Psychic Self Defence
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And that's not what I said. You're characterizing it as something different than I said or meant.
We teach magick. That's basic to what we do, and basic to what this forum is about. I was speaking on the topic of magick to those involved in its practice, most likely in language useful to them in that practice.
Please don't start derailing every conversation on the forum. We don't exist only to give you a platform for your antimetaphysical views. We have our on-going, day-to-day work to handle around here as well.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"We teach magick."
Of course. But I think hardly anyone would consider it "derailing" a conversation on a given subject to discuss how a person would know that claims being made about that topic are correct. That's sort of the entire purpose of having a subject that people study and learn.
What you've said is that you experience X, observe X, and have others confirm X (presumably after they too have experienced X), and that's how you know that X is true. Well, that's a woefully insufficient answer. The same can be said about Christians who experience Jesus Christ, observe their interactions with him, and have others -- millions and millions of other Christians -- confirm very similar experiences. Does that demonstrate that Christ is real, then? The same can be said of Hindus "experiencing" Shiva, or zillions of other false claims.
In other words, you're teaching a subject, and when someone asks you a pretty basic question about the subject -- like how you know the stuff you're saying about it is true -- you give a woefully insufficient answer. Isn't that something worth talking about?
"I was speaking on the topic of magick to those involved in its practice, most likely in language useful to them in that practice."
I've performed the LBRP daily for years and years, and I fail to see how it's "helpful" to describe it as "lighting up" "inner worlds," "attracting attention" (presumably from make believe creatures like spirits) or telling yourself a story about how you're becoming a "tough motherflucker."
Maybe you can elucidate the helpfulness of that terminology, because it sounds to me suspiciously like the sort of terminology that encourages people to think they have spooky powers when they are in fact just spinning in circles in their bedroom and intoning a bunch of funny-sounding words.
"We don't exist only to give you a platform for your antimetaphysical views."
Well, my "antimetaphysical views" have a sound basis in the lack of any evidence for metaphysical claims. If people aren't welcome to discuss the evidence for magick on a forum called "Magick," I'd suggest that the forum is improperly named.
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@Freya said
"Thank you Jim for your answer. Would the Lesser banishing ritual be helpful as I have the sun background?
What is the best way to perform it?"Most likely it would, yes. - There's a straightforward article on the Pentagram Ritual in No. 3 of Black Pearl. You can download the issues for free at <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.thelema.org/publications">www.thelema.org/publications</a><!-- w -->
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Just to add my 2 cents and share a personnal, non conventional technique:
Practice fighting ! Then you'll learn how to defend.
Dont necessarly join a boxing gym(even if that would help)... just fight in the astral.
There are tough beings who like to kick ass just like on the physical plane.
If you can kick more ass than them, then you'll know how to defend...
Find a master in the astral so he teaches you how to mix magick and classic ass kicking. For the little i can say it can involve fighting with pure intentions, points of vue, "ways" of presence and stuff, on top of classic energy manipulation and striking. If you identify yourself with multiple points of vue at the same time, or with a planet, how do you fight? Find out !
If anything goes wrong do the Harpocrates sign with all your will and shout a huge "kiai" to make the whole universe tremble !
Then when you have those basics in the astral you can achor them in the physical plane.
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93,
"what's the Harpocrates sign?"
The sign of silence which the God Hoor-Paar-Kraat gives in many depictions.
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That's the image I found on google, personally I like to have my feet together but that might be just me.
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To do it correctly you must visualise two crocodiles under your feet. One under each foot.
There's also a version where you can do it sitting in classic asana. Then you visualise a lotus under thee. Also you form a "black egg" with your aura. It's shining black, close to indigo.
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Older thread I know but I suggest digging up Marcelo Motta's text Astral Attack & Defense. It covers a lot of the same ground, literally, as Fortune as it started as a translation of her work but becomes it's own thing about chapter 4 on.
Another suggestion, as ridiculous as it sounds, get books on pick up artistry. You will learn applied body language and use of voice by studying their material very in depth.