Through the portal of the Octarine power we seek to manipulate these processes. Austin Spare drew forth his dreams of spirits as his paintings and drawings. Through lucid dreaming we can access and work with our symbols and direct their paths. Through divination and trances we break the grip of focussed linear thought contained by the subjective limits of mortal self and experience in the unconscious manner, in whole, simultaneously, throughout and beyond ourselves.
Through the Orange power we can then interpret and communicate what we find.
Trances: not ‘trance.’ We experience many different states of (un)consciousness, and seek to explore more widely. Many chaos magicians have written about the gnoses, inhibitory and excitatory. Go read, especially Liber MMM, found in Pete Carroll’s ‘Liber Null.’
However, if inhibitory gnosis sounds a bit hard, go into trance first and THEN go for the symptoms: motionlessness, inhibition of reflexes eg. swallowing and itching, slow breathing. Use hypnosis and/or such means as the Brain Wave Generator to start you off.
Excitatory gnosis involves working up a real sweat. Exercise exhaustion, sex, Jan Fries’ ‘seething’ (see his book ‘Seidways’), the Death Posture … read up and try them out. But guard your health. I for one avoid hyperventilation, having tried it several times and got electric numbness and tingling down the inside of my left arm. You know, incipient heart attack signal. When you drive yourself out of your mind by these means, you should ensure you have something to come back to.
Drugs: I won’t comment on the legality of drug use. Each of us makes our own decisions there. Make well-thought-out decisions. I rarely use intoxicating substances in magic myself, preferring the ability to snap out of altered states as quickly as I achieved them. My choice.
Dreams. If you haven’t done so, consider recording your dreams in a journal. This will give you information on your personal symbolism (ignore books on dream symbols: they generalise. Learn your individual symbols) and as you learn to remember more of your dreams you pave the way to lucid dreaming, where you realise that you are dreaming. Once there, you can conduct magic while ‘asleep’, conveniently sidestepping the need for techniques of gnosis to shut off the conscious mind.
Divination. The Purple power manifests as states of consciousness whereby we can access information unavailable to our everyday mind. The means range from contact with informative entities to manipulation of complex off-the-shelf symbol systems such as tarot. Our human ingenuity has resulted in immense variety of divinatory methods. By way of illustration I give here accounts of two which I devised.
I Jing Cards.
The classical I Jing system uses the Yin/Yang binary distinction and a three-decker universe of heaven, human and merely physical. These combine eight ways, into what practitioners represent as the Eight Trigrams. Combine any two Trigrams to get a reading called a Hexagram. Permutation yields 64 Hexagrams, each with an assigned meaning. For further detail, you can reassign individual lines …
Too complicated. Instead, I took each Trigram in turn and ‘got the feel’ of it until I could create a simple glyph to represent it to myself. I created a card for each Trigram glyph and kazam! I have eight I Jing cards.
To get a reading, while thinking of the question, I shuffle the pack FACE UP, in such a way that I cannot directly see them but they remain within my peripheral vision. I want a card which represents the root of the matter, and shuffle until I intuit that I’m now holding the appropriate card. I note it. I return it to the pack and shuffle as before, while asking for a card which elaborates on the theme. I note which one I get.
I now have a kind of Hexagram. I intuitively comment on its meaning to the question. The more briskly the better, to prevent the conscious mind intervening unhelpfully.
In tests, I yielded intuitive readings of the Hexagrams which corresponded approx 80% to the traditional meanings of the Hexagrams, and in divination I had excellent results.
Noddymancy
Choose songs with colourful metaphoric lyrics. Whole albums in fact. Load as much as possible into any machine which will play them back in random order.
Consider the question, talk it over with yourself or with a friend, while the music is playing. Note any ‘coincidental’ correspondences between the conversation you’re having and the lyrics you can hear at any given moment. Your hi-fi will speak to you.
I learned this while 'talking things through' with a friend during a *blush* Slade album. The name of the singer? Noddy Holder. Hence ‘Noddymancy.’
THE IDEAL STATE TO GET PSYCHIC:
Level 3: Take a deep breath in, and as you let it out relax the body.
Level 2: Take a deep breath in, and as you let it out visualise a peaceful scene.
Level 1: Take a deep breath in, and as you let it out –
-keep your head still, defocus your eyes and turn them upwards about 20?
-visualise a blank screen ahead and slightly above you.
You are now in the ideal state to get psychic. Return to ordinary awareness 1-2-3.
USING YOUR IDEAL PSYCHIC STATE:
Exercise 1) Go from Levels 3 to 1.
On your blank screen, visualise an object, an apple, a cup, a brick.
With your imagination, approach the image, examine it from front, back, sides, above, below. Enter into the object. Notice light, temperature, texture, smells.
Withdraw and return to ordinary awareness 1-2-3.
Exercise 2) Go from Levels 3 to 1.
On your blank screen, visualise someone you know, exactly as you did with the object.
Withdraw and return to ordinary awareness 1-2-3.
Exercise 3) In pairs, take turns.
Think of someone you know, perhaps someone with illnesses or injuries.
Lead your partner to their ideal state to get psychic. Then tell them this:
“Take a moment for your mind to adjust to giving accurate information about someone I’m going to present to you. (pause) His/Her name is ………., age ………. And he/she lives in ……… At the count of 3 put an image of this person onto your blank screen … 1-2-3 … Sense an image on your screen. Imagine it, know it is there, take it for granted it is there. You may feel that you are making it all up. This is normal.
“Scan the body of this person with your mind, rapidly up and down, repeatedly …
allow yourself to notice the three parts of the body that stand out most strongly to you, and as they come to you, tell me what they are. (you will of course take notes on the other side of this sheet of what you are told)
“Select one of the three areas, the one that stands out the most to you and tell me what it is.
“Examine it as you examined your object earlier. Enter into the area, notice what there is to notice, and tell me about it as you go. You may have like X-ray vision, you may have symbols arising, you may have other ways of noticing things. Keep talking as you examine the area. Tell me when you have finished.”
When they have done so, return them to ordinary awareness 1-2-3.
Judge what they’ve told you against what you know of the person you thought of, and score them for accuracy 10%, 50%, 100% whatever. 20% and over is better than chance.
Source material: Silva Method, especially Ultramind. I soooo recommend you go on a course.
Remote Viewing, especially the books of Russell Targ.
