Simple to Advanced Energy Manipulation

Usually students are just told to visualize energy for energy manipulation exercises. I feel that this great at first, but eventually you need to start to really feel the energy. I don’t believe that most people can reach such a state of awareness without experimentation; however I also think that no one can experiment in magick without an idea of what they want. This is because you can’t really work you’re willpower without a goal to work towards. In other words you have to have an idea of what kind of energy you want to build, and more importantly, why.

There are many different ways to get farther connected with the energies around you. Here are four ideas that I’ve used myself listed in order of least to most challenging:

1. Feeling for patterns and differences in the energies in the objects and space around you
2. Connecting to the energy around you as if it is part of your own body
3. Taking the entire universe into your own being/merging your soul into the void
4. Spell work

Each of these is surprising and difficult in its own right. Each has its own unique qualities of learning.

Feeling patterns of energies seems simple at first, but I have been working on this for a few years and I just figured something new out two days ago. There is always something new to learn by listening to our world. Every environment has its own energy signature. That signature is echoed in the other planes. By feeling out the energies that surround you, you can be able to not only develop a greater sense of detail, but you may eventually be able to connect to the astral and elemental planes while fully conscious. It also allows you to tell things about people at first glance that it should take weeks or even months to know. Most importantly in the development of your energy manipulating abilities is that this, in time, will give you a sense of energy as if it was a physical object.

Once you are able to feel energy as if it was solid you can begin to move it as if it was apart of your body. In a way this is your willpower’s equivalent to martial artists using weapons. Something that is previously considered separate from you now becomes as much a part of you as your own arm. The first thing you do is become aware of the energy around you. Next comes the new and hard part, you have to try to feel through the energy around you. Expand your senses as if you were physically touching something out of your reach. Once you have done this enough you may start to feel as if the energy is a part of you. After this it is not much of a jump to contracting and relaxing the energy as if it is a muscle.

The hardest all at once to master is easily merging your soul with the void. This is reaching the state of awareness which allows you to feel the entire universe within yourself. I am incredibly lucky to have developed this. I only managed it because I stumbled onto it one day through an epiphany. If the gods are the entire universe and there is nothing of the gods that is not of us… so we are the universe. Within a minute or so of thinking this way I had the oddest sensation of cosmic energy and clarity. It was as if the entire universe was flowing through my veins. This state of mind takes most decades to develop so please don’t get discouraged if it doesn’t work right away.

The reason I put spell work as the hardest exercise is because you will never truly be done with this. There will always be room for improvement. The reason I believe it to be a good exercise is that when you invoke the goddess and work with the universe to accomplish your goals you are taking lessons from the goddess herself. For this especially I would recommend solitary work, however it is always present and will always work well when you or a group call upon the goddess.

As always I ask that if you have any questions, comments, worries, or ideas for something specific you’d like to talk about, please either leave a comment or email me at magickweasle@yahoo.com