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As a teenager (ages ago) I tried candle magic and a few other practices, but lost interest and moved on. Later on in life, I just happened across an interesting physics post about candle flicker that sparked a thought. Having already followed the mental fulcrum between waking consciousness and altered states, or the threshold where you drop off to sleep and lose consciousness, I made an immediate connection to link what I was feeling during candle magic and the threshold to altered states of consciousness.
So, setting up 3 candles so they are producing the 10-12Hz oscillation and staring at them can train the mind to recognize the fulcrum doorway, or threshold.
This fulcrum has always been my key magical doorway for most every experience that was worth repeating. The place where things happen. And, this is the place I hover practicing meditation.
Now, when you use green candles to do this flicker, or other colors, you can see from some of the Ganzfeld experiments using different light sources that they do in fact help promote specific mental states. Some of these are not considered positive states.
So, my interest in candle magic was 'reignited' and some of the practices were actually confirmed with some fringe experiments.
In my humble opinion, the most important detail, likely of many forms of practice, is this fulcrum. Altered states are a key component to so many things, and reaching or achieving them is always guesswork without some tool, and in this case, a simple and inexpensive tool.
So, setting up 3 candles so they are producing the 10-12Hz oscillation and staring at them can train the mind to recognize the fulcrum doorway, or threshold.
This fulcrum has always been my key magical doorway for most every experience that was worth repeating. The place where things happen. And, this is the place I hover practicing meditation.
Now, when you use green candles to do this flicker, or other colors, you can see from some of the Ganzfeld experiments using different light sources that they do in fact help promote specific mental states. Some of these are not considered positive states.
So, my interest in candle magic was 'reignited' and some of the practices were actually confirmed with some fringe experiments.
In my humble opinion, the most important detail, likely of many forms of practice, is this fulcrum. Altered states are a key component to so many things, and reaching or achieving them is always guesswork without some tool, and in this case, a simple and inexpensive tool.