Hi Olivier/Jason I find your questions interesting and complementary to each other. I would be keen to learn of the experiences of other forum members, if they're willing... <<What is the difference between using the Akasha or using the Vital Energy for wish impregnation?>> I still have a lot more work to do with this but my very limited experience has shown a clear physical effect from impregnating VE, whereas impregnating Akasha seems more suited to internal qualities. (this may not be true in experienced hands, but that is what I've discovered so far for myself) <<Now, I can certainly use my *will* to effect change, but the eucharistic magics seem to have no effect upon me>> How are you defining effect? You should be feeling an effect concurrent with the impregnation. Otherwise the quality you're impregnating hasn't been built up sufficiently. It takes 'will' to build the ideation, but once it's being experienced in the moment, then from that moment onwards that quality should be present within you. It's the repetition that makes it permanent. << Did you wake up one morning and suddenly possess the quality that you'd been working towards? >> Again, the quality has to be experienced internally to make an effective inpregnation. After that, you get to experience the quality pretty much round the clock. If you stop the impregnation before the quality has become permanent then it will gradually fade, but it should be a part of you as soon as you start the eucharistic magics. It won't suddenly appear if you're not experiencing it internally with each impregnation. A single impregation on a new quality will last, in my experience, without any further reinforcement for about 1.5 days. From the moment of impregnation, the quality, lets say an emotion like cheerfulness, will be present in your surface awareness or just under the surface. So the quality, in a sense is already a part of you, but you need the repetition to make it permanent. Read or re-read Rawn's essay on empowered remembering, it's very relevant to the Eucharistic magics. << Did you need to actively engage your will in the process, and perhaps some auto-suggestion? >> As mentioned above, 'will' is used to grap hold of the memories or imagined memories that evoke that quality. It also takes 'will' to break through resistance to experiencing that change. So 'will' is definitely involved. By auto-suggestion, I'm assuming you mean 'affirmations'? The same applies here. Bardon mentioned repeating the affirmation 40 times, each morning and night. Again, you need to step into the ideation expressed by the affirmation to the extent that you suspend disbelief between your present reality and the reality captured by the affirmation. A clever technique allied to affirmations is to repeat the affirmation as a tool of meditation, capturing the essence, and then hold that in your mind, rather than just repeating the words that represent that essence. Hold that essence as long as your concentration allows. <<Did events, circumstances and "things" around you begin to alter too, seemingly in support of your own change?>> That seems to happen anyway, some of it tragic, some of it plain bizarre, some even awe-inspiring. I think thats to be expected. << In other words, it only works if you *believe* in it.>> With akasha as sensitive as it is, though you maybe don't need to believe in your EM work, I would avoid actively dis-believing in it. Otherwise, you're effectively impregnating that instead! Hope this helps Richard