Whatta week it's been, dear Brother. Finally I have the time AND the energy to finally answer you properly.
Yeah, same here, been postponing my reply for two days but now I feel lighter. Got at least some answers from my former employer and this stressful shit is over, I had been thinking about it for too long without being able to put a stop to it due to the 'conciliation' having been set only this month. Now it's gone and I can focus on things that I want and need to do.
I suggest you use the astrology pages on ToZ online because I discovered that the astrology pdf file in library is missing some chapters.
I'll have to make more time and understand this thing properly as I know that if you misread something it could mean something completely different and that would take me a step backwards, last thing I need right now.
This is exactly the reason I undertook the Munka working. After getting some clarity I felt the push from the Powers that this is the only way. The situation with my chart is complicated enough, no wishful thinking nor therapist can help here.
That makes a lot of sense. Personally, I have chosen to try a 'different approach' to things. For one thing, I know that if I get stuck with the "MUST choose Element" mentality, I'll never be truly satisfied with my choice or training, as I'll always lack that either opposite or balancing half (or three quarters, or more, of it) to be really done finding what I seek.
I'm stepping back a little from meditations too specific and focusing on the 'easy and basic', so to speak. Like when a meditation says something like "Ok, now first relax until you can't feel your body, than imagine yourself in light, now move the light up your spine, done? Ok, now circle it back. Next add this mudra. Next add this mantra. Next focus on this sigil. Etc" ..and I'm still TRYING to relax my body and not being overrun with involuntary thoughts and memories of the day or stressful problems that I can't get rid of.
Meaning: it's pointless to run and trying and to acrobats when I'm not even able to stand up from the ground. I HAVE to sharpen my mind to the point that my relaxation will simply be the easiest of consequences from my training. With this I'm not saying I will occupy my mind harder with heavier thoughts, quite the opposite.. I'm focusing on the easiest possible relaxation and visualization techniques ('visualization' referring also to the summoning of sensations, like tactile ones, which have helped before when average attempts have failed miserably... told you about that time while using one of these I nearly astral projected.. that would be something phenomenal for me, been dreaming and daydreaming of it so many times).
Your kind words actually made me feel a bit better. Thank you.
Glad I could help, Brother. The only thing that's ultimately going to do every trick for you is 'you doing the trick yourself'. Sometimes the mind won't 'get it' no matter what you say to it. It just has to decide that it's ready by itself. In other words, unless you make up your mind and decide you're ready for something (an example being "ready to open up your astral eyes enough to see visions on command") you never will. So choose to do it. ;)
Of course we have to be smart about our development. Every flower blossoms in due time. I've been contemplating a lot about it. Like why on Earth didn't I discover this path like 20 years ago? I also keep forgetting that I'm in a middle of a serious personal working that has really nasty side effects and I feel that I'm not moving forward. Too much Air, I guess, lol.
Too much Air thinking there indeed, Brother. You know how it is. When (Air) people like us start worrying about something and overthinking it, there's almost guaranteed no need for that in the first place. Like you said, every flower blossoms in due time. So just erase from your mind the concept of time constantly ticking away and you not accomplishing what you wish to. The more you focus on that the more you'll make it into your own little reality, and you don't want that, of course.
Think the Gods worry about what skills they still need to master that other Gods have already as part of their office? No, they are confident of their own skills and understand that their long life and experiences brought them to understand better than anything THAT particular office (which still must have taken its own time to understand, experience and master).
And just to give you a pretty depressing example: I DID discover this path 20 years ago (well, 19, technically.. I wouldn't be that surprised if one day HP Pythia told me that I was among the first 10 people to ever find the ToZ website in 2002), and look where I am. It took me pretty much 18 years JUST to learn who my Guardian Daemon was (I had been almost sure one year before Brother GitM would be contacted my Leraje and used him to give me the confirmation that she was the one), I have JUST now started to be aware of and feel a little energy, I have JUST now used one of my skills in a decent enough way that I managed to stimulate my pineal gland and feel it, and so on and on. Not to mention how just one year ago I learned I was Air dominant and that my Earth was absolute nil, so that's where many problems I hadn't been aware of started to be more obvious to me.
20 years is a long time for us, but sometimes I feel like a total freaking failure in the eyes of Satan. Only now I have only just begun to grow a little...
From ToZ: In truth, the Eight-Fold Path is the observance and practice of the following, which greatly amplifies the powers of the mind and soul:
1. Asanas - Physical positions of the body such as in Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, the Five Tibetans, and Tai Chi. One must work on and strengthen the physical self through gentle stretching, and manipulation of the spine to facilitate the safe ascension of the serpent. The physical body must be free and flexible, otherwise energy may become trapped. When one consistently performs power meditations, one raises extreme amounts of energy that must be properly directed and above all, free.
2. Pranayama - Breathing Exercises
3. Dhyana - Meditation
4. Mantras - Vibration of words of power to obtain certain goals and/or personal powers
5. Yantras - meditation upon sigils and certain symbols [used along with vibration of mantra for maximum effectiveness]
6. Mudras - Certain seals such as hand positions which activate the vril [chi/witchpower]
7. Bandhas - Energy locks which stimulate and direct the serpent
8. Maithuna - Sexual activity, either with a partner/s or alone. Orgasm is very necessary in both activating and in amplifying the life force. This is why the Christian Church and Muslim program, in an attempt to remove all spiritual knowledge and power, are always condemning, and placing restrictions on sexual activity.
By practicing all of the above, one will greatly enhance and amplify his/her powers and shorten the time in achieving the godhead.
Dude, I love you. Can you link me the page? I've been looking everywhere, and I suspect it's somewhere so easy to find I must have overlooked it entirely somehow. I am not even too sure that I have ever seen a page with this stuff on it, that's way when HP HC mentioned it I felt completely ignorant about it.
At least I have to say I have been keeping up with almost everything in there, regardless of knowing what the list included.
The only one I haven't really used much are the Mudras. Perhaps because HP Pythia made them an optional part in the chakra awakening exercises, or because I never felt that damn sensation in the thumb for the Third Eye mudra (the very first one) and decided it simply wasn't for me. I don't really know how much they help, haven't memorized the names, but the only one I use is the one to calm your mind, the "right hand inside the left hand, palms up, tip of the thumbs touching, perfect for the simple crossed legs or the butterfly asana.
The others I have almost all figured out by myself... only the Yantras I never used much in the years before, I started it when I found out the name of my GD and anyway I used Satan's sigil.
Satan_is_our_Father666 wrote:You asked about Thoughtforms a short while ago, Brother, didn't you? Ever tried working with them?
The answer is a sad No. Because of time constraints, I haven't been able to practice it yet.
So far I have pondered using them again but haven't really had the time to focus on that. I will these days for sure though. I was pretty surprised with the effect I had last time, and want to make sure it wasn't just a one off. Thing is, I'm trying to give proper time to all 8 Fold Paths (now that I realize this branching) and I hope that doing so I will progress faster, covering all the basis and skipping nothing important.
Also, I restarted including martial arts in the physical path as I feel I let my body soften up too much.
On that matter... I don't remember if I told you already, I think not.
Ever since restarting daily Yoga (not even as much as I promised myself, gotta fix that) but more than anything Kundalini Yoga, I have observed a strange change in my body. First of all, my back is slightly larger. You know those guys who crowd gyms thinking they got the biggest biceps ever? Yeah, suddenly I feel like I have a similar body. Don't know how or why... it's actually been pretty sudden, last week I think. I wonder if the little Wing Chun training I've been doing (way too little for THESE results) had a way of adapting my muscles for a faster "chain fist" (it's one of the trademark moves).
Also, the other thing is speed. I was training this "chain fist" and made a short video of it to see what it looked like and how to improve it, but I couldn't count the number of fists I threw to the bag. I did the same again but had to lower the speed to 1/10th just to count them. Turns out my "upgraded" back came with a gift in speed, and I threw 55 fists in 10 seconds.
I've been doing martial arts all my life, but I was never big or THAT fast. I also find it strange how I'm picking up skills I didn't have with more ease than ever before, not that I didn't already learn quickly, it's always been a perk for me, but this level of absorbing information and being so much stronger and faster than before kinda feel like "cheating" in a way.
Long story short, I came to believe that this ...whatever this 'transformation' is, is due to my Earth finally being displayed in my Soul. I don't know if that's the best or only explanation I can give to what happened, but it does feel pretty legit so for now I'll ride with it.
I'll see if my body reacts to the training I just started as quick as the back and arms.
Ever noticed something like that before? A sudden physical change? :/
To be honest, this week I barely managed a personal working, AC+AoP and a couple of times the Ritual pair. Couldn't do the group rituals because I just had tons of work to do from am to pm.
Well, don't feel too bad, Brother, because I've been reading a few other times on the forum of people who had a seriously hard time doing the rituals and focusing, being harassed etc. I'm pretty sure the fucking astral leeches have been more active, there's also been again videos on people who saw ufos left and right. They know they are losing the war and are obviously trying to fuck with us harder.
I had the hardest time too doing rituals this time. Some days I would do one more just because I felt like I had to get back at them after making me skip the day before.
PLUS, now it seems we're entering (or already entered) retrograde Mercury, which isn't good news, so there's new shit to be aware of.
Truth be told, however, I feel pretty positive now.
I got rid of this work stress that was haunting me, I feel physically stronger and better, I'm pretty confident I am slowing things down with good reason and that by doing so I will definitely succeed.
Also, I'm still seeing 444 but it feels more like a confirmation... maybe a confirmation that says I have connected with Earth and must nourish this slowly, with time and practice.
As for the 108 number (from the Tibetan rosary), I never really had a bad vibe from this number.. read something before but I haven't felt anything bad from it, plus it is associated with a lot of examples in martial arts history, being usually the number of 'branches' in which a school or art developed, so it's been a familiar number so far.
I also made a stone rosary but the energy felt a little too stagnant for the moment, so I kept using the smaller wooden one, just as I am getting started for the first time in forever with so many repetitions.
BTW, I just feel that you should really relax and void yourself concerning the Elements. Give it some time to settle, a month or so. Then try probing the topic again mentally, try to feel, making yourself void (without our typical, left-brain Airy blabber).
You're not wrong, and I have done so. There are obviously periods in which I feel a stronger connection with the Elements and analyzing this feels either more natural and right, but then there are other periods in which I feel the Elements are kind of a prison and that I will be stuck doing the same mistakes over and over unless I get rid of this closed-box mentality.
It's probably always better to just use Akasha instead, and feeling them all at once.
It probably pays off more to listen to them as a song than 4 single notes.
Alright, a quick Yoga routine and I gotta go to sleep now. Talk to you soon Brother, take it easy and when in doubt, pay attention to the feeling of your breathing. :) Usually helped me more than anything else in Void meditation.
HAIL ZEUS FOREVER!