Magic & Struggle: Meditation during the "apocalypse/renaissance" (And an invite)
Epochal energetic change and physiological upgrading during Kali Yuga mean that the magical realm and our linear mundane realm are blending. Finding renewed refuge is paramount.
Blessings to all. By request, I will be starting up our bi-monthly meditation/spiritual investigation group. This time we will focus not only on dream-time, Kundalini, and multi-dimensional perception but also on grounded healing where we will move through the traditional Tibetan mindfulness practices as taught to me. We will also cultivate insight meditation and an abbreviated Lo-Jong introduction.
Date: May 19, 12pm Est. Zoom invite to be sent.
In many of his teachings from the mythical Don Juan, Carlos Castanada recalled that “magic” is found in the peripheral space where what we can subtly perceive and what we are directly experiencing overlap and become integrated or known. A sort of hinterland dimension is accessed where we tap into deeper registers of awareness through expanded perception and the overlapping spaces that the body can metabolize.
The models and conceptual explanations I present have always been about deciphering and accessing the metaphysical through the conventional. I share a way to use inner vision and the mystical view to heal and empower. It emerges through meditation, contemplation, visualization, and unceasing investigation like turning over a diamond and inspecting for obscurations while blending with its light.
We endeavor to become conscious of both the unconscious psychic territory and the ferments and porous elemental and interactable physical cosmos with its complexity and profundity. We become the eclipsed space where phenomenal display and stillness arise
I've discussed how the materialist view constrains our focus to a narrow field of inquiry and activity. Civilizationally, we look for clues to the physical mechanizations and activations of 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 symbolic, memetic semiotic occultist magic has spellbound our societies through the ages, cementing and energizing our beliefs and subsequent activities in the mundane realm.
If we are to liberate from a type of confused vision of health and are willing to dive into the mysterious nature of perceived phenomena, we can genuinely begin today and purify the old constructs.
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 overlapping in dimensional frequency with each other, and the subtle aspects of foundational physics on the vanguard where mind and awareness intersect with the elemental forces- offer a gate.
So, without examining light, wave, and thought convergence here any more than needed, we can discuss techniques and the general approach to our mystical practice beyond concept.
First, where are we 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 250k years by Vedic timelines. Even though we are positioned in a golden age sliver of this, propped up by lord Krishna many millennia ago, we are still sliding dimensionally into darker energetic waters. As we do so, we offer refuge to low-level beings seeking spiritual awakening from suffering, so in many ways, if we don’t take this confusing energetic cycle personally we can see that it is all part of liberation within samsara as nirvana is manifest at once in accordance with this Yuga.
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 we conventionally inhabit, we see how the symbolic and axiomatic or dialectical binary system of thought is coming to an end. This is why we see “evil” and “good” in all things. Relativism or nihilism is an outcrop response to this but is mistaken and destructive.
It is not that the exposure of positive and negative qualities emerges in all systems and individuals to the effect that we become nihilistic and amoral. 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. It is a prompt to evolve.
We are becoming freer even as the degraded age exposes us and all things. The aquarian era is about knowing, being settled into duality, and blending paradoxes into truth.
“Truth” is always a convergence of contradictory factors, and in that, a sweet song reveals beyond ontology or the discursive mind’s conceit. So this is the platform from which we understand our respective capacities and the tone of the place and time we are manifest directly.
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.
This access does not discriminate between helpful and corrosive beings. We must learn to protect ourselves and come out of ignorance.
Angles and demons and minds from many spectral dimensions are accessible even to those with material world views. Remember all is mind-produced. Both a projection and reception of hallucinated forms. All displays are interdependent and yet the stakes are high for us Karmically even if we are star-seeds, or evolved beings whose Bodhisatva vow has been activated- we must remain vigilant and guard our minds. For perception is the age to energetic upgrading.
We must never forget 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 life here that reflects that quality more and more and vice versa. 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 Bodhicitta / correct view - the eight-fold path & love, etc.).
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. The protector deities are available to those who have been initiated or introduced properly.
Magic 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 constantly changing.
We are currently less in tune with planetary harmonics through rhythmic alchemy, and we are now more attuned to higher and quicker methods beyond the terrestrial - such as inner voice mantra and intention (this comes at a price).
Occultist- a symbolic externalized practice working with elements 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. Our software is updated and we have the old programs to draw from with quantum speed, but we are inexperienced.
We understand this as 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 each era. And a new one is upon us. We must acclimatize.
Example: The 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 capacity and maintain a clear view of its growth.
This energetic era allows for an authentic stew of confusion ripe with never-felt opportunity. We can focus on this potential space 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 acquire 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 yourself, 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.
We start with an honest appraisal of what we are, our realm perception, and our habits of interaction.
We start by holding silence in the storm. Observe the inner and outer mandala of noise and its perfection. You can access bliss even if you are suffering. See all phenomena as transient fluid and dream-like. From here, we never lose touch, no matter where or when we find ourselves manifest.
Josh Reichmann