Elementalism Lesson 1: Rain magic
Through meditation and lucid dreaming I took the next obvious step and began to practice sorcery. In all actuality we ALL practice magic every day, but we have made up new names for it.
There are several classes of magic users that still exist in the world.
I am not going to go through them though because I have yet to get my masters in anthro, hehe.
I am a Bard-Sorcerer. A Bard being a muscian, artist, writer, actor etc. whom uses their will, or willpower, or charisma to cast or perform acts of great talent and imagination. A Sorcerer is like a wizard, but a wizard relies on his Intelligence and perhaps less wisdom, a Sorcerer relies on his will or charisma and wisdom. The two mix quite well.
Anyway, I did not think I could cast, but my will is semi-irradic, I have to be in the right mood to perform certain great feats.
Enchantment and illusion are easier. Convicing ppl you are right is an art, acting, these are your allignments. But you have to be careful, lieing costs karma, and manipulating ppl for evil purposes means that your 'magic' will actually use you.
One day my personal power was incredibly high. I had just gotten home to the mountains from texas and felt great, I also had bud for one of the first times in a week, so I drove out into the mountains to almost 10,000 ft. I sat on top of a small mountain and watched the sky. I began to meditate.
Here you may ask, "Blu, what the fuck does this all have to do with lucid dreaming?" well, here it is.
I use the same technique I lucid dream with when I meditate. In fact, when performed properly, they are almost the same. One can go anywhere, do anything.
I listened. Sitting on my mountain I smoked and listend to the trees and slowly with the breeze imagined leaving behind me and I began to feel the needles, here the wind blowing over a billion needles! I meditate and move my body in and out and through them all. I sit in peace. I am silent for a half hour.
Ater this I began to write (I am a poet sometimes) and watch as dark clouds roll over from south park over back across the west side of Pikes Peak. They are dark yet small spring rain clouds.
It is time to meditate again.
I close my eys and ascend the Jhonnas, swept up by the storm now blowing all around the base of my small inbetween BLue Mtn, and watch the storm with my eyes closed. Here I dream I am in the clouds
that i am the storm
that i am nothing
the storm collects and is all around, all over and above me, heavy with rain.
this goes on for almost and hour, i never feel a drop of rain.
then at some precise moment I decide to open my eyes
the clouds went around me, they were pouring and thundering all around for miles, and somehow a small place I was in went untouched.
then I looked up, a triple r blazed brightly overhead, intersecting one another in a way that I didn't think was possible.
It is the most spectacular thing I have ever seen. I still don't believe it, but I wrote it down later, I was there, hehe. Lucidity is amazing.
So now the question is, what is real lucid dreaming? It can be crossed over and applied to the daytime if you have a strong enough will. The way a dream is handled is the same way that life is handled. I can see the fragility of the dream world, and slowly I am seeing the illusion of this one. It can be controlled the same way that one dreams. To achieve this, however, requires that one train the mind to not think, to un-try, to do the opposite of what intelligence suggests because, lets face it, none of us are wizards, we all have to use charisma to cast spells nowadays, and the same goes for the lucid dream.
Good lucidity = charisma
and a bit of wisdom never hurts.
I want to say that I do not know how magic works, but I have cast many spells, seens many, studied many different types of ethereal wisdom and through my lucid dreaming I am definitly able to utilize certain spells.
But the more extreme spells, like neutralizing weather, take a different eneergy then everyday magic. It takes crazy neutrality (you cannot think about splitting clouds or try to force things, god seems to laugh at sorcerers for that) and incredible will. I would suggest that I was only able to perform such a feat by luck of my happiness at the time and the pure focus I had just attained form intensly long meditation sessions weeks prior along with fasting and vision questing (dallas style).
If you try to 'perform' magic karma will not let you, you have to let it happen. I even like to assume it's happy coincidence, but I can cast certain spells consecutively, so I am conviced that such feats can be learned.
All the same. I sometimes recall that place and time in dreams. It is one of the best feeling I have ever experienced. I think meditation lucidity and magic are all madatory steps in a balenced life, wouldn't have it any other way.
By casting spells in your lucid world, one can meditate, go back, find those lucid memories and utilize them. Elemental magic, to be precise, works both ways in both worlds. Lucidity is sooooo important to the diviners. It is a clairity of mind. It is the calm from which power and energy can be drawn and manifested physically in the material world.
Happy dreaming. Hope I turn a few sorcerers, hehe.
If any of you have any moral obligations about what I just said, my background is christian and Taoist...eventually we learn that all energy is the same, as are all justifications.
for further information read Carlos Casteneda...or the bible...or any religion, they all have spells somewhere. Send me mail if anyone needs help with class idetification (self) or ethos of instruction (religion, practice). I have learned spells from all religions and will openly discuss all beliefs. peace[/i]
The story is about the illusion of lawful allignment
i am afraid that some bards meet this fate as well. lucid dreaming is not a walk in the park, you have to be supple, your thoughts must bends and break without actually breaking, like water, like fluidity of energy -not like this illusion world- so you have to relaxe, do a lot of meditation, and find your true self, then leave it behind, then come back to it. Only then can one have a clear thought, not bombarded by the songs of society, by the worries of ethos, by the silly streams of humanities manifestations, these must be conquered, and that is no easy task.
i hope everyone becomes lucid...i hope they love the world and not greed, or desire, or false ethics. video games: virtual lucidity, live one of your reicarnations in a month! Witness many. You are them now, too. For we are all, afterall, of this earth.
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VAMPIRES< AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
OMFG!
I had this girlfriend once who was a diviner, then I found out she also thought she was a VAMPIRE! lol, that bitch just turned on me, middle of normal conversation, we never fought or anything like that, and she just BIT me!!! she bit me so hard, on my left shoulder, left a mark for a month and a year later I'm still a bit scarred.
Don't worry man, I am not into conjuration or anything
I'm a Shaman Bard, I mainly cast charms and enchantments
but cause my dad r a hcr ranger, i got a bit of drood in me, so i can occasionally cast crazy elemental stuff, but it's all charisma based or drug induced sometimes, depends. I could talk more about intense spells.
I am best at divination really, empathy, I can see people's lives sometimes. I've had some meditations where I've managed to see years in hours, lifetimes in half a day...I'm crazy like that, but I cannot denigh the visions. most ppl trip stupid stuff, i can LUCID meditate, LUCID trip
and slowly i live lucidly
Re: VAMPIRES< AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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Originally posted by Blulanou42
OMFG!
I had this girlfriend once who was a diviner, then I found out she also thought she was a VAMPIRE! lol, that bitch just turned on me, middle of normal conversation, we never fought or anything like that, and she just BIT me!!! she bit me so hard, on my left shoulder, left a mark for a month and a year later I'm still a bit scarred.
Thats 2 funney. ROLMAO :rolllaugh:
