Post No. 1,843 - Magickal Battle of the World - Weekly Meditation - Week No. 48 - The allure of power

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Stay safe - wash your hands, practice social distancing and wear a face mask in public, and follow informed medical advice - and be considerate towards those at risk or in situations of vulnerability (including economic) while the COVID-19 pandemic is a problem.

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 - and I’ve found this group working at following [and adapting] Ms Fortune’s techniques and purposes), 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, work which goes beyond my initial response.

I am proposing this be added to the Sunday meditations which are part of my regular psychic work, but there will now also be exercises (“homework”). 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. 48 - The allure of power

Last lesson I touched on personal flaws, including lack of objectivity, and what can be summed as “having a personal agenda” (at odds with the group’s purpose). I’d like to explore that further by developing an examination of the problem of the allure of power.

There are some very obvious attractions of power - such as the sop to arrogance of bossing other people around, misusing/abusing power to get adulation from sycophants, petty and major vengeance, and so on.

These are fairly well known, so I’m not going to go into those. What I want to do is cover more subtle but invidious risks, starting with the risk that thinking one knows best justifies forcing others into particular actions.

Even if you are correct, that is NEVER justified.

The problem is that forcing (coercing) others into a course of action is likely to:

• create a lingering, deeply hidden resentment that will drive the person away from beneficial courses of action - possibly in a future life;
• the person may need to learn and approach and implement things slowly to ensure the knowledge is deeply engrained enough to be part of their psyche when they need it in the future;
• the person may NEED to learn things the hard way for any of a range of reasons (including driving a lesson home that they may have been dodging for multiple lifetimes, or to repay a karmic debt);
• such approaches are harmful for the person doing the coercing (forcing): it is paternalistic / patronising - and women can be as guilty of that as men; but
• the biggest danger is that one  may  simply  be  wrong.

Everyone is different, and thus even when one sees someone struggling with a situation one has dealt with does not mean that the same solution would be best.

To choose a mundane example, someone might think their approach to a physical task is best, but the person they are imposing their will on may be differently handed, have injuries, or their muscles may have a lifetime of different ways of working - making the imposition but morally wrong to the point of offensive and ineffective.

Another example that is too common is people thinking approaching work - or even life - in a certain way is essential. The “make your bed every morning” idiots are in that category, as are those who think “soldiering on” and pushing through tiredness, colds, etc to get tasks done is in any way good, effective or anything other than a boneheaded attempt to please a long absent parental figure.

Spiritually, people insisting that a particular form of meditation, or appealing to a certain Deity, or _ are also exactly the same.

There are exceptions to this, but the only ones I can think of are situations where physical harm to self or others (e.g., drug addiction, suicide, or domestic violence) are involved - situations that are generally illegal, and the solutions to which involve mundane authorities.

So, if you’re thinking you are right to impose your “solution” in a situation that isn’t illegal or requiring competent medical (including psychological) help: stop, go away, cool down until you have regained some objectivity, and think again!

I’ve saved what is possibly the most important point until last: coercion and imposition of will have NO part in a spiritual world. Every time someone does this, they are setting the cause of a better world back by possibly years or even decades.

Don’t do it.

This week’s sigil is a repeat of “Perspective”.

Exercise C - links (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical)

Establish and check  protection, and then do your initial self-assessment.

You will need someone else to do this exercise. If there are more than two people, arrange yourself in pairs (may have to take turns if there is an odd number of people).

In each pair:

• person A asks how many negative links she/he/they have that are allowed to be cleared for the Highest Spiritual Good in this session while (as a check) person B also asks how many links A can clear.

• if the answers are close, simply continue - the numbers don’t have to match exactly, as this is only one of several checks,
• if the numbers are far apart, consider what options you have for solving this problem;

• repeat this to determine where the links are;
• repeat this regarding what influence - if any - the links have had, and what the benefits will be of clearing that link;
• person A then commences sending positive energy out along the links (see Exercise B) until BOTH A and B agree that the links is dissolved (as an example of a way of checking this, one could, for instance, ask one’s guides to show a milk bottle gradually filling, on the basis that when the bottle is full you have done everything you need to);
• repeat, but adapted for positive links to be strengthened; 
• repeat, with roles reversed.

Do your final self-assessment and restorative work, re-check yourself (get help if you need it), and then close your chakras, centre yourself and close your aura, use the banishing version of the LBRP to close circle, ground and release all excess energy; and make sure you are grounded and closed down - implement your Psychic Emergency Action Plan if necessary.

Previous meditations in this sequence are:

1.       Introduction, definition of the problem(s), and Realisation;

2.        Determination;

3.       Together;

4.       Caution, respect and integrity (aka cunning);

5.       Momentum;

6.       Insight;

7.       Preciseness;

8.       Progress;

9.       Learning;

10.   Purposefulness;

11.   Conciseness;

12.   Measurement;

13.   Faith;

14.   Proficiency;

15.   Alliances;

16.   Countering adaptations;

17.   Motivations of the nonBPM;

18.   The humanness of the flaws that underlay opposition;

19.   Undetectability;

20.   Evolution;

21.   Perspective;

22.   Wisdom;

23.   Tradition;

24.   The outmoded;

25.   Persistence;

26.   Discernment;

27.   Paleo-emotions;

28.   Inspiration (bringing out the best in individual people);

29.   Inspiration (bringing out the best in oneself);

30.   Ally;

31.   Inspiration (bringing out the best in groups);

32.   Cooperation: the counter to subservience;

33.   Humility: the counter to arrogance;

34.   Imbalance and balance;

35.   Spiritual opportunities from spiritual distancing;

36.   The spiritual needs and opportunities of the climate crisis and the environment;

37.   The spiritual challenges of entangled issues;

38.   Knowing what changes need to be made now and on a long term basis;

39.   How to find a direction for a constructive, evolutionary response;

40.   Knowing when and how to adopt a chosen direction / action;

41.   How to work with the various levels and aspects of oneself;

42.   How to work with the various levels and aspects of others;

43.   How to work in a group or movement;

44.   How to work in a group or movement at a distance;

45.   How to work in a group or movement with ethics and integrity;

46.   A central, unifying image;

47.   How to avoid group think - or a nonBPM group mind / “egregore”.

 

The Meditation (see here, here, and here) broadly 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;

 - visualise the sigil (see above) for this work. Think of what this work means for you as you do so, then, when you feel you have fully tuned in to the meaning of the sigil, see it as a portal or doorway (you could open it like a door [close it behind you], simply pass through it, visualise yourself shrinking and passing through the centre, or whatever else works best for you), and travel through to to a place created by the visualisation of yourself and others for this work. That place should have:
     (a) a visualisation of the workplace you personally prefer - something you can change, if you wish, as you yourself change;   and
     (b) a shared visualisation of a device to astrally share our knowledge, something developed in a previous project (still active astrally): a visualisation of a large, green, multifaceted emerald. Large: around half the size of the Moon; multifaceted - billions, for all people who wish to be part of this at any time; green - largely tied up with the previous project, but has connotations of nature and growth. One of those facets is yours - choose whatever location and shape you wish (and you may change that as you change [grow] over time), but in the interest of humility and sharing, see it at around human - or human aura - size;

 - flush one’s aura with green (R0, G102, B0), blue (R0, G0, B204) and purple (R153 G0, B204);

 - fill one’s Heart Chakra (and maybe one’s Earth Star, Solar Plexus, Third Eye and Crown Chakras) with green, blue and purple; send a weave of three streams of this colour from the Chakra(s) to the visualised gigantic, multi-faceted emerald 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 you have finished your work:
     (i) send the thought of any knowledge you wish to store or share through your portal into the group visualised emerald;
     (ii) return back through the sigil; and
     (iii) 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.

The work for the assigned exercises broadly comprises the following:

 - establish appropriate and responsible protection (see here, here, here), prayer and ritual (e.g., here) to establish and check protection (re-do or re-schedule, if you don’t feel safe and secure);

 - establish a personal connection to 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 this week’s sigil;

 - generate  feelings of love, peace, joy and respect, strengthen those feelings (energies), and radiate those energies to the world (ideally for nine to eighteen minutes, but do what you can), focusing on the planetary region(s) and attributes for that day as specified in this week’s Psychic Weather Report (as, if none, as you consider necessary or best);

 - perform the meditation or other work and exercise(s) as set out in this post;

 - close your chakras, centre yourself and close your aura, use the banishing version of the LBRP to close circle, ground and release all excess energy; and make sure you are grounded and closed down – eat, if you need to, implement your Psychic Emergency Action Plan if necessary (e.g., seek help from someone capable and trusted). As a final point, note that your BPM family of choice (i.e., friends - especially those outside this area of your life) and BPM family will help keep your life grounded - but they must be BPM: as the Wiccan  Rede says “With a fool no season spend, nor be counted as their friend.”

 

WLNGRHDMT

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