Post by nightshade on Feb 28, 2009 13:22:26 GMT -6
I wrote this a while back and someday intend on finishing the project. I wrote this for a completely different crowd. So, take what you want and fuck the rest! I just figured that I'd share. Enjoy.
Filling the Vessel. LHP Emotional Magick
This subject has come up a few times for me recently: The use of emotional control for magickal ends. By the end of this, you will understand why I've chosen the Black Magick Forum for this and where it's gonna go...
Often, we are given methods of meditation that focus on emptying the mind of all clutter. This of course, is important stuff. It is also an RHP approach; sometimes called the "Long Path". Few people ever extol the virtues of Contemplation, as opposed to True Meditation.
Not long ago, someone brought up the use of Contemplation of very negative emotions as a means of controlling them. Specifically fear. They referred to this as "Black Meditation".
An excerpt: "What I choose to call black meditation is replicating strong (or indeed, extreme) emotions or experiences in an introvert manner. Say if you're afraid of something, or imagine traveling through infinity, folding onto yourself or dying and never coming back. Once you summon this emotion and feel it, you concentrate all effort to magnify and delve into it.
From what I understand, shamanic rituals can enforce this, though often with the assistance of psychedelic. The farthest I go with assistance is music I have very weak auditory imagination, as opposed to visual imagination. Metallic noise is very useful as a test, though - try concentrating on a single metallic noise, then delve into it until everything else ceases to exist.
Some of the merit I've experienced was curing my phobias, or at least diminishing them to a bearable level. The goal is to reach new levels of understanding and perhaps linking one's consciousness with the subconsciousness."
As you can see, they've used this to a positive end: Curing themselves of phobias. Still, consciously summoning any emotion allows one to explore it and push through it to a finer understanding of what makes them tick. Pushing for Divine Revelation and ascendance, while emptying the Self, is like I said, Right Hand Path. Knowledge of the Self and exploration thereof is essentially Left Hand Path. The path of a Magus and not so much the Mystic. Sometimes, this is referred to as the "Short Path" and implies selfishness to a certain extent. The Practitioner of Dark Arts is truly Selfish if nothing else. That is, they are full of themselves. Not necessarily selfish in the conventional sense.
While I have every intention of exploring methods of doing this, I'd rather hear from you...
Instead, I'm going to post some thoughts and a couple experiments to try. So... Hear we go:
The ability to summon up an emotion, at Will, is essential for certain operations. It's good to focus on the whole gamut of emotions. Say you need to throw a great party. You're setting it all up and everything. If you're all unnerved or angry for some reason, later on, your guests will notice this. You see, you've charged the space with your raw emotions. it's best to draw up "happy", excited, generally chill emotions beforehand. Then again, you might want to consciously charge the space with different stuff to see what insanity goes on. Try lust. That's a crowd favourite...
Emotions can be very potent when working magick. Hatred for curses, Lust for... lust, you get the idea... Now, it's a hell of a lot easier to work yourself up to a particular emotion when you're in some private spot that you generally work Will in. Let's talk about the spontaneous needs of any given day, hhmmm...
Ever spontaneously fill yourself with an emotion that you've no particular need of, given the current circumstances? Try it. You know what? This "Black Meditation" (More accurately contemplation) will be helpful.
A simple Spell to get rid of those party goers from the above mentioned scenario: Go into another room and take your Broom up, pointing the head of it towards the person/s you wish to have leave the premises. Visualize them as clearly as you can. SEE them wherever they are in the room (Obviously, since they're in the next room, you're already kind of doing this). Now, fill yourself with the desire to have them leave and make a circular "Sweeping" motion with the Broom (Counterclockwise works for me) while repeating he following 3 times:
Get thee hence from beyond my door
For I am weary to the core
You'd be surprised at how fast this works! This spell was taken from Scott Cunningham. Certainly NOT a practicing of black magick. The experiments that follow are. Depending on the how and why you use them...
Emotional Control: Pick someone. You don't have to know them but it makes this easier. You see, you'll be able to Identify with them easier. Other than that, good observation, a little empathy and judgment will do just nicely. Make sure it's someone you can "Read". Focus on them (This is best if they are directly in line of sight. Later, it won't require that; if you succeed with them now). Now, get into their shoes. I mean, See yourself looking out through their eyes, if you can. Pick up on their current emotional state. Adopt it as your own. This is where you spend a few moments imitating them. Every expression and nuance. Begin to mimic their movements. Now... Build an appropriate emotion. Enflame yourself with it! Now when you're about to totally freak with it, project that via your shared mental space...
What you've done is to resonate at their frequency for a hot minute and by way of vibrating at the same frequency, created a bond. Then, of course, you made them more susceptible to any shift you created while concentrating on them.
The Puppet Master: For real fun, once you're really inside, instead of emotional changes, you can try this:
After becoming their mirror in every way; mimicking them, emotional resonance etc. Continue to imitate their movements. Now, when you're so on top of what they're doing (No need to anticipate, you just do whatever; exactly as they're doing it with no delay) that you practically ARE them, start to make little changes to your movements. Continue to be in sync with them but make little changes. Try exaggerating their movements. Watch them... Make larger variations from their movements. Watch... Do something totally possible but not likely (If they've been drinking, this is SOOOO easy) like tripping a bit. Hell, if you can get away with it, fall over! Watch...
The above techniques are from my personal "Little Black Book". There's nothing in my private notes that I haven't done successfully...
You can very well imagine how far one can go with the above experiments and what one might accomplish. Obviously, techniques like that take considerable practice and Self Control. Emotional Manipulation from afar and turning someone into a living meat puppet isn't an easy task for the one who hasn't mastered their own emotions and explored the depths of their own Mind ( In fact, without these prerequisites, it's nigh impossible) let alone the workings of Mind, in general.
Still, with a little practice, these particular exercises can be done. They are practically parlour tricks. A Master (Which I so totally am not) could sway the emotions of a crowd or turn said group into their own private marionette show...
I've seen psychic vampires with such mastery. There's something to be said about a vampire's mastery of energetic fields and emotions. It's natural for them but that doesn't mean that the eager Will Worker cannot aspire to such a level of control.
These are extreme examples of what one may choose to do but oh, SO NOT THE TRUE FOCUS OF THIS THREAD!!! If you're only interested in a plethora of Black Magickal methods, you'll find it here. You still gotta put in the Work though and you'd be missing the real opportunity that's right in front of you.
Anyone like to add their methods for self(ish) exploration of emotion and mind?
Next: Energetic Aspects: Draining, Causing Weakness, Domination and Id Insinuation...
Filling the Vessel. LHP Emotional Magick
This subject has come up a few times for me recently: The use of emotional control for magickal ends. By the end of this, you will understand why I've chosen the Black Magick Forum for this and where it's gonna go...
Often, we are given methods of meditation that focus on emptying the mind of all clutter. This of course, is important stuff. It is also an RHP approach; sometimes called the "Long Path". Few people ever extol the virtues of Contemplation, as opposed to True Meditation.
Not long ago, someone brought up the use of Contemplation of very negative emotions as a means of controlling them. Specifically fear. They referred to this as "Black Meditation".
An excerpt: "What I choose to call black meditation is replicating strong (or indeed, extreme) emotions or experiences in an introvert manner. Say if you're afraid of something, or imagine traveling through infinity, folding onto yourself or dying and never coming back. Once you summon this emotion and feel it, you concentrate all effort to magnify and delve into it.
From what I understand, shamanic rituals can enforce this, though often with the assistance of psychedelic. The farthest I go with assistance is music I have very weak auditory imagination, as opposed to visual imagination. Metallic noise is very useful as a test, though - try concentrating on a single metallic noise, then delve into it until everything else ceases to exist.
Some of the merit I've experienced was curing my phobias, or at least diminishing them to a bearable level. The goal is to reach new levels of understanding and perhaps linking one's consciousness with the subconsciousness."
As you can see, they've used this to a positive end: Curing themselves of phobias. Still, consciously summoning any emotion allows one to explore it and push through it to a finer understanding of what makes them tick. Pushing for Divine Revelation and ascendance, while emptying the Self, is like I said, Right Hand Path. Knowledge of the Self and exploration thereof is essentially Left Hand Path. The path of a Magus and not so much the Mystic. Sometimes, this is referred to as the "Short Path" and implies selfishness to a certain extent. The Practitioner of Dark Arts is truly Selfish if nothing else. That is, they are full of themselves. Not necessarily selfish in the conventional sense.
While I have every intention of exploring methods of doing this, I'd rather hear from you...
Instead, I'm going to post some thoughts and a couple experiments to try. So... Hear we go:
The ability to summon up an emotion, at Will, is essential for certain operations. It's good to focus on the whole gamut of emotions. Say you need to throw a great party. You're setting it all up and everything. If you're all unnerved or angry for some reason, later on, your guests will notice this. You see, you've charged the space with your raw emotions. it's best to draw up "happy", excited, generally chill emotions beforehand. Then again, you might want to consciously charge the space with different stuff to see what insanity goes on. Try lust. That's a crowd favourite...
Emotions can be very potent when working magick. Hatred for curses, Lust for... lust, you get the idea... Now, it's a hell of a lot easier to work yourself up to a particular emotion when you're in some private spot that you generally work Will in. Let's talk about the spontaneous needs of any given day, hhmmm...
Ever spontaneously fill yourself with an emotion that you've no particular need of, given the current circumstances? Try it. You know what? This "Black Meditation" (More accurately contemplation) will be helpful.
A simple Spell to get rid of those party goers from the above mentioned scenario: Go into another room and take your Broom up, pointing the head of it towards the person/s you wish to have leave the premises. Visualize them as clearly as you can. SEE them wherever they are in the room (Obviously, since they're in the next room, you're already kind of doing this). Now, fill yourself with the desire to have them leave and make a circular "Sweeping" motion with the Broom (Counterclockwise works for me) while repeating he following 3 times:
Get thee hence from beyond my door
For I am weary to the core
You'd be surprised at how fast this works! This spell was taken from Scott Cunningham. Certainly NOT a practicing of black magick. The experiments that follow are. Depending on the how and why you use them...
Emotional Control: Pick someone. You don't have to know them but it makes this easier. You see, you'll be able to Identify with them easier. Other than that, good observation, a little empathy and judgment will do just nicely. Make sure it's someone you can "Read". Focus on them (This is best if they are directly in line of sight. Later, it won't require that; if you succeed with them now). Now, get into their shoes. I mean, See yourself looking out through their eyes, if you can. Pick up on their current emotional state. Adopt it as your own. This is where you spend a few moments imitating them. Every expression and nuance. Begin to mimic their movements. Now... Build an appropriate emotion. Enflame yourself with it! Now when you're about to totally freak with it, project that via your shared mental space...
What you've done is to resonate at their frequency for a hot minute and by way of vibrating at the same frequency, created a bond. Then, of course, you made them more susceptible to any shift you created while concentrating on them.
The Puppet Master: For real fun, once you're really inside, instead of emotional changes, you can try this:
After becoming their mirror in every way; mimicking them, emotional resonance etc. Continue to imitate their movements. Now, when you're so on top of what they're doing (No need to anticipate, you just do whatever; exactly as they're doing it with no delay) that you practically ARE them, start to make little changes to your movements. Continue to be in sync with them but make little changes. Try exaggerating their movements. Watch them... Make larger variations from their movements. Watch... Do something totally possible but not likely (If they've been drinking, this is SOOOO easy) like tripping a bit. Hell, if you can get away with it, fall over! Watch...
The above techniques are from my personal "Little Black Book". There's nothing in my private notes that I haven't done successfully...
You can very well imagine how far one can go with the above experiments and what one might accomplish. Obviously, techniques like that take considerable practice and Self Control. Emotional Manipulation from afar and turning someone into a living meat puppet isn't an easy task for the one who hasn't mastered their own emotions and explored the depths of their own Mind ( In fact, without these prerequisites, it's nigh impossible) let alone the workings of Mind, in general.
Still, with a little practice, these particular exercises can be done. They are practically parlour tricks. A Master (Which I so totally am not) could sway the emotions of a crowd or turn said group into their own private marionette show...
I've seen psychic vampires with such mastery. There's something to be said about a vampire's mastery of energetic fields and emotions. It's natural for them but that doesn't mean that the eager Will Worker cannot aspire to such a level of control.
These are extreme examples of what one may choose to do but oh, SO NOT THE TRUE FOCUS OF THIS THREAD!!! If you're only interested in a plethora of Black Magickal methods, you'll find it here. You still gotta put in the Work though and you'd be missing the real opportunity that's right in front of you.
Anyone like to add their methods for self(ish) exploration of emotion and mind?
Next: Energetic Aspects: Draining, Causing Weakness, Domination and Id Insinuation...