Contract

Contract is a fascinating idea. The idea that one could willfully promise a future service in exchange for a service in the present is the basis for contract. The magician views contracts as a means to find equilibrium with the powers they negotiate with.

It is my opinion that contracts are to be largely avoided. While they are rampant and somewhat intrinsic to modern life, they represent a fundamentally negative attitude towards both human nature and ones personal agency.

The strange part of a contract is that one must willingly place oneself in contract, and even while contracted, can break said contract at any time (so long as one has retained their basic. freedoms). It is important to recognize this if contracting with potentially dangerous entities.

time

Time is of great importance for humans. We are bound by certain physical boundaries in our experience of earth, but none so ubiquitous as time. I have long conjectured time to be a gravity based illusion, but will have to expand on that at another point. When dealing with the liminal and multidimensional aspects of the human experience, one may become acutely aware of the experience of time being affected by states of consciousness. All humans have an immortal soul. That soul can be understood to incarnate itself by manifesting in what can best be described as the lower densities. One unique dimension to the lower densities is the experience of time. Our experience of time, as best I can decipher, is actually the intersection of our soul and a finite incarnation. While experiencing the finite incarnation time is inescapable. Thankfully it is malleable though, through negotiation with the immortal soul at higher densities. This is why the subjective experience of time can vary so greatly.

Higher Self

Communicating with your higher self is actually quite simple. What makes the process difficult is relaxing the strains placed on the conscious mind enough to attune with the higher self. The higher self is very direct, simple and heartwarming in it's communication. As far as I can tell, the higher self is describes an immortal aspect of oneself. It lives through multiple incarnations and is the thread connecting your lives into a multidimensional tapestry. As with most beings in the higher densities, the higher self has many incomprehensible desires and agendas. Unlike most of the beings in the higher densities, the higher self usually has a great deal of shared interest with the conscious self, and ego. Of course there are many noises that can sound like the voice of your higher self. Truly, the voice of your higher self can often sound strange when unaccustomed to it. Follow what you feel, physically, to be true.

spirits

Most magicians avoid alcoholic inebriation during workings. Alcohol is a strange drug in that while technically a depressant, it generally causes people to be more confrontational and boisterous. Alcohol though a depressant is also a channeling medium. Alcohol has long been called 'spirits' because of the seemingly possessed actions of inebriates. The truth (or veil of truth) regarding this drug that i'd like to address is that alcohol (like any drug) allows us to contend with ideas or beings in higher planes of reality. Unlike most other drugs which can catalyze such encounters, alcohol does so without the awareness of the inebriated. This can be of surprisingly little use to the magician. Nonetheless outside of a 'working' context such intoxication can be fun.

Mercury Retrograde

This period of transition is marked by breakdowns in communication and in existing information structures. The planetary movements are all connected to our internal states. The artificial matrix we survive within prevents true recognition of the atmospheric changes otherwise quite tangible. Reality ebbs and flows, only a madman tries to fight it's current..

On Glamour

Glamour as a practice can be useful as a tool, but also can become a bad habit. Something about glamour magic attracts addictive personalities. Perhaps the psychology of relying on craft and tools to better oneself is one of constant escalation. Glamour as a practice is more useful as a distraction or misdirection than attention seeking. Glamour that seeks attention quickly looses it's luster and breeds addictive habits and insecurities. Finally glamour and romance should not be mixed if your intentions are based in love. Love abhors insincerity.

Accessing Higher Planes of Reality

The higher planes or circuits of reality (depending on whether you view language as technology or not) are accessible through a number of gateways. The gateways all involve some level of negotiating preconceived notions of reality/self-identification.

The true reality can never be described. for it is amorphous, non-linear, and is in a state of constant creation while being destroyed. What we experience is as much of the true reality as our brains can permit.

Conjecture has been made by various magicians that the beings that reside in the higher planes or circuits of reality may be ideas or archetypes. This is the basis for Evocation and Invocation. When accessing higher planes of reality we must take care to respect the power of such beings that though maybe intangible in our world, can have a very real physical influence.

The higher the plane or circuit reached, the more difficult it is to return. One must keep an honest heart and a sturdy brain in order to negotiate with beings (ideas or archetypes) thousands of years older than us.