The Book Of THoTH

Speaking in terms of mystic or spiritual arenas. Astrology, Hermetic teachings, shamanism, etc. What do you practice? Or if not personally practice, study in-depth? I know that there are a few tarot card readers around and that usually goes hand-in-hand with other crafts.

SI, CURRENTLY I'M STUDYING DRUIDISM'S AND LEARNING TO MAKE MY OWN RUNES. I'VE LOOKED INTO WICCI AND SHAMANISM AS WELL. MY MAIN INTERESTS SEEM TO LIE IN MY HERITAGE, BEING MAINLY BLACK FORREST GERMAN, AND A TOUCH OF NATIVE AMERICAN AS WELL (ALGONQUIN-OHIO VALLEY). ONE THING I HAVE NEVER STUDIED BUT HAVE UNDERSTOOD IS "ANIMAL WISPERING", BELEIVE IT OR NOT THEY HAVE A LOT TO SAY. JO-

Oh what a long list I could give...

I'll touch on the majors.

I studied / practiced Wicca from 1995 - 1999.
I started getting into Shamanism in mind 99, and got really interested in Hawaiian Shamanism at the beginning of 2000.

From there, started practicing Huna, and practiced that until the beginning of 2005.

All throughout it, something was always missing, and I thought that maybe it was just me...

Then in hmmm, July I found Kemetic Orthodoxy, and just finished the beginners course! Finally something feels really right! YaY!

I practice Buddist, and Taoist meditation and both static and dynamic Chi-Kung.
I have studied the Thelemic system a bit and some Druidism, but never practiced it seriously. I am very intersted in Celtic/Norse/Germanic pre-christian mythology and religion. I used to have a set of runes that I made, but years ago they were lost or stolen, so since then I have not been doing any divination at all really.

Making runes. I've always known runes to be already existent mystic symbols that one learns. What do you both mean by making runes?





Does the Druidism you're studying incorporate astrology and use of magnetism?




You can speak to animals yourself?

I learned the Futhark runes and then constructed a set out of clay in Art Class in the 9th grade in Highschool. Thats what I meant.

Hmmm. I never thought of the control of chi as a mystical or spiritual practice before, but I guess technically it is now that you mention it. I guess I never saw that way since it's such an easily displayable and tangible force. When you think mysticism or spirit it usually brings to mind abstract things or the unseen.

I thought that as well until I started researching it more deeply.
Chi-Kung is a bad word in some ways because its a catch all phrase.

Taoist "Alchemy" is entirely based upon the movement of Chi in your body and the combination of Chi drawn in from the heavens above and the earth below. Its all done though meditation and visualization.

However at the moment I am not practicing that particular discipline, because I lack the proper instruction to do it safely. Books are not enough. Right now most of the Chi-Kung that I do is focussed on Health and building/storing Chi in the dan tien for later use, as well as keeping the meridians open and flowing freely.

The Buddist meditation techniques I practice are more spiritual in nature, although for the most part I have just been working on basic will power and maintaining meditative states of mind at all times, as opposed to sitting still trying to achieve spiritual insight. My main focus at the moment is developing more Discipline.

In my own research and opinion, it seems to me that all ritual magick and related things are in effect, forms of "Chi-Kung" to some extent. The only difference being where you are trying to get energy from and how you are going to use it.

So I take it you're in the camp that says chi and kundalini are one in the same?

Yes and no.

Chi is a bad word, because it to is something of a catch all phrase.
Its used to refer to energy in general.

I believe that they are related, if not the same thing. The chinese basic division of a human beings energy is Jing (physical and sexual energy) Chi (nervous, life force energy) and Shen (mental energy)

There are different forms of "Chi", basically I would say that kundalini energy is a form of Chi. The idea is that part of our Chi is from the Earth and part is from the Heavens, I believe that the Kundalini energy would be the mixture of the 2 inside the human being.

Here is a googled hypothesis: (prana=Chi)

SI, BEEN AWAY FOR A WHILE, I CAN ONLY GET ON THE NET AT WORK. YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN SET OF RUINS OUT OF WOOD. I'M GOING TO USE A CHERRY BRANCH THIS SPRING BEFORE IT BLOOMS. THIS IS WHEN THE WOOD IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE MOST ENERGY. YOU CARVE THEM, BREATH LIFE INTO THEM ECT. IF I CAN FIND THE WEB PAGE WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS I'LL LET YOU KNOW. THE ADDRESS IS AT HOME TODAY. YES , MY ANIMALS AND I "TALK" ALL THE TIME, IT'S VERY NON-VERBAL, BUT I ACTUALLY SPEAK TO THEM OUT LOUD SOME TIMES. IT'S JUST ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY SINCE I CAN REMEBER. JO-

I practice reiki regularly..just about everyday. I'm really new to it, just under a year. I took a class to learn reiki for the express purpose of ridiculing the entire idea of magical thinking with experiential proof of its delusions.

The only problem was that my teacher healed my back instantly (which was in perpetual pain since a car crash in high school)...so a believer i became.

I like doing Tarot as well, though sometimes it can be overwhelming.

Recently, I've been trying hard to be lucid in dreams..the other night i had a conversation with the winged serpent himself-Quetzacoatl. he was totally cool, i remember finally being able to ask him something. i was like a baby struggling to vocalize but then i did get around to asking him 'why he is such a god'...an awkward and subconcious sounding question..he said something in an Abe Lincoln voice and blah blah dream weirdness, that's all i can remember.

What led you to tarot card reading tesla?

I was at my local conspiracy bookstore, and they didn't have the book i had ordered. it was a hectic day, it was my lunchbreak...my inner consumer had to buy something for twenty dollars...so there was a pack of tarot cards.

I thought they would be nice to have, a great date diversion--something to ramp up the dialogue in a hurry. Even though i had had readings from several people whom i trusted, i still did not completely believe in 'it'.

When i got around to messing with them, I would do a one card draw...the 5 of wands came up..a crappy card..so i shuffled and drew again..same card (!!)..shuffle and repeat..SAME CARD. (ahh the rule of three)

There was a 2 week stretch where I was doing 5 or 6 live readings a day...in the middle of bars, hip hop shows, coffee shop just to get practice.

I never pulled any punches, meaning i was stayed faithful to what the cards were saying, but it has gotten harder and harder to be blunt especially over the internet. though being blunt in this respect is (IMO) the best way to give a reading.

Its accuracy constantly amazes me..so much so that i have to put it away for stretches of time before my childish impulses start telling me that I'm dealing devil tricks.

(deja vu)

Apart from Tarot, I study anything with a spiritual bent that calls to me. I do dream analysis and I'm studying colour therapy. I can do a bit of graphology too.
I have just started my own business called 'Art Release' which helps to unlock deep rooted problems in the peeps through the interpretation of their drawings/doodles/paintings etc.

I'm into herbs and essential oils, love crystals but don't know a lot about them yet, and I study nature based stuff as I believe in the healing energy of the planet. Also into other dimension stuff like elemental kingdoms but only just learning. I go to a mediumship workshop to learn how to tune into spirit, although I want to tune into elemental kingdoms more than spirit realms.

I believe in angels and have managed to make contact with my own guardian angel, also found angels who like shopping with me!! You wouldn't believe the bargains they find me!

Also, as I am a lightworker, then anything related to that too

By "other dimensional" do you mean in the vibratory sense or something else?





Just out of curiousity, do you know what these angels look like?

Hi Sub. I do not see the angels as I would a human, I sense their presence like a soft but strong energy. I also get their voices directly into my head. (And they are not averse to saying "Oi! you didn't listen!"


By 'other dimensions' I mean in the vibratory sense. (But ALL dimensions are of a different frequency are they not?)
I want to contact other life forms that vibrate at a different frequency but inhabit the earth. The elemental kingdom for example is resonant with the human emotions, and love is the best vibration to make contact with. Marco Pogacnik writes about different ways to make contact with these realms in his books.




[/quote]

Depends on who you ask really. Others believe spirtual dimensions to be mystic realms that exist by magic instead of vibration. The whole vibrational frequency idea is something I'm still working to wrap my head around at this point.





Well if you're regularly conversing with angels I'd imagine you're already where you want to be. Your foot's already in the door so to speak.

*bump*

Lots of neat people here. I'm Thelemic and study Crowley's teachings as much as I can -- each read yields something new, especially his landmark Liber AL. A lot of the choices I make, diet wise and lifestyle wise are affected by my search for the True Will. I try to live as healthfully and naturally as I can, as I feel these are prerequisites to expressing one's True Will. I'm vegan and I feel that this has changed my life for the better and seems like the right choice for me in a Thelemic sense.

I'm also going through the Builders of the Adytum's correspondence course and I'm presently studying all things Tarot right now. It's very interesting stuff and gives me a new respect for the cards.

I'm also very interested in the Norse ways and just recently learned of Asatru and Seidr (or however that's spelled). I am Pennsylvania Dutch, so I feel like I might have a special connection to that system. You have to understand that my family growing up was basically non-religious, bordering on atheist. So I've spent my whole life searching for meaning and wishing that I had some sense of culture or heritage or something that my ancestors followed and I can pick up the torch and follow too. I never had that. But, I just recently learned that all of my grandparents were Masons. So now I'm starting to feel like there is something I can be involved in that makes me feel connected with my past.

Wouldn't practicing Asatru conflict with being a Builder of Adytum? This is the first I've heard of the BoAs, but I get the impression that it's Judeo-Christian based.

Tricia .... how goes it with your "Art Release ? " are you still studying Colour Therapy ?
I am studying a number of theories at the moment with Vibrational Energies , Chakras , Crystal and Colour Therapy overlapping in quite a few places.

I would be really interested to hear your thoughts on this

Hey nice to find another reiki practicioner here.

I have studied/done Yoga for one year. All seemingly new age concepts like psychic healing and various other forms of meditations plus hypnosis etc.. are found in Yoga . A few years later I was introduced to reiki which was the most profound experience of my life.
I next learnt Magnified Healing , I was in search of an experience like reiki and was dissapointed.
Next Tarot came into my life. And next were Angel cards.
I also did Silva mind programe which is the pioneer of psychic healing , dream control, creative visualisation and manifestations of your dreams , astral projection , telepathic communication , positive thinking ... etc..
Now I have decided I that I need to stop learning and start practicing.


But I wish to know if anyone here has done any courses by Doreen Virtue , Sonia Coqehet etc..?

I haven't been studying long, and have been staying mostly with Wicca and Ceremonial Magick. I have had an idea about Magick in general however, and I am going to try a study into fitting all different styles of Magick into one framework, a sort of "Theory of Everything for Magick." From the evidence of different styles of Magick evolving throughout humankind regardless of culture or location it should not be difficult.