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Awareness is a key element of magickal practice. By awareness I mean that which you are perceptually focusing on. Think of the sensations in your right foot right now: whether it is bare or covered, if it is upon anything, etc. The "spotlight" of your awareness is on your foot. Likewise, with energy channeling in one's forehead or fingertips, one's awareness is concentrated in these areas. another example is "looking out of the corner of your eye," where your awareness if focused outside of the visual center of your eye.

"Expanding awareness" is exactly as it sounds, it is widening the spotlight of your awareness to encompass as much as possible, or more than usual. The term unfortunately has been hijacked by charlatans. Right now face the center of your room or go outside if you already aren't - you want a complex visual environment. Try to focus your awareness on as many things as possible at the same time - you'll find this difficult, as your mind will want to focus on a tree, a squirrel, or a particular thing.

When meditating and channeling energy, if you cultivate the ability to expand your awareness you can channel magical energy in your entire body instead of just the primary loci. There are two exercises other than the above that can help.

For the first exercise, find two candles or other visually distinct objects. Arrange them in front of a chair at least 5 feet away about 25 degrees apart from your sitting position - this is a bit more than twice the angular size of your fist held at arm's length (http://oneminuteastronomer.com/860/measuring-sky/) Try to focus your awareness on both objects at the same time while looking between them and not moving your eyes. You should initially find it difficult, with your awareness jumping back and forth from object to object. If it is easy move the objects a bit further apart. If you experience the awareness jumping you are doing it right. Keep at it and for brief periods you will be focused on both simultaneously. This should feel a bit weird, as if your mind is split into two to do such a thing. The common theme of all these exercises is that like physical exercise they require practice to get better at and hone, though the most difficult part is the first success.

Another way to expand awareness is to look at a somewhat regular, random, but textured surface. The night sky is ideal if it isn't terribly light polluted. A textured ceiling, wall, or even a piece of wood works well. Focus on a small area of the pattern, and gradually try to focus your awareness on more and more outside the center of your vision. Don't move your eyes. At a certain point your awareness will expand rapidly, and you will see a regular, tiled pattern across your field of view as your mind tries to fill in the blanks.

General mindfulness meditation techniques are also good both for magick and mental well-being. See the number of other great resources available for further details.

Now on to staffs (and wands,) which are my specialty, as well as general projection. From here on out there will be quite a bit of interpretation and subjectivity involved with the practice itself.

You have learned to channel and focus magickal energy, to expand it along with your awareness to your entire body, and have disciplined your thoughts to a fair degree (able to concentrate and avoid the random stream-of-consciousness thoughts that pervade the mental lives of most.) What's next is projection.

A staff is useful because it acts as a conduit, an extension of your own body. Channel and gather energy in your hands, and then, in a way similar to how you channeled it to a wider portion of your body, do the same with your staff/wand. Focus your awareness on your hand(s) and the wand at the same time, like the two candles. You will eventually feel the magical energy through the entire staff/wand as if it were an extension of you.

You can also use your hand in whatever gesture and orientation suits you to project the energy. With the staff or your hands, you can then project the magick outwards by expanding your visual awareness and directing the energy towards that.

I am of the conviction that magick is about intent, and to cast a spell you focus the desired intention along with the energy. Wishes are for children, by intention I mean a purpose, a direction, such as goodness, peace, and healing. If it is an intent that involves you, the intent should be to affect you spiritually/psychologically in such a way to bring that thing about. Things like wisdom, insight, conscientiousness - these are things that have their source in you, and magick directed towards them empowers you to better realize them. Wishing for money, health etc and hoping the universe delivers will result only in disappointment at best, and magicoholicism at worst. Do not look for "signs" that your energy has affected something (unless it is yourself,) do not harbor any expectations that it has done anything in particular. Otherwise you can become addicted to power and seeing the results of it, consumed by arrogance and false notions of superiority, and other such diseases.

There is a strong element of psychology to magick, for example when considering your staff or wand. You can use any staff-like object as one, or enchant any object via similar means, but the best staffs are ones that have meaning to you. They should be comprised of materials you enjoy, ideally self-made, and comfortable to hold. The same goes for any other magickal paraphernalia you may have. Never get too attached to such paraphernalia - the are tools like any other.

All this implies nothing about gods or any other belief. You can be a materialistic atheist and a wizard without contradiction, though you'd probably interpret this as solely a meditative and mental phenomenon. If anyone else has any other techniques to share, or methods to reproduce magickal experiences, I would be most interested. I'm also interested if anyone has difficulties with this guide, or any part needs clarification.

Can't give an opinion one way or the other on Bearheart, but I can vouch from experience that working the third eye center before you work the lower dan tien (Or navel center as he put it) will legitimately fuck your shit up. I did it a few years ago without knowing any better and went a little looney tunes for about two months. It's a miracle I didn't wind up in a laughing academy.

I think he's exaggerating how delicate the third eye center is a little bit but it's still very good advice. DON'T mess with your third eye untill you've made some progress filling your navel center to ground you. Insanity isn't a good look on anyone.

>>84339

Anyway, You seem an expert on bullshit occultism when you see it. Maybe make a suggestion in this thread towards something you deem more acceptable? I'm curious.

>>84387

Dogma based on a philosophical system that demands this be such.

If you can monopolize the interpretation of an experience, make others dependent on the metaphysical model attached to it, you have a lot of power over them. I'm fine with anyone using whatever system they find useful, but when people make inaccurate claims about practice based upon them, and engage in silly fear-mongering such as the silly claim that you can go insane from tampering with your third eye, that's bullshit occultism.

I'm not offering a metaphysical system or anything of the sort in this thread, the purpose is purely to give energy magick techniques. The exception is the third post which I label as being interpretive and subjective. If you don't like the statement "The first step in learning magick is activating and opening your third eye," if it isn't true for your experience, then ignore it. This is like looking at a guide for how to bake a cake which mentions "the oven is the most important part of the kitchen" and then going "bullshit bullshit" and tossing away the book because you believe the refrigerator is instead.

The reality is that you can start anywhere, the problem is starting. I chose the third eye because the pencil technique has worked for all but a few of several dozen I have had try it.

There is another technique I didn't mention because I can't find a reliable way for other people to learn it, at least in a healthy way. By flexing some subtle muscle of the exact location I can't pinpoint somewhere in my neck, I can create a slight rush sensation that feels like I'm constricting or expanding some blood vessel. During channeling it gives a significant and instant boost to the magnitude of energy. This is what originally activated my third eye. There are other accounts of this phenomenon online.

I learned to flex this muscle via strange means: as a young child I would hold my breath and "push" upwards to make my face bright red to amuse my friends. Because of the result I was doubtlessly increasing the blood pressure to my head greatly, which is not at all healthy. Video of someone doing it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgL3KrVv_o In the process of doing this I found how to flex this noted muscle / whatever it is independently of turning my head into a tomato. The means by which I learned it also implies that I'm manipulating the flow of blood to my brain somehow, perhaps increasing it.

If you want to try to learn this, I wouldn't recommend doing as I did, but experimenting with breathing while methodologically flexing various muscles in your neck, upper chest, and the base of your skull. I have had no success in others learning how to do it from such information though. Flexing this muscle induced tingling in my third eye a few years later, and I went from there.

>>84446

Or you could skip the bullshit and read this instead.

Since this is a 101 thread, I'd like to offer a meditation that's very beginner friendly, fun, and has results that are very

self evident if you stick with it. I'm lifting it and paraphrasing it from "Path notes of an American Ninja by Glenn Morris" which despite the goofy title, is a fantastic read I highly recommend if you're interested in seeing how deep down the rabbit hole this esoteric game goes.

The technique is called "The Secret Smile." Here are the steps;

Take the meditation posture you prefer best. The most important point to remember here is to keep your spine straight as possible though I'd also recommend a posture where your legs are comfortable and you can easily feel your feet. Keep your tongue pressed up to the roof of your mouth (This is important. It might seem trivial but don't skip that one.) Close your eyes and slow your breathing down. Put a smile on your face (Lift your cheeks so the corners of your mouth turn upwards if you're a salt mine like me who's forgotten what a smile is)

Clench your toes as tightly as possible until they really hurt and then release them, Do this three times. Once the pain has stopped focus in on the feeling of relaxation in them and move it up your legs. Pull it up your ankles, up along your calves, feel it rise up over your knees, thighs, and across your hips. Feel the muscles relaxing along the way as you do this. Pull it up along the length of your spine, up over your head and down to the point where your tongue is touching the roof of your mouth. Swirl the feeling of relaxation in your mouth and mix it with your saliva. Swallow it down and let the relaxation circulate through your body as it goes.

Next, Think of a time you did something really well and were proud of yourself. Not only this, but other people were also proud of you and recognized what you'd achieved. Let the events fade away and hold onto just the feeling. Move the feeling down to your feet, and then feel it rise up your legs in the same way as the first step (You don't need to clench your toes anymore.) Let it rise up your spine, over your head, into your mouth. Mix it with your saliva and swallow it down. Mix it with the first feeling. Repeat this step twice more for a total of three cycles, or more if you're enjoying yourself.

Think of a time you laughed your ass off. A real deep, great laugh that you couldn't control or stop, Let the events fade away and hold onto that feeling of uncontrollable wild laughter. Let it flow down to your feet. Move it through your legs, up your spine and over your head. Mix this sensation of joy with your saliva and swallow it down. Let it mix with the others. Repeat for three cycles.

Think about a time you were in love, Truly, Madly, Deeply Do. Head over heels, and were also loved in turn. Let the circumstances fade, Hold onto that feeling. Move it down to your feet (Noticing a pattern yet?) move it up through your legs, up through your spine and over your head. Mix it with your saliva and swallow this loving feeling down, charging your body with deep unconditional love. Let it mix with the other feelings in your body. Repeat for three cycles.

Now for the fun part! Think about the best orgasm you've ever had. Take out the person, people, or animal in question and hold onto just the feeling. (Assuming you're a man it might help to focus on the moment just before the orgasm. Creaming your trousers would be counterproductive at this point.) Move it down to your feet, Up through your legs and spine, then up to the top of your head. Mix it with your saliva and swallow it down. Mix it up with the others. Repeat for three cycles.

Try to feel the combination of these energies which by now should feel pretty great. Circulate it all over your body and play with it for as long as you like.

By doing this, you're making yourself cool, confident, happy and sexy. Pretty useful. The end goal here is to learn how to truly internalize these feelings. Make it a part of your practice until it is so easy that it's just background sensation or an easy warm up for any other exercises. It's a great starting point for anything you'll have to handle in your life. /fringe/ or otherwise.

Enjoy, and have fun!

>>84320

I really like the "pen near third eye" technique. In fact, I would like to expand on it.

Stimulate the entire brain by doing the sharp object trick at the top of your head, the back of your head, for each ear, the nose, the chin, the cheeks…. just expand to get to the point where the tingly exists for the entire head.

Combining that with your "expansion" technique, of expanding awareness, do so with your entire head/brain that you have now stimulated entirely.

I am half way through trying this, and I am noticing huge awareness and clarity gains, IQ boost, overall mind gains, even physically (what with mental strength translating into physical), I feel very present and in my body, flexing feels good and motivated to DO SHIT.

Coming out of an extreme involution that I was intensely involved in (heh) for over a year, transitioning to an extreme evolution. I'm doing other things of course to cause this evolution shift, but this is amazing.

Very nice. After this, I'll move onto the throat (which I did a little of and was also great), shoulders, chest, back, onward and onward until my entire body can hold this 'charge'. I tried the finger thing, not much results besides a much weaker feeling of the 'charge' or 'tingles', but doing this seems to be superior, as mentally I am a very foundation oriented person, making it the natural optimum process for myself, though it may be objectively best.

Once I reach the point of full-blast head tingles, maybe after the neck, I will report back with results. Clarity, awareness, INT and WIS boost, physical strength and stamina, memory boost and perspective boost have been my current results. I am magical though, shit has been happening that is way way strange.

Anyone want to try and post results too?

>>91863

By the way, when doing this for the back of my neck, it felt like I was actually being poked by the pen when it was just hovering.

I have pin point magical intuition for the back of my neck I suppose. It eventually eased up and was more fluid rather than sharp, which is evidence of the fascia or muscle or energy being cleared, flushed, and renewed by this technique. It felt like wet air was being breathed when I did this for my adam's apple, along with a couple other places.

Very interesting.

>Magic 101

Yeah, we already have that. Pic related. Read a book, niggers.

Also, it usually pays to be wary of taking occult advice from bald dudes with goatees, even if it is just a morrowind avatarfag.

Ah this thread.

The phenomena that OP thought was so important is neurological instrumentalization. Generate a neurological phenomena then manipulate that phenomena as you would magic or energy. Magic has a better intuitive meaning that grasps the expansiveness of it though.

So just as in Robert Bruce's Energy Work, you generate a sensation then move it around and morph it with growing tactile sensation. Sensation is the most grounded, so working directly with sensation means you're manifesting shit more directly into the Earth material dissection of reality.

The head is a fiery organ, with the neurological center the brain inside of it, so sensations from there are most easily transmitted across the neurons down the body into more Earth parts. Fire generates Earth in the 5 element theory, and is described as The Wizard archetype in what I've read. Earth is the Peacemaker. Metal is The Alchemist. Water The Philosopher. Wood The Pioneer.

If you want to be a wizard, cultivate your fire. Metal or being an alchemist is useless if you don't have the fire to transmutate reality. Raw ore is useless. Since we're in the "Dark Age" of some grand cycle, Kali Yuga, we have incredibly high Yin with low Yang. Earth, Metal, Water = Yin. Wood, Fire = Yang.

Pioneer and Wizard your shit up.

Take the basic sensation generation and turn it into a practice of its own. Think of your body as extremely locked down without feeling or sensation or awareness, because of this jam. When you can generate and feel sensations, you are unlocking your shit. You are vitalizing your nerves. Make neurological stimulation (wood/fire) your basic practice, more than meditation (Earth). True wizardry is a cultivation of Wood (associated with wind and electricity mind you) and Fire.