Frustrated With Lbrp Progress... Have You Ever Seen "visions" After Doing It? Options

It's been doing it for about a year, during some periods every day... and I just can't get any juice out of it.

It started well enough, but after a few months of daily practice, I didn't seem to have any results. I read Kraigs' modern magic book and he says it is likely you'll start seeing "visions" of things, he says he saw a snake disappear into the floor or something.

I'm no where near that point, if indeed I can get to such a point. I know the point of magick is NOT to have little tricks and visions but I feel bad that I cannot sense any true progress. I expected I would at least have gradual signs or feelings that I was advancing, even if just in baby steps.

Part of my problem may be that I rarely vibrate the names aloud, and when I do, I tend to feel a bit silly. My room has no curtains on the windows and there IS a constant sense of paranoia, at most times of day. I don't know. I dont plan on giving up but I wanted to know other people's sensations of "progress."

Hello there, congratulations on your dedication. Let me offer my own advice, I'm sure there will be others with good perspectives as well.

There are two ways to overcome this paranoia - and I'm certain that it is that nagging distraction that is preventing you from being totally in that experience, a key element to any ritual, especially the LBRP. The first is to choose a different space, where you are more completely isolated. Isolation and distance from everything in the world that you commonly know is a powerful key to effective ritual. Energetically, you could say that while you are attempting to create a field of energy that is specific and sacred to you, the people, places, and events happening around that space can destabilize what you are trying to create. You have to fight against all of that when you try to create your space. Psychologically, your mind is still in a particular mode when you are 'in the world' and that is the common mind, not the mystical mindset. When you are isolated, there is a total change of energy, of psyche, that causes a flexibility in the space around you. Also, there is no sense of "who is watching me" or "who might hear me and judge me."

Alternatively, you could simply overcome this paranoia by being more open about what you are trying to accomplish. If people ask questions, explain to them in simple terms that you are doing a practice for personal growth and transformation, which is exactly what the LBRP can be if you are able to do it with abandonment of the world and total one pointendness of mind.

However, it is not necessary to vibrate the names outloud - it is, however, necessary to be able to vibrate them silently if you are not going to speak them aloud. This is a tricky thing, even speaking the names aloud it can be hard to vibrate them eyond your own chest and throat. In furtherance of that, I suggest learning to vibrate properly without sound. Before the ritual, it can help to sit down, and with one finger placed on the heart or third eye - depending on which center you which to vibrate from - intone the syllable A, of AUM. Start as deeply as you can, and feel the sensation of vibration in your chest. Try to not only feel it somatically, but energetically. Feel the vibration in your entire body. It will start at your chest, but as you focus your attention on the sound and the vibration, it will spread naturally without your needing to push it. When it is throughout your body for a bit, stop, and focus your attention on the vibration. Keep it active by mentally creating the same sound while you keep your atention fixed on the vibration, and intone it mentally as though i will keep the vibration active.

This will take some practice to do effectively without beginning with somatic sound - sound produced outloud with the body. Once you can recall that vibration, work on centering it in your heart or third eye. After a while, you won't have to intone anything mentally, you will be able to simply call up the vibration. After this point, the next step is to project that vibration outwards. This is a complicated thing to explain in words, but it may help to imagine that the vibration travels out from whichever center in spheres - imagine ripples in a puddle, but spherical - that are carried out beyond your body and into the space around you. You do not so much project willfully, as allow the vibration to extend itself. Imagine that the space around your body vibrates the same way that your body does. This will connect you to that space, which is in itself an excellent meditation for transcending the body. When you have accomplished this, and you will know by your own perception if you have, then train yourself to intone the names of god, and the angels, internally using the same mechanism. That may take a little time as well, or you may be able to instantly apply that learned mechanism, it varies between individuals.

When properly vibrated, you should feel as though the words themselves take on energetic form, as vibration. With some practice and messing with it, you can learn to focus those vibrations on a particular trajectory, rather than all around you. What it boils down to is the ability to extend awareness into your immediate sphere. Once each pentagram has been empowered by a name of God, it should continue to vibrate, and so within that extended sphere of awareness, be aware of that vibration. When you are aware of all of the pentacles vibrating, before calling the angels to their quarters, sit and observe that sensation for a bit. It can be very powerful in and of itself, though the calling of the angels serves as protection on top of the names of god, in my experience. Just the pentacles vibrating the names will deter most negative energies, spirit or otherwise.

Of course, the best is a combination of isolation and proper vibration. Vibrating the names outloud doesn't really mean anything if you are not able to be aware of your sphere/cube. The point is to set up a network of vibrational tones, energetically, which adjust in their combination the vibration of your own energy. So if you are not aware of the vibration throughout the ritual, and even afterwards the change in your own vibration, then the LBRP is not performed successfully, in my opinion. Without that element of awareness people have expressed progress, but of course until you know what it can do with fully empowered, lesser progress can be quite impressive. We were all impressed with the wright brothers with their meager airplane, but they would be amazed by a seven-forty-seven.

If it's unclear, let me know.

peace

This post has been edited by Vagrant Dreamer: Feb 15 2007, 01:44 PM