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- II. DAY TWO: MEDITATION AND VISUALIZATION
-
- The second day's concentration is on the mental aspects of magick
- and ritual work, and is mostly in workshop form.
-
- A. Meditation
-
- Describe meditation as a means of altering your mental state by
- relaxation and concentration. Contrast meditation and trance
- state. Discuss the use of posture (asana) and paradoxical
- breathing (pranayama) to attain a meditative state, then do a
- few quick exercises.
-
- B. Visualization(s)
-
- Explain the difference between imagining and visualizing, then
- stress the similarities. Stress the fact that visualization is
- something that you will continually get better at - but there
- is still no "wrong way." Then lead the students through the
- following exercises:
-
- 1. Grounding and Centering
-
- Using the seven chakras as steps along the way, guide them
- to visualize energy being drawn up from the Earth and
- blown through the tops of their heads (at the crown
- chakra) in a free-flowing fountain. Then (if they seem up
- to it), guide them to mold and direct that energy flow
- into a circle, then a sphere of blinding white light.
- Have them draw the circle back down through their spines
- until it is returned to the Earth.
-
- 2. Contacting Your Magickal Self
-
- Get them as relaxed as possible and in a deep meditative
- state, then starting with a visualization of a Safe Place
- in the forest, lead them to a fairy hill, then through the
- Maze of the subconscious until they are somewhat lost.
- Guide them to a long stairway, then through the door at
- the top. Then set the mental setting - that at the
- doorway they change into a powerful magician, and suddenly
- all of the tools and symbols in the room are meaningful.
- Instruct them to study the tools for a while. After a
- minute or two, lead them back out through the maze, then
- to the clearing, and wake them back up.
-
- 3. Aura Reading and Healing
-
- a. Diagnosis
-
- Guide them to ground and center (as II.B.1, above),
- then stand in front of an evenly-lit white wall.
- Have them open their eyes and stare at a point in the
- distance beyond the instructor. (Note: this will for
- some of them be the first time that they'll be
- channeling power with their eyes open, so take your
- time.) Instruct them to look for the greyish line
- around me (that is actually an optical illusion).
- Once they've found it, instruct them to visualize it
- being replaced with a wash of color. Have them
- examine it for variations in thickness or color.
-
- b. Treatment
-
- Point out an ill or sore region on the instructor's
- body. Have them examine it for variations in color
- or brilliance. Pick one student, then have him wrap
- his hands in the energy that he's drawing, then
- "tune" it to the color of the healthy areas in the
- aura. Instruct him to use his hands as if he were
- rubbing on oil or paint to color over the sick area,
- visualizing the new color (healthy energy) replacing
- the older area, and continue until the color stays
- changed after he's no longer touching it or until he
- gets tired.
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