I have practiced magic on occasion. I understand the physiological processes and the means involved, but to most people it would appear to be magic. A good friend, one of whose doctorates was in physiology, was experiencing pain. I put her in a trance and redirected her blood flow to raise the temperature in the area, which helped. Later, we worked together on on other self-directed body changes. We were able to raise the level of endorphins, and then lower the level of eosinophils. We discussed trying to change the shapes of body parts, but I was unwilling to proceed. I want to explore whether humans can actually shape-shift.
Here's "The Devil" from Crowley's Thoth tarot deck, illustrated by Lady Frieda Harris: http://www.esotericmeanings.com/thoth-devil-tarot-card-tutorial/
I tried to read Crowley's "The Book of Thoth" and dropped out about a third of the way through. Clearly I am not cut out to be a magician.
This poem by Yeats was featured in Stehpen King's novel THE STAND, having to do with a devistating global pandemic that literally ended the world.
I think the poem has great rellevance for our situation today.
The Second Coming
W. B. Yeats - 1865-1939
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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I have practiced magic on occasion. I understand the physiological processes and the means involved, but to most people it would appear to be magic. A good friend, one of whose doctorates was in physiology, was experiencing pain. I put her in a trance and redirected her blood flow to raise the temperature in the area, which helped. Later, we worked together on on other self-directed body changes. We were able to raise the level of endorphins, and then lower the level of eosinophils. We discussed trying to change the shapes of body parts, but I was unwilling to proceed. I want to explore whether humans can actually shape-shift.