I’m planning to work with the chakras and get into energy work in general cause after some introspection it seems like I have some blockages in my energy system, especially the root.
So it came to my mind “ why there’s less talk about the energetic aspects of magick ? ” .
I’ve seen plenty of posts here about the importance of energy work in empowering one’s magick but every time I discuss this with others they always undermine this aspect and most magical tutorials out there are focused on the mental.
People always grab the first two hermetic principles into this discussion: 1 – All is mental. 2 – As above so below and they completely ignore the other principles like the third one : Everything vibrates = energy.
Honestly I feel this approach of overemphasizing the mental is limiting since most of my workings either give mild results or none at all and when they give.…..I noticed this happens cause I had huge influx of energy be it from breathwork or the spirits that I called
No one taught me about the importance of cultivating and raising energy before any magical working till I discovered it from the posts on this forum and it looks like this for other beginners which sucks.
What are your thoughts about this?
I can’t really speak for these others, as I wasn’t there, but it’s not generally mentioned in Western grimoires.
Perhaps this was the kind of “secret” the mystery schools taught or you have to be a high level initiate to get those lessons. 
Certainly alchemy is all about energy working, but the symbolism is only understood with the cipher and is reserved for high ranking people inside the closed orders. It’s only thanks to the Internet that all this is known to us now, and then only in the last couple of decades.
I am fortunate that my path started with energy working - qiging, qi therapy and nei gong - and that gave me perspectives that translate perfectly to alchemy and magick. I read my first western grimoire only 6 or so years ago, and instantly understood it, and what was happening, because of my background in not just qigong but also shamanic practice and dreamwork.
Most people didn’t come to magick that way around, and it’s all poetry and hand waving to them - but it’s actually physics, and technical - it’s a tool, and you must know how to use a tool. You don’t use a hammer by thinking about it or singing songs at it, you have to understand how to wield it and on what. Your hammer is your energy.
Many start in magick by having an issue they can’t solve and turn to magick for a “quick fix” - emphasis on quick - they certainly don’t want to spend time doing energy work, and they are not interested in self development, or knowing themselves. Some want “powers”. Many fade off when the quick fix is not free and easy, and the “powers” (siddhis) can take decades of work to attain, and never touch magick again.
Yes, you get out what you put in.
Part of the reason for the effort in ceremonial magick is to replace the need for technical expertise in moving energy - the energy is moved by the nature of the technique itself, from days and weeks of preparatory immersion, to sitting still for hours in ritual, gaining rapture, and evoking to manifestation - few take that time either.
There’s this marketing veneer over a lot of things and it affects magick too. You can especially see it in the older BALG video and newsletter titles “How to use spirit sigils to get anything you want”. I think there’s caveats in there unspoken. Can you (generally) get anything - within your capacity and where there is a path to manifestation, yes. Can “you” get anything today - depends on you and your energy in your environment, so maybe. But that is part of the learning curve and makes a shitty title.
I’m one of these people 
or let’s say I used to be since I want to change the way I approach magick. It wasn’t always like this when I was a teenager, I got into it for the “ powers ” part and I also wanted to know what are my limits as a human being but as time passed I fell in the trap of “ quick fix ” yet I gotta admit that it saved my ass many times and I even though I’m intending to change my view, I still rely on it sometimes since things are tough here and developing the level of power needed to flip everything the other way would take long time.
Yes they always ignore that part about energy even though it’s the most important aspect of it. seriously a lot of these people who set these trends creep me a little by how they cut out a lot of the details about the methods and paradigm they present to others. it’s like they either throw unwary beginners in a void of disappointment or a lake of burning fires in case something goes wrong due to their lack of understanding what’s actually going on.
On the plus side, those of us who start adding energy working into the mix generally seem to find - and some have posted here - that their magick started getting better results faster.
There’s a risk that comes in at this point, which is related - people push the energy work wanting that to go fast too, and this can be dangerous, and cause damage to the body.
Energy work should start with moving meditations and body healing, working out and eating and sleeping well, to create a strong foundation. You aren’t getting a firehose’s worth of energy through a paper straw - the straw will break.
People often assume it’s safe, and it might not be. What saves most if that they are doing it very gently, and most techniques that are well know are gentle - mantras, tai chi, focus meditations on flames and such, these barely move energy but help condition the body slowly over time, and the energy raises itself when the blocks are cleared. Energy raising too much when there are blocks is what gets you damaged.
Energy work is built into ceremonial magick. The use of intention, emotion, fasting and purification are all used to produce energy for ritual. The chakras and dan tiens are of Eastern invention and only became part of the Western Tradition in the late 19th century when spiritualists like Madam Blavatsky became enamored of the far East.
I get it and thanks for the instruction this is similar to what people say about kundalini ( which is also something I’m interested to work on ) they say one should clean the nadis first and must have a flexible body and erect spine so the energy can flow freely without getting you into a hospital or a grave. I’d be more grateful for more details about energy work.
How does fasting create energy for rituals ? I always see fasting in the list of “ Altered state of consciousness ways” but never understood the mechanism.
I think it doesn’t so much create energy as much as it frees up existing energy that normally gets channeled into digestion.
It concentrates the mind and amplifies the biological processes of the body. When digestion isn’t required, there is more lifeforce to apply to other things.