes of the most important work in my life per day. This ten minutes was spent looking at and meditating on 1 Tarot trump per day recording any outstanding thoughts or ideas in a magickal journal. This seemed to help me "find time" for more elaborate exercise later on. We find that when the aspirant is ready the instruction will present itself. Keep your true will at the forefront of your mind and everything should fall into place in due course.
 
 
Professor Silly
17:17 / 23.08.02
The Hindu concepts of "yama" and "niyama" also come into play: not only can writing out all of yesterday's activities upon awaking (while still fresh in the mind) help stimulate one's memory and provide clues as to what works best for the individual...it also can help one identify those extraneous activities that should be pruned away.

By managing one's time in such a way it becomes easier to add/delete habits...in my case I need to really watch how much time I spend on the internet--some sites (especially porn) will draw me in for hours. I won't get this time back...so it seems critically important to keep an honest account of my activities throughout each day. Like I said, spending ten to twenty minutes each morning can provide a wonderful start.
 
 
The_Player
16:08 / 01.09.02
Thank all of, guys. I'll try your suggestions.

The biggest problem (for me) is, that I used to spend 10 minutes just doing the banishings to begin a ritual (and I used 30 minutes - one hour or more doing the ritual). Maybe I'll have to make the things more fast-forward >_< ...

I can't focus my mind in magick while driving. It's impossible in São Paulo's caothic traffic, even more by the mornings. And it's a little difficult to me to make magickal chats with people (consedering the shy guy I am). In the end, what I need is a little training to make a complete ritual in 10 or 30 minutes. Or sleep a little less, and wake up one hour early... well, I'll manage.

Again, thank you 'lithers!

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