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[kasper81]

Are you a beginner? Do you know who Wilhelm Reich was? wikipeida and /or google him. Long story short he was a pioneer psychiatrist who was a student of Freud but he was ostracised because he "discovered" that we have energy flowing through our body and when it's blocked (due to societal conditioning) this causes compulsive disorders, madness and political extremism and all of society's ills.

He said we want to avoid pain so we build up an "armour" against feeling what we are really feeling burt this makes our vital energies die. The "armour" kills the natural flow.

Israel Regardie advised that all would be magicians should undergo Reichean massage therapy to break down their own armour before they practice magick or problems will ensue. Thing is do you think that yogic exercises and magick enchantment and sorcery will break down this armour anyway?

I'll elaborate. Reich said universal energy flows through 7 body zones. if someone has e.g. some mysterious stomach cramps problem this is in effect caused by tense armouring in this region ie long repressed emotions and repressed tensed up muscles in that body region. . It just so happens that Reich's 7 body zones correlate to the Chakra areas. centres and there's a gerat book (Storm Constantine's Inward Revolution) that would explain that these e.g. stomach pains could be cured by a reactivation of said dead solar plexus Chakra. However do spells and sigils release repressed emotion also? Do they put us in touch with our real desires our real feelings?

Furthermore I feel that invoking/connecting with the 7 Archangels ("of God") restimulate deadened "chakras" and break body armouring down

[jes]

Never tried it, but see if you can find some local instruction. If not, Regardie explains many other ways of maintaining spiritual health in the 'Art of True Healing' as well as explains a very insightful but short theory on vitality. Regardie's system of healing in the 'Middle Pillar' will cure repressed vitality. I think the suggestion to take up massage therapy is to develop the skill of determining whether something feels spiritually healthy or not because this is a simple, but key skill in any method of healing or self-healing.

[Prophet Seeker]

This sounds really interesting and something I am in need of right now. I'm going to jump into some research.

Is it similar to the way acupuncture, reflexology or reiki would work?

Edited by Prophet Seeker, 27 July 2012 - 06:01 AM.

[kasper81]

Prophet Seeker, on 27 July 2012 - 05:54 AM, said:

This sounds really interesting and something I am in need of right now. I'm going to jump into some research.

Is it similar to the way acupuncture, reflexology or reiki would work?

there's no need to faff around with those people imo just order Storm Constantine's book The Inward Revolution and do the exercises therein you can do it all for yourself with visualization/ meditation and exercises. http://www.amazon.co...e/dp/0751519391

she is an occultist and this book was written for occultist beginners
she is a succesful internationally known fantasy novelist by the way

Edited by kasper81, 27 July 2012 - 09:38 PM.

[son of dhamma]

kasper81, on 26 July 2012 - 11:30 PM, said:

Are you a beginner? Do you know who Wilhelm Reich was? wikipeida and /or google him. Long story short he was a pioneer psychiatrist who was a student of Freud but he was ostracised because he "discovered" that we have energy flowing through our body and when it's blocked (due to societal conditioning) this causes compulsive disorders, madness and political extremism and all of society's ills.

He said we want to avoid pain so we build up an "armour" against feeling what we are really feeling burt this makes our vital energies die. The "armour" kills the natural flow.

yes, the subtle wind of the body and the subtle fire.

Anyone may study into what the subtle lung (wind) within the tsa (channel) of space of the subtle body involves.

[ChaosTech]

I've done energy work, both inward and out for around 15 years now. I call it a callous, not armour, but I know what you mean and it's definately there. It blocks lifeforce, but also the hardening of the aura and spiritual body (or acurately "bodies," though past the physical what constitutes a body, becomes more expanded or broad), but it also builds the solar self, or the singular identity, in short the ego complex. What seperates kills, but in the process it allows for individual instead of collective experience. Eventuallly the lifeforce becomes so calloused though it kills the person. Thus the natural lifespan of people concept (which changes from culture to culture, but is never too long, for the average, or non-magical or mystical person),

Opening up the lifeforce is really good for health yes, but also allows for deeper subconscious awareness to spring forth, allowing for occult abilities like telepathy, empathy, clairvoyance, ect, more generally creative, a sharper intellect, innate understandings of things, or surity in right and wrong, and wise and foolish decisions, and even great insights of understanding about the deeper meaning of things, and the destiny of all.

On the other hand being open at times when one needs privacy, sleep, etc, or when one's mind finds all the information being sent and recieved from the lifeforce, or when occul abilities are so open they cause madness and pain, there are good forms of sheilds and other types of "armour," like cloaking fleids for instance, which are good forms of seperation.

In general though, the more open one is, the more correctly walking the cosmic path, actively and quickly one is.

[kasper81]

ChaosTech, on 28 July 2012 - 11:25 PM, said:

. On the other hand being open at times when one needs privacy, sleep, etc, or when one's mind finds all the information being sent and recieved from the lifeforce, or when occul abilities are so open they cause madness and pain, there are good forms of sheilds and other types of "armour," like cloaking fleids for instance, which are good forms of seperation. In general though, the more open one is, the more correctly walking the cosmic path, actively and quickly one is.

opening up so you are open to madness? No we are talking about different things here. De armouring ONLY has positive efffects. My source is Storm Constantine's "Inward revolution" book. It's quite cheap to order on Amazon be my guest and check it out

[Caliban]

I am going to echo the general notion that Reichian "armoring" is really just another model for the kinds of personal blocks, ideosyncracies, complexes etc. which, in magic, while I do not feel it is absolutely essential to overcome it is certainly necessary to be aware of and to take into account. It is possible to use these, and the tension of transgressing them, or for that matter of (where their social acceptability is marginal or denigrated) indulging them can itself provide and added kick to magical work. The real thing is to know they are there, and to see that they are a part of you to be accepted - and then changed if that is desired or feasible - but not denied.

Very often, we develop our "armor" as a mechanism to cope with very real stresses which it may be just as well to have a coping mechanism for. It is not always helpful to try to uproot these and attack them head-on. Very often, I have found, there are more important things to be worked on first, allowing one's understanding of the issue or block to mature. Some are even worth keeping.

So some form of rigorous self-analysis is a very good idea to know what variety of bats one has in one's belfry. One needs to accept responsibility not for having caused them but for how one acts on account of them. And then one is poised to work with, around or through them instead of hitting a bump or wall along the way and saying, "what the hell was that?"

[son of dhamma]

Yeah. This energy is not really relevant to magik. It corresponds to personal blocks, idiosyncrasies, complexes, delusions. It is the vehicle of mind, and whenever there is problems with our thought it influences the energy and thus may effect our body, according to its flow. In this way, if there is something wrong with the horse, the rider suffers, and the rider (mind) directs the horse. By directing the wind, the mind influences the body in its own way. This riding energy brings about the body's subtle heat, which allows the subtle drops to form, and the water element "holds together," thus producing subtle earth particles. These are the elementary particles in regards to the mind.

First, mind comes to occupy the particles of space in the body. Then the subtle wind particles emerge from the space, accommodating mind, and with motion as their quality they create friction and produce heat particles, condensing into the subtle particles of solidity which the mind "rests" upon. Just as the gross mind relies on the gross wind (breath) of the body (the gross heat, blood, and nerves), so does it rely on the subtle wind for all the subtle mental functions.

What he's talking about, is simply recognizing the subtle wind for the subtle wind, which is a practice that removes blockages in the mind. The wind quality applies to all form, quantum, concrete, gross, and subtle. It interpenetrates all form. And all form is impermanent, vacant, and unsatisfactory--therefore it can't be made into an armor or shield, or a SELF. That's the purpose of this method. That is where its usefulness lies herein.

So, I suppose it's not magikal, but it is relevant to the "occult."

Edited by son of dhamma, 30 July 2012 - 06:52 AM.

[Barrackubus]

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