Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 1. OTO is first and foremost a fraternity I’m not sure how many people fully realize this before they join. I had always heard the offers to help and seen Brethren help each other out in many beautiful ways. It wasn’t until I was in...
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Introduction How does recovery from alcohol or other addictions work in a Thelemic context? At one point, I worked as a counselor in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center that functioned based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Many different people, including Thelemites, often balk...
Introduction
How does recovery from alcohol or other addictions work in a Thelemic context?
At one point, I worked as a counselor in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center that functioned based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Many different people, including Thelemites, often balk at the aspects of the 12 Steps that involve giving up one’s power and/or the “God stuff”. In the process of working in this setting, I came up with a “Thelemic version” of the 12 Steps.
This is not offered as medical advice, nor is it offered as a perfect system. It is merely offered for contemplation, and especially for any who are in the process of recovery and might find this helpful.
Step 1
I found that following out the desires, wishes, and whims of my conscious self (ego) left me living a life with diminished purpose, less meaning, less fulfillment, and/or lack of wholeness.
Step 2
I came to realize that there is a source of greater wisdom and power than my ego, the True Will, that can bring my life to a place of increased purpose, meaning, fulfillment, and wholeness.
Step 3
I made a conscious and resolute decision to seek to progressively and more completely know and accomplish this True Will as I understand it.
Step 4
I made a searching and fearless inventory of my environment, of others, and especially of myself to find the ways this True Will is being both aided and inhibited in various ways.
Step 5
I honestly explained the exact nature of these aids and inhibitions of my True Will to myself, to my deeper Self with its True Will, and to another human being.
Step 6
I became entirely ready and earnestly committed myself to rooting out all these inhibitions and strengthening all these aids to the accomplishment of my True Will.
Step 7
I humbly asked my deeper Self, in whatever ways seemed genuine and earnest to me, to aid me in the rooting-out of inhibitions and strengthening of aids to the accomplishment of my True Will.
Step 8
I made a list of all persons I had harmed with my previous ways and all persons that I felt had harmed me in the past, and I became willing to make amends to those I had harmed and to forgive those who had harmed me.
Step 9
I directly made amends and gave forgiveness to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure myself, them, or anyone else.
Step 10
I continued to take an inventory of the ways in which my environment, others, and especially myself inhibit and aid the accomplishment of my True Will, and I promptly admitted to myself (and others when appropriate) when I was acting out of selfish desires, wishes, and whims of the ego rather than a desire to more fully know and actualize my True Will.
Step 11
I sought through meditation, ritual, prayer, and other means I found suitable to improve my conscious contact with my True Will as I understood it, asking only for knowledge of this True Will and the power to carry it out.
Step 12
Having progressively come through various struggles and awakenings to re-align myself from self-will to True Will, I tried to carry this message to others I found struggling, and to practice these principles in all of my affairs/in all parts of my life.
Caity and Dan are joined by writer and co-creator of the Speech In The Silence podcast IAO131 for an interesting chat around the topic of scientific illuminism. We talk about what scientific illuminism is, Thelema and how it differs from other spiritual traditions, Aleister Crowley, mysticism, the reason for drama in ritual, meditation, the importance of keeping a diary for spiritual work, increasing control of the mind, developing ourselves and our view on the 'self-help' industry and the modern culture of quick fixes. We talk about how religion and science can co-exist, looking inside yourself for spiritual illumination as opposed to some external force, winding up Jehovah's Witnesses and the difficulty of relating experiential knowledge to someone who hasn't has the same experiences. We finish by asking the question of if you should undergo psychotherapy before or while you're embarking on spiritual work and what the benefits are.
About a year ago, I was interviewed as part of the “Greening Out Podcast” which mysteriously disappeared into the aether shortly after recording… Magically, a copy of the podcast interview has resurfaced and is now available for your listening pleasure!
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 1. OTO is first and foremost a fraternity I’m not sure how many people fully realize this before they join. I had always heard the offers to help and seen Brethren help each other out in many beautiful ways. It wasn’t until I was in...
A Gestalt of the Goal of the Magical and Mystical Path Yoga constitutes one of two central pillars in the system of practical and spiritual attainment encompassed by the Law of Thelema—the other pillar of course being Magick. From his exposure to Yoga, Crowley took what he thought were its valuable and essential elements, simplifying...
“ Yoga constitutes one of two central pillars in the system of practical and spiritual attainment encompassed by the Law of Thelema—the other pillar of course being Magick. From his exposure to Yoga, Crowley took what he thought were its valuable and essential elements, simplifying them and linking then to his doctrine of Magick. The two, Yoga and Magick, taken together, although apparently opposed in method, are intended to converge on the same final goal—Magick, in Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and Yoga, in Samadhi; which, as we will see, Crowley saw as terms reflective of, if not the same, at least similar, mystical phenomenon... “
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