Here's a great tip for improving your magic success - stop caring when you try for a result by magic. Take a step back from what you want or 'need' and consider both options as outcomes, and ACCEPT them. This is important - to succeed you need to accept everything. Accepting things will stop you losing energy to them. For a graphic example, you're a semi-permeable plasma membrance in a epithelial cell. Ok, I couldn't find a good example. Maybe a rock in water is one. As long as you care about something, you will push against the things that don't go your way. So something happens, you have no way to stop it, but still you waste energy pushing against it. If you dont care the energy will just wash through you and leave you unharmed energy-wise.
But, this is on the fringes of controlled folly really, the main theory of how controlled folly aids magic is because this conscious pushing and caring about the outcome disrupts our magic. It gets anxious and craps up. If you accept all the outcomes yet still will for the good outcome, it will come a lot easier. Here's an example that I got today - going for a meal with people + people I didn't know. I didn't want to eat with random people but I accepted that it would be that way, even though I willed them not to be there. They phoned up and cancelled. Controlled folly at work.
So accept every outcome, as it's good practice to consider for every outcome and accept it, this is just basic life strategy so your conscious feelings won't crap onto your magic.
If thats what you've tried to do, and when you've failed to do this bad shit happens, then use Tengri, pronounced Taen-ri, to prevent the bad shit from happening. It is very useful to use his name and state what you you want him to do, as he can manifest anything given the circumstance. However, for this to work right, you have to choose an outcome on a whim, without the needy energy getting in the way.
I've always found the issue with 'Lust for Results' to be a key hurdle for achieving successful magick. I like your description of how 'this conscious pushing and caring disrupts the magick' - I've often thought that a simple model for how an act of magick works (and I say model, rather than claiming this is how it *really* works) is that at the climatic moment of a magickal act we project our focussed Will out into the unmanifest future and cause an event to take shape and form. Left well enough alone, assuming it is reasonably probable, it will remain in tact and so that the evolving present has to incorporate its existence, making it 'real'. However, worrying, fretting and 'checking on' the event nudges it, pulls it, rubs up against it, damaging its integrity, making it weaker, making it less likely to 'be'.
ReplyDeleteAccepting that an event may or may not happen, and being okay with that, is a great tactic (although not always easy - it's sometimes hard to accept that, say, you are okay with not having the money to pay the rent, or okay with a friend not getting better). In fact, practising that kind of acceptance (in meditation or in life generally) is a great spiritual practice in and of itself. However, I do also occasionally make use of the 'fire and forget' method - I make a conscious decision that after the magickal event has been completed I will not think about it, won't think about what I did, won't think about my intended outcome, again. Although complete success in this hard, making the choice to 'banish' the thoughts from your mind any time they appear with a 'actually, I can't remember what that's all about' will often result in your mind finding other things to occupy it, leading to a better chance of success.