From Thorwald Dethlefsen's
Challenge of Fate: (which can be found in English on the web, and which I'm slowly reformatting into more readable text as time permits and will eventually share, but I digress...)
The concept of “sacrifice” means to allow space for a primal principle within one's own sphere of experience, to integrate it into one's consciousness. The various principles will confront a human being at different times in his life, and each will demand its due, challenging him to come to terms with it. But he who locks the door when he hears the gods knocking and refuses to allow them in can be certain that sooner or later he will be forced to make the sacrifice that he has refused to yield willingly. He who meets that challenge by letting the godhead into his personal sphere and becoming familiar with it need not fear it.
The path of a human life should lead to completeness; every advancement in learning, however small, makes the human being more complete. We move towards completeness when we add that which is still missing, when we integrate the as yet unknown. Thus, in accordance with the laws, a human being is always confronted by fate with those principles which he has hitherto not realized, those which have remained alien to him, those which are still missing from his experience.
From Rufus Opus'
Seven Spheres:
If you’re willing to lose everything you have to get something better, you will have no issues whatsoever. Believe me, I fully understand that there are situations in life that can seem to be “not so bad” or “worth putting up with” that you wont necessarily want to lose, things that you don’t want to fall apart because you think you owe someone your temporary suffering for a some future reward, or for some mysterious greater good.
You’re free to stay in that misery for as long as you want, but I guarantee that when you’re willing to put everything you have, everything you are, on the altar and say, “take anything that is broken and make me into the awesome person I am meant to be,” you will find that you are transformed into something amazing. Every bad situation you clung to in fear or out of a misplaced loyalty or sense of obligation will be replaced with something beautiful, healthy, and rewarding.
From Don Webb's
How to Become a Modern Magus: (I believe this was what I read with respect to my previous comment about 'being eaten.')
Nirodha Chöd
This is an adaption of a Tibetan tantric practice. It exists to heal the Ba of certain trauma. One begins by finding those incidents that have scarred you for life—a rape, abuse, a car accident, or whatever. It doesn’t matter if the incident was 100% your fault or 100% their fault. Pick the incident.
This rite takes fifteen days. For seven days, you will sit in a chair facing an empty chair. The room is dark and (unless you have lung problems) smoky with incense. In the chair opposite you, stack some pillows and your mirror so that in the darkened room you can easily imagine someone in the chair. Then spend a half hour per night staring at the pillow through half-closed eyes. You are creating a demon. For the first seven days, spend fifteen minutes with your eyes closed reliving the terrible incident. Then half open your eyes, seeing a fearsome demon before you. After three days, tell the demon that you will give it ultimate ecstasy but that you must soon cast it into the Unmanifest. If it does not receive this sacrifice, it will be forgotten. Mentally ask the demon its name. It will give it to you. If it does not in seven days, you are not through with the incident and may try again months later. If it does give you its name, find a sharp stick.
On the eighth day, sit naked in front of the demon. Tell it that it can eat your body, and afterward it cannot hurt you. Drawing the sharp stick over your body, imagine cutting up your flesh and offering it to the demon. It grows bigger with each piece. Imagine it eating every bit of you and growing giant-sized. Suddenly, it expands but becomes transparent. It becomes as big as the universe and vanishes. Lay on the floor without thoughts until you feel the rite has passed. Then rise and shower.
For the next seven days, lie on your bed or couch at the same time of day you did when invoking the demon. Do breathwork, imagining rainbow-colored gases entering your body. Treat yourself as though you are getting over the flu. Each day, do a little more, and when your strength is back on the last day, hit the gym hard. You may think of the bad incident again, but it can’t hurt your Ba. It is powerless over you. You tricked it into eating your powerlessness.
