Body of Light exercises
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@Faus said
"There is a variation of the Body of Light technique in Denning & Phillip book on astral projection. It is focused in the specific irradiation of what they call “nephesh substance” as a way to build the BoL.
I do not know in what extend it is different of the one present in Liber O ( or if it can be used to attain the same objective)."
It's essentially the same thing. They have tweaked methodology a bit.
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Thought I'd ask : anyone try exercises in books by Robert Bruce? He's an Australian guy who has -from what I can tell- a pretty reputable career working with astral projection and so forth. He has a book on energy work and so forth. A lot of it has to do with energy circulation, but I've not worked through it or anything. Seems very good though.
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for users that have fear of "getting lost"
i use a point of reference, basically i believe there is a beacon in my mind, normally something i favor or like, glowing things or things that have light to them work best i have found.
the best way i have found to practice is ..... find a friend online..ask to call them on the phone...electronics help...someone that wantz to experment... basically concentrait on them and thier surroundings, wait...and find peace...see through thier eyes...through thier mind... thier memory of where they are....after you have "absorbed" all the sights and sounds around you...some of the images may be blurred..but describe it back to them...intill the picture becomes clear...good practice atleast.
i was one of the people that struggled with the fear of "getting lost"...mainly cause when i was a child i would OOB and felt very scared and not knowing how to get back in or that i would float off to "no where"
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I read some books when I was younger about astral travel and creating a body from a silver cord that comes out of your naval. I got very good at it and astral traveled all over the city in areas that were close to me.
I quite after I had what I felt was an astral attack. I had a dream that turned into astral travel when a friend in my dream asked me to follow him all over the world. I did just that. I followed him to many beautiful places. He finally stopped and said “this is it” I just looked at him and said “What do you mean?” He looked me strait in my eyes and said “you are now lost and you can’t find your way home.” Then he laughed. I woke up instantly in my dark bed room and lost direction in my own bedroom for about a minute or two. I have been afraid of the dark since then and have not done astral travel.
It was not till a couple of years ago that I realized that I had learned the most important lesson of all… You can’t get lost while astral traveling. No matter where you go you are always attached to your body with the silver cord.
This has not removed the fear of the dark though.
I think that will be the first thing I work on as I study.
BOL's will have to wait till I am good in other things such as the new rituals I am learning.
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@Blythe A. Blanche said
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@Mahanta70 said
"I visualize the BOL before me and then I move it's limbs and try twisting around."Ignoring the rest of this thread for now, the twisting around technique you mention almost immediately guided my visualization of shifting my consciousness to the Body of Light when I attempted it a few moments ago. It's amazing how something that wasn't even the core of your post could get me further in potential Astral work than a year of solo practice has done. Thank you for this."
A different take:
With your Mercury in detriment (or Fall, I forget) in Pisces, and square to Uranus and Neptune conjunct in Sagittarius, your biggest issue is going to be Mind: separation of the real and the mundane, and attempting to over think what is really a simple process. Your Saturn (in it's natural sign) comes to the aid of your Mercury with a sextile, giving you the Will to overcome the aforementioned obstacles. The Moon is really the key in this matter. She lies on the Aries-Taurus cusp, Taurus being her exaltation. She is sextile to Mars in Pisces (a postion we both share). Luna being the planet of the sensorium, and Mars, representative of energy, being in a most psychic sign, you have only to augment those parts of your character pertinent to your aims. This is Magick. Rituals to the affect of bringing clarity to your Mercurial aspects, and rituals to strengthen that Luna-Mars bond will help you to discipline your psyche to the point of perfect control.
Once the psyche is conquered, and the mind stilled (practices to be mastered prior to any attempted "Astral Projection,"--once these things are mastered, the matter is simply one of finding the gap between dream and consciousness, which is the door through you must enter. This is no easy task, as one has to enter the REM state while retaining complete consciousness. An easy thing done with certain drugs, but this method lacks the necessary discipline required to control the Astral process. It isn't any fun to enter a strange territory without knowing how to navigate it--like setting sail without the necessary charts and equipment, or even a crew.
In order to enter the Astral realm, you need to examine your precise strengths and weaknesses, and know yourself well enough to make the transition between planes. This is why I advocate Astrology when problems are found with individual Astral techniques: most struggle with the practice, but few take advantage of the best resource they have: a map on one's personal Microcosm, and its relation to the Macrocosm.
You show great ability, Blythe. I'd advise you, in light of your talents, to study your natal chart. It will help your advancement a great deal.
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@fnewburn4236 said
"This has not removed the fear of the dark though.
"fear of the dark, is it the darkness you fear? or what iz hidden in the dark? iz it the unknown?
what u encountered, and i am sure u realize thiz, waz not ur friend at all, tiz a familiar spirit.
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@Qemuel said
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@fnewburn4236 said
"This has not removed the fear of the dark though. "fear of the dark, is it the darkness you fear? or what iz hidden in the dark? iz it the unknown?
what u encountered, and i am sure u realize thiz, waz not ur friend at all, tiz a familiar spirit."
I am not afraid to be in the dark. I am afraid to sleep in the dark... Yes I know, it sounds wierd, but it was triggered way back then. or maybe I am unwilling to admit I am scared of the dark
when I truly feel that I am not scared.So you say it may have been my familiar or someone elses. I did not know I had a familiar
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@fnewburn4236 said
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I am not afraid to be in the dark. I am afraid to sleep in the dark... Yes I know, it sounds wierd, but it was triggered way back then. or maybe I am unwilling to admit I am scared of the dark
when I truly feel that I am not scared.So you say it may have been my familiar or someone elses. I did not know I had a familiar
but anything may be possible. "i would do a test, meditate in pitch black(as dark as you can make it), just relax and meditate, either u will end up feeling fear or peace, if its fear you feel than you know its not sleeping in the dark that you are scared of.
i mean it was a familiar, i do not know if it was yours or sum1 elses. A familiar spirit will often "appear" as though it is something familiar too you.
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Not sure if this has been dealt with elsewhere on this forum, but I have found the use of incense to be helpful. The tables of correspondences for perfumes in 777 can be treated as something of a cookbook in this regard. It's also a great way to learn this column of correspondences! There are two columns, one having to do with the traditional Yetziratic attributions of the 32 paths, and the other having to do with the four elements and the their sub-elements (earth of water, air of water, etc). I found this second list of elemental attributions much more intuitive and satisfying to work with than the former.
There were times when, apart from any other prep I might have made for an excursion, the perfume acted as a powerful invocation in its own right. Though, invocation is probably not the correct word. Maybe it's enough for me to say that the images had greater depth and the vision overall seemed to unfold for me more dramatically from what I was used to without this aid.
Of course, you can easily spend several hundred dollars acquiring a complete set of samples. I personally wasted a fair bit of money because I had to experiment with various forms of some substances to figure out which produced the cleanest scent, as well as how best to activate them. Cedar and Myrtle, for example, can readily be purchased as wood or leaf, but they don't burn well, smelling more like burning wood or leaves than anything specific. It took research to clue me into the fact that both are sold as essential oils and that an aroma-lamp was the best way to activate their scent. My biggest expense was purchasing a stainless steel plate that I suspend over the flame of an alcohol lamp. This allows me to heat some of the more liquid resins like Galbanum or Siamese Benzoin without the necessity of producing a lot of nasty smoke. Indigo, on the other hand, is meant to be smokey, and so a decent incense burner that is designed to handle live charcoal does the trick; this is also required for the harder resins like Mrrrh, Sumatra Benzoin, and Opoponax. Camphor is just left out on a plate and allowed to evaporate on its own.
I don't know, maybe you already do something along these lines, but if not, maybe its worth an experiment or three!
Peace and 93
Robert