How to change Awareness in before Ritual

[Luciferi Filia]

こんにちは [yay]

This is one fairly simple question. I've been wanting to ask this for a while because I am having some trouble with doing such.
Basically, how do you change or shift your awareness from the mundane state to the ritualisic state before or while getting ready for ritual? I know grounding and centering yourself and whatnot, but how do you actually shift awareness, because I can ground and center myself in a mundane state, so how do I do that in a ritualisic way?

Also, is the mind set of "being the observer" a good state to have in rituals?

Thanks in advance! [clown]

[Shinichi]

You're over complicating it. Unless you mean that you want to spend a great deal of time developing your Consciousness (which is slightly different from Awareness) and enter a No-Mind/Gnosis/Samadhi/Wu Wei/Whatever State every time you do a ritual (which is the classical Hermetic way to do things), and I do recommend that sort of pursuit, then you're over complicating it quite a lot.

To don the Ceremonial Mindset, all you have to do is concentrate and give reverence to your actions. Ground to stabilize your emotions and energies, Center to silence your mind, and then simply concentrate on what you are doing. Go about your business as if you are doing something sacred and special, carefully, with concentration, with good manners if you are working with spirits. And that's it.

Magick is simple. Don't over complicate it.

And no, if you are a participant, you do not want to detach yourself from the experience so much that you are too busy observing things to actually experience things.



~:Shin:~

[Luciferi Filia]

You're over complicating it. Unless you mean that you want to spend a great deal of time developing your Consciousness (which is slightly different from Awareness) and enter a No-Mind/Gnosis/Samadhi/Wu Wei/Whatever State every time you do a ritual (which is the classical Hermetic way to do things), and I do recommend that sort of pursuit, then you're over complicating it quite a lot.

To don the Ceremonial Mindset, all you have to do is concentrate and give reverence to your actions. Ground to stabilize your emotions and energies, Center to silence your mind, and then simply concentrate on what you are doing. Go about your business as if you are doing something sacred and special, carefully, with concentration, with good manners if you are working with spirits. And that's it.

Magick is simple. Don't over complicate it.

And no, if you are a participant, you do not want to detach yourself from the experience so much that you are too busy observing things to actually experience things.



~:Shin:~

Exactly. I am sorry for doing that, its just something I do a lot when I don't understand something. And I didn't want to fully say "shifting consciousness" because that 'could' refer to something totally different, and so I stuck to something of the more basic level. And thank you for the answer, it helped much!

[Desecrated]

Basically, how do you change or shift your awareness from the mundane state to the ritualisic state before or while getting ready for ritual? ]

I find that music really helps.

[Luciferi Filia]

Basically, how do you change or shift your awareness from the mundane state to the ritualisic state before or while getting ready for ritual? ]

I find that music really helps.

I can't use music because then I can't here my thoughts and it can be worst, lol. But I created a very effective method that I use now! But I thank everyone for answering, but this was sort of a waste of space when I could have asked myself instead of getting people hype, lol.

Anyways, thanks again everyone!

[Rin]

Meditation to rid yourself of distracting day to day thoughts would be my suggestion.

[magari]

Meditation to rid yourself of distracting day to day thoughts would be my suggestion.

I second this and also recommend basic visualization exercises in daily life.

[Haelos]

Depending on your ritual, the actual actions of preparing the spell are what are used to set your mind in the right place. By the time you start your ritual, you should be so engraved in what your doing that the ritual itself "just happens," and then you're cleaning up and putting stuff away.

The only thing I really have to recommend is to meditate on meditation itself, and understand the outer workings of your inner workings (if that remotely makes sense..)