I’m posting here because SOMEONE out here might know how to contact the
appropriate people and because not everyone here reads alt.pagan (and vice
versa, I only recently got access to the newsgroup alt.magick)
Since this originated from V-net, I will relay anything appropriate in either
direction to/from the person who did the original post I’m reposting here.
24/27        [1] Networked  Circle of the Goddess
Title:       Meetings
Date:        Thu Aug 27, 1992 18:15
Origin:      The Pool of Radiance (Pennsylvania) [412-378-2165]
From:        Rogue X #33 @4125 VirtualNET

I am in DESPERATE need of any info on any meetings or something on October 31
in Sewickley, Pa… I need to get in touch with the "leader" or person that’s
getting everything together because of a planned extremely violent attack on
them that day… ANY info would be greatly appreciated

                 The Pool of Radiance v3.2  (412) 378-2165
                  Virtual Net #4125    Near Aliquippa, PA

Write Rogue X on this issue, not me, unless you have connections in
Sewickley, PA, in which case contact them… wouldn’t it be nice if
the Xtians planning this attack ran into an ambush?

"If we do not hang together, we will most assuredly hang separately"
                                        Benjamin Franklin

Bright Blessings
A.Lizard
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I recommend the "current" address because it’s faster.

I read with pleasure the long discussion on "shields: how to".  I have
always used the "white rainbow" method (thanks, Shava!) , and am currently
working with the "citadel" method (thanks, Edward!).

So, in the interest of furthering enlightenment, I would like to see a
discussion on "centering & grounding: how to". There seems to be general
agreement that C & G  are among the first techniques that novices should
learn to avoid damage to the environment…

Here is how I describe the process to others.

When you are giving someone a back rub, sometimes the muscles running up
and down along the spine are bunched up into tight cords.  You must gently
but firmly work those cords back into flat sheets, by pressing outward from
the spine.  Centering is like that.

Close your eyes, and think about your body.  Normally, you perceve yourself
as living in just the central core of your body.  Extend outward and fill
up the rest of your skin.  Make sure that there isn’t any room for anything
else.

Grounding could happen next.  Keep extending yourself outward, beyond your
skin.  Reach downward, to the earth, or upward, to the sky.  Both "grounds"
are useful for dissapating various kinds of unwanted energy.

The proof is in the pudding,
Carl Hommel
carl…@apollo.hp.com

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About a year ago, I had a friend who said he was a white witch (yes, witch).
I was over at his house, and he was complaining about something working against
him.  Well, he lit four white candles, set them in the four compass positions,
and sat inside them facing north, to try and focus.  Well, the candle to the
east burned very quickly.  He said that whatever was working against him was
originating from the east.

I thought about it for a second, then imagined a force shield that started just
past the east candle and fit the size of the room.  I then willed the force
shield to move east and grow larger as it moved.  I "watched" it move in my
minds eye, and it "destroyed" everything that came in contact with it.  It
eventually ran into Chicago (the force field being relatively large enough to
encompass the entire city) and I stopped it at Lake Michigan.  A moment later,
a name popped into my head and I said it.  I opened my eyes, to see my friend
staring at me with wide eyes.  He asked me how I got that name and I told him
the previous story (about the force shield).  He told me that he knew someone
that had power that held that name, and that they weren’t on good terms.

I don’t know what happened to him after that, we sorta lost track of each
other.

Any ideas, questions, comments?

I’m not knowledgable in the ways of Magick, but I’ve always had a vested
interested in the ways of the occult.  I’m a christian by nature, but I have
always kept an open mind.

Could the keeper of the FAQ email it to my rmart…@harper.UUCP address? (as
well as the book list)

Peace,

Rick – Electric Knight

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Soon to be approved (hopefully!) by Purdue University:

                        Pagan Academic Network (PAN)

President- Wendy Hetrick (dart@mentor)
VP- Rob Tillotson (akl@sage)
Secr.- John Nickles  (nickles@sage)
Treas.- Nick Hirschberg (halcyon@sage)(?)

PAN will be providing support and advocacy for local pagans, solitaries, and
   other open-minded folk in the Greater-Lafayette community.  Regularly-
   meeting discussion groups, a borrowing library, and various other activities
   will hopefully serve to increase public awareness and decrease misconceptions
   of many beliefs often classified as ‘pagan’.  

PAN’s newsletter, the first issue of which will hopefully be available at the
   callout, will be called ‘Widdershins’ ("Counter-clockwise").  Each issue
   will include articles on many topics ranging from evaluations of various
   divination systems to personal opinions on how magick ‘works’ to biographies
   of people like Aleister Crowley.  Widdershins will be available to all
   listed members (official/student and unofficial/non-student alike) in hard-
   copy form or in electronic form, possibly sent to a mailing-list or avail-
   able by public ftp.  Contributions of all kinds, including USmailed (where
   necessary) artwork, will always be welcome!

PAN is not intended to be a ‘coven’, and will strive to give any and all trad-
   itions equal voice and attention.  Equal and wide exploration of a multitude
   of viewpoints will be the main goal of this group.  Proslytizing(sp?),
   evangelizing, or fundamentalism in any form will be soundly discouraged.
   Open communication and true freedom of religion/beliefs will be paramount.

—–

What I need is any contributions to Widdershins that you can get to me ASAP.
   As I said above, I would like to have the first issue of the newsletter
   available at the callout.  This means I’ve got to get lots and lots of
   articles!  No specified length.  No specified topic.  

I’d appreciate anything you could send.

Thanks!  

–
dart

     To those who are interested in the religion/magick, of the region of
the world called Mesipotamia, which the "Necro" really a very poor rehash
of.  A copy can be obtained from me at this Email address for the asking.
Pegasus

Please pardon my ignorance and any assumptions I m ight make about your
beliefs.  I’m not poking fun I just don’t have a clue as to what to do about
the ghost that lives in my room.  I don’t know if I borought it there.  I do
believe in ghosts and energy’s of people no longer with us.  When I moved into
this dorm I thought I could deal.  
    I live in a building that is at the southern most part of of an upside down
celtic cross set on a layline.  A lot of people people call it the gates of
hell.  I don’t know about that.  I do know that there are some angry buildings
around here.  Old Kenyon (my dorm) is one of them.  At the opposite end of this
cross is a plug.  It’s made of limestone and some stone that I Think begins with
an ‘s’.  Anyway, on holy days of the wiccan religion the place is dead of
energy of any sort.  It’s the safest place to be on this campus.  I know that.  
    A couple a day’s ago I came into my room and found that someone had moved
my turtle to the top of my hamper.  She couldn’t have gotten there by herself.
That’s no big deal.  So she was little frightened.  Then I went into my friend
tami’s room last night, and I heard knocking on the wall.  I live next door.
There was no one inthere but when I went in I heard knocking that sounded like
it was coming from the roof.  The roofs are made of slate.  It would sound like
that if someone were konocking on them.  Whatever it was, it was in neither our
rooms nor the rooms below us.
 I think it’s a ghost I think it likes it there I think I make it stronger by
believing in it.  I want it to stop intruding on my space, without pissing it
off.  I don’t want to be it’s friend.  I would like to know what my options
are, because I feel sorry for it, I don’t think that’s a sign good either.  I
think it had a horrible death.  I would also like to now if anyone has ever
anything about a place called Kenyon College, in Knox County Ohio.  Cause
that’s where I am.  hauntedly yours, landa.

Hi –

You c…@camelot.bradley.edu (Nicole Lenard) wrote:

I need some help.  I’ve been noticing lately (in the last 6 months
or so) that *sometimes* I can see an "aura" (I don’t know how else
do describe it) surrounding a person I’m looking at.  What does
this mean?  The aura often appears a certain color, with gold, blue,
and green seemingly the most common.  Can anyone recommend somewhere
I can read up on this?  I’m *very* new at this.  Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

I (William Tucker) think:

There seems to be some confusion about this subject, from the other
posts about it, or at least miscommunication. There are as I understand
it seven layers to the aura, or seven auric bodies. The oft mentioned astral
body is one of these layers, as they are not really layers but separate bodies
relating to different aspects of the person. They occupy the same space as the
physical body and somewhat beyond it, as Casteneda describes it in an egg shape.
Most people are aware of only the lower three layers relating to the physical
body, the emotional body and the solar plexus will center, or linear thinking
mental center. They see this as one thing, usually showing as color emanating
from the body out about three-six inches, most easily visible against a light
background in lowered light. Some colors are more easily seen agains a dark
background. Aura reading is related to the field of health in most Eastern
traditions. The halo around the head of enlightend individuals is an effect of
the aura. Everyone supposedly has this light around them but, if I remember
correctly when a truly enlightend individual is acting the amount of light
coming off of them is so great that ordinary people can see it.

Tagi mentioned some books, I particuarly liked Anodea Judith’s book, but it
dealt mainly with chakras. There’s two other Llewllyn books that I liked:

"How to See and Read the Aura", by Ted Andrews that gives a guide to learning
how to see auras. Mind you as I understand it it takes years to be able to do
little more than just notice the color around the body.

"Kundalini and the Chakras, A Practical Manual, Evolution in This Lifetime,"
by Genevieve Lewis Paulson. In my opinion a terrific book probably combining
the best of a lot of different sources. Also apparently written by one who
sees auras, as well as understands "stuff". She also tells how to learn to see
it.

The definitive book on auras in general, and in particular relating to healing
is in my opinion Barbara Brennan’s book "Hands of Light"

as far as karma in the aura:

Apparently there is stuff in the aura that relates to past lives. It is particularly
visible as "bands" around the head and shoulders, from what they say. People who see
auras, have their third eye open, apparently experience this as moving pictures
in the auras. There is also stuff relating to your present life, that is a pattern
in your life, thought forms. This was written about in a book "The Secret is in
the Rainbow," by Berger. I’ve also read about it in other places too.

as far as whether different people see the same thing:

If they have the same degree of awareness and are using it the same way
they see the same thing. However, there are different methods they use
for training people that have them experience it by visualizing it rather
than seeing it. This is different than seeing it, apparently it really
is a visual experience, and is not something happening only in your mind.
Read the book "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot for verification
on this.

Probably one of the best, fun books on weird things I’ve ever read is
Autobiography of a Yogi, and yes it sounds dull and looks dull but, if
you want to hear about a lot of strange stuff in a matter of fact,
beautiful way check it out.

Wm T.

.standard disclaimer

        It appears to me, after reading this newsgroup for a while, that
the primary focus on suggested reading material here is on Crowley and his
circle and a few other authors who, while not necessarily involved
with the Western ceremonial magick tradition, have valuable material
for both the practicing and wannabe magus.
        I would like to suggest that both segments of the magickal
"community" check out a series of books that were originally
published in the ’70s, but have, I believe, since been reprinted.
The books were originally published as a 5-volume set titled, "THE
MAGICAL PHILOSOPHY", by Llewellyn Publications.  The authors are
Melitta Denning and Osborne Phillips, who claim to be adepti minores
of a living magickal order called the Aurum Solis or Ordo Sacri
Verbi.
        The five volumes are individually titled:
        I. ROBE AND RING (Philosophy)
   II. THE APPAREL OF HIGH MAGICK (Symbolism)
  III. THE SWORD AND THE SERPENT (Qabalah and Magical Art)
   IV. THE TRIUMPH OF LIGHT (Psychology and Magick (sic))
        V. MYSTERIA MAGICA (Rituals, Techniques, et alia)
        What is remarkable about the series is the lucid,
non-obfuscatory treatment of the art and science of High Magick as
practiced within the context of the Western mystery tradition. The series
comprises a *complete* magickal curriculum, delving deeply and
comprehensively into the practice of magick as art, science,
philosophy, and psychology.
        Of particular interest is the attention paid to the practice of
traditional Western High Magickal modalities *outside* of the
seemingly (judging by most works on the subject) all-pervasive
Judeo-Christian framework.  The student working with this series is
given the choice of working within this framework or within any
other of his or her choice.
        I recommend this series highly to any who are serious about the
practice of magick.  I purchased the first volume in 1974.  After
almost 20 years, I find that the series is still fresh and potent in
its exposition and application of the art and science of magick
practice.
        Please note that this series predates Llewellyn’s descent into
new age fluff publishing.  The material here, and in a couple of
other of the works of Denning and Phillips is, IMNSHO, some of the
last decent, useful material that Lewellyn published.
        Comments, experiences, etc? are *most* welcome.
—

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  mdoug…@netcom.com    :        and the Storm is Data,
Michael Douglas-Llyr    :         and the Data is Life.
                        :               —Player’s Litany (The Long Run)

Book 4 gives some information about the wand.