The first three paragraphs here are a bit self’righteous, but if you plow through them, it gets good, I promise.
Do you remember the early 2000s? When the internet was still just starting up, before facebook and all that social crap, there were a lot of quality websites discussing the occult. Pagans, shamans, magicians and all sorts of heretics jumped to the internet as a means of finally being able to connect with each other, as well as freely discuss magick without fear of persecution. It was a time of hope and excitement for the future of modern magick.
Most of those quality sites are now gone, some live on but have not been edited in years, and a whole lot of crap sites have come up. We went from good websites with people discussing their ideas to blogs upon blogs of the holier than thou types.
These pompous self-declared adepts are insufferable. It’s bad enough that they’re so arrogant they make Crowley seem modest. But it’s even worse that I can’t read one of their “orginal posts” without recalling which book I read that “original idea” in over a decade ago. They speak with great authority of the astral planes and the properties of magickal energy, and yet they seem to avoid relating any actual experiences with magick. The ones that do usually talk about the fluffy feeling of being embraced with universal love, sure that’s a trip, but when they speak of it, it sounds like bullshit.
If they really have experienced those moments of bliss, shouldn’t they know about the counterparts? About what it’s like when you’ve drained your reserves on a magickal working, you’re laying in bed in that open pre-sleep state, you haven’t done a banishing in a few days, and something nasty sneaks under your defenses and hits you with the primordial terror. How you react to that tells you more about your magickal abilities and progress than all the adventures in astral land put together.
And how bout the synchronicities? To me there’s no greater indication that my magickal practice is having an effect on me than when I see those damn synchronicities where ever I go. Or how bout noticing things that you never saw before in a place you’re familiar with, something which would have had to have been there all along… That’s a really weird one, occam’s razor would point to the simplest explanation, being that magickal and meditative practice had lead to an increase in awareness so I now notice more in my surroundings, but hell, depending on how flexible the universe is, what if I’m waking up each morning in a slightly different universe, that’s almost identical except for some small changes. And if that’s the case, maybe it’s possible to deliberately slip between parallel universes and reach ones that are more and more different than the point of origin.
I could imagine doing this in small planned jumps. I figure in a universe of unknown amounts of parallel universes, only the ones that resemble our own the most can be reached without using some serious juice. But by jumping to one of those, you shift a little bit a now other some parallel universes that were too far to reach can be reached from this new one. A warning, this may very well be the kind of journey you can’t return from. But don’t take that too seriously, the only difference here from what everyone else does is attempting to make it more deliberate. This is just another way of applying the mechanisms through which magick affect reality.
I imagine there are others out there who practice travel magick, though they may use a different name for it. I have found sleep, walking around on psychedelics, and conversations with the right people to be the most effective ways of entering n-space. In n-space the regular laws of space-time do not apply, you may have experienced n-space in a ritual, within the magickal circle, but in a ritual n-space is confined. To me it’s that heightened state where ideas flow with the greatest of ease, a state of clarity where calm and excitement are experienced simultaneously… there’s a lot more I could say but I’d imagine it varies from person to person. Unfortunately I have yet to find a way to remain in n-space, but what occurs within n-space will affect where you come out.
Some magick you learn by hearing about and trying, and some magick that just comes to you, you live and learn it. This is magick my closest friend and I discovered. This is magick that works, I wouldn’t want to ruin the surprises, but I would love to hear of any adventures in n-space you might have. Also just leave a comment if you’re having trouble getting into n-space and I’ll be happy to give you some pointers that have worked for me.
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