I am doing a variety of occult experiments with Minecraft.
This is inspired by some magical texts I read long about using virtual realities (in particular Second Life) to do magical rituals in.
Here is what I've been doing:
I've been practising visualizing numbers while placing blocks, I use roman numerals usually but sometimes regular numbers too, as for some reason roman numerals are easier to see while doing this. I also sometimes visualize the roman numeral right beside the other number so I see both at once and since I'm always placing blocks really fast I have to change up the numbers fast so this develops my speed with it.
I have also been playing various lectures, audiobooks, etc. while playing and listening to them especially when no players are currently engaged in talking with me.
Another thing is that focusing on stacking the blocks in the game so much for so long makes it really easy for me to thoughtform blocks now so I can (go away from the computer) into my third density room or wherever and I can start placing thoughtformed versions of blocks all over my room and they stay there and I can create complex structures and landscapes and so on this way and then I can also take things further by creating my own block types, adding physics, etc. that the game doesn't have.
More inspired by those Second Life magic rituals is the idea I have for using Minecraft to do group AP…
This is how I intend for it to work:
First you would start up Minecraft and play it long enough that your attention is wholly focused on what you're doing in-game.
Then while playing you would practise immersion into the world, you'd be plugging yourself in mentally into what's going on there.
So if you come near a body of water, you should feel like the air is a bit more moist, and smell the kind of smells you'd expect with that setting.
If you run around a lot in the game, you should feel as if you've been in fact running.
If you eat food items in the game, imagine you've actually ate those food items, imagine their taste and their smell and so on.
If you go near a torch or fire, imagine the smoke and the heat of it.
Minecraft is very symbolic in that all of the things in the game are very rough yet simple representations of stuff in our world. Symbolism is the language of the subconscious… the subconscious should be very responsive to this sort of stuff.
When you're sufficiently immersed into the world to take things further I'll need another person to join in with me and looking at their avatar I should be able to imagine that if they hit me that I actually feel it, and I should feel like I'm there, and actually talking to them. The written words should be imagined as actual voices, with the other player having a different voice, then the stuff I type. etc.
How the world looks to me mentally doesn't have to be how it looks in the game too. I can imagine an overlay of it all where the setting is more realistic if necessary, and have myself in a kind of trance, and while my body I guess will be controlling the game character I will mentally feel as if I am in the world.
When we're in there, the idea then would be to meet up with another person, to feel like we're both there in the game and to be really immersed into it and we'd both stay in a room and do a magic ritual that's supposed to help us AP to an astral construct of that room. This should lead to us both transplanting our consciousness into the game world and experiencing a synchronized AP and we should at some point then be able to experience telepathy and other things which lead to remote sharing of experience in the astral we've constructed.
We could even just explore the island I'm currently at or any other area like it, then go inside of a specially constructed room that is easy for us both to hold in memory, and there should be a single Minecraft sign in there. Written on the sign should be a unique bit of text that we'll focus on like a sigil. Then after we've both got this room with the sign imprinted into our memory, we can go away from our respective computers, try to AP to that room, and then see if we meet up in the astral by doing this.
What do you think of these ideas?
I think at the very least the game presents a lot of opportunities to train our occult/imaginal powers if we use it right.
>Then while playing you would practise immersion into the world, you'd be plugging yourself in mentally into what's going on there.
>So if you come near a body of water, you should feel like the air is a bit more moist, and smell the kind of smells you'd expect with that setting.
I did this with a couple games and got nauseous and disoriented trying to identify with a virtual body.
I had some success but I won't be trying that again.
Viewing on a flat 2D screen and WASD + mouse movement are extremely unnatural, I've never noticed just how much so.
