curiousbignose

He probably expressed his concerns in multiple places. I remember reading an excerpt from a different text posted somewhere, from which I understood Cases stance was that he'd rather want to err on the side of caution. Now I have found these two letters (in a Reddit discussion and through some sleeplessness): Letter 1 And particular here from point 5: 1933 Letter to Israel Regardie So he was cautious about the Enochian magic, but not warning against ceremonial in general. Thank you very much for your responses and thoughts once more.

Thanks for this, I have read a few interpretations of what I am doing there with curiosity (including yours now), that it is not just a banishing ritual. And sure, I may just be ignorant about spirits here Btw, I've performed the Middle Pillar few times after some weeks of daily practice and the effect on me and apparently my surroundings was quite interesting. These experiences seem useful and were part of the early stages of the GD (and also seem to have some parallels to energy work like qigong?), but are to the best of my knowledge not included in the B.O.T.A curriculum. I know Case was against the Enochian magic performed in the GD and given the overall quality of his writings I do believe that he had some good reasons. What I do not know is whether he was against integrating any form of regular performative active ritual, given that he joined an order like the GD as someone who was already a freemason. Maybe I'm inpatient here: With B.O.T.A. I'm looking down half a decade of perhaps good and valuable instruction a lot of people seem satisfied with, with some practical meditative work (which genuinely seems valuable) and the occasional group ritual they offer. Meanwhile I've been drawn towards ritual work for long time, and have been advised multiple times against reading so much (correspondence courses are a lot about reading), and that I should instead "get into practice". Just not sure that the correspondence courses cut it for me due to this. Their membership fees are indeed on the steep side, also considering how they are known to dribble information. I am also not sure about how well I align with the vibes of some of their public personell in their videos. I do align with some of the texts, but perhaps this is because it is occult knowledge in simple and accessible form. That being said, I am still inclined to continue, also given that they have more group activities than B.O.T.A., but then again I don't trust the results of active advertising (which one should suspect is tied to money indeed) for an occult order. Will send a PN. Thank you very much for your detailed response despite me posting on a decade-old thread

Do you have a pointer to a path towards finding them? I've been drawn to these paths for over a decade, but had to prioritise studying / work. Recently picked up B.O.T.A. and am quite satisfied with the density of the information and the practical work so far. But I am also drawn to some ritual work (not involving invoking spirits, which is why the Crowley schools are perhaps not for me), e.g. I've added daily LBRP (which is a GD instruction I found as a cautious practice for beginners in tarot, before learning about B.O.T.A.) and continued some qigong energy work which seems to do good. I've also checked out the forum stage of AMORC and align well with their texts so far, but am put off a bit by their active recruitment. In my understanding this is not right for occult paths as you need to be drawn towards them, otherwise the wrong people will come. Even freemasonry, which is quite public advocates against it. (So I don't expect that you tell me the direct name and phone number of such organisations)

I've been intrigued by the buddhabrot fractal for some time. It had been called buddhabrot because it shows several features of historic Gautama Buddha depictions: The tikka, a topknot, ringlet hair and a meditation pose. I've done a bit of qigong during lockdowns and have become even more intrigued by it. If you take a look at it, you will probably see why. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot High-res rendering: https://erleuchtet.org/2010/07/ridiculously-large-buddhabrot.html The buddhabrot is the same as the well-known mandelbrot fractal, which sorts 2D starting coordinates c into escaping / not escaping a specific boundary on the complex plane (a 2D plane that has its own set of mathematical rules and is linked to various physical domains, e.g. quantum physics) during a long simple iteration. The classic mandelbrot only shows the points that stay inside the set. For the buddhabrot, instead of showing points that stay inside the set, we look at where all the points that escape the set into infinity fly around. Simply said, the brighter a pixel on the buddhabrot fractal is, the more escaping points flew around there on their way to infinity. What are your thoughts about it? What do you see when you look at it?

Hey everyone. I've discovered qigong during one of the winter lockdowns after becoming addicted to closing the activity rings on my smartwatch. I wanted to vary workouts and after trying a YouTube yoga session and ending up quite annoyed, I tried tai chi, the qigong, and got stuck with it (8 brocates mostly). Still only learning from master YouTube so far. I'm sticking to the simple stuff.