Everything Is Energy - A Guide to Magick

A guide to magickal practice and advanced magickal theory, as well as some ranting. Here's a link to the original blog: https://vaserati.wordpress.com Here's a link to my User blog (NSFW): http://vaserati.tumblr.com/

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A Short Story About Karma

Originally posted in October 2013: SO this is a story about my day. Today I woke up in my new home, a home right off the town square featured in the hit movie Groundhog Day. Yes, sirree, I’m living on that Square. Life here is pretty fabulous. Unfortunately life at home is not as fab as it is on the Square, and I normally would get my therapy (for gender deviance) over skype, but there is no internet in this house yet.

So off I go at 8 in the bloody morning off on a spontaneous adventure! I didn’t even bother to call in to my therapist to tell her I was coming into the City for the entire duration of this little excursion, cuz I like surprises or something. Anywho I went to the train station which is happily right on the other side of the Square from where I live, but the train wouldn’t arrive for another 2 hrs. =(

I read on facebook that a friend of mine who works on the square and was hurt recently (for lifting 50 pound slabs of chocolate more than necessary, she got a herniated disk) would be attempting to go into work today, so I wandered into my favorite bar (it’s a TEA bar) and waited so I could wish her a good day. Unfortunately 930 rolled around and she had yet to show up, so back to the train I went. As it turns out, she did hear of me coming in to wish her a good day, so I unwittingly accomplished my first semi-random act of kindness. Good Karma.

Back to the train station, I got on at 9:45 and got a lovely train ride into Chicago. I got off where I intended to (clybourn) at 10:30, which got me a cool 2 hrs and 20 minutes to make my appointment. Then I pulled up the address on my mobile device and realized I planned to get off at the wrong damn stop.  I meant to get off at Irving Park. -.- Not a big deal I thought, I’ll just walk there. I figure I’ve got some good karma on my plate so a brisk walk can’t hurt. To my dismay after the first 2 miles I checked my phone again and saw I had another 3.5 miles to go.  Well… so much for karma I thought. This is the relative route without revealing where my therapist is if you are curious what the intersections look like: http://goo.gl/maps/pDCtj I managed to walk another 2 miles before my foot was like: “No More!” (i injured it pretty bad last week, I just recently got well enough to stop walking with a cane.) I happened to see a cab just as I was about to give out.  There’s that Karma paying off I said to myself.

The taxi ride was smooth and as the last mile and a half passed by I saw just how utterly impossible the rest of my trek would have been without it, and to my joy the cabbie said the GPS gave him a slightly longer route than he would have liked, so I only got charged half price, though I did give a 20% tip anyways. Good Karma paid off?

My session was fun and that’s all I’ll say on that matter. Although when I arrive my therapist was quite surprised to see me there. By the way, with the long arse walk and the heat and the lack of sidewalks on some parts and the hellish 5-way intersections and the cabbie I made it with 2 whole minutes to spare.

So I started headed home; I took a nice shortcut right around the back of the overpass I didn’t know about and got to the outbound ramp with 3 hrs  til the next train to the Square (I missed the last train by ten minutes, but I doubt I could make it with my therapy schedule). Fortunately there was a train only an hr from my time that would go to the city I used to live, and I figured I could get a ride from my parents. I went and got something to eat locally and got on the train shortly after. A few stops from the end of the line I called my parents.  No response. I called a friend or two and one was busy and one didnt answer. I was hopeless for about 10 minutes and then the friend who didn’t answer called and agreed to take me home from there. 

My friend gets lost kind of easy, but she managed to make it to me just in time for my phone to die (from GPSing a 5 mile walk mostly, it hurts the battery a lot). She also managed to get lost about 4 times around the Square, and we ended up on the wrong way of a busyish one-way street  for a bit, but we corrected it pretty easy without being noticed by any sort of authority figure. Good karma paid off?

We eventually made it to the Square and I had a lovely few hours with my friend.  We went back to the Tea Bar and I learned my friend who works there was indeed having a good day and got my memo, and that her and my friend were old friends. I treated my friend to a fancy drink and fun chat ensued. On this note, all the bartenders/shoppeworkers already like me because I’ve been coming in every day bringing some much needed joy to the Square.

Anywho, my friend went home and I paid my rent, and I returned to the Tea Bar for a drink. I realized later I’m not supposed to drink this week, so that’s good, but I managed 1 drink before realizing. Anywho, as I was ordering my first drink, I overheard some girl mention it was her birthday, so I passed the bartender a note to offer the birthday girl a fancy (and super expensive) truffle of her choosing, but I wished to remain anonymous. The bar staff was so floored by my gesture that they didn’t even charge me for the truffle, but I ended up tipping them the exact amount it would have cost anyways. I wanted to remain anonymous because of a few reasons. 1) I didn’t want to seem like I was flirting. 2) I didn’t want any praise, as doing things solely for praise generates bad karma. and 3) I wanted to enact one completely Random Act of Kindness for the day.

The girl was overjoyed and I’m glad I could bring some mystery to her birthday, even though she outspoke “but I didn’t tell anyone it was my birthday!” and the bartender pointed out “you did mention it earlier, maybe one of our fellow patrons overheard you.” Anywho, I left shortly after they did as I realized I shouldn’t be drinking (it’s a week before major surgery)… and went to an actual bar. Well, I only went to the bar (a hippie tavern) to play one song, to see if I could get away with it. I put on Topographic Ocean, double checked with the owner that that was okay, got a “hell yeah”, and left after the song played through (an hour later).

ANYWHO: MORAL OF THE STORY:

TL;DR:

1. Do good for others and you will be rewarded.

2. Life is an adventure, so live it as much as you can.

3. Push yourself when you can, but don’t push yourself beyond what’s healthy.

4. Never lose hope, it’s right around the corner. You just have to look for it, wave it over, or wait and hope for the best.

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Anchors Away!

So there’s these things I like to call anchors, and I won’t really get into the finer details right now but these anchors serve a few functions. First and foremost, since the anchor is a soulforge, they let me put enchantments on a person that last much longer than simple spells that would otherwise need to be redone and refurbished every couple days or weeks (I only need to refurbish my barrier spells about once every 6 months to 2 years, depending on the barrier). Second, they let me track those individuals within a decent radius of myself if I’m ‘looking’ for them. Third they give me a focal point to travel to when I’m between dimensional planes, a kind of “home is here” point. And lastly there are the side effects…

Since I am connected in part to the anchors I place, I get some backfire from them. If feelings are strong enough those feelings can come back at me. For example one of only two current people with an anchor on them (not counting myself) once got news about something fairly upsetting. So this person whom I have anchored is suffering and the only thing I can do about it is force myself to empathize some of the pain. I started crying randomly and didn’t particularly know why until she texted me. Now I know why; but would I remove the anchor? No, because even though we may be separated due to circumstances, I still care about her, and would do pretty much anything for her. I suppose all I can do for now is take some miniscule % of her pain away.

This was originally posted in 2012. Since then plenty more has happened and I have added an anchor to another person per their request for a strong anti-magic barrier. I honestly don't know the effects of removing an anchor so I just put up with the side effects. One of those side effects also comes from pregnancy and birthing pains.... so that sucks but whatever.

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The Finer Points of Spirit Vs. Soul

Note: This post is about your Spirit, not spirit on the basis of the magick pyramid model.

This is a rather confusing subject, since in many cultures the two are synonyms, and even I slip occasionally calling one the other. One of the major confusions, at least for me, is deciding what to call the force behind a Spirit/Elder Tree (not the wood named elder, mind you). For a simple definition think of it this way:

Spirit = Base to sentient life, indestructible

Soul = Refined Spirit, cannot recess, destructible only under very particular circumstances

In using the example of a Spirit Tree, and the previous post on Elementals and Divines, there seems to be a fine line between the two. While most true Spirit Trees can ‘speak’ (if you know how to listen that is) which gives the idea that a soul is attached, a tree does not actually have a brain to allow for vast memory collection. A brain and heart are the things that refine a spirit into a soul. Even if the soul were to transcend its origin body and merge with a tree, there should not be enough dataspace for the age old wisdom an Elder Tree contains. The only explanations therefor, logically, is that any given Elder Tree is either a living artifact or an avatar, although an avatar makes far less sense if you think about it. This example specifically is to show why there is confusion. As one Elder Tree told me, although it has since been cut down, “I do not have an answer to existence. I am me, that is all.” (that’s the best translation I can give, I’m not going to type out old language).

Now then, for an easier look at the difference, a spirit is a basic planar lifeform. While they lack memory retention or data encoding, they have the potential to become several things. Recall back to the Elemental post one post back, where a spirit can become an Elemental. Now recall many posts back when I described what aura’s are. Recall that the aura of a person reflected their primary and recessive elements as well at their moods? See a similarity? When a spirit merges with a body (such as the technical birth of a human after that human gains a heart and a brain), it gains a more ‘solid’ form, but also retains spirit residue. The reason for this is twofold.

First, a spirit’s merge with a living thing creates a soul. A soul is capable of encoding portions of data alongside the brain, and emotions alongside the heart and brain combination. However that soul keeps hold of some residual spirit, to house the aura of the soul. Think of the birth of a soul much like a seed. The seed contains the potential to become a plant, but only with the right ingredients (water and heat; heart and mind), and then the shell of the seed is not destroyed, and often only partially used. This shell is the residual spirit/aura.

Second, the spirit, as a non-physical planar being, can go on to create new souls should the original body (attachment point) have either of it’s focal points (heart and mind) destroyed. Usually there is a time limit on how long before the soul and spirit detaches, but that is different per body. Anywho, apart from the pseudo-medical interest…. In this way the spirit goes back to being a base spirit, and the soul moves on to wherever it is going. [[In the case of rebirth, a spirit will automatically be placed by a higher divine (a god, demigod, or angel) on a body that is given a reborn soul. Divines have a plan, but I am not at liberty to discuss it further. Just think of it as matchmaking for now.]]

Knowing this, one can see a spirit cannot be destroyed, as it is a base sentient force. Souls however can, as they are much more ‘solid’ at least in the sense that souls don’t pass through planes without a level of experience/active effort. Destroying souls however is nearly impossible for a human, although damage can be done, and usually damage is done to the soul of the person trying to do the damaging. (It’s like, the worst case of karma you’ll ever cross.) Soul shattering is not actual destruction, but the permanent damage done when a mortal attempts this level of magick. That is all I am allowed to say on the subject, but basically put: Don’t try anything you don’t know you can do. Even simple magick can cause soul fractures for a newbie.

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In-Depth: Elementals (Living Elements)

An Elemental, or living element, is a spirit that has taken form with an element. Much like a spirit that takes form with a living body creates a soul, a spirit can also take hold of an element if the element is abundant enough. The way I see this being done is due to spirits’ ability to cross planes willy nilly.

Elemental planes are the origins of the four element, and light and shadow (which I assume is where Shadowbeasts come from). I've been to these planes a few times, other than light and shadow assuming the two void zones are not them. For now, let’s assume the void zones are not element origin planes.

Anywho, in these planes are basically a vast abundance of the primary element associated with it. For example, the plane of water looks like an endless ocean, just without air or with as little as possible. Logically speaking the plane of air would have to be one plane away (although logic doesn’t particularly work with the planar model), and is very, uh, airy. Rather dull. The fire plane looks like an ocean of flames. The earth plane looks more like an ocean of green or brown energies since base elements often lack solidity.

When a spirit travels through a plane such as these, the abundance available can create a body, so to speak, for the spirit to merge with. And thus born is an Elemental.

Now, I was involved in an Eastern Philosophy class in 2012, and one of the things we mentioned was Jainism. During class an example was given using a lighter that flicking it on and off was killing millions of living particles. Based on my understanding of elements, Elementals, and interplanar magick, I would like to argue this example. While the Jain philosophy is correct that putting out a fire could kill flame Elementals, a fire must exist for so long and be so big for an Elemental to use it as a conduit. As far as I am aware Elemental spirits can only pass between planes via an active element in the desired plane. IE a bonfire. Then the Elemental can either planar shift to travel around without people seeing a living flame, or it can “dance” in the fire, a common phenomenon with Elementals (since *most* Elementals are primal, and have little individual thought process, and no need to breed and feed, many are seen simply dancing about).

So to say that every time you flick a lighter is killing Elementals is wrong, however suddenly putting out a bonfire with an opposing element (earth or water in this case) could indeed sever the ‘life’ of any Elementals present.

And even then the spirit itself isn’t killed, only the new being that is the Elemental. The spirit will go back to doing whatever it is base spirits do (which as far as I know is floating around aimlessly between planes).

If the Jains were so concerned with killing any Elemental, then breathing would be a big problem. Air Elementals, or Living Winds, are vastly abundant in this world. Living spirits with a body made of wind, the air Elementals are invisible to men, and exist amongst other winds, dancing along ‘happily’. Breathing would then destroy any wind Elementals that happened to pass by, simply because of the interaction between a primal spirit and a soul’s body (higher forms of spirits could survive the trip, and these are usually malevolent anyways).

Boiling water or even drinking water would be another issue. Elementals tend to prefer locations devoid of human life, and will be more abundant in places like forests and valleys and deserts and so forth. Water Elementals are so proliferative and as far as I know having the smallest body size that they have come to be called River Spirits and Water Sprites (a Sprite is simply a tiny Elemental) by some. Tending to reside in rivers and waterfalls would be a downside with any traveling monks around that didn’t want to use well water. (Well water is often devoid of spirits, but that is not something I’m going to take the time to get into. It’s all really boring until you find a real wishing well.)

Earth Elementals are actually quite resilient, and would be unlikely to be destroyed by humans except in very extreme circumstances. Actually I can’t really fathom a way to kill an Earth elemental since their polar opposite is Air. Even mining with erosive tactics or explosives would be unlikely to do much harm. (if you recall earth trumps fire, so fire cannot trump earth, only alter earth’s form).

As for light and shadow Elementals? I’ve never seen a light Elemental myself, but I have seen and interacted with shadow Elementals… if you can call having them whisper things in the old language ‘interaction’. You would think light would kill a shadow elemental (whom I call shadowbeasts) but I have seen them happily jumping around in the light, although they seem to planar shift shortly after coming into light only to unshift in the shadows. So all in all I think the Jain’s views are morally sound, but practically speaking pretty impossible and slightly overstated on fire’s part.

Edit: I have had experience with light elementals now, they are just extremely hard to see, but they do as you would expect of any other elemental.

Disclaimer: This post looks different on my wordpress page. The wording there was due to some fear of ridicule, but now that I know I’m not alone in these practices and thoughts, I feel more comfortable posting in honesty.

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Terminology of Often Misconceived Words

This post may develop over time, as I think of terms that need input on them, or if people bring up terms that I can source check and verify the need to add.

The reason for this post is because the American-English language, which isn’t even a real individual language anyways, has a lot of misspellings and improper synonyms, either because of fictional overuse of a term (such as wizard and warlock) or because people are simply too lazy and decided to reduce the spelling to be slightly more phonetic (such as magick and manna).

(this list is currently not in alphabetical order. I will work on it more at a later date)

Mage

Manna – this is the proper spelling of mana (used in videogames); a pool of energy that you can use to perform personal magick

Sage – a scholar or teacher of magick and the history thereof, usually keep to themselves

Warlock – a defected or outcast witch

Wizard – English (UK) version of male witches, last recorded officially was Merlin – most practitioners now stick to “witch” regardless of gender

Witch Doctor – African shamanic medicine (wo)man, usually keep to themselves

Witch – cover term for any practitioner of magick practicing under one of the paths that follow the Goddess (pagan paths such as the greek and roman pantheons have different term)

Magick – energy that makes up all aspects of the universe, alternate planes, and spiritual planes

Magic – an improper spelling of magick, so we shall attribute this to what entertainment magicians practice

Magician – professional entertainers using illusions and slide of hand to trick the senses

Magi

Priest/Priestess – one of the rankings of a witch granted by a coven or appointed official of the craft

Druid

Lore – the history of an event

Legend – a story of an event, of questionable truth, often has multiple versions

Myth – often unrealistic account to explain the origin of something; usually lacks truth or overexaggerates

Artifact – an object that holds a Divine’s blessing for use by mortals

Spell – any magick that is attributed to wordweaving or herbology

Rune – specific symbols holding specific magick powers

Tarot – cards that hold telepathic function, often have a soul (fragmented yet whole) of sorts attributed to each deck

Psychic – general usage of magick that involves the brain

Kinetic – ability to move objects

Telepathic – ability to read minds and fortunes (fate lines)

Aura – individual display of magick affiliations designated to a particular soul/body combination

Soul – a spirit that attaches and integrates with a body, holds fragments of memory

Divine – see post on Divines

Mortal – any non-Divine

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Divines - What Are They?

Divine is another blanket term that most people in today’s world only equate to a single thing. Often that single thing is God(s) and Angels. However there are a number of things we must first know to decide what a Divine is. Think of the Divines as part of the taxonomic Domain, which is above Kingdom and below Life (or any living/sentient thing).

In the Domain of the Divine you have many beings ranging from Kingdom all the way down to Species. The tricky part is that some Divines are not exactly living, as they are in spirit form, but they can gain acceptance by being sentient or are able to use an avatar (a physical body designated for use with solid soul movement).

Here are some things you should know about telling if something can be classified as Divine or not. Not all may apply but at least one is generally accepted:

Ability to use solid state magick (for example humans can hold fire element in base state, while a Dragon can call upon fire in a solid state)

Ability to speak in the ‘old language’ (generally understood by most creatures, although some are desensitized to it.)

Ability to move between planes in solid state

Ability to phase shift while moving

Ability to use forbidden magick

Ability to change shape/form

Ability to sway Man without validation (have a charisma level of 100…. best way I can explain that I guess…)

Here is a short list of examples of things in the Divine Domain, although this list much like our own taxonomic lists is far from complete: (items in parenthesis are just examples, not a complete coverage of included groups)

Gods

Demigods

Angels (those who serve under gods/demigods, includes seraph and other winged bipeds. Much like a bogeyman their true form is almost never seen.)

Demons/Daemons (there’s a slight difference but it’s irrelevant atm)

Spiritfolk (some ghosts included, wraiths, Death, shadowbeasts, elementals)

Dragons and Dragonkin

Mythic Equine (unicorns, pegasi, and others)

Chimeric Creatures (mixed animals)

Merfolk

Treants (intelligent plants or spirit plants; usually trees but incidence of shrubbery has been noted)

Faefolk (Fairies, Pixies)

Avatars [different from possession, these are either dormant vessels or temporary physical forms for specific Divines](forest gods, Jesus (while I accept this may be difficult to understand, I am not at liberty to explain why Jesus is included, but I feel it is important to mention him).

Et cetera

There are slight exceptions to the rules governing Divines and non-Divines who seem like they have such power. One such exception is the use of blessed objects called artifacts. Moses’ staff is an example of such an artifact. These objects grant temporary power to those deemed worthy to use them, and often go dormant after their use has been served.

The other exception are Guardians, sometimes called Earth Angels, although their power is often bound or limited much like artifacts. Guardians are people or other animals blessed with one ability or another, be that ability divine knowledge, enhanced capabilities, ascendecism, etc. Some people can gain some knowledge towards divinity and become a guardian in their own right by learning banishment spells for use against demons and ghosts that are being troublesome, although none of the above examples actually make a person a Divine themselves.

Sidenote: I have a friend who claims to be a Bodhisattva. Since it is inevitable that our terminology as humans and philosophers differs, I would attribute this to being a kind of Guardian, although a Guardian by choice rather than divine direction. 

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Magick in the Lives of Man: Everyday Use

And yes that includes women.

Edit: Disclaimer³

So I have covered the basic “what is magick”. Now that you have a vague understanding of that you may want to know some ways to use it. But I came to the realization sometime in 2011 that everyone already does. Whether you are Pagan, Christian, Buddhist, agnostic, or atheist (or any religion/philosophy. If you are a living being.) we are all using tidbits of magick in our everyday lives. The reason for this, and the reason I can still pin it on people of a [religion that claims magick is bad or sinful] is that little snippet about how magick is simply energy. Magick is a bad word. What people equate magick to in this day and age is casting spells, which is more accurately “word weaving” or “spell weaving”.

Magick is a blanket term, wherein the term covers a large array of things related to it, and thus gets a bad rap from religions and cultures that are against spell weaving. What magick is covers the following, in no particular order:

Word/Spell Weaving

Rune Magick (ie rune forging, fortune runes, soul forging¹)

Psychic/Psychokinetic Magick (ie telepathy, tarot, palmistry)

Planar Magick (ie planar shifting, astral projection²)

Spiritual Magick (ie gate crossing)

Herbology/Herbalism

Active Energy Manipulation

Passive Energy Manipulation

or some combination thereof

So the topic for this post is actually just the active and passive forms of energy manipulation. Active energy manipulation means you are aware of it, making a conscious effort to do something, such as summoning and holding a fire element. Passive energy manipulation is the kind that everyone, every living thing, does unconsciously. Breathing for example is the manipulation by our bodies via a system of muscles and organs to let us breath. However we can also actively manipulate that, and several elements are in use (primary fire, primary water for your muscles and blood) (air for the oxygen and carbon dioxide transitions). So knowing that our bodies are energy, and the functions of our parts use energy, we are all effectively using “magick” or at least a small part of it.

The nice thing about knowing what elements are at play, and a bit of knowledge on the structure of your body, you can actually use active energy manipulation to gain some effects. The only one I’m going to talk about at this time is using magick to increase muscle… feedback. For some of us, our body type (somatotype) makes it hard to gain muscle mass, even through exercise and proper diet [ectomorph]. For others it is extremely easy [mesomorph]. I am the kind of person who’s body type is ectomorphic, so I need to find an alternate way to keep up with my MMA training. I am also on female hormones so that adds more disadvantage to my muscle mass and maintainability.

So given my general disadvantages (which are ectomorphic somatotype, transgender changes, and also an unspecified ligament disorder; what can I do? A few years ago I was playing with the element electricity (second level fire) and started thinking about it’s most viable uses. Up to that point the uses in my repertoire were creating a fuzzton of static electricity, and subsequently getting shocked by every metal thing ever. Fun times, I’m better at controlling it now and not getting shocked often. Anywho… I figured out that by using the available electric current already in use by my muscles and nerves in the process of everyday movement, that intentional amplification of those currents increased mobility, strength, and feedback. Feedback is a more accurate term for resistance and stamina.

The process first involves knowing the paths of your energy in both physical activity and normal chakratic flow. Then, once you figure out how to actually use electric elements, you can do one of two things: electric pulse, which increases feedback for a short time OR electric flow which increases strength and mobility for a short time. This isn’t really a how-to per say, mostly for the reason that the best way for me to demonstrate it would be make a flash video, and I know nothing of flash software. XD If you understand it and can visualize what I said, more power to ya, quite literally. =)

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1. This is basically the same as runeforging but imprints the spellwork directly onto the soul of a person. It is extremely dangerous magick and I would not recommend anyone even try it without a vast theoretical and practical understanding of it. You do not want to know what soul shattering is.

2. This can also be argued as primarily psychic magick, but my experiences with diving (partial soul movement) and jumping (solid soul movement) would say otherwise.

3. For those who have been told magick is bad, in any form, or that a devil’s pact must be made to use it; this is untrue in most regards. Yes a person can choose to let themselves to darkness, but this is true of any power. Money for example. A person can choose either to do good or evil with money. That decision is left up to a person’s morals. As for devil’s pacts, I will cover that more at a later point. For now however I will say powers such as levitating objects and summoning solid elements is strictly an ability of higher Divines. No matter what a demon [of darkness] may trick a human into believing such control of energy can never be achieved by a human, as it would destroy our physical bodies.

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Magick: How It Works (Part 2)

This post only has direct links because I feel strongly that you need to read part 1 before reading part 2.

http://vaserati.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/magick-how-it-works-part-1/

Click here if you read part 1 already

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Magick: How It Works (Part 1)

This one will definitely need pictures, but at this time I have not yet decided the best way to go about that.

What is magick? Magick is for the most part energy, in one form or another. Standard and basic magickal practices call upon 4 primary elements, life energy, and spirit energy.

The elements are fairly self explanatory. It is the force of the inanimate non-living things in the world(or universe, but I’m rather too lazy to name that many examples), and giving residual energy from their bases to the living things that rely on them to survive. The elements, therefor, or best described as the non-living environment.

Secondary elements, as briefly named in an earlier post, are the more complex versions of the primary elements. For example, electricity and fire may seem different, but electricity is simply a more complex version of fire. Similarly gravity is a more complex version of earth (let it be known that referring to earth we are referring to dirt and rocks and such, not the name of our planet) energy, reliant on the core of the Earth (for ease I’m really just going to stick to Earthen examples). [Thought Provoker: Why do you think the core, exuding gravity, is more earth energy than fire?] Sound is a more complex version of air, and can be useful in practice. I personally use competing sounds to keep my hearing at a normal level, or increase it if need be. It can also be used to tone down the annoying high pitched noises you sometimes hear, although this takes more concentration than is really beneficial. The 2nd level of water is not something I wish to go into at this time.

The elements and their progressed versions are commonly attributed to the directions of a compass. North, South, East, and West. Some debate comes up between different pagan paths as to which direction is which element, and that is actually perfectly okay if you think about how the energies are universal and the universe doesn’t particularly have directions off individual planets. My best explanation to the directional dispute is the knowledge of material abundance in any given hemisphere at the time of creation/teaching of that path. I say so because many of the places that didn’t know about anywhere besides where they lived left the elements up to life and spirit domain. Which actually isn't too far off, since they are connected to the elements anyways.

Now then, imagine a pyramid (will provide picture later). There are four corners at ground level. Let each of these four corners represent Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. Now look to the top of the pyramid. This 5th corner is Spirit, rising high above the four basics, as well as above Life energy, in a sense. Now on the inside of the pyramid, where the king and queen reside, is the massive abundance that is life energy. I chose the example of a pyramid for more reasons that will become clear shortly, but the material used to build the pyramid is of some use now. You may have been wondering if I would cover how magic is vastly herbology in today’s society. Well, that is true, but only because those plants are a combination of elemental energy and life energy. But there are so many vastly different plants, what is the difference? This is where the building material comes into play. Each block, although they may look the same, is unique. There are millions of blocks. Each block, in pertinence to life energy, is an individual signature. And each signature combined with the elements has a specific use, as well as common uses. This is what makes herbology a desired trade. It is sometimes very simple, but overall vastly complex. I may refer to something as having a life signature. Plants and animals each have a different signature. Fortunately these signatures tend to be able to be categorized, and conveniently taxonomy already exists. The only real use for familiarizing yourself with signatures is to detect certain plant and animal types, otherwise the closer you get to single species the harder it is to identify just on senses. Individual people may be detected using a combination of signature detection and aura familiarization, but that is another topic for another day.

Anywho, Spirit, as I was saying, is above the 4 elements and also above life. But to truly combine all of the elements and life would make… what? Spirit is essentially energy used to hold souls to this world. Souls, auras, and divines. Divines is a completely different topic, so we shall avoid it for now. Souls are what give us personality, and in conjunction with our physical brain, a much greater capacity for memory. So, souls can and do hold onto some amount of memory, but without a direct line to the brain the limit is greatly reduced. This is why when a soul does manage to journey from one life to the next, the person often has little to no recollection of their last life, and if so usually just very important things. Or tragic things, such as how their last life ended. This is one good explanation for why many tales of moving on to the divine lands mentions that you will not be permitted to take anything with you, including gender and memory. A brain is much like an external hard drive. It’s a lot bigger than what you come equipped with, and you can’t take it with you. So what use does spirit have in magick? Astral projection is the main use, and will again be saved for another topic. (Spirit magick and your spirit are two very different things, so I apologize for any confusion)

Auras on the other hand, hold a great deal of use. An aura has a signature much like life energy, even though auras rely mostly on spiritual energy. Many people refer to auras as elemental. An aura is both, actually. Think of an aura as a bubble. The bubble uses air (in this case Spirit) as its base, but the liquid the bubble shows to the public eye can be just about anything, assuming it has the right consistency for the size. The liquid in this case are the elements. And the public eye, that is the “color” of your aura. Aura elements most often coincide with your individual primary and recessive elements, and may show just what ratio you have. It can be much harder to see the recessive elements in a person’s aura without a deal of practice reading/looking at things in the spiritual plane, but really, you shouldn’t need to anyways. Color seems to relate to a person’s individual signature as well as their current mood. I don’t really look at colors though,so I’m not going to bother theorizing on them much.

Right! So! We have seen the top half of the pyramid, the part that common tourists can visit. What’s that you say? Top half I say? Damn straight. What you think it was going to be easy? Ahahahaha. Nope.

(I have broken this into two posts because the second half is an advanced guide while this half is a beginner’s guide.)

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A Thought in Theory: Hammerspace

Hammerspace, or pocket dimensions, were called into existence by the wonderful world of anime. Most people don’t even bother to come up with a reasonable explanation for it, or pawn it off to quantum looping (portals) with no other explanation. I came up with a legitimate, although improbable solution to the creation and use of hammerspace.

First, you are going to need an extremely high level of knowledge and understanding of planar magick, including planar shifting. Secondly you will need a high degree working understanding of barrier spells. Here’s what I came up with:

Take a weapon, whatever you desire, and place that weapon in a void zone (preferably one you can actually see stuff in). Now create a barrier that acts as a transplanar conduit (so that neither plane outside the barrier is affected by what is inside the barrier unless it is physical and can pass through the barrier). Now take a small black hole and a white hole of equal size and place them back to back (much like an Othello piece) in the middle of the transplanar barrier.

From there all you have to do is move the bubble barrier in between this plane and the void plane and slide the black hole along the object so that it comes out of the white hole in this plane, and as it passes through the transplanar barrier it would materialize in whole safely in this dimension.

Problems being I’m pretty sure the control of black and white holes lies in the realm of divine magick and there’s no way a human could ever ever pull it off. Still, it’s fun to think about.

Edit: In response to “quantum singularity would destroy the object”: Think of the black and white holes as a binary singularity, wherein they are placed so close together to not give space to destroy the object, and the barrier would be small enough to disallow for the extreme gravitational field normally associated with the black hole, or the antigravity field associated with the white hole. So yes, hammerspace will inevitably be left to quantum looping, but at least I gave an explanation of how so.

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Beginner’s Guide to Energy Manipulation

Disclaimer: Every teacher has a different method to advising about energy and how to use it. My path of advice is for people who want an in depth knowledge of one’s self and everything else.

Energy comes in many forms. There is primary magick, secondary magick,  tertiary magick, and forbidden magick.

Energy is primarily elemental, but also comes in the forms of spiritual, life-force, and divine. ‘Gate’ (not the divine-land gates, mind you) and rune magick is another form I may get into someday.

Here is a brief intro to primary and secondary elementals (these will be restated in a future post explaining planar magick):

Fire | Electricity

Earth | Gravity

Air | Sound (sound may actually be tertiary, as I believe I may be neglecting to recall the secondary)

Water | ???

On to the serious matters:

The most important thing to know about energy control is knowing your own energies. If you read my other post [If you haven’t, READ IT] you probably felt circulation within your body once you started getting into the trance phase. If you didn't, don't worry, it might be a little hard to notice.

Step 1: Practice meditation until you feel your energy. It often feels like a tingling, or a flowing, and can make it feel like your external/internal temperature has changed. (Don’t worry, if you don’t try to manipulate it right away, the temperature change is not a bad thing.) Once you have felt your energy, focus internally on your flow. Become familiar with the flow through your arms, your body, your legs; every limb and every digit and every nerve. Feel the flow in your neck, up to your mind. Feel the flow over your skin (if you have an external flow for you power-hoarders).

Step 2: Now that you have felt your own energies, you need to familiarize yourself with the energies surrounding you. Go to a forest or a prairie, meditate and feel the energies of the life surrounding you. Listen to everything, cherish the feelings of wind, open yourself. If that doesn’t work, hug a tree. No, I’m not kidding. Go hug a tree and feel its energy. Depending on the tree it might be very hard to notice or blatantly obvious. Please do not go feel other people yet. It will only confuse you. That is an entire other topic which I will get into when I feel like it.

Step 3: Now that you are familiar with your own and roughly everything else’s energies, you can start playing with your own energy. Enter your meditative state (again, this is for beginners, when you are skilled in this field you don’t need to meditate) and find your flow again. Feel the entire flow, not just parts of it. Try to collect small amounts of your energy in your fingertips or your palms (fingertips are easier to feel, just sayin’). DO NOT STOP THE FLOW. DO NOT FORCE YOUR ENERGY. Forcing your energies to do things without familiarization with the practice will drain, expend, or waste your own energy. Call me a conservative but I hate when people waste energy.

Step 4: Once you can collect energy from your flow into your hands you can start to play with it externally. For beginners I strongly suggest using both hands. Hold your hands together, cupped, with your fingertips about an inch apart. Try to feel the heat that is created by the energy wanting to connect back into a flow (energy likes to be in movement, go read a physics book). Now once you have that flow externalized you can spread and move your hands. Start slowly, you don’t want to break the flow, especially when you are a newbie and are expending more energy than you should be, although without harming yourself. (It can take a little while to control the draw amount.)

Before you end make sure you take your energy back into your normal flow.

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Beginner’s Meditation

Meditation as is projected by the media and fiction/movies is usually when someone removes themselves completely from the world around them, not feeling, not hearing, without sight, and without thought. Some people suggest you contort your body into something seemingly painful and try to remove yourself from the pain through focus.

It is my understanding that this is a great stretch on what meditation and the practice thereof actually is. When meditating, you want to be comfortable; not stressed. If you don’t feel comfortable sitting Indian style (or in my case kneeling with your feet tucked behind), lie down in a way that feels relaxing. Relaxation is the first step to finding calm. Next, regulate your breathing. Chanting may help you achieve rhythm, although I personally find it distracting because it’s just an extra thought process. Multitasking while beginning meditation can make it more difficult. Inhale, hold, exhale, slow it down, inhale, hold, exhale, slow it down. Again, start easy. Don’t try to reduce breathing to 10 breaths a minute your very first day. Many people I have met who practice regulatory breathing slow it to anywhere between 12 and 4 (yes 4) BPM. Take your time and only go that low when you know your body and your mind are comfortable with it. The next step is to “free your mind”. Freeing your mind doesn’t necessarily mean you need to stop thinking, feeling, smelling, and hearing. Freedom in this sense is freedom from worry, from torment, and other emotions. Sadness, happiness, anger, distrust, paranoia; all should be relieved without requiring removal of the senses. Your senses in fact may be the key to freedom.

– Lighting incense uses your sense of smell. – Putting on calming (not to be confused with relaxing lest you fall asleep; which is not our goal) music without any words (or with chanting so you don’t have to) uses the sense of hearing. – Wrapping up in comfortable clothes, or wearing nothing at all, uses the sense of touch.

A common question: Can I use sight to help me find my calm, my center? Can I use multiple senses without it being to distracting?

Yes. One such way is to remove yourself literally from your current scene. Go somewhere peaceful, with very little activity or intervention possibility. One such idea is a nature preserve, of which McHenry County has several good ones I can suggest. You can focus your sense of smell, sight, sound, and even touch (by the sun and the breeze, or the rain if you find rain calming and can deal with sitting in it for long periods) to give you a sense of calm and relaxation.

What if I can’t leave my current scene? I’m stuck at home and have no car, or it’s past curfew, or the nature preserve is closed, or it’s too cold because wherever I live has no sense of seasons, et cetera and so forth.

When you are in the need to meditate and you are stuck at home, and have difficulty with uninvolved meditation, the best bet is to find something which you can do for 15 or more minutes, without interruption, that helps you relax. Take making sauce for example. While at first it is an involved process, making sauce has one great advantage for cooks in that you can’t overcook it with low heat, giving you all the time in the world. First off, the smell should give you your first feeling of calm, even during the pre-meditation phase while you are gathering and adding ingredients. Second, once all the ingredients are together, turn the heat to low, and stir gently. Circles are important in all magick, as far as I know, and also are great for relaxation. The swirling motion of your arm, the deep aroma of the sauce, the swirls and ripples in the sauce as you stir relax the sense of sight, the low heat tickling your sense of touch. All this can be amazing for finding your center and offering.

That is just one suggestion of many possibilities. 

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Introduction about myself

This blog will exist mostly for myself and other practitioners of magick aka energy manipulation. Most of my magickal study is in the subject of energy manipulation, although I have experience in advanced barrier spells, healing arts, and planar alteration. I always start with theory and then move to practice after considerable thought on the subject. I practice meditation, energy exercises, chakratic alignment exercises, and delve into current theory work EVERY DAY. I will post tutorials on simpler subjects occasionally (such as meditation and beginners manipulation) but will only rarely post about anything above second level magicks.

In the wordpress copy of this blog I also post highly graded school work in the fields of Philosophy and Psychology. One of those is so highly viewed I had to put a disclaimer on it warning against plagiarism.

Some things to know about me:

Real name: Draga “Pinky” C. (I had my legal name changed to match my past life’s name. Draga was a nickname I had, but figured it would be best for use as a first name since nobody wants to pronounce Vaserati, which is now my middle name. I kept my last name as it has been in this life out of respect for family and so I wouldn't have to learn a new signature.

Diagnosed ‘Illnesses': Asperger’s Autism (mild) [[I only mention this because I have seen doctors about magickal issues and none of them believe schizophrenia or other mental illnesses are at play]], Prosopognosia (face blindness)

Magickal name: Vaserati (a name from a past life, not a ripoff of Maserati)

Age: 27 (+24 PL)

Pathwork: Practicing 2nd level base magicks, Gate magicks, and Planar magicks, Theoretical work in tertiary level magick.

Belief System: I believe in a system of Gods and Goddesses, Lessers, and Divines that are based on region, each with their own ruling god and “employees” for lack of a better word. IE Universal > Galactic > Planetary > Continents and Seas > Landmasses (usually separated by great rivers or mountains) > Taskforces (ie Animals, Humans (despite being animals, cuz we need special care), Spirits, Plants, Rocks. In other words I accept most religions probably exist, but the words of man have probably skewed them beyond recognition other than their titles and base values.

Experience (this life): Starting age 8. 16 years solo practitioner, 1 year group. I’d like to become a soldier again someday but my current physical state won't allow it. Maybe after I'm done converting to a woman I'll apply for the National Guard.

Experience (past life): I was a soldier and magick was used quite a bit, so it’s a nice head start with knowledge for this life, although I am bound from using a lot of the things I once could.

Degrees: Associate’s in General Education, working on Bachelor’s in Philosophy and Certificate in Japanese Language

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Website? Tumblr? Wordpress?

Well, I have a wordpress account, but I feel like even with the views I get there that wordpress is simply outdated. I really want to get a website, but in the last month or so some jerk took the website name I wanted, so now I have to make some money to buy it. So, I’m going to “rip” my postings from my wordpress and put them here. The relevant ones at least. Some of them are top searches on google though, so I’ll let the wordpress page live and when I post new stuff here I will post it there as well. When and if I ever get my website, I will post that here too.

Anywho, the first few posts are gonna be a major influx, so don’t expect this blog to be updated super often. But if you like my stuff follow me anyways and just check my url once in a blue moon for new posts. =)