7/21/2019 Spirit vs Human Teaching
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Spirit vs Human Teaching
Over on a yahoogroup that I belong to we are discussing the
relative benefits of being taught magic by humans vsspirits. If you
have been reading this blog you will know that I value the
combination of both very highly. It got methinking about how the
spirits almost always use the language, perspectives, and technical
knowledge that wealready possess to instruct us. For instance John
Dee was a master Cryptographer, the spirits delivered knowledge
tohim mostly through codes to be unraveled and names to be etracted
from charts etc.
I was reading Frater !.D."s #$here Do Demons %ive today in the
bathroom and I happened upon his discussion ofcyber magic. $hile
this was written a while ago, and he probably has more about his
development of it in 'erman,his description in the book did not
deviate much from his description in his #(odels of (agic# article
from )**)+
#he application of the as yet evolving information model has led
to the discipline I have termed Cybermagic -fromcybernetics/ or the
science of control systems/0. Contrary to the other models
described above, Cybermagic doesnot rely on magical trance to
achieve its effects. 1ather, the Cybermagician activates either his
own main memorybanks, namely brain and spine -the 'olf2club chakra,
so2called because of its shape reminiscent of a golf2club0 orthose
of the target person. he desired information is then called up and
transmitted 3uite similarly to a copycommand on an (42DO4 computer.
he copy command analogy holds good insofar as the information -not
havingmass0 is not actually lost/ in the process -as energy would
be0 but rather is duplicated. his is an important point as itallows
for the magician to perform his magic even in a state of very low
physical power, possibly even when almostcompletely intoicated, as
long as his basic life support systems/ are still functional and
the command synta is
employed correctly#
2 Frater !.D.
I had read this shortly after it was written and it didn"t
really strike a chord with me. 5 lot has changed since then. Ihave
been using a similar copy and paste magic for years. I have also
been #programming# astral matter for a longtime, and thinking about
it in those terms. (uch of ibetan 6uddhist (agic is based on what
he would call the#Information (odel# and I never really thought
about it before but in some ways digital thinking has helped
meunderstand antric 7ye 1im (andala practice and how (andalas
essentially function as magical engines or C8!"s. Iremember back in
)***, 8enor 1inpoche and other lamas were telling everyone to go
see the (atri because it isvery 6uddhist and will eplain a lot of
how 9a:rayana works 2 that is pretty hip for a guy that was born in
)*;< andraised in a country without a any modern technical
infrastructure.
I have met several people who have practiced various types of
magic that is even more directly influenced by thinkingabout things
in the light of computers. I mentioned a cabal of Japanese (ages
who work magic in ways inspired byhow they design video games -they
keep their tech very secret and since I am not a game designer, I
do not 3ualify toget in on it0. 5nother friend of mine introduced
me to an astral space that works as a #1ender Farm# for
complespells. hinking about things in that way led me recently to
some new ways to apply the properties of various Dakini1ealms.
5nyway the point is, that the more we know here between us
=umans, the more spirits will build upon thatknowledge. here are
certain things that :ust cannot be taught directly until we are
ready to receive them. 4ometimesbeing ready means being able to
access the mental planes, reverse the flow of Chi in the Dan ien,
or hold non2dualawareness. 4ometimes it :ust means being tech savvy
or understanding string theory.
