Emotional AlchemyEmotional Alchemy is essential practise for any wizard. It's how we manage our loosh, specifically astral energy. There are multiple things you must do to master your control over emotion.
Control your response to different things that normally would provoke emotional reactions. You should not be swayed by anything unless it is your will that it should happen. This is something you can learn and practise while posting on the internet, while living your every day life, and going through conflicts.
You must learn to neutralize emotions, to apply them, to convert/reverse them, and to be tranquil.
When you are
tranquil you do not react to anything. Chaos could abound around you, terrible things could happen, and you will not lose control but remain calm and centred emotionally. Practise this by remaining emotionally stable in any circumstance conceivable. For example in a scenario which may produce shame, remain composed, do not feel shame. Do not laugh when something is funny. Do not become sad when everyone is crying around you. Do not anger when you are being provoked. Do not be overcome by lust in sexual situations. Do not become disgusted when something threatens to make you feel like retching. Do not be shocked by scandalous news, gore, etc. You can set many challenges here to test yourself and make them more extreme.
When
applying an emotion, you should be able to produce an emotional state merely by willing it and also be able to control its intensity. You must be able to do this both in relation to an external something as well as without any reference to anything. So you can produce the emotion as a reaction or you can apply an emotional state that is not in relation to anything at all which you are thinking about or that is happening around you. You will need to apply emotions to thoughtforms and in rituals and in many other magical works.
To
convert an emotion you put one emotion behind another and end up converting an emotion's state. If you specifically want to reverse an emotion then you convert the emotion to its opposite. For example you can lovingly hate, then your hatred becomes love. (This is not the same as neutralizing an emotion.) If you know this skill, then it will help you greatly, as you can purify your emotional state by approaching every emotion and converting it all to the desired emotion required for some magical work. If you are going deep into meditation for example many things may arise out of the astral and impress upon you and threaten to stir up emotions other then the one you want to use. If I want to feel pure love for example then no matter what I see or experience while in meditation I must put love behind everything. This concept will be I think very disturbing for some very heavily emotionally programmed people who do really manifest much control over their emotions and do not really understand what it truly means to embrace EVERYTHING with love (or any other emotion).
Some people (usually New Age) attempt to keep themselves in a very high and pure state of love by avoiding thoughts, people, scenarios, ideas, etc. which threaten to bring them down to a lower vibration. They are weak and vulnerable and missing out on the point of this life I think. Why do we even incarnate here into third density if it's not to learn to confront all the suffering and develop our consciousness? We'd just stay in the astral wouldn't we? To the master of emotional alchemy, there are absolutely no emotions to be feared and avoided, as all emotion is useful to him and can be converted into the state which he desires. At a higher state of development you could even go to a person you wish to help, meditate with them, and ask them to direct all their negative emotions towards you and then feeding upon all their hatred and misery and sadness and every other grievance they have convert it all into love and either keep it for yourself or give it back to them (or keep some and give some). That person then will probably be very happy and experience a great deal of relief (and if you keep all their loosh well at least they won't feeling bad, they will just be feeling numb, which from their mundane perspective they'd probably consider an improvement).
To
neutralize an emotion you can exhaust it until you feel nothing. A joke told too many times is no longer humorous, a scary circumstance ceases to create fear in a person who has been through that scenario way too many times, a troll ceases to anger you when you've grown tired of being angered by their ruse. This also works for depression and is why I tell people not to take drugs, not to ignore the depression, etc. instead you should embrace depression. If your mourn yourself long enough and you take every depressive thought to its extreme you will eventually exhaust it all and feel nothing. One can only cry so long before the tears dry up and you go numb. Although this neutralization of emotions is wasteful of one's loosh it is still a necessary skill to develop if one wishes to gain total mastery over emotion. If you understand this, you will eventually appreciate that life is full of so much suffering and hardship, because it gives you the chance to learn and overcome and in so doing attain a higher state of conscious development, that you would have not likely reached if you weren't challenged.
I should note that sometimes it also desirable to go with the natural flow of an emotion. This is what most humans do by default but sometimes even an emotional alchemist needs to put aside his training in order to save himself from trouble or at other times the natural response is the one which we desire to use to accomplish what we will. Silly mundanes that don't know better may consider you a very disturbed individual if you don't appear to be showing the correct socially conditioned emotional response to a situation and may start to attack you and make accusations against you and so on and this could be a hindrance to you. Imageboards and and the internet in general is usually a better setting to conduct your emotional alchemy training.
Every emotion has it uses. The only undesirable state for me is emotional numbness. This is when you know you're out of astral energy and you are quite vulnerable and helpless. Anyone who wishes to do away with emotion or who believes that emotion and reason are at odds with each other and can't work together is a fool falling for a false dichotomy. Emotion is powerful, it manipulates synchronicity, it powers thoughtforms, it forms the will, it is key to the workings of magic; all of this you can understand very clearly when you practise astral projection, or you wish to excel in sport, or you want to make a tulpa, or do a number of other things. I will give some examples:
- Very intense emotional release will influence your physical performances in a variety of ways. One way to demonstrate this to yourself is to work out really hard and to do chin ups until you are no longer able to do any more. You probably won't even be able to do very many chin ups while in a emotionally neutral state. If you get really hyped up though, or very angry, or very scared, you will suddenly be able to do a ton more than your normal limit. A man who goes berserk with rage could probably take multiple bullets and keep fighting and tear you to pieces while a man who can't achieve that intensity of emotion will be taken down with a single punch or something, he won't stand up to much abuse. If you use fear or anxiety or the likes you can apparently slow down time which lets your mind perceive and react to things around you extremely quickly and your body also will move very fast relative to everyone else, allowing you to do incredible feats. If you have a very high morale and a good focus, you will not be held back by doubts or self-sabotaging thoughts, and be able to keep going where others would just fail. You may need to be extremely calm and to lower your heart rate while under very high pressure in order to stable your hands and use a sniping weapon with very high accuracy or to hide from someone or to do various other physical feats. Some of these emotional states normally occur to people in very extreme situations as a reaction to something but the emotional alchemist having total mastery over his emotions will be able to apply the relevant emotions at any time and at any rate to do amazing things.
- If you are all out of loosh and very emotionally numb you won't be able to astral project. All entities in the astral planes fight over control of astral energy. If you are drained too much you will be disconnected from the astral planes altogether and not be able to go back until you've recovered enough to feel again. Astral energy is essential to astral projection.
- The thoughtforms you create will be created faster, in greater detail and complexity, when you apply astral energy to them correctly and efficiently. It is also apparent when creating a tulpa, which is a sentient thoughtform, that if you do not feed your tulpa with a lot of emotion it will develop slower and in a stunted manner. If you give your tulpas lots of love they will be manifested much quicker and fuller. This is a way you can understand the astral energy has direct metaphysical applications and is important.
- Astral energy is essential to the manipulation of synchronicity. Refer yourself to the various montalk articles on the topic and also the writings of Noel Huntley and you will understand how to do this and why it works. Synchronicity arranges how events in the timeline manifest to you and biases the probabilities of events occurring.
Link 1: http://montalk.net/synchronicity/synchronicity.html Link 2: http://montalk.net/ Link 3: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_huntley.htmCurbing emotion is not the answer. Emotion is very powerful. Reason + emotion = a very powerful will. One should not strive to become unemotional but to make ones emotions align with their reason so that emotion and reason both propel that person towards action and synchronicity. Strong emotion directed by well refined reason is the ideal. To kill your emotions and replace them with reason alone is to become ineffectual and apathetic. All emotion is good when made to serve a higher purpose. No one emotion ought to be disowned entirely. Thinking a given emotion ought to be purged from your being is like making the blanket statement that killing is bad while ignoring the context of the killing (such as food, self-defence, retribution, sadism, greed, honour, accident, etc.). The whole spectrum of emotion from hate to love, sadness to joy, it is all empowering when harnessed correctly.
I can personally attest to having a very high level of skill in this practise and can demonstrate it for others, switching on and off emotions at will, and bringing them to very high levels of intensity. I can in a short while achieve emotional states that most people only very rarely experience and which they go to great efforts to attain in a mundane manner. Mundanes are usually so hopelessly enslaved to their emotional programming they barely entertain the thought that they can be free of external influences, addictions, vices, etc. and they don't know what they would do if they could just will any emotion at any time. They'd probably sit around just being happy all day, kind of like those rats in that one experiment that were allowed to push a button that would make them happy, and they kept pushing the button and experiencing bliss all the time and just neglected doing anything else and then died like the stupid animals they are. They usually do not appreciate the beauty of "negative emotions" either. The worst attitude really is when they disregard emotion altogether and foolishly assert that they would like to have their emotions removed from themselves altogether.
The skills of emotional alchemy are essential to any wizard and a prerequisite to making everything else work effectively including rituals, spells, meditation, astral travel, miraculous healing, and so on. You must know about this before everything else!
Other articles to read:http://montalk.net/notes/reality-creation-reduxhttp://montalk.net/matrix/64/emotional-management 