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k Making Misery Magickal
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By Jack Dracula
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This article is not for the squeamish or inhibited, dealing as it does
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with the pragmatic use of what are often seen as *negative* states of being.
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However, the energies involved in serious illness and grief may be used
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productively. Several magicians have expressed distaste to me when I have
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spoken to them about this subject, whereupon I have expressed distaste at
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their lack of flexibility and unwillingness to transform events in their
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lives to more productive ends.
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When ill with the flu or any other illness strong enough to knock you
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into bed, you are in an ideal position to take advantage of the fever dream.
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The astral realities you can explore through either projection (the phenomena
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of astral projection in relation to illness is well-documented, but see
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'Shamanism' by Mircea Eliade for an excellent account of the uses of illness
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by shamans) or by skrying the fever dream. I have found sustained pranayama
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(if not prevented by a congested nose) a good aid to achieving the state of
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gnosis sometimes necessary to achieve these visions, skullcap tea also helps
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with the lucidity of the visions when in the twilight realms of half
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sleep/fever dream. If you do have a congested nose, try reciting a mantra
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inaudibly, or better still, set up several artificial personalities and spin
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a mantra between them, until the disorientation helps lift your vision. As
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the throat is often affected by bed-inspiring bugs, and the Vishuddha or
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throat cakra is the centre of dreaming, I usually focus a lot of my personal
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energy on my throat when I am ill. This has the double purpose of helping
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focus more lucidly on astral visions, and also means my throat is fit to be
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used for raising energies sooner.
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The death of a loved one is never pleasant, but most of our grief comes
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from selfishness, therefore it seems logical to focus that selfish energy on
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transforming the self positively rather than disintegrate it. Five years ago
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a lady I love very much was killed in an accident. I was zombified for
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months until one day I was reading my bible, the Tao Teh King, and I realised
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my selfishness and then because aware of what time of year was approaching -
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Samhain. At Samhain, I went to a local power spot that it known
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traditionally as a gate to the underworld, and from there I embarked on an
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astral journey. On my return, I was transformed. My journey had been
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successful, and I had realized that transitory dance of Chaos we all spin.
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From this point my whole magickal directions changed in a very positive
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dynamic fashion, and I developed my own system or sorcery. Since that Samhain
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I have lost other friends, in accidents and to Artificially Induced Death
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Syndrome, but now my sadness is more transient and my steps unfaltering.
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Extreme emotional and physical states are extremely powerful energy sources
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to be tapped when available for self-evolution, so don't let patterns imposed
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on you by others affect your thinking (if they're self-imposed, so be it.)
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(Written during a severe attack of the flu)
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