Iqob Bith
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Greetings all. After a month or so lurking your board and learning a lot, I decided to register. I have been very encouraged by what I have read about other people spending a while in the "pre-student" phase. Just a little background ; I am 23 and have been interested in what I would call accessing higher levels of consciousness since I was a young teen. I had some notion that the dream state had some kind of connection to what I knew about shamanism. And as I got older (16-19) drugs seemed to be the connection, and I experimented (regretibely) quite a bit with different substances. There was an obvious level of self involvement, I make no attempt to say it was totally spiritually motivated. But it was in some manner, and I believe I have come out on the other side of those experiences in a better position mentally, and definately more focused on spirituality. I started into this journey a little over a year and a half ago, when I was first exposed to hermeticism by terrance mckenna. I started with the corpus hermeticum and have been reading the AA curriculum morerecently. Biolab class starting, see ya soon,
I.R.B thank every one
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A littleness more info.
I guess first off I would like to say I am very excited. I was spawned here on earth in the beautiful state of Alabama, near the TN border. Unfourtunately our area is not exactly thriving with people (actively) seeking a higher level of conciosness. And I see now (literally just realising this) that must have been part of the sequence of events that led to this individual moment.
I am experiencing an overwhelming sensation, extremely optimistic, however with no regards to any specifif matter. It is as is the fact that we are all gathered here, and wanting to help each other, is already acting on my subconscious mind. HahahaSo introductions usually go both ways, I would be happy to look through them (all??yea....)
but I would appreciate y'all telling me somethign about yourselves. Unless the more natural path is to make the acquaintances as you go.Love under Wil
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I'm in the same boat. I live a little more to the north, in Virginia, but I am surrounded by the same types of people. My mom would kick me out of the house if she knew that I didn't praise jesus and give 10% of all my earnings to a greedy pastor. The only difference (as i'm sure you can tell) between us is that I am 17, so i've got a way to go before I figure out what is right for me. But, like you, i have studied much and gain a gret amount of serenity in the ideals of thelema and magick, and have begun my preliminary studies with a satisfactory success. I've learned so far that you really must look for things where there seems to be nothing, for that is what separates the shepherd from the herd. The sheep sees what the rest of the sheep tell him to see, but the shepherd percieves things that may be obscure to his herd whilst walking among them. We are the shepherds. Our will is strong and the great work will bring you and all of us such serenity the likes of which the others cannot experience. Experiment, find out what works for you, make your will the change in the world!
Love Under Will