Initiation into the practice of real magic.
We must premise our spiritual practice in cosmic altruism and embody this wish to gain access to our magic potential. We can start today.
Here’s a song by Moondog to give us strength while we practice.
In one of his teachings from the mythical Don Juan, Carlos Castanada recalled and expressed that magic is found in the peripheral space where what we can perceive and what we are experiencing overlap and become known. A sort of hinterland where we tap into deeper registers of awareness through expanded perception and the overlapping spaces that the body can access.
The models and conceptual explanations I present have always been about deciphering and accessing the metaphysical through the conventional. I teach a way to use inner vision and the mystical view. It emerges through meditation, contemplation, and visualization.
We endeavor to become conscious of both the unconscious psychic territory and the firmament and porous elemental and interactable but barely explored (meta)physical cosmos with its complexity and profundity.
I've discussed how the materialist view constrains our focus to a narrow field of inquiry and activity. Civilizationally, we value and look for clues for a unified theory of everything in the physical mechanizations and activations of only one layer of this universe. In relegating our view to that sliver, we are self-blinding to an infinite cosmos of conscious expression where the mind can expand, our body can evolve and our species become free.
We need to understand how magic has spellbound our societies through the ages, cementing and energizing our beliefs and subsequent activities. If we are to liberate from a type of confused vision of health and if we are willing to dive into the mysterious nature of phenomena, we can genuinely begin today.
At this very moment, there are worlds upon worlds of unseen living beings interacting and converging with our own. There are structures such as the planet we dwell within enmeshing in dimensional frequency with each other, and the subtle aspects of our foundational physics offer a gate.
So, without examining light, wave, electromagnetism, geometry, and thought convergence here any more than needed, we can discuss techniques and the general approach to our mystical practice.
First, where are you practicing?
We are in the desire realm; during the Kali-Yuga's 10 thousand years golden age, duality is revealed, and knowing is embodied in an Aquarian era.
Our dharma can flow from knowing this.
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We live in the degraded age of Kali Yuga, which is determined to last about 430k years (from a few thousand years ago) by Vedic timelines. Even though we are positioned in a golden age propped up by Krishna many millennia ago, we are still sliding dimensionally into darker waters. As we do so, we offer refuge to low-level beings seeking spiritual awakening from suffering.
(I mentioned in a class that the Kali Yuga will last about 250k more years - the Yugas are split into sub-sets and I was describing the Kali Yuga without the addition of these finer following sub-sets making up the entire Yuga)
Details on kali-yuga:
With regard to human relationships, Markandeya's discourse says:
Avarice and wrath will be common. Humans will openly display animosity towards each other. Ignorance of dharma will occur.
Religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, physical strength and memory diminish with each passing day.
People will have thoughts of murder with no justification and will see nothing wrong in that.
Lust will be viewed as socially acceptable and sexual intercourse will be seen as the central requirement of life.
Sin will increase exponentially, while virtue will fade and cease to flourish.
People will become addicted to intoxicating drinks and drugs.
Gurus will no longer be respected and their students will attempt to injure them. Their teachings will be insulted, and followers of Kama will wrest control of the mind from all human beings.
All the human beings will declare themselves as gods or boon given by gods and make it as a business instead of teachings.
People will no longer get married and live with each other just for sexual pleasure.
Weather and environment will degrade with time and frequent and unpredictable rainfalls will happen.
Earthquakes will be common.
The maximum age of humans will be 50 years by the end of Kali Yuga.
Many fake ideologies will spread throughout the world.
The powerful people will dominate the poor people.
Many diseases will spread.
(This is all accurate by my lights, but additional celestial activity is bolstering our capacity. Just as Krishna offered a 10k years widow of spiritual refuge - many other helpers have erected safety-nets to give us access to celestial portals of goodness and spiritual-energetic capacity during this window within the desire realm.)
Imagine large cycles like the planetary solar systems' own spin occurring on larger celestial scales across dimensions. Eons of activity where the quality of consciousness and its manifestations express in different ways, era to era, Yuga to Yuga.
In this time, here in our world, we see how the symbolic and axiomatic or dialectical binary system of thought for humans and others is coming to an end. This is why you see evil and good in all things. Relativism is an outcrop of this but is mistaken and destructive. It deflates these dynamics into a useless position of groundless chaos which is not an accurate reading and negates how polarities point to wisdom.
It is not that the exposure of positive and negative qualities emerges in all systems and individuals to the effect that we should become nihilistic like a relativist.
Instead, it is an opportunity to shed all confusion and, this way, purge the nefarious and ignorant qualities of behavior, belief, and habit from ourselves and inculcate that position into our systems and shared views if we can. Instantly embracing duality’s paradox is the potential of our era.
We are becoming freer in some ways to find dharma even as the degraded age exposes us. The aquarian era is about knowing. Being settled into duality and blending all paradoxes into truth. This a dangerous time and for most it will lead to degradation.
But an opportunity persists.
Truth is always a convergence of contradictory factors, and in that, a sweet song reveals. So this is the platform from which we understand our respective capacities and the tone of the place and time we are manifest.
Joy and humor emerge through the wisdom of absurdity premised in confident love. This is what the celestials and our evolved cosmic brethren convey. That confidence springs from a correct view of emptiness.
This time offers telekinesis, the ability to speak to beings from across the cosmos' many-dimensional conscious energetic matrix form. Locally, we can hear the animals, the earth, and the local celestial beings, including what we call aliens, with ease.
(I didn’t write an album called “Telepathy Now!” in 2006 because I was bluffing) (Sorry for the shameless self-promotion)
This access does not discriminate between helpful and corrosive beings.
Angles and demons, and minds from many spectral dimensions are accessible.
We must always remember that we attract the minds and energies that resemble our astral or light body signature's embodied quality. So, if our body is ringing with hatred, self-loathing, and fear, we will perceive and engage with a life here that reflects that quality more and more. Our multi-dimensional etheric body will converse with beings who reside in that frequency, no matter the perceived (by them) physics that contains them.
They may be in a hell realm, the sphere of the demi-gods, jealous gods or demons, or be parasitic like bugs or leaches attracted to our leaking auric field.
Our auric field drones on in confusion, depleting energy as it fails to connect to vital qi and pranic connectivity (gained through love and wisdom, etc). The Kali-Yuga is a ripe opportunity for this seeding into and connecting to lower beings.
Conversely, we can use the newfound capacities of the era to speak with each other and any manor of the angelic or celestial guardians. The most needed Buddhas are most accessible right now, Tara and Prajnaparamita being two of them. (Yes, all Buddha-field/being is one, but like us is fractalized and expresses different qualities).
Majic changes over time, the gates and portals we are most attuned to as energy bodies dynamically in conversation with the local and general cosmos are always changing.
We are currently less in tune with planetary harmonics through the symbol realm alchemy, and we are now more attuned to higher and quicker methods - such as inner voice mantra and intention. Occultist- symbolic externalized practice used to mark spiritual knowledge in both the eastern and western lineages - we now use the ages' integrated wisdom and energy of our era to activate our capacity instantly. We have forgone interest and the attention span to hear true Gurus and teachers and instead must look within and support one another.
We understand this current state as interacting with scale invariance, such as what Ken Wilber explores in his overlapping ecologies and frames for system evolution across time.
In a nutshell, we absorb new info and re-template with each era.
Example: The political system refines from feudalism to god-kings, to totalitarianism, to communism, to democracy, to technocracy, to anarchy, etc. As things mutate and evolve, they carry the last with them, and just as we can act like a teenager or toddler, our society can slip between levels as it were.
(even if you disagree with my evolutionary model of political/organizational systems there, the point is exact, I think)
Our spiritual evolution is the same, as is our magic capacity. We still use the old ways, but the new ones are available. That overlap confuses us as we are all on different pages and wielding different levels of awareness.
The hope is to steer your own capacity and maintain a clear view of its growth even during the era.
This energetic era allows for a real stew of confusion. We can focus by declaring our intentions.
Our intentions must not just be to liberate our sensual existence.
We must take on the dharma view both to access these powers and to steer them well.
If we are concerned only with this life, we will sublimate all of our magical activity into the flesh and the acquisition of power for gain and the inflation of the ego, the false self. This will mean a degraded spirit and a sinking into a lower dimension, traditionally known as making a deal with the devil.
Occultist and hermetic techniques are essentially a dangerous way to externalize spiritual capacity. They usually come from those who have tasted the spiritual nature of our eternal cosmic heart, or Buddha Nature but have halted faith and exchanged the development of their emptiness practice and compassionate wishes into self-serving ones.
Please don't fall for that direction; it is folly. Focus on love, compassion for all sentience, and the wish to liberate all as you free your self, however long it takes.
Feel the blocks and knots in the heart- that is where we start. Don't avoid our chakra messages. They are the key to opening the path of inner fire and awakening. Our awakening solidifies our direction as in line with the heavens and enlightened state. The kundalini awakening is the message that magic does not have to be forced or transmuted into poetry or metaphor but is instead a living extension of our capacity to know and be.
Once we establish motivation or intention for access to the magical dimensions- we are ready to start learning techniques for awakening and the magic we wield along the way.
Techniques soon!
Josh Reichmann