I.O.B. ritual quesitons?
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93,
Is anyone familiar with this I.O.B. technique from Donald Kraig's Modern Magick. It is supposed to be based on a Golden Dawn and medieval technique. It seems like a very good way to combat one of my psychological problems in a magical way, Kraig warns though that it is the only ritual in his book which can be considered dangerous, he writes, "By this I do not mean that demons might attack you or you might get ill. What I mean is that through this technique you will learn more about your true nature than you may be able to accept." (125).
I have designed a ritual with this technique visualizing my (overly-dramatic) fear of friends and family dying with a traditional grim reaper image or perhaps a skeleton (much like the way Death is portrayed in Black Death drawings). I am more than positive that I can handle the ritual psychologically, I am positive that I am quite aware and in touch with my feelings toward the visualization being banished, so I'm not worried about the danger aspect. I'm just curious if anyone has done this ritual, or do you have any recommendations to add to mine, etc.?
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Just my 2 cents - banishing your fear seems like a very bad idea. Where do you think those "banished" fears are going to go? Banishing is not the same thing as resolving.
Another strategy would be to go towards your fear, let it in, surrender to it. If you can sit in the midst of your fear without any attachment or aversion to it, without telling yourself stories about it, without doing anything at all but simply observing it dispassionately, then it will leave of its own accord. Sometimes this has to be repeated numerous times, sometimes the fear goes deep and has several different manifestations, but ultimately I've never seen this technique fail.
It's been said so many times that it sounds like a cliche - courage isn't the absence of fear (that's called psychosis), nor is it the ability to banish (or repress) the fear, but rather the ability to feel the fear fully and still do what you need to do.
HM
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@Herr Meow said
"Just my 2 cents - banishing your fear seems like a very bad idea. Where do you think those "banished" fears are going to go? Banishing is not the same thing as resolving.
Another strategy would be to go towards your fear, let it in, surrender to it. If you can sit in the midst of your fear without any attachment or aversion to it, without telling yourself stories about it, without doing anything at all but simply observing it dispassionately, then it will leave of its own accord. Sometimes this has to be repeated numerous times, sometimes the fear goes deep and has several different manifestations, but ultimately I've never seen this technique fail.
It's been said so many times that it sounds like a cliche - courage isn't the absence of fear (that's called psychosis), nor is it the ability to banish (or repress) the fear, but rather the ability to feel the fear fully and still do what you need to do.
HM"
Ya know, every now and again some posts something that is so practical and sensible that it astonishes me! Thank you Herr Meow!
