Mercury Planetary Bath of Clear Communication and Adaptability

What Follows is a Mercurial Bathwork with 8 incidents.  Yes in Hoodoo, usually you would use an odd number but Mercury's number is 8.   Included is the full charging ritual as I have performed many times.

This ritual clears up some spiritual communication issues and interpersonal communication issues.  Since I am coming out of my facebook fast, figured this was a good time to re-do this.  Extra clarification of charging materials can be found in my first book, Hands-On Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation through the Ovayki Current.  Typically, Mercury is associated with Air, but bathwork can really get the energies into your skin and body.  Besides, I like Baths.

Understanding what Mercury Is, and why Its helpful.

In his description, Peter Carroll describes orange magic ( or Mercury work as follows) :  "Charlatanry, trickery, living by one's wits and thinking fast on one's feet are the essence of the orange power. These mercurial abilities were traditionally associated with the god forms which acted as patrons to doctors, magicians, gamblers and thieves.".  Although,  a little harsh, Mercurial energy is very close to the idea of Thought and communication in rapid fire.  Wits and communication.   Need to speak, communicate, or write... Well Mercury.    Need to think rationally and fast, Mercury.

Typically, Wednesday is the best day to do this type of ritual as Wednesday is Mercury's day.  You could look up the exact hourly time based on your geography at http://www.lunarium.co.uk/planets/hours.jsp.  

You could figure that out by hand too if you read lots of ceremonial magic, but to quote the internet "aint got no time for that".  I am not sure if the hour time matters independently of the belief in the fact that the hourly time matters, but you could do this charging on the Mercury day at the Mercury hour.

Materials Needed:

Bath
Horehound
Celery Seeds
Lavender
Cedar Tips
Fennel Seeds
Lemon Grass
Parsley ( fresh)
Deer's Tongue

Before using each herb, you have to bless it and put your energy into it.  Usually, this can be achieved through breathing and focus and active imagination.  Need more help, yep, see Hands-On Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation through the Ovayki Current.  I almost always will appeal to Gran Bwa, to turn on the herbs and fix whatever ashe is wrong with them.  Just take the extra time to do this, even better if you try to communicate with each herb spirit ( again see Hands on Chaos magic for lots of details on this).  I like to add fresh stream water to do this ( nice clean movement to the water), which brings the nice total to an uneven number for bathwork if you count the water.  If you can get rain water, for this ritual, it is even better instead of the stream water.

I will tend to bias the mixture toward Lavender and Lemon Grass and Parsley.  These are all fluffy and I really enjoy those herbs so I would almost go 3 parts on these three, 1 part everything else.

Crush up part a small part of the mixture into a powder.  This will take a bit of time.

Now I know Deer's Tongue herb is not usually a mercurial herb, and I know it is usually used to "talk your way out of trouble", but I have found that it just smooths out most communication when used in a bath.  I like it, the readings when I put this together were very positive.

Altar Materials and Altar Setup:  

8 small orange candles dressed with Mercury Planetary oil ( 4 drops Lavender, 2 drops Eucalyptus, 1 drop Peppermint).    Carve the seal into each candle with a brass or tin instrument if possible.  To make it more visible, I will take the crushed bath powder and rub it into the mercury seal.  Together the mixture will be somewhat greenish so it will make the seal stand out on each candle.



A draw out copy of the Mercurial Planetary Seal on decent yellowish paper.  Make this large enough that you can place a bowl in the middle of this.  Dress the lines of this seal with mercury oil.

Place the 8 candles on the corners of the seal and around the diamond of the seal.

If I can get them, I usually like to put 8 topaz stones ( low grade and orangish), in each of the corners sections of the seal, pointing toward the bowl of herbs.  I just like doing this, and the topaz acts as a sort of crystal magnifier.

Why Orange candles:  Planetary magic is just BLOODY color corresponding CONFUSED.  Orange is the correspondence for Mercury in the Greater Key of Solomon, and pretty much in Peter Carroll's Chaos star, and various Hoodoo stuff, and just a host of other sources.  If you think Yellow, Purple (Picatrix), or blue is better ( or more classical in some sources), use that.  Also, green is often cited as an allied color of mercury, which I have already have when we rubbed the powder onto the candles.   Really, just don't over think this.  I like Orange for Mercury.

Place all the herbs into a orange colored mesh bag, or a small jar.  If using a jar, cover the Jar with orange fabric.    When I have it, I will place some Mercury Metal in a SEALED and small airtight container ( like a vial), in with the herbs.  Make sure non of the actual mercury is mixed with the herbs.  Elemental Mercury is toxic.  The vibration near the herbs through ritual is sufficient.  DO NOT add the mercury to any bath work.  No Really, DON'T DO THAT.

Planetary Intelligence of Mercury
Tiriel

On the Left is the Sigil for the Planetary Intelligence of Mercury, Tiriel.  On the right is the Planetary Magic Square For Mercury.

Magic Square for Mercury

Now, I like drawing out the seal with ORANGE ( see I did that again), on a printed magical square using the various methods from Aggripa.  Honest, for most applications, unless you are very interested, you could just copy the the Seal onto clean paper.   Place the seal on the front of the Jar or on top of the bag of herbs.

Square of mercury, but I have no idea
how you'd use that to draw the Seal untop of.  Maybe black.

So this is meant as a add in to your altar as it is.  Here is how I would set up the working area for this ritual.

Your Millage may Very, but the picture on the left should give you a visual representation of the altar set up above

Mercury Bath Charging Ritual

This ritual uses components of standard Western Ceremonial Magic in ways that use far more of a material base.  I realize this is not quite the standard "Ceremonial Magic", but rest assured this works.

Start by Meditating or Doing some Chakra work.

1. Start the Incense Burning.  Use a pinch of the mixture you powdered in the preparation step and that you pushed into the candle.

2. State your intent:  It is my will to Imbue the bath herbs with the the strength and energy of the highest aspirations of Mercury

3. Basically Perform the first and second part of the LBRP

• Perform the Cabalistic Cross ( For More Info)
• Perform the Formation of the Pentagrams ( For More Info)

4. Perform a Hacked Greater Hexagon Ritual

Hexagon Gate Opening, and
Convienient Mercury Hebrew to open the Gate

I see this component as more of a Gate opening, and there are more then a few ways to do this.

For the Strictly hard core ceremonialists who need extensive oration recite the Orphic Hymm to Mercury

I usually skip that, concentrating much more on the vibration.  I see/feel the hexagram ritual much more as a type of opening of the planetary energies.




Orphic Hymm to Mercury ( for those who want it)

Hermes, draw near, and to my pray'r incline,
Angel of Jove, and Maia's son divine;
Prefect of contest, ruler of mankind,
With heart almighty, and a prudent mind.
Celestial messenger of various skill,
Whose pow'rful arts could watchful Argus kill.
With winged feet 'tis thine thro' air to course,
O friend of man, and prophet of discourse;
Great life-supporter, to rejoice is thine
In arts gymnastic, and in fraud divine.
With pow'r endu'd all language to explain,
Of care the loos'ner, and the source of gain.
Whose hand contains of blameless peace the rod,
Corucian, blessed, profitable God.
Of various speech, whose aid in works we find,
And in necessities to mortals kind.
Dire weapon of the tongue, which men revere,
Be present, Hermes, and thy suppliant hear;
Assist my works, conclude my life with peace,
Give graceful speech, and memory's increase.

Hexagon Gate Opening, and

Convenient Mercury
Hebrew to open the Gate
From High Magic.

Now, I will Vibrate with every cell of my body, "Elohim Tzabaoth Ararita",  Need advice on vibrating it out fully, yep, yep, see Hands-On Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation through the Ovayki Current.  Draw out the hexagram starting with the 1 position ( which is Mercury for this ritual) and dray the first triangle.  Then do the second triangle starting from the Jupiter 2 position.  Both are draw with your magical weapon or finger in a clockwise manner. Visualize/draw the Hexagram over the whole altar.   Now at this point,  light the first of the Candles ( which should be the most eastward one).  

Ring a nice sounding Bell.

Repeat this 7 more times ( 8 in total, till all the candles are lit).
Light the Candles in a Clockwise manner.



5.  Call Tiriel and Go to Town

Planetary Intelligence of Mercury
Tiriel

To remind you, here is Tiriel's symbol again on the left.  This should be on the jar.  I know Aggripa's Intelligences sometimes present themselves with a personality, but for this working and many of the times I use the Aggripa intelligences, I find it more convenient to conceive of them as planetary LIVEWIRES.  Essentially, for this ritual, understand the personality is a reflection of the aspect of God(dess) that this is.  That actually, if you think about it, makes the ritual more dangerous.  Focus on the Seal and Chant Tiriel while imagining with all of your five senses that the bath is getting the MOJO.  I picture this as the Orange mercurial Vibe... dosing the bath herbs.

Mercury is Fast, witty, Zappy.  I sometimes will break into laughter as if someone told me a real joke.  The Chanting should be fast, frantic but control.  So fast you barely can pronounce the words.  Pay attention to any visions, but try to direct this all into the herbs.  Notice, for intelligences, I do not use a protection circle.  Really, we are making a bath, what's the point of that.

Keep going till you are out of breath.  Thank Tiriel for super Mercurifying the bath herbs.

6.  Close the Planetary Gate

Now, I will Vibrate with every cell of my body, "Elohim Tzabaoth Ararita",   Go from the Jupitar point Draw out the hexagram starting with the 1 position draw the first triangle in a counterclockwise manner, and from the point 2, draw the second triangle in a  counterclockwise manner.  Snuff the last candle you lit

Ring a nice sounding Bell. 

Repeat this 7 more times ( 8 in total, till all the candles are snuffed).

7.  Perform the Cabalistic Cross ( For More Info)

8.  Do something else thats fun.

Layered Angel Work with Raphael

As the Arch-Angel Raphael is the highest aspirations of Mercury ( to me), it is possible to move from doing the Tiriel step in 5, and adding a Step 5.5, which would be to directly evoke the Archangel over the bath mixture for additional support and really up ante.  This type of layering on the physical material really ups the vibration.  That my friends will be a different blog post.

Preparing and Taking the Actual Bath

This is intended as a soaking bath ( although not needfully a relaxing one).  Boil the herbs for a good 15 minutes.  Strain the material ( and save it).

Add the herb soup to the bathwater.

First, Take the 8 candles from the ritual and place them around the tub and light them.

Hop in.

Start problem solving, mentally ramping  up the activity, having fun.
Nothing to me says Mercury like MATH, oh that's right MATH.   Hard Math....

Calculus, Derivatives.... any hard project or best of all  ...

Fibonacci numbers




Work through as many as possible as fast sitting in that tub as possible.

For those who HATE MATH
Really any crossword puzzle, or any puzzle.  Sit in the water and get the mental juices flowing as fast as possible.

If you want, just start lying outloud. Outrageous lies... fast and furious at lightning speed.



When you are done in the the bath, AIR DRY.  Do not towel the herbal bath off.  Your skin will absorbe the energy and herbal medicine.

Now, you can take the herbs and bring them to a crossroads.  Throw them out there while giving the crossroads a shot of rum.  Of course, this is slightly modified version of a traditional Hoodoo technique ( to not clog up the drain).

Appendix

From the Open Source Golden Dawn

Appendix A: Performance Notes on The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

The Kabbalistic Cross

Stand facing east. Allow the body to relax. Feel your awareness expand outward to the Universe, while at the same time feel your feet firmly grounded beneath you maintaining a firm foothold in your Earthly existence. Breathe deeply and fully, and prepare to make your entire body vibrate with the sound of your voice.
See, in your mind's eye, a sphere of blazing white brilliance just above your head. Raise the right hand up high and draw down a beam of brilliance from the sphere into the top of your head, filling the entire cranium with light. Touch the forehead and intone "A-toh" (Thine)
Bring the hand down before the body and touch the solar plexus (just below the sternum). Simultaneously, see the Divine white brilliance descend in a beam through the center of the body, down between the feet, into the Earth. Intone "Mal-kuth" (Kingdom)
Touch the right shoulder, and see the Light extend in a ray to that point. Intone "Va Gaburah" (the power)
Touch the left shoulder, and see the Light extend likewise to that point. Intone "Va Gadulah" (the glory)
Clasp the hands at the breast and intone "Leh-olahm. Amen" (Forever. Amen)

The Formulation of the Pentagrams

In the East, draw a large banishing Earth Pentagram with a fully extended right arm and forefinger. Start at the lower left hip, draw a bluish white line up to a point high over your head, continue the line down to a point before your right hip, up beside your left shoulder, over to the right and then back down to a point before the left hip. This a symbol of the divine power reigning over the Elements of the universe. See it as an all encompassing representation of great power. Breath in deeply drawing energy from the hidden depths of the universe, then give the Sign of the Enterer toward the center of the pentagram, intoning the God-name "Ah-sher-rah" Feel the power rushing out and charging the pentagram. You may or may not feel anything physically. Just see the pentagram burst into electric blue flame as you intone each name. Resume your standing position and give the Sign of Silence as you receive back the reflux of the energy you have just sent forth.
Draw a white line from the center of the pentagram, making a quarter of a circle as you proceed toward the South. Stop there and draw the pentagram as before, but this time as you give the Sign of the Enterer, intone "Ah-doh-nai" followed by the Sign of Silence.
Continue the white line to the West. Draw the pentagram, give the Sign of the Enterer, and intone "Eh-heh-ee-yeh".
Continue the white line to the North. Draw the pentagram, give the Sign of the Enterer, and intone "A-gah-lah".
Return to the center of the circle and see the pentagrams in the air about you. Feel their fierce heat and protection. Raise your arms to form a cross, and see Raphael, the archangel of Air, standing before you in the East. His hair is blonde, his skin is very fair, his robe is yellow with flashes of violet, he stands atop a hill with the wind coming from the cloud-patched sky behind him, and he holds the caduceus in his right hand. Say "Before me" and then intone, "Rah-fah-el."
Visualize Gabriel, the archangel of Water, standing behind you in the West. His robe is blue flashing with orange. He stands in the shallows by a gushing spring. He holds a silver cup in his left hand, his hair is light brown, and his skin is fair. Feel moisture wafting in from the West. Say "behind me" and then intone "Gah-bree-el."
In the South, see Michael, the great archangel of Fire. His robe is brilliant scarlet flashing green. He stands in the desert, and fire rises up from the burning sands around his feet. He holds upright in his right hand a flaming iron sword. His hair is black and his skin is dark. Feel intense heat radiating from the South. Say "at my right hand" and then intone "Mee-chah-el" (the ch is pronounced softly as in the Scottish word for lake, "loch").
In the North, see Auriel, the archangel of Earth. His robes are citrine, olive, and russet. He stands on black soil from which ripe wheat springs up behind him. He holds sheaves of wheat in his left hand. His hair is black and his skin is tan. His eyes and intense , large, and dark. See cattle grazing in the field behind him. Beyond them is forest, and beyond the forest are mountains. Say "and at my left hand" and then intone "Or-ee-el."
Still maintaining the arms in a cross, say "for about me flame the pentagrams (see the pentagrams) and in the column shines the six-rayed star." See a hexagram floating in your torso, its uppermost angle peaks in your throat and its lower most rests in your groin. The upright triangle is made of red fire. Its blue, downward-pointing triangle wavers slightly like a reflection on water. Feel the dry heat of the flame and the cool moisture of the water. These forces intertwine in your being.
At this stage in training, the LBRP should be performed at least once per day, preferably upon rising.

Useful References

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Practical Chakra Empowering ( Version 2 with Transpersonal additions )

So if you haven't noticed, I have been focusing a lot on some core fundamentals, and lot of this blog will start to go back to hoodoo techniques. Just the very simple but powerful techniques.  This is part of my personal plan.  In another post, I went into a fair amount of detail about a method of chakra work from a energy work/energy manipulation method.  To understand this iteration, you will need to go check out that first chakra empowerment post.  Read it, then come back to this.

This basic idea was very simple.  Use all five of your senses to hyper spin the chakras.  Then add memetic and traditional devices to help you get in resonance with each chakra.  Work up from base to crown, hyper-spinning each chakra.  The faster spinning clears out the negativity, purifies the entire system, and builds the strength of each chakra.  It is a pretty succinct and powerful way to build chakra strength, and have more energy.  I have done it and this works well.

This second variation on these theme includes some components of the the Transpersonal Chakra work ( which I will describe)  and is much more powerful but takes a little longer.

Basic Technique

In general, the base technique is mostly the same as described in that first chakra empowerment post, but the ordering and steps between chakras is different.  The first exercise goes through each chakra and then goes through the last step of going through them a second time while keeping them all spinning.   Inevitably, the hyperspinning of the chakra slows down very quickly.   While its possible to keep the chakras in mind, they still tend to slow down to optimal ( normal), not hypernormal mode once you move past one chakra.  As I covered in the first article, hyperspinning them forces them to balance out impurities and grow stronger.  It does not make them overly active.  The notion of overactive chakras to me seems to come from the imbalance of one chakra compared to the over activeness of other chakras.  The Hyperspinning balances that out in relation to the others and moves toward a certain kind of ascention ( to use the new age parlance).

To get past the slowing down of one chakra while still in the meditation, what I did was as follows.  Hyperspinning was the technique I gave in that first chakra empowerment post.

Root Chakra  1st  BASE

Relax  -> Hyperspin the root chakra 

Swadhishthan ( 2nd Chakra) Genitalia
Relax ->  Hyperspin the root chakra ->  Hyperspin the Swadhishthan chakra

Manipoor ( 3rd Chakra)  Solar Plexus
Relax ->  Hyperspin the root chakra ->  Hyperspin the Swadhishthan chakra -> Hyperspin the Manipoor Chakra

Anahata (4th Chakra)  Heart

Relax ->  Hyperspin the root chakra ->  Hyperspin the Swadhishthan chakra -> Hyperspin the Manipoor Chakra -> Hyperspin the  Anahata Chakra

Vishuddhi ( 5th) Throat

Relax ->  Hyperspin the root chakra ->  Hyperspin the Swadhishthan chakra -> Hyperspin the Manipoor Chakra -> Hyperspin the  Anahata Chakra -> Hyperspin the Vishuddhi chakra

Ajna ( 6th)  Third Eye

Relax ->  Hyperspin the root chakra ->  Hyperspin the Swadhishthan chakra -> Hyperspin the Manipoor Chakra -> Hyperspin the Anahata Chakra -> Hyperspin the Vishuddhi chakra -> Hyperspin the  Ajna Chakra

Sahastrasar (7th)  Crown

Relax ->  Hyperspin the root chakra ->  Hyperspin the Swadhishthan chakra -> Hyperspin the Manipoor Chakra -> Hyperspin the Anahata Chakra -> Hyperspin the Vishuddhi chakra -> Hyperspin the  Ajna Chakra -> Hyperspin the  Sahastrasar Chakra

What does this do?

In practice, when we get to each chakra using this iteration of the exercise  it gets easier and easier to spin them and they feel like they spin more powerfully.  After doing this, I find that I have alot more energy and feel stronger, well balanced and very even/stable.

By doing this exercise in this stepwise function, we make sure that the chakras are in a hyper performing mode when you move to the next level.  The chakra's slow down relatively quickly from one level to the next, but when doing this exercise, it seems like a journey where you have just the right escape velocity to move from one level to the next.   Each step feels like a journey.   This method has been far more effective then the first style of work.

Transpersonal Chakras

This was probably the least offensive image I could find for the transpersonal chakras and it implies the alchemical purpose of these chakras.  The transpersonal chakra's are a controversial topic in new age and metaphysical thought.  Conflicting versions exist in Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and more.  Some people would say they don't exist.  Some people say they are a way for people to "claim" spiritual power over each other acting like a guru.

In my meditation, I did before doing more research, after doing this on the Crown chakra I did feel 3 more layers above my head.   Now, the personal effects of this are very hard to detail.

The Casual Chakra roughly, I have envisioned right above the crown at most 4 finger widths.  I almost think this is something attached to the the crown or intimately connected to the crown.  Now, this particular chakra seems to connect to the past lives.  I have had trouble verifying this in my experimentation, but I will say that as I have worked with this, I have and information and knowledge enter into my consciousness that I probably could not have just gotten.  Verifiable magical information.  Past Life is as good an explanation as any, although the information comes more like a download then beautiful visions of some long lost time.  The information is there, but much of the context around when and where is not.  Generally, I see this as a silver, sometimes as a Irredesncent.  It isn't quite that I ever get visions.  Now this Chakra does not seem directly in the path of the rising surge of energy that the hyperspinning produces.  You have to kinda want to just work with this one directly, and meditate on it.  The research is totally conflicted, but this is my take on it.

Alternate take on the transpersonal chakras.

The soul star chakra

That 12th chakra point is golden in my opinion.  To me this point connects to what I would consider in western magic as the HGA, in a more energy vibrational form.  It is essentially, the highest aspirations of you.  I do not really have a good western analog and working with this chakra is hard to vocalize the effects.  I usually just notice good luck, clearer ideas of where I am headed and the like.  This is relatively easy to connect to from the crown chakra.  Ironically, without being too flakey, the solar disk portrayed in many Eqyptian gods and goddesses, I think refers to this point.  Now the research is conflicted whether or not there is more up the change.  I have felt one more about 3 feet above the head, but shooting into this one is tough to hold and gets very very trippy.  It is almost more like being involved in a web, and you start seeing visions of other places and times while not knowing what is real and what is not real.

What I think happens when you open the 12th chakra in this way, is that it allows Shen to fill the body.  Shen is spiritual energy in Chinese Medicine.  Its the best term I have for this.  Spiritual energy is usually not very "dense" with Jing being the most dense form of energy ( aka blood tissue).  When the system is flooded with this spiritual energy, it packs down into the system and refils the chi of the body, but refills it with purpose aligned with that Self.  To me that "higher self" is neither really higher, nor really clearly understandable, but I have seen immense increases in magical and actualized ( as in testable) spiritual power, after working with chakra.

To finish the Exercise

Although you could direct the energy to the Causal Chakra, it is easier to use the hyperspinning technique on the Crown chakra and then boost up.  Again, this is like leaving at just the right speed.

So add the last step:

Soul Star ( solar?)  Chakra

Relax ->  Hyperspin the root chakra ->  Hyperspin the Swadhishthan chakra -> Hyperspin the Manipoor Chakra -> Hyperspin the Anahata Chakra -> Hyperspin the Vishuddhi chakra -> Hyperspin the  Ajna Chakra -> Hyperspin the  Sahastrasar Chakra  ->  Hyperspin the Soul star chakra.

Now after you hyperspin the soul star, allow the energy to flow back into your system from that higher chakra.  This has a VERY similar effect to the middle pillar exercise and to me it is both comforting and relaxing.  If you are correctly grounding, this will feel very much like being connected to heaven and earth at the same time.   Essentially, you become the Axis Mundi.   

You could hyperspin the Soul star and reach out to the next chakra 3 ft above the head as I have found, but be prepared.  It gets weird and you will loose track of time in the visions and mixtures of past, present, future, existing and non-existing.  I consider this last section experimental.  If you have questions, feel free to ask me.   

Now if you need some help to start getting into the meditative state, may I suggest my mp3

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Walking Condensing Breathing as Spiritual Weightlifting.

Condensing Breathing is one of the exercises that is probably the core of Sifu Clyman's Chigung system.  It involves pulling energy into the centerline of the body and links from the horizontal plane by squeezing your sphincters muscles.  He freely gives this at:

http://www.chikung.com/wp-content/files/IKFCBHandout.pdf

To understand the walking varient of this, you'll have to understand the above.  There is a couple fine points to the above listing.  Sifu Clyman probably will not agree with these, but in practice I find they help a tremendous amount.

First, you have to squeeze your sphincter muscles and kind of tuck your your hips and spin under. Its more like raising  and tucking your tailbone in, while compressing your sphincter.  You have to do this on each inhale.

Second,  some people are not very energy sensitive.  This will take time to develop.  To Suck Energy is actually somewhat of a confusing metaphor.    Instead use your senses on inhale to know you are pulling in the vibe of the surroundings on inhale by imagining the sights, sounds, feelings, etc pulling and condensing into the center of your limbs.  Eventually,  you'll get more sensitive to Chi, but this will speed up the process.

Third, on exhale, you are holding on to the chi and not releasing it.  This means you are pulling energy and keeping energy from the environment.  This is a very Yang Chigung technique.  If you know about Taoist metaphysics, it will help to generate Yin Chi.  Again, using all your senses at first to imagine and know keeping the energy inside on exhale.  On exhale also, you release your spinchters.  Unfortunately, the physical action of the releasing the sphincter muscles tends to cause the energy to release.  You have to stay focused on this phase.  The exhale, I believe is the hardest part of the exercise.  If you release the energy, there much less benefit to the exercise.

Fourth,   the environment matters.  While it is true that condensing the chi in this matter has a purifying effect on the chi( meaning it does not in the long term matter where you condense chi), the starting quality of the Chi has a impact on the effectiveness of the condensing.   Basically, if I go to a forest, and condense breath, I find  I get a greater and more pronounced effect.  If I condensing breathe while in the middle of a LBRP, I get a greater and more pronounced effects then if I were doing this on the street.    THINK about that.  So if you Condense Breathe in your temple, you get more of the energies of the temple flowing into you and condensing.  Just think about that for a minute.  Apply as you will.

Five, this takes energy from the horizontal plane... meaning from circles around you.  For this exercise do not pull energy into the top of your head or up through your feet.

Walking Condensing Breath

In addition to using the senses,  it is possible to do the condensing breath while walking.  I have found
I very much like this.  I learned this from Sifu Martin while I was down in Columbus and have been tweaking the excercise.  Now it is possible to compress the sphinchters and walk.  Physically, this sensation is very odd.   Obviously, you cannot put yourself into a horse stance, with your toes pointed in,  but you should try to walk with slightly bent knees  and try to be mindful of keeping your toes and knees aligned forward.  Try not to lock your knees.    It may look a little weird to have your arms at your-side, but it does work with the walking.

Start out by tucking your tailbone and compressing your sphincter muscles on inhale and walking around your practice space.  Try to take even and measured steps.  Speed up your walking speed.   To make this very effective, keep your breathing pattern at 4 seconds in with 4 seconds out with no pausing between breathe while walking.  This actually becomes difficult at times as you are compressing the breath.  Your body will want to take what I call hiccup short breathes as if you were running.  You have to keep the focus and keep walking.

On exhale, still just release the internal muscles and hold on to the energy.

Add the last phase add the mental components, of sucking energy on inhale using all your senses.  To me this where the body really takes those hiccup breathes sometimes as a reaction to the increasing Yang energy, sometimes as a result of bio-mechanics.    Again, you must keep your focus on exhaling.

Once you practice this inside for a bit, then go outside.  This exercise keeps you in a mild-medium trance state and you must get used to how it affects your perception.  The pavement, grass, or even the forest are not even ground so it requires you to keep doing this exercise on mixed terrain.  Practice first, then go outside.

Some points to remember.    When walking try to take a similar sized-stride each time.  Try to keep your foot that is moving as close to the ground as possible as you move it.  Breathe in 4 second in and out pattens ( this is tougher then it seems while walking vigorously).  Try to keep your spine upright and aligned while walking and doing this exercise.  While walking, as much as possible, keep as much focus on the energy condensing.  Unlike the standing exercise  you must reserve some concentration for environment, but with practice you can pull alot of Chi in while walking.

Clyman's book the The Chi Kung Bible: Beyond Self-Help: Mastering Personal Power
has some very useful information in there and I would get it.   I learned this exercise  directly form Master Clyman.  I originally got the Nei Gung program for ALOT of money ( and I have to ask him questions on  sooner or later).  BUT... with Sifu Clyman there is ALOT you have to read clear headed, and without reacting or you will be very offended.  The full daily practice routine DOES boost magical aptitude quite quickly ( although some of the medical Gigong seem to cause greater body alchemy).  This exercise seems to create the single greatest benefit, and combining this with walking has had an even greater better health effect.

Like most books that I find useful but the personality of the author gets in the way,  I took the useful techniques of book, rewrote them in a journal and tried to redraw the pictures.  This greatly will internalize the techniques, and you have to the practice.  He also has practice videos which are useful and his web site is http://www.chikung.com/.  Again,  go down to see him, put on your thick skin and get your practice on.

BONUS TIP:   For the people in the 30 day entity challenge,  try to do the original exercise for 6 repetitions or the walking version for 20 minutes and then try your rituals.

Categories: Energy Work, Spiritual How To

Regaining Focus in the Age of Distraction ( Part 1)

So recently,  I decided to black out my web site, get off facebook for a while, and shut down my weekly podcast radio show.  There were a lot of reasons for doing all of these, but it comes down to a) The Great Work b) simplify…

Making the Decision to temporarily ( or longer) pull the plug on a few things

So this isn’t a meant to be a longer rant, my confusion and pain is meant to be a teaching moment.   If you read any book on podcasting, social media marketing,  PR or other books, you might come to the conclusion that pulling the plug for a while is just  a hugely bad idea for marketing.  Perhaps.   There comes a wall when what you need is space.

I don’t know whether it was the other kinda assholio occultists complaining about Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole in berating fasions, getting into a pissing war over the 30 day challenge with others who clearly had fucked ulterior motives or reading blogs where people just seemed to post the blog for endless debate and friction,  or a post about why posting Baphomet on your facebook is bad for marketing and I was so much better then that ( which was done with good intentions)…. Or the endless requests for magical spellwork

… but in the course of life, working with Ra and Gigong, something snapped, I hit that wall.  

  I think alot of people have hit that wall, but the idea that you might loose standing, potential sales, or opportunities presents a hard choice. No one in the public eye wants to hurt their brand and I’d like to write another book maybe have a couple people even see that.  Maybe even make some money at this stuff.

But then, I had that moment of rage and just went, Shove it.   It was building for a while.  No Really, burn it down.   

Taking an extra day to sleep on it, I decided lets make that temporary.  3 days into doing that fog is clearing.  Realizations occur.  Pyramids, Momuments, and the like NEED a plan.  I don’t have one, and while alot of this was going on, I didn’t have the space to make one.  Work Responsibilities, Family and some bumps in the road, show responsibilites of having to speed read the books authors would give me, Marketing responsibilities…  and I am struggling to get 20 minutes to do serious Gigong work.   

Right… if you feel like that… something IS amiss, let yourself hit the nuke button.  THAT can be the answer.  Seriously.

One day into this process, I came into contact with Leo Babauta, Free Focus at http://focusmanifesto.s3.amazonaws.com/FocusFree.pdf.  Now Leo has written the Power of Less, and several other books.  He says he’s not anti technology, but thats debatable.  He is pretty hardcore ZEN,  This is a free fantastic book.  The book was correctly articulating exactly many of the concepts I was trying to get grapple and starting to build a framework around.  It was a nice syncronicity.

I sill probably write several blog posts about simplifying.

Really it was simple…Shit became not fun, amazing, or inspiring.… and I was struggling to meet  commitments.  In what is a radical sense, he’d say don’t.  Nuke the commitment, simplify.

Really I love doing magic, but talking about  magic became tedious,  the marketing became tedious.  Facebook was getting tedious ( and I will have to more about facebook in a second).  Dissolve, Destroy, Reframe, and Seperate from the Negative is my current mantra.

Really this Author Andrieh Vitimus guy, basically said to do all that in Hands On Chaos Magic.  Maybe I should go read it.

The Author Versus the Magician

Regardless of whether some people will agree or not, the truth is that the anti-nominal nature of the magician will sometimes chaff with the nature of the author.  These roles have very different purposes and sometimes they cross conflict.

When I thought about what I was doing 10 years ago,   I got to say, I was somewhat of an asshole, not quite as much as other chaos magicians, but somewhat.  I just didn’t really give a shit.  Just do the magic and not give a shit.   Once you go more public, that makes things very much scrutinized.  People will say, it isn’t so, but I wont buy it.   Anything role even the public, become self-sustaining and self-constraining.  That doesn’t mean people won’t be rude or be jerks, but the egregoric force of their public “self” has a subtle effect.  It either encourages certain actions, or not.   Really, I know some magicians will say, oh I am above that… or its all part of a plan but then we get into the question of authenticity… One does not have to read very far into Social psychology to know the impact that roles has on behavior and personality.  I just think magicians and occultists forget that impact, or worse think they are above it.

  

Is a carefully contrived “mask” as authentic?  The worst part of this is that mask can be consciously created, but it still changes the subconscious… There still is a magical imprint on the practitioner.

The Demon of Social Media

Social media is very seducing.  Each little like is a positive emotional boost.  At one point, I thought

damn, there was a direct correlation between the like or the shares and engagement.  Engagement directly relating to sales.  Really, when your trying to stay in the public eye, so you can potentially do sales. Then you keep doing it, Leo correctly points out what this is.   It can be an addiction with consequences.   Things come in your field of vision, which you have little control of and you have all the expectations of response.  It is like trying to win the playground.  Right before I hit that personal wall,  alot of the interactions I had were on facebook.  I never fell into the pattern with Twitter.  To me it became a Demon.

Are those facebook interactions authentic?  I came to the conclusion no.  I know many others will disagree me and thats fine.  I saw friends who were friends in real life, do things which were pretty hurtful ( and I believe they would have come to the conclusion too), and other people I started to serious rethink things about them based on the facebook stuff.   I’m sure, they have probably done the same.  Mutually, Exit Stage left out of the life.  Change is the only constant.  

But facebook and the social media push the drive forward.  Drive to publicity, drive to one-up-ship, drive to do things which hurt each other not out of meaness, but because other motivations drown out any empathy.   It really isn’t the people, but it IS the Medium which encourages it.   It is the constant state of distraction.  The constant need to attention that the system wants to create.  After all, its more money for them to advertise to you.

Attention is a powerful intrinsic motivator, but it is a harsh and subtle drug.  Think about it.  How much do we do for attention?  How difficult is it to get attention, and then Facebook comes along….. Instant Attention Machine, but its not real attention, its a demiurge like attention.  Like a shadow that doesn’t really fullfill, and its done by design.   I can’t control other people, but I also don’t really need see the regular updates.  In a way, the shadow of time allows for a better appreciation of the person  and acceptance of the flaws.  The microscope of instant and always attention, highlights all imperfection to mega-stadium levels.

Really, its the stunning Rate of the information and response, not the communication … that to me was one of the issues.

Simplify, dissolve, Reframe.

Starting on a Media Fast

3 days in so far, clearing the head.

What I am doing

Got off facebook.

Resigned myself to stop reading any and all blogs.  If I want to interact with an author, Ill do the old fashioned way, through their books!  So I can take notes, and figure it out.  Although that doesn’t mean I don’t welcome comments, and I do want people to communicate ( just at the slower pace). 

Stopped listening and creating podcasts.

Stopped reading or responding to any comments whatsoever ( except on the 30day Challenge).

Instead for a bit I will focus on writing more blogs, Gigong and Ra work.  When I get the time, I will rebuild my personal web site according to a actual plan :)

 I still LOVE my readers and listeners…I really do.. I just got to slow shit down.  I have a sneaky suspicion though, that I am not alone.

Controlling the Information Streams.

While we can’t control others, we can control or filter our level of information connection.  Leo makes some excellent points about this.   With endless streams of information, and detail, we each are put under the microscope.  Sometimes, external situations make it even worse.  That’s the real problem of an endless attention machine.  Priorities shift subtly, and perhaps the wrong things are prioritized.   The drug becomes the hidden motivation. 

The Great Work

Of course, starting to ramp up the Gigong and working with Amon Ra… probably has a lot to do with

this.  One can’t claim kingship when there are many demons running amuck inside a person’s frame.   You don’t need ancient Grimories to find very nasty things eating at the great work.  Nope, there are far more insidious problems then the ancient grimoric demons.  Bind those fuckers when you find them, then Simplify through Dissolve, Reframe, Destroy or whatever it takes.

Now onward with my simplification and gaining the space to plan, to be, to become.

In the moment, now.

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Magical Psychic Self Defense using Hands On Chaos Magic

'Hands on Chaos Magic' was meant to be a detailed baseline magical training guide in practice. What I do not do a lot of is put together recipes of how to combine different techniques.

Psychic Self Defense using Hands On Chaos Magic  ( recopied from my original site Andriehvitimus.com which is offline, I just think this one is important).

1) First, remember this simple statistic- 95% of all spiritual attacks are purely psychological. We are great at producing our own reality and when we believe we are spiritually attacked we manifest that result. Many times it is very easy to believe that we have been spiritually attacked and many people will respond to us with sympathy and support. This is very addicting and it feeds the victim parts of our personalities. We all have some of these tendencies.

  

What to do about this tendency?

  
  a) Using Hands on Chaos Magic to find the victim shard of the self- Chapter 13- Basically, personify that component of yourself into a form. The details are there in the book. Once you have experienced it as a form you can then evoke the form. From here, once it is personified and evoked (Chapter 28 in 'Hands On Chaos Magic' covers evocation) you can use techniques to transform that form into something more desirable. I am on Angelic kick right now, and an Invocation of Haniel works great for this type of thing after you have the form personified. In Vodou, I would do a service to La Siren (who is the Ocean Mother in my house) or Damballah (if the issues were that severe).     

    After you have the form evoked, you can actively pray, acknowledge and love that part of yourself. Often times, (nearly always) that is enough to radically change our own behavior. Once you feel like that part is transformed, reabsorb it- accepting it as part of who you are. Acceptance being the most important part of the process. If you need to dismiss this part of yourself, you can do this and you will need to do a few healing rituals to rebuild the self in line with what you want to become.

    b) Actively pursue mental control and wellness from an energy perspective. This means, in practice, to do the cleansing rituals and banishing. I recommend 2 times a day. There are several banishing and cleansing rituals in Hands on Chaos Magic, and more than that there is a tremendous amount of information on how to develop your own.

   c) Just laugh at it out loud. It's probably not that important anyway. Besides, what could you do with the time you'll have to focus on the positive things you want to create as opposed to the heavy, dark feeling of being "cursed".   

    d) Meditate and try to do the self analysis to get over these issues. This is a core tenant of 'Hands On Chaos Magic' and-remember as I say at the end, being cursed is still just a story. Even if it did happen, you can absolutely control your reaction. Many parts of 'Hands On Chaos Magic' detail exactly that.

2) Sometimes, there was some negativity directed at you, or you picked up something that seems to have attached to you. Often, these attached things, although rare, are fragments of the dead. Kind of like parts of personalities that should have dissolved but didn't. In a way, these are like semi-autonomous thought forms.  

    A) Cleansing and Banishing on a regular basis will usually take care of most sorcerers and attached spirits. Again, 'Hands On Chaos Magic' has lots of techniques for this. The important thing here is to actually do the work on a daily basis. Chapter 10 in 'Hands On Chaos Magic'is great for developing your own cleansing rituals. In addition, I also have a CDROM hypnotic process that can do this. All you have to do is listen to the CDrom and follow the directions. The process is called the 'Cascade of Light: Angelic Life Empowerment System Volume 1.'   I am working to get this on my web site for sale, but you can contact me directly and get a copy at http://andriehvitimus.com/contactandrieh.   

    B) Salt Bath. A simple thing I do is to take a shower with some salt. I will put some sea salt into those white mesh wedding bag. They are available at almost any craft store for a $1. Using the energy exercises in 'Hands On Chaos Magic', push any and all negativity into the salt- as described in the Salt Exercises in 'Hands On Chaos Magic'. When you take the shower, rub down and away. Do not rub up and down. Imagine using all of your senses to scrub all the negativity down and away. After you rub it all down, let all salt dissolve and go down the drain. You can also add essential oils to the salt to increase its effectiveness. How to work with the salt and oils in a talismanic way is found in Chapter 27 of 'Hands On Chaos Magic', although many chapters lead up to this.   

    C) Laugh out loud for 15 minutes a day. No, I actually am serious. This is known as Laughter Yoga etc. Although people have tried to copyright it, it's just something easy to do. Laughter raises a lot of Qi in Qigong terms and does kind of shake loose the system. Make sure to meditate and relax after doing the laughter Mediation just to calm down the system (some people do need this). Other techniques such as the waterfall cleansing (In Hands On Chaos Magic), can also help.   

    D) Evoke to help and remove issues often. Although we call it something different in Vodou, I will do service for Papa Legba and the Ancestors to remove negative influences often. Depending on who you work with, there are lots of ways to do this. Basically, again you can Evoke (meaning, to project those energies around you, using terms from 'Hands On Chaos Magic' this does not necessarily mean putting something into a triangle), to remove blocks and negativity. If you really and strongly perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, this is a type of evocation (I know the ceremonial magicians will disagree, but it is a projection not pulling in ). Chapters 28 and 29, cover this in 'Hands On Chaos Magic'.

  E) Pay attention to your own Energy. Using just the energy work exercises, you can start from your center point ( In Chinese Qigong, The lower dantianis located 1.3 inches, or 3 finger widths, below the navel and is also called the golden stove ). In Western magic, typically this is done at the middle of the chest. Start from the center point you know and work outworks expelling negative energies as you feel them ( that means anything you believe you should get rid of).   Start from the center point and envision it as a white spot, and then feel that white spot as perfectly calm (or happy ), and then while meditating, extend that white spot out forcing each part of your body it touches to become that calm (or happy ) vibe. This is extensively covered in 'Hands On Chaos Magic'as far as the energy work needed to get through and work the details. Along with this, meditate and clear your mind. Where the mind goes, the aura and body will follow. If you can clear your mind, it's that much more difficult to have negative energy, thought forms or spirits attach.   

    F) Within multiple paradigms, an ancestral altar works great as a defense as well as being a wholly healthy and respectful component of spirituality. I can answer questions about an Ancestral Altar from a Vodou point of view and my own experience working with them. Having an active altar with a friendly godform or spirit, means that that spirit or godform can interact with your life. I have found this extremely useful. This is similar to some of the Radionics techniques that use technological and pseudo-scientific ways to leave a connection open (I like radionics, and if someone out there wants to trade me a nice machine for some work or coaching let me know).

3) Preventive Medicine is best.

    There are several categories of preventive medicine

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a) 'Hands on Chaos Magic' goes through several detailed variants to work you to the point that your auric shell can serve as a protective circle.

    b) Talismans will vibrate even when you are not thinking about them. Chapter 20-22 and 30 in Hands on Chaos Magic have details on how to create talismans from a non-dogmatic POV. For now though, if you simply find a rock that you like and repeatedlyput yourself into a happy state while using all of your five senses to know that the rock is vibrating more and more in that happy state will be a good start. Keep doing the meditation for 30 minutes a few days in a row and then carry the rock around. Notice what happens. If you know sigil magic, you can use a sigil to enhance the meditation. Many more techniques of course are in Hands On Chaos Magic.

    c) Thought forms and servitors are your friend. Creating defensive servitors are a great way to prevent negative attachments and negative spell work. Servitors are a lot like imaginary friends and one technique I give in Hands On Chaos Magic is to imagine that you have a imaginary friend around you. Just like a small child, tell stories about this protector and then meditate and imagine it is around. This simple technique is just the start. Chapters 30-33, in Hands On Chaos Magic have many more details.

    d) Already covered using god forms for this purpose in the last point. Again, relationships with friendly spirits can in fact help immensely. Although this is not usually done in Chaos Magic, this is the exact method I recommend in Hands On Chaos Magic.

This is just a small sampling of how to put techniques from Hands On Chaos Magic into a workable framework for Self-Defense. Remember, you are only limited by your imagination. Play with the universe. Do the Magic.

While I do offer this general recipe for psychic self defense for free as a community service to help with general issues, I also offer customized and personal action plans, and can offer customized training to help you with psychic self-defense or any issue you might want to address.

I work through a dedicated combination of intuitive reading, spiritual consultation and practical coaching. Taking a holistic view, combining the spiritual with rational thought and action means you have the greatest possibility of real life changes. You deserve that life. Contact me at andriehvitimus@gmail.com now to start.

"Hands-On Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation through the Ovayki Current" (Andrieh Vitimus)

Categories: Experimental/Chaos Magic, Spiritual How To