Seeking enlightenment?

I have already seen this for a couple of times.
Young guy wants to study yoga, or chi kung, or whatever, and he seeks enlightenment.
There is nothing wrong with that, just that these requests usually gets flooded by articles about various yoga and chi kung exercises.

Why is that wrong? Important part of the request is "seeks enlightenment" and you don't want to learn about enlightenment from non-enlightened person same as you don't want to learn swimming from non-swimmer.

And these non-enlightened "helpers" will then take our pitiful friend and flood him with a massive list of dogmas and meaningless exercises. Will it help our friend to attain enlightenment? Of course not, they will send the list just because they do the same exercises and sub-consciously they want some sort of external verification (it's good for anyone, right?).

When person is not enlightened then you cannot await enlightenment by doing same exercises that the person does.

But dude, I do not practice long enough to be enlightened, but these things really work

Nope. Until you gain enlightenment, this is just guessing. It's a guessing during self-study and it's a guessing even when you are led by some master, till you attain enlightenment, don't try to help anyone who seeks enlightenment by burdening him with your theory.

Update regarding reflective amulet

I just finished charging of the amulet and I made a decision to make a simple test before the energy from charging settles down.
I imagined a small figure on the surface and I try to use reiki on it, at first on heart, then on kidneys. I have felt both tests on my body.

I took the amulet and hid it on top of my cabinet, as I did so, I lost balance and nearly fell on the floor, it was like I was being "repelled".
Working with this amulet is going to be very interesting.

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Reflective amulet

I just finished my work on the amulet.

I have chosen to use manufactured leather but instead of standard ink I had to use red permanent fix, this is the result:

Sigils from left to right:

• ADAROZ - To reflect
• INKHESHU - Everything
• TOZAP - Back

Usage

After charging takes place, this amulet should reflect any kind of energy back at its caster. That way it could be used as a great protection amulet against black Magick.

My personal idea is much more practical, I will use the amulet to practice combat spells.

Lost paper

I cannot use the ink I have chosen for the amulet on manufactured leather because it is not visible there, so I wanted to use my hand-made paper but I cannot find it anywhere, I really miss my oratory, there I was always able to find things where I put them.

I currently have following options:
1) I will use a different ink on manufactured leather
2) I will create a new paper
3) I will use skin from rabbit that is currently drying on my backyard (but I will have to clean it, first).

Fell asleep

Yesterday I feel asleep before I did usual banishing and shielding around the house. Today I feel a bit tired and I have a sore throat.

I am not entirely sure whether this means that some entity visited me or there is an energetic imbalance due to unused energy. The first case is less probable because water in the glass near my bed didn't change, but I haven't charged it in days.

Anyway, I hope I will get into shape as soon as possible, today I finally want to make some time to finish my reflective amulet (I will post more information when it's finished).

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Setting up your daily practices

Introduction

One of the key points in succeeding in occult arts is a steady practice. By using a ritualistic approach of fixed practices in fixed times you are creating a habit.

Habits build half of your personality. Mundane habits include tying a tie, brushing your teeth, even bathing. When you do one of these things, you don't really think about what you are doing, hygienic procedures have become a part of your life so much that you do them automatically. During brushing your teeth you don't think about the brushing, it has become an automatic action and you can think about different things during that. By choosing a steady training regime, you will build a habit of using Magick and that will project into your life.

What are habits?

Habit is an action repeated so many times that it imprinted into your neural pathway and became automatic. To put it simply, it became part of your brain, part of your neural system, part of you.

To read more about habits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit_(psychology)
To read more about neural pathways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_pathway

Why is it good in Magick?

By developing a habit of certain rituals you develop a habit of practicing Magick, by the repetition you also strengthen the habit and most importantly you strengthen your Magickal ability. Just like visiting the gym every day strengthen your body, repeating certain rituals every day strengthens your mind and your willpower, not talking about how the repeating of the rituals can also stretch the amount of magickal energy you can hold.

How should the daily practice look like?

Meditation is a very important aspect, you should meditate daily. Process of meditation was already described in different article so I won't put the description of the process here, I will just say that meditating once per day is good, but ideal would be about 3 times daily.

Three rituals

Meditation isn't the only thing you should do. You should also perform 3 rituals per day, ideally one after waking up, one during the noon and one before going to sleep (you can actually have more rituals during your day, either in different times or two or more one after another).

These rituals can all be the same or each can be a different one. From simple adoration of Sun up to complex evocation of all angels/demons/insects, choice is fully up to you. My personal setup is as following:

• After waking up: Self-empowerment ritual
• During bus trip to work: Meditation (optional)
• During noon: Invocation and empowerment of my servitor
• Before going to sleep: Banishing the whole house, meditation and repetition of mantra to remember all my dreams before I fall asleep.

As I said, the setup of the rituals is totally up to you, make your own rituals if you wish, habituation is the important aspect here, not the rituals themselves.

Conclusion

With this said, you have everything you need for your spiritual development, persistence in the practice will be gradually rewarded with results. There is no need of initiations, no need of secret formulae and mantras, no need of masters, teachers, deities, religions or dogmas. Just take the responsibility for your self and build the rituals so they will suit your needs.

Cause and effect

Time by time I notice some discussion regarding the topic of whether Magick is or isn't real.
This discussion is usually spiced up with a sad story of failed practitioner that "did his best" to practice well and still he got no results.

It's funny, but we pay and study hard to graduate school, we go to work every day to get money so we can pay our rents and afford some food and some comforts of modern society, still some people think that Magick is different. People think that you just come here, do something from the book and KAZAM, it works.

If you want to get anywhere in your Magick path, you need to fulfill following criteria:
1) Belief - Magick cannot work if you don't believe that it will, no matter how much you try
2) Dedication - Gazing into candle light for 5 minutes won't allow you to levitate cars, get over it.

I hope that I am doing my part for you to gain needed belief and dedication, by articles I write and by techniques and teachings I share. Just remember that reading isn't enough. You have to go there and practice. Magick cannot be just some "what if", it must become the everyday part of your reality, it must become as natural for you as breathing. And reason? Reason is simple, you cannot have something you didn't pay for.
Sportsmen and martial artists spend a good deal of their lives by solid training routine, going beyond pain and beyond their limits to gain their goals. Why do you think that the Magick is so different?
If you want to gain an ability to perform "miracles", you have to do something for that. It's this simple.

Recent update

I managed to develop a healing method that has a positive effect on bigger problems, it can heal literally overnight. I successfully tested it on my girlfriend, I got her from hospital in just one day.

Still I seem to have one patient that is resistant against any kind of healing I try, I will try doing the same thing for couple of days to see if any change occurs.

Oath breaker: Meditation

Introduction

Meditation is very complex and beautiful topic. Unfortunately one bound with a lot of garbage. After all, it's a good business model to allow this knowledge only to those who pay well. But because there is no copyright about meditation, no one really can keep this knowledge for their own gain.
Some fragments of full meditation were already revealed, either by initiated or through revealed wisdom.

Many of you have already practiced with these fragments and had great results because even fragments of full meditation are powerful enough.

Today I am going to break one very old oath of silence and learn you something you would normally had to pay for, be guided into or had to figure it out yourselves.

What is meditation?

Meditation is a complex process of self-initiation and self-empowerment, many fragments of this sacred procedure were already published and made available to broader public. Practices known as focal meditation and void meditation are just pieces of bigger pie, mantras are just another way of focal meditation, but purpose stays the same.

How long time does it take to master meditation?

It is said it take years to master meditation and it takes a long time to get results. That basically applies just for individual fragments, when practicing meditation as the whole complex procedure, mastery can easily come in mater of months, minor results comes during the meditation itself and major results in couple of days.

I am not going to reveal all effects to spoil it for you, just to name few:
Minor results include buzzing, tingling, unbearable feelings of heat and cold, losing feeling of any borders, losing feeling of one's own body.
Some major results are: Clairvoyance or OOBE experience.

How does the full meditation work?

Full meditation is a process consisted of couple of steps, gradually building energies, changing mindset and reducing one's mundane senses in regard to allow the practitioner to fully concentrate on more subtle experiences.

Fragment #1: Comfort

First important fragment, unfortunately being omitted, a lot. When your body feels some pain or stiffness, this feeling is projected into your mind, causing mental chatter and reducing effects of another fragments of meditation.

First of all, you should take comfortable position, any position where you can sit/lay a couple of hours without problems and nothing bothers you is fine enough.

As next step you should relax your body. Best way is to focus on specific body part with intention to relax it and when this part is completely relaxed, then move on the next one, till your whole body is relaxed.

It is also a good thing to do some stretching exercise before you start with body relaxation, you will be able to relax your muscles with greater ease and more oxygen will get to your blood, as well.

Note: During this fragment, it is pretty common that flashes will start appearing in the front of your eyes, being it either scenes or simply some color filling your whole field of vision and then slowly vanishing in the center. This is pretty common and you don't need to worry about it. Actually this can happen at any point of the meditation, so it is good to know it is nothing wrong.
Another common effects are: tingling, vibrating, itching. Especially itching of the nose is very annoying, but you shouldn't move during the whole meditation, simple way how to get rid of itching focusing on the itching part and direct your breath there, feel your breath, feel how it fills your lungs, direct this feeling to the part with each breath-in and directs it out of your mouth during your breath-out.
It can also happen that you will astrally project during this fragment.

Fragment #2: Mental relaxation

 Our body is relaxed and as next step, our mind should be relaxed, as well. During this fragment you should get to the point when no new mental chatter appears, this is preparation for the void mind (mind vacancy).
You should inhale and exhale slowly and deeply, still the whole process should be natural, make sure each inhale and exhale takes about the same time.
Slowly focus on your breath, feel how it fills your lungs, feel your lungs from inside, feel and direct the breath through your lungs from up to bottom. Breathing to the bottom of your lungs is easily accomplished when your chest stays still during the breathing, but your belly expands during inhale and gets to the original state during exhale, focus on your breath for couple of minutes.

Fragment #3: Vacancy of mind

During this fragment, you should fully stop the mental chatter in your mind, no new thoughts should be created  and your mind should be as clear as lake's surface under the Moon light. And most important of all, this state should be passive, actively non-thinking doesn't equal to void mind.

There are couple of ways how to accomplish this task. You can either actively command your mind to be quiet and then slip into passive observantion, you also can imagine two completely opposite things at the same time (black/white vision screen), you can also try to induce two completely different emotions at the same time (eg joy and sorrow). Practice this for couple of minutes.

Note: During this fragment, it can happen you will completely stop feeling any border of your body or you will even astrally project, don't worry about it and don't let your fear to destroy your experience, be completely open-minded and positive about whatever happens to you, feeling of no borders, feeling of void, feeling of your self melting, are pretty common in this stage.

Fragment #4: Concentration

In next fragment you should slip from vacancy of mind state to full concentration upon one object/event, state. For this fragment you can use symbols, candle flame, mandalas, noises, some point in your body, generally any single object. Focus and fully concentrate on the object, gaze at the object when the object is visual. You can use symbol of your religion or even a custom crafted sigil. Gaze at the symbol and let your whole mind and get devoured by it, Keep this concentration for couple of minutes.

Then slip back into vacancy of mind and then back into state of relaxation, then you can consider your meditation session complete.

Few recommendations:

For fragment #4: When you are using symbol of your religion, being it chaosphere, hexagram, pentagram, Jesus on the cross or some sort of saint's picture, be sure to put your hands above the symbol after the meditation and let the accumulated energy enter your body. You can use visualization to help this process, but choice is yours. This way you can also use Reiki symbols, by drawing accumulated energy from Reiki symbol you can then use Reiki with greater ease without official attunement. You can also use this fragment to concentrate eg on some chakra or energy center of your choice.
Visions can be induced when you concentrate on some reflective surface, being it glass, coffee's surface, black mirror or water's surface.
You can also concentrate on tarot cards to gain new understanding regarding the cards in the process.


Switching between stages: At the beginning, the switch should be as slow as possible, do what is natural to you. Later you should learn to how switch between stages more fluently but without omitting anything.


Annoying/scary noises: Very common during meditation and during astral projection are very loud noises that can easily scare you. Point is that during the meditation we are more aware and even the most silent noise in great distance can sound as being very near and very loud, some undeveloped entities can also scare you this way, don't pay any attention to it, it is not worth of your attention.

Visions: During meditation you can have visions. When some vision appears, don't focus on it actively, the vision will fade, simply keep doing whatever fragment you were at and vision will become more clear and self-explaining. Same applies to astral projection as well, don't pay any attention to the process and don't focus on vibrations when they appear.

Sleep paralysis: It can happen that your body will become too relaxed that you will actually lose ability to move the body for short period of time. This event can be reduced when you focus on some specific body part with intent to wake it up. Good method is to wake up your hand this way and use it to massage rest of your body, this way you will be fully operation-able again in no time.

Conclusion

I tried to make this article as descriptive and as universal as possible so no matter what you practice or you believe in, you can still use it.
Still it is possible I omitted something or didn't make it clear. Feel free to ask for clarification and I will update this article accordingly.