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I didn't know who Istiphul was and just Googled it. Super cool!! I've always found water absolutely ecstatic and swimming around underwater is soo freeing.. often when I go to the pool with friends they think I'm slightly strange because I'll swim around and do flips and swirls the span of the entir...

I would say the most fun technique I've done to improve visual memory was a meditation technique where I would imagine myself somewhere very familiar and visceral. That is, you can associate other senses such as smell and sound to the location. Do this meditation to some soft ambient music if you wi...

Sensation of water is my favorite. Often I'll sit in the shower (yes, sit haha) and just focus on the hot water hitting my body, flowing through it, and imagining it to be a source of energy. Other times I'll displace my mental imagery to be in some sort of tropical island and imagine sitting under ...

Starting from Malkuth seems logical but in every source I've read starting from Kether seems to be the common practice. The reason for this is that to start from Kether you gain better philosophical knowledge of the Supernal Triad, and that relationship emnates all the way down(up?) to Malkuth and t...

I agree with the above posts. Poke's take on occultism is exactly what the practice of magick is all about: will and imagination. He takes elements from renaissance magick, alchemy, Egyptian magick and mythology, and the qabalah to produce a novel method of practice that is coherent. And it makes se...

I am curious, why would you say your last experience was unsafe? Of all my experiences, the moment where I realize I can project I can't feel my breath and therefore think I'm dieing. Right before projection, it feels like my entire astral body is vibrating, or trying to "wiggle" out of my...

For the past 2 years or so, while everyone else was freaking out about December 21, 2012, I was outright gawking at January 1, 2014. Now I usually don't like to blow smoke when it comes to astrology, in fact I absolutely abhor it. But I have never been so perplexed and amazed at the apparent synergi...

Recently, I've read Israel Regardie's "Garden of Pomegranates," and there was a particular set of paragraphs that caught my attention.. (p. 144-145) Regardie describes the magickal principal of Buddhist Nirvana. Most interestingly, he produces a psychological theory for how this happens, t...

There's a fairly new deck by Godfrey Dowson called the Hermetic Deck. The downsides is that it is black and white, but I love the alchemical and astrological symbolism most cards have.

sorry for replying to myself but, it just clicked. Here I am talking about all the implications of individual stars with comparison to their own lifetimes and ours, and not doing anything about it. I went outside for a cig, then suddenly realized there is so much I can do right now: Most, if not all...

The argument of Sidereal (Babylonian, Vedic, Arabic) astrology vs. the Tropical (greek and western) astrology is so misunderstood, as there is no argument really whatsoever! It's like trying to compare Physicists and Chemists; they both learn about the exact same processes but in completely differen...

I agree with the two posts above me. Counselors and therapists can do only so much. What happened do you when you were 16 was your crisis-point. You switched sides, so to speak. In terms of Magick and who this person/angel or whatever is, just meditate on her. Look up the signs for the energies she ...

So far I've yet to find a thread on Astrology around here. Astrology holds a very special place in my heart. While I was studying astrophysics in the university, a fellow student in a Medieval Philosophy course introduced me to occultism, Hermeticism, and most notably astrology! The horoscope he gav...

This is interesting! Every once and a while when I take too much Benadryl to go to sleep, I too hear these voices. They’re loud, clear and spontaneous voices that have little resemblance to how I think. Exactly! It's like chatter at a loud cafe or something, but the words form no intelligible form o...

So here's what happened. I was drifting off to sleep the other day, well I hadn't slept in 2 days because I'm an insomniac. I noticed as I was drifting asleep, I would go in and out of "consciousness" if that makes sense. Like, one moment I was in my bed, then the next moment I noticed thi...

Beautiful symbolism. I only wish more Christians would not fall back to idolizing the trinity as it is so common today. Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit, they are all names an games which have gone through many, many translations. In turn, Christianity tends to resort to Paganism, the worshiping of an en...

I've been reading a blog from a Goetic magician who's been practicing the art of Goetian Evocation following the grimoire's specifications tooth and nail! His name is John R. King IV, he's written several books, and every several months or so he write a complete journal-blog entry on what was asked ...

I'd like to add onto what Moon Sage just said. Time is a very strange thing, and as we get older, yes, time seems to "speed up." The reason for this is because the way the human mind measures time is by comparison. Time does not truly flow, they are merely comparisons from one frame to ano...

And so to explain this metaphorical story, and what I'm trying to get at, I present to you the Grand Theory of Paradox God is omnipotent, as well as omniscient and omnipresent. That god is the One, the Man. The Grand Paradox Theory is a theory of systems. Each system is cyclical in manner. When one ...

First of all, I'm a materialist and a spiritualist, and I believe there must be a connection between the two. I study Astrophysics and Philosophy, and one day I was convicted by this following relation, that a God within us exists and dictates everything, yet metaphysically exists in the area of act...

Many times I don't even close my eyes for meditation, seems to take more strain to keep them closed. I say whatever works for you should be fine, though at least being in a dimly lit room helps.

I think the debate may be the gravity of the "habit" OP is talking about, like what's been discussed. Habits, like biting one's nails, or not brushing your teeth at night, slouching or WHATEVER, are all physiological habits that have nothing to do with deep psychological or emotional distr...

Let me give this a try.. it was actually a cool thought experiment for me so I'm not 100% confident about what I'll decide. I like Gnostic Christian take on this. Kether - grand-paradox/no deity Chokmah - Divine Goddess/ Sophia Binah - Demiurge / Elohim Chesed - Gabriel Geburah - Azazel Tiphareth - ...

So glad to have finally found a community! Love the info and support I've seen around here so far. I guess I started delving into the occult when I a 3rd year astrophysics student, 4 years ago. I took a Medieval Philosophy class that intrigued me quite a bit, and met a great friend there who introdu...

Alright, thanks for the advise. It's been nearly 3 days without sleep, but perhaps the simplest answer would be for me to get out and keep extremely active. When I was in Basic for the AF I slept like a baby [lol]... I guess like anything, it takes an immense amount of Will.