(I'm gonna try to use this freaking 'quoting' thing like a pro today lol. Hope I don't fuck it all up in the attempt.)
Let's see here...
Apprentice said:
I'm on the way to disentangling my soul. I'm even not worried about the magick and spiritual side of things because I have seen and felt the proof and I KNOW things work
Magic works, rituals work. I know it, I've seen it. It's just that my current mental configuration can be an obstacle on the way. There is still garbage to be cleaned.
Consider this: you are already WAY ahead of all those morons who don't even believe Magick is real (it's been a while since I refuse to spell the word as 'magic', as it reminds me of mere tricks and shit like that.. the archaic version sounds better and overall more honorable).
You know it works, you know it's a very real thing, and that it can manipulate reality and change it to your will. Ask yourself what's REALLY stopping you. Is there something that's stopping you in your track? Fear? Of failure? Or of success? I'll tell you something stupid but true: for the longest time I have feared trying to learn things like TK, no matter how I always felt it was something I SHOULD have learned no matter what. Why? Because I always felt terrified at the thought of hurting someone I love with it.
Needless for you to say it perhaps, this fear is most likely a byproduct of something like the media junctioned with fucking xianity. Subtle and bastard, it makes sure you're not a threat to them by threatening your loved ones. Years and years spent thinking I should have merely helped others, healed, cured, whatever, and all while I silently craved a power so devastating I could have wiped out all the filth that populates this planet.. that was always something I wanted. Only then I read Satan's famous phrase, quoted in Brother GitM's signature. Made a world of sense to me.
Speaking of powers, do read that part on TK I just wrote to Brother Ghost when it gets approved. I had some success with it, and I must say it's kind of strange... I'm not lifting a car off the floor, but even the nothing I've done.. it feels like I'm more proficient at it than I thought I could be.. or rather, than I always have been before. Could it be because now I finally decided to let myself go and don't fear my power anymore? I'm also pretty sure it's got to do with the effects from the Final Ritual, it's been a couple days I feel this 'disturbance in the force', so to speak, but positive.. like there's less yehuborim on the Planet, know what I mean?
Apprentice said:
The roots of all this mess are in the childhood, I guess. Parents are the ones that sculpt you. "You are too slow, get on with it, WTF you doing, you forgot this you fool" etc. Some souls can take it, some are just too delicate and impressionable. As a result, I become tense whenever I feel there's a possibility that I may be berated for what I've been doing (or not doing) by, including but not limited to, the ones I feel close to.
I know what you mean, and that's something I think you should meditate about, find your locks and undo them ASAP. Chances are you're still holding yourself back because you actually believe that 'programming information' that was forced into your younger mind.
I'm gonna mention something that has been popping back in my mind for the second time in days: do you have any particular phobia? Something that since your childhood scared the shit out of you? I mean something also common, like clowns and sharks and whatnot.. there's probably lists of 'phobias' on the internet, we probably all have one or two in there.
Obviously, don't write it down here for prying eyes to see.. just think about it.
My suggestion is (paradoxically) something that was suggested to me by the one that I recall as the most DAMAGED and DAMAGING person I ever met, a number one narcissist and complete sociopath, but that (this is why I say paradoxically) happened to also give me an absurd and proved to be valuable hint: meditating on the fear and pain.
The point of this 'process' (as the damaged one called it, in truth she stole this from some couple's psychiatrist I read about) is basically to focus on whatever either pains you or frightens you the most and look for the source of it inside yourself. Once you find it, you merge with it, and while this may feel like it's the worst thing to ever willingly try, it also causes this pain or fear to appear as merely a mass of energy, something that's been simply buried within, and when you're feeling it full force you also slowly end up not feeling it anymore.
Yeah, I know, batshit crazy. I haven't done it since that awful year, 2018 (also the first death in the family we've ever had, and a very bad time), but I can tell this crazy shit happened to help. I had a serious fucking phobia of the sea depths, to the point I couldn't even look at this in a picture. Videos of the Titanic wreck evoked a terror like I didn't know others. So I chose this fear as a tool to work with. I 'went within' myself (you can translate this as "medium/deep trance", but I have to say that 'going within' has been an amazing trance inducing way for me compared to trying to force an altered state of consciousness, and I even accomplished deep trance with this), and I basically went to sit (visualized) with crossed legs in front of the Titanic wreck, assuming that little else would have frightened me more than that. Fuck, I had had nightmares about that.
Long story short, that was the very first time I actually 'felt a machine'. You know when we communicate with machinery? Yeah, pretty much the same, even if it was 'practically dead', it was still pretty much alive from where I was seeing it. I merged with it, witnessed the night it sunk, felt all the fear and despair... fuck.... at some point, however, the fear.. I realized I wasn't even thinking of how scared I was supposed to be at the thought. I was more like 'concerned' for the Titanic. Yes, crazy, I know lol. People here told me machinery and objects don't have feelings, that it's just like residual energy from the owners or the people that travelled on them and so on. Honestly, I don't know.
Long story short, I realized I wasn't afraid of sharks, or of abyssal fish, or of shipwrecks... it was something related to my fear of isolation and abandonment. I don't know about the cold (water down there is pretty cold) cuz my favorite seasons are the coldest ones, Winter above all others.
Technically, according to the original description of this 'technique' you can apply it to anything that causes discomfort, pain, fear, anything negative.. Personally, I kind of see it also (to put it blatantly) as a way to "toughen up in record time". You face the worst you can think of, imagine you're facing it for real, and your mind at some point gets so used to it you no longer fear. I assume this works the best with things that you're more than likely NEVER going to do lol.. like I'll NEVER go in a bathysphere down to see the Titanic or dive who knows how deep with sharks and other starving animals... the point is not to be afraid of something that will in someway stop you from being free of fear.
Well, this was a crazy suggestion.. feel free not to follow it at all lol, not gonna be mad at you for that.

I just find it weird how this thing (which now I understand to work because fear and pain are excellent things to focus on.. in that, you 'cannot look away'... there's even an astral projection method call the Fear technique.. lmao, I imagine no one has ever used it, not even its inventor) managed to trigger my trance so well and so easily compared to everything else I'd tried for years.... I suppose this is why that psycho ended up with so much of a grip on me, because I was basically kissing the ground she walked on after proving to me I could do something I was beginning to think impossible.
The mind is such a hard thing to use, eh? :/
Anyway.. back on the subject...
Apprentice said:
I actually tried to Void myself for 5 minutes on several occasions. Set the timer on my phone and deliberately shut off my brain. A couple of times I had to repel some thoughts appearing but that was it. No biggie. Intent is the key here, I guess. Perhaps, in this case, you are the one trying too hard?

It works for me like this: just relax, take your time, let some thoughts run through you, close the folder with affairs of the current day on your mental desktop so to speak and then try, with intent. Just like it says on the JoS: don't become discouraged, try again and again. You will succeed.
figure of the past, fuck... this reply just gets me back to the "trance success" I just told you about! XD
But yeah.. you're right too, I'm definitely trying too hard here. I guess when some things like trances and this kind of stuff that belongs in the part of our brain we understand the least comes into play, the logical explanations and guidelines can't be trusted 'to the letter'... if it all worked like that we'd have probably figured out how to accomplish any Magick by tomorrow morning, Brother, and it isn't so. The subconscious mind needs some keys that we have to find for ourselves in order to open it. There's probably only the first two or three steps in every meditation with can read.. the other ten we have to discover for ourselves by trial and error, isn't it?
Nevertheless, excellent job getting your mind that trained... I'm surprised you don't see and hear more than you do with that skill.
Apprentice said:
I have liked Him since I was a child. I feel something comforting even if it is a monologue.
I tried a bit of what you did, today, talking with Him a little. It feels a little strange to by talking to a god who was a man decades ago.. but I have to say it's also unbelievable, to actually realize how we can become Gods, how figure of the past has accomplished this. After that, maybe it was just a case (ha ha) I had the 555 numbers on a monitor at work before I left. Thought it was astonishing how he gets to leave Universe signs like the other Gods, like Leraje did with the machines too... I so admire that man.. I mean.. god.
Heil figure of the past!
PS.. lol this is something possibly idiotic but I feel like sharing it. My grandpa, who just passed last September, has been thinking very highly of figure of the past all his life.. when I was a child I remember him saying "figure of the past is GOD" ...Fuck me, how right he was.....
Apprentice said:
Hell yes. I have yet to find some reading material related to the application of the Elements in black magick. I trust nothing outside of JoS.
I'm getting your enthusiasm backfiring on me now.. between this talk of Black Magick and Ghost explaining about Water I kinda feel against drawn to cryokinesis. The really only reason (ok, two reasons, I'm trying to focus on TK now) I would give this up is basically that I have equal Fire and Water in my chart and wouldn't want to muck up the balance... then again, I'm not going to always have exactly the same amounts of each Element, balanced with their opposite or not... mmm.
I'll focus on TK for now, by cryokinesis HAS been a long time favorite of mine. Every kid loved the idea of throwing fireballs, I was the loner who wanted to freeze them solid instead.
Whatever the case, I do need to keep practicing as much as I can with my hand chakras. It's been more than once that I have felt them begging to be used for something like TK. I guess I'll see what I'm more talented with.
Just out of curiosity.. do we have any Demon that specialized with Cryo?
Apprentice said:
I'm deeply grateful to you, Brother. Take care.
You too Brother, it would kickass if we met and trained together, wouldn't it?
Hail Father Satan Forever! Ave Zeus!