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"Steal This Book of Shadows"
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We may be splitting hairs here, but not everyone wraps their minds around this topic. This is not a one-size-fits-all field of inquiry, the occult. It needs to be tailored to the way you grasp reality. If they tell you differently, they lie. If you don't see the world the way they do, it's not your shortcoming. The fault lies with the teacher, and their inability to relate to you. Be the Target PK
Too many people are of the ideology "Think outside the box", and they apply ("App Lie"(= this ideology to everything, yet deny the very nature of their nature. Sometimes the only way you can understand completely ("Grok", as they say(=, is to be one with an object, and not apart from it.
"Be One With" is a Buddhist mechanism, through meditation upon an object, to achieve a symbiotic gestalt with that object. Understand the object, and it's non-ego nature, to learn the lessons it has to teach. These lessons vary from one student to the next, and before I go off on a tangent too far, we should say, for the record, that this state is useful, VERY useful, as a tool of metaphysics, but not as a lifestyle, anymore than apples are a good addition to a diet, but are toxic at the levels of a sole food source. It's practices, as with many other Ideologies, are good tools, but tend to break down when confronted with the real world. The real world requires flexibility & adaptation. Specialization is for insects.
As we've surely discovered by now, through synethstesia & "Fill The Room", that every object has i'st own texture, when enfolding the object with the aura, this texture isn't always the same as when you grasp it with your fingers, or even when we view the way the light plays across it. One of the hardest things to rectify, in the life of a witch or wizard, is that things are never what they seem and only partly how we observe them. We need to learn how to correlate this new information with our old, accepted & assumed models, and build our understanding of the universe to incorporate all of the new data. As we meditate longer & deeper, on more objects of differing types, we develope a palette of experience from which to draw "Assumptive Understanding" from, when encountering new objects. "Intuitive Parameters" is a good way to describe it. Now, You don't get an automatic understanding of every tree, simply by meditating on ONE tree. The same goes for people, inanimate objects, or even weather patterns or coffee drinks. There is always a range of differences, as well as similarity. Our goal is to develop an understanding of the footprint of similar objects, for a more rapid guestalt with similar objects. The more you understand the 'essence of cars', the faster one can develop a fugue-state with a particular car.
Now, be prepared for a substantial level of disorientation when first beginning these meditations. Simply by feeling the differences in center-of-balance, from you to your house keys, can be a bit overwhelming. It's never what one expects, at first. One assumes that they will be similar, but they aren't. In the same way that, in both sitting & standing, gravity pulls on every part of you the same, but the sensations are dramatically different when experienced. One knows intuitively that standing feels different than sitting. You'll have to develop the instincts anew, with each new object.
On the Plus-Side, as you develop this perspective, and your aura reflexively responds to changes in your environment, you'll be gathering information unconsciously as well as consciously. If you already are, these conscious meditations should improve that unconscious absorption (unless these models digress to far from your pre-established techniques). Now, this is to be developed, not rushed! Don't expect instantaneous results, but stick with it. If you've been having no luck with the previous techniques, this will give you a better idea of the connections one requires. Start with the standard run-up mind sets (You should know them by now) Open your awareness to the object. "Personify" the object. Try to grasp a day in the life of that object. The way it moves in your hand, the way it shifts. (Yes: It's okay to handle the object, at first). Feel your energy flow into the object, not PUSH into it. This is more like a relationship than a Mastery. The object is an Equal, not a possession.
The closer you can get to understanding the 'personality' of the object, the better that relationship will be. What is it like to be made of the same materials? The same parts? To move the way it does?
(Now, the hard part) Loose your sense of identity, as a life form, and take on the feel of being that object, in that position, on that surface. Loose the boundaries of your flesh in favor of the form of the object. It's shape is your shape. It's surface is your surface. It's posture is your posture. Now, "Move", from the attributes and through the possible directions of motion the object can take. If we're still working with the mobile, adopting the sensations you attribute to Brownian motion would be appropriate. Feel that form of energy move through 'you' as the mobile. Feel the differing directions and speeds of that fluidic motion move through you, but as the object. (I tried to warn you this wouldn't be easy!)
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