| Energy. Its all about energy. All matter is made up | | | | are a couple of odd ones.Yoda provided some |
| of condensed energy. What if there is also an | | | | interesting dialogue that helped put it into words |
| energy that ties everyone together. Call it Dark | | | | for me."Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me |
| matter, the astral plane or whatever you want. I | | | | by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you |
| will call it the astral or energy field for my own | | | | should not. For my ally is the Force, and a |
| ease. When I perform a magick spell I am tapping | | | | powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. |
| into that energy field. I touch my mind on the | | | | Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous |
| fabric of the universe in order to nudge it | | | | beings are we, not this crude matter. You must |
| towards my desires. | | | | feel the Force around you; here, between you, |
| The basic idea behind any magic ritual is to open | | | | me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even |
| the mind to this energy. To expand ones | | | | between the land and the ship." and "Death is a |
| awareness and connect with the energy that | | | | natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you |
| binds everything in existence. This is not easy, we | | | | who transform into the Force." |
| are condensed energy, but we do not connect | | | | From a movie or not there is some deep wisdom |
| with flowing energy well. If you have ever been | | | | in these words. |
| shocked by electricity, you now what I mean. | | | | Reading about Hallucinogenic trips. In this case it |
| The trick is in thinking as a consciousness, not as | | | | was the consistent feeling of oneness with the |
| a physical being. To let ones thoughts become | | | | universe and a notion of cosmic awareness many |
| energy themselves. Then to expel that energy | | | | users experience. Some might say its just a |
| out into the astral. | | | | common effect of the drug. I think it is, but in a |
| Once your "spell" is cast into the energy field, the | | | | deeper way than you think. I think the drug is |
| idea is for it to affect probabilities and chance, in | | | | pulling down the barriers of reality and allowing the |
| your favor. It does this by the quickest and most | | | | mind to see the universe as it really is, energy. |
| direct manner. The hard part is adapting your | | | | The experience of senses being spliced, such as |
| mind to this kind of expansion. To produce and | | | | tasting a color and seeing sound. What if this in |
| cast out enough energy to get the results you | | | | not merely the drug mis-wiring the brain. What if |
| want. This can be hard for some, easy for others | | | | the drug really is expanding your mind to attune |
| and near impossible for others. It is not easy to | | | | to additional layers of the energy field. |
| set aside the mundane world we experience | | | | Energy never dies, it only changes. |
| constantly and project ourselves as beings of | | | | By conducting magick rituals I am not just trying |
| energy. | | | | to make stuff happen, I am trying to connect |
| Yet some do this without intending to. Identical | | | | with the very fabric of time and space. I have |
| twins that feel each others pain without ever | | | | touched it, minutely. I have experienced it in |
| meeting, the hallucinogenic drug users that feel | | | | dreams and felt its touch in the dark. Yet only |
| one with the universe even if only briefly, the | | | | briefly. It is a life long pursuit to become one with |
| "psychic" that picks up on things they couldn't | | | | the astral before death. Through this pursuit I |
| possibly know about. I believe these are all | | | | have experienced some strange, sometimes |
| examples of people connecting with the energy | | | | frightening but ultimately wonderful things. It is a |
| field. It is also my belief that this is where ghosts | | | | rich and fulfilling pursuit. |
| dwell. These are people with strong enough | | | | Albert Einstein "A human being is a part of a |
| energy and will, or sorrow to remain cohesive | | | | whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time |
| elements within the energy. Perhaps all dead | | | | and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts |
| creatures are there, the energy of their life and | | | | and feelings as something separated from the |
| death forever infused with their essence. | | | | rest... a kind of optical delusion of his |
| I believe this is why its mainly when you are at | | | | consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for |
| peace and relaxed you see and experience them. | | | | us, restricting us to our personal desires and to |
| The mind lets its guard down and the energy field | | | | affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our |
| becomes closer. The departed energy essences | | | | task must be to free ourselves from this prison |
| (spirits), thus become easier to stumble across. | | | | by widening our circle of compassion to embrace |
| That's why they disappear so quickly; they | | | | all living creatures and the whole of nature in its |
| haven't left, your mind snapped "back to reality" | | | | beauty." |
| and slammed down its barriers again. This is why; | | | | "That means nothing. People like us, who believe in |
| I believe, skeptics never experience anything. | | | | physics, know that the distinction between past, |
| They are trying, either to or not to have an | | | | present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent |
| experience. In trying they become incapable. If | | | | illusion." |
| you watch Ghost Hunters you know they don't | | | | "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very |
| go into a location trying, they go in open minded. | | | | persistent one." |
| Huge difference. | | | | I seek to set aside the illusion. |
| I assembled my notions from many sources: Here | | | | |