Welcome @Edex
Where are you from?
How long have you practiced?
Do you have any experience in specific systems or traditions?
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Hi,
Im From canada
Practiced for around 5 or 6 years but stopping and starting randomly, so like 6-12 months total of practicing
Mostly demons but also tried communicating with some Hellenic and Norse gods
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Welcome @barnabas
Where are you from?
Do you have any practical experience in magick?
If so, what have you practiced, and how long have you practiced?
Do you follow any specific systems or traditions?
Hi guys
Iāve been lurking here for a couple of years and decided its time to officially join.
So. About me. I suppose you could say I rejected the occult and the āparanormalā as a child, but it kept finding me. Then about seven or so years ago, due to various circumstances (and much to my own surprise) I began practising.
There were mediums on both sides of my family. One of my grandmothers in particular was highly renowned in such circles in her day.
I think my absolute aversion to such things started when I was four or five when I was repeatedly terrified by an apparition that would visit me. It probably meant no harm, but try telling that to a young kid.
I had a number of other events over my life that I would have classed as paranormal. I rejected those, convincing myself I must be losing the plot.
Until about eight years ago a series of very intense but different āhauntingā type situations I arose. I couldnāt deny the reality of these any longer, so I started searching for countermeasures. My only source was the internet so I really didnāt have a clue what I was doing, but at least I got most of these events to stop.
Then about seven years ago I found myself in a dire situation in the place I worked. Some truly awful human beings doing everything they could do wreck my life because I stood up to their corruption. I shall refer to these people hereafter as the enemy.
I started using various magick practices I found on various online forums in an attempt to protect myself. I had some successes but mostly not.
I eventually got out of that workplace and practised sporadically. Very off and on and my learning was pretty haphazard and often from questionable sources. The enemy continued to do everything they could to wreck my life, running a vast smear campaign, making false reports about me to the police, poisoning the well of my profession against me.
About two years ago, I decided that I had enough. So I adopted a more disciplined and organised approach to my learning and practice. I started everything again from the ground up.
I found many of the modern grimoires incredibly helpful (Gom, Hargrove, Tempest, Rose and a few others). BALG also proved to be an indispensable resource.
Iāve my ups and downs, my successes and failures, my disasters and YEEEEHHHHAAAAA!! Moments.
On the whole I fail more often than I succeed, but I get quite a few good successes.
The most important thing is that the dynamic of the battle has shifted. The enemy are blunted and I am on the offensive. There are over 30 enemy targets and they all need solid smackdowns. Nine are key ring leaders, the rest are lesser offenders who did their bidding and a few outsiders they hired to fabricate evidence.
I am still learning as I go, knowing that the more I learn and practice, the more significant effects I will be able to deliver. I know that achieving the level of justice I require of this situation will likely take a long time, but I will get there. Its only a matter of time.
Unfortunately, getting feedback on targets is exceedingly rare and that limits my ability to test and adjust my methods.
Whereas much of my focus has been on the baneful and protection, I have also done a lot of work on myself to begin undoing the harm the enemy have done to me (as this will improve my ability to do more harm to them).
So thatās me. I got terrified of occulty things as a child. Avoided it like the plague and denied its reality for a few decades. Now Iām a practising occultist and magician. Didnāt see that one coming back in the way backs.
Anyway, thank you for letting me join the site. I hope to be able to contribute usefully when I can.
PS. It said to list struggles. Emotional transmutation. An area thatās really holding me back. Generating positive emotions at willā¦ a skill I am struggling with.
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Welcome @Ragepanda
Where are you from?
So what, exactly, do you practice?
Do you have any experience with specific systems or trafitions?
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Hi
Thanks for the welcome.
Iām a New Zealander.
I practice an array of methods in my ongoing quest to figure out what works best for me and in what situations.
Presently I mostly work with:
-Pathworking. Definitely a favourite for me. I have a number of pathworking based books and use them with quite a bit of frequency. I favour path working as it seems to be the method that is least reliant on emotional transmutation
-Angels (72,42, archs, pals from Angels of wrath and omnipotence) as per the methods of various books
-Goetic demons, as per methods from various books. I use a variety of approaches as I try to establish which are most effective for me
-Servitors. I love working with servitors. Iām not going to make any new ones for a while though. Iām operating 14 at present and maintaining them is proving quite a chore.
-Djinn. This one is very new to me. I only started in January. As I am still not very knowledgeable in this area I am staying in the kiddy pool and sticking to Hargroveās method only for the time being.
-Sigil magick. I donāt do these super frequently these days, but I do still do them from time to time.
Sometimes I modify methods, but only when Iām confident I understand it sufficiently. For example, with the pathworkings in Lucifer and the Hidden Demons, I find that incorporating a relevant sigil and enn for the final spirit in the chain does produce a much stronger connection.
I used to do a lot of jar, candle and poppet work, but Iāve drifted away from, those methods. I should probably re-visit them sometime as I have come a long way since then.
I also experiment with all sorts of other methods that I find here on BALG or elsewhere.
Iāve also been practising reiki for a couple of years. I have the attunements up to the master level but only formal in person training to the second level (long story).
Recently Iāve got some of the spirit attunements that Jareth Tempest is selling on Etsy. I am really enjoying them. Due to lack of target feedback I donāt know how effective my experiments with these have been regarding enemies. But Iāve had some excellent results with work on myself with them.
Anyhoo, thatās me I guess 
Still learning and have so much more to learn
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Thank you for elucidating more upon your experience, and again, welcome to the BALG forum.
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Hi Azure, surprised to see Im not the only kiwi here 
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Hi Neville, great to see another kiwi here Thought I was probably the only occultist in the country, one just never hears of any here. I wonder how many of us there are?
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Hello everyone, my name is The_Seeker1 and Iām glad to be here.
Thanks.
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Hello Brothers and Sisters, My name is Luce, my favorite types of Magick are Chaos, Necromancy, Energy Manipulation and Sigil Magick. My Experiences really started out with Lucifer ranging from past lifeās,
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Welcome @Lucas_Miron
How long have you practiced?
Do you have experience in any specific systems or traditions?
@The_Seeker1 Please properly introduce yourself. This post tells us nothing about you or any experience you may have and so does not meet our introduction requirement.
Where are you from?
Do you have any practical experience in magick?
If so, what do you practice, and how long have you practiced?
Do you have experience in any specific systems or traditions?
if you donāt have any practical experience, what areas of magick are you interested in learning about?
I am interested in learning more on Energy Manipulation and Sigil Magick I havenāt really practiced Much I just kinda started into these practices I joined this site hoping to expand my skills in these areas first cause these were both areas of magick I was interested in expanding upon and learning as much as I could from the Community here to sharpen My Practice in these areas
So, if I am understanding you correctly, you are a beginner?
Yes I indeed am
I am from India, and regarding the types of magick I have been practising, they are mostly related to mantras/runes etc, based on the information given to me by the entities. most of my format is generally " the path which doesnāt hurt anyone/any being knowingly and the path which doesnāt require me to hurt any being". I donāt have any specific restrictions to the pantheons/ deities etc I believe in or work with as I have been in contact with a huge number of them since I was young, due to which it is somewhat like anything goes as long as it doesnāt violate my bottom line.
How long have you practiced?
I have been involved in mantras since my birth but most of the other things I have started over the past 6 years or so based on the suggestions of the entities.
Thisā¦is unlikely.