magick practice in a crowded or non private environment
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if one lives with roomates/parents/family/people not wanting to hear rituals etc what is the best way to practice magick?
obviously there is meditation. i do that already and enjoy it, its nice and quiet and i get a lot done. but i want to try out this ol' ritual mojo and i have a hard time not distrubing people with the sound of it ie chanting pacing circumabulating etc. anyone have any recommendations for people like me poor people trapped in a small space that isnt conducive to such Work?
How to get around it? If one cannot afford a new place that is. Any help would be GREATLY supported and appreciated. I don't get to practice as near as much as i want to and we all know practice makes Purrfect. thanks in advance and hope everyone is happy. unless of course you don't want to be, then i hope you are at least enjoying whatever it is
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93, In your meditations, try out visualization. Perhaps your room or house. Once you get a grasp, try out rituals. Start small, something you can memorize, and keep working at it. Eventually you'll grass the details, the words you chant, the fabric against your skin, etc. Too all that is a form of focus and producing specific mental results. There are substitutions, like taking a god form and/or saying what you have to in the manner best suited. Not everyone roars Therion or bellows Hadit. Some just say or whisper them, some just do it mentally. I think it is more about focus and intent.
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93, In your meditations, try out visualization. Perhaps your room or house. Once you get a grasp, try out rituals. Start small, something you can memorize, and keep working at it. Eventually you'll grass the details, the words you chant, the fabric against your skin, etc. Too all that is a form of focus and producing specific mental results. There are substitutions, like taking a god form and/or saying what you have to in the manner best suited. Not everyone roars Therion or bellows Hadit. Some just say or whisper them, some just do it mentally. I think it is more about focus and intent.
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"if one lives with roomates/parents/family/people not wanting to hear rituals etc what is the best way to practice magick? "
Silently. Best to have a space where you can vibrate the names etc. loudly, but if your situation makes this difficult it doesn't mean you can't practice ritual. With the right technique you can achieve the desired inner vibration with so much as a whisper.
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thank you so much for the affirmation of 'quiet is ok too' it is very important to me . if anyone else has any tips i would be most grateful.
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This excerpt from Ch. 18 of Magick Without Tears may be of some assistance:
*do you always do all this yourself? Don't you sometimes feel embarrassed, or fear that you may destroy the effect of your letter, or "create a scene" in the public street when you suddenly stop and perform these incomprehensible antics, or simply forget about the whole thing?"
Yes, I do.
Well now, have I any shadow of an excuse? Yes, I have, after a fashion; I don't think it good manners to force my idiosyncrasies down people's throats, and I don't want to appear more of an eccentric than I need. It might detract from my personal influence, and so actually harm the Work that I am trying to perform. . .*
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I have to say that vibrating god names at the top of one's voice can produce fantastic results . There is something called "The great voice", which is kind of like vibrating the god name on the astral however I think doing it physically and loudly at first to get the "feel of the buzz" of that particular god name will go a long way to allowing you to do it silently. do some research on the "Great Voice".
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The example from Magick Without Tears is perfect. Often our exterior surroundings are in conflict with our interests. How is one to react? Well, in accordance with one's Will, of course.
Were it your Will to avoid the practice of Magick in a public area, in a way that draws unworthy interest to your person, you would be obliged to keep it under wraps. And when you think about it, one can't exactly undertake a Banishing in the middle of a crowded cafe. Such is imprudence. There is a time and a place for everything, etc.
On the other hand, perhaps your parents are Mormons. If so, I feel your plight acutely. I can imagine your father wouldn't be thrilled to find his son in full ritual regalia, screaming gibberish in unknown tongues at four in the morning. I faced this problem myself once. My advice, (if such is the case,) is this: perhaps it is your Will to find different parents.
But in all seriousness: there are other places to practice Magick other than your bedroom. Go out into the wilderness my son, like John the Baptist! Locusts and wild honey aren't bad at all once you get used to them.