{"id":7688,"date":"2013-03-01T01:10:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T06:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=7952"},"modified":"2013-02-20T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:10:43","slug":"prunings-from-the-hedge-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2013\/03\/01\/prunings-from-the-hedge-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Prunings from the Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conserving Magical Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We all contain magical energy, and this energy is unique to each of us.\u00a0 But due to conditions of modern life, all of our magical energy is deployed in habits, habits of perception, of feeling, of thinking and doing.\u00a0 Very little is left over every day for exploring our magical heritage.\u00a0 This is why most spell books on the market are not much help in casting spells.\u00a0 They take a cookbook approach which assumes that people as they are have sufficient magical energy available to make them work. \u00a0They don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

In order to access our own magical energy, we must begin by saving little amounts of energy which we otherwise fritter away each day in wasteful habits.\u00a0 This is the starting-point of the Inner Craft.\u00a0 It is a very small door, like the door Alice went through into Wonderland \u2013 she had to take a magic cordial first to make herself little. It begins, in other words, with small efforts.<\/p>\n

Conserving magical energy requires patience.\u00a0 It takes a while to save up sufficient energy to make a difference.\u00a0 However, we are so used to our typical energy states, which run in cycles, that we recognize a difference in them almost immediately after starting efforts at conservation.\u00a0 We may suddenly worry that we don\u2019t seem to be worrying so much anymore.\u00a0 This sounds silly, but we are so used to our own ups and downs that it takes all of a witch\u2019s Power to Dare to venture into this unknown territory.<\/p>\n

Here is a general map of our familiar territory, which we will be leaving behind:<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 Cycles of worry and anxiety.<\/p>\n

2 \u2013 Cycles of small nervous movements.<\/p>\n

3 \u2013 Cycles of inner talk.<\/p>\n

4 \u2013 Cycles of negativity.<\/p>\n

5 \u2013 Mental and material clutter.<\/p>\n

6 \u2013 Patterns of perception.<\/p>\n

These are the main areas of our life which commandeer and squander our available magical energy.\u00a0 The simplest one to start with is the second, small nervous movements.\u00a0 When the witch sits, he or she is still.\u00a0 This is the power of the North, the Power to Keep Silent, as expressed by the body.\u00a0 Regular exercise is necessary in order to remain still in a vibrant, poised manner.\u00a0 The witch notes the situations under which he or she tends to begin scratching, or tapping the foot, or whichever motion is involved.\u00a0 If this occurs while sitting in a chair, the witch gets up immediately at the first sign of it, and does something else.\u00a0 It is no good waiting until the train of habit runs you over; as soon as you see it approaching, you must get off the track.\u00a0 This requires the cultivation of vigilance.<\/p>\n

The first item on the list above may seem necessary to running our practical lives and avoiding financial or some other form of ruin.\u00a0 If I don\u2019t worry, how will I pay my bills on time?\u00a0 The answer is to sit down daily, preferably in the morning, and make a list of daily obligations.\u00a0 Plan on paper, or on the computer, and spend some time every day reviewing your plans.\u00a0 If you have a long-standing problem, such as finding adequate employment, do something every day towards solving it.\u00a0 Then, when you feel you have done enough for that day, close your planning book.\u00a0 If there are tasks to perform, do them.\u00a0 But by evening you should feel free to relax your practical self and see to other dimensions of your existence.<\/p>\n

Eliminating clutter in your life, item number five, supports practical planning.\u00a0 Go through your closets and shelves and dresser drawers, and examine all your papers and other stored items.\u00a0 You may find something useful to your current needs.\u00a0 Use what you find, or give or throw it away, or sell it.\u00a0 The mind keeps track of everything buried deep in closets, even if you have forgotten some of those things consciously.\u00a0 Dealing with them, finding a use for them, not only opens up new opportunities in your life, it unties little energy knots that you may have carried around for years.<\/p>\n

Clutter also occupies time.\u00a0 We typically over-commit ourselves to meetings, projects, visits, and other entanglements which fill up our already busy schedules.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t necessary to be busy all the time in order to live a full life.\u00a0 On the contrary, the more we do or promise to do, the less freedom we possess to explore new paths.\u00a0 The multi-millionaire J.P. Morgan complained that he always felt hemmed in by his busy commitments.\u00a0 Practice saying things like \u201cI\u2019ll have to think about it\u201d instead of immediately saying yes.<\/p>\n

Inner talk, item number three, generally takes either of two forms.\u00a0 I call these the rehash and the rehearsal.\u00a0 The rehash involves repeating mentally conversations held recently, perhaps modifying the responses one made in order to appear cleverer or more compassionate to oneself.\u00a0 We wish we had said something more, so we say it in our minds afterwards.\u00a0 A certain amount of review of our behavior after the fact is a healthy habit, but a little goes a long way.\u00a0 Obsessively revolving past conversations, or imaginary extensions of them, consumes an enormous amount of energy and increases our feeling of dependence on how others see us.<\/p>\n

In the other direction we have the rehearsal.\u00a0 We think about an upcoming event, an encounter with someone perhaps, and we begin talking to that person in our minds.\u00a0 This can be more or less hypothetical, as of course all thoughts about the future are hypothetical to some degree.\u00a0 Here again, there is a fruitful use of this habit, as when we are planning what we will say in a job interview.\u00a0 But too much last minute \u2018cramming\u2019 is usually counter-productive.\u00a0 Plan what you will do and say, then lay it aside and direct your attention to other things.<\/p>\n

When a witch feels caught up in the rehash or rehearsal, he or she identifies it first, thinking \u201cthat is the rehash\u201d or \u201cthat is the rehearsal,\u201d and then turns the attention to the surroundings, or some other present reality, such as a book.\u00a0 Here as elsewhere, it is a matter of knowing when to stop.<\/p>\n

The fourth item, cycles of negativity, must be approached in a two-step process.\u00a0 If we have habits of making sarcastic jokes, we may justify this by seeing ourselves as witty persons.\u00a0 Encouraged by the laughter of others (which may have only been polite), we may feel that we have a reputation to uphold as comedians or critics.\u00a0 Or perhaps we dislike political correctness and see ourselves as rebels when we make remarks some find offensive.\u00a0 Or we may see ourselves as heroic figures motivated by righteous outrage to tilt at windmills.<\/p>\n

The first stage of saving magical energy by not squandering it in expressions of negative emotion is to discover what self-image, or images, we are using to justify such expression.\u00a0 If your expression takes place in a social setting, you should consider the possibility that less grumbling or joking from you will be a relief to your usual audience.\u00a0 If you express negativity in private, perhaps cursing other drivers or your computer, see yourself doing it and how absurd it would look to someone else.<\/p>\n

Once you have deflated the justification for your negativity, it will be easier to work on deflecting the expression itself.\u00a0 Here again, think of the approaching train: you must see it chuffing along towards you from a distance and jump off the tracks well in time before it sweeps you up.\u00a0 In other words, you must become familiar with your cycles of energy wastage so you will know when to break them.\u00a0 Habit cycles are like chains, and every chain has a weakest link.\u00a0 Finding the weak link is the key to breaking the chain.<\/p>\n

In doing all these things, the witch should avoid the feeling that the Inner Craft is a goody-goody ethical pursuit.\u00a0 It is nothing of the kind.\u00a0 We want access to free energy, and in order to get it, we must become misers of energy.\u00a0 We must bear in mind that all our energy is already deployed, and our only hope of breaking free from our energy strait-jackets is by saving little bits of it, one bit at a time.<\/p>\n

Once we have become vigilant with these five items it will be time to turn our attention to the subtlest and, potentially, the most powerful form of conservation, changing patterns of perception.\u00a0 We perceive all the time, and our way of looking at and listening to the world is a habit of such long standing that changing it is a most subtle affair.\u00a0 It is necessary to have the other five areas well in hand before attempting this last, sixth one.\u00a0 If we go for the sixth item prematurely, we shall achieve some novel effects, but before long we will drop it as an interesting exercise which goes nowhere.<\/p>\n

The Inner Craft distinguishes between directing the attention to where the eyes are pointing, which it calls looking, and spreading the attention from that, extending it to perceptions lying to the side of where our eyes are pointing, or above or below where they are pointing.\u00a0 The eyes do not move to these things, just the attention.<\/p>\n

In the same way, changing perceptual patterns involves extending the attention to background sounds as well as to sounds we are currently focused on.\u00a0 We generally listen to background sounds sporadically and then shut them out if they are annoying or fail to interest us, as with muzack in a store or elevator.\u00a0 The witch takes in all available sounds continuously, for this saves the energy habitually employed in blocking them out.\u00a0 It takes much more energy to ignore peripheral sights and sounds than to include them in attention.\u00a0 This is the secret of this form of magical energy conservation.<\/p>\n

Attending to things to the side is called gazing in the Inner Craft.\u00a0 We can gaze to the side of an object, such as a television screen, or we can switch our eyes to the side of the screen and gaze back at it.\u00a0 If you practice switching back and forth from one form of gazing to the other, you will feel a sensation starting in the back of your head at some point.\u00a0 Something will open up back there.\u00a0 Don\u2019t try to make this happen, or you will become involved in imagination.\u00a0 Just be aware when it does happen on its own.<\/p>\n

When you close your eyes to go to sleep at night, you will see little lights and patterns produced by the gentle pressure of your eyelids on the retinas.\u00a0 These are called phosphenes.\u00a0 Generally we ignore them and just go to sleep.\u00a0 This is probably for the best, for if you follow them with the attention, you may or may not drop off.\u00a0 But it isn\u2019t necessary to keep your eyes open all day until it is time to go to sleep.\u00a0 If you observe animals, they spend a good deal of time with their eyes closed.\u00a0 This is especially true of cats, at least as far as my observation goes (I am a cat person).\u00a0 You should rest your eyes two or three times during the day, and as you are not doing so to take a nap (though you may fall asleep anyway), you can observe your phosphenes.\u00a0 This is called \u201creading the book of the eyelids\u201d in the Inner Craft.<\/p>\n

You may find, while your eyes are closed, that your hearing becomes more acute.\u00a0 You can play with this sensation by opening and shutting your eyes at intervals.\u00a0 Do this while sitting or lying at home, or while a passenger in a car or train, looking out the window.\u00a0 Don\u2019t try it while walking or driving!<\/p>\n

Exercises of these sorts increase our use of the ears and relax somewhat our over-reliance on the eyes.\u00a0 In particular, extending one\u2019s visual attention to the side (or above or below) of where the eyes are pointing tends to relax the muscles at the outer sides of the eyes.\u00a0 These are typically tensed because we are using our eyes to track on objects, as though they were searchlights.\u00a0 Pueblo Indian chief Ochwiay Biano (Mountain Lake) once remarked to the psychologist C.G. Jung that \u201cThe white man\u2019s eyes have a staring expression; they are always seeking something\u2026they are always uneasy and restless \u2026We think they are mad.\u201d [1]<\/a> From being searchlights, the eyes can become passive windows, taking in the whole visual field as it is presented.<\/p>\n

When the muscles at the outer sides of the eyes relax, the witch will feel a peculiar energy entering there, an energy carrying feelings and what might be called \u2018wordless knowledge.\u2019<\/p>\n

Another way of taking in the whole visual field at once is to keep our headlessness in view. [2]<\/a> Did you know you were headless?\u00a0 You knew this when you were a small child, before you were told that \u2018the baby in the mirror\u2019 was you, yourself.\u00a0 At that point, we began to ignore the little we could see of our heads without using a mirror or other reflecting surface: perhaps a blob for the nose, eyelashes in bright sunlight, or a cowlick hanging down in front.\u00a0 If we keep those sensations in view, we will stay in contact with the whole visual field.\u00a0 Losing those sensations, we tend to alternate between thinking and looking.\u00a0 We feel that we are shut up in our heads, looking from moment to moment out of two portholes at the world around us.\u00a0 If we keep our headlessness in view, we shall think and see at the same time, as Janus the threshold guardian does at the Pagan\u2019s front door, looking out and in at once with his two faces. We shall live on the outside of our bodies.<\/p>\n

There is much more to this part of the Inner Craft dealing with perceptual patterns, such as noticing shadows.\u00a0 Cars at midday roll along over their shadow carpets without casting them back from the wheels.\u00a0 When we walk home in moonlight, the moon keeps pace with us.\u00a0 When we cross our eyes looking at two candles placed side by side at eye level, a third candle appears between them, combining their colors and features. \u00a0These are only a few out of many perceptual patterns which help to release our magical energy; but it is unnecessary to mention all of them, since practicing a few of the basic ones already mentioned will inevitably lead to all the rest.<\/p>\n

If you take the six items above in the recommended sequence, you will be able to integrate the Inner Craft in your daily lives, and in the Circle you will hum with magical energy.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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\u00a0Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

HARDING, D. E., On Having No Head; Zen and the Re-discovery of <\/span><\/p>\n

the Obvious<\/span>.\u00a0 London and New York, Arkana, 1986.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

JUNG, Carl, Memories. Dreams, Reflections<\/span>, New York, Vintage Books,<\/p>\n

1965.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Jung, C.G., Memories, Dreams, Reflections<\/span>, p. 248.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[2]<\/a> See On Having No Head<\/span>, by D.E. Harding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conserving Magical Energy   We all contain magical energy, and this energy is unique to each of us.\u00a0 But due to conditions of modern life, all of our magical energy is deployed in habits, habits of perception, of feeling, of thinking and doing.\u00a0 Very little is left over every day for exploring our magical heritage.\u00a0 This is why most spell books on the market are not much help in casting spells.\u00a0 They take a cookbook approach which assumes that people as they are have sufficient magical energy available to make them work. \u00a0They don\u2019t. In order to access our own magical energy, we must begin by saving little amounts of energy which we otherwise fritter away each day in wasteful habits.\u00a0 This is the starting-point of the Inner Craft.\u00a0 It is a very small door, like the door Alice went through into Wonderland \u2013 she had to take a magic cordial first to make herself little. It begins, in other words, with small efforts. Conserving magical energy requires patience.\u00a0 It takes a while to save up sufficient energy to make a difference.\u00a0 However, we are so used to our typical energy states, which run in cycles, that we recognize a difference in them almost immediately after starting efforts at conservation.\u00a0 We may suddenly worry that we don\u2019t seem to be worrying so much anymore.\u00a0 This sounds silly, but we are so used to our own ups and downs that it takes all of a witch\u2019s Power to Dare to venture into this unknown territory. Here is a general map of our familiar territory, which we will be leaving behind: 1 \u2013 Cycles of worry and anxiety. 2 \u2013 Cycles of small nervous movements. 3 \u2013 Cycles of inner talk. 4 \u2013 Cycles of negativity. 5 \u2013 Mental and material clutter. 6 \u2013 Patterns of perception. These are the main areas of our life which commandeer and squander our available magical energy.\u00a0 The simplest one to start with is the second, small nervous movements.\u00a0 When the witch sits, he or she is still.\u00a0 This is the power of the North, the Power to Keep Silent, as expressed by the body.\u00a0 Regular exercise is necessary in order to remain still in a vibrant, poised manner.\u00a0 The witch notes the situations under which he or she tends to begin scratching, or tapping the foot, or whichever motion is involved.\u00a0 If this occurs while sitting in a chair, the witch gets up immediately at the first sign of it, and does something else.\u00a0 It is no good waiting until the train of habit runs you over; as soon as you see it approaching, you must get off the track.\u00a0 This requires the cultivation of vigilance. The first item on the list above may seem necessary to running our practical lives and avoiding financial or some other form of ruin.\u00a0 If I don\u2019t worry, how will I pay my bills on time?\u00a0 The answer is to sit down daily, preferably in the morning, and make a list of daily obligations.\u00a0 Plan on paper, or on the computer, and spend some time every day reviewing your plans.\u00a0 If you have a long-standing problem, such as finding adequate employment, do something every day towards solving it.\u00a0 Then, when you feel you have done enough for that day, close your planning book.\u00a0 If there are tasks to perform, do them.\u00a0 But by evening you should feel free to relax your practical self and see to other dimensions of your existence. Eliminating clutter in your life, item number five, supports practical planning.\u00a0 Go through your closets and shelves and dresser drawers, and examine all your papers and other stored items.\u00a0 You may find something useful to your current needs.\u00a0 Use what you find, or give or throw it away, or sell it.\u00a0 The mind keeps track of everything buried deep in closets, even if you have forgotten some of those things consciously.\u00a0 Dealing with them, finding a use for them, not only opens up new opportunities in your life, it unties little energy knots that you may have carried around for years. Clutter also occupies time.\u00a0 We typically over-commit ourselves to meetings, projects, visits, and other entanglements which fill up our already busy schedules.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t necessary to be busy all the time in order to live a full life.\u00a0 On the contrary, the more we do or promise to do, the less freedom we possess to explore new paths.\u00a0 The multi-millionaire J.P. Morgan complained that he always felt hemmed in by his busy commitments.\u00a0 Practice saying things like \u201cI\u2019ll have to think about it\u201d instead of immediately saying yes. Inner talk, item number three, generally takes either of two forms.\u00a0 I call these the rehash and the rehearsal.\u00a0 The rehash involves repeating mentally conversations held recently, perhaps modifying the responses one made in order to appear cleverer or more compassionate to oneself.\u00a0 We wish we had said something more, so we say it in our minds afterwards.\u00a0 A certain amount of review of our behavior after the fact is a healthy habit, but a little goes a long way.\u00a0 Obsessively revolving past conversations, or imaginary extensions of them, consumes an enormous amount of energy and increases our feeling of dependence on how others see us. In the other direction we have the rehearsal.\u00a0 We think about an upcoming event, an encounter with someone perhaps, and we begin talking to that person in our minds.\u00a0 This can be more or less hypothetical, as of course all thoughts about the future are hypothetical to some degree.\u00a0 Here again, there is a fruitful use of this habit, as when we are planning what we will say in a job interview.\u00a0 But too much last minute \u2018cramming\u2019 is usually counter-productive.\u00a0 Plan what you will do and say, then lay it aside and direct your attention to other things. When a witch feels caught up in the rehash or rehearsal, he or she identifies it first, thinking \u201cthat is the rehash\u201d or \u201cthat is the rehearsal,\u201d and then turns the attention to the surroundings, or some other present reality, such as a book.\u00a0 Here as elsewhere, it is a matter of knowing when to stop. The fourth item, cycles of negativity, must be approached in a two-step process.\u00a0 If we have habits of making sarcastic jokes, we may justify this by seeing ourselves as witty persons.\u00a0 Encouraged by the laughter of others (which may have only been polite), we may feel that we have a reputation to uphold as comedians or critics.\u00a0 Or perhaps we dislike political correctness and see ourselves as rebels when we make remarks some find offensive.\u00a0 Or we may see ourselves as heroic figures motivated by righteous outrage to tilt at windmills. The first stage of saving magical energy by not squandering it in expressions of negative emotion is to discover what self-image, or images, we are using to justify such expression.\u00a0 If your expression takes place in a social setting, you should consider the possibility that less grumbling or joking from you will be a relief to your usual audience.\u00a0 If you express negativity in private, perhaps cursing other drivers or your computer, see yourself doing it and how absurd it would look to someone else. Once you have deflated the justification for your negativity, it will be easier to work on deflecting the expression itself.\u00a0 Here again, think of the approaching train: you must see it chuffing along towards you from a distance and jump off the tracks well in time before it sweeps you up.\u00a0 In other words, you must become familiar with your cycles of energy wastage so you will know when to break them.\u00a0 Habit cycles are like chains, and every chain has a weakest link.\u00a0 Finding the weak link is the key to breaking the chain. In doing all these things, the witch should avoid the feeling that the Inner Craft is a goody-goody ethical pursuit.\u00a0 It is nothing of the kind.\u00a0 We want access to free energy, and in order to get it, we must become misers of energy.\u00a0 We must bear in mind that all our energy is already deployed, and our only hope of breaking free from our energy strait-jackets is by saving little bits of it, one bit at a time. Once we have become vigilant with these five items it will be time to turn our attention to the subtlest and, potentially, the most powerful form of conservation, changing patterns of perception.\u00a0 We perceive all the time, and our way of looking at and listening to the world is a habit of such long standing that changing it is a most subtle affair.\u00a0 It is necessary to have the other five areas well in hand before attempting this last, sixth one.\u00a0 If we go for the sixth item prematurely, we shall achieve some novel effects, but before long we will drop it as an interesting exercise which goes nowhere. The Inner Craft distinguishes between directing the attention to where the eyes are pointing, which it calls looking, and spreading the attention from that, extending it to perceptions lying to the side of where our eyes are pointing, or above or below where they are pointing.\u00a0 The eyes do not move to these things, just the attention. In the same way, changing perceptual patterns involves extending the attention to background sounds as well as to sounds we are currently focused on.\u00a0 We generally listen to background sounds sporadically and then shut them out if they are annoying or fail to interest us, as with muzack in a store or elevator.\u00a0 The witch takes in all available sounds continuously, for this saves the energy habitually employed in blocking them out.\u00a0 It takes much more energy to ignore peripheral sights and sounds than to include them in attention.\u00a0 This is the secret of this form of magical energy conservation. Attending to things to the side is called gazing in the Inner Craft.\u00a0 We can gaze to the side of an object, such as a television screen, or we can switch our eyes to the side of the screen and gaze back at it.\u00a0 If you practice switching back and forth from one form of gazing to the other, you will feel a sensation starting in the back of your head at some point.\u00a0 Something will open up back there.\u00a0 Don\u2019t try to make this happen, or you will become involved in imagination.\u00a0 Just be aware when it does happen on its own. When you close your eyes to go to sleep at night, you will see little lights and patterns produced by the gentle pressure of your eyelids on the retinas.\u00a0 These are called phosphenes.\u00a0 Generally we ignore them and just go to sleep.\u00a0 This is probably for the best, for if you follow them with the attention, you may or may not drop off.\u00a0 But it isn\u2019t necessary to keep your eyes open all day until it is time to go to sleep.\u00a0 If you observe animals, they spend a good deal of time with their eyes closed.\u00a0 This is especially true of cats, at least as far as my observation goes (I am a cat person).\u00a0 You should rest your eyes two or three times during the day, and as you are not doing so to take a nap (though you may fall asleep anyway), you can observe your phosphenes.\u00a0 This is called \u201creading the book of the eyelids\u201d in the Inner Craft. You may find, while your eyes are closed, that your hearing becomes more acute.\u00a0 You can play with this sensation by opening and shutting your eyes at intervals.\u00a0 Do this while sitting or lying at home, or while a passenger in a car or train, looking out the window.\u00a0 Don\u2019t try it while walking or driving! 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