Patterns of Reality
“Mind patterns could be ‘woven’ like cord patterns, and these mind patterns were what ‘move’ spells. Different coloured threads indicated different kinds of consciousness, and their physical arrangements had to be projected into equivalent Inner patterns of power” — From Magical Ritual Methods (affiliate link) by William Gray I pulled this quote while doing a [...]
The astral cyber cafe
I had a person ask me recently if you could use cyber space to enter the astral plane. It’s an interesting question to ask, but as I thought about it, my own response was: “Cyberspace is its own astral space, complete with all the fixings, except you meet a lot more people in cyberspace.” My [...]
Internal and External Realities
It’s tempting sometimes to create a duality between the internal reality of a person’s psyche and the external reality of the universe. It’s important to recognize however that such dualities are illusions, created more for our convenience. That convenience is ultimately a blockage, and when we get rid of it we find that our understanding [...]
A meditation on love
This morning I decided to meditate on love, and more specifically on a realization I had of a pattern of getting involved with people I showed interest in over the last couple of years who, in one form or another, didn’t fully return the interest. This includes people I would actually have a romantic relationship [...]
Into Time and Space
After I finished my emptiness ritual and had cleansed myself of the paint, I moved right into the ritual to accept time as the new element. I put on the bracelet of elephant hair, and the elephant necklace and put before me the painting to elephant. I asked elephant if elephant would allow me to [...]
Elemental Emptiness Month 12: From Zero to One
9-24-09 I haven’t been able to update since the esoteric book convention. It highlights how busy my schedule has become and how problematic that can be at times. I’m not sure I like that, so I’m looking at what I can change in my life to give me a bit more time. As this elemental [...]
Time Magic: Thiede
Today I painted the seal and sigil for Thiede. You might note in the painting the inclusion of an A, which is done purposefully to denote the alter ego of Thiede as Aghama. Thiede is the other guide for time. His purpose is to help a person understand concepts of space as they relate to [...]
Time Magic: Purson
When I got home on Sunday from Fall Eq, one of the first things I did was go back to my ritual room and get started on the next painting for the time magic ritual I’ll be doing in October. This time, the painting was for Purson, one of the Goetic Daimons of Time, and [...]
Continual shifts in my philosophy of magic
My philosophy and overall approach to magic has shifted a lot in this last year in particular, but even in preceding years before this. It has become less about overt rituals and sigilization and other more visible techniques of magic and has moved into a quieter and more subtle practice, even as my studies and [...]
Hindsight
I was looking at one of my experimental journals, a written journal I keep, and saw it in a reading I did a year or more ago about a possible move to the East versus staying in Portland. I won’t say much about the East coast reading beyond noting that what the reading showed me [...]
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- I finished the latest revision of Magical Identity, at 93,535 words. Off to the editor and then layout! Expect a pre-order post soon.
