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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 Lesson: No. 72 - Direct Contest
Despite all that I have covered to date, it is quite likely that, at some stage, whether you succeed in something will depend on whether you are stronger or more determined that the disharmonious/nonBPM energy - so, if you’re, say, healing someone who is being affected by the energy of a particular area, whether you succeed may depend on whether your combined efforts are stronger than the problematic energy.
In fact, there will be times when a direct contest (e.g., of ideas) is both right and vital.
in this, the book “The Art of War” generally attributed to Sun Tzu (or Sunzi) may have some useful suggestions - particularly around moral strength.
That, apart from the ethics of doing so, is why I advocate so much discussion and consideration of topics - and work along the “know thyself“, shadow work, and nonphysical health, strength and wellbeing line.
It is also important to realise that one can and should strengthen one’s psychic and moral muscles.
That is probably one of the most important matters to realise here.
In the 1950s USA stereotypical men used to use physical exercise so they wouldn’t be (physical) “weaklings”, which at least had people thinking about what could be done by many (not all) to improve their physical strength. There are some aspects that can’t be overcome - e.g., physical height, genetic aspects, etc, which is why many women feel and may be less strong than many men, but
a) some men are weaker physically than some women;
b) physical strength can generally be improved by appropriate exercise;
c) social attitudes are, in my experience, one of the significant blocks to improving one’s physical strength - as in “oh I don’t want to look all big and muscly”, which is such an extreme view that it is absurdist.
Psychic strength is also generally amenable to being improved. The irrational fear that too many people have that they are helpless against any sort of psychic influence is predominantly - in my experience - a lack of knowledge, and can be compared to someone saying “never go in a body of water because you’ll drown”, when what is needed is lessons on swimming - safe swimming, to be precise (one needs to know about things like rips in the ocean, currents, shallow objects in rivers, and hypothermia).
Having overcome that initial knowledge hurdle, one can then improve one’s ability.
In the case of swimming, competition swimmers get expert coaching and practice.
In the mental strength world, people like Buddhist monks practice meditation until they are bored, and then practice some more.
In the psychic world I have four decades of experience at formal practice to improve psychic strength. It isn’t always easy, simple or straightforward, and progress is not always a continuous linear improvement (there are ups and downs), but my experience is that psychic strength can be improved.
How varies from person to person - for instance, alternate nostril breathing works for me, but I know others who feel strangled by that and use other techniques instead. (Contact with the world of nature also gives me a massive boost - back in the 80s I recall running and leaping across a series of large boulders beside a path that, by drawing on their energy, was fairly impressive, if I say so myself [almost a bit like being a Jedi . . . ].)
The link above aims to help you work out what works for you.
Finally, there is also the almost fearsome - certainly potentially awesome, in the original sense of the word - power of compassion / agape / spiritual love. Dawn Hill-Thomas love (her books are out of print now, it seems; the only link I could find is this) once wrote of a rescue she was struggling with, when she called on the Goddess, and found the entity flooded and absorbed by an overwhelming, dispassionate force of (that was certainly stronger than being a Jedi - and was from the real world).
So … being “good” does NOT mean being weak, or unable to compete with or contest the nonBPM.
This week’s sigil is Fortitude.
Exercise AB- Training the trainers
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.
This course has been about passing on knowledge - in a sense, training those who apply the lessons (and entertaining those who just read them, although that may be planting some useful seeds for the future).
However, if this knowledge reaches those who read it and goes no further, it will be of limited value - it will be of value for those who apply it and find it useful or effective or beneficial, but when those people die, so too would this knowledge, other than what is passed on and accessed through the emerald thought form.
I hope to transfer these lessons and related materials into a book, which will keep the spread going for longer, but there is a better goal to have:
train the trainers.
In other words, enable those who study these lessons to be able to pass them - together with their experience and knowledge and adaptations - on to others.
Now, in my day job, I suggest to graduates that they keep a record of key knowledge that they come across, and that they frame that in the way they would have found most effective for them to learn from.
Everyone learns in different ways, so doing this (a) aids them in incorporating that knowledge into their practice, (b) makes it easier to revise the knowledge in the future, and (c) as they will quite possibly attract similar personalities, make it easier for them to pass on what they know to others.
The same sort of principle applies to this sort of work.
Many sources suggest keeping a journal, or even a personal grimoire, and that is often handy in early stages, but there are other ways to accumulate knowledge - including mental and astral means. I won’t go into those, but the main point is to be flexible and use what works best for you.
As an example, the Indigenous people of this land used songlines, stories and art to pass on knowledge of seasonal variations in food and water and many other pieces of essential knowledge.
Perhaps you can record your knowledge into a dance or a Tai Chi routine?
But when it comes to passing this knowledge on to others, the flexibility has to extend to what works best for those others (your “students”).
A key part of that is the mental flexibility emphasised in Lesson 71, and also part of Lessons 9, 53, 57, and 66.
But something else to consider is conventional theories on teaching - including on “train the trainer”.
There is a fair bit of such information available online, in books, and in courses. Don’t be too eager to start with whatever you come across first, and avoid the trap of thinking something you like must be good: assess what will work for your students, not what you like most.
Be patient, persistent, humble - and focused on outcomes for your students, all of whom are individuals.
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. Gathering intelligence; 58. Astral undetectability; 59. The battlefield - or psychic topography;
60. Preparing - building strengths and numbers; 61. Preparing - planning tactics, strategy and grand strategy; 62. Nonphysical allies; 63. Other aids; 64. Force concentration; 65. Unity of effort; 66. Reinforcement and reserves; 67. Fire and manoeuvre; 68. Clearing and healing in detail; 69. Defence in depth;
70. “Hedgehog” defence; 71. Manoeuvring; 72. Direct contest; 73. Flanking; 74. (Ethical) distraction / deception; 75. Attacks from within; 76. Make haste slowly; 77. Withdrawal; 78. Healing casualties; 79. Responsibility;
80. Grand strategy; 81. Making light manifest.
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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