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Meta-Magick Online Course:
Where Magick Meets the Brain / Magick and Neuro-Linguistics
With Philip H. Farber8 week course from October 6 - November 30
Take a trip into your own mind to discover your innate magical abilities and your relationship to gods, goddesses, loas, orishas, fictional characters, corporations, schools of thought, social movements, and world-changing works of art.
Meta-Magick draws on diverse roots, including Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), martial arts, memetics, applied kinesiology, hypnosis, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, yoga, Taoism, neuro-scientific discoveries, and much more, in addition to Western esoteric traditions. Meta-Magick offers tools and systems to uncover, observe and replicate phenomena in ways that can be calibrated and tested. This results in a collection of diverse behaviors, techniques, and patterns that we can combine in creative ways, resulting in new rituals, works of art, entities, schools of thought, new paradigms and so on. "Meta" means "above" or "beyond," and "Meta-Magick" signifies magick that enables us to think about magick and produce magick. It is magick about magick.
With the techniques of Meta-Magick, we all become the creators of our own traditions, the originators of our own magick. With practice, these become just as rich as - or even richer than - the historical traditions.
Meta-Magick dovetails nicely with most existing schools of magick (and is great for newcomers, too), adding practical methods to calibrate experience, test results, and really and truly change your world.Meta-Magick: Where Magick Meets the Brain includes exercises and rituals from the book Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem (Weiser Books) by Philip H. Farber, along with audio and video demonstrations. Where appropriate, you will be able to read the exercise, experience an audio guided version, and watch the exercise being demonstrated.
Course Outline:
Meta-Magick: Where Magick Meets the Brain / Magick and Neuro-Linguistics
What if Milton Erickson and Aleister Crowley had compared notes?
Somewhat over twenty years ago I was beginning to explore both ritual magick and NLP. In my naïve way, I quickly decided that the two fields would naturally complement each other. On the most obvious level, the language used in the content of a ritual or meditation could be modified in ways that made it more effective, or even mind-altering in its own right. Then there was the experience that rituals worked much, much better when deliberate efforts to achieve trance states were made. And then there was the idea that one could use NLP terminology and methods to model the experience of successful magicians, to explore the kinds of behaviors and perceptions that helped magick to work.
“You can’t do that!”
The response from my fellow magicians at the time was a resounding, “No! You can’t do that!” I took that as something of a challenge and began to pursue the synthesis of magick and NLP.
The eventual result was Meta-Magick and it became an inclusive form, drawing on effective behaviors from a variety of traditions along with those of ritual magick. Even better, it quickly became possible to help each individual identify their own, naturally-occurring effective behaviors and turn those actions toward conscious magick.
Meta-Magical Methods
Meta-Magick presently exists as a body of about 100 exercises that exist in two books, the soon-to-be-published Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem (Weiser Books, 2008) and the short e-book “The Book of Exhilaration and Mastery” – and, in practice, as an endlessly recombining system of new exercises.
Meta-Magical Media
Module One: Attention – “Everything that exists, exists in consciousness as a collection of perceptual bits, gathered by attention.” An exploration of how focused attention can change your reality.
Module Two: Language – “We create our language, as our language is creating our consciousness.” Find out how your words and thoughts can build and influence your world.
Module Three: Passion – “Passion is the electricity that flows along the wire of language. Passion with rapport is charisma, seduction, and love. Passion and trance is ecstasy.” How can your own inner power be unleashed to create your magick?
Module Four: Fitting – “A key must fit into a lock before it can manipulate the mechanism.” How can you fit into your world and desires well enough to unlock and manifest your aspirations?
Module Five: Trance – “Humans and entities have the ability to select their trances. This is often a very simple matter of directing the attention.” What is the state that empowers your magick? How do you get there reliably?
Module Six: Making – “The element of making represents the interaction between all the other elements, Attention, Language, Passion, Fitting, and Trance, in such a way as to bring forth something tangible into the world. This is the process of an idea, concept, pattern, form, or entity moving from “internal” parts of consciousness to the “external” parts.” How do you make your magick practical and manifest it on a physical level?
Module Seven: The Perfection of the Self – “Every single one of us has the potential for exhilaration and mastery. Every human being on this planet has the ability to rise above our current self concept.”
Module Eight: The Creation of Memetic Entities – “Schools of thought, political ideologies, religious beliefs, corporate structures, forms of government – and much else – depend on the attention of humans to exist and they have built-in abilities to perpetuate, to include more humans, and even to reproduce. These self-perpetuating thought-forms, for our purposes here, are called “memetic entities.” “Democracy” is a memetic entity, as is “Aikido,” “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,” “Jazz,” “Buddha,” “Beelzebub,” “Sherlock Holmes,” “the English Language,” and Atem. They are patterns of information that act with autonomy across time and yet interact with humans on many levels.” How can you create your own transpersonal entities?
