{"id":271,"date":"2012-02-27T11:39:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2012-02-27T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:39:25","slug":"i-think-ive-found-the-reset-button-on-my-aura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/27\/i-think-ive-found-the-reset-button-on-my-aura\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think I\u2019ve Found the \u201cReset\u201d Button On My Aura"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fair Warning<\/span><\/strong>: In this post I\u2019m going to talk about some of the \u201cwoo\u201d that a lot of serious magicians don\u2019t seem to like to talk about, but which I\u2019m pretty sure they all practice on account of\u2026 well\u2026 their magic works.\u00a0 Some of this sounds hokey, I know: if someone\u2019s got better language to describe these things, I\u2019d love to hear it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Like many of you, I imagine, my earliest training in magic revolved around various chakra meditations.\u00a0 I imagined that I was discovering these features of my energetic body, exercising them like mortal muscles.\u00a0 I worked diligently to strengthen them, all on the assumption that the Eastern traditions from which they were \u201cadopted\u201d had knowledge of the subtle bodies that Western traditions had just somehow missed.\u00a0 Now I\u2019m not so sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cForget everything you were told about chakras.\u201d\u00a0 Was it Peter Carroll or Phil Hine who told me that?\u00a0 I don\u2019t have those sources at hand to look it up.<\/p>\n

The last public Beltane ritual I attended featured a number of children (before they were sent off to finish their own ritual while we grown ups poured some wine and finished our own).\u00a0 The ritual leader pointed to them, and their as-yet-undifferentiated auras, and her belief that it was because, as children, they had not yet learned to compartmentalize their lives: that they did everything with the whole of their beings.\u00a0 The auras I could see \u2026 the explanation, however, seemed unlikely.<\/p>\n

I have already mentioned that my ceremonial experiments have been moving things around: a Malkuth node below my feet, my Crown (Kether) chakra rising a little further above my head, Geburah and Binah nodes forming at my shoulders, and my lowest three chakras fading almost to nothing.\u00a0 I have been working to counteract these trends\u2014or, at the very least, the untenable side effects.\u00a0 Since beginning my work with the Stele of Jeu, all of my chakras\u2014except for my Crown and Heart, which have been maintained by my Yoga practice\u2014have been fading,\u00a0 leaving my aura largely undifferentiated except for a dense corona at the edge.\u00a0 Interestingly, this is having none of the undesirable consequences of some of my previous experiments\u2014unless the insomnia, which seems to have passed, was related.\u00a0 All this leads me to conclude that much of what I have taken for granted about my aura\u2014seven chakras, various layers, and what have you\u2014are not natural features but molds we train ourselves to fit within.\u00a0 The magic we practice shapes our \u201cenergetic bodies\u201d, much as our experiences physically altar our brains\u2026 except more so.<\/p>\n

What does this mean in practical terms?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know yet, other than the obvious: I\u2019ve lost another round of Everything You Know Is Wrong (I actually kind of love loosing that game; it means the universe it still interesting, and also that my experiments aren\u2019t suffering from confirmation bias.).\u00a0 It certainly means that, if I continue this path and my familiar energy nodes are replaced by something new and different, certain exercises I have used for years will be less efficacious.\u00a0 As long as the benefits of jamming this Reset Button continue to be more positive than negative (and so long as none of the side effects are things I\u2019m just not willing to deal with, \u201cobjective\u201d measurements be damned), I\u2019ll keep the course and see how things turn out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fair Warning: In this post I\u2019m going to talk about some of the \u201cwoo\u201d that a lot of serious magicians don\u2019t seem to like to talk about, but which I\u2019m pretty sure they all practice on account of\u2026 well\u2026 their magic works.\u00a0 Some of this sounds hokey, I know: if someone\u2019s got better language to … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,38,44,72,149,198,256],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-auras","tag-by-the-way-im-crazy","tag-chakra","tag-energy","tag-magic","tag-phil-hine","tag-stele-of-jeu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-4n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}