Meditation, vision and dreams
The skills behind every ritual: Western meditation, the Tattvas, pathworking and guided vision, the subtle body and the Middle Pillar, the astral body and the body of light, lucid dreaming, and sound as a doorway to trance.
8 lessons · about 2 hours of reading · 1 free
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Contemplation from Plotinus to the Golden Dawn — three kinds of meditation and how to begin a daily practice.
Five simple shapes and colours, from Indian philosophy by way of the Golden Dawn, used to train perception and attention.
Journeys in the imagination — how to enter, travel, test what you meet and return safely.
The chakras, the Middle Pillar and the subtle body in East and West — what is traditional, what is modern, and how to work safely.
What practitioners mean by the astral, how to explore it safely, and why most of the work is in preparation and return.
The soul's subtle vehicle from Neoplatonism to the Golden Dawn — and a safe first exercise.
Knowing you are dreaming — its history from Hervey de Saint-Denys, practical techniques, and magical uses.
Why magicians drum, chant, ring and hum — what sound does to attention, what is ancient and what is modern (the drum and the chant on one side, binaural beats and "Tibetan" bowls on the other), and how to sit with sound well.
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