Phone working again

Similar problem like with tablet, a lot of energy somehow got stuck into the device, but this one one different, it certainly wasn't mind and it kept discharging the phone when I was around.

Tablet fixed

I managed to fix my tablet today. I performed a bigger ritual yesterday, which wore me out. Today when I had taken the tablet into my hands I have felt a great excess of energy, it was mine. I drained the energy from the tablet and now it's working fine.

I wonder if I can fix my phone this way, as well.

Energetical overkill

Sorry for vague title, but I don't know how else I could name this.

My practice changed a bit, during my procedures I have a recurring vision of myself being wrapped by some unknown energy, going upwards just like fire.
My phone somehow cannot stay charged for more than 2 hours (already tried a ton of things to fix that, so I thought the battery is dead). Today my tablet started clicking by itself, computer switches on and off and the strangest thing. I charged my phone yesterday and let it on the table. Today when I got back home, I found out that the phone is still on, with just half battery consumed (normal consumption for the smartphone).
Another strange thing: My girlfriend has an orchid, she didn't water it for over the week and the soil is completely dry, orchid doesn't seem to care and still flourishes.

Defeating theory, part II

So, let's get started :).

Model case

Close the book, grab some clothes, go outside, I will tell you something about Magick.

You look out of the window with suspicious face, weather isn't very good today, the rain doesn't look like ideal condition for the journey. OK, change the weather.

You get outside, you think that you could go grab some food while you are there, ouch, traffic light says that you should wait. Fine, change the light and let's get going, there is a lot of things we have to do before we can call it a day.

Fast food is far away. Go for public transportation service, there is a mundane solution for that.

You are in the bus when you notice a beautiful lady/guy in front of you, sitting there and reading newspaper. Only problem is that you cannot really see her/his face as (s)he is turned away. Time to make the subject turn back at you, focus...

Fine, you got out of the bus and now you even have someone's number, nice catch, now let's go to grab the food. You are waiting in a horribly big queue, waiting slowly makes you angry... Perfect! Time to beat your anger with some self-control, induce different emotion to make the previous one melt and vanish.

You are finally first in the queue and you are ordering, use telepathy to suggest the cashier to give you some extra fries, pay and go away.

Give the extra fries to some homeless guy you meet on the street, go to the park to eat your meal, when you are in that you can also suggest that dog owner in front of you that he should really collect his pet's poo and throw it to suitable container.

Go grab some coffee, it's time for the relax. It's slowly also time to go to bus to get home, but coffee is still hot. Why don't you simply make it to lower its temperature?

You successfully got on the bus and you are on your way home, the end.

That sounds fine, but could I do any of that? I don't know how

Then I don't see a reason why you are reading these books when they didn't teach you that. Intention, focus, dedication, desire. You can use visualization, you can say what you want in your mind or you can simply focus on what you want. You also can use affirmations, litanies, silent mantras, sigils, whatever feel suitable for you. There are so many methods how to manifest your desire and the only thing you have to do is to experiment and find out what is the most suitable method for you.

Finally some home project

This is not occult related, but it certainly made my day.
I have been planning to create some game for over 3 years now. There was always a problem with lack of people that would cooperate on the project (making scenario, character models, environments, textures, lightning, game logic, everything on your own is quite depressing).
Today I have talked with my gf about the problem and we choose not to make a game, but rather some movie, she said she will try to make some scenario :). WOOHOO

Defeating theory, part I

Introduction

I am going to create a series of articles talking about theory versus practice in Magick. Reason for that is to help those who wish to practice but are scared of possible road blocks. In this part we will focus on some general ideas behind Magick

Part I: I should know all theory before starting with practice

Actually opposite is truth, more mental garbage you have associated with Magick before starting with your practice, worse it will be. You don't really need to know much to start with practice and through practice you will get a lot of knowledge on your own.

Call it sorcery, if you wish, still I would rather be sorcerer than arm chair. Magick started with practice and through practice science was born. Mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, it all started with Magicians. Unfortunately Magick lost its leading role on scientific field during the ages, all the arm chairs do now is using scientific labels for Magickal phenomena to make it sound more "scientific".

Ether, electro-magnetic fluids, collective unconsciousness, archetypes, metaphysical energy, chaos theory, quantum theory, subtle energies... Do you know what is the difference between these labels? Some were already declined and some are going to be declined in the future. Science still develops and Magicians cannot keep in the flow when they are using theories that are going to be outdated some day.

Demon became part of the psyche, then part of the ether, then part of the subconsciousness, then some information in information matrix called reality... From my personal experience I can say that the demon is still demon no matter which scientific label you use and no matter in what you believe.

Regarding belief: Jaroslav Polak and Jozef Karika, two very good Czech occultists wrote a course book about Magick. There was very interesting part that I am going to quote:

"I don't really believe in fairies, elementals, demons, gods. I do not believe in Magick at all except the times when I practice. When you meet a fairy, relevance of your belief/non-belief equals to zero".

When you meet some "supernatural" being, you don't really care about your beliefs and about labels at the moment, first idea that goes through your mind when you meet a demon created from black shadow with flaming eyes isn't "Do I believe in this guy? Is he the etheric projection of my subconsciousness?", it is more something like "Ok, am I fucked, now?".

Take this to your heart. Don't care about labels, make your own if you want to name things. After all, ability to name something and control it through the name is Magicians' real source of power. Don't use scientific labels of theories that are going to be outdated sooner or later and don't study Magickal theories based on these labels, their explanation is fine, but just till the point when the scientific theory behind the Magickal one is still taken as slightly positive.

Do you want explanation for how Magick works? Don't search it in books, it's not there. Go search it yourself. You will probably find out sooner or later that there is no objective explanation. If I can give you a suggestion, don't care about how Magick works, you could break it. Take as a radio. If you are going to open the radio for the first time in your life because you simply want to know how it works, you might get it to the state when you won't be able to re-assemble it ever again. Magick works because it works.

Internet is full of weird people

Woman/witch/seer/medium with vast experience and ultra leet skills begging for spell on how to get rid of another woman that is supposedly attacking her...

http://evocationmagic.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6493

Internet is fun :-P

Value of evidence: Video recordings

To put the story short, I think all of you have seen some videos proving supernatural abilities.
Telekinesis, levitation, teleportation, even ghost and alien stories.
Video from unknown source shouldn't be considered as a evidence from following reasons:
1) You don't know what set up happened before the video was taken (wires, levers, platforms, mirrors, etc)
2) You don't know what effects were applied to the video during post-processing.

Applications and effect studios like ADOBE After Effects allow user to create effects of Hollywood movie quality.
It is also possible to use tracking tool like Voodoo Tracking and export vertices to more available graphical studios like Blender. Blender itself will have integrated motion tracking system in next release of Blender 2.6x (currently a development version of the studio with this functionality can be downloaded and used till the official release hits the fan).

Example of After Effects:

Example of Blender's functionality:

Sample of possibilities:

With current technology accessible to broader public, especially in case of Blender which is free, it is possible for every individual to create effects worth of Hollywood quality. For this reason a video cannot and should not be considered as evidence of supernatural abilities.

3D Art

Few misconceptions in Magick

It takes years of dedicated practice to obtain results

Well, it takes years, decades, sometimes even lifetimes to obtain mastery in Magick, true indeed. But you don't need to be a master to have results, results are usually granted along the path, first result can be obtained in range of days.

Practitioner must believe in God

God that requires faith is not God worth the faith, you don't need to believe in anything supernatural to practice Magick and any faith-related Magick can be easily adapted to suit your needs

There is only "this" way of doing things

There are currently 7 billion of people with individualistic needs, desires, thought processing and talents. Thinking that there is only one way to do Magick is silly, Magick is limited just by limitation of practitioner's imagination.

Chakras do/do not exist

This is a bit hard topic so let me explain in greater detail. There are information from many clairvoyant people, some that do see chakras and some that do not.
This topic is usually explained by chakras being a metaphysical constructs created by "gurus" and implanted to their students through faith and concentration.
My apprentice was never interested in chakras and I never forced that idea to him. Once during our session I have noticed his crown chakra and touched it. He felt the touch as a very real and quite disturbing, I also managed to slightly displace his chakra, but that's a bit different story, now.
From my story you can see that my apprentice had no way how to get this construct implanted, which means it was there to begin with, so where is the truth? Why do some clairvoyant people see chakras and some do not?

Answer is simple. There are different layers of our reality and chakras are not part of every of them, I would say that there are actually very few layers containing chakras as we know them, only clairvoyance adapted to such layer can perceive chakras and only Magician vibrating in such layer can work with them.
Most important thing of this story is: You don't need to work with chakras unless you see them, no requirement in there.

Practitioner needs specific elemental energy to cause the desired change

First of all, energy is just one, but in many different shades. Shades are funny thing to begin with, as these are not specific to objective laws, but to specific subconsciousness.
Elementalists perceive elemental energies, astro magicians perceive planetary energies, necromancers perceive life versus death essences and every one of them can easily work and distinguish their native energies.
Point is that the elementalist, when he needs to eg cast a spell to improve his memory, will use Air element because Air element is associated with memory, intelligence, etc. He can easily say what shade of energy is of Air element and how to use it.
In reality you are subconsciously selecting shades of energy that are easiest to manipulate for the given task and this shade of energy is subconsciously attributed to correspondence list you know (eg elements).
If we were to filter our sub-c from the process and work directly with shades of energy, we would find out it is an impossible task for our brain to process such subtle data, sub-c has a leading role in this process, translating into correspondences we know just shades we need and in form that we understand.
Without elemental practice you won't perceive elements, you won't understand elements and you won't be able to use elements because there are no elements for you. Same applies to planetary energies, life and death essences, etc.

Practitioner must be initiated by master/temple to obtain magickal faculties

Misconception and lie, nothing else. I am used to say this quite often, but let me repeat myself: Magick is our birth right. We were created with everything we need for Magick, good master will just show us the door, bad master will blind us with a lot of moral garbage and then he will lead us through the same door with blinded sight.

Astral projection is dangerous for beginners

This lie is actually very dangerous because a beginner that spontaneously astral projects while having this in mind, surely will get into some trouble. There is only one enemy in Astral, our own mind. During astral projection your mind gets power over matter. Power that is our birth right, power that is dangerous for weak minds that are damaged by this dogma. Throw the dogma away. Throw away the idea that astral projection is dangerous for you. Throw away the idea that some entity can harm you in Astral and throw away the idea that you can die in Astral, and you will project without any problems.
One more tip:
During Astral projection, all our senses (subtle and physical) are enhanced, you can hear very weak noise being actually multiplied and you can perceive actions of undeveloped entities with such intensity that these can scare you.
Don't worry about that, this happens around you normally, you usually just don't perceive it with such intensity, just don't put your attention into these noises. Projecting might seem scary, but when you are already in Astral, everything is completely fine and returned to normal with your only threat being your expectations.

You need to know all the theory before you start practicing

 Simply no. You need to take few deep breaths, man up, and start practicing, don't delay the funny part, don't read about the process, be part of the process.

Incorrect energy work can harm you

If you believe in this, then it really can harm you. Same hint as with Astral projection applies. Throw away your fears and old dogmas and you will find yourself as winners.
Common premise in this misconception is that there is some energy body that works with energy and this energy body can be harmed by the energy work. Energy body is in fact just perception, our highest form of being is our mind, your thought has a power over energy, your mind has power over your whole life, your mind is eternal and absolute state of being and only thing that can harm your mind and thus your body is your mind (or mind of a more skilled practitioner, but we will talk about that later)

Curses can harm you

Very complex topic. There are real curses and there are false curses. False curses are the most common ones, based just on psychology, harming your mind from inside. These curses will get you just if you open the door, just if you start questioning yourself.
Real curses are potent mind spells. Only mind with stronger willpower and inhuman concentration can attack another mind in such manner and I can assure you that you will never find a person on the internet that would attack you in such manner. Simply because they either do not have the skill or they will never have the reason to do so, such practitioner will never give a damn about your existence and making such person angry is usually impossible on your state.

Request #1: Magick is only for gifted people

This is partly a misunderstanding of old grimoires and partly a mental masturbation of some practitioners with low self-esteem. As I already said, Magick is our birth right. I myself have lived for 22 years as a complete skeptic and atheist, during my practice I have recalled few mysterious childhood memories I have suppressed during my life but everyone has such stories.
Usually when I meet someone new and I am introduced as a Magician (which I do not like, please respect my privacy), I usually get into occult talk and during such talk the person I just met usually recalls one or more of such stories from their childhood too. These stories can contain aura vision, astral projection, prophetic dreams or even breathing under water. These memories are usually suppressed because the brain cannot process them with current information, but everyone have them.
Except these few memories I have lived pretty average mundane life, actually during my earlier life my intuition sucked in the most horrible way and my opinions about occult were rather arrogant and blind.
After that I encountered an occult problem that had to be solved with occult solution, that opened my eyes and a completely new world appeared before me.
But one thing is true, you cannot practice Magick if you don't have deep roots in physical plane, or better said, you have to have solid background in this world before you can explore the new one. That's why old grimoires were talking about long spiritual journey and a lot of items that normal person cannot afford, having obtained worldly riches was usually considered a sign of being successful in this world, to be having your own place on this plane.
So, Magician never lives in his parents' basement (unless he/she moved back to help them financially or because of health reasons) and Magician is usually very independent.

Request #2: Learning curve is same for everyone

I've got two separate requests regarding gifted people so I have considered to take is as another request.
Yes, gifted people do really exist. Their gifts are usually granted from previous lives or from family bloodline. Sometimes they simply have a natural talent without any apparent reason.
But most important of all, every person is a completely unique individual with different needs and desires, with different dispositions. Some may need weeks to master a technique that a different folk will master in a couple of minutes, same as someone will learn to play guitar in a hour and someone else will need months to learn one song.

Final words

Just remember that your mind is your strongest weapon and your most fearful enemy, christian Hell is nothing compared to what your subconsciousness can cause to you, don't let yourself be leashed into dangerous dogmas and let me know if I omitted some topic, I will gladly update this article.

Recent update - summary

Well, I guess I haven't posted anything in a while so here is a quick update:
1) I got mesmerized by idea of creating a servitor for energy accumulation (I got this idea from MrBlack, so, thank you for that).
I have created a servitor with ability to accumulate energy from elements, planets, trees, rivers, Earth's core (interesting energy), recently I ordered him to learn how to gather healing energy (funny results with that, but I will describe it later) and how to pass the energy to someone else through his symbol (haven't tried that one, yet).

Anyway, I would rate it as a good idea as opposed to what some teachers at TDS thought.

I have created a formula to remember all dreams, this formula (even with my servitor's help) is still in process of charging.
My original idea was to remember all dreams when I woke up, for now it works more like I wake up after every 2 dreams, but if you wanted to try it anyway, the formula is TAVOMAP INKHESHU INIS. Repeat it in your head till you fall asleep.

I also bought an encyclopedia of astrology (original name Dictionnaire pratique d'Astrologie) by Catherine Aubier. Very good book. Information is sorted by terms and first part of the book lists basic terms a new astrologer should know, perfect for hobbyists. It is also first book I have ever found that doesn't only talk about meaning of houses but also shows how to calculate them and put them on the zodiac chart.

Currently I am in process of development of what I call "Whistle Magick".
If you ever heard about chakra singing or something like that you will grab the concept quickly. Point is to start whistling while having some sort of intention in your mind. Intention can be something specific like healing someone who is in range to hear the whistling or something as general as having a good mood.

Advantage is that you can use this for on-street Magick where you have no time to set up a ritual or draw a sigil.