Magical Thinking

This post is some further explanation of certain ideas conveyed in my updated, new book the Secret Explained. (available in printed or electronic formats)

New Thought and the Secret has much merit but both fall short on practical advice and cautionary warnings.
The magick community also has its problems and misunderstandings with the true nature of phenomena. Let me post some ideas of mine;

• Ceremonial magic, while it is an important facet of the whole, it is not as important as they make you believe. Ceremonies, costumes etc. are like are crutch to place the practicionair into an altered states, a trance that can be achieved without any costume or hocus pocus.

• true magic is not obvious yet consistent. That is the beauty of it! You operate under the radar and everybody thinks you are just lucky or blessed, while you are making everything happen. This way you avoid attention and negative consequences or unwarranted animosity or envy.
  People come to you for a good show if you want to show off by all means try – good luck. True, transcendental magic is not like that. You do not want to show off and do not want attention. You do things for others and a little for yourself.

• Magical thinking is only partial of the whole – there are the vibrations of letters, colors and sounds can and will work with your mental effort on tandem.
• Lastly, your invisible selves must be in harmony in order to work with the elemental forces. Your physical is only ONE aspect of it. The invisible is ALWAYS more important.

On a certain, mental level time and space does not exist, in addition all possible events are not only possible but actual and probable, as nothing is yet final, sequential.

In our so called “reality” much of that we think as actual and final event is in reality, just a perception based possibility of one in the trillion of permutations of the whole.
What finally “happens” is based on individual and collective visualization, ideas, current and old thoughts and karmic balance of positive and negative individual or group Karma. Nothing is by chance or happenstance, at least not the way most people think of it. Akasha, the fabric of the Universe has traces of the karmic information. Everything is choreographed to perfection, but to a certain extent you (the initiated magician) can alter and change it. You can also create! Conjour up things from nothing. In fact, that it is easier than altering karmically defined future events. In the old days the rainmaker or the soothsayer was often killed when his/hers prediction or effort was not realized, but many times the desired outcome – rain was karmically not possible that time.
For example, a shuffled deck of cards, on the mental level where there is no sequence of time based events, any possibility of the shuffled deck is probable so a true magician can “invoke” any cards, to the low level thinker(neophyte) who is stuck in the trap of time/space fabric of this Universe cannot see that as a probability but as hard as it is to believe this – ANYTHING is possible when imagined and acted out on the mental body, which then automatically gets pushed(propagated) to the physical realm and becomes, final and “REAL”.
This is the true philosopher’s stone, the true empowerment.

Dogmatic non-Duality is a Mental Illness

Dogmatic non-duality is a mental illness. If not yet a full-blown psychosis it has a potential to become one for many people. It is socking to many seekers to explain the Hindu concept of Maya, (illusion) but with the advent of a Course in Miracle a new movement had sprung up inAmerica. Some of the followers are extremists with dangerous ideas.

The new book of Joe Vitale Zero Limits describes a new form of Hawaiian healing Ho’oponopono – Dr Hew Len a follower of the last remaining Kahuna, the late Morrnah Simeon, allegedly had healed a ward of dangerous psychopaths in a Honolulu Hospital of the Criminally Insane. Except other claims question his record of this feat and claim that he and Joe Vitale just in this for the fame and money. I am not sure of the truth, but I’ve decided to write about the idea of pure non-duality and the dangers of the world view where we claim that everything is our own perception and only our thinking will heal the world’s ills.

I am sympathetic to much of what the Course in Miracle(acim) teaches and I am even more fond of forgiveness and looking inward to solve problems of today. However as with all teachings that claim absolute solution to anything, the extreme way of looking at the world could have adverse effect on some people.

Subjective versus Objective Reality

Some extreme followers of acim and other new age teachings actually believe that everyone is a reflection of themselves and they are the only point of observation in the universe. All encompassing oneness is the only REAL thing and all else is an illusion.

While there is an element of truth to this school of thoughts, the real understanding of

what REAL and UNREAL is to understand the invisible side of things.

Our non-Physical Extensions

Some of the ancients (hindu) describe this as a septenary existence, where they count the seven existence of everything there is. The Cabbalists count these layers of existence as nine, but for the sake of simplicity I just use 3 layers – mental, astral, and physical. Since the demarcation from one level to another is murky the numbers we pick is not important.
The three worlds or “planes” are as follows: the mental plane is the highest reality, save for the undivided akasha, and is the true and eternal ego. Where the akasha is in a sense the world of ideas, it is the mental plane that sets these ideas in motion. The astral plane is the next one down and contains the archetypes of the physical world and to some extent the vital energy behind it; the physical world is the lowest of the planes and requires little explanation. Each of these worlds forms a matrix for the world below it. Since humans also have three bodies corresponding to their presence in each of the three worlds, severing the link between any two of these bodies will cause the dissolution of the lower forms (or death). Such things as astral projection are still possible as they only involve loosening the hold between the bodies.

It is important to point our that we often think that the source of all is the physical and that somehow extends out to the higher spheres. The reality is the exact opposite. Our nervous system and biology is controlled and affected by our “doppelganger” at the mental layer. To be able to do extraordinary things we must have these three/nine/seven layers in synch – perfect harmony.
In order to heal or be healed we must first be effective on the mental level and if successful the result will automatically be propagated down to the physical.

According to the Cabbala, Infinity (Oneness) is a very important concept.  The undivided infinity of being (Atziluth), multiplies itself by another order of infinity and causes the infinity of specified, non-sequentialized meaning (Briah).  In this state, Unitary being experiences the whole infinite variety of specific meanings, but without sequence or order.  This is the archetypal, symbolic ocean, in which each drop reflects the whole and the whole is mirrored in each drop.   It is a chaos of potentiality in which all things are not only possible, but also probable and actual.

This infinity of random meaning (Briah), multiplies itself by another order of infinity and causes the infinity of sequence and relationship (Yetzirah).  This is the realm of symbol, of order, logic, emotion, thought — the realm where one thing leads to another.  This is also the realm of time, the essence of which is sequence.

This infinity of sequentialized meaning (Yetzirah), multiplies itself by another order of infinity and causes the infinity of spatial relationship (Assiah) and our familiar physical realm.

The first multiplication of The One Self — the transition from the Atziluthic Unity of being, to the Braitic infinity of non-sequentialized meaning – is described in the Genesis, chapter one, creation story.  The second transition, from the Briatic infinity to the sequentialized Yetziratic infinity, is the topic of the Sepher Yetzirah.  Thus the S.Y. is very orderly and systematic in its presentation and closely examines the structure of time (“eternity”).

My conclusion is that Oneness, infinity only the realm de joure at the highest spheres and we as humans should strive to access and attain that level. Down on earth infinity exists only as an abstraction and polarity, decay (death) rules, on a simplistic level. The only escape is ascension which is everybody’s birthright but will not be attained by reading acim repeatedly.