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To: alt.magick From: Gr3mlin@hotmail.com (Gremlin) Subject: Re: looking for spell ideas... Date: 26 Sep 2003 11:18:08 -0700 If you have read any chaos magick material than you are probably familiar with sigils. Sigils are actually a method of hypnosis pioneered by Erikson, where one can communicate directly with the subconscious outside of trance. In most chaos magick literature you charge a sigil consciously with your intenet and then forget about it. Erikson had other sneaky tricks like metaphors to talk to the subconscious. I personally think Erikson is some new age stuff that has no real roots in traditional hypnosis. Traditional hypnosis has always been direct suggestion and if you are skilled can work outside of trance. Trance can be hard to get into and historicly has always been metaphysical. While all cultures use trance at some level, modern hypnosis was developed from the greeks. Some say the greeks stole it from the egyptians. In greek temples sick folks would indulge in herbs which would induce sleep. While they went to sleep they would pray along side the priests to the gods of sleep. Then once asleep the priests would continue working over them, and when they awoke they would be healed. I suggest you do exactly this, except instead of taking drugs to knock yourself out and relax practice this when you would normally go to sleep. It will take a few weeks to get some practice at this, and I suggest you try a few simple expiriments first. Make yourself have a lucid dream, get your arm to raise in the air while your asleep. Then start playing with more esoteric functions, like prophetic dreams and dealing with your girl friend. Once you are good it shouldn't be hard to enter a light trance while you are awake, or begin to use eriksons techniques of metaphores. In essence what you are doing with your candles is probably a hypnotic method of fixation combined with erikson techniques of metaphor (sigils). This is the essence of magicx. Hope I helped. "Christopher" cmwitecki@rogers.com asked/wrote: To be honest, the most I have done thus far is mostly Candle Magick. I have not had any reason to do anything more than that until now. I have been doing a lot of reading on the subject so I am aware of the basics, but as far as actually performing a full blown spell/ritual... I guess you could say I am a novice. Please dont let that keep you from making suggestions though. Thanks.
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