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I have been writing about improving the world through a range of means on my blogs: this blog has been focused on spiritual and psychic means, including strengthening BPM units and clearing nonBPM units, and meditation to generate BPM energy (and units, if you know enough).
This has been done before - particularly during times of crisis.
The climate crisis has been our World War III for some time (with the denialists being, at the very least, the WW3 equivalents of Quisling, Vichy France, etc), and we now have the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the zoonotic SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (there are other novel coronaviruses), on top of that.
World War II was probably the biggest global crisis before our current dual crises, and during those terrible events, there were a number of people undertaking magickal work, including the work by Dion Fortune (there were others) outlined in the Gareth Knight edited book "The Magical Battle of Britain" (my copy pub. Skylight Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-908011-45-9), which I reviewed here. Ms Fortune directed her team through a series of 136 weekly and (I think) 19 monthly meditations (I originally intended to publish a list at some stage, but it’s so long and comprehensive that I’m concerned about breaching copyright, so I may either see if I can find an online list, or publish something listing the broad themes only). At the end of this, she was exhausted, and that work is considered to have contributed to her death, but a change for the better had been accomplished.
We already have a lot of people doing a lot of work on making the world a better place (including before the current crises), but I would like to extend my contribution to also include a series of weekly - or near weekly - meditations along the line of those directed by Ms Fortune.
I am proposing this be added to the Sunday meditations which are part of my regular psychic work. For convenience, an outline of the meditation is provided at the end of this post.
The notes on each week’s meditation will probably be brief to the point of being terse.
This Week: No. 22 - Wisdom: finding balance, perspective, and direction in the Serenity Prayer
This develops further on last week’s theme by focusing on the actions which may eventuate from perspective as expressed in what is generally termed “the Serenity Prayer” written by the US theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (with similar sentiments expressed over the preceding two millennia or so), generally known in the modified form used by Alcoholics Anonymous. I’ve used a slight adaptation of the original form:
give us courage to change what must be altered,
serenity to accept what cannot be helped,
and the insight to know the one from the other.
It is the knowledge of the difference that has always struck me as particularly significant, although I have also always been pleased that this wasn’t taking the simplistic extremes of all all or nothing that so many people advocate for.
It is also significant that this is based on coming to a state of peace best described as serenity through knowledge - through facing one’s shadow self and the imperfections of the world, but working on what one can, rather than passively accepting it or making oneself immune to externalities without seeking to make the world a better place - it is an activist prayer, calling us to act for our sake, even if we do not at first succeed, or if the effort will be long and hard.
Seeking to forget, whether the oblivion of alcohol or other drugs (yes, alcohol is a drug - a very addictive one), does not lead to serenity: it just puts off the inevitable.
However, the phrase about “insight to know one from the other” comes with a few other implications - namely, thoughtfulness, and the self care that is also part of insight (something I am still working on). Running oneself into the ground or making a brave but foolish and unsuccessful attempt to do something, whether on a physical battlefield or a moral battlefield, is unwise, and will not lead to satisfaction when looking back at events.
This is call to not only Know Thyself, but to also Know The World - what is happening in it and how, and what changes are underway or imminent, whether those changes are constructive or not, and what to do or not do, including when and how - and when to revisit the situation.
This is all a form of enduring, activist wisdom, and thus the magic square is for wisdom, but I’ve chosen to continue using last week’s bindrune for perspective.
I should also clarify some differences in terminology - as I have used them, at any rate:
- Insight: gaining an understanding of something - see here, here, and here;
- Perspective: understanding the interrelationship between something and the broader situation - see here, here, and here.
So both words are necessary - they are not synonyms.
Previous meditations in this sequence are:
1. Introduction, definition of the problem(s), and Realisation;
3. Together;
4. Caution, respect and integrity (aka cunning);
5. Momentum;
6. Insight;
7. Preciseness;
8. Progress;
9. Learning;
11. Conciseness;
12. Measurement;
13. Faith;
14. Proficiency;
15. Alliances;
17. Motivations of the nonBPM;
18. The humanness of the flaws that underlay opposition;
19. Undetectability;
20. Evolution;
21. Perspective.
The Meditation (see here, here, and here) consists of:
- appropriate and responsible protection (see here, here, here), prayer and ritual (e.g., here) to establish and check protection (re-do the protection, or re-schedule the meditation, if you don’t feel safe and secure);
- establish a personal connection to your Higher BPM influences;
- flush one's aura with emerald green, royal blue and royal purple;
- fill one’s Heart Chakra (and maybe one’s Earth Star, Solar Plexus, Third Eye and Crown Chakras) with emerald green, royal blue and royal purple; send a weave of three streams of this colour from the Chakra(s) to a visualisation of a gigantic, multi-faceted emerald (which has been created to facilitate networking of BPM workers) through your facet until you see your energy enlivening other areas of the emerald and can feel similar energies flowing back to you;
- visualise the rune / bindrune (if given - or, on Sunday, the group of symbols provided);
- generate feelings of love, peace, joy and respect;
- strengthen those feelings (energies);
- radiate those energies to the world for nine to eighteen minutes;
- then, on Sunday, also perform the additional meditation work for around 15 minutes or so: contemplate the topic, and the spiritual (i.e., nonphysical) implications of it, and seek insights and understanding. Do not be distracted by thoughts of physical actions - those are necessary also, but this exercise is about the nonphysical, in the broadest possible sense, and the focus should be on nonphysical actions, energy flows, symbols, and the like, all with the intention of bringing about a change for the better. As a second stage, if you wish, you can meditate on any physical actions which may be necessary, but get the spiritually focused work done first;
- when finished, close your chakras, centre and ground yourself and close your aura, use the banishing version of the LBRP to open circle, ground and release all excess energy; and make sure you are grounded and closed down – eat, if you need to, or seek help from someone capable and trusted.
WLNGRHDMT
Black Lives Matter!
