Advanced Magick

What is the truth of advanced magick? In my opinion, most people go so

far in magick and remain there at a specific comfort level and never
evolve. This is fine. However there are a few people who are never
satiated with their level of expertise, and I happen to be one of these
people. I would like to share with you some of the interesting things Ive
learned at this point.

Energy Manipulation

I couldn't wait to ramble about this, I love the subject of energies and
energy manipulation. The first thing to understand, but I assume you
already do, is that everything has energy, and in believing this I am an
animist. But what few people know is that it's possible to control and
manipulate these energies, and I'm sure you're thinking that it must be
very difficult, but trust me, it isn't.

It begins in the chakra bases, being fully aware of the energies in each
chakra and how they interact with each other. The chakras are in their
respective places from bottom to top; the root chakra which is located at
the perineum, the sacral shakra which is at the womb, the solar plexus
which is directly below your sternum bone in your upper stomac, the
heart chakra which is located where you may expect it to, at the heart,
the throat chakra which is at your vocal cords, the third eye chakra
which is located at the space between your eyes, and finally the crown
chakra which is at the very top of your head. They also have colors
associated with them when they are to be opened, and they are here if
you don’t know them;
A lot of attention is focused on the third eye chakra, and it has its due,
but for complete energy awareness and activation a knowledge of all the
chakras is advisable.

Summoning Energy

There is no way this practice can be easier, and when you try it, or even
read it, you will begin to agree. The problem with most people not being
able to manipulate energy is that they allow their energies to become
muddied, so to clear your energies I give you the following excercise;
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Relax completely in a comforting atmosphere while laying on your back.

Close your eyes and begin a sacred breathing, inhaling through your
nose and exhaling through your mouth. Take three very deep breathes
and then begin to focus on your breathing, focus on the feeling of air in
your lungs. As you inhale imagine that the air you're breathing in is
pearlescent and fresh, absolutely pristine. As you exhale imagine the air
is mucky and dirty, this is symbolic of all the spiritual dirt that is inside
of you, and you will notice how much better you feel after not much
time has passed. This can be complemented by imaging the dirt leaving
your body from the inside.

The second excercise is the best way to summon energy in my opinion.

Quiet yourself completely, over time this part wont be necessary but at
the beginning it is. Gather a memory that will undoubtably make you
smile, anything will work as long as it's positive and uplifting. Hold this
feeling. The key to energy is the feeling of bliss, perfect energy that
overcomes all other negative energies. Hold this feeling as long as you
can, I can assure you that if practiced for any prolonged amount of time
these brother practices will make your life better by making you feel
better from the inside.

Remember when you need that extra something to make you feel better,
take a few deep breathes and find your bliss. It's proven that a deep
breath provides extra oxygen to the brain which subsequently makes you
happy. Do it now!

In advanced practices it's a small knowledge that surrounding yourself

with positive energies can ward off negative energies. For perfect
protection there is no room for fear, embracing bliss inhibits anyone
from draining energy from you.
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So can energy actually be drained from you? Absolutely! What isn't

outrightly realized is that when someone makes you feel worse than you
do or tried to intimidate you this is actually the draining of energy, we
don't see it because it's that mundane an occurence.

To combat this, when someone is trying to drain your energy, imagine a

shield covering your solar plexus chakra, this is usually the place where
the most energy is swallowed. Maintain your own bliss, do not give it
away. It's almost quaranteed that the specific person will leave you alone
once they realize that you're not energy fodder.

Ways of Acquiring Energy

The foremost way we gain energy to survive involves the food we eat, it
supplies the minimum amount of energy we require, and this can be used
to the advantage of witches. Blessing the food before it's eaten charges it
with energy, focusing positively on the food as it's growing is even
better. To bless food begin as you're cooking, being sure to stir
clockwise and being mindful that the act of going clockwise is beneficial
as you already know. The ingredients can be blessed with simple
incantations and intent, especially salt and other seasonings and spices
that you will use. Some food is easier to bless, meat is irredeemable
because of the negativity that's imprinted in it. Other food like
vegetables, fruits, legumes come from the earth and in that way they are
somewhat blessed already. Energy can be added by projecting it through
the hands into the food. As you sit and ready yourself to eat, concentrate
on how this food intends to sate you and nourish you, and thank it. It's
customary for some to thank a diety for the food but it's sufficient to
thank the food itself.

In the morning as you rise, walk either outside or to a bright open

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window. Stand in the heat of the sun and absorb it, it's really that simple.
As you begin your day this is an excellent way to set a flow for the day.
If you're like me, a night person, then do the same with the moon.
There's much power in standing below the night sky, strewn with stars
and a shining moon, and opening an energy point and allowing the
energy to infiltrate you. The stars, as well, regardless of how far away
they are, still send light and energy our way and it's useful. Complement
this absorbtion with an incantation to mentally affirm the power.

I've listed a few reasons why quick energy raising would be necessary,
and I offer a final way to accomplish this. I reiterate the usefulness of
sacred and meaningful breathing, this raises energy as well, so when you
breathe in imagine energy coming in as well, good energy from the
brightest and most positive areas of our universe. Hold it as you breathe
out, don't let it escape, and upon the next inhale do the same. Breathe in
through your nose and out through your mouth, for the first three
breathes inhale as fully as possible, this is a cleansing breath, and then
exhale. When you have sufficient amounts of energy your skin will feel
prickly, you may feel warm, or more energetic. When you're getting
close to undertaking a deep ritual that will require enormous amounts of
energy you can do all of these things to ensure that you have all that you
need.

Meditative Pointers

I'm kind of nit-picky, and when I lay down to meditate the last thing I
wanna worry about are the silly things that could potentially draw my
attention from my task at hand. Assuming that you're like me, I've
offered a few pointers.

Use lip balm. When breathing through your mouth your lips can dry out
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and licking your lips is very annoying when trying to achieve an alpha
state.

Press repeat on the cd player, because who wants to follow a soothing

song with a head banging one? Just a thought.

Cover your feet, they may become cold.

Research an incense that complements your meditation.

Don't cross anything, fingers, ankles, anything. Circles inhibit energies.

Protection

This is a subject I'm fond of as well. Some protection comes from the
inside, things that mentally make you feel comfortable and at ease and
therefore help you find bliss. This is why some wear a cross, through
their lives it's come as a comforting symbol and they think it literally
protects them. And it does. Then there are things people do to their
homes and person that really do physically protect them.

Chances are you have a protective symbol, as I mentioned above, mine

is my septogram, I associate protection with my tattoo. Tats and jewelry
enhance the feelings of safety.

Giving an item the responsibility of protecting you is a possibility. Yes,

verbally asking something, like a gargoyle or a tiger statue to protect you
while at home can work! Just clean the item very well and use your
consecration ritual to make it fit and then tell it exactly what you expect
from it. This is best during a full moon or waxing. Holy water used on
doors and windows in the symbol of an equal arm cross is effective at
keeping out individuals who may want to find their way in. Holy water
recipe? Three pinches of cleansed salt per cup of water, stir clockwise.
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When you're in fear, use the above way or find your own tactic of
finding bliss. Call it that, tell yourself that you're going to find your
bliss. Believe firmly that a god or goddess can harness safety over you?
Then call to them.

To charge a protective symbolic article, cleanse it, you know how, and
then sit in a circle and concentrate on the object, focusing on your intent
and how it relates to your protective object. Close your eyes and
summon a healthy supply of magickal energy, if you insist you may
invoke a color, such as green. When you've become drenched with
energy, make a ball of it, centralize it at your core and still, focus on
your intent. Say aloud what you want it to do if you like. Then pour the
energy into the object, the secret here is to close off the energy at the site
where you put it in, seal it into the object mentally and see it as being
complete. Verbally indicate what you've done, and your magick is won.

To protect yourself in a moment in which you're scared, first of all do all

you can to physically protect yourself. Second, imagine a white sphere
of energy encircling you, breathe deeply and center and say a positive
affirmation such as, "I'm invincible" instead of "you can't hurt me". And
most of all, have faith that you are protected and can adequately protect
yourself in any situation.

Astral travel will bring us to beings that we otherwise aren't familiar

with, and be assured that the astral world is replete with "people". First
of all, don't take anything that one of the things say without knowing
that without a hint of doubt that they are who they say they are and are
trustworthy, even then question them. Prevention is the best protection,
and there's no need to divulge your name or purpose of astral travel, and
when you are threatened simply leave. When you are faced with this in
your home, realize that you are in your own space. You should already
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have protective borders up and use them thusly. You should have
protective symbols in your home already, three is the general rule of
thumb, though more is best.

Building protective borders around your home or space is easy. If it's

your home simply mark a boundary with salt that could be mixed with
herbs or such. As you spill the salt mentally affirm that within the border
is your space, you can get angry about it or territorial. Try to make it in a
circle or other elliptical shape. To protect a space do much the same
thing but with holy water, again, affirming your intent and ownership of
the area.
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Meditations on Basis of Magickal Enlivenment

In the beginning of magickal practices all novices are encouraged to

perform blessings. The inexperience prompts said novice to go further.
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The first part of delivering a blessing is intent, which is self-

explainatory, the second part of the blessing is the drawing of the
energy which in turn brings us to our third part, imagination, or the
ability to add drama to the blessing and the energy, which adds
power. Without imagination there would be no blessings, no magick,
no miracles. Without imagination we would be without technology,
religion, music, and all creativity. When faced with the latter, things
such as magick don't seem so... unbelievable.

The finality of the blessing process is two-fold, delivering the

blessing and seeing it come to fruition. The first time this happens
before the novice's eyes he becomes a witch and solidifies the moral
of it all, belief. Belief has more power than most anything else that
we know of, the belief in an outcome, for example, betters its
chances of manifesting by giving it energy. Belief, imagination, and
the ability to summon energy are among the three basics of magick,
but in their simplicity there is much power.

I consider this enlivenment because this is the moment when one

passes from not being sure if things of this nature exist to being sure
that it does. Enlivenment is a better term for it because although it is
enlightenment, this is not the definition of enlightenment.
Enlivenment is the process of belief.

Crystal Work

I mention the use of crystals in healing work in the Health and Magick
section, and I would like to go into detail here about why this works.
The source of all gems and stones and rocks is the Earth, there’s much
that's been collected from the Earth and much more uncovered. The
reason why crystals and other stones have such an effect on our bodies is
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because we're set up along a similar wavelength, or at least we began

that way. Obviously we lose track of how we should be living and fall
into a pattern of mediocre behavior, this sets off our normal path and
crystal work helps us get back to where we should be. The ore activates
something inside of us that stimulates healing, awakening, and
enlightenment, ultimately.

Shamana

Or shamanism, whatever you want to call it. My introduction to

paganism and witchcraft came with a dose of shamanism, by
coincidence or divine intervention in my younger, more formative years
I was confronted with different shamans with their different beliefs that
built a foundation for the ways I would practice and do practice now.
Shamanism is an intricate and active view of the world(s) that is more
broadened and more interesting than some without this vision would see
reality. Shamans know the herbs of the Earth and their uses better than
many, they understand the stones and their gifts more so than most, they
can heal as well as a modern doctor in many cases and can talk to things
that most people would never imagine exist. Yes, the life of a shaman is
involved and interesting.

Shamans have a better understanding of things due to a specific view

called animism, this is the belief that all things have a consciousness and
a life force, from us to small animals to trees to insects to even things
made out of wood as they have been alive. All things exude energy, it
can be proven, rocks even have auras which proves that they have
energy. Animists belief that rocks have a life force and although it won't
hurt when it's kicked, it comes from the Earth, is saturated with Her
consciousness as all other things that come from the Earth like animals
and us as well. We as human beings have the distorted view that because

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animals cannot speak that they do not feel, or if they acknowledge that
they can feel that they do not have as much value as we do. Therefore
animals can be eaten or abused and because they can't speak out it will
never count against us. But let me bring something to light; shamans
pass between worlds, they speak with and learn from creatures that we
have never seen or would never think to speak to. In ancient times (and
today, as well, because this practice lives on in pagans and small tribes)
the shaman was one of the most important people in the society because
of their abilities to retrieve information about certain ailments and even
the future. One of the types of creatures they would gather information
from is animal spirits, and animals are also our totems. This is the reason
I can't eat an animal, I can't eat something that would help me in a
situation where it was needed. I could never stand before the spirit of a
cow and ask for its guidance while having eaten a burger the day before.

I will reveal a few of the practices of shamans here. One of the easiest
things that shamans do is the work with herbs and stones. To simply be
receptive to these entities within them can be greatly helpful. Each stone
has its own "personality" and can be used in separate ways, even the two
rose quartzes are used for two different purposes. Using your receptive
hand, or the opposite of the hand you write with, hold the stone and clear
your mind. Allow the energy from the stone to creep into you and
influence your mood. Take note of all emotions, images that may come
into your mind, scents or sounds that wouldn't ordinarily take place and
ascribe these to the stone. Keep in mind that although these have a
consciousness of their own they also have a history and are influenced
by what has happened around them. If you've taken a stone from a witch
then realize that the stone has probably been used in a spell. Take care to
cleanse it very well and then read the stone once more. If the energy
within it is unsavory regardless of how you cleanse it, give it back to

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Earth because sometimes it just needs to be closer to its mother spirit
and reabsorb Her energy.

When meditating you may notice that you've lapsed into a strange sense
of being, the room may seem to spin or you may feel as if you're
floating. This is indicative that you've passed into another world, you've
achieved the alpha state. In a pause of breath after you've inhaled or
exhaled, take the opportunity to fall into a trance. A trance is the state of
being that shamans are infamous for, but it's not exclusive to shamans
nor is it difficult. As I said, on a pause during breathing find a way into
the "otherworld" by either climbing a rope, crawling into a tree,
climbing the tree, or descending into an earthen tunnel, also you can use
any scenario that works for you. When you come to the spirit of an
animal it could be your totem, but don't assume so. If it doesn't plan to
harm you it will indicate so, it will show its teeth, its eyes, it may tell
you its name. Then listen to it and allow it to speak to you. Don't worry
if it's all in your imagination, know that there is a reason for this as there
is a reason for everything. Take this amazing opportunity to learn as
much as you can and to remember all you can. Do not forget to thank
him and later give an offering to the animal whose spirit just helped you.
Shamans also pass into this world to speak to the personification of a
person's illness and will learn ways to heal someone or something.

Recall the episode of The Simpson's in which Homer eats a pepper and
then has some off vision? This was startingly similar to a trance that I
had been introduced to not long before having seen it.

There is so much more here than anyone knows, even people like me
who acknowledge and welcome any new or strange worldly realization.
My advice is to welcome the weird and wonderful, as I'm sure, if you're
reading this, that you know this all too well.

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Practice

The following is a test of practical telikinesis using simply a dice.

Realize that you're going to try to roll a six everytime, put your intent
into it and then roll the dice thirty times. If you roll a six eight times or
more then this is a sign of telikenisis, four or five times is average and
it's what most people would get, anything less than two denotes
telikinisis but in a reverse way and this means that practice should be
used to forward your intention.

Bad Magick

Who's to say what's right and what's wrong? Personally I ascribe to no

law of three and firmly believe that there are ways to bipass this "law".
So instead of the "bad magick"or "black magick" I offer you Neutral
Magick, which I believe doesn't come back to haunt us.

To begin it's necessary to be mindful of the energies that we harness.

Our bodies are natural energy conductors and the passing or projecting
of energy is completely fluent to our nature. There is no bad energy out
there until it passes through us conductors and is filtered or manipulated
to be so, even then the energy itself is neutral because energy does not
have opinions or morals.

If karmic backlash worries you I offer a solution. Make a clay person

that resembles you and give it a name as well. carve a hollow place out
in its chest and allow it to dry. Before you plan to do something "bad"
pour a bit of water in the hollow place in your clay poppet's chest and
say something to the effect that it takes your place and you will see or
feel nothing of the counter energies that may find its way to you. That
the energies may become confused and find your double instead. Place
this person outside away from your natural living area and leave it for

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three days, then dispose of the water, giving it back to the Earth and
washing your hands of it all. Or place black dreamcatchers at your
windows and doors, also small mirrors mounted to your doors facing the
door will work, simply place something on the backside of the mirror to
make it look not as suspicious.

What are some of the things that you may do that would be considered
bad? First of all there are the curses that are placed on someone. Let me
say that as witches and as people mindful of our energies and our effects
of them we have a better understand of it. This is to say that if someone
has a gun but has no clue how to use it they are very dangerous indeed,
but we know how to use our energies and thus we are less dangerous.
People curse all the time without realizing it, flashing an evil eye or
verbally cursing someone, therefore they suffer karmic reciprocity daily
and chalk it up to bad luck. Which brings us to the evil eye. I'm sure you
don't need to be schooled in giving the evil eye, and there are many
ways to ward it off or to cure it once it's been given. Next there are
things that are done to get oneself ahead of another thus inhibiting that
person's success. This is easily done as one would decide to halt, bind, or
freeze this person's acceleration.

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is absolutely aware of itself. When one of us suffers we all feel it, we are
sympathetic to this entity. I picture this spiritual mass as a cloud,
containing every soul that has ever existed, is existing, or will exist. This
being is God, the god whom the entire Holy Bible is written about.
When we were created we were given many truths, many details about
the life and planet on which we live, about the universe as well.
However, over time a lot of these details have been forgotten, mostly
willfully. It's no secret that there are powers at work that wish to hide the
truths that we by birth have a right to. The Egyptians were aware that in
the future technology would arrive that would make it possible to
duplicate thier priests and pharoahs, therefore they mummified them and
ensured their DNA, and at the present time it is now possible to clone
ancient Egyptian pharaohs.
The Holy Bible runs along the same vein, to dismiss the Bible as the
babblings of religious zealots is irresponsible, although it has been
translated several times and it's impossible for things not to be lost in
translation, but the truth is there. There are reasons to believe that the
creation story in Genesis is as close to fact as possible, as it is derived
from the Sumerians who were in modern day Iraq and no other creation
story comes closer to science as we know it today.
Evolution, contrary to modern opinion, can definitely coexist with
intelligent design when looked at from a spiritual standpoint. There is
undeniable proof of evolution, however it isn't my goal to dissect and
prove this, I am no biologist, I am a spritualist.
It is possible to filter the information our bodies receive from our
environment. To do this it is absolutely necessary to challenge ourselves,
to undo all of the knots of our past and to look our psychosis in the face.
It is the goal of our race to evolve to the highest possible points and this
is absolutely impossible to do when we cradle our dramas and nurture
our issues. YOU MUST FIX YOURSELF. You must. There is no

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spiritual way around it, the alternative is to live in a world of denial
where you pad yourself with distractions and never come to know
yourself as what you are meant to be. We are not our bodies. We are
eternal. Your pity, your addictions, your crutches will not do. You can
expect nothing less than the best from yourself.
I have had the same issues as anyone else. It's funny because most
people think that they are alone in their pain, that no one else has
experienced disappointments in life. That isn't true. My mother and
father were divorced when I was five and I saw my father very rarely
afterward. After a meeting with some psychiatrist at seventeen, I was
informed I had abandonment issues. For the first part of my life I felt
sorry for myself, I fed on the pity and sympathy of others. I would fish
for the approval of others, and it was a very serious case of poor-me.
The catalyst for my change was the book The Celestine Prophecy, and
after reading this I have never been the same.
Things are very difficult for the awakened in a world of people who are
prey to the dramas of others, of the many many self-depleting
distractions that surround us and filtering what we let enter our bodies is
more difficult than it may have been in the past when there were less
people and less insanity at large. But it is very necessary. It's also
necessary to realize that our bodies are more than the whole, more than
our organs and our tissues, even more than our cells, every particle of
our bodies is living and thriving (hopefully). We are the sum of all of
our particles, of our energies and of the energies we share with other
living things, animals and plants. Another living thing that would
surprise you is actually your thoughts. Everything in this universe
without a single exception is made of energy and in addition of a single
type of energy. We are truly one thing. So when we think something
consciously or not we are affected by it, most often we don't realize that
our bodies are affected by our thoughts. We are what we think.
We were created to be the ultimate conductor. We create and pass along

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energy effortlessly, we are often times consumed by it. Over time
without the wisdom of our elders we have forgotten how to control it,
we become overrun with energy and it can overpower us.
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