Post No. 1,930 - Magickal Battle of the World - Weekly Meditation - Week No. 56 - Lessons from war

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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 - 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. 56 - Lessons from war

One of the many thought provoking arguments of Paul K Chappell, is that peace activists should reclaim the language of the military.

This has been done in other situations - and, to some extent, in the world of peace activism. For example, reclaiming the word “queer”, police reclaiming the word “pig” (they turned it into an acronym for pride, integrity, guts - effective, but failed to address the fundamental reasons why it was being used against them, in the first place), and even Gandhi’s actions were actually quite strong and forceful at times. I understand Gandhi is supposed to have made comments to the effect that although he advocated non-violence, he has never advocated “passive” anything - and emphasised the need for courage, particularly physical courage, in various campaigns.

So let’s consider the notion of possibly using aspects of the military:

Associations

• Disadvantage:
  The military has very strong negative associations from the type of people and thinking they have had (war  crimes, misogyny, racism, LGBTIQ-phobia, etc).
  One of the biggest problems is arrogance - the views that anything goes to achieve the end, and that they matter more than the society they are supposed to defend (which is particularly problematic when they try to impose their backward views on society).
  The biggest negative association, of course, is that the military’s function so often includes the taking of life.
• Advantage:
  Start to change the associations with language, and to challenge and possibly break down the negative aspects of the military mindset.

The main issue here is, in specific situations, the relative strengths of the connections and associations.

If you wish to draw on a military technique - say, concentration of force, your BPM will (intention), strength, and associations MUST be stronger than the nonBPM baggage of the technique in that situation, or your work will be tainted and possibly overwhelmed by the nonBPM energies drawn in by those associations.

And, contrary to what many in the military think, the means DO shape the end.

Final point: there are actually many genuine people in the military (I have several friends and acquaintances who are ex-military), including those who ensure lessons are learned and who are attempting to address abuses like bullying, misogyny, LGBT-phobia, etc.

On the other hand, if you are stronger, and successfully use a particular technique for good, you will start to make it harder for others to use that technique in a nonBPM manner by weakening their nonBPM associations.

It should also be noted that there is a need for justice for wrong doing. Ostracism is not justice.

 

Authoritarianism

• Disadvantage:
  The military is based on authoritarianism - which features obeying lawful orders. This is so officers can order soldiers (and lesser ranked officers) to go into situations where they are at risk of injury, permanent disability, or death (e.g., in World War Two, to determine if there was a sniper around, a soldier would be sent out to see if they got shot … and then there was “going over the top” and the insanity of the US Civil War).
  What is less well recognised is that soldiers are also increasingly trained on the issue of lawfulness of orders and when to disobey an unlawful order - e.g., there were Australian pilots who refused to attack a target next to a school in the second Gulf War, just as there were US soldiers who refused to go on missions with Australians who the Americans considered doing - or verging on - unacceptable conduct.
  And it was a US helicopter pilot who stopped the My Lai massacre when he got there.
• Advantage:
  Aids in facilitating quick actions / reactions where that might be necessary, but those involved have not been adequately trained - see here.

The problems with the “do as I order” approach include the damage done to those being compelled to be puppets (especially during training - which, in my opinion, contributes to the problems when soldiers return to civilian life), and potentially not gaining the value of the skills and knowledge of those being ordered around.

On the other hand, quite a few people I’ve met say they enjoyed being told what to do or think in the military - possibly mental laziness or struggles with the complexity of life, but also because they enjoyed being part of something bigger.

Thus, the military is set up in such a way as to attract people who have, or are inclined towards, the military mindset.

That is off-putting to many others.

 

Organisation (including strategy, tactics, and logistics)

• Disadvantage:
  Authoritarian aspects too easily lend themselves to bullying, misogyny, etc.
  Can be rigid and inflexible.
• Advantage:
  Potentially good for training, support.
  Where lessons have been learned, makes passing those lessons around quicker (which is not always better: there are issues around how people best learn to also consider).
  Aids in facilitating quick actions / reactions where that might be necessary, but those involved have not been adequately trained - see here.

As a first point, it is not only the military who know how to organise. What tends to happen, however, is that those who have a Newtonian mindset tend to appreciate the Newtonian-like versions of military organisation, and thus wrongly assume it is better on the flawed basis that they like it . . .

 

Training

The military operates in a physical arena and involve major risks of physical injury or death, whereas this work is in non-physical realms, so there is a limit to how can be directly learned. However, the principle of training for something is widely accepted and used - for instance, driving a car, flying a plane, being a teacher, being an emergency services doctor, or - informally - walking.

We, as a society, tend to fail on things like relationships, and in the alternative / psychic / spiritual world, lack of familiarity with training and the problem of ego-driven personalities may make training shoddy, ineffective, or even harmful.

 

Injuries (including PTSD)

The injuries the military deal with include physical, emotional and mental. There are also spiritual injuries, but the military is not so good at dealing with those.

The key here is:

the military know injuries can happen, and plan for healing those who are injured, and do whatever preparation they can to minimise the risk of injury.

I consider all people doing serious psychic work should do the same.

 

Preparation for and conduct of specific actions

• Disadvantage:
  Is based in the physical world of conflict, so often not directly relatable to the world of psychic and spiritual contention.
• Advantage:
  To be explored.

This is where I consider we might be able to get some benefit from military approaches - for example, “scouting” before starting a campaign to change something in the world, concentrating forces when trying to heal someone (also described as “getting ones friend and allies to help”, or selecting the best person to make decisions and ensuring they have the training, active (or “live”) information, and communication networks to be able to do so BEFORE a stressful or challenging situation.

 

There are a lot of other arguments for and against this, and aspects to be cautious of. You should commence thinking about these yourself, and keep an active record of them.

The sigil for this week’s work is a repeat of that for insight.

 

Exercise K - The complete set of basic exercises

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

Do your combined basic energy work drill, which is, as a broad summary:

• Exercise A - self care (Week No. 46);
• Exercise B - links (self work) (Week No. 47);
• Exercise C - links (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical) (Week No. 48);
• Exercise D - objects (self work) (Week No. 49);
• Exercise E - objects (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical) (Week No. 50);
• Exercise F - energies (self work) (Week No. 51);
• Exercise G - energies (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical) (Week No. 52);
• Exercise H - rescuing cooperatives (self work) (Week No. 53);
• Exercise I - rescuing cooperatives (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical) (Week No. 54);
• Exercise J - rescuing uncooperatives (partnered - whether physical or nonphysical) (Week No. 55).

In addition to the skills directly practised, the partnered exercises have practised your ability to work constructively with others. Both sets of skills will now be developed (and pay particular attention to the skills in the lessons on proficiency, countering adaptations, and evolution [which included the “this course as a blog” links] ), but with a focus towards working in larger groups, with a focus on changing the world. These will be based on the Rangers of the Inner Plane, which is no longer physically active (other than me), but is still working on the nonphysical.

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”;

48.   The allure of power;

49.   The challenge of servant-leadership in this unevolved world;

50.   Managing up - including spiritually;

51.   The long term benefits of planting a seed;

52.   The short term need of decisive, quick, and strong action;

53.   Differentiating between short and long term needs - and finding a holistic solution;

54.   Finding a more spiritual solution;

55.   Finding a psychic solution.

 

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;
     (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; and
     (iv) make sure you are yourself again - free of any lingering attachments or (misguided) ideas of being subservient, respectful of yourself and your integrity as you should be of others.

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” . Similarly, you should focus on all that you love in life outside this work at the end of a session - and, if you have nothing else, you must broaden your life for the sake of being balanced and thus capable (and seek expert help, if necessary); and
 - make sure you are yourself again - free of any lingering attachments or (misguided) ideas of being subservient, respectful of yourself and your integrity as you should be of others.

 

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