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EDIT: I did have a lot of self-important BS put in here, but I don't think it was the real me, let alone good for the reader. Happy casting.

Meresis: Join by reading up and responding, trying out what we and you come up with, and tell us your results. Start your own the same way I did mine, start a new topic under the forum, Study Group.

Dodaive: Curriculum is posted, hope it works. Any additions?

Mind Over Matter I think that the natural conclusion to magick and stuff like it are to have the skill naturally without the need to do anything but use our minds. This would mean not needing materials, drawn sigils, words spoken aloud, hand or body movements, or anything else to cast, simply to th...

I would certainly like to see what that study group comes up with, Meresis. Except if the one I just made takes up all my hour and a half I get for computer time at the library daily, I'm in.

On Thelema and Qabalah, I can't speculate—they’re not my forte. But when it comes to the other things, I can hopefully shed some light. The first and most major thing to remember is to never accept what you hear or read, from whoever or wherever, as anything but speculation till you can prove it on ...

I have another question. This one is far less describable, but hopefully there is somebody out there who knows what I'm feeling. It's kinda long, and I apologize ahead of time for that, but I can't get it across infewer words. I tried to narrow it, but realized that to take any more out would severe...

Yes, Nahemah, it most certainly does. How did you do it? Hmmm, I'll write up a syllabus in the next 24h and post it tomorrow. It will take some thinking, I'm sure people would want to see ideas and suggestions, as well as well thought out descriptions, of what I'm talking about, not to mention us. p...

Naa Nahemah, I just couldn't find it in an online dictionary, and wanted to make sure you didn't have a personal definition of it. In some states I can see the magnetic field, but I think it is not related with eyes at all, more like an extra-sensorial perception re-interpreted by the brain as image...

Ya. No problem, dodaive. The buddhas the world over have always described the human temple as all we really ever need to accomplish anything. Rituals help with focus, drugs force the mind/body reaction, and lots of things help fascilitate the magickal effect, but after awhile, an idea I've heard is ...

[rofl] Ahh yes, Nuit. I'd forgotten even though I only finished that Magick, Shamanism, and Taoism book last month.

Howdy Dmitri. Welcome from me, too. Interesting discussion, wish I had time to formulate a real reply.

Like Dende. Personally, my favored alien is Bibble. He brought us cell phones, pagers, Playstation 1 and 2. You might have thought it was the Japanese, but anyone in the know, knows it was Bibble, fo shizzle, and all by Bibble, cause only Bibble can keep it so real. Ya-yaoik! From what little I've r...

I haven't studied sigils yet, so I can't comment on whether you should do something special after making it. But trying not to think about something is nearly impossible for our primal brains. You probably already know that the best effects come when you keep your brain and body from interfering wit...

A long, hard road it is, but strong and wise you will become.

did ya'll know that most people in ages past who showed talent as a shaman but hadn't yet been trained to control one's self also exhibited the same things Martin's doing now? Hey, Bomoss, therapy can be very good if you realize it's all on you, there is nothing much that the therapist can do no mat...

dodaive: Yeah, gnosis as a greek term meant intellectual knowledge and general talent or aptitude. It's also associated with the Christian concept of God himself giving knowledge directly, rather than the linear learning concept of modern science. Nahemah: [LBRP] Invokes the Boot of Australia from S...

For a very long time, I focused exclusively on Buddhism and the steadying of my mind. It was the only thing worth looking into, as far as I was concerned. After many years, I graduated myself to psychicism, but never got very far for lack of practice. I'd done a few circle rituals here and there, bu...

The runes on the outside remind me of both a clock face and the zodiac. The cross reminds me of the cross of health and protection in various cultures, and the finger things are like the Norse Aegishjalmur, but the numbers 10 and 100 are either American, Arabic or European. Maybe the "C" h...

There is one surefire way I know of to make people like you, Niponic. See, what you do is, you take over a country, by force or by coup, it doesn't matter. And you force people to say they like you or you'll raise their taxes and march their young men off to the front lines of combat. [twisted] I ha...

Read as much of these as you can muster: What NOT To Do Dangers of Unpreparedness As always, I'm a beginner my own self. In my beginnerness, I'm happy to relay what I've learned and let someone more experienced elaborate or expound. In one respect, it's pretty hard to harm yourself until you get goo...

Yep, I'm ecclectic, too. Even among the alternate religions and spiritualities, I can't seem to stand being a part of any one thing. I learn everything I can and come up with explanations, later. Some people seem to do well grasping an understanding before serious acts, some people do better just do...

Thank ye, many things to try. I've also realized that when I just look at him like he's dumb and don't say a word, he reavels himself to everyone as...an idiot. I've written down all the new advice and magickal practices; websites. I can't wait till I have another computer and the time to actually l...

Thanks Nahemah, this is the perfect practice for me right now. I've been thinking about this very thing--quit reading my mind. Light is a problem with me, too. I can't look to the sky without shutting one eye completely and the other most of the way, no matter where the sun is. Can't look at the sun...

Does anyone know of a note generator online to listen to while meditating. Of course, you've got a hundred dozen on youtube, but they're all filled with people talking, Tibeten chants, and other sounds like other notes and nature mixed in. I would like to just be able to generate my own sounds, if a...

20/15 vision, though I realize there are a few things that could be wrong with the eye even if I have "perfect" vision. People could just say that this is the object going "out of focus" when I focus beyond it, but who's to say what focusing beyond something really is? So many th...