Magickal Curriculum delayed

I chose to interrupt the work on the curriculum now, stuff that was made so far will be put into the third grade and the rest will go to the fourth grade later (yes, I made a decision to make another grade).

For now I want to work on a simplified version of the curriculum for those lazy and without time :D. Well, I got a couple of suggestions about the curriculum being too hardcore, so, yeah...

Multiple energies

People still tend to argue with me about energies. Generally they say there are physical and non-physical energies, they can feel them differently, use them differently...

I don't consider that to be bad, I myself believed that too some years ago, I felt thesew different energies, I could even invoke that fancy magickal energy to gain more of it, but from the occult perspective it was like stamp collection, it has no real influence in this world.

Since then I have learned how to recognize and work with real energy, also how to gain this energy, how to make my body to generate more of it.

I usually try to argue with people that you can hardly have separate energies as this would make it possible to do one's will during massive headaches or exhausted after many days without sleep. The problem is that exhaustion is like a love, you can experience something fifty times and believe it's a love, but only when you expereience a real love, you can distinguish it between the rest.

Many people believe that exhaustion is what you get e.g. after 6 hours of martial arts training. Your body has energetic reserves for survival purposes (these reserves can be accessed e.g. by taking caffeine). Exhaustion is when all this energy is depleted, when each of your step is dependent on your will, at the time the only working but malfunctioning part of Self, when you feel your heart acting weird, your limbs are numb, not in pain from training, but numb and each step makes you wonder why you can still stand and why you shouldn't just give up and drop down where you just are, that's the real exhaustion and after such exhaustion it is normal to sleep over 24 hours as the body has to fill these reserves.

Next part people tend to argue about are headaches, there I would like to make something as clear as possible, I always speak about massive immobilizing headaches, those you can't even move while having one. I want to make that clear because people usually reply to this: "No, you can still use the non-physical energy during mild headaches, you can even sometimes make them go away". So for those who are a bit slower: no one was talking about mild headaches.

Strange...

There is one event from the last week I didn't have time to mention, yet. It was actually quite hard to collect information on it as I wasn't present.

My mother-in-law was trying to force our chickens in a certain direction, and for that she was waving around with a big stick. This stick hit one rooster to the head and he apparently dropped dead.

After this happened my 2yo son found the rooster, grabbed it, put it on a table, sat next to it, petting and talking to the "dead" rooster for a couple of minutes.

Then he grabbed the rooster again, he put it between other chicken and turned around to leave, during that the rooster stood up and went away.

Now, it's very possible that the rooster was just unconscious, but him being knocked out for so long, being carried around and wake up exacty at the moment right after my son put him on the ground...

It was either a very strange coincidence or my son is going to be more powerful than his daddy, I mean way more powerful. After all he is a son of a Magician and a witch.

Dangers of Magick

There are few dangers in Magick you should be aware of. This is quite a known topic but I don't remember ever writing about it. Still, you might see that my version is a little bit different.

You become too sure
This is the case of the most beginners. You start practicing Magick, getting results and you start thinking too much about yourself. Easy way how to defeat the arrogance is to remember you are not the chosen one. Hard way is to piss off someone beyond your grade.

You are too out of reality
Some people tend to go to extremes, seeing angels, demons, unicorns and white rabbits everywhere. This world is enough interesting without living in fantasies, remember that. Plus living in a fantasy equals to doing Magick in fantasy, which is about as useful as a lobotomy. Here also comes another sub-category: you are too gullible, don't believe everything anyone says.

You are too grounded
Living in a purely physical world with strict physical rules bears some limitations, including not working Magick. It's mostly because of that little quiet voice in the back of your head saying: "this feat is impossible", having these problems usually leads to abandoning Magick.

You follow too much strictness
Strict rules, strick procedures, strict morals, that's a slow and painful way of becoming lazy and abandoning the Great Work, fast way is eating chips and watching television, plus it's more fun.

To avoid this problem don't be too strict on yourself, your practice should be enjoyable. Experiment and have fun.

You believe in karma
Karma, law of reflections, three-fold law and few others are artifical constructs, they spread like a virus from heart to heart. Time by the time we need to be a bit tough, then these viruses stand in the way. Do you think vodun priests have this problem? No, they don't. Remember: Nothing is true, everything is permitted, keep that in mind.

You take your belief to the professional level
Professional level of belief means you think your religion is the only correct one and you are enforced to shove your beliefs through other people's throats. Calm down, everyone has a right for their religion, everyone also has a right for their privacy and everyone also has a right to beat you to shreds if you limit any of his rights.