Francis King as Esoteric George Costanza and the Hermanubis Fraud

[sahgwa]

I agree with needing results based magick at first, but the older I get and I have everything I need in the material world, my magick is more for some kind of 'communion' or evolution, or 'raising of frequencies.' now. I feel the desire to reach out farther into the cosmos and en-light-en myself more than say 'hey I need a girlfriend or wife or $500'
You get to a point where you 'are' the magick if even to a small degree, just by learning how to go with the Flow.
I think.
The Universe can stamp you down at any time so I am thankful I am being provided for with a modest income and small family of wife and cat and loving friends. The positive thanks-based vibration will get you things over a victim or angry controlling vibration any day.

 

[L’chaimGoldberg]

Right! Spiritualism is still going strong in the Caribbean, Latin, Central, and South American traditions and it core to many of the techniques there.

My hougan introduced to Alan Kardec , who at a time was mostly ignored in modern occulture. When he first called me a "materializing medium" it made little ense, but I later saw it was pretty good way of looking grimoric evocation.

I suspect it died out among Anglos in the time periods after the two World Wars. Europeans and white Americans really wanted to escape the horrors of the Old World and be moderns. Anglicanism got chunked along with Catholicism, spiritualism, magic, and a whole cadre of other "superstitions."

New Age trance channeling owes a lot to Spiritualism . It goes wrong so often so that am not a fan of people over-relying on it, but among new religious cultured that refuses to engage with the Western Magic Tradition , it's hard to make any suggestions there, and I don't like being a killjoy.

I know it’s almost completely ignored unless you come across it in books about that time period, and there’s a lot of stuff about “exposes” where people were faking “ectoplasm” or had it rigged to shake tables or whatever.

I agree with needing results based magick at first, but the older I get and I have everything I need in the material world, my magick is more for some kind of 'communion' or evolution, or 'raising of frequencies.' now. I feel the desire to reach out farther into the cosmos and en-light-en myself more than say 'hey I need a girlfriend or wife or $500'
You get to a point where you 'are' the magick if even to a small degree, just by learning how to go with the Flow.
I think.
The Universe can stamp you down at any time so I am thankful I am being provided for with a modest income and small family of wife and cat and loving friends. The positive thanks-based vibration will get you things over a victim or angry controlling vibration any day.

this should probably be a pinned comment right here. 1,000% agree, at least for the practitioner. Everyone i know who is an actual practitioner, their life reflects it. They might have a modest house or job, a trusty old vehicle, reasonably good health, etc. They also are like you, just doing their thing. Then i meet those ones who are talking about how much magical power they have, how awesome they are, how they come from some mystical lineage, how they’re constantly ready to destroy everyone, etc. Meanwhile their lives are an absolute train wreck of a dumpster fire of catastrophic failures. They struggle from one crisis to another, have no shekels, nonstop relationship drama and toxicity, no peace in their own life, just a hot mess as the saying goes.

it seems to me that the real practioners are naturally more in tune with the, for lack of a better word, the vibes of the universe. And when you are in harmony with the world your life will be better. Reminds me of the saying about not getting what you want but wanting what you have, or wanting less.

great post man, that should definitely be archived for all aspiring mage’s and students.

 

[sahgwa]

I know it’s almost completely ignored unless you come across it in books about that time period, and there’s a lot of stuff about “exposes” where people were faking “ectoplasm” or had it rigged to shake tables or whatever.

this should probably be a pinned comment right here. 1,000% agree, at least for the practitioner. Everyone i know who is an actual practitioner, their life reflects it. They might have a modest house or job, a trusty old vehicle, reasonably good health, etc. They also are like you, just doing their thing. Then i meet those ones who are talking about how much magical power they have, how awesome they are, how they come from some mystical lineage, how they’re constantly ready to destroy everyone, etc. Meanwhile their lives are an absolute train wreck of a dumpster fire of catastrophic failures. They struggle from one crisis to another, have no shekels, nonstop relationship drama and toxicity, no peace in their own life, just a hot mess as the saying goes.

it seems to me that the real practioners are naturally more in tune with the, for lack of a better word, the vibes of the universe. And when you are in harmony with the world your life will be better. Reminds me of the saying about not getting what you want but wanting what you have, or wanting less.

great post man, that should definitely be archived for all aspiring mage’s and students.

I just want to help people realise that it's all about realisation lol

There is a reason that these powerful words like gnosis, Dao, or self-individuation exist but can't really be explained.
They have to be experienced.

It is easy to slip 'off the train' but if you keep at it, humbly and positively, your life will reflect.
That's what alchemy is all about.

It won't be perfect, we are in 'Saturn's Cube' after all, so we will have plenty of pain . But it's how we learn. It's all about how we view the experience.
Have a good Tyr's day