QUOTE(VodaVoda @ Jun 8 2009, 10:32 PM)
does it mean there is some state of mind where the entity usually called homo sapiens sapiens is able to directly operate energy?
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how can I intentionally get into this state? is it a very deep meditation / trance-like state ?
Yes, there is a state of mind associated with it, which is difficult to describe - this is why I gave the process mentioned above. Goibniu gives another dimension to this state of mind, like tuning a dial to the correct frequency.
The thing to remember is that operating energy directly is like any other action, because all actions involve the manipulation of energy. To become more efficient and effective at directing that energy, it is necessary to learn to separate the energetic action from the material (including the 'material mind' or brain mind if you will). When your attention is generalized, it's difficult to direct either in any fine-tuned fashion. So for instance when you focus on doing some mundane task like difficult calligraphy (as an example of a material action), you cannot just haphazardly do this until you have had years of practice. You have to shut everything else out and work with total focus and attention to the movement of your hand, to the minute details of the work itself to the exclusion of all else.
With energy work it is the same way - to maximize efficiency and effectiveness you have to learn the state of mind (a kind of trance state at first although it gets easier to maintain after practice) so that you can operate within it without much difficulty.
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what kind of energy do I need to focus on if I want to influence things that lie outside of my body?
e. g. to make a political party win an election or sports team a game or win a lottery?
I saw the other post about winning the lottery. I can say that it's easier to have a pronounced effect when there are fewer people directing energy - consciously or otherwise - to the same goal. So to win the lottery or an election, etc., you're contending with the energy of a lot of other people - millions in some cases - which makes your own efforts ultimately not worth very much. The trick to those situations is to find the element that few people are considering and place your attention there - a tactical application if you will, and there are ways to divine what this is. Any kind of divination that you are versed in - enough to get such a specific answer at least - or developing the ability to translate what you see into energetic terms. Many people may be rooting for one candidate to win an election, probably fewer are thinking in terms of accentuating one particular negative that might cost the other candidate the polls. A sports team is a team, and if you direct energy to cripple the star player or enhance one of the 'co-stars', you might have a more effective push.
The two approaches to lottery winnings are basically getting the balls to fall right, or predicting the numbers - unfortunately almost everyone is going to be directing energy consciously or otherwise to both of these possibilities, so that's a pretty slim chance of effectiveness there. Energy manipulation would not be my route to winning the lottery - I'd go with evoking a spirit that can either assure the numbers will fall some way (spirits operate differently than material beings and can do things that we can't do, just as we can do things they can't do) or who can predict the numbers. I wonder if imperial arts has attempted this with the goetics?
As to what kind of energy, there are different schools of thought. Energy tends to take the shape of one's intention. Some frequencies are better than others for certain intentions, so considering a particular energy for a particular intention is the most efficient application of energy direction in most cases. However there is also a kind of universal substrate, the essence of energy, as it were, which is in a way the medium for intention - without this medium, no intention would come to pass. It is this essential energy which is transformed by various means into the other energies which ultimately carry out other intentions. This energy is difficult to define and difficult to grasp, but comes upon us in a kind of 'quickened' state of inner emptiness in which those same variegated energies are harmonized into one whole, making us sympathetic to this essence.
In the practical example I gave originally, one might come to know and utilize a particular intentional energy - say that of the elemental family, or the astrological family, though any archetypal 'symbol' representing these energies in there raw (or as close as it gets on the material level) form - by visualizing this symbol in some way and then subsequently stripping all of the basic sensational elements from that 'image' until only the essence remains.
Take the energy of mars. One might spend some time reading into astrology, the history of humanity's understand and research into mars, the various mythologies associated with the planet, and then settle into meditation on these things, constructing a scene which depicts the essence of 'mars' - visual (the planet itself or a landscape similar to it), Auditory (perhaps the sounds of battle or action in, well, action), Tactile (perhaps heat, roughness, qualities of battle/mars), Olfactory (the smell of blood or iron, burning things as mars if fiery in nature), taste (the taste of iron, dust, grit, again the elements of battle, etc). Ultimately this scene develops into something representing the nature of Mars. You might include as an introduction to your meditation the symbol of mars itself, or several symbols arranged artfully in some manner. This method is commonly referred to as 'pathwalking'. At its essence pathwalking is intended to elucidate some particular energy through description, ultimately stripping away the descriptive elements and leaving behind the sublime 'silent' understanding of the energy itself.
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Why Is Visualisation Important?
VodaVoda Why Is Visualisation Important? Jun 8 2009, 03:15 PM
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