How to Create an Altered State for Magical Work Quickly and in Any Situation!

The Magical State

It’s no secret to the seven or eight of you that read this blog: I believe and teach that an altered state of consciousness is necessary to contact and work with the high grades of subtle energy we might call magical forces.

30-Second Unpacking for Clarity:

Subtle energy is extremely fine, high-vibrational energy that is essentially unknown and unknowable to the uninitiated. It can’t be accessed with the five senses nor measured with standard equipment. It is detectable via psychic means and indirectly observable through the effects of magic and other mechanisms on objective reality.

Typical daily consciousness, i.e. beta brain waves, are not suitable for connecting with subtle currents, especially the higher grades we might call magical. Instead, altered states that correspond to alpha and theta brain waves are needed for such work.

What is the Magical State

As covered elsewhere on this blog, the magical state is technically a condition wherein your body is relaxed and responsive and your mind is alert but expanded. It is an inspired state of ease, adaptability and effortless creativity.

I ain’t asking much am I?

Granted this is a tall order but it’s also very attainable and more so with regular practice. All you need to do is touch this state and, as if itself sentient, the state will unfold in the manner described in the last paragraph.

Think of this like the flow state of the magician or athlete, the Mushin of the meditator and Zanshin or Berserkergangr of the warrior, and the dreamlike state of the shaman as he or she enters the Other world.

There are many ways to arrive at such as state. Meditation, chanting, physical exertion, fasting, drugs, sex, sustained magical activity, and so on.

Here is a particularly handy method you can use on a moment’s notice in any situation where you can manage a discreet moment with your eyes closed. It’s easy enough, requiring only a basic level of experience with meditation, some imagination, and remedial initiation into any form of energetic modality or dynamic energy system (Reiki, Yoga, acupuncture, palmistry, dowsing, remote viewing, etc.).

Enter the Magical State from Any Situation

First set your intention to enter your ideal state for enacting magic.

Relax your body, allowing tension to fall of your neck, shoulders, and hips.

Be sure you are still breathing. Do this by paying attention to your lungs and noticing their movement. Don’t control your breath in any way just notice it.

Close your eyes.

Become heavy in your seat or on your feet and let yourself sink into the earth slightly. Feel your weight settling to your underside and feel like part of the earth or floor by being a heavy rock making an impression into its surface.

Intend to remain rooted but let go of the heaviness and expand your awareness out into a circle with a perimeter six feet away from your body in all directions. Fill and feel that circle with your mind, and therefore your aura, traveling around its circumference a few times and being that entire space.

Now look within yourself. Look with your physical eyes , which should remain closed, into your torso, down to your solar plexus. Look deeply into your core and send your awareness into the solar plexus chakra.

Inhabit the solar plexus. You should fell in your headspace that you are in the solar plexus, looking outward from there. This is the point of access to the astral plane and the astrasl body, which is linked to your soul. Your soul in turn corresponds to Sol, the sun in the center of our solar system.

Draw in solar/soular energy and let it fill your body and aura. Imagine a golden glow permeating and encompassing you.

Release the experience. Open your eyes if you choose, or leave them closed for your work.

Either way, if you committed fully to this exercise you will be in an altered state suitable for magical work. Note, the above steps can be performed in a matter of seconds with practice.

The first few times you practice this take your time and let the experience consume a few to several minutes of time. Become comfortable with each component so when you need it you can easily do this in 30 seconds or less.

Do it Yourself Altered State

A few of you will see that headline and think I mean smoke some weed. I’m not opposed, but honestly this is more of a distraction for most people. What I actually mean is reference the sequence above to create your own processes for entering the magical state.

Instead of a solar influence, perhaps you’d like to use lunar energy. Shift to your sacral chakra and focus on the shadow self and the moon.

Maybe you’d like to use the third eye as your focal point. Place your consciousness there and then enter whatever Other space you can imagine.

Shift awareness from your physical body to your etheric body and anchor to the etheric plane instead of grounding to the earth below. Or ground to the earth and then shift to your etheric awareness and connect to the etheric plane, grounding your energies onto that space.

You can easily create a dozen variants of the above procedure. Experiment and see which methods and ideas resonate and, above all, translate to efficacious magic.

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