Three Different Ways:
Dreams, Madness, and Myths
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 1 – I Wasn’t Ready (But I Did It Anyway)
To get to the quick of it: The notebook wasn’t complete. What was originally envisioned as a dedicated note book became something else by the end of the last day of preparation. It had become a grimoire.
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Do Magick September ’17: A Finalization Most Necessary
When I last checked in, I had given an outline of the ritual I was putting together for my Patient Caller and noted where I felt secure and where I needed more work. I now have the wording complete and have begun the process of writing out the entire matter onto paper so I’ll have…
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Dream Journal: 2017-08-27.01
I knew I was dreaming. A demonic contagion was spreading throughout the world like an epidemic. Everyone infected by it became blind. I spent a few seconds groaning at the recycled tropes from the 80’s before realizing that despite my awareness, I actually had very little power here. I only happened to be immune. One…
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Do Magick September ’17: Five Days and a Wakeup
The Objective: To use the Book of Oberon to summon and have communication (communion?) with a spirit that I have had dreams about for years. The Research: The Book of Oberon (Harm, Clark, & Peterson), Gordon White’s Rune Soup Grimoire Course, the Hygromanteia (Marathakis), Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica, and the internet. Where I am…
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Do Magick September ’17: Ceci n’est pas un rapport
I have “stuff” for an update to the research phase of my Do Magick project. But it’s going to take me the day to express it in words that y’all will be able to understand. I’m self-taught, as in tied to a anchor and thrown in the deep blue sea kind of taught. I had no…
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Dream Journal: 2017-08-25.01
All week long I’ve been worried as hell that I’m gonna Fuck It Up something big and have my shame documented for all to see. (There’s a difference between “nothing happened” and “uh-oh”.) Last night I heard a train of people passing by my closed bedroom door. I attributed it to family members having to reckon with…
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Dream Journal: 2017-08-20.02
“Cease this at once! Stand down, and no harm will come to you. I will only strike you as you strike me.” The golden lion with something like a sun on his forehead spoke as clear as a man to me from his place on a heavenly cloud. I attacked him anyway.
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Dream Journal: 2017-08-20.01
The messenger offered me a paper invitation to a private reading of Jung’s The Red Book in an interior room of a private lodge as a perk of membership. I tried to accept it but the paper sprouted thorns from every possible surface, and there was no way for me to accept the invitation without wearing layers…
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Do Magick September ’17: Beginner’s Mind
I’m starting with only the latter third of the month of August left for my formal research period, though I’ve been poking at this topic since the end of June when I participated in a group exercise in summoning a grimoire spirit. It has taken me this long to make the determination to do this…
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Dream Journal: 2017-08-17.01
“Move or get out the way!” I did both. I did not know they were going to open the doors so soon, or I would have made sure to have been on the other side of the ship. As such, I was caught by the throng of passengers eager to leave the ship, arrive on…
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