@@lyamchristopher2393 How can demons be manifestations of our traumas? That doesn't make sense to me. Baal, Astarte, ect were gods before the jews/christians framed them to "demons" as they went against the Yahwist cult's claim of "one God". "God" was just another god among many.
@@lyamchristopher2393 But you say so as if the air of legitimacy is all he achieved implying he was not a legitimate seeker/scholar? I'm curious as to the downplaying of Jung whereas Freud is almost defied in some quarters unexpectedly, when he wasn't busy doing coke or formulating his otherwise legitimate to a degree, id-ego-superego theory...
@@flameone4705 Wrong context. This is not a scholarly discussion about the origin of the word "demon," but we could talk about that if we wanted to. Let's leave that to other channels and then get back to the experiential context of demons. Besides, when a Jew or a Christian hates someone from another culture, its because that person has triggered a primordial image of some kind of fear from their deep evolutionary past. A repressed primordial image of a horned and fanged predator, a violent natural force, or a troublesome and evil temptress.
Just watching your video. I must have unconsciously summoned a demon many years ago, then I married her. Eventually we exorcised each other and got divorced. I've found the best way to overcome bad experiences is to maintain a sense of humour. As my ex-father's dreadful experiences in France in WW2 went into his book, 'Fear is the Foe's, to exorcise his 'ghosts'. We remained firm friends till he died. Thank you for bringing back a memory by means of your Great Work. Warmest regards from 🇬🇧
🥰 Humor is a devastatingly serious matter. That's why it's to funny. When you say "your" Great Work, you are keeping the Great Work at bay, outside your magic circle. Sounds like you are already engaged in the Great Work, conjuring things outside your magic circle. Aren't we all! And when we can see that, we can try to fight it and keep it from happening (suffering) or jump into it with gusto (bliss).
@@lyamchristopher2393 I take your point but you are doing great work for your students who need someone with your teaching talents. I've met many experienced and knowledgeable teachers but they couldn't relate as you do. They fumble about trying to pull 'a tortoise's head out of its shell' so it can progress instead of building up its trust allowing it to stick its neck out without fear. I don't think you realise you have the natural talent of trust. It's just an opinion, but your students have one hell of a teacher in you. They are very lucky. You even take the time to read their comments. Most teachers do not have the dedication.. warmest regards from 🇬🇧
Just tried the "light" version of this process in the magical journal, summoning something silly for practice, the slight anxiety of making sure you get everything you need in a trip to the grocery store. Ended up being a surprisingly deep dialogue about conscientiousness and reliability, I'm kind of floored by it. I think I see why the full ritual version of this isn't recommended for beginners. "Question: How may I call on you again? Answer: Rising to the occasion is my name. When you do I am already with you."
22 minutes in and I questioned "why does he have two microphones?" only to realise the bottom mic was your knee haha. Watching the rest, I realise you were already telling me the questions in your last video. I'm not sure I'm ready to conjure this thing. I already have a forgiveness ritual to do (yes, I have to ritualise forgiveness, specifically for things from the past), but how you describe the conjuring of these demons, this almost sounds like shadow work. Almost like the only thing that feels like it's missing, is treating this demon like an unloved child, and ultimately loving it. Very interesting, I'm keeping this video bookmarked for a later date. Thank you for this teaching today, sir.
@@lyamchristopher2393 I thought it had something to do with the Hurricane. I hope you were able to stay safe and weren't hit too hard with the Hurricane. Maybe the timing will be better next Sunday for a video.
In the meantime, I have been re-watching some of the older videos. Quite remarkable how revisiting some of these videos unearths meanings I missed the first time through.
In acknowledgment of the the beauty of the whole matter. Few hours before having watched this video, I was in bed, trying to sleep again (after being crudely woken by some matter) / (slightly affected by a few puffs of the devil's lettuce to aid me back to sleep - 'I know, I know'), and out of the blue I visualized the LBRP after quite a while out of practice - and then for some reason the mind showed up a quasi-infinite amount of demons governing various 'departments' of the mind - chose one to converse with - and while I don't recall the whole process, I felt like I have 'instinctively' learnt and understood something of practical value. I understood this video before I watched this video. I don't recall the conversation with said demon, but I do remember compassion being very much present, and now I feel very very light (while going through some tough process) and 'unclogged'. I do recall, though, the demon transforming into a frog, chilling on the terrace playin' the good old banjo.
I find this a fascinating topic, it is unfortunate that the youtube lhp / goetia crowd has made a right joke of it. But on a more personal note, I used to have recurring nightmares, about something chasing me and me unable to speak or scream. This lasted until my early thirties. Then things happened that made me examine myself and my life a lot closer, and then one night I saw what was chasing me or who was chasing me, because I turned around to look at it. So you could say that I faced that demon because I never had that nightmare ever again.
I experienced that as well. Night terrors... shadow man terrorizing me every night... all thru my childhood and early adulthood... always chasing me thru dark, abandoned, haunted places. Then, too, in my early thirties, I was having the same old dream, but in this one, I got angry, and I swung around and yelled out 'I AM THE DARKNESS', and the shadow man retreated, shrieking like a ghoul and never returned.
Good example. The demon might reconstitute and "come back." Or not. If it does come back, the feeling will be different, won't it? The hostile spirit has become a "familiar spirit."
@@lyamchristopher2393 For years what I thought was a giant monster of unknown origin chasing me in dreams, turned out to be something rather small and pathetic looking. Something that was just impossible to be afraid of, so much so that I almost felt a strange pity for it. But if those dreams had never happened, I would not have gotten to know something profound about myself and my own life. So you could say that I ought to be thanking the demon, it did me a service.
Another great video. Thank you Lyam, for taking the time to share your knowledge. I'm currently listening to an audiobook about inherited family trauma called "It didn't Start With You". The synchronicity is much appreciated.
this video is the first time I've seen the thaumaturgic triangle as an image of a path stretching backwards into infinity (converging at the top point) and I think that fits quite nicely with the idea of spirits approaching you from outside your circle
I think that "The Raven" poem was Poe talking about his regrets and bad memories. and the reason why I believe this, is because of a quote that goes......“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago." - Nietzsche "only this and nothing more" seems to pertain to ideas or regrets and bad memories.
The demon "Nevermore" is clearly Saturnian in that it represents finality. Mortality. It is also a demon of superficiality. "Darkness there, and nothing more." Is there ever really nothing more than what we see?
I sympathize. We can reach a point in the Work where we notice that no one around us seems to have a clear perspective that's free of cultural hypnosis. But does that really matter so much? My physician tends to give outdated, orthodox (misguided) medical advice...but I like that. I can rely on her to do that. Do Have to listen to her? No. Same goes for a mental health counselor. Never turn your health or your whole life over to a professional (unless you're undergoing surgery or some other crisis-intervention procedure). Professionals are useful merely as professionals, nothing more. You can always ask, point blank, whether the therapist is open-minded in the face of unorthodox spiritual practices (such as Tibetan Tantra or Wicca). And even if you end up with a therapist who gives "bad" advice, that situation can be enlightening when examined.
I remember one time i was doing breathing exercises while trying to sleep and I had a vision out of nowhere I had a vision of the devil from the passion of the Christ which traumatized me as a kid. Kept me up a few hours longer.
Ah, yes. Mel Gibson's torture-porn fantasy. Every time we suffer, there's an opportunity to see that the suffering is "much ado about nothing." That opportunity is golden, to be sure, but once one has seen past it, the suffering becomes a kind of blind. A kind of pornography for the ego. We stroke ourselves with our suffering in an endless round of foreplay before "getting it off with God."
That would be a familiar spirit, then, not necessarily a "demon." No difference really, except for the familiarity part. Can a magician escape from bouts of melancholy and simply be happy forever? Of course not. It's simply the "poor me" within that melancholy that dies. The melancholy becomes a welcome friend who visits from time to time. You might even say that melancholy is an antidote for hubris. As is laughter. And that's why laughing and crying are so similar.
I was looking forward to this for some reason, I haven't watched it yet but wanted to note that at the exact time this was uploaded I got out of a vivid dream/nightmare, I wanted to get up and write on my diary what I experienced so I opened my eyes and wanted to turn on the light, but I started getting pulled away from it, I wasnt actually awake, I was in a sleep paralysis. I eventually got up and tried to write my dream but the ink in the expensive pen that I just bought last week dried out, almost as if something was trying its best to stop me from writing the dream. This was pretty frightening, the sleep paralysis I'm kinda used to, but the new pen refusing to write on the diary (it worked on other paper) and then this video getting uploaded are very strong synchronicities. It kind of makes me doubt, if I should keep trying to write how the dream ended or "respect" what happened and just leave it unwritten and instead meditate on the whole experience... In the end I strongly doubt I'll ever forget it now anyways.
The ability to write freely about something requires that you observe the interpretation you've written without being attached to it. You might write about the same experience tomorrow, and the interpretation will be different. That kind of freedom can restore ink to your pen.
Hey! Loving these videos. You're really talented at explaining things clearly. I wish I'd got your book when I first saw. Would have probably saved me a lot of wasted time. Can you address something I must have really gotten burden with? My understanding is when doing visualization and "energy work" like drawing pentagram during the lbrp that you have to breathe in energy see it balled up then see it releasing out into the air as you draw? Is this not accurate? Can I simply just visualize and not involve all this breathing. It has really overwhelmed me trying to focus so hard on breathing. In your book I just read the LBRP you give and it didn't mention the breathing, with you very obviously knowing what you're talking about it feel like I've been over thinking this part and it's not even needed at all? Can I simply just visualize? I'd absolutely love it if that is the case. Breathing so much during all these rituals in the past slowed me way way down.
Not sure where you got the breathing thing. It is best to breathe very little almost all the time. Save the breathing for the Middle Pillar work. And keep it sloooow.
@lyamchristopher2393 i got this from Damien Echols. He says breathing is how you move energy. So when you do a visualization, you need to charge it by using breath. For example in the QP ritual when you see the white light above your head you have to breathe energy into it multiple times before you draw it down. Nearly all his instructions are like that. Anyway it's always been rather distracting.
@@Sl4ck0tik Using the breath that way is a form of synesthesia. You can use other sensations to accomplish that, too. Hold your breath and Imagine a broom sweeping across the floor, the hissing sound of the bristles triggering energy to rise up from the Earth in sparkles. Notice how you don't even need to use a physical broom to do that, or to hear a physical sound.
@lyamchristopher2393 thank you for clearing this up for me. I understand if it works for people but Id much rather focus on the visualization and not worrying about did I breathe enough energy into myself to draw a pentagram. It's been a hangup for a while. I'm 20% through your book. I been searching for something that felt right for me to officially start a routine practice. I do believe I've finally found it. Thanks.
The separation of the demon from ourselves in order to objectify it and interact with it reminds me a lot of creation. Loss of oneness with source into separate entities but also just an illusion we seem to be lost in. Sort of as if we are the demons that were summoned so long ago. 🤔
There was once a man who tried to summon a demon. He served under Joan of arc. One day he realized that he was performing all the acts of the demon he was trying to summon. Leading some to believe that he was successful is summoning it.
Amazing video, specially related to the monkey mind. Would love to see some guidance related to "intuition", i have found that the monkey mind talks over loudly and it drowns out intuitive thoughts, i only find out in retoespective once it is too late that my intuition was right all along, of coufse at the time it "did not made sense". Cheers
Some would say that worry shuts down intuition because it shuts down higher brain functions, but I like your description better. The intuition seems to function all the time, in spite of any of it, but it's our ability to notice it that gets shut down.
Hey Lyam, thanks for the video as always. I wanted to ask you a question regarding the magical diary and the way in which I make my entries. I recently started using a very convenient digital tool called Obsidian which makes it very easy to structure and link my notes and journal entries between eachother. It is (in my case) way quicker and more organized than keeping a physical notebook. However something about doing everything on the computer doesn't quite vibe with me, and I was wondering if you had anything to say regarding the importance of writing on paper. Sorry for the long winded question and thanks in advance :) Sebastian
I actually asked him this very question once and he said a digital diary is fine. I didn’t mention Obsidian but that is what I use as well. I have kept paper and digital journals for years, moving back and forth as suits me. While I’ll let Lyam give you the official answer, I would say if it doesn’t feel right to you, then use paper and pen. I have been keeping a digital magical journal for a number of months now with no problem. I like using Obsidian because I can reference my entries on specific rituals in my daily entries. I think in time it may be a very useful software for magical working.
Interesting. Started keeping my notes digitally also, using E-ink devices such as Boox. Very useful in being able to navigate and structure one's thoughts and recall them later with keyword searches via handwriting recognition. The benefits such as being able to take photos of divination readings and occurances and record audio all into a journal makes them overwhelmingly useful... tools. Like yourself I had to grapple with the fact that none of it is tangible. This is the main issue given we are tactile beings as humans, our capacity for sensory enrichment is the envy of even the spirits, some might say. It is the reason why books, vinyl and DVDs will never be replaced by their virtual offspring. Without its grounding.... it feels disconnected, it isn't present. There are also trust issues such as the risk of faulty soft/hardware/updates (lord forbid cloud servers) that gives further toward a lack of control. So IMO... they are tools. In practice I use an E-ink device for its increased function and capabilities there I can edit and refine things for review and input into a tangible journal. One that hosts the smell of incense, blood, sweat and tears of its use over time. Keeping the digital journals printed. The process allows the refined journal to be polished and focused on, improving the act of bringing ones experiences into the material world and grounding one's practice. Hopefully my shared concerns are of some use. Tnks
Part of the practice of journaling involves experiencing how to create a magical talisman. If you use a digital journal, I suggest that you make a physical project at least out of something. Your Compendium of Gods. Your Book of Trees. The optional elemental weapons. Etc.
Are you ok, sir? I noticed your twitter is gone and there was no update this week. It could be just you being busy but you were so consistent with these videos that I got worried
Didn't notice his twitter disappeared. It'll be a shame if he drops his online presence, but at least we got a lot of value out of it while it was here.
@@villainbits If he's deleted twitter I think that's a good sign he's alive, at least. Damien Echols talked about how lecturing on magick brings out crazy people and he's had trouble with stalkers--I wonder if something like that is going on here.
Thanks for the concern. Started Sunday's video but stopped in the middle. Realized it didn't have much takeaway value. Will visit it again next Sunday to see whether it's ready to come out then.
I had a dream about my wife two years before we met. I lived the experience and started believing in something in myself and in the minds of others, or the mind of all. It’s all connected. The beauty of these demons I believe transfers between everyone. I feel I notice the more unspoken demons in the thoughts of others in my own thoughts. I use to be scared, still am scared. Is that fuel I use to free these demons? Being scared.. or is being scared the demon itself? Been having more profound connections lately. Would like to, as another comment said, unclog myself. I’ve only had the feeling of being light once before, after an awful few years of tendonitis in my feet that was psychosomatic. It was just, gone one day. The magic is “stuck” in the literature of the mind. Clung to formation of confusion or the need to understand. Like an endless spiral.
"Or is being scared the demon itself?" That's a good question! One thing I didn't mention--and students will discover this for themselves--is that the trigger image and the reacting image are very likely two different entities. For example, I was being haunted by an SUV (because of acute PTSD from a car accident). One might assume that the SUV that kept slamming into me was the demon that needs to be dealt with, but in truth, it was the cowering, cringing Gollum-like entity within me that came forth to speak. The poor little me that doesn't want to acknowledge that a physical body can be crushed and destroyed.
There’s a New Age practice called “parts work” that is similar to the “evocation lite” practice you taught in a previous video. When I did parts work with a therapist I was to embody the part we were trying to work on, and he dialogued with me. Come to think of it, it was basically invocation or channeling, and I did not have good results. Gives me an appreciation of the circle, banishing, binding etc - all the protective tools in Magick. Some of these New Age / spiritualist integration practices can really be quite dangerous.
I am thankful for your weekly lessons Lyam, this one reminds me of the fishing term “catch and release”, lol, a very helpful and easy to understand lesson, thanks again! 👍
Hello, could you tell me, are there teachers of this material that work on a one on one basis? I was led to the middle pillar just prior to beginning to be able to hear spirits. Unfortunately, there are two beings that are intent on being disruptive. I've been looking for awhile to find someone who would have meaningful direction. It would seem that raising my vibration would be an answer which, as it turns out, appears to correlate with the middle pillar. When i imagine it, these beings project over the image i imagine. Darkening the ball of light. Admittedly, I am not well versed in the golden dawn practices. I was led to the middle pillar and told to invoke it. If you know of groups or individuals that teach or work together, perhaps people who can help with/inform on what I'm experiencing, I would greatly appreciate it.
@lyamchristopher2393 I mean both sounds cool as videos i don't know what divination is really and yes if that's fine by you! You helped me get rid of my fear of abandonment demon and now im free rn now!!!
Do you think one day you could do a video on what to do when it starts to feel like your dying in the magick process that was so terrifying for me wen it happened I was so unprepared
It seems like it's very similar to the Chöd practice of Tibetan buddhism. It is said that the goetic spirits teach various disciplines, whether it is art, philosophy, poetry etc... and I find these pretty interesting, how can you expain this within the psychological framework? if we consider the individuation model, would you say that we reach out to an archetypal force linked to to a specific discipline and start channeling that skill into our own psyche?
Im going to give u all a tip to try! Get ur selves a vintage Violet wand / Tesla coil..Run the charge thru urself & see n feel those Tricksters come n swarm you! they seem to love the frequency/ charge! Another way if outside have just a Tesla coil in hnd not plugged in point skyward & see those billowing spirits make a bee line 4 ya!
Although all these mysteries and wonders don’t necessarily make life more interesting or desirable, these videos are still my favorite, and I know I’ll keep watching them for the rest of my life. Can one deal with other people’s demons? What happens to their karma? Does the magician have to deal with it?
Demons are shared. You might even say that there's a demon that tries to convince you that these things are just all in your head. That you are alone in your anxieties and suffering. That these things are all your fault. Now there's an interesting entity. The demon of modernity. What does it want? What does it really need? And how will it feel when it gets what it needs? 😬
On a recent shroom trip,I looked 'down' with my mind's eye and saw a conglomeration(almost merged together like a many headed entity) of snapping mouths like birds wanting food but more ominous, like they wanted to devour and seemed angry. I'm ok with these kinds of images appearing in an altered state. You mentioned Apophis previously and it reminded me of that (when you mentioned that - it was after that experience and helped me understand it).Given that they are there, besides your very helpful procedure, does the middle pillar affect these in a fruitful way? I tried sending them loving kindness at the time.
Sending someone loving kindness must be understood clearly before attempting to do it in magic. It involves feeling the pain of the entity you are apparently facing. "If love don't hurt, you ain't doin' it right."
Hey Lyam, I remember you saying that it’s hard to stay in a relationship when you start magical work, but I don’t remember which video or which context. Can you help me remember what you were pointing at? Did I imagine you saying that?
The faster you evolve, the faster people might come and go in your life. Can be very painful for a while, I know. The friends you keep are the one's who are able to form new relationships with you as the old one's fall away. So even if you do stay with the same partner, they become someone new on a regular basis. And so do you.
I have an image of a piece of black paper with holes poked in it, and a beam of light shining through. It feels like such a fitting image for the ego during the journey of enlightenment. Everyday, sometimes in spite of ourselves, as we practice and suffer, we poke more and more holes in our piece of paper and it becomes more and more light. My paper shows forth many more rays than it used to…
@@lyamchristopher2393 thanks a lot! I did some goetic evocations,but different opinions between Solomonic magician and demonolatry magician don’t allow me to come to conclusion about Goetia.
Good morning, Brother, I trust you are we. I have a question. Does the Word of the Equinox vary by A.A. lineage, or is there only one? The reason I ask, is because my Superior gave me the Word LORSLQ as the Word of the Equinox, as opposed to KINGS. What are your thoughts?
How beautiful. 🥰 It means "flower." Or "blooming" in Enochian. As you might notice, I say that both of the equinoxes are times of flowering (or manifestation). Manifestation never turns off, it blooms until the universe has exhausted all of its drama. However, looking at the autumnal equinox as a time of disappearance (or going back into unmanifestation) is perfectly fine, and it might have another word attached to it for that apparent function. But I have just pointed out something about the equinoxes that you cannot "un-see" anymore. If there is another word for them, you can just wink at it. 😉
Do we seek the left-handed path? Or do we seek the Left-Handed Path? To be truly Badass is to be suspicious of all the badassery on the left-handed path. Of all the bumps in the roadway. To delve past them and find the demons that give rise to them. To love them and to let them exhaust themselves, dissolving with them, together, into pure bliss. Now that is where almost no one will dare go! Certainly not the angels.
Sorry if this is off-topic but I saw you mention reading skills. I wanted to ask what you think about choosing more literal or more lyrical/poetic translations of old texts? Some examples are NRSV vs KJV, Homer, Confessions, etc.
One of the most common mistakes that new writers make is to assume that it's good enough just to deliver the contents of a message. It's not. Much more important is the effect that the writing has on the reader. And if that is so, then the incantational power of the words is more important than the payload of information unloaded. I would even go further to say that the information is hardly important at all. All that really matters is the transformative effect that writing has on its intended audience. And that makes translation a difficult art. The ability to translate meanings literally has little to do with producing an English version of something that has the same impact as the original rhythm, flow, and swirl of the original text.
I have a question, some philosohies say that the whole universe is but a projection of a cosmic psyche. So if an entity or aspect of our own psyche is conjured, is it possible for them to become actually physiscal? Like crystallized psyche, in a solid form?
Supposedly, it is. I have never seen such a thing though. Spirits tend to manifest in behaviors and events. However, bodily traits can morph over time based on what you are invoking or projecting onto yourself. For example, power-posing on a regular basis raises testosterone, giving men a more confident habitual posture and a bulkier (Mars/Jupiter) physique.
Sir so during the lbrp when we evoke the archaengels, are they also parts of our own psyche . Are the goetic demons whom many evoke monkeys from the depths of the mind. If yes are they common to every man
The demons of the Goetia were put together to meet a demand. There were assembled loosely from legends and nearly forgotten names and images, but mainly in an attempt (1) to make fun of the practice of magic and (2) to sell a "grimoire." But as I've said, even when you try to fool your dream analyst by making up a dream, the stuff you make up is still built up unwittingly from your current obsessions. This means that a made up system of magic, even when it's trying to poke fun at magic, can still end up semi-legit. If you've been following the videos, it should be clear by now that a book of spirits is record of one's OWN attempts at summoning up demons. Note how you can trigger them to arise. Note what energy they are wasting in their blind reactivity. Revalue them, validate them, and set them free from automaticity. That's how they can be made to "serve" you. Are demons personal or collective? You might want to consider how incredibly myopic it is for us to regard our demons as arising from our childhoods, or from some time in this particular lifetime. The most challenging ones are inherited from the collective unconscious, and they're a billion or more years old. We might say, then, that the Goetia is a lazy way of summoning spirits--for people who haven't done the inner work. It's also a Colonialist's vision of magic. Moving into the territory of the unconscious, enslaving the native inhabitants, and putting them to work in our (practical magic) "factories."
Too big a topic to comment on as you ask. But I suspect you are talking about the duality of good, pure souls trapped in an evil, impure world? That dichotomy, as the LBRP demon-strates, can be skillfully utilized.
@@jakesmith3920 It is already being utilized, isn't it. The point then would to become aware of the process and take the reins. The garden is already growing wild, so become a gardener.
What would you say was the significance of Jesus (who I see as a magician) casting the legion of demons out but then them entering swine that became suicidal?
Dear sir I have a question. I am a hindu and i have heard a very experienced tantric say that when he started serious chanting of mantras of a specific diety, he was once visited by a simple black figure while he was in his bed awake and it just stayed there. Later it went away. What do you think of this. In hindu lore when a diety mantra is chanted voraciously over a period of time, the ganas of the deity start visiting you. What can you say about this.
Had a similar experience. A robed figure appeared as I was between waking and sleep and looked towards me and said "A more legitimate Ephestria" then disappeared. I tried looking up the word "ephestria" and got results about a greek festival honoring a mythic greek figure that lived as a man, became a woman after a curse from a god, then became a man again equipped with the knowledge of what it's like to be a woman. I think the robed figure was alluding to something about the centering effect of the LBRP and middle pillar practice.
I would love to say that this is a deity, but think about it. What is the boogeyman? There is an unresolved confrontation, and it involves a man visiting you in your sleep, holding you down so you can't move. He's much stronger than you are. You are small and weak. Such apparitions can visit you and simply sit there, giving you a chance to dialogue with them and let them go. They won't necessarily attack. These scenarios are burned into cell memory, and they might not indicate childhood sexual abuse (or worse) that happened in this life. They can also represent kidnapping (children were often stolen and taken into slavery). They've been going on for millennia, and they resurface as very old "grudges" that are asking to be resolved somehow. These apparitions came to me in the form of animal predators. Another kind of trauma--especially for children--involves being attached by a predator in your sleep. Probably a phantom remnant of bears and saber-tooth tigers. Also, snake bites! 😬
@@lyamchristopher2393sir so is all the invocations that people do for various goetic demons and other already existing demon or angel names actually monkies in their own depths. If yes is mantra chanting also a way to get them to appear before one
@@lyamchristopher2393so sir is all the invocation done for goetic demons and angels actually monkeys from the depths of the mind being brought to appearance. If yes is mantra chanting a way of bringing them out
Tell someone you found oil or gold on your land or somewhere they're not already mining or drilling. Or, you could say you have ten million dollars to donate to their campaigns
Not an adept, but if you have lots of experience with a system that uses circles you're probably ok to do the full ritual version. Even with no experience it's probably ok to do the light version. Be warned that anything that brings results also brings at least a tiny amount of risk and danger.
@@dakotahsimonson631 for this specifically, it can just stir up powerful emotions. I'm a man in my mid 30s who is ex military, and I was in tears after my first time doing the light version.
@bw3372 ohhh thank u for your service!! that's hard core .... I only have a ton of past child hood trauma tho I got over a ton of it with his technique I resolved alot tho that was years ago when I found his Medium account
@@lyamchristopher2393 Yes exactly. I think it relates closely to what you described in the video when talking about magic circles, about how by identifying as yourself you already formed a bubble around yourself, separation between you and the demon you are conjuring. I figure that tulpae probably work the same way principally
@@victormutunga2944 There are all kinds of sacred tulpas out there in our collective hypnosis, aren't there? You can play up some of them and downplay others to achieve "results," affecting others around you in magical ways. My various personas are also tulpas. The most frightening one of all is the one I think of as "me."
Beyond my ability to answer, but you might want to consider that we can define ego as unconscious and compulsive. When its unconsciousness and compulsiveness is gone, it is no longer ego. Just persona. But the persona won't survive either, apparently. Survival never really was the concern. Immortality is only an obsession of mortal beings. Beings such as egos and personas. What we are is not them. And what we are can only be settled into, not directly looked at.
@@lyamchristopher2393 I originally came across the idea from damien echoes video on the ouroboros and reincarnation where he posed the idea (at least what i think he was saying ) that you can overcome reincarnation by the creation of the body of light thus preserving your "I" and so you will be able to actively not walk into the mouth of the leviathan/ouroboros which is the method reincarnation uses and so would become a Christ like being able to choose fate and pour yourself into a universe like god did with this one "if you wanted too" maybe this is all metaphor that i took literally. also he was saying karma isnt a factor for a magician because the goal isnt to gain more karma and be reincarnated upon that good karma but the Transend the system of samsara. without the persona and ego what are we. are we nature like a tree but thinking we are special. and after the ego and persona are dissolved are we a universe or nothing. i think i do need to do more studying and practice so i can perceive these concepts directly
@@lyamchristopher2393 I originally came across the idea from damien echoes video on the ouroboros and reincarnation where he posed the idea (at least what i think he was saying ) that u can overcome reincarnation by the creation of the body of light thus preserving your "I" and so u will be able to actively not walk into the mouth of the leviathan/ouroboros which is the method reincarnation uses and so would become a Christ like being able to choose fate and pour yourself into a universe like god did with this one "if u wanted too" maybe this is all metaphor that i took literally. also he was saying karma isnt a factor for a magician because the goal isnt to gain more karma and be reincarnated upon that good karma but the Transend the system of samsara. without the persona and ego what are we. are we nature like a tree but thinking we are special. and after the ego and persona are dissolved are we a universe or nothing. i think i do need to do more studying and practice so i can perceive these concepts directly
Straight off the bat you say “supposedly opposing forces”. Isn’t this a huge demotivator for magic? Also, any take on the SRA DID lore? It’s the whole shebang about how victims of (satanic) ritual abuse have repressed the memories and the dissociation created alters that perpetuate the occult activities without their “presenter personalities” being aware of it. Could it be that you have deeply occult alters/aspects/parts that have a good laugh at the you that tries to scratch the surface of magick? Do you find yourself missing time?
In the theater of the imagination, the supposedly opposing forces are still there, and they are still playing out a drama in which they appear to oppose each other. They are still on display so that something about them can be appreciated. There is your motivation. Now go and appreciate whatever that is. They don't call it the Mysteries for nothing. Remember that the drama of art is the place to which we try to banish magic to convince ourselves that magic isn't real. How stupid of me to have ever fallen for that lie. And when I wake up from that escapist tactic, I don't wake up FROM a dream. We wake up TO it!
I've played around with watching a video without an a d - b l o c k e r. Only got one ad. How is it that some people get multiple ads and others get only one? A new mystery to ponder.
Tempting us with a good time! How'd you know this was on the mind?? I'm here for it, sir! 4:00 an oft heard advice from fond rigorous astrology as well as flighty manifestation circles that has me immaturely patient and snide, through no fault of your channel as a rigorous intensive esoterics teacher! If demons will serve, as they did Solomon...hey, good call linking Allione! I think there is no prescriptive solution in The Raven when it's likely intended to show what goes awry! Wait, what? I'm here because of literature and various arts. I know I didn't come here to debate the ontology (?) or veracity of magic or lived inner experience. Wasn't Yeats himself a member of the Golden Dawn?
Thanks for the love. 😘 The storm passed by, far to the West. We had some rain and some 30-mile-per-hour gusts. That's all. The Panhandle and states north of that got it worse.
I'm relieved that you are okay! I live in the Metro ATL, and apart from the toxic gas from that explosion, we managed to avoid the worst of the hurricane. My heart aches for those who weren't as fortunate. Anyway, I'm just really glad that you are safe!
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Sometimes it's hard to get through these videos because half way through I want to get up and go do some ritual work
ALL IS MIND, MIND KNOWS ALL.
The more I learn about magic, the more convinced I am that Carl Jung was doing it in The Red Book.
Well, yeah. Astonishing how he somehow achieved an air of legitimacy. How'd he do that in the modern world? A true magician!
@@lyamchristopher2393 How can demons be manifestations of our traumas? That doesn't make sense to me.
Baal, Astarte, ect were gods before the jews/christians framed them to "demons" as they went against the Yahwist cult's claim of "one God". "God" was just another god among many.
@@lyamchristopher2393 But you say so as if the air of legitimacy is all he achieved implying he was not a legitimate seeker/scholar? I'm curious as to the downplaying of Jung whereas Freud is almost defied in some quarters unexpectedly, when he wasn't busy doing coke or formulating his otherwise legitimate to a degree, id-ego-superego theory...
@@lyamchristopher2393 I didn't think about this!
@@flameone4705 Wrong context. This is not a scholarly discussion about the origin of the word "demon," but we could talk about that if we wanted to. Let's leave that to other channels and then get back to the experiential context of demons. Besides, when a Jew or a Christian hates someone from another culture, its because that person has triggered a primordial image of some kind of fear from their deep evolutionary past. A repressed primordial image of a horned and fanged predator, a violent natural force, or a troublesome and evil temptress.
Just watching your video. I must have unconsciously summoned a demon many years ago, then I married her. Eventually we exorcised each other and got divorced. I've found the best way to overcome bad experiences is to maintain a sense of humour. As my ex-father's dreadful experiences in France in WW2 went into his book, 'Fear is the Foe's, to exorcise his 'ghosts'. We remained firm friends till he died. Thank you for bringing back a memory by means of your Great Work. Warmest regards from 🇬🇧
🥰 Humor is a devastatingly serious matter. That's why it's to funny.
When you say "your" Great Work, you are keeping the Great Work at bay, outside your magic circle. Sounds like you are already engaged in the Great Work, conjuring things outside your magic circle. Aren't we all! And when we can see that, we can try to fight it and keep it from happening (suffering) or jump into it with gusto (bliss).
@@lyamchristopher2393 I take your point but you are doing great work for your students who need someone with your teaching talents. I've met many experienced and knowledgeable teachers but they couldn't relate as you do. They fumble about trying to pull 'a tortoise's head out of its shell' so it can progress instead of building up its trust allowing it to stick its neck out without fear. I don't think you realise you have the natural talent of trust. It's just an opinion, but your students have one hell of a teacher in you. They are very lucky. You even take the time to read their comments. Most teachers do not have the dedication.. warmest regards from 🇬🇧
This video definitely lifted many blinds surrounding this method of self-purification as always thank you so much!
Just tried the "light" version of this process in the magical journal, summoning something silly for practice, the slight anxiety of making sure you get everything you need in a trip to the grocery store.
Ended up being a surprisingly deep dialogue about conscientiousness and reliability, I'm kind of floored by it. I think I see why the full ritual version of this isn't recommended for beginners.
"Question: How may I call on you again? Answer: Rising to the occasion is my name. When you do I am already with you."
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22 minutes in and I questioned "why does he have two microphones?" only to realise the bottom mic was your knee haha.
Watching the rest, I realise you were already telling me the questions in your last video. I'm not sure I'm ready to conjure this thing. I already have a forgiveness ritual to do (yes, I have to ritualise forgiveness, specifically for things from the past), but how you describe the conjuring of these demons, this almost sounds like shadow work. Almost like the only thing that feels like it's missing, is treating this demon like an unloved child, and ultimately loving it. Very interesting, I'm keeping this video bookmarked for a later date. Thank you for this teaching today, sir.
The demon might manifest as a child, but it is not just a child. Nor is it "just" a demon." Or a "just" a psychological complex.
Finally "the no lyam videos sunday" came after 10 months 💔
Sorry, my dear. Started filming the video when I realized there wasn't any clear takeaway value. Stewing over it. Let's see what emerges next Sunday.
@@lyamchristopher2393I cannot wait for it! happy to see you're safe and sound.
@@lyamchristopher2393 I thought it had something to do with the Hurricane. I hope you were able to stay safe and weren't hit too hard with the Hurricane. Maybe the timing will be better next Sunday for a video.
In the meantime, I have been re-watching some of the older videos. Quite remarkable how revisiting some of these videos unearths meanings I missed the first time through.
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In acknowledgment of the the beauty of the whole matter.
Few hours before having watched this video, I was in bed, trying to sleep again (after being crudely woken by some matter) / (slightly affected by a few puffs of the devil's lettuce to aid me back to sleep - 'I know, I know'), and out of the blue I visualized the LBRP after quite a while out of practice - and then for some reason the mind showed up a quasi-infinite amount of demons governing various 'departments' of the mind - chose one to converse with - and while I don't recall the whole process, I felt like I have 'instinctively' learnt and understood something of practical value.
I understood this video before I watched this video.
I don't recall the conversation with said demon, but I do remember compassion being very much present, and now I feel very very light (while going through some tough process) and 'unclogged'.
I do recall, though, the demon transforming into a frog, chilling on the terrace playin' the good old banjo.
it would be hilarious if this video got like 3 Billion Views out of nowhere.
I find this a fascinating topic, it is unfortunate that the youtube lhp / goetia crowd has made a right joke of it.
But on a more personal note, I used to have recurring nightmares, about something chasing me and me unable to speak or scream. This lasted until my early thirties. Then things happened that made me examine myself and my life a lot closer, and then one night I saw what was chasing me or who was chasing me, because I turned around to look at it. So you could say that I faced that demon because I never had that nightmare ever again.
I experienced that as well. Night terrors... shadow man terrorizing me every night... all thru my childhood and early adulthood... always chasing me thru dark, abandoned, haunted places. Then, too, in my early thirties, I was having the same old dream, but in this one, I got angry, and I swung around and yelled out 'I AM THE DARKNESS', and the shadow man retreated, shrieking like a ghoul and never returned.
@@darkwyzard fascinating how this works, it seems that once you stop being afraid it loses all power over you
Good example. The demon might reconstitute and "come back." Or not. If it does come back, the feeling will be different, won't it? The hostile spirit has become a "familiar spirit."
"Fear is failure," says the Hierus.
@@lyamchristopher2393 For years what I thought was a giant monster of unknown origin chasing me in dreams, turned out to be something rather small and pathetic looking. Something that was just impossible to be afraid of, so much so that I almost felt a strange pity for it. But if those dreams had never happened, I would not have gotten to know something profound about myself and my own life. So you could say that I ought to be thanking the demon, it did me a service.
Another great video. Thank you Lyam, for taking the time to share your knowledge. I'm currently listening to an audiobook about inherited family trauma called "It didn't Start With You". The synchronicity is much appreciated.
I was so excited for this video can’t wait to make peace with my demons
this video is the first time I've seen the thaumaturgic triangle as an image of a path stretching backwards into infinity (converging at the top point) and I think that fits quite nicely with the idea of spirits approaching you from outside your circle
Thanks for this new video, Lyam! These talks are always a treat ❤
I think that "The Raven" poem was Poe talking about his regrets and bad memories.
and the reason why I believe this, is because of a quote that goes......“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago." - Nietzsche
"only this and nothing more" seems to pertain to ideas or regrets and bad memories.
The demon "Nevermore" is clearly Saturnian in that it represents finality. Mortality. It is also a demon of superficiality. "Darkness there, and nothing more." Is there ever really nothing more than what we see?
How do we find therapists who are enlightened like you 😩😩😩
I sympathize. We can reach a point in the Work where we notice that no one around us seems to have a clear perspective that's free of cultural hypnosis. But does that really matter so much? My physician tends to give outdated, orthodox (misguided) medical advice...but I like that. I can rely on her to do that. Do Have to listen to her? No. Same goes for a mental health counselor.
Never turn your health or your whole life over to a professional (unless you're undergoing surgery or some other crisis-intervention procedure). Professionals are useful merely as professionals, nothing more.
You can always ask, point blank, whether the therapist is open-minded in the face of unorthodox spiritual practices (such as Tibetan Tantra or Wicca). And even if you end up with a therapist who gives "bad" advice, that situation can be enlightening when examined.
I remember one time i was doing breathing exercises while trying to sleep and I had a vision out of nowhere I had a vision of the devil from the passion of the Christ which traumatized me as a kid. Kept me up a few hours longer.
Ah, yes. Mel Gibson's torture-porn fantasy. Every time we suffer, there's an opportunity to see that the suffering is "much ado about nothing." That opportunity is golden, to be sure, but once one has seen past it, the suffering becomes a kind of blind. A kind of pornography for the ego. We stroke ourselves with our suffering in an endless round of foreplay before "getting it off with God."
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I've caught myself doing that a couple of times.
I found my way to the great work through literature. It's like there are golden threads woven in with the rest of the tale.
There always are golden threads. Even in cheap imitations of the Mysteries--like in the rock band Whitesnake. 😉
Haha, yep. The worst kept secret in creation is that magic is everywhere and in everything, you just have to learn to see it.
Oh my goodness.. my depression is my friend. Sometimes my friend does stand over me, reminding me I must stand up or I will be stuck under them.
That would be a familiar spirit, then, not necessarily a "demon." No difference really, except for the familiarity part. Can a magician escape from bouts of melancholy and simply be happy forever? Of course not. It's simply the "poor me" within that melancholy that dies. The melancholy becomes a welcome friend who visits from time to time. You might even say that melancholy is an antidote for hubris. As is laughter. And that's why laughing and crying are so similar.
I was looking forward to this for some reason, I haven't watched it yet but wanted to note that at the exact time this was uploaded I got out of a vivid dream/nightmare, I wanted to get up and write on my diary what I experienced so I opened my eyes and wanted to turn on the light, but I started getting pulled away from it, I wasnt actually awake, I was in a sleep paralysis. I eventually got up and tried to write my dream but the ink in the expensive pen that I just bought last week dried out, almost as if something was trying its best to stop me from writing the dream.
This was pretty frightening, the sleep paralysis I'm kinda used to, but the new pen refusing to write on the diary (it worked on other paper) and then this video getting uploaded are very strong synchronicities.
It kind of makes me doubt, if I should keep trying to write how the dream ended or "respect" what happened and just leave it unwritten and instead meditate on the whole experience...
In the end I strongly doubt I'll ever forget it now anyways.
Alright now that I watched it, no comment
The ability to write freely about something requires that you observe the interpretation you've written without being attached to it. You might write about the same experience tomorrow, and the interpretation will be different. That kind of freedom can restore ink to your pen.
Very well spoken you truly know the truth
i really enjoy these thank you please keep doing these
If a Demon asks if you like apples, just don’t answer the question, duh.
Hey! Loving these videos. You're really talented at explaining things clearly. I wish I'd got your book when I first saw. Would have probably saved me a lot of wasted time.
Can you address something I must have really gotten burden with?
My understanding is when doing visualization and "energy work" like drawing pentagram during the lbrp that you have to breathe in energy see it balled up then see it releasing out into the air as you draw?
Is this not accurate? Can I simply just visualize and not involve all this breathing. It has really overwhelmed me trying to focus so hard on breathing.
In your book I just read the LBRP you give and it didn't mention the breathing, with you very obviously knowing what you're talking about it feel like I've been over thinking this part and it's not even needed at all?
Can I simply just visualize? I'd absolutely love it if that is the case. Breathing so much during all these rituals in the past slowed me way way down.
Not sure where you got the breathing thing. It is best to breathe very little almost all the time. Save the breathing for the Middle Pillar work. And keep it sloooow.
@lyamchristopher2393 i got this from Damien Echols. He says breathing is how you move energy. So when you do a visualization, you need to charge it by using breath.
For example in the QP ritual when you see the white light above your head you have to breathe energy into it multiple times before you draw it down.
Nearly all his instructions are like that.
Anyway it's always been rather distracting.
@@Sl4ck0tik Using the breath that way is a form of synesthesia. You can use other sensations to accomplish that, too. Hold your breath and Imagine a broom sweeping across the floor, the hissing sound of the bristles triggering energy to rise up from the Earth in sparkles. Notice how you don't even need to use a physical broom to do that, or to hear a physical sound.
@lyamchristopher2393 thank you for clearing this up for me. I understand if it works for people but Id much rather focus on the visualization and not worrying about did I breathe enough energy into myself to draw a pentagram. It's been a hangup for a while.
I'm 20% through your book. I been searching for something that felt right for me to officially start a routine practice. I do believe I've finally found it. Thanks.
The separation of the demon from ourselves in order to objectify it and interact with it reminds me a lot of creation. Loss of oneness with source into separate entities but also just an illusion we seem to be lost in. Sort of as if we are the demons that were summoned so long ago. 🤔
There was once a man who tried to summon a demon. He served under Joan of arc. One day he realized that he was performing all the acts of the demon he was trying to summon. Leading some to believe that he was successful is summoning it.
Bingo! (And a chill rises up the spine.)
Batman. :)
Amazing video, specially related to the monkey mind.
Would love to see some guidance related to "intuition", i have found that the monkey mind talks over loudly and it drowns out intuitive thoughts, i only find out in retoespective once it is too late that my intuition was right all along, of coufse at the time it "did not made sense".
Cheers
Some would say that worry shuts down intuition because it shuts down higher brain functions, but I like your description better. The intuition seems to function all the time, in spite of any of it, but it's our ability to notice it that gets shut down.
happy equinox all!
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Hey Lyam, thanks for the video as always.
I wanted to ask you a question regarding the magical diary and the way in which I make my entries. I recently started using a very convenient digital tool called Obsidian which makes it very easy to structure and link my notes and journal entries between eachother. It is (in my case) way quicker and more organized than keeping a physical notebook. However something about doing everything on the computer doesn't quite vibe with me, and I was wondering if you had anything to say regarding the importance of writing on paper. Sorry for the long winded question and thanks in advance :)
Sebastian
I actually asked him this very question once and he said a digital diary is fine. I didn’t mention Obsidian but that is what I use as well. I have kept paper and digital journals for years, moving back and forth as suits me.
While I’ll let Lyam give you the official answer, I would say if it doesn’t feel right to you, then use paper and pen. I have been keeping a digital magical journal for a number of months now with no problem. I like using Obsidian because I can reference my entries on specific rituals in my daily entries. I think in time it may be a very useful software for magical working.
Interesting. Started keeping my notes digitally also, using E-ink devices such as Boox. Very useful in being able to navigate and structure one's thoughts and recall them later with keyword searches via handwriting recognition. The benefits such as being able to take photos of divination readings and occurances and record audio all into a journal makes them overwhelmingly useful... tools.
Like yourself I had to grapple with the fact that none of it is tangible. This is the main issue given we are tactile beings as humans, our capacity for sensory enrichment is the envy of even the spirits, some might say. It is the reason why books, vinyl and DVDs will never be replaced by their virtual offspring. Without its grounding.... it feels disconnected, it isn't present.
There are also trust issues such as the risk of faulty soft/hardware/updates (lord forbid cloud servers) that gives further toward a lack of control.
So IMO... they are tools.
In practice I use an E-ink device for its increased function and capabilities there I can edit and refine things for review and input into a tangible journal. One that hosts the smell of incense, blood, sweat and tears of its use over time. Keeping the digital journals printed. The process allows the refined journal to be polished and focused on, improving the act of bringing ones experiences into the material world and grounding one's practice.
Hopefully my shared concerns are of some use.
Tnks
Part of the practice of journaling involves experiencing how to create a magical talisman. If you use a digital journal, I suggest that you make a physical project at least out of something. Your Compendium of Gods. Your Book of Trees. The optional elemental weapons. Etc.
14:00 Profound!
Are you ok, sir? I noticed your twitter is gone and there was no update this week. It could be just you being busy but you were so consistent with these videos that I got worried
Didn't notice his twitter disappeared. It'll be a shame if he drops his online presence, but at least we got a lot of value out of it while it was here.
@@bw3372nooo
I hope he be too busy having fun somewhere and come back
@@bw3372 True but I got so invested that I really hope he's ok
@@villainbits If he's deleted twitter I think that's a good sign he's alive, at least. Damien Echols talked about how lecturing on magick brings out crazy people and he's had trouble with stalkers--I wonder if something like that is going on here.
Thanks for the concern. Started Sunday's video but stopped in the middle. Realized it didn't have much takeaway value. Will visit it again next Sunday to see whether it's ready to come out then.
this reminds me of teal swan's "parts work".
This video is excellent! It's much needed. Thank you! 🥹
This is very inspiring and makes me want to pick up my paintbrush again and create.
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I had a dream about my wife two years before we met. I lived the experience and started believing in something in myself and in the minds of others, or the mind of all. It’s all connected. The beauty of these demons I believe transfers between everyone. I feel I notice the more unspoken demons in the thoughts of others in my own thoughts. I use to be scared, still am scared. Is that fuel I use to free these demons? Being scared.. or is being scared the demon itself? Been having more profound connections lately. Would like to, as another comment said, unclog myself. I’ve only had the feeling of being light once before, after an awful few years of tendonitis in my feet that was psychosomatic. It was just, gone one day. The magic is “stuck” in the literature of the mind. Clung to formation of confusion or the need to understand. Like an endless spiral.
"Or is being scared the demon itself?" That's a good question! One thing I didn't mention--and students will discover this for themselves--is that the trigger image and the reacting image are very likely two different entities. For example, I was being haunted by an SUV (because of acute PTSD from a car accident). One might assume that the SUV that kept slamming into me was the demon that needs to be dealt with, but in truth, it was the cowering, cringing Gollum-like entity within me that came forth to speak. The poor little me that doesn't want to acknowledge that a physical body can be crushed and destroyed.
There’s a New Age practice called “parts work” that is similar to the “evocation lite” practice you taught in a previous video.
When I did parts work with a therapist I was to embody the part we were trying to work on, and he dialogued with me. Come to think of it, it was basically invocation or channeling, and I did not have good results.
Gives me an appreciation of the circle, banishing, binding etc - all the protective tools in Magick.
Some of these New Age / spiritualist integration practices can really be quite dangerous.
I am thankful for your weekly lessons Lyam, this one reminds me of the fishing term “catch and release”, lol, a very helpful and easy to understand lesson, thanks again! 👍
Hello, could you tell me, are there teachers of this material that work on a one on one basis? I was led to the middle pillar just prior to beginning to be able to hear spirits. Unfortunately, there are two beings that are intent on being disruptive. I've been looking for awhile to find someone who would have meaningful direction. It would seem that raising my vibration would be an answer which, as it turns out, appears to correlate with the middle pillar.
When i imagine it, these beings project over the image i imagine. Darkening the ball of light.
Admittedly, I am not well versed in the golden dawn practices. I was led to the middle pillar and told to invoke it.
If you know of groups or individuals that teach or work together, perhaps people who can help with/inform on what I'm experiencing, I would greatly appreciate it.
This was soo helpful also can u do a video on the art of reading? Or how you read? As a magician?
Reading? As in reading books? I spent years as a learning specialist focused on reading skills. Or do you mean reading via divination?
@lyamchristopher2393 I mean both sounds cool as videos i don't know what divination is really and yes if that's fine by you! You helped me get rid of my fear of abandonment demon and now im free rn now!!!
@@lyamchristopher2393 do u have this on medium?
Do you think one day you could do a video on what to do when it starts to feel like your dying in the magick process that was so terrifying for me wen it happened I was so unprepared
TY brother ❤️🔥
It seems like it's very similar to the Chöd practice of Tibetan buddhism.
It is said that the goetic spirits teach various disciplines, whether it is art, philosophy, poetry etc... and I find these pretty interesting, how can you expain this within the psychological framework? if we consider the individuation model, would you say that we reach out to an archetypal force linked to to a specific discipline and start channeling that skill into our own psyche?
Those last five minutes.
You weren’t kidding
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Powerful words
Im going to give u all a tip to try! Get ur selves a vintage Violet wand / Tesla coil..Run the charge thru urself & see n feel those Tricksters come n swarm you! they seem to love the frequency/ charge! Another way if outside have just a Tesla coil in hnd not plugged in point skyward & see those billowing spirits make a bee line 4 ya!
Short Answer: Ask your exes to come over.
Although all these mysteries and wonders don’t necessarily make life more interesting or desirable, these videos are still my favorite, and I know I’ll keep watching them for the rest of my life.
Can one deal with other people’s demons? What happens to their karma? Does the magician have to deal with it?
Demons are shared. You might even say that there's a demon that tries to convince you that these things are just all in your head. That you are alone in your anxieties and suffering. That these things are all your fault. Now there's an interesting entity. The demon of modernity. What does it want? What does it really need? And how will it feel when it gets what it needs? 😬
If Altering the fabric of your reality isn't desirable, what is it?
@@magicmarcell lyam would say:
✨ enlightenment ✨
@@magicmarcell to me it used to be
But it was a trap.
@@saraa2216 I get that and feel for you in that regard, but seriously- what is it?
On a recent shroom trip,I looked 'down' with my mind's eye and saw a conglomeration(almost merged together like a many headed entity) of snapping mouths like birds wanting food but more ominous, like they wanted to devour and seemed angry. I'm ok with these kinds of images appearing in an altered state. You mentioned Apophis previously and it reminded me of that (when you mentioned that - it was after that experience and helped me understand it).Given that they are there, besides your very helpful procedure, does the middle pillar affect these in a fruitful way? I tried sending them loving kindness at the time.
Sending someone loving kindness must be understood clearly before attempting to do it in magic. It involves feeling the pain of the entity you are apparently facing. "If love don't hurt, you ain't doin' it right."
Hey Lyam, I remember you saying that it’s hard to stay in a relationship when you start magical work, but I don’t remember which video or which context. Can you help me remember what you were pointing at? Did I imagine you saying that?
The faster you evolve, the faster people might come and go in your life. Can be very painful for a while, I know. The friends you keep are the one's who are able to form new relationships with you as the old one's fall away. So even if you do stay with the same partner, they become someone new on a regular basis. And so do you.
@@lyamchristopher2393 I see. Thank you!! Any chance you remember what video you mentioned this idea in?
The one named evil 😕
@@saraa2216 thank you!
How do I find Forbidden Realms?
That's the evil paywalled blog, available in all video descriptions. The subscription cost is your immortal soul. 😉
I have an image of a piece of black paper with holes poked in it, and a beam of light shining through. It feels like such a fitting image for the ego during the journey of enlightenment.
Everyday, sometimes in spite of ourselves, as we practice and suffer, we poke more and more holes in our piece of paper and it becomes more and more light.
My paper shows forth many more rays than it used to…
But has anyone ever told you that it’s possible that black holes don’t exist.
"I see your true colors shining through..." 🥰
@@nerobaal6655 Let us ever bare in mind that we’ve come to fulfill the Divine game, not to deny it. ❤️
@@dustincaldwell2354 I am God.
@@nerobaal6655 One has to wonder if such a declaration is affirmation or escapism. Regardless, I bid you good luck on your journey.
What about Goetia’s spirits or demons? Could you talk about them,this topic is so diverse.
Good idea!
@@lyamchristopher2393 thanks a lot! I did some goetic evocations,but different opinions between Solomonic magician and demonolatry magician don’t allow me to come to conclusion about Goetia.
Good morning, Brother, I trust you are we. I have a question. Does the Word of the Equinox vary by A.A. lineage, or is there only one? The reason I ask, is because my Superior gave me the Word LORSLQ as the Word of the Equinox, as opposed to KINGS. What are your thoughts?
How beautiful. 🥰 It means "flower." Or "blooming" in Enochian. As you might notice, I say that both of the equinoxes are times of flowering (or manifestation). Manifestation never turns off, it blooms until the universe has exhausted all of its drama.
However, looking at the autumnal equinox as a time of disappearance (or going back into unmanifestation) is perfectly fine, and it might have another word attached to it for that apparent function. But I have just pointed out something about the equinoxes that you cannot "un-see" anymore. If there is another word for them, you can just wink at it. 😉
@@lyamchristopher2393 thank you so much ❤
Dear sir
What is your take on the left hand path.Also do you know any authentic sources of left hand path teachings
Do we seek the left-handed path? Or do we seek the Left-Handed Path? To be truly Badass is to be suspicious of all the badassery on the left-handed path. Of all the bumps in the roadway. To delve past them and find the demons that give rise to them. To love them and to let them exhaust themselves, dissolving with them, together, into pure bliss.
Now that is where almost no one will dare go! Certainly not the angels.
Sorry if this is off-topic but I saw you mention reading skills. I wanted to ask what you think about choosing more literal or more lyrical/poetic translations of old texts? Some examples are NRSV vs KJV, Homer, Confessions, etc.
One of the most common mistakes that new writers make is to assume that it's good enough just to deliver the contents of a message. It's not. Much more important is the effect that the writing has on the reader. And if that is so, then the incantational power of the words is more important than the payload of information unloaded. I would even go further to say that the information is hardly important at all. All that really matters is the transformative effect that writing has on its intended audience. And that makes translation a difficult art. The ability to translate meanings literally has little to do with producing an English version of something that has the same impact as the original rhythm, flow, and swirl of the original text.
Thank you
I have a question, some philosohies say that the whole universe is but a projection of a cosmic psyche. So if an entity or aspect of our own psyche is conjured, is it possible for them to become actually physiscal? Like crystallized psyche, in a solid form?
Supposedly, it is. I have never seen such a thing though. Spirits tend to manifest in behaviors and events. However, bodily traits can morph over time based on what you are invoking or projecting onto yourself. For example, power-posing on a regular basis raises testosterone, giving men a more confident habitual posture and a bulkier (Mars/Jupiter) physique.
Sir so during the lbrp when we evoke the archaengels, are they also parts of our own psyche . Are the goetic demons whom many evoke monkeys from the depths of the mind. If yes are they common to every man
The demons of the Goetia were put together to meet a demand. There were assembled loosely from legends and nearly forgotten names and images, but mainly in an attempt (1) to make fun of the practice of magic and (2) to sell a "grimoire." But as I've said, even when you try to fool your dream analyst by making up a dream, the stuff you make up is still built up unwittingly from your current obsessions. This means that a made up system of magic, even when it's trying to poke fun at magic, can still end up semi-legit.
If you've been following the videos, it should be clear by now that a book of spirits is record of one's OWN attempts at summoning up demons. Note how you can trigger them to arise. Note what energy they are wasting in their blind reactivity. Revalue them, validate them, and set them free from automaticity. That's how they can be made to "serve" you.
Are demons personal or collective? You might want to consider how incredibly myopic it is for us to regard our demons as arising from our childhoods, or from some time in this particular lifetime. The most challenging ones are inherited from the collective unconscious, and they're a billion or more years old.
We might say, then, that the Goetia is a lazy way of summoning spirits--for people who haven't done the inner work. It's also a Colonialist's vision of magic. Moving into the territory of the unconscious, enslaving the native inhabitants, and putting them to work in our (practical magic) "factories."
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I know it's a bit of a curve ball but from listing to your perspective on demons it makes me wonder what's your opinion on gnosticism
Too big a topic to comment on as you ask. But I suspect you are talking about the duality of good, pure souls trapped in an evil, impure world? That dichotomy, as the LBRP demon-strates, can be skillfully utilized.
@@lyamchristopher2393 yes that's exactly what I was thinking. How can this duality be utilised?
@@jakesmith3920 It is already being utilized, isn't it. The point then would to become aware of the process and take the reins. The garden is already growing wild, so become a gardener.
@@lyamchristopher2393 ah ok I understand. The garden exists anyway . If you tend to it or not it's up to you
What would you say was the significance of Jesus (who I see as a magician) casting the legion of demons out but then them entering swine that became suicidal?
Jesus was also a suicide.
Legion often has dominion of demons.
The demons are mortal. The person is too, but only in his or her animal aspect.
😮 Hey, he kinda was a suicide. The joke's on him, then. 🤣
Dear sir
I have a question. I am a hindu and i have heard a very experienced tantric say that when he started serious chanting of mantras of a specific diety, he was once visited by a simple black figure while he was in his bed awake and it just stayed there. Later it went away. What do you think of this. In hindu lore when a diety mantra is chanted voraciously over a period of time, the ganas of the deity start visiting you. What can you say about this.
Had a similar experience. A robed figure appeared as I was between waking and sleep and looked towards me and said "A more legitimate Ephestria" then disappeared. I tried looking up the word "ephestria" and got results about a greek festival honoring a mythic greek figure that lived as a man, became a woman after a curse from a god, then became a man again equipped with the knowledge of what it's like to be a woman.
I think the robed figure was alluding to something about the centering effect of the LBRP and middle pillar practice.
I would love to say that this is a deity, but think about it. What is the boogeyman? There is an unresolved confrontation, and it involves a man visiting you in your sleep, holding you down so you can't move. He's much stronger than you are. You are small and weak.
Such apparitions can visit you and simply sit there, giving you a chance to dialogue with them and let them go. They won't necessarily attack.
These scenarios are burned into cell memory, and they might not indicate childhood sexual abuse (or worse) that happened in this life. They can also represent kidnapping (children were often stolen and taken into slavery). They've been going on for millennia, and they resurface as very old "grudges" that are asking to be resolved somehow.
These apparitions came to me in the form of animal predators. Another kind of trauma--especially for children--involves being attached by a predator in your sleep. Probably a phantom remnant of bears and saber-tooth tigers. Also, snake bites! 😬
@@lyamchristopher2393sir so is all the invocations that people do for various goetic demons and other already existing demon or angel names actually monkies in their own depths. If yes is mantra chanting also a way to get them to appear before one
@@lyamchristopher2393so sir is all the invocation done for goetic demons and angels actually monkeys from the depths of the mind being brought to appearance. If yes is mantra chanting a way of bringing them out
ok,
they walk on regardless
Malphas is a goetic demon that resembles a raven.
🙏😊 thank you
Thanks for the SPOILERS, Liam 😂
Usually I hear, "Dude! Like that movie is so old, man." 😂
Hahah I did watch the movie, I meant the "you're the demon" part. :))
Tell someone you found oil or gold on your land or somewhere they're not already mining or drilling. Or, you could say you have ten million dollars to donate to their campaigns
Can i only do this for a practice or is this a small part of a system 🤔
Not an adept, but if you have lots of experience with a system that uses circles you're probably ok to do the full ritual version. Even with no experience it's probably ok to do the light version. Be warned that anything that brings results also brings at least a tiny amount of risk and danger.
@bw3372 ohh ok thanks yea tho what's the danger other than hallucinating
@@dakotahsimonson631 for this specifically, it can just stir up powerful emotions. I'm a man in my mid 30s who is ex military, and I was in tears after my first time doing the light version.
@bw3372 ohhh thank u for your service!! that's hard core .... I only have a ton of past child hood trauma tho I got over a ton of it with his technique I resolved alot tho that was years ago when I found his Medium account
@bw3372 I'm 28 year old autistic man that grows werid plants!
I hope you are on the East coast or have moved to safety sir!
Thanks! I'm in South Florida on the east coast. Got a little wind and rain.
I conjured a demon in my dream two nights ago...
And here I am
hehehe.
I need you to talk about tulpamancy, even if its just a mention
What's that? Like the Tibetan practice of creating a tulpa?
@@lyamchristopher2393 Yes exactly. I think it relates closely to what you described in the video when talking about magic circles, about how by identifying as yourself you already formed a bubble around yourself, separation between you and the demon you are conjuring. I figure that tulpae probably work the same way principally
@@victormutunga2944 There are all kinds of sacred tulpas out there in our collective hypnosis, aren't there? You can play up some of them and downplay others to achieve "results," affecting others around you in magical ways. My various personas are also tulpas. The most frightening one of all is the one I think of as "me."
Oh i thought the rainbow body/body of light would preserve the ego after death. have i totally misunderstood the concepts here.
Beyond my ability to answer, but you might want to consider that we can define ego as unconscious and compulsive. When its unconsciousness and compulsiveness is gone, it is no longer ego. Just persona. But the persona won't survive either, apparently. Survival never really was the concern. Immortality is only an obsession of mortal beings. Beings such as egos and personas. What we are is not them. And what we are can only be settled into, not directly looked at.
@@lyamchristopher2393 I originally came across the idea from damien echoes video on the ouroboros and reincarnation where he posed the idea (at least what i think he was saying ) that you can overcome reincarnation by the creation of the body of light thus preserving your "I" and so you will be able to actively not walk into the mouth of the leviathan/ouroboros which is the method reincarnation uses and so would become a Christ like being able to choose fate and pour yourself into a universe like god did with this one "if you wanted too"
maybe this is all metaphor that i took literally. also he was saying karma isnt a factor for a magician because the goal isnt to gain more karma and be reincarnated upon that good karma but the Transend the system of samsara.
without the persona and ego what are we. are we nature like a tree but thinking we are special. and after the ego and persona are dissolved are we a universe or nothing. i think i do need to do more studying and practice so i can perceive these concepts directly
@@lyamchristopher2393 I originally came across the idea from damien echoes video on the ouroboros and reincarnation where he posed the idea (at least what i think he was saying ) that u can overcome reincarnation by the creation of the body of light thus preserving your "I" and so u will be able to actively not walk into the mouth of the leviathan/ouroboros which is the method reincarnation uses and so would become a Christ like being able to choose fate and pour yourself into a universe like god did with this one "if u wanted too"
maybe this is all metaphor that i took literally. also he was saying karma isnt a factor for a magician because the goal isnt to gain more karma and be reincarnated upon that good karma but the Transend the system of samsara.
without the persona and ego what are we. are we nature like a tree but thinking we are special. and after the ego and persona are dissolved are we a universe or nothing. i think i do need to do more studying and practice so i can perceive these concepts directly
Straight off the bat you say “supposedly opposing forces”. Isn’t this a huge demotivator for magic? Also, any take on the SRA DID lore? It’s the whole shebang about how victims of (satanic) ritual abuse have repressed the memories and the dissociation created alters that perpetuate the occult activities without their “presenter personalities” being aware of it. Could it be that you have deeply occult alters/aspects/parts that have a good laugh at the you that tries to scratch the surface of magick? Do you find yourself missing time?
In the theater of the imagination, the supposedly opposing forces are still there, and they are still playing out a drama in which they appear to oppose each other. They are still on display so that something about them can be appreciated. There is your motivation. Now go and appreciate whatever that is. They don't call it the Mysteries for nothing.
Remember that the drama of art is the place to which we try to banish magic to convince ourselves that magic isn't real. How stupid of me to have ever fallen for that lie. And when I wake up from that escapist tactic, I don't wake up FROM a dream. We wake up TO it!
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Had to stop watching, 5 ads within the first 15 minutes?
Gotta make that cha ching
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pro tip, don't
In our don'ting, we do. Or haven't you been paying attention?
I had wolfs in my dreams when i started sufi practice back in 2018 30:08
Tempting us with a good time! How'd you know this was on the mind?? I'm here for it, sir! 4:00 an oft heard advice from fond rigorous astrology as well as flighty manifestation circles that has me immaturely patient and snide, through no fault of your channel as a rigorous intensive esoterics teacher! If demons will serve, as they did Solomon...hey, good call linking Allione! I think there is no prescriptive solution in The Raven when it's likely intended to show what goes awry! Wait, what? I'm here because of literature and various arts. I know I didn't come here to debate the ontology (?) or veracity of magic or lived inner experience. Wasn't Yeats himself a member of the Golden Dawn?
Has anyone ever told you that it’s possible that black holes don’t exist.
They’ve observed stars orbiting around invisible objects and attributed it to black hole theory.
@nerobaal6655 you've been asleep for 60 years and just woken up now? Understandable you would think so, troll.
@@nerobaal6655 are you a regular of the channel? If so, audience reflects poorly on it.
Yeats was a successful adept, at least of the 5=6 variety. Judging from his writings.
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What’s your email ? I was going to email you
StudyWyzard@gmail.com
Hey! I got to thinking about you and wanted to make sure you and those you love are ok after the hurricane. Hope you are safe and well. 🫂🥹✨
Thanks for the love. 😘 The storm passed by, far to the West. We had some rain and some 30-mile-per-hour gusts. That's all. The Panhandle and states north of that got it worse.
I'm relieved that you are okay! I live in the Metro ATL, and apart from the toxic gas from that explosion, we managed to avoid the worst of the hurricane. My heart aches for those who weren't as fortunate. Anyway, I'm just really glad that you are safe!