Ya no, actually you were right on back then @Lady_Eva .
I found at the time that doing by-the-book conjurations with the NAP gave me piss-poor results. At the time, Damon Brand had begun publishing rituals based on NAP, and when i tried them, they didn’t work for me either.
If you remember how much i used to complain on the board, now you know why i was so ornery. The spirit that told you NAP was tapped out was RIGHT! I directly challenged that at the time and wouldn’t take no for an answer. NAP was not getting the job done for me, and i needed it to work. The tank was just on E, and i couldn’t get past that for a long time.
Lateral thinking, further study, and a lot of failed experiments got me past that hump, so i continue with the work, but it took a lot of failure and humiliation to get the NAP going again.
Why Geoff Left Dodge
As far as Geoff is concerned, in his later years i know he kind of disowned NAP, and i think i figured out why.
The truth of NAP is it’s very elaborate, but the elaboration is stacked on one part of magick, leaving the other parts largely unattended.
The Law Of Attraction explains occultism in a way that leaves no room for doubt. All of magick is built up on 3 principles: Focus, Ask, and Receive.
When you strip your magick down to the root elements and simplify everything, you’re left with what you want, the way you ask for it, and the reality of whether you received it or not.
I think at some point in his life, Geoff realized that he only needed to focus his mind and ask his own subconscious or Higher Self to bring him what he wanted, and then receive it with no internal conflict.
I also believe when he did this, he found to his surprise that it worked just as well as the crazy elaborate shit he did in the Golden Dawn and Thelemic lodges.
I know he taught this new realization in the 90s, but it most likely fell on deaf ears, because we as human beings are addicted to struggle and love the idea of having to suffer to get things.
When Cobb realized having your wish fulfilled was easy and uncomplicated, with no adverse blowback, i believe he began disowning the need for NAP with its Judeochristian trappings.
He cut out all the middlemen and went direct to his own subconscious mind and Higher Self.
It worked just as well for him.
However, the rest of us still need to come to the same conclusion as he did. So we continue to work the grimoire, hoping yesterday’s technology will solve today’s problems.
In the spirits’ defense…
Maybe the spirit of the book was telling you in its own way that we don’t need NAP anymore now that we have the Law of Attraction to guide us. LOA is a better moustrap than NAP, which was revolutionary back in the 70s, but is a bit of an anachronism in 2019/2020, let’s keep it real.
Also, it takes creativity to use magickal grimoires properly. I think the spirit of the grimoire was warning you that they’re tired of being called on by dullards. No offense to anyone who was using NAP in 2014…but yeah.
You know, spirits also want a little respect and maybe a relationship. They don’t seem to take kindly to being used and discarded like old condoms or toilet paper.
Maybe the spirit of the book was just being cranky after years of abuse.
Spirits PMS too, bc humans are a fucking headache sometimes.