Correspondence Excerpts
Excerpts from my personal and public correspondence.Initiation Into Hermetics -- Practice:
-- Step One --
- Thoughts on the Temporary Halting of the IIH Exercises
- The Value of Journalizing
- Recognizing Emotional Resistance to Progress
- The Fatigue Response
- Breaking Through a Blockage You Don't Understand
- Thought "Control"?
- Must We Remember Our Thoughts During the Thought Control Exercise?
- "Segment Intending" and Thought Discipline by EMC
- Temporal Distortions and "One-Pointedness"
- More On One Pointedness / Thought Discipline
- Validating Internal Answers
- The Key to Mental Discipline
- On Applying "Discipline of Thoughts" to Everyday Life
- On the First Part of the Second Step One Mental Exercise
- On the Emptiness of Mind Exercise
- On the Importance of Continuing the EOM Exercise Beyond Step One
- Remembering What Transpires During the EOM State
- Deepening EOM: Encountering the Different Layers of Mind
- More on Emptiness/Vacancy of Mind
- Deep Meditation
- Looking Back On My Own Experience of the Step One Mental Exercises
- Concentration Vs. the Background Agitation of Sexual Energy
- Soul Mirror Tips
- More Soul Mirror Questions
- Is Mind Chatter a Negative Character Trait?
- When Introspection Leaves the Student Feeling Alienated
- Why Assign the Soul Mirror Traits to the Elements?
- More Step One Questions
- Eucharistic Magic Miscellany
- The "Mystery of Breathing"
- Daily Duration of the Step One "Conscious Breathing" Exercise
- On Using Meditation Music
- Energetics and Usefulness of the Cold Shower/Rinse
- Concerning the Eye Bath and Face Bath
-- Step Two --
- Dancing Visualizations!
- Step Two Visualization Exercises: Dealing with residual after-images when eyes are closed
- More on the Step Two Sensory Concentration Exercises
- The "Plastic" Imagination and the Step Two Sensory Concentration
- Step Two Sensory Concentration Exercises - Part Four
- Visualization Redux by EMC
- Step Two: Olfactory Exercises
- Sensory Concentration: Re-creating Pain
- Elemental Correspondences Between the Step Two Sensory Cencentration Exercises and the Soul Mirror
- Difficulty Working With Eyes-Closed Vs. Eyes-Open
- Soul Mirror Work and the Elemental Equilibrium
- On the "Hermetic Sciences" Article -- Charachter Transformation
- Pore Breathing and Rawn's "Inhalation of Beauty" Exercise
- On the Bardon "Asana" of Step Two
-- Step 3 --
- Guaging the Elemental Balance In Preparation for Step Three
- Sensory Concentration: Remembering - vs. - Creating
- Connecting With the Elements
-- Step 4 --
-- Step 5 --
- Concerning the "Depth Point"
- On the "Depth Point" and Transference of Consciousness
- Real Vs. Imagined Communication
- The Importance of Distinguishing Between What Bardon Expects and What He Says Is Possible
-- Step 7 --
-- Steps 8 & 9 --