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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Desire - from the stars!
-U2_
I have been thinking this week about desire and how it often gets a bad rap in religion and magic. In Buddhism of course the second noble truth states that suffering stems from desire and ignorance. Thus in Sutric Buddhism you have a lot of work cutting off the root of suffering by renouncing desires of the flesh like sex and intoxication. In higher teachings like Tantra and Dzogchen, desire is revealed not to be the culprit, but attachment to your desires. If you can free the mind from grasping at this or that, it is perfectly reasonable to enjoy everything that arises as the play of awareness. You can desire your mate, or a posession, so long as you do not grasp at its permenance and allow that desire to interrupt your natural awareness.
In Thelemic circles, the idea of desire is often lumped in with "wants" and "whims" as opposed to "Will". The idea being that your true will is the only thing that you should be concerned with, and that all the wants that you may have are less important than following your true will. Some people seem to think that finding their true will is like finding a letter that tells them exactly what to do for the rest of their life in great detail. Go to school, become a doctor, marry Frank, have three kids, etc. True Will is not like that at all.
True will is any action that arises out of true awareness. It has more to do with a state of clarity and harmony than a laundry list of things that you are to do. If you can reach those states of pure awareness, than just about any action you take is an exercise of your true will, and carries with it the weight of the universe.
Of course a lot of people involved in religion and magic have some strange ideas about the material world. They haven't given up all their possessions to become monks, nuns, or wandering homeless sages, yet they still want to keep their spiritual life separate from their day to day reality. Refusing to see their struggle to buy a bigger house, take the family on a nice vacation, make a good retirement for themselves as something that is worthy of magic or a cause for inspiration. Some even go so far as to call any magic or spiritual effort in such matters as evil.
The word desire itself comes from de sidere or "from the stars". A good desire carries with it a lot of weight in the mind. When you want something, you should take a few minute to examine that want. Dont ask yourself if you need it., ask yourself if you desire it.
You are not a monk. Magic can be used for much more than just what we need. Check your mind to see if this want is arising as a reaction to a commercial you just saw or perhaps a temporary fit of anger or jealousy. If not, than decide definitely upon your desire. Magicians that only do things based upon the advice of spirits, or gods are not great magicians at all. You yourself are part of the mind of god - even when you are not in a full state of enlightenment it is your birthright to be the captain of your own ship. To simply decide on a course of action and carry it out, Your magic need have no more divine weight behind it than your own desire. When you fully comprehend the truth of it, you will realize what a mighty weight that is!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Clarification on buying my books
One of the odd diilemas that one faces in the modern world is that not only can you get just about anything, but you can get it in multiple ways. Seeking to give me the greatest support possible with their purchase, many people have asked me how I prefer them to purchase my books. I figured that since I am now changing how people can access books through me, I would put out a list in order or preference. So here it is:
1. My favorite way to sell a book is for you to buy it at one of my events from me of the host. This way I get to meet you, and hopefully write something meaningful in the book for you. On the selfish side, I get more money this way, since you probably have paid to come hear me speak, and if you are purchasing the book from me, I am making the maximum amount per copy.
2. Realizing that most of my readers will not be able to do the above, the next best way is to purchase it from your local occult store or independent book seller. I get less money that way, but it is really important that physical locations like this stay in business. Besides, as I expand my reach and shift more and more to passive income, I may end up coming and lecturing there on a teaching tour in the future, so on the selfish side you are doing me a huge favor by supporting these places.
3. If you can't manage to find a new age, occult, or independent bookstore near enough to you, than the next best thing is to buy it from a big box bookstore. Not online, but an actual store. Again, I make less, and most likely I will never be lecturing at one of these places either. However, even these bog box stores are in danger. I currently live in a county in New Jersey that has no B&N or Borders. The only book store within 30 miles is Atlantic Books, and while they do carry my book (and have a small but surprisingly serious selection) its not really a place that you can spend and evening in. On the selfish side, if you buy my book off the shelf from one of these places, they will get more and more copies and sell them to people that do not have to be reached through this blog, or twitter, or fb, or a yahoogroup, or anything at all. never underestimate the advertizing power of having a book on the shelf.
I am a follower of this myself. I am buying the new expanded edition of the 4HWW at full price from a physical location even though Amazon has it at half the price with the discount. Thats how much I value having these places around to hang out in.
4. If you are hell bent on me getting the biggest cut of your purchase but cannot purchase from me directly, than click on one of the links that will soon be on the side bar of my blog and buy it through Amazon using me as the agent.
5. By any means necessary. There are no bad ways to buy my book. The above ways all have their advantages, but let me be clear: I am not telling you how to buy my book. I just want you to buy it, than read it, than use it to change your life for the better.
1. My favorite way to sell a book is for you to buy it at one of my events from me of the host. This way I get to meet you, and hopefully write something meaningful in the book for you. On the selfish side, I get more money this way, since you probably have paid to come hear me speak, and if you are purchasing the book from me, I am making the maximum amount per copy.
2. Realizing that most of my readers will not be able to do the above, the next best way is to purchase it from your local occult store or independent book seller. I get less money that way, but it is really important that physical locations like this stay in business. Besides, as I expand my reach and shift more and more to passive income, I may end up coming and lecturing there on a teaching tour in the future, so on the selfish side you are doing me a huge favor by supporting these places.
3. If you can't manage to find a new age, occult, or independent bookstore near enough to you, than the next best thing is to buy it from a big box bookstore. Not online, but an actual store. Again, I make less, and most likely I will never be lecturing at one of these places either. However, even these bog box stores are in danger. I currently live in a county in New Jersey that has no B&N or Borders. The only book store within 30 miles is Atlantic Books, and while they do carry my book (and have a small but surprisingly serious selection) its not really a place that you can spend and evening in. On the selfish side, if you buy my book off the shelf from one of these places, they will get more and more copies and sell them to people that do not have to be reached through this blog, or twitter, or fb, or a yahoogroup, or anything at all. never underestimate the advertizing power of having a book on the shelf.
I am a follower of this myself. I am buying the new expanded edition of the 4HWW at full price from a physical location even though Amazon has it at half the price with the discount. Thats how much I value having these places around to hang out in.
4. If you are hell bent on me getting the biggest cut of your purchase but cannot purchase from me directly, than click on one of the links that will soon be on the side bar of my blog and buy it through Amazon using me as the agent.
5. By any means necessary. There are no bad ways to buy my book. The above ways all have their advantages, but let me be clear: I am not telling you how to buy my book. I just want you to buy it, than read it, than use it to change your life for the better.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
My Books.
After I get and mail out the books that I owe people, I will no longer be selling them through my site. It's just too much of a hassle.
I did however become an Amazon Associate, so if you purchase them through my blog, I at least see a little bit more of the action than I would if you just purchased it directly.
I will still make books available at my public events, either through the host store, or directly from me.
I did however become an Amazon Associate, so if you purchase them through my blog, I at least see a little bit more of the action than I would if you just purchased it directly.
I will still make books available at my public events, either through the host store, or directly from me.
Astral Projection
Tuesday 1/12/10 7:30pm
Mystical Tymes,
127 South Main Street New Hope PA.
(215) 862-5629
http://www.mystickaltymes.com/
Tired of winter already? Take a vacation... from your body!
In this class Jason will teach the theory and methods for safe and successful Astral Projection. Covered in this class is: detailed information about your different non-physical bodies, information on how to move awareness from one to another, lucid dreaming as training for astral projection, leaving the body and roaming the astral planes, leaving the body and observing this plane.
Some techniques in this class can only be taught in person, so if you have only ever read books, this may be the key to your success. If you ever wanted to get a firm handle on how to leave the physical body, this is your opportunity!
Monday, January 4, 2010
Don't be your own worst enemy
Not to be arrogant, but I often get letters about how something I wrote or did helped someone solve a spiritual problem, get some weird vision of some diety, or protect them from the unseen forces that plague them. Those letters are great and thank you all for them, but this week I got a thank you letter that I have been hoping to get since The Sorcerer's Secrets hit the shelves...
I helped someone get laid.
The bulk of the book was on practical measurable results in the real world after all. I have gotten a lot of good feedback on the financial magic section and oodles on the first part of the book, but this is the first success story based on the love and influencing chapters. The best part is that the bulk of the work this person did was on themselves. Sometimes it takes a concrete and material objective to kick our butts in gear to do all the stuff that we say we want to do in the spiritual arena.
In this case he recognized that his major problem was fear of rejection, and using a the "Summoning of the Seducer" ritual, and the meditations on rejection he got over his fear and started approaching women. Apparently lots and lots of women. Just like the book says, he got rejected a lot, but meditated on that rejection and found it wasn't such a big deal after all. After he became more comfortable in the approach, he started getting IOI's and eventually closed the deal with someone that he would have thought out of his league only a few months ago.
One thing that I always remind myself when I am afraid of doing something is that in my life so far I regret the things that I did'nt do WAY more than the things I did. Having studied these things now, I can look back on my pre-married life and see at least a dozen women that gave me signals which I ignored out of fear.
Take a look at the cartoon above. Click on it if you cant see the whole thing. If you are single, dont be that guy (or girl). Fear truly is the mind killer. Allow it to pass over you and through you so you can go get some!
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