As I described in the launch post for my chaos magic experiment, I am beginning with Liber MMM: mind control, magic, and dreaming*.<\/p>\n
Mind Control<\/span><\/p>\n Except for the emotional auditing, Peter Carroll\u2019s \u201cmind control\u201d is basically meditation, and I\u2019ve been starting simple with sitting motionless and breathing concentration.\u00a0 The hardest thing about five minutes a day of meditation isn\u2019t the meditation, itself: it\u2019s sitting down to do it.\u00a0 So far I\u2019ve been managing about every other day.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve experimented with three different positions to date.\u00a0 Sitting cross-legged on my bed, with my arms extended and my elbows resting on my knees.\u00a0 Laying flat on my back on the bed, arms limp at my sides.\u00a0 And sitting in one of those mini-papasan chairs that they sell for dorm rooms, facing my altar, with my hands in my lap.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had mixed results with all three.\u00a0 I have done my meditation in the morning, promptly upon waking, and at night, shortly before going to sleep.\u00a0 Again, the results have been mixed.<\/p>\n Sitting still for five minutes was, in fact, physically painful the first time I did it as a part of this experiment.\u00a0 And, for whatever reason, flatly impossible yesterday morning.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure why: it\u2019s not like I don\u2019t sit motionless for a lot of my magical workings.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m not focused on anything in particular.\u00a0 Ironically, I think this will get easier as I progress, not because of the practice, itself\u2014though that will absolutely help a lot–because shape and object visualization are things I do more often as a part of my visionary practice.<\/p>\n Magic<\/span><\/p>\n Coming back to the Sunrise Temple has made it easy to get back into my practice of daily banishing.\u00a0 For the last week I have begun my day with a banishing pentagram and a Qabalistic Cross.\u00a0 Except for today, which got off to a fuckered start when I woke from some fairly disturbing nightmares that pretty much threw off my whole morning game.<\/p>\n I have also been working on designing a few sigils, and researching different methods of designing and launching them.\u00a0 In addition to Liber Null, I have ploughed through most of Frater U.D.\u2019s Practical Sigil Magic<\/em>, and am delighted to finally have some grasp of AO Spare\u2019s original Alphabet of Desire\/Sacred Language.\u00a0 As someone who has dabbled in conlang<\/a>, and envies the utility of verbs in inflected languages such as Attic Greek and Classical Latin, I\u2019m really, really, really excited to start developing my own personal magical grammar for complex sigils.\u00a0 I have some really interesting ideas about how to combine this technique with Hellenistic curse tablets and my own theories of art as an act of magic that I can\u2019t wait to try out.<\/p>\n I have finally designed, but not actually enchanted, a set of talismans to give to my friends and colleagues by which they may offer me magical aid, or call upon me for the same.\u00a0 Look forward to further reports in that arena, too.<\/p>\n Dreaming<\/span><\/p>\n Like meditation, getting back into the habit of keeping a dream journal has been hit-and-miss.\u00a0 I\u2019m still at a point where, often, I literally cannot remember my dreams even moments after waking.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s shit like today, where the imagery is so disturbing that I just can\u2019t bring myself to write it down in the first moments of my day.<\/p>\n Magical dreaming has always eluded me, in part because I am so violently dysfunctional upon first waking, and this is going to be a major area of struggle for me, personally.<\/p>\n * \u2013 Where\u2019s that third M come from?\u00a0 \u201cMorpheus\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I described in the launch post for my chaos magic experiment, I am beginning with Liber MMM: mind control, magic, and dreaming*. 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