Conjuring for Fun and Profit

Conjure: to summon by or as if by invocation or incantation b (1): to affect or effect by or as if by magic to summon a devil or spirit by invocation or incantation b: to practice magical arts.

While I have never personally been much of a spell-seller, fetish pusher or ritual performer, the subject is timely as more people seek their self empowerment and blessedly move away from outside authority being the determinant of their lives. The most popular ritual today is watching and listening to the news presented by the media. They cast a powerful spell upon the unconscious watcher. So, if you are going to participate in the ritual, do so consciously.

Whenever we engage in ritual, what we are doing is placing our inner power in an outer object, operator or intercessor. So you can burn candles’ buy spells, talismans, and potions with good effect—only if you believe in their power—and, correspondingly, doubt your own. Not that I have anything against candles except for the particulate matter that interferes with your respiration. My preference is for the equally colorful and non-toxic varieties including those that are battery operated.

Go ahead and use the candle as a focus device to train your concentration. Just remember that whatever arises as you gaze, comes from within you and the context of your own mind. Your visions or hallucinations will be based upon your own background, education and experience…and as is now being discovered, your ancestry. Now back to conjuring.

Allister Crowley was the best known of the conjurers. A late 19th, early 20th century occultist, mostly misunderstood and ill perceived, thought to call up an entity from the shadows. Having done so, he realized that he was responsible for performance and was faced with the question, “Now what do I do with it?” Having it constantly hanging around at the edge of his awareness was not fun.

His was a good example of being careful of what one wishes for because you might get it. The shadow being was dismissed and returned to his realm. There are many realms, each with its own defining vibration. Some of these realms are close enough to our own to be reached and so near that we can establish an interface. Fooling around with them is not recommended to the general public.

Besides, Crowley demanded (summoned) the entity. Supplication to gods and devils is thought to be more effective and safer and respectful communication is a good rule to observe. Perhaps we can have a workshop on the topic.

So it is OK to approach angels with respect and demands generally don’t work. You may have already noticed this with you attempts to communicate with your cat or spouse.

Conjuring, the idea that our ego wills can be forced upon the universal process, arises from fear. Generally we fear the past will repeat itself so we seek protection. Better to raise one’s vibration out of the fear level and into the love level than to live in fear and trembling. You don’t even have to get to enlightenment to be out of fear though it is helpful to remember that the ego mind is fear based, so self-talk is generally negatively oriented and tends to blame.

The idea of the principle of attraction is also handy to recall. Another way to say this is that nothing in our lives comes unbidden. Whatever shows up may not be such that the conscious mind relates to it however. I spoke with someone a couple of weeks ago with undiagnosed and unrelenting pain. Visits to healers, alternative practitioners and even the ER yielded no answers. “I can’t figure it out,” was the lament.

That, in my experience, happens to people a lot. Going to the past (intellectual mind) to deal with today’s events doesn’t always work—and usually doesn’t work for those engaged in spiritual pursuits. Each moment arises anew and the linear ego mind is past oriented.

Once my friend, who had asked to become more conscious, actually spoke to the pain as if it were real—and trusting that her conscious mind could bring the information from the subconscious—it became clear that the discomfort was arising from an inner resistance to cellular change that is a natural part of spiritual “growth” or unfoldment. She had attracted the condition as a corollary of having a physical body that feels. One the mind understood that it was a signal of change, the uncomfortable sensation registering in the nervous system released its connection and disappeared.

The mind—anchored in the past—felt a sensation that was categorized as pain. The body—still carrying the memory of unresolved stress {PTSD—the individual had been struck by an auto previously)} constricted and went into “alarm” mode. Respiration was compromised causing anxiety, causing shallow breathing, triggering anxiety and so on in a circle of seeking in the mind for answers. The mind didn’t have any. It was in what once was called “shell shock,” on overload and unable to process the information.

Yet holding her hand on her heart and calming the body made it possible to allow the answer to come from “nowhere.” In this sense she “conjured the pain” herself. Through the magic of her own energy, she had felt a shift within her body. Pain was the conclusion of the ego mind creating the survival shutdown and producing a state of alarm, anxiety and frustration.

She was able to “send” the conjured pain back to “its realm.” She did so by asking “what was going on?” and “Why are you here?” to the “devil she had called forth.” The pain receptors relaxed and turned off the alarm as she understood the message of the pressure that the mind termed pain.

Most of us, unconsciously, go into the “shadow realms” don’t we? We think that books and television are real, believe that rape, murder and horror is rampant, lock our children inside and call forth the emotional equivalent of that reality. This too is a form of conjuring. And life can become like a soap-opera, romantic comedy, chase-the tail-in-circles form of numbed-out existence.

Don’t enter those realms until you are centered within your own being. The shadow and imaginal realms do exist. Allow them to exist around you and not for you. You don’t’ have to call the emotional equivalent of those realities into your personal world. For example, you might hear about—and imagine--the stress of being a politician or living in their world. You don’t live there, and so don’t need to go there. Breathe and allow it to be.

Those who do live in and perhaps also those who visit vicariously (unconsciously) those illusory worlds and who make them their emotional reality suffer from terrific stressors imposed upon the mindbody system and, in general, the resulting stress-related diseases. This form of conjuring or using the magic of the mind to create an emotional feeling leading to physically experiencing its consequence is a way of life for most.

Its origin typically is in the home; then religion and culture. These inculturations consign most to lives of limit, sleepily unaware of other choices leading to other lives while still in the same body. Conjuring mostly experienced unconsciously, however, can be done for fun and profit.

The first step in conjuring for fun and profit is—Yes, our old friend Full Wave Breathing. Let’s say you want to conjure Joy for example. Perform 15 minutes of the breathing and then ask yourself how you’d feel if you were connected to the feeling of Joy. Then pay attention. Notice how you are breathing. Continue breathing that way with that thought periodically throughout the day. Notice how you feel. You can go there any time.

Go out dancing one evening and anchor good feelings in your body. Associate them with the music and any time you hear it will conjure up the emotional reality that took place at that time. Associate it with a certain brand of drink or perfume, or a particular form of dress and the repeat taste, odor or outfit can trigger an emotional correspondence.

Meeting your reality with positive expectation is important because it puts out a feeling tone or vibration that others, unconsciously usually, respond to. Expect to meet friendly people and you do. Conjuring is an old name for what usually happens below awareness and needs to be made conscious for us to create—manifest—attract--conjure—the kind of lives we’d like.

If you want to learn more about how this conjuring works, read the story of Falstaff the friendly pig in this month’s Messing With Mother article. Otherwise, happy conscious conjuring.

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