Meditation Is Key? Options

In all my reading and understanding of the many different avenues of the occult, a mutual factor has always been present. That factor is meditation. What I've been led to believe is that meditation can pretty much get you to where you're going, to the end. To the betterment of the self, hence your goal. If meditating holds such power, I was wondering what most of these other avenues of magick really do for the practitioner.

I'm not downgrading any other forms of magick, simply inquiring as to their purpose in life in comparison to meditation. I understand different aspects of magick, different wills and goals lead to different things and through different means however the end result is still the same and can be achieved through meditation alone. Or so I've been led to believe. Especially considering that meditation is a common part of most magickal practice, what makes the all powerful method of enhancing oneself to become yet another tool for the practicing magician? Again, I'm just curious and it's a question that's been on my mind. Something like, "Why do all this, if you can just do this and ultimately get the same results?".

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outside the parthenon in nashville, tennessee are two trees - the bark on these two trees is twisted in opposite directions, like some force has been twisting them since they grew there - it is an energy vortex that links two worlds, our physical world here and another unknown physical world - like a broken elevator that opens on two floors at once, both worlds are overlaid at that point in space-time, and the energy currents of the joining cause the spinning vortex of energy there, thus causing the evidence of itself on the trees

"muggle joe" could walk or sit between the trees and probably would get spacey or feel something, but thats about it

a person skilled in meditation could meditate between the trees and might get images of the other world, but could not cross into it despite their intent to do so

it takes a magic-user to change their physical vibration enough to walk the other world

when does the meditator cross some invisible line to become the magician? - imo, its when they naturally progress from merely observing to attempting to do or change something purposely with an intent

is meditation required to be a magician? - imo, yes, for it gives you access to the real eternal you that has been around forever, and only that personality can leave this physical world and walk the others


This post has been edited by esoterica: Mar 10 2009, 08:28 AM