Hey all,
Alright, I have a relatively personal question involving my spiritual path that I really think ya'll could help out with, if you'll bear with me for a bit.
I come from a Ceremonial Magick background, but recently left it and explored Psionics, which I've also come to love. Now, I'm at a place in my life where I'd like to not choose between those two general paths, but rather incorporate them into a path unique to my own goals, needs, and talents.
Here's the specific problem. I'm trying to marshal my time, because the last time I tried too many things too fast, I burned out and ended up dropping magick and the occult altogether. I was such a wreck from it that I knew I had to go back, because in the occult--in either magick or psionics--I feel more like myself than I ever have in anything else. That being said, my current goal in magick is to begin preparations for evocation and to eventually evoke a spirit, while my current goal in psionics is simply to work on opening my chakras and work on grounding/centering and drawing energy daily, and continue practicing my psionic skills sporadically.
Now, I'm the kind of person who does really well with daily routine: once I get on the ball, I can typically stay on the regimen without fail and I also enjoy it. So what I currently do for my daily routine is to split up magick and psionics: I do chakra and energy work (psi) in the morning, and at night I do the LBRP, BRH, and MP (magick). Unfortunately, there is one very important aspect of my daily routine that is missing, and that's the specific magickal exercise that goes into preparing for evocation or any magickal work--namely concentration, visualization, etc. I know that continual work on psionics and ritual will help me develop my concentration and the like, but this will not necessarily help me specifically for magick or evocation. I really, really like the curriculum laid out in Konstantinos's "Summoning Spirits," for instance, and plan on using his exercises--but these exercises are geared toward evocation, unlike chakra meditation or energy work. The thing is, I would likely need to replace my morning psi work with these magickal exercises. This frightens me, because I feel that this would almost completely remove psi from my life. Conversely, if I spend a lot of time working on psi and chakras, then I almost certainly would not have enough room to develop my mind for evocation.
Here are some of the questions on my mind:
- Are the LBRP, BRH, and MP sufficient to work on keeping my chakras open and, therefore, to continue practicing psionics? Or are they too different from the usual psi methods of working my chakras and personal energy?
- Can I somehow incorporate Konstantinos's magickal exercises (such as breathing and concentration) into my morning psi work? This seems difficult to me not because it'd take up too much time, but because it would really ruin my focus to have my spirituality strewn about like that. It's like eating two small meals for breakfast, which seems redundant and messy.
- In magick, do we learn to develop our astral sight and hearing by opening our third eye, or is that something else altogether? Could this help me figure out how to use psi meditations in magick?
So many thanks in advance. I really appreciate any insight anyone can give.
Namaste,
Genostar
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