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Great pdf on meditation

See where you are and what needs to be done.

Consider Ramsey Duke’s SSOTBME mandatory reading.

Contemplation - How to use a journal to generate your own insights about reality without relying on any external sources like books, videos, or gurus. The Ul...

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I have had The Direct Means to Eternal Bliss by Michael Langford on my bedside table for the last month and a half. This book is the original source of the Awareness Watching Awareness method as it…

#awareness #awareness watching awareness

by Swami Vivekananda.

An interesting book that if I didn’t know any better would think Bardon read and copied many ideas. Bardon would never do such a thing though...right? Read both and compare.

Point of note, at one point he describes concentration on the “tip of the nose” this occurs a lot in some Eastern texts. What is really called for is concentration on the point between the eyebrows or classically The Third Eye.

#raja yoga #swami vivekanda #concentration #jhana

by Erwin Hessle

A deep dive into what Crowley *really* meant when he spoke on the Holy Guardian Angel.

#erwin hessle #holy guardian angel

Super Consiousness: The Quest for the Peak Experience - Kindle edition by Colin Wilson. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Super Consiousness: The Quest for the Peak Experience.

A really short, but good read on magickal consciousness. I think this book is useful in getting a different perspective than typical magick books in that it really digs into the experience of it and shows many examples through history of what it was like. You can think of this book as another way to think about the magickal self or the HGA.

#colin wilson #super consciousness #right brain

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PDF of a more in-depth write up on Kasina practice.

#kasina #meditation #magick #power

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Kasina

I am going to describe my experience with a practice called Kasina. I am not going to break down every aspect of this practice, you can google that. This practice is amazing for skrying, visionary work and developing psychic power. If you decide to practice this work I definitely recommend reading Mastering the Core Teachings of The Buddha by Daniel Ingram. Not to become a Buddhist, but to learn the amazing collection of techs available in Buddhism. They spent a couple thousand years learning how to hack the brain so you may find something useful. Yes the language is different and can be confusing and that is why I recommend Ingram’s book. It is done by a western mind and written in that perspective. If at any point during this little guide you don’t understand what I am talking about it can be found in Ingram’s book. It’s free. Read it.

I will describe two ways to do this. The terrible way and the real way.

First the terrible.

Set up a candle in a dark room like this:

This was done in my living room with my dog crawling around and whining because he wanted attention. I was distracted and often did this practice while talking or petting him. I figured because of this I should focus more on insight practice. I would observe the movement of the flame for varying amounts of time and once I noticed that the image was burnt into my eye I would shut my eyes and observe the visual details of the afterimage in as much fine detail as possible. I tried different ways of focusing on the flame and the afterimage. The worst possible way to do it is a laser like focus on the flame and afterimage. So you would begin to get a strained tunnel vision like focus on the flame, you begin squinting. Then the afterimage may start out brilliantly but dance around and get lost quickly. I found the longest I could hold the afterimage this way was between 4-6 minutes. The afterimage was still bright and vivid and maybe could begin morphing into various shapes that would look like a blue space like the sky with a brilliant point, ruby red third eyes surrounded by a blue-green aura, a red-white sphere, a comet, a brilliant glowing orb with white runic letters written on it, a planet with a ring, a reddish ball that shifts into a blue ball, then into purple black ball and then it would blink in and out. I found for best results in this terrible practice one should view the flame for about a minute. Now, you may be saying “J! You saw some cool visuals, how is this a terrible?” Because what is possible with this tech! If you do the above or get the results described above you are barely scratching the thinnest surface.

I actually still recommend doing it this way to see how much detail and resolution you can gain get on the afterimage. You may surprise yourself at how pixelated your vision will be with the colors. It will be like watching an 8 bit psychedelic video game figure morphing into different things, but on the back of your eye lids.

The (OH SHIT WAS THAT GOD) real way

I set up my altar in the way I have it for meditation practice

You don’t have to set it up this way, just get some things that are meaningful to you. You are not doing a ritual or anything you are just getting your right brain in the mood. If doing a ritual gets you in the mood, then do one. Not required.

If you want the practice to be the most successful keep the following things in mind:

Keep a relaxed wide view. You are not focused like a laser visually on the flame, Your mental focus is the flame, not the visual focus. If you find yourself zooming in and the surroundings fade out, zoom back out to wide view. This may sound weird but imagine ALL sensations even body sensations are playing on a screen in front of your awareness. You are behind it all observing the total. That may help, it may not but try to get into that mode of thinking. The important part is the wide view. Wide view activates the right brain. Once you have this relaxed wide view then begin.

Keeping the relaxed wide view, on the in breath *mentally” not visually zoom in on the flame. On the out breath relax that mental zoom to wide view. You are “holding” the flame mentally, not visually. Try out a few different ways and you will get it. keep flowing between an expansion and contraction. O/o. This may be the hardest part. Relaxed visual focus, flowing mental focus between flame and wider experience. Like waves of attention but always keeping the flame in the center. It is a gentle balance. Too much laser like focus will not bring the best results (you will still get pretty cool results) You will want to keep your eyes open for at least a minute. Don’t worry about blinking, just be natural. This isn’t a staring contest, in fact if you notice *any* strain, relax it.

Now for the afterimage! This is where a key concept of insight meditation will bring you results. The basic concept of insight meditation is that you can only know something/anything through the experience of the sensations of that thing. Once you get that into your mental programming and add the the idea that to have a successful magickal result one must imagine the desired result “As If” it were occurring right now you will be well on your way. That is why we are so focused on activating the right brain, we want to go with the flow, experience everything in that dream like “as if” and save the rational, analyzing left brain for after the experience and our journals. If you have experience with the hypnagogic state it’s the same thing but on steroids.

You will keep that same relaxed flowing expansive and contractive experience with the eyes closed. So on the relaxed slow inhale you will gently zoom in on where ever that afterimage is and all the sensations you can experience in relation to that experience and on the slow relaxed out-breath you will gently expand out to your full experience of all sensations related to NOW and being. Focus is on bright afterimage while keeping relaxed awareness on all possible sensations.

Get ready for some amazing experiences once you get this right. If you accept that whatever sensations you experience are reality then you are about to blast off into realms of bliss. In fact, this is probably the easiest way to achieve Jhana.

Now for the tricky part which is just going to take time and experimentation. You are going to get some insane visuals and blissful feelings, and I want you to just ride it out at first. Just experience and try not to exert control over it. You are not skrying aethyrs or going speak with ancestors or having a jam session with Apollo, you can do those things with this, but I want you to just try to experience the waves of bliss and the visuals for what they are. ALLOW. Let the waves and colors and sensations do as they please without your effort or interpretations. If you see gods and angels appear and bless you don’t interact, if the universe burns away and you are left sitting in a paradise don’t jump up and taste the fruit just yet. Let the experiences just roll through you, taste the bliss but do not grasp, command, demand, influence or direct in anyway. In time you definitely can if you want! I just want you to see what CAN be if you allow it to happen. If that takes weeks, months or years that’s up to you and your goals. I highly recommend researching the different jhanas though as this will be quite insightful.

To bring this into the practical realm, you would first do a magickal ritual to direct your intent and then use this method to skry or as a means of gnosis to produce a magickal change. So, for an evocation you would set up everything, banish, purify, make your calls inside a circle and keep the flame in the triangle and then perform the kasina. You would then allow the afterimage to morph and grow into the angel. For sigil magick one could have the basic intent of power, success, bliss for any operation, perform the kasina, let the afterimage do its thing and once you enter this glowing relaxed equanimity state where it feels like everything is as it is, all is fine THEN create the sigil in that space and release it. Trust me on that one!

That’s it! Hope this helps! Good magick to you!

#kasina

Shinzen continues with the metaphor of the CRT monitor, looking at white on the surface with a magnifying glass, and noticing how white dissolves and red, gr...

Great overview of insight meditation. Also if you pay attention you will see him mention the 4 hermetic elements. Feel, Image, Talk and what they occur in.

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Part 2 in Training

I will just make a post of resources you should look to in developing your skills in meditation, concentration and magick.

First I recommend cover to cover at least twice Daniel Ingram book and if you have not watched a ton of Shinzen Young videos by now do so. Especially anything about Flow, expansion and contraction and his noting techniques.

http://integrateddaniel.info/book/

Once you have those concepts and ideas well established go next to Reichian Therapy for Home Use, here:

http://lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/ReichTherapyForHomeUse/ReichTherapyForHomeUse.pdf

If that is not your “style” then I recommend going the Wim Hoff Method, spend the cash and get the videos if you can’t get them online for free. It is very close to the Reichian stuff anyway. It is more geared towards entering altered states though. If both don’t sound like your style go for David Lee’s Life Force book, link is further below.

After glowing from the high of working that begin The Mind Illuminated which will show you how to dig deeper into the experience that body work provided

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrating-Mindfulness/dp/1501156985/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

That will keep you busy for quite some time and it will teach you everything you really need to become enlightened, become one with god, find the Yogic True self, raise kundalini, whatever. This work really covers everything Bardon was trying to accomplish in Initiation into Hermetics. What is step 10 but Jhana on the idea of the 4 fundamental divine attributes? The elements in the body is a bit of insight training. You are learning the same things but in a different modality that may be a lot easier in m opinion.

If your goals are less spiritually inclined and more focused on magick I recommend the following after you have put in some hardcore work on the above stuff for at least a couple years.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0089XD7C8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34628687-life-force

Life Force is great for Spiritual or magickal work and is another option besides Wim Hoff and Reichian work.

This is good for insight and magickal training

http://www.innerworlddesigns.com/circle/book12/pdf/Robert%20Bruce%20-%20New%20Energy%20Ways.pdf

You should also read, think on and experiment with the ideas presented here:

http://integrateddaniel.info/magick-and-the-brahma-viharas/

On to things like kabbalah, alphabet of desire, mantras and spells which is the work I would consider once all the above is well understood and you have an experiential understanding of and not before.

I recommend creating an alphabet of Desire, but built on natural language structures. If you read three steps to heaven (which is a good simple overview of everything in this post or what it tries to give in greater detail) you should have those skills down. Everything you need to know about sigil magick is easily available on the web in many sources, just pick one. I do recommend trying to understand Austin Spare essential method which was basically a jhana practice. If you doubt that get familiar with his essential method of firing them off and then read about jhana’s and magick in Ingram’s book and tell me they were not hitting on the same essential process. Spare got stuck in a dark night episode and never got out.

Ars vercanus is a good book to mine for magick tech in a practical way.

As for how to make the alphabet I recommend you just base them on the primal ideas found within the sounds themselves which you will see here, under the section: mystical letter meanings:

http://www.trismegistos.com/

or begin work on Bardon’s key to the True Kabbalah and mine it for tech which is now usable to you.

Once you have that built and have consistently gotten results with your concentration skills and a letter shape and sound that holds meaning and intent and now you have also had insight training to feel those energetic sensations constantly, you can now insert those letters into the energetic flow and have them manifest.

Once confidence in all of this is had I recommend branching out into other fields, take the skills you have acquired into those practices. I think Enochian is a great system as DuQuette puts it forth, here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0070YFOKK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

That will give you insight into the higher realms which should link up nicely with the skills you have attained so far. If that seems too daunting I recommend going to The 7 Olympian planetary spirits of the Arbatel, or the corresponding archangels if you are more comfortable with that. You can of course by now focus on the energetic thought sensation that belongs to the sphere and the sigil and connect your experience to that sphere and spirit using your concentration and insight practice through jhana meditation.

I only recommend some sphere work or plane rising to show that it is the exact same thing insight meditation and jhana provide just from a different world view, using ritual. Once you see that both are really the same practices that grant the same boons, bliss or ecstasy and have the same potential follies. You will have a greater understanding of systems and so can help others across systems. If you don’t want to put in the extra work of magick ritual that is fine, I just want it out there that they both lead to the same place. Which if you have not worked both ways you would not see it. I was dumb, I worked it both ways. It is the same. We are all plugging into the same outlet. Find the outlet and plug into it. Insight meditation and concentration meditation as described in Ingram’s book are all you really NEED to do to get there. Once you are highly skilled and have achieved a few fruitions I recommend Do-Nothing meditation as your daily “hygine” found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ6cdIaUZCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4yipKfO8nA

http://www.personalpowermeditation.com/nondirective-meditation-the-only-show-in-town/

with any magickal needs that come up taken care of like this:

http://www.personalpowermeditation.com/the-basics-of-magick/

http://integrateddaniel.info/magick-and-the-brahma-viharas/

If you were under my personal care as a student these are the things I would point you to as how I got where I am. It was a much longer winding route but this is the best stuff I could point you to. If after all that you came to me asking about Goetia or grimoire work then I would just send you to the texts and to work as described but taking all of your concentration and insight skills into that work. I know many other people who start with that stuff and get great results and get what they desire, or find failure. I am just an old fuddy-duddy who if you were in my care would not touch that stuff until you have your HGA or True-Self and have crossed the abyss or have achieved fruition. Just how I do it, so if you were looking for my personal advice that is it, YMMV and I respect and honor that.

Beyond all of this I recommend two books by Dr. Kripal which are The Super Natural and Secret Body. Both should be read and digested.

Good luck and good magick!

#part two #jbsmagickalsystem

Shinzen talks about the dynamic aspect of phenomena called "flow" (aniccha) and speaks to some questions that people asked him during this particular group p...

Very important to understand and work with in this system

#flow