RE: [BardonPraxis] Manifestation

[Andrew Llewellyn <andrew@...>]

My friend, from what I have read you *always* have a useful reply.

Andy



At 23:37 10/04/03 -0600, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Some thoughts on manifestation...
>
>It's a weird thing about Bardon. I've found myself, in the past, going
>off on tangents to Bardon and exploring all sorts of sundry techniques
>and more immediately seductive byways of magic and enchantment. And,
>after these long loops, I find myself back to discover the essence of my
>new experience was actually distilled in some form or another in
>Bardon's IIH. The reason I didn't seen it, at first, was that in his
>written form it is sometimes difficult to pick out where the emphasis
>should be. Or he will mention something seemingly in passing that is a
>critical distinction in the effectiveness of a technique or practice.
>Some of these distinctions, especially for manifestation, are packed
>into the first two steps.
>
>The model of magical manifestation, as I work with it to date, deals
>with bringing a form down through 4 layers into the physical. The
>shifting from one layer to the next needs to be smooth an integral... a
>martial arts example is "punching with your feet." Force is transmitted
>through the linking your entire body into one fluid and coordinated
>movement.
>
>In manifestation, I believe this movement must start *well* in the
>mental. This can mean a couple of things.
>
>1. Clear outcome. You have to know what it is, specifically, that you
>want so your intent is not ambiguous or ill-defined. If you can't see
>this clearly in your imagination you cannot coalesce a structure for the
>energy to manifest materially.
>2. Your thought-form needs to be strong, not a nebulous wish. Strong has
>some very quantitative measures. For example... you should be able to
>hold this intent for at least 17 seconds for it to have the slimmest
>chance of making it any further than just a random thread which is the
>typical nature of most everyday thinking. Strength also pertains to how
>vivid you can make this thought form.
>
>Once you have a finely honed thought-form, which is actually the
>building blocks of exercises in step 1 and 2 you need to link it to
>energy. Energy as a property of the astral and the emotions -vs- the
>mental plane.
>
>Here it's easy to make a mistake, even if you created the thought-form
>impeccably and have collected the typically nebulous, diffused energy of
>the tick-tock mind into a focused, compact intent of magical volition.
>
>There's a tendency for us to think "about" something or to think "of"
>something -vs- a more powerful way of forming this directional energy on
>the astral, Neville captures this distinction in his excellent book
>"Awakened Imagination" as follows:
>
>"...we must use imagination masterfully, not as an onlooker thinking
>*of* the end, but as a partaker thinking *from* the end. We must
>actually *be* there in imagination. If we do this, our subjective
>experience will be realized objectively."
>
>Of course, this is stated in Bardon more succinctly with his advice to
>use impregnation as-if you already contained the quality you seek.
>
>The key is to invoke this energy with the feeling of you already having
>accomplished your goal and experiencing now how it will feel "then." You
>may often discover, in this step, that it is not really or exactly what
>you wanted, and you'll need to go back to work again on clarifying your
>intent. This usually indicates parts of yourself that are not aligned
>with your goal and that would have ultimately sabotaged your intent.
>
>I believe this also utilizes the law of attraction and the natural
>magnetism of the astral plane to pull this manifestation toward you even
>more powerfully.
>
>The next plane you navigate with your crystal clear intent, cloaked with
>its energetic sheath is also in Bardon, but it is not explicit. It is
>something you may discover through working the exercises diligently.
>
>Through the observation of thoughts, localizing pore breathing and
>transplanting consciousness, you might come to discover our experiences
>are encoded in our energetic forms, or the etheric layer. You can also
>find this through studying Reich or NLP to see it more clearly in
>Bardon. For example, if you've been observing your thoughts closely,
>you'll note that the way you think about things that have happened is
>subtly different from thoughts about things that are going to happen or
>that have never happened. Most people "represent" these thoughts
>spatially. When they think of what they ate yesterday, they may note the
>thought is behind them or to the left. As the events recede further and
>further into the past they are placed further behind or to the left.
>When they think of something they know they will be doing tomorrow, it
>may be close and in front or slightly off to the right. In other
>disciplines this is called your "timeline."
>
>Using this encoding you can now "place" your energized thought-form in
>your future energetically, rather than just letting it float as some
>anomalous blob in a space disconnected with your events. You can also
>play with other encodings, like where you place things you believe -vs-
>things you doubt. But the timeline is sufficient alone for this
>experiment.
>
>Finally, you'll want some linkage in the material plane. This can be as
>simple as saying "So mote it be" out loud or writing an affirmation or
>it could be a ritual or spell that you enact as you unfold the process
>above. Based on the correlations in the spell or helpful magical
>implements, this can pull in more sympathetic resonances to enhance the
>intent. But the ritual alone cannot make up for the missing elements in
>the core of the practice above.
>
>So these are some thoughts on the subject, hopefully there will be
>something of use in this long-winded reply.
>
>-emc



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