> > Your practice of this magic will evolve continuously and reveal its full > self over a span of *years*. > > My best to you, > :) Rawn Clark Thanks, Rawn; I am pleased to know that the exercise of YHVH-ADONAI will expand with my progressing abilities through the years. I sincerely enjoy these "structured" lessons and steps for we aspiring self-actualizationists. (Magicians). I have ownership now of the mental, astral, physical speaking and feeling/knowing of the canticle. It is very empowering and refreshing to actively use. Another interesting thing is in practicing Bardon's first lessons; clearing of no thoughts, focusing on only one thought last night that I had some wonderful though small experiences. In the no thought process (which I held for 3 minutes) I had two interesting images pop up in my visualization. They both deal with "imagined fear factors." The first was an image of a board disc with a circular toothed saw blade set into it. I "just about" thought of it as some diabolical danger, though immediately the blade fell away from the board and there was no cut. The second was an image of a wide open shark mouth with the teeth showing. I "began" to think of it being a dangerous image, when all of a sudden the teeth with the membrane attached slid sideways out of the mouth/jaw and fell to the side and the toothless mouth flacidly closed, harmless. I let those images pass away, out of my mind, though I mused on the change from danger to harmlessness for a moment, and then I experienced 3 minutes of no thoughts successfully. Then I successfully focused on one image of a orange red ball for three minutes, upon opening my eyes because I felt/thought that it had been 10 minutes, grins. As I progress I will, of course, share less and less of the particular details of my progress, but for now, at the beginnings I think that it is helpful to put out there what others, beginners may be able to associate with and grin along with. Another interesting thing I did after those two exercises was to focus my attention in my visualizations on "where" the exact blank white board of my visualizations was occuring. Where in my forehead the images were being projected onto. Where was the space and distance from the perceiver. It kept changing, at first it was just on my forehead physical (on the inside of the skull of course), then it was about an inch in front of me, then changing to a foot in front of me, and then three feet, etc. It kept changing with each new image of the ball I was imagining. And most interesting from this was the next set of occurances. My inner eye/perceiver "looked" inside at myself, at the sephiroth. And I sensed the perceiver as a camera lens, zooming out three inches as I sensed that I was perceiving a colorless sphere of Malkut, and then I half took control of positioning my focused attention on the inner "position" within me of Tipheret, and the lens I was watching retracted an inch, next onto Binah and it retracted another inch, and on focusing on Chockmah it was entirely retracted, flat to the base of the lens, next it receeded in movement on focusing on Keter and I sensed and experienced a wonderfully elated and weightless experience of the viewer viewing itself. Or something. I brought myself back to a grounded position, using the IHVH-ADONI complete cycle of chant and dispersing energies to my center and allowing Malkut to suck all back into the earth. These are indeed wonderful times. :) Thanks for listening, As always, Chuck SeaWinder