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Dec '25 •
The Old Days: MY BSF Review
Was going through my Google Drive cleaning up large files to make space. I pay for 100gbs and I'm nearly at that. While perusing my files I came across this screenshot of my review S. Ben Qayin's "Book of Smokeless Fire" back in 2013 on the Evocation Magic forum (it later became Studio Arcanis but as of 2024 has been offline). Some of you may remember me mentioning this review but I could never find it when going through the forum via the Wayback Machine when I'd check during livestreams. Turns out I had a screenshot of it the whole time! Haha. You can see even in 2013 I had a distaste for the New Age, calling the ritual aspect of the text "hokum" (thank you "Big Bang Theory"!). You can also see others on the forum, many of which were well respected (such as Provenant, BaiLung and Pablo) chime in and offer their perspectives. Unfortunately I believe Frank Redd's response (he's the owner of Nephilim Press, the book's publisher, and since many prominent authors were members of Evocation Magic/Studio Arcanis, so too were a few publishers) is on page 2 or 3 and therefore not in this screenshot. And the Wayback Machine won't let you see any pages other than the first one in a thread (this can be verified by checking the exact same thread here: http://studioarcanis.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12369 ) Check out my review and get a bit of insight into how I thought in 2013!
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Nov '25 •
Meditation Can Cause NEGATIVE Side Effects?
I guess for those of us who've been in the game a minute or two this sort of thing is obvious but what do you guys think about this? https://scitechdaily.com/meditation-has-potentially-dangerous-side-effects-heres-what-scientists-say-you-should-know/
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I mean yeah, ive known people who dont like it because they feel anxious, a person in fight or fight has a hard time processing even "good stress" their nervous system cant tell, and meditation affects the vagus nerve which can acc trigger more psychological unease if they arnt used to the somatic sensations on the parasympathetic nervous system.
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@Joseph Holmes from my understanding of meditation through Eastern traditions, when someone’s Root Chakra (Muladhara) is bound or constricted, it’s like their energetic foundation is unstable. The base of the temple isn’t secure, so when they try to ascend through meditation or spiritual work, the energy has nowhere solid to return to. In that state meditation doesn’t feel calming, it feels disembodying, or even threatening because the person is leaving an already fragmented structure. Anxiety often rises because the nervous system interprets that disconnection as danger. Where soul, spirit, and body aren’t lined up, the spirit (as the higher animating principle) may be reaching downward, and the body (as the vessel) may be calling upward, but the soul, the bridge or mediator can’t integrate them. It’s like trying to pour light through a narrow funnel, the energy gets bottlenecked, causing discomfort instead of illumination. You can often sense that in people who meditate but feel “floaty,” “ungrounded,” or anxious after, their subtle body is opening upward before it’s anchored downward. Grounding is foundational in occult work, it was my first realization with Saturn, the pressure I felt was that not punishing discomfort...just the deep urge to stabilize myself ASAP.
Nov '25 •
Do you create any of your tools?
I had a crazyyyy idea! I was thinking about using the crystal spheres from my planetary transit table not to just help me map them, and their energies into them as I move them daily/doing my planetary prayers etc...but to use for the Trithemius table as well, not just using a clear crystal. I was thinking of ways to scry with the others with ones even if they arnt translucent. Ill have to work out finner details to formulate that but I believe it could work. I am just sitting here thinking about how im creating mine, bc stuff will be here tmrw to start, and I keep getting little aha moments about how I can use it btwn the 3 altars I work with the most...im excited♡
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So for blinking I acc close my eyes halfway slowly then open them to retain focus, im blind and I have to adjust my comfort lvl bc things get bright visually, and I get overstimulated more visually than alot of ppl because im missing rods/cones in my retina. its always helped as advice for others too. And I learned in druidry to part the mist myself so I started engaging at first just seeing if I could get it to pass in diff directions like clouds obscuring the Moons glow. And then when I got comfy with that I started imagining it unfurling from a spiral, sometimes I imagine myself going into it to the otherside as well, all 3 are useful instead of just imagining it as something static you have to wait to get through, you can play with it haha.
Nov '25 •
Materia Magica: Tool Time!
What is your favorite tool or divinatory system you are currently using (e.g., Tarot, Runes, Astrology, Numerology)? Share one quick tip you learned recently about using it.
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@Joseph Holmes yes the woman who created it a archdruid from Anceint order of druids in america. I belive her deck has gone through 6editions since 09 or 2012. But it dosnt use ogham, it takes the traditional; pentacles, wands, swords, and cups and places them at diff parts of the tree itself. I noticed theres a diff of color hue/contrast btwn the elements of suite as well. It reads very much like a druidic hermetic pathworking approach which will replace that very boring tree of life diagrams I sometimes have to pull up to help me "see" things. This feels more like a working map for meditation, practice, and exploration of the self. So it can be used for divination as well as a structured tool with a system for gnosis, journying hermetic, and druidic principles. Like it collapses multiple layers of esoteric practice into a tangible tool. 🙏💞
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@Joseph Holmes yes! Im using a Druidic system: trees, nature archetypes, seasonal, and spiritual correspondences..but im applying it in a structured, path oriented way, similar to hermetic practices like the Tree of Life. So instead of just pulling cards for divination, I’m using the deck as a map for inner work, meditation, and exploration. Each card is a station, a doorway on a path, like the paths between sephiroth, but through the lens of druidic wisdom. It’s like combining the intuitive, natural, and animistic focus of Druidry with the structured, symbolic, and correspondential approach of Hermeticism...so I can work systematically with inner, and spiritual processes, but in a way that’s grounded in nature. Animism for me is diff than how everyone else would use it, but half of it is still apart of my creative drive for responsiveness in my work so its a hybrid expression. I love it🫶🥹🌈
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