Leisure evening

Nearly forgot to mention this.
Two days ago during evening I was showing to my apprentice how I can use energy to lessen damage made to my body (something similar to iron shirt).
This ended up into beating contest and presentation how to use energy so my arm cannot be bent even when using great force.

Controlling energy within body is actually pretty simple once you learn how to feel it.

Magick in modern society

What Magick can offer nowadays
Magick, as a predecessor of science has formed the world and due to this influence our society is in its current state. Neither science nor arts would form this way without Magick. Astrology gave birth to mathematics, geometry and astronomy, alchemy developed into physics and chemistry, spiritual practices were the roots of psychology. But can Magick withstand the age of technology?
Let's say that you own a house, a car, two TV sets, newest iPhone and quite a sufficient wealth. Still there is something missing in your life, you just don't know what, you cannot name the feeling of emptiness. If you want to understand this feeling, you have two possibilities, either psychology or magick.
In case of psychology, there is a discipline called experiential psychotherapy, which can help you to grab and understand unclear emotions and feelings. In case of magick there are various meditations and introspections exercises. Both these fields allow you to accomplish self-understanding plus self-realization.
Study of history and psychology
In case you are aspiring historian or psychologist you might be interested what magick can offer you in the sense of information. Diving into traditional grimoires can help you explore mindset of the time. What people really wanted but were usually scared to admit it publicly. Grimoires were worth a fortune few centuries back, the reason was it offered something people really wanted. Enjoy the study and discover archetypes that follow the mankind since always.
Study of astronomy or mathematics
Here I recommend to go to the roots, the astrology, learn about 12 basic star signs surrounding us and about the movement of planets, about the transition between these signs. Do you eg know why your zodiac sign is Libra or Virgo? When you were born, the Sun was between the Earth and the star constellation of the zodiac. This is true each and every year on your birthday. Same applies to mathematics, making astrological horoscopes manually will learn you how to count, as for some aspects you have to calculate the exact location of your birthplace to the zodiac signs and planets at the time of your birth. This gives you access to the houses, 12 regions of Earth based on the time of the day.
Same applies also to chemistry, alchemy will help you with the basics and you will also learn how to spare some time by using alchemical symbols in your reports.
Self-realization
As we said in the beginning, magick can help you with self-realization, just like psychology. But the main difference is that Magick is not limited, psychology is mostly just a lightweight version of magick, using just what seems sane as opposed to using the full potential of occult practices.
For example meditation in psychology is based on relaxation and imagination, you won't find any energy accumulation or invocation in psychology.
But to be fair, experiential psychology offers a limited version of evocation, conversations of two chairs, to sum this technique up, there are two chairs in the room. One is yours and one is empty. You sit down on your chair and you imagine yourself on the other one with some aspect you hate on yourself and you criticize "you" for this aspect. Then you switch places and you speak from the position of the other "you" and you speak about how you feel about the criticism, you keep switching places and debating regarding the aspect you want to change.
Self-realization by occult means
As we said, you can use Magick for self-realization, but not only by changing yourself and aspects of your self (as in psychology), but also by changing your environment (reality manipulation).
Magick can make your life easier, you just need to get courage and grab the power that is yours, accept who you are and unleash power you were born with, that is all :-)

You lucky bastard...

Today, during my travel to work, an inspector entered the sub-way train and asked me to show him my ticket.
I closed my book, put it into bag, took my wallet, retrieved my month ticket from it and found out it expired two days ago.
I presented the ticket to the inspector, he said "thank you" and exited the train.

P.S. If you want to learn how to do this, check my article "How to begin with practical Magick" for "Telepathy suggestion".

Going to be one busy weekend

Yesterday my friend revealed to me a sequence of problems that's currently happening to him, I offered my help so on Friday there will be some binding, on Saturday conjuring something nasty to get rid off the source of problems and then also trying to minimize effects of these problems on Sunday.

It can sound harsh but there are few rules in duel of Magicians, one of them is not to touch Magician's family and relatives, duel of Magicians should be strictly between Magicians.

Daily Chaos Prayer

I thought I might make some simple, but useful daily routines for my tolerant and persistent readers, after all, my current posting rate is very low.

Say following prayer (you can use Chaosphere as a focal point for that):

Oh, Mighty Chaos,
I, (your name), your child, am praying to you.
Grant my wish and protect me and my brethern from all ill-doing, support us in our efforts and make our plans come true. Make our enemies go blind, bind their powers and make their efforts go in vain, for we are your children, true successors of Primal Chaos, the veil of life and all the mystery.
ZI DINGIR ANNA KANPA,
ZI DINGIR KIA KANPA

Feel free to modify this prayer to suit your needs :-)

Nothing much

Nothing much happened over the weekend. I was helping one of my friends with psychological issues and then we also went to pan for pyrope gemstones, during which I called off one minor rain just to be disturbed by major rainstorm few hours later. On the other side, it was quite calm and relaxing weekend with nothing much happening, these days are more and more rare.

Quick note

I somehow keep forgetting to focus on the place between my eyebrows during meditation, even when I know that visualization is easier that way.

Sleepwalker

It seems that my son inherited my sleepwalking, as well.
Yesterday night he sat up while asleep and was "talking", for a good 15 minutes :-D.

Weekend trouble

During Friday night we attended occult meeting here in Prague. After that (the very next day) we had to get home. Some funny stuff happened during the trip back home, for example one of our traffic connections, namely train, got delayed by 2 hours.
To get home earlier I created a Sigil and during casting I recalled it's May and I am supposed to use only Necronomicon related stuff. Because I didn't have Necronomicon with me at the time, I started with general evocation of Necronomicon spirits (no names, no preparations, etc) and asked these entities to help me with the outcome of the Sigil.
The delay on the train didn't improve, so we chose another train, which didn't stop in our destination. During the trip I got a call from my father that he is currently in the city we were heading in and if we want to take a ride home, this is how Sigils work time by the time :).

Suhrim

Yesterday, before falling asleep, I was thinking about Suhrim, one of Marduk's names from Necronomicon. And one of four names that can cause death.
I got a very plastic and vivid vision of a large beast, with shape similar to shape of a hound, but with much bigger mouth with no teeth, it also had wings.
This whole creature was covered in human-like skin with a lot of stains in colors of brown and orange. According to my vision this beast was really big, maybe like a decent family house.

Second day

This is second day of May and also second day of my anual Necronomicon practice.
This month I will focus solely on Necronomicon.
No Sigils, no usual rituals, only Necronomicon.
This month I expect I should be able to pass second zonei.

I will also focus on Maqlu text and post my observations here :-)