Wednesday 8 September 2021

Post No. 2,014 - Magickal Battle of the World - Weekly Meditation - Week No. 66 - Reinforcement and reserves

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. 66 - Reinforcement and reserves 

In the film “We Were Soldiers“, there is a scene where Colonel Moore deploys newly arrived troops who were his reinforcements aka reserve. He points to the location on the battlefield where there are the most gun flashes, and says words to the effect of “send them there”.

In doing so, he is attempting to achieve a force concentration over the local Vietnamese fighters. He is also deploying his reserve - even if it only was a reserve for a few minutes.

The concept of that is a “just in case“, like keeping some money “set aside for a rainy day“. The latter is so you have some money for emergencies (although, writing this during the pandemic, I doubt many people both foresaw the possibility of reduced or no work for months or years, AND were able to put enough money aside for that).

In military situations, your opponent may well have made the same sort of allowances, and responds to the dynamics of the situation by increasing their strengths in particular locations, so you have to address it - either by attacking areas that have been weakened to the point of vulnerability, or defending against the increased attacks (see here, here, here, and here).

To illustrate that with a massage situation, you may one muscle is knotted and needs release, but when you remedy that, the tension just shifts elsewhere - so you have to respond by changing where you are working (opposition manoeuvred). Or you may, for instance, find a blockage in one meridian, but when you investigate further, find the problem is caused ultimately by a blockage somewhere else, so need to focus in that location first (force concentration - sort of, although good intel is probably a better description). A third example: you may be healing someone who had had a bad day and they seem to be OK, but then they have a flash back or are triggered by someone else, and the energy you were working with is back again (opposition using a reserve force).

You might respond to that third example by having another healer join with you, which is you calling up your reserve.

In a clearing situation, the people who want to be “negative” are often very determined to be negative. There are some very naïve people who think a moment’s kindness will instantly heal and reverse self-destructive or other problem behaviours. It may, but often it won’t, and helping people who have been seriously hurt or traumatised may require continuing, persistent, EXPERT (i.e., professional) care.

In a rescue situation, uncooperatives are highly likely to wish to hold on to the psychic slaves they have created, and will use your vulnerabilities, if they can find them, to create self-doubt, disunity, or other problems.

Responses to such counter-attacks may include:

  • calm admission (“Yes, I have a bad temper, but I am seeking to use my anger, rather than let my anger use me”);
  • ignore the attempt to rile you (but be sure to debrief afterwards, and check for areas where those barbs got in under your skin);
  • use of what that behaviour tells you about the person (“why do you raise the topic of anger? Do you feel angry?” - but be warned: that is likely to lead to a surge in anger energy, which you can clear if you are quick enough);
  • counter attacks of your own - deploying your reserves, in a sense (for instance, ask the uncooperatives’ slaves if they are tired of having anger pushed on them, and do they want a way out of that);
  • or some other response.

I covered this, to some extent in the fourth part of my Rangers of the Inner Plane series, which you can read at the links below.

In this work, we are dealing with emotions and ideas, and I have often posed the question: “how do you outflank a feeling or idea?”

Well, how do you?

(Pause)

To help you consider that, consider the following links:

Reinforcement could include (and you should discuss this list):

  • extra trained people working together;
  • extra trained people working separately;
  • ditto - for both possibilities - for all functions, such as healing, protection, etc;
  • adding a different / new emotion;
  • countering an emotion;
  • extra tools;
  • extra allies - possibly working separately.

How you accomplish that could include:

  • not committing everyone to a particular planned event or task;
  • ensuring someone is taking an overview and prompting specialist for additional tools, etc;
  • building alliances beforehand - including working with others.

This week’s sigil is Prudence.


 

Exercise V- Group campaigns

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’ve raised the topic of planning and arranging so you have reserves and can use them as reinforcements, but there is more to this topic, which, in its broadest sense, is logistics.

Other points to consider include:

  • how much time beforehand and other resources scouts will need to gather information;
  • how much time beforehand and other resources (such as the information gathered by scouts) those preparing tools or working on alliances will need;
  • having enough healers - which is commonly underestimated, in my experience. I actually like to have two groups of healers: one to focus on working at the start of the event, and one to focus on healing everyone afterwards, with a changeover during the event (or a third group to give people a boost while they are working, if they need it;
  • what people will need during the group work session - there can be some juggling around preparation styles, comfortable temperatures, etc;
  • any special practice sessions or other preparation;
  • what is needed in terms of safe spaces to work - both physical and/or psychic;
  • adequate flexibility to cater for normal life demands on participants;
  • records for learning purposes, and debriefing both for learning and to make sure everyone is OK;
  • if this is part of a sequence of events, how will they contribute to each other, and what extra demands will you need to consider?

Every group and many of the work sessions of each group will have different demands.

One suggestion which may be of assistance is to consider the person doing the arranging - the bringing together - of all these disparate elements to be “the Weaver”.

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;   65.   Lessons from war: unity of effort.


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

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