Post No. 2,008 - Magickal Battle of the World - Weekly Meditation - Week No. 65 - Unity of effort

Black Lives Matter!
The Climate Crisis is real, urgent and existential!

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).

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. (See also this excellent analysis on the topic.)

World War II was probably the biggest global crisis before our current situation, and during those terrible events, there were a number of people undertaking magickal work, including Dion Fortune - as 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 19 monthly meditations; 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.

Coming back to the present, the climate crisis has been our World War III for some time, and we also have the COVID-19  pandemic, caused by the zoonotic  SARS-CoV-2  novel coronavirus (there are other novel coronaviruses), on top of that.

Now, 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.

This post is this week’s contribution.

This Week: No. 65 - Unity of effort 

In the last lesson we covered force concentration. This lesson we’re going to cover unity of effort.

Let’s begin by considering a few scenarios.

In the first, let’s consider a sporting team that is trying to score a goal. If it is a sport that has no offside rule, so the players can move freely, you might have all your team’s players concentrating at the the end you need to score at, but everyone is doing their own thing. One player may be running around in circles to distract the opposition (we had a professional footballer here who once stood on his head when on the mark for similar reasons - which made him ineffective and resulted in the opposing team scoring a goal), while one player to trying to unify everyone in one style of team play, another is trying to get everyone to use a different style of play, and a third is working at “friendly chatter” or “fainting goat” (you’ll have to watch “The Merger” to understand those last two).

The force concentration is there, but it is ineffective.

Now consider a company. Perhaps one manager wants to make Widget A, another manager wants to outsource everything, and a third wants to invent Widget C to do something different to the rest of the market.

The company may have the resources (i.e., force concentration) to do Widgets A and C at the same time, but not also outsource. So, again, lack of unity will bring their efforts undone.

As a final example, consider a group of soldiers trying to defend an area. One officer may want to setup a hard and fast barrier against their enemy making any entry into the area, while another wants to use what is termed “defence in depth”, and a third thinks the area should be abandoned so they can set up in a more defensible position.

Again, force concentration is brought undone by lack of unity.

Now let’s consider some scenarios where unity of effort was achieved.

The first is the work by Dion Fortune during World War Two. By communicating the methods, aims and gradual development of visualisations etc, Ms Fortune was able to achieve a good unity of effort, and thus the force concentration of the mental, psychic and spiritual efforts of those in her organisation.

A similar example of that is the unity of effort for the spell to bind #45.

A second example would be the (belated) efforts at global unity in response to the 2007-09 global financial crisis.

Finally, a less perfect example is the unity of effort being sought for efforts to contain the pandemic.

Medical experts in the infectious disease area are all agreed on what needs to be done, many economic experts are backing those as a way to avoid even greater damage, and it is only a few very misguided people - some politicians - who are opposing these (and also some of the business people who are, as a result of lack of support from governments, at risk of losing everything).

We’ve now been managing the current pandemic for, depending on how and when you consider this started, around 1 ½ to 2 years, and we have four million official deaths from 200 million known cases (around 2.5% of the world’s population) and an estimate that 10% of the world has been infected, with a suspected death toll of seven to thirteen million. In a broadly similar period of time, the influenza pandemic of 1918 had infected between one third and a half of the world’s population and killed between 17 and 100 million people.

There is no question that the current pandemic remains a terrible catastrophe for the world, but our largely unified efforts have managed to contain it to some extent - at this stage, and things may change, it is not the worst result.

So, unity of effort is an important thing.

However, before considering that topic further, it is also vital to remember that achieving unity of effort by a top-down authoritarian imposition is an example of self-sabotage.

When people are ordered to do something they have doubts about, they won’t be internally unified in their efforts, and they certainly won’t be inclined to contribute ideas or suggestions.

Ways to achieve that which I’ve read have often focused on “trying to be an inspiring leader”, but my experience is discussion and resolution of issues is a far better approach (with the “inspiring leader” stuff after getting to a reasonable state of unity).

So, what sort of issues should be discussed until a workable compromise/consensus is reached?

• what would constitute unity of effort?
• what do you need to define that - intelligence, agreed mission / goals, shared values?
• how do you take account of the range of individual personalities in your group? How do capitalise on diversity in all its myriad forms, including of ways of thinking/perceiving?
• how do you allow for the changes in people’s character over time, including as circumstances change?
• how do you allow for new people joining, and established people leaving, the group over time?
• how do you decide on and adapt to a revised “unity of effort”?
• how do you avoid crushing individuality / initiative / freedom?
• how to do ensure adequate and effective collaboration, cooperation and command?
• how do you balance those two prior points, both now and as circumstances change over time?
• how do enable people to have a temporary break or pause?
• what other questions are relevant to your group?

You may not have answers to all these questions now,. but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep considering them.

This week’s sigil is Unity.

 

 

Exercise U - Seers

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, which in turn have 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.

We have covered - in brief - the concept of divination, and I have a separate dowsing course underway (most recent lesson here).

However, one of the advantages of human culture - and this is not limited to human cultures with agriculture or civilisation - is specialisation. As an example, in a gatherer-hunter culture, some people would often become - due to their natural or developed skill - a specialist in manufacturing tools, although everyone would likely have some basic level of tool making skills.

We’ve now taken that further, partly out of necessity as a result of the increased complexity of the stuff we live with. Consider this: how many passengers know how to service the commercial jet they’re about to board? How many patients know how to perform advanced surgery? The answer in both cases is “a few”, but those groups would not be likely to overlap.

The skills of those who couldn’t do the above could be improved (to some extent by what’s on the internet - which is due to multiple sets of highly skilled specialists in a wide range of other areas), but some people will always have a “natural” (possibly from past lives where they used similar skills) talent and be better than others.

That does NOT mean they are better as humans than others, only that one aspect of the combination of attributes that they have involves a particular skill. Thus, an olympic athlete is not a better human being as a result of that skill than a chess champion - and vice versa. Someone with a university degree is not better than a tradesperson because of their different type of skill development - and vice versa. A member of Mensa is not a better human being as a result of their IQ than someone with a higher EQ - although the reverse might apply, in that case.

In terms of this lesson, (a) people will tend t have different levels of psychic ability, and (b) that has no direct relationship with their value as human beings.

But it does mean that it may be possible to aid the group by talking advantage of that specialisation. I conceived of this lesson specifically in the context of having people specialise in being a seer (for longer term or broader divination), but much of this will apply to other specialisations as well.

So, points to consider and discuss are:

• how does the group identify people who are suitable for specialisation - skill, rate of learning that skill, interest, others’ opinions, or something else?
• once someone has been identified as being suitable for a specialisation, how does the group support them - how does the group help them develop and use and improve that ability?
• how does the group avoid the person experiencing burn out (keep in mind the answer to that probably varies from person to person, and over time for any one person as their life changes)?
• how does the group deal with problems such as others being jealous or the seer developing arrogance or an over-sized ego/sense of self importance?
• how does the group make best use of that skill?

In terms of someone being a seer:

• this role, as I conceive it, does not involve the normal scouting or dowsing for psychic weather reports;
• the role does involve looking for hidden influences / causes behind people / energies / events - both BPM and nonBPM . . . things like egregores;
• the role also involves looking for possible outcomes from actions - provided that does NOT lead to any fatalism;
• seers also have a key role in connecting with higher Beings, extraterrestrials, and finding other similar groups - astrally, if not physically.

Such a role can potentially be very helpful.

There may also be other roles that it would be useful for people to specialise in - keep that in mind as you work through these exercises.

And also remember to automatically, quietly, without a fuss, clear ALL nonBPM units that you may become aware of during all discussions - or any group work, really.

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:

01. Introduction, definition of the problem(s), and Realisation;   02. Determination;   03. Together;   04. Caution, respect and integrity (aka cunning);   05. Momentum;   06. Insight;   07. Preciseness;   08. Progress;   09. 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;   56. Lessons from war;   57. Lessons from war: gathering intelligence;   58.   Lessons from war: astral undetectability;   59.   Lessons from war: the battlefield - or psychic topography;  

60.   Lessons from war: preparing - building strengths and numbers;   61.   Lessons from war: preparing - planning tactics, strategy and grand strategy;   62.   Nonphysical allies;   63.   Other aids;   64.   Lessons from war: force concentration.

 

The Meditation (see here, here, and here) broadly consists of:

(1) use appropriate and responsible techniques (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);
(2) establish a personal connection to your Higher BPM influences;
(3) 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;
(4) flush one’s aura with green (R0, G102, B0), blue (R0, G0, B204) and purple (R153 G0, B204);
(5) 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;
(6) visualise the rune / bindrune;
(7) generate  feelings of love, peace, joy and respect;
(8) strengthen those feelings (energies);
(9) radiate those energies to the world for nine to eighteen minutes;
(10) 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;
        Also on Sunday, perform the exercise(s) as set out in this post;
(11) 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.

 

WLNGRHDMT

Black Lives Matter!
The Climate Crisis is real, urgent and existential!