An experiment with Fasting
I just finished reading Tai Chi Dynamics (see below for the review) and in it he included a chapter on Fasting and how to do it properly. I decided to give it a try today and so far it’s been interesting to experience. He notes that a person can be a bit more temperamental, which [...]
Learning not to struggle with my demons
Since starting to read Tsultrim Allione’s book, Feeding Your Demons, I’ve been re-learning something I’ve learned before, but from a Taoist perspective in Relaxing into your Being: Breathing, Chi, and Dissolving the Ego, by B. K. Frantzis. From the Taoist perspective you use breathing and energy work to dissolve blockages. With Tsultrim’s work, you embody [...]
Feeding a Demon
I recently started reading Tsutrim Allione’s Feeding Your Demons, which presents a technique based on the Tibetan Chod ritual, where you find and locate your internal demons, stresses, etc., and you personify them and then feed them what they need, as opposed to what they want. She makes a critical distinction between want and need, [...]
Social Responsibility and Magic
I’ve previously posted on here about magic as a social practice, but I’ve decided to expand on that further by examining the concept of social responsibility and whether magic has any role in it, or not. As far as I can tell this is not a question which has really been asked in occultism, beyond [...]
Random notes
I’m starting to learn about planetary magic. I’ve done some work with the planets years ago, but not enough to feel really informed about it. One of my magical brothers who has some background on planetary magic told me about some of his work and instructed me a bit about some of the correspondences. So [...]
The Emptiness Working Month 3: Rage
Dec 17 We’ve just moved into the new place and I have online connection again. The last half week has been hard. We got moved out quickly and right after it snowed in Portland, which pretty much brings this city to a crashing halt. Mainly though, I’ve been dealing with rage, with anger, and this [...]
Why it's important to keep a record of your work
I’ve been archiving some of my past entries on my livejournal to a private archive I use to keep track of my experiments. What stands out to me is just how sloppy I was a few years ago in keeping tracking of some of my experiments…that and also the fact that I have a lot [...]
Pantheacon 2009 update and a book Review
So as I mentioned in a previous post, I’ll be presenting a workshop at Pantheacon as well as being on two panels. On Friday Feb 13 at 3:30 Pm in the Carmel room I will be presenting my workshop on the Elemental Balancing ritual. In this workshop I’ll explain how elemental balancing works and how [...]
Researching the Emperor
Reprint of an article I wrote on doing internal work back in 2007. So I mentioned in the first month of the emptiness working that one entity that I ended up working with was The Emperor or Darth Sidious. He’s an excellent embodiment of the negative emotions associated with emptiness. Tonight, a friend had linked [...]
The connection between internal work and external reality
Today I got to meet Paul Levy, who kindly enough gave me a copy of his book The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our collective psychosis. It was a real pleasure to meet Paul…it’s clear we are on similar journeys of internal exploration and change. His work with the concept of the [...]
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