Magick is all about energy – including ours

As I outlined in a previous post, when a ritualist engages in The Black Work, they are drawing energy from the acausal into this reality. How our own energy interplays with this, however, is of paramount importance. Think of the human body as both a receptacle and antenna: it receives and interprets the acausal energy signature, then amplifies and directs it toward a singular purpose. This is how the clairvoyant is able to work such energy in her favor in order to achieve divination. It’s how a healer is able to mend psychic and spiritual wounds. It’s also why a ritual tends to go more successfully when the practitioner is of sound mind and body, i.e. not overtly stressed, distracted, etc.

We are walking radiants of energy. Our biological cells, tissues, and organs hold electrical properties, and movements of ions across our cell membranes fuel our nervous systems so that they distribute signals throughout our bodies. It is this very electrical transmission that drives everything from our motion, to our physical sensations, to our very heartbeats themselves. The total functions and purposes of the electrical activity in our brains – even after physical death – has yet to be fully understood. All this energy holds inherent spiritual functionality, as well. It’s why those who engage in prayer are often able to make their desires manifest, even though there is no “God” on the receiving end to hear their plea. It’s why the placebo effect can improve a person’s health, as their belief in it directs their mental energy toward a single goal: healing.

Our bodies are waypoints where physical and spiritual energies meet; synergistic catalysts that vibrate power that restructures our reality, yet this happens in a way so seemingly mundane and filtered through a perception so compromised by clinical, materialist worldviews that we underestimate our own potential. Our bodies contain wireless circuits around which flow the amalgamated energies of the physical and acausal alike, though most people are sorely lacking in terms of the latter. This is due to everything from one’s state of mind to their environment, eating habits, and beliefs (or lack thereof). A ritualist with a calcified pineal gland is immediately more disadvantaged when it comes to the success of their working. A skeptical practitioner who is simply going through the motions during an evocation “just to see what happens” is not likely to have a rewarding experience (quite the contrary, it can be a disastrous – and dangerous – one).

Continue to think of the body as an antenna in the context of this following example: Studies have shown that people are more likely to witness spirits and hauntings when they are surrounded by a frequency of around 18.98Hz; this is commonly referred to as the “ghost frequency.” This frequency has been shown to vibrate the human eye, causing shapes and figures to seem to manifest in one’s peripheral vision. Though skeptics use this to explain away the spiritual, on the contrary, it all but confirms the give-and-take nature of the human body and acausal energy. This frequency is a highly recommended one in certain rituals, as it enhances one’s perception of konduits (gateways through which acausal energy and demonic spirits may manifest on the physical plane). This is an instance of one’s “antenna” capturing an electrical signal and drawing spiritual power into one’s vessel, where it can then be used in accordance with one’s will and the electrical transmissions of one’s body.

Think of it this way: Why are the words we speak – and the power and conviction with which we speak them – so important in ritual? Enns, in particular, can be important and potent during an evocation, helping to harmonize the physical body’s energies with the entity being called upon; this is done through what is called an enn chant, the vocalizations of which are vibrated out into the world to produce change by way of the energy contained therein. In a more general sense, the words we say and the emotions and intentions behind them have real bearing on the nature of our reality. This is why a group of healers with absolute passion and belief directed toward an ill person can achieve exactly what they set out to do through their collective chanting. It’s why governments are able to conduct psy ops so effectively, the words of their propaganda being the source of their power, directed toward a specific goal. It’s why saying something as simple as, “I love you” or “I hate you,” can utterly transform the psychological and spiritual state of the person hearing it.

The energy and capabilities that naturally give us all the potential to be magickians can also have significant bearing on our own spiritual interactions and experiences, as outlined in the 18.98Hz example. Certain demons may take special interest in someone who has a unique energy signature in their brain, or who has a particular aura (auras, by the way, are generated by a combination of physical energy and spirit). Environment, circumstance, and context all play an enormous role in this, which is why the correct or appropriate ritual setting is so fundamental to achieving a satisfactory working.

If you’ll recall in some of my earlier writing, I mentioned that a union of opposites, or a coalescence of seemingly paradoxical elements, is one of the underpinnings of the acausal. In this vein, a lack of physical motion (and thus a reduction of expenditure of physical energy), combined with the clarity of mind that comes with exercises such as meditation, is often the ideal way to vibrate one’s energy at such a speed, and in such tandem with one’s spiritual hunger, so as to pierce the veil between the physical plane and the spiritual realm, drawing in chaos energy and allowing the demonic to manifest in a way that our perception can record. There are caveats to this, of course, such as necessary associated incantations and sigils, but the point is that we all possess the ability to use our energies in metaphysical ways.

I will provide two metaphors to better elucidate two processes: the first being the way we interact with the spiritual, and the second being the way it evades or slips out of the perception of most human beings. The first metaphor is The Rice Experiment. If you place a small figurine on a bed of dried rice, and then vibrate the bowl of rice at a strong enough intensity, the figurine will sink beneath the rice grains and disappear into it. Much in the same way, when we vibrate our energy in accordance with spiritual practices at a rapid enough rate – whether through incantation, evocation, meditation, etc. – part of our consciousness will slip beneath and beyond the physical plane and into the spiritual (this is also the impetus behind astral projection). See it as one’s spirit prising apart the very atoms that make up the material world and slipping through hairline cracks in between them, falling down a narrow rivulet into another dimension, another state of being.

The second metaphor, and the one that I use to explain why the average human being can’t perceive the spiritual world, is The Lizard Experiment. In this scenario, there are two lizards crawling on the wall of a room. The room is empty except for a single balloon floating in the air. Now assume that the lizards can only crawl and not jump, and can only see what’s directly in front of them (no peripheral vision). As the lizards crawl along the wall, one of them slips and falls directly onto the balloon. The first lizard tries to find its mate by crawling along the walls, scouring every inch of them. Meanwhile, the second lizard tries to find its mate by crawling along the surface of the balloon. Neither can find the other, because their vision does not permit them to see beyond two dimensions. From the perspective of the first lizard, the second lizard slipped into another dimension.

In the same way, spirits exist in a dimension beyond the normal perception of human beings. When we reorient ourselves, however, through calling acausal energies into ourselves and through the magick and ritual of The Black Work, we expose ourselves to the spiritual realm and thus allow our perception to be enhanced, thus the demonic can expose themselves to us in a way that we can comprehend.

In Essays in Occultism, Spiritism, and Demonology, a man wintering in Mexico City with his family spoke of a disembodied voice that warned him to quickly attend to his daughter. Upon finding her sound asleep in her bed, he was horrified to discover a deadly scorpion just inches from her, poised to strike. “Quickly lifting the rug from the floor,” he said, “I fell upon and smothered it.” Of his experience, he spoke of spirits and our inability to see them until they allow it. “We are surrounded with beings that we know not,” he said. “A sense is wanting to us, and if but a veil dropped, we might see this room filled with beings who look on us.”

That missing sense – indeed, so often called the “sixth sense” – is the ability to perceive that which lay beyond our physical plane. There are things that so few of us are fortunate enough to gain witness to, and if so, only due to the careful manipulation of our energies for a spiritual purpose. Even fewer are granted this sight by the spirits themselves, and fewer still are born with the ability to be a natural mystic; a “sensitive.” The tools, however, already exist within ourselves. We merely need to learn how to use them.