I think the most direct starting point of what you’re talking about is first to understand and work on integrating the shadow. From the moment we’re old enough to understand the difference between good and bad, right and wrong, etc. our personality is split into the ego (conscious) and shadow (unconscious) parts which develop different agendas. From everything I’ve been learning what stops us from having true power is that so much of what our ego wants, our shadow does not.
Ego: Good / Angels / Jedi / Mercy / Light
Shadow: Bad / Demons / Sith / Severity / Dark
We all have both sides within us and the more a person identifies with their ego, the more resistance they experience resistance from their shadow, which is unconscious so the magick is blocked or they self sabotage. When someone learns to balance the two and give acceptance to their shadow and what it desires they gain the potential to access the power of using their unconscious mind, which is what all magick really is. Israel Regardie talks about this and C. Jung a lot in his books as well as the middle pillar ritual, which is a powerful chi building exercise. Check out Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott, that is an excellent discourse on this too.
Jedi and Sith are fictional characters but the powers they use are not. Albeit, I don’t think you can level entire cities with them. Though some monks talk about initiates having to take vows to not do just that. They are known as Siddhis in the yoga tradition and can be cultivated by both mantra recitations into the millions where you become one with the vibration of mantra, and through cultivating the Tummo and raising the downward voiding wind through the central channel, dissolving all inner winds into it. It takes time and dedication that many don’t have such as months of retreat, sadhana, and puja. Vaishikaran mantra is an example of Siddhi/Force Ability because it can compel things to your will.
I was interested in telekinesis when I was teenager but I end up realising how useless of a power it is. What can it be used for? Intimidate or impress other? Why not learn scene magic instead? There was an illusionist who made a whole city disappear which is far more impressive. A male witch 20 years ago was right when he said that magick did not make the life easier but just more nuanced. The true power of magick comes from your own will and knowing what you want and doing, so if you don’t know yourself and are weak you have no power of magick.
Probably not: those theories never bore fruit, and physicists keep finding large chucks of matter and energy they didn’t have the equipment to see before. It was a cute idea but after two decades and billions spent even trying to prove something unseen exists they cannot.
As Ingo Swann pointed out, modern science can only use a materialistic (physical matter based) approach by design, so that automatically excludes anything esoteric, like, trying to describe consciousness, which they can’t. There’s no science of consciousness. So I would not look to modern science to be helpful in this area at all, beyond basic energy working. we can measure energy moving, but they’ll not find the mechanism for why until they look beyond the material.
he (Ingo Swann) mentions this issue in this lecture (somewhere, sorry it’s long but also cool and pretty funny)
i feel this a useful video for this topic as person that have work with lot of pop culture spirit, one think that is key to remember when working with them, is that there personality from there pop culture media is different, so in this topic we talking star wars and the sith, well in working with them they would be different of there personality and what you can learn from them as a whole, it important to remember that they are real spirit, just like any other spirit, so working with them compare to there show/moive/book/game/anime, etc would be different then the character from there media, there not a carbon copy in fact they would have there own goals etc like any other soul would, for offering i find it best just to ask them but normally with these spirit they will let you know what they like and don’t like, these egergores spirit are quite powerful to work, and even have there own system of magic that can be quite powerful as well, really as i see it the mind is the only limiter of what spirit one can evoke/invoke to learn from
I keep hearing hate on the upcoming Star Wars series Acolyte
For those you don’t know what that is I explain as best I can.
Acolyte is an upcoming Star Wars series about the Sith during the High Republic era which is the golden age of the Jedi order as well as the republic they serve. From what I’m understanding from the trailer it’s mostly about a sith apprentices journey to becoming the next dark lord.
I actually a very excited for this
This will show a whole to perspective in Star Wars and I believe just like The Mandalorian they’re going to show the ways of the sith that have never been seen before and perhaps the spirituality behind hit. Maybe there might even have stuff to add to my work.
That thread was removed by a former Global Moderator. There was no actual content or practical info, more just fan-style comments of links to youtube, and reference to the Book of the Sith on Amazon.
It was off topic for the forum as no discussion of magick or spirituality really came out of it and the OP closed his account. He is now @OddEmanation
Gheheheh, if you miss it, I’ll post my short opinion on Sith and Jedi philosophy.
It’s a stylized version of a very religious and dualistic view of good vs. evil/ christian vs everything else (the devil) . Both sides are deeply flawed and deeply unhealthy to adhere to in real life
I like (pre Disney) Starwars, but it’s fiction. Very much and extremely fiction, with very little application for real life
I would agree. The original 3 films did not elaborate on the philosophy, and all later additions are fan fiction, gaming lore and very much everyday human musings, related to the ideas of the creator George Lukas, but not necessarily what he’s have said about his creation.
I realise they’re “cannon” because whoever owns the license to make cartoons gets to say what that is, but unless George Lukas gave us an essay on his intended philosophy I’d not be particularly be interested.
I have the same feeling for the Lovecraftian genre, not that the King in Yellow and the Simon Necronomicon and other non-Lovecraft works are not awesome in their own right, as fiction, I don’t consider them with the same gravity if I’m looking into designing a ritual with say Cthulhu.
