Hello all,

As many of you may have noticed, I tend to make rather profuse posts on the subjects i'm most interested and/or experienced in.

Well, I've been gathering technique, observing energy during ritual and afterwards, and in the world around me for a while now, since I was seventeen or so, and I've had too many successes to accurately count at this point. So, since I have developed in my journals and on this forum soooooo much literature on these subjects, I'm finally getting around to writing a book. I've got a couple of journals that expound, at great, great length, on the subjects I wrote about here and Here, plus the framework created by writing those articles as a starting point, and about a hundred books for references, examples, etc. Basically, all I really need to do is organize and edit.

However, while all these methods are the basic skeleton of my own development in energy manipulation towards magick, I have very little feedback from actual people on there effectiveness as presented. The only two people to offer any feedback so far are two people who basically grew up with me magickally, and while neither are self-proclaimed magicians of any label, they've applied some of these principles after observing my own work and getting the explanation and my own experience explained litterally step by painstaking step over the past six or seven years, since I was a goth wiccan in high school. This book will not be THAT detailed, although in comparison to these articles it'll be an encyclopedia. Think my usual verbosity, magnified by ten or twenty times. Well, I'll try and keep it maybe a little less academic.

Anyway, what I would be immensely grateful for from as many of you as can bear reading these articles and maybe, just maybe, even attempting to apply some of it to a few experiments, would be your feedback. Especially from some of the more advanced practitioners.

My premise is basically this (restated again and again in the articles, put here for point of reference): The universe is composed of energy, and that energy has a myriad of patterns that it plays out both on the purely subtle level, and in the gross physical manifestation of the universe. If the practitioner can learn to sense and manipulate energy, all magick can be applied directly, and all technique can be learned by mimicking patterns that already exist naturally. Transcending ritual is the goal of my magickal work. From sigils, to the LBRP itself, I firmly believe, and have experienced to a very large extent, that once the energetic pattern of any magickal work is learned, it can be used independently of the ritual atmosphere. Ultimately it comes down to learning to master a state of awareness of energy, mastering the will mechanism, and learning to grasp energy and memorize energetic patterns.

I know that a lot of it isn't beginner stuff, and I still honestly haven't gotten around how the initiate can go directly into this kind of magick without going through ritual first. I started out with meditation, I did my time with the LBRP, and QC rituals (didn't take me quite a year, but...) and then developed into this. But what I really want to know is, does it reflect anyone else's experience, does it seem like something that can be learned, and are the techniques that I've already included in these articles worthwhile? I'm pretty certain they are, but to be completely honest it took me years of trial and error and thinking at things in different angles before I finally got a handle on most of the bare basics, nevermind the stuff I mess with now, and while I'm certain that I covered the basic approach that lead to my initial and current successes, I've never actually known anyone who read it, applied it, and got results - if anyone has benefitted so far, I haven't heard from them. If someone, ideally more than one person, would even take the time to practice some of the methods and experiment, that would be fantastic.

Please be as honest about your thoughts as you care to be - I cannot be offended at this point in my life, and if you want to just read and review, that would be a huge help as well. I realize this is a particular audience here, and some may be biased to hold my track record here in some regard, but so far I have zero feedback, and there is no such thing as negative feedback, so anything is something.

I've got all the material to write a book, but It is against my ethical code to write a book just because I have material to do so, at least in this category of literature (If I spent as much time accruing novel chapters, I'd have already published...) I wouldn't think of publishing a book on this subject unless I'd already seen that someone outside my sphere of specific and broad experience could benefit from it.

Thanks all!

peace

This post has been edited by Vagrant Dreamer: Feb 26 2007, 03:20 AM