Dear Newbie, Welcome to BardonPraxis! :) My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 04 Jan 2003 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Newbieonekenhobby" <newbieonekenhobby@...> To: "BardonPraxis Moderator" <BardonPraxis-owner@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 1:32 PM Subject: Re: Welcome to BardonPraxis Hi. As indicated in my "name", I'm a real newbie in terms of Magic, (although I have always been fascinated by the subject) but I have worked for some years on personnal development systems like Silva Mind Control, "dynamique mentale", chakra healing, Monroe's hemi-sync etc. A couple of reasons made me to buy F. Bardon's book recently. First, a document that I read recently (the Kybalion), which seemed to summarize every bit of my present personnal belief system, and made me to investigate Hermetism. Another reason was the feeling that everything that I tried in the past (religion included) was the diluted version of a "master discipline". A strong desire to reach the realms of the "sacred" also, way beyond religion. And I needed something tangible - not theoretical only. Last but not least, I have some physical pains apparently due to excess of / or bad balance of energy in my body which could be hopefuly solved by the procedures taught in F. Bardon's first book. A last word. My mother tongue is not English - so please be patient with my poor grammar and my limited vocabulary. That's it :-) Newbie