This must have been a bad teacher the tree thing is a two way streak u must ask the tree and give some in return not just take. Some people plant trees and meditate under them for a better connection this is more recommend than just stealing.
how do you transcend karma?
I think it is.
The path of theurgy. The ancients represented the reincarnation trap through the Ouroboros.
Karma is cause and effect. If him sucking energy doesn't lead to any overtly negative consequences for him, then he's fine. Of course, he'd likely, if not trained, get far worse effects from the energy he's stolen than the person whose energy was taken from them would have endured.
Even grandmas can use the NEW system. What are you having trouble with? Using your imagination?
I'm not sure who you're talking to or to what you're referring. What new system, and who is having trouble with what, now?
Because the earth grounds and recycles all energy put into it.
I was responding to whoever said they were having issues replenishing their energy, when it's such a basic and easy thing it's in methods that grandma's would use.
Think you're reading a bit more into a single line in my post than is warranted.
I brought up grandmas, because of the difficulty of doing it. If a grandma can get started, anyone can.Think you're reading a bit more into a single line in my post than is warranted.
First of all, I don't see what grandmas have to do with anything. Since when has age mattered at all with this sort of work? Rather, in my very folk based tradition, one might expect to find what is most efficient for them ebb and flow with different times of life, as well as with practice and with the season, year, etc? Besides, how do you know I'm not a grandma?!
Second, imagining alone is going to get you horse manure. Body visualization still requires energy, used in very specific ways, and they are not ways especially efficient or useful for me, probably because of significant body trauma in my past that I am still slowly healing/learning to work around. In contrast, connecting and working with spirits is very nearly effortless for me, and requires very different kinds of energy manipulation.
Finally, I said I sucked at it. Not the same thing as having "trouble" or "issues" with it. I suck at math, too, but I don't have trouble balancing my checkbook. It simply takes me longer, takes more effort, and is better done with tools to help me, so I don't make stupid mistakes. Same thing here; pulling from the universe, as Miller, Burce, and others advocate, takes more effort for me than I get back for it, particularly compared to a smaller, more organic, more localized, and more focused sources of energy, even when I do access them in similar ways.
One size fits all approaches to magic make me crazy. As I've said elsewhere, this idea that "what's easy for me is easy for everyone" is not only damaging to the study and practice of the occult as a whole, it's as silly a concept as it is in mundane education and it is, in a word, WRONG.
Finally, because I might as well finish this properly: seriously?! As occultists, witches, magicians, whatever else we all call ourselves, doing what we do... you really, honestly, actually expect, much less advocate, anyone do anything the way everyone else is doing it?!
Hello, I would like to know how do you know the trees werent happy?? Sometimes im able to sense something's amiss with the trees were i live, and whenever i look into it, i find things like ice melting salt was spilled by the side of the tree and that is causing the tree to weaken, so i clean it up and things change energywise... is that how you know they aren't happy? sorry for intruding im just curious
Please do not misinterpret my laughing like of your comment. It is very well said albeit a little fun too!!!Think you're reading a bit more into a single line in my post than is warranted.
First of all, I don't see what grandmas have to do with anything. Since when has age mattered at all with this sort of work? Rather, in my very folk based tradition, one might expect to find what is most efficient for them ebb and flow with different times of life, as well as with practice and with the season, year, etc? Besides, how do you know I'm not a grandma?!
Second, imagining alone is going to get you horse manure. Body visualization still requires energy, used in very specific ways, and they are not ways especially efficient or useful for me, probably because of significant body trauma in my past that I am still slowly healing/learning to work around. In contrast, connecting and working with spirits is very nearly effortless for me, and requires very different kinds of energy manipulation.
Finally, I said I sucked at it. Not the same thing as having "trouble" or "issues" with it. I suck at math, too, but I don't have trouble balancing my checkbook. It simply takes me longer, takes more effort, and is better done with tools to help me, so I don't make stupid mistakes. Same thing here; pulling from the universe, as Miller, Burce, and others advocate, takes more effort for me than I get back for it, particularly compared to a smaller, more organic, more localized, and more focused sources of energy, even when I do access them in similar ways.
One size fits all approaches to magic make me crazy. As I've said elsewhere, this idea that "what's easy for me is easy for everyone" is not only damaging to the study and practice of the occult as a whole, it's as silly a concept as it is in mundane education and it is, in a word, WRONG.
Finally, because I might as well finish this properly: seriously?! As occultists, witches, magicians, whatever else we all call ourselves, doing what we do... you really, honestly, actually expect, much less advocate, anyone do anything the way everyone else is doing it?!
There is a book which is the first i gave my 13 yr old to read so she can understand everything else i gotta teach her next... it is The Kybalion by Three Initiates. In page 76 discussing the principle of rhythm, at the middle and bottom paragraph you'll read this: "The principle of rhythm is well understood by modern science, and is considered a universal law as applied to material things. But the hermetists carry the principle much further, and know that its manifestations and influence extend to the mental activities of man, and that it accounts for the bewildering succession of moods, feelings and other annoying and perplexing changes that we notice in ourselves. But the Hermetists by studying the operations of this principle have learned to escape some of its activities by Transmutation.
Trees are emotional beings. I could feel their distress.
Most human energy is equivalent to junk food, tasty and shitty for you. Energy vampirism is a straightforward technique that requires visualization, a little bit of astral senses, and an inflection of will.
