#possessionposting

[cultkinkcoven]

Been playing around with making holy water with the sub more

Works really well. Feeling the vibes from his enn move through the floor is very cool. Consuming the water helps a lot with possession.

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Invocation and Godform Assumption

Shadow Magick Compendium: Exploring Darker Aspects of Magickal Spirituality - Raven Digitalis

"Invocation refers to the act of drawing certain energies from outside oneself either into one’s own body or, by some interpretations, into the magickal vicinity. This practice is also called “drawing down” in some traditions. I believe shadow magick is particularly relevant to this art: invocation is ultimately a mystical act of merging with the unseen, as one calls forth a deity not only from the astral plane, but into one’s own person. The process of deital channeling is that of reaching through the veil of reality and tapping into the external energies of human archetypes, which all gods are.

Often, Witches simply use the term invocation to refer to the act of calling forth energies. This is just a matter of terminology. Technically, invocation only refers to inviting energies, such as a deity or ancestral spirit, into oneself. In contrast, the act of calling forth energies is also called summoning, such as asking a deity or spirit for assistance, or when calling the Watchtowers. Summoning an entity into manifestation is called evocation, as is the case with many forms of angelic and demonic magick.

The term journeying, on the other hand, refers to a person traveling astrally, in some manner, to a deity’s terrain. The practitioner goes into a deeply meditative state and meets the deity on the astral plane. Once aligned, the journeyer relays messages from the spirit. These messages could take the form of entire streaming sentences, or they might be random phrases, sounds, and foreign speech including colors, names, and cryptic words that are seemingly nonsensical. A person who practices this frequently, especially with one particular deity, is a good candidate to advance to full godform assumption. If you wish to practice invocation but have no experience in the field, it’s best to become comfortable and adept at journeying first.

For clarity’s sake, I will use the terms godform assumption, aspecting, and drawing down synonymously with invocation, referring to the act of pulling an actual deity or spirit into your person. It is an act of oracular mediumship that is usually reserved for Priests and Priestesses in modern Witchcraft. In my personal spiritual system, godform assumption is only practiced by Priests and Priestesses, and requires heavy training, research, and preparation. Invocation is not something to take lightly; it’s both a tribal and an advanced Witchcraft practice—something I wouldn’t hesitate to call high magick—and can be extremely jarring and dangerous if approached improperly.

A number of shamanic and indigenous cultures invoke deities regularly, incorporating such practices as drumming, yelling, and ecstatic dance into their ceremonies to strengthen the process. The results are profound. Successful deital invocations, pushing the channeler aside, allow the god or ancestral spirit to fully take the body over. This is seen frequently in Vodou, in which the Priests and Priestesses invoke the Lwa—the spirits of Haitian Vodou—the process of which is called spirit possession.

Many cultures still practice invocation as part of their common ritualistic observances. In Nepal, for example, animistic tribal Hindus, who are called the Newa, practice spirit possession. In this full-moon ritual a Dhamini invokes an ancestor, addresses the crowd, and performs shamanic healings individually. He or she also feeds or places cooked rice on ritual attendees in an act of bestowing blessings. In the invocation, the Dhamini crouches, so as to “carry” the deity on his or her back. A ritual assistant accepts offerings to give to the deity and helps the Dhamini during the possession.

Some Witches who practice godform assumption don’t remember a thing afterward about what was said, having been a trance -channel the entire time, the waking self pushed completely aside by the deital or spiritual energy. Priest and Priestess are consciously removed from themselves. Their speech patterns, movements, and behavior noticeably change to fit the deity’s or spirit’s, which may be entirely separate from the invoker’s typical behavior. When this happens, the invoker doesn’t remember anything about the experience. This most extreme version occurs only when the person has practiced deital invocation for many years (or at least has a natural disposition for oracular powers). Most Witches and magicians remember portions of the experience but not the whole. Others remember every bit of it, though this is rare. I like to mark invocations by percentages; depending on the ritual, I often range from about 65 percent invoked and 35 percent conscious, to 85 percent invoked and 15 percent conscious. These ratio estimates are a good way to record and reflect on the experience.

When invoked, practitioners tend to take a backseat to the deity called in; it’s much like watching a film, but from the actor’s perspective. It can also be likened to dreaming. Most practitioners call this “stepping back,” and it seems to be the most common experience when assuming a godform. It’s also good to keep in mind that every experience is different, affecting each practitioner uniquely."

[cultkinkcoven]

Just found a book written BY a DIONYSUS devotee on possession and ecstatic trance at the library we are SO back boys !!!!!!!!

(Ecstatic Witchcraft- Fio Gede Parma)

[karkat-topsurgery]

as a witch I sometimes possess my dolls to make them go on little "dates" with each other

they're far too shy and timid to initiate anything so I have to switch my control back and forth between them to make sure someone's always dominate

it's enrichment for them~

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It’s been a decent couple days since the last time Lucifer possessed me and I was like very very low, almost emptied of him- he said the reason was something to do with him more than me. Like he was going through something and didn’t want to possess me idk.

But today he did again during our little Venus day ritual. He filled me a lot. More than he usually would, I think to compensate for the time elapsed.

And like ?? Idek how to explain this but, every time this happens- like he possesses me again after a break- I always remember how intense and abnormal it actually feels.

Cause it’s like, I’ve done trances and stuff for years. But never have I had such a visceral reaction to anything like this before. Like just the snap, immediately being taken over, and not losing myself, but feeling like I’m sinking into a river. It’s fast and swirling. I feel my body twitching and twisting around, vibrating, like there really is an electricity running through me.

If ever I was doubtful of Lucifer’s existence, this would be the most convincing piece of evidence for me. Beyond just seeing him in my mind and feeling him spiritually, I feel him extremely physically.

It really is like a high, like something that could only be achieved by chemical reaction. The state of euphoria and flight feels somewhat like something created by a drug. And the feeling of occupation after, being within that river even after the active possession act is over, is very drug like as well.

This is probably strange but it has been very nice in terms of coping with chronic illness. Possession leaves a kind of pain relief or numbing that has genuinely just helped me get through the day. Which is like… wild as fuck. Like that my health is actually responding to his influence.

Idk it’s weird

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Real Possession stuff I’ve never seen anyone talk about

(All obviously my personal experience) NSFW. MINORS DNI

Occupation feels like movement

Occupation is the word Lucifer uses to describe the state of dwelling within me but not actively possessing me. Basically, his excess and left over energy just chilling within me at any point. There is a certain level of occupation or residency that is optimal, that he tries to keep me at. And this occupation does have a literal physical feeling. The only way I can describe it is movement, with Lucifer especially it is swirling, like swirling wind inside of me. If I sit and close my eyes, I can notice him and I can feel out how much of him is still within me. Oftentimes (increasingly more now) he will come to check up on me. And he will tell me to feel for him, make sure I still can. Sometimes, especially immediately after possessions, it is strong. When I close my eyes it’s like I can see a swirling wind inside of me. I feel a movement and force within. Other times it’s more subtle, like a small ripple on a lake. a sign we might need to top up soon. But I could definitely tell if he was absolutely gone.

He has only recently started to “top me up” outside of formal ritual ceremonies, which is interesting to feel. Especially when I’m out and about. I find myself in some small moment of quiet and he’ll ask me if it’s okay to give me just a little. It usually has a very calming, almost slightly intoxicating effect. It soothes any anxieties I may have at the time. Probably because it just feels like he is getting closer to me.

The craving thing is real

I’ve spoken about this a little bit but it’s difficult to dive into fully because it’s very sensitive. After going through rigorous amounts of training and possessions, it can be difficult to wean off, and it will be uncomfortable if it hasn’t been sustained in enough time. Being possessed does in many ways feel similar to drug use, and I would go as far as to say it can become addicting. There are negative consequences to both over indulgence and withdrawal.

I don’t necessarily feel any sort of emptiness or lack of. It’s more like a pressure that builds and needs to be released rather than a thing that is withheld. The craving is more invasive than just arousal, the desire to spiritually (and sometimes literally) be entered by them (the spirit) specifically can be overwhelming.

This isn’t catastrophic either, nothing terrible happens if I am not possessed. It’s kind of like falling off a schedule for a prescription drug. Your levels drop and you feel weird, but things will even out again and you’ll be fine. If you start again, your levels will spike and you’ll also feel kind of weird. Lucifer tries to keep me at a good level.

Kind of related to the last one, but slightly different: Love mania is very real.

Not necessarily caused by withdrawals (actually can be caused by the opposite- too much possession). It’s basically just the state of being extremely enthusiastically in love with your deity in a way that is mentally destabilizing. Or in other words, you go a little brain dead and love drunk. This isn’t really a bad thing (Lucifer seems to like it a lot) but more so just a very shocking thing to experience for the first time. I’ve been overwhelmed with my love for Lucifer before, but after possessions it feels very much like a mania, a madness. I love him so much I want to curl into a ball and cry. It’s weird.

Astral bleed and accidental invocations

This shit. This shit is so weird.

I don’t think I’ve ever actually?? Unintentionally? Summoned Lucifer? That’s kind of paradoxical because I always want him around and if he pops up randomly I’m like “heyy :) !”

But on his side, it is extremely complex and strange. I have kind of just known things and witnessed things, or been brought into things spontaneously without either of our conscious intention. I’ll just show up. Or I’ll just witness something, or know something about him that I may not have been intended to know or hear. Unintentional eavesdropping. Sometimes it’s not in English, so I don’t entirely understand what’s happening. I’m like 89% sure these are just caused by him and I thinking of each other at the same time or being fresh on of each other from a recent possession. I just gravitate towards him, even in awkward occurrences.

This is a large part of the training, learning how to manage and control that in a way that doesn’t neuter it. It’s definitely calmed down a lot recently.

You become involved with or at least noticed by with other spirits that are close to them. You share a symbolic body, and what touches his body touches you, however indirectly.

This one has become increasingly apparent in my personal experiences, holy shit. I understand far greater now the sheer amount of fucking connections Lucifer has. And many have lots of things to say. Some of them really don’t like me, some of them protect me. It’s always very perplexing.

Under a variety of circumstances I’ve recently met Naamah, Lilith (honestly, a real one) Haagenti, Asmodeus (extremely briefly), Orobas, Halphas, someone called Hamara, and others who I do not yet know the names of. They have all acted very differently, but they’re mostly concerned with Lucifer, lots of these conversations don’t directly involve me. It’s ? Weird to be ignored. Even weirder to be noticed. When I am directed at (by outsiders) I’m treated as a sort of extension of him, I suppose. I guess as one would treat a student or son. Idk. It’s weird actually.

(Related) Other spirits do treat you differently- Arguably other people too.

I’ve been made aware by Lucifer and other spirits that vessels in general have a reputation for being slightly uncanny, especially to other spirits. I’ve had spirits I’ve been working with (and not been working with at all, were basically just in proximity to Lucifer) basically treat me like a slightly freaky emo kid. There is a discomfort or weariness, nervousness. And especially, in these little half introductions, when they do address me and say something, there have been comments, jokes. Sometimes it’s a compliment in disguise. Sometimes it’s just a general aversion. I suppose vesselhood makes you a lot more specific and specialized to your daemon or spirit. So in my mind if would make sense that other spirits would be slightly turned off by or weird towards a vessel. Idk.

Time passes differently depending on his saturation within me

Most def. This is also something that is jarring and hard to get used to immediately. I’ve had trances and dreams with him feel like they lasted literal days. There are certainly moments, and they are always significant mine, where it feels like time slows down. These moments don’t have to be crazy or huge, just important. Something he wants me to see or know or feel. It’s interesting and nice. It’d be nice if that was something I could control.

(This might just be a me thing (( this might all just be a me thing)) because I’m so pathetic for him but) Heavy heavy heavy Nostalgia on that man.

Thissss hurrttsss. This sucks. Idek how to describe this because it’s beyond words but I feel an intense amount of nostalgia just from him in general. And it’s primarily caused I guess by how the way??? My brain?? Has started to process memories? Like

Something about possession messes with your memories, but not in a degrading way. The opposite actually, you remember stuff in great emotional clarity, but you also? Like??? Remember them as well. All the places you’ve felt them befofe you even knew them, I guess.

And the memories I do have in my like -real, waking-not astral or dreams,- life, get married to the ones I’ve formed in the astral like there truly is no distinction.

So when I think about like. An early morning, laying on my lover’s chest and breathing springtime air, I feel like I have done that so many times with my boyfriend. And right beside him was Lucifer. Were we all in the same bed? I just remember holding, and their scents mixing together like there was no veil.

I got about 100 memories like that now.

I genuinely feel like I’ve known Lucifer for so long even though it’s technically only been a few years. And I feel like we’ve done a lot, and have had hundreds of slow nights together. I remember him in excruciating clarity. And any time I see him in the world it’s achingly nostalgic. If I smell him in the wind, in an incense, or feel him, or notice him, it’s like, a floodgate of,

“Oh hey, like, the one from when I was a kid”

And I didn’t even know him when I was a kid!!!

It’s painful, the worst, for me just because I’m sentimental and weird. Possession like,, bores them into your memory.

But it’s also so wonderful because I never want to forget him.

This is also kind of soppy but Optimism?

Idk all of life’s strifes and whatever both seem symbolic and mythopoetic, or literary. My life becomes a story for him. So it’s a very, “everything is okay at the end of the day” feeling.

DREAMS holy fuck

This should have been point #1. He’s hijacked my dreams, I dream about him almost every single night and if I don’t, there’s a reason. My mind naturally floats back to him, and my astral body is usually trying to locate him at any given point. Sometimes these dreams are deep and super symbolic and esoteric. Often they are domestic and more about holding a conversation or being intimate than unlocking deep truths, although, they very much can be very much that. Sometimes I wake up from sleeping and am like. Damn it. Lucifer. I. I need to sleep again. And like. Actually be unconscious. Sleeping is more complicated now.

(I warned you this was NSFW) Sleep possession and sleep sex

This might just be a Lucifer thing, not sure, he seems to have a bit of a somno thing. Possession itself already dabbles in a lot of pre-consent and this only started happening after we started pursuing vesselhood seriously. Basically what it sounds like, being possessed while asleep or between conscious states (just waking, falling asleep, trances, liminal states, etc). There have been more occasions where I’ve woken up and realized that he’s actively inside me and moving. The intensity varies. It can be jarring but it’s never scary. It can actually be kind of sweet.

And because he frequently possesses me inside of my dreams, I sometimes awake with him still inside of me. And that’s far less jarring, a lot more cozy actually.

He’s real as fuck

Possession adds a layer of presence and embodiment that is really really visceral, at least to me. If this is some crazy mental illness self projection thing, I am wildly impressed with myself to be completely honest. I can feel that man’s arm hair, I know what the skin on his back feels like. His. VOICE. Yes, I practiced clairaudience before, but I have heard his voice so many times in my dreams. Idc y’all, he is real to me.

And as well as, less in the sensory way and more of the weighted almost human way, he is real in how non linear he is. We have little in between moments where we just wait, wait for a thing to finish cooking, wait for a wick to light. Lots of silences and moments of presence, but also extremely mundane things. Shaving. Pissing, small discomforts, weird and hyper specific preferences, like dinner cutlery placements. The way he lays down or back on a couch. The way he holds his fork when he eats.

Lucifer doesn’t even have a body, and yet I know it so well. Maybe that’s because that body communicates everything I need to know. Cool. Weird.

For me, it’s actually given me a stronger sense of self.

Having a little bit of ego dissolution during intense possessions always gives me a real sense of who “Shi” is when I return. The things I like, the values I have, my preferences, my vibe and archetype. Before it was just like, we’ll “Shi” is me, just some guy. I don’t know. Now I know who Shi is a lot more, who I’d like Shi to be. I don’t feel like I’m falling into Lucifer and becoming him, I more so just feel like I’m becoming a version of myself that is pleasing to him, which.. I very much want to be. Possession always reminds me how much I am like him and of him, but also how very different we are, and how good the contrast is between us.

Thats all I can think of rn.

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[karkat-topsurgery]

not sure if this counts as forcefem or possession but yeah...