I randomly came across this quotation on a podcast somewhere a few months back, but it's stayed with me and the more I've thought about it the more I've realised it's a very useful thing to consider during meditation. The idea is this – just as it is your heart's nature to pump blood and [...]
I believe that one of the key goals of Insight meditation practice (that is practice designed to move one towards greater understanding and enlightenment) is to observe and understand the fundamental way in which we experience reality. It doesn't take much work to realise that a great deal of what we think we are experiencing [...]
One of the peculiar things about going deep into a meditative trance is that, much like when one is dreaming, one tends to accept ideas and concepts as being perfectly normal and mundane which under other circumstances one would find quite unusual or noteworthy. A number of times I've done some meditation, or vision work, [...]
I've recently made a series of posts about things which are bad for magick – magick, in this context, standing in for all spiritual practices. It's just that magick is what I tend to do most of when it comes to spiritual doings, so how I tend to think of spiritual practices. This series of [...]
I moved house about three weeks ago. Whilst we're very much 'here' in the new house, there's still a whole list of things on the 'to do' list, stuff to be organised, sorted, laid out appropriately, and so on. One thing I realised very early on when moving – moving house is bad for magick. [...]
One of the current effects of my practice seems to be that periodically I get new insights or ideas bubbling up through my mind which I then have to go away and think about, or meditate on, for a while to fully make use of them. I'll pass them on here and see if anyone [...]
My friend Hilary over at Online Clarity recently linked to my Magickian's Cycle post with her own comments on whether a similar cycle existed for those who use the I-Ching regularly. She noticed that at times in her own life she'd become very enthusiastic about using the I-Ching, got some great reading, read regularly, then [...]
Meditation has a great deal to offer anyone who is prepared to put in a bit time and effort, but how do you go about it? Well, the first thing to say is there is no single way, no 'right' way to meditate. There are many different techniques, many different ideas, and many different 'aims' [...]
Meditation is such a key part of almost every spiritual tradition, and is recommended as a part of practically all magickal practice… But why? What's so great about it? I've always been an enthusiast for meditation and would recommend it to almost everyone, but my reasons for recommending it have changed over the years. I [...]
I get the impression there's a fair amount of confusion about what meditation practice is like. Some people seem to think that it 'should' be really easy, and therefore become frustrated when they can't achieve their goal quickly. Others seem to think that it's incredibly difficult and therefore they don't try. A lot of people [...]