The psychological factor

[john59]

Hi everyone, in many traditional cultures, necromancy was heavily regulated because spending too much time with the dead can detach a practitioner from the land of the living. For long-term practitioners here: how do you keep your psychological anchor firmly planted in life?

 

[Keldan]

In a lot of religious frameworks, certain forms of necromancy were restricted because they were seen as disturbing the dead, not because it would detach someone from the land of the living. Anyone who’s actually deep in necromancy knows there’s no such thing as spending too much time with the dead that you’ll lose touch with life. No real necromancer really buys that.

For me, the main thing is keeping my mundane life handled well. If your day to day is unstable, necromancy will amplify that instability fast.

And I don’t treat my spiritual life and mundane life as two separate worlds, they’re one. That said, I don’t let necromancy bleed into everything, which means I set specific times for it.

 

[Rynnshng]

Hi everyone, in many traditional cultures, necromancy was heavily regulated because spending too much time with the dead can detach a practitioner from the land of the living. For long-term practitioners here: how do you keep your psychological anchor firmly planted in life?

Through profound dissassociation I survive both praise and scorn with indifference, and avoid hubris, which is the inflation of the ego that leads to The Fall. I am always outside myself as a magician, and have found this to be key to my survival on my journey with the occult.

 

[stalkinghyena]

For long-term practitioners here: how do you keep your psychological anchor firmly planted in life?

I have a job and bills to pay.

But there are dead people at work to keep me company. It can be distracting at times what with all the saw blades and corossive chemicals to be mindful of.

 

[querent k]

Through profound dissassociation I survive both praise and scorn with indifference, and avoid hubris, which is the inflation of the ego that leads to The Fall. I am always outside myself as a magician, and have found this to be key to my survival on my journey with the occult.

Hello, Ryan. Could you elaborate some more on how are you outside yourself as a magician ... sounds interesting. Thanks