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This stone was placed in Haverhill, Massachusetts. This is my seventeen placed stone in the United States. See my history for the others, placed in different states.
I’m an over the road trucker so this is how I’m able to travel quickly.

Two people were involved in calling child protective services on my wife while I’m away traveling. My wife is a stay at home mother who has cancer. The two people spread vicious rumors that I had abandoned my wife and children, called Child Protective Services, and then claimed they were going to personally adopt our children.

1. The 33 days to completely neutralize the two individuals involved are up. The one who was close friends with my wife lost her job. She was later seen mowing her own and her neighbors yards to have her rent reduced by her landlord.
   The second individual involved deleted her Facebook, reported to mutual friends that she was “backing down from her CPS threat” and was now “scared”.
   After completing this 33 Stone Ritual I will be solely focusing on mass healing rituals for my wife and putting this specific retribution ritual behind me. I don’t believe I will be doing revenge rituals again.
   
   
2. Who knows about my magic practice/ curse?... Absolutely no one knows I practice any form of magic. My wife knows I meditate and thinks I’m a bit woo, but that’s it.
   
   
3. I’m using sharpie to draw King Paimon’s sigil on a palm size stone that I find at or near the location. This is a show of appreciation for King Paimon who’s gone out of his way for me.
   
   
4. How did I evoke King Paimon?.... I meditated into gnosis and called upon King Paimon, I do not use physical means of doing so. This is just MY method. I commented this to a fellow Redditor:
   My wife called me sobbing while I was it of town for traveling. She told me everything that was happening. After we got done talking I went into a rage where I I wanted to hurt someone. I don’t remember ever being that angry but I laid down and just meditated. I eventually called on King Paimon begging for help. This ritual flashed into my head, along with the number 3.
   I added 33 stones in 33 States to go big and I wanted plenty of time to do it, so 333 days. It just felt right.
   So I just focused all of my energy on these two people involved. I asked for them to be tormented, suck their health and energy and give it to my wife as retribution.
   
   
5. If you think this is going to disrupt your own magical practices by me placing these sigilized stones in your neck of the woods then place your own and fight back. I’m not going to stop until this is done. And I have more rituals planned after that which will span the entire country. There are quite a few magicians talking and acting witchy, but only a handful doing something. Are you a magician or just a bum who shares edgy witchy memes?
   
   
6. Why King Paimon? ....I chose King Paimon because he’s the most powerful entity I’ve been working with for the longest and he’s been patient and understanding with me. You go to those you know when you have a big favor.
   
   
7. What are the basics or how to summon entities?...
   I am not an expert. I’m an eclectic magician that uses what works and tosses what doesn’t. This ritual works for me, it might not for you. If you are a beginner you need to get your basics down. You wouldn’t make a paper airplane then suddenly decide you’re ready to fly fighter jets. Please for your safety read the basics.
   But here is a very basic appetizer to give you a little edge to the machete that you’ll need to carve your own path in the jungle that is occult information:
   
   Start here: This is an easy comic to give you the basics and get your feet wet.
   
   https://www.deviantart.com/bluefluke/art/The-Psychonaut-Field-Manual-FOURTH-PDF-EDITION-530005584
   
   This is kind of a text book that you can follow if you want a thelemic approach.
   
   https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0970449607?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_yo_pop_mb_pd_t2
   
   Also I recommend Gems of the equinox.
   
   https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1578634172?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_yo_pop_mb_pd_t2
   
   This is very beginner friendly and highly recommended:
   https://www.amazon.com/Prometheus-Rising-Robert-Anton-Wilson/dp/0692710604
   
   This is a fantastic meditation app, free, and very beginner friendly.
   https://www.insighttimer.com/meditation-app
   
   I do not recommend summoning powerful entities without first summoning “safer” beings such as ancestral spirits, but you are going to do what you want. I did. And it’s worked for me. But PROTECT yourself.
   
   You need to get meditation and focus down pat. I’d recommend evoking an ancestor first since they should have your best interests. Then moving onto other entities.
   The Goetia can be friendly, indifferent, malevolent, or simply plain alien. (Think lovecraftian incompressible)
   *I know King Paimon and Duke Bune are friendly to beginners, overly patient and open as long as you recognize their rank, are humble and respectful.
   This doesn’t mean try to enslave them. That’s not going to work out great for you. What would happen if you blackmailed a powerful head of state of a country? It’d annoy him and in turn people would find you suicided with a double shotgun blast. Approach them like you would meeting a friendly CEO and you should be fine.
   
   Ultimately realize that you can follow in the footsteps of someone else, but that’s only going to put you on the path devoid of what will really fulfill you. You eventually need to fly, baby bird, And ever off cutting your own path. Don’t get to smug when you get a little practice under your belt.
   There’s always someone better than you, mr. 3rd level armchair wizard who collects 1st edition books from the bookstore only three people in Portland know about.
   
   
8. Thank you for all the kind words and support! And to people who disagree with this ritual, and have been amicably in their disagreement, thank you as well!

A book that really broke this concept open for me was Lynn Mctaggart's, "The Field".

https://www.amazon.com/Field-Quest-Secret-Force-Universe/dp/006143518X

It really blew my mind. She gets into the P.E.A.R research at Stanford utilizing the manipulation of a random event generator by people.

This also leads into the topic of consciousness research through the installation of REG machines around the world, recording data 24/7 and correlating to events the world pays attention to. The research is honestly incredible to look into.

Global Consciousness Project - http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

For me it was when I began noticing the “extramagical” impact of my practice.

I had a close female friend who was struggling with a court case to get an order of protection from an abusive ex who wouldn’t leave her alone (was calling her at work, sending emails to her parents, really really awful). So, me, my friend, and two of our other friends started meeting every now and then to cast spells to bind him, silence him, and protect her from his gaze and influence.

As someone who grew up with few female friends, it was amazing being part of something where so many women supported and empowered each other through magic. I started reading this book around the same time and it just generally helped me feel more in touch with and empowered by the feminine aspect of myself. Growing up as an adamant tomboy who thought femininity = weakness, this was a huge move in my own mindset, and did wonders for my confidence and growth.

All this made me realize that magic isn’t only powerful as far as the desired effects are concerned (I cast x spell to achieve y). Every time I practice, it’s changing me as well. It’s empowering me and the people around me. It’s creating a new dimension to my relationships with others. For example:

• My female friend ended up getting that order of protection while wearing a necklace I cast a spell on for her to wear at court. We now do little magic things for each other all the time as a little special part of our friendship. I’m living abroad right now for work and before I left she gave me some crystals for travel protection. It was a small gesture, but meant so much.
  
  
• My boyfriend is decidedly agnostic, but is so supportive of my witchcraft. If I’m in a bad mood, he’ll kindly suggest doing something “spooky” (as we jokingly call it) to cheer me up. That he supports my practice and is willing to talk to me about it even though he doesn’t necessarily share my beliefs has really helped deepen our bond, because I know that he trusts and supports me.
  
  So when I say “extramagical,” I mean all those things that we don’t expect or plan for when we practice. Communities we work with, relationships we build (with ourselves and with others), opportunities for self-reflection and growth— THAT is why I practice.
  
  Sorry this was long, I have a lot of feelings. Hope it helped!

Amazon page with totally real reviews

Yes, but I find sigils to be temporary, and because most forms of depression are heavily interwoven with habits, a sigil will mostly be ineffective.

(Before I get started, I just want to say CBT therapy works and works well on depression. I highly recommend it. This is because ending depression takes multiple steps and it's far easier to get a guide than to walk that path alone.)

(Also, it's best to take this comment slow. There is A LOT here. No need to get overwhelmed.)

A sigil, for me, and similar techniques, tends to do what I call a "one off" where something goes the way I want it to in that time, but then things go back to normal. That is, for me a sigil rarely changes my habits.

(However, chaos magick has some long term techniques. More on that at the bottom.)

When it comes to long term changes, the best course of action I've found is:

1. Being mindful (from meditation eg /r/TheMindIlluminated).
   
   
2. From mindfulness, I then identify what habits I have, and then identify better alternative responses to situations that cause those habits. This involved for me a lot of googling situations and finding more healthy responses to deal with difficult situations.
   
   
3. Constantly work on those habits making them normal and eventually effortless, because they are my new default behavior.
   
   Depression has a lot to do with habits, but the habits that cause depression can vary from person to person. imho the hardest kind of depression is the person who blindly disbelieves that they can change their depression and even remove it with work. This sort of blind doubt is a habit causing one kind of depression. This habit creates a sort of depression because if you default to no instead of yes you'll not end up doing much in life creating a sort of sloth, and a near opposite of depression is being both physically inactive and socially inactive.
   
   Another habit that creates depression is not doing exercises. 1 day a week a 20 min+ walk should be done to stay healthy. (If not more.) Many who do not do this fall into one kind of depression. Being physically healthy is a good habit to gain.
   
   Another habit that can cause depression is not having friends irl. Online is fine, but irl is better. Technically it is the feeling of loneliness that can cause this kind of depression, so not everyone gets depressed who hide under a rock, but for the average person, this is the case. Also, in this context, a friend is someone you want to hang out with one on one from time to time. (And if you're thinking, "Oh great!" I've been there. There are many ways to gain friends, starting with googling for help. This is step #2 above.)
   
   Depression can come from procrastination, and procrastination can have many different habits that can cause it: For example, if you rely on others, and others are not around to help you, it's easy to fall into the habit of getting stuck or procrastinating instead of getting things done. Another habit is thinking about a problem instead of physically getting up and doing the first step, often blindly without thinking. Overthinking causes procrastination. Another habit that causes procrastination is following ones feelings in the moment. This is a particularly nasty one. Envisioning a beneficial future (which is a kind of magick) and then valuing that future over how you currently feel is a must to get rid of procrastination. However, some feelings in the moment do matter, like when choosing what kind of food to eat, or seeing if it isn't safe to be doing a task or other situations. This is a skill that takes practice.
   
   Instant gratification is a big one. Too much of it and it's super easy to get depressed. If I had to guess, in the modern age with Reddit, youtube, and Facebook, instant gratification is probably the #1 cause of depression today. This doesn't mean you have to cut these services cold turkey, but they should be reserved to the end of the day, after daily tasks are done, otherwise you're back to procrastinating.
   
   And there are more habits that can cause depression that can be changed, like expecting the worse. I covered this one a bit earlier in the defaulting to no bit. Expecting the worse in things and having incorrect expectations can also cause anxiety.
   
   And many more.. the trick is to be mindful enough to identify what habits you have that are causing you particular kind of depression. (Depression is inactivity.. lacking productive activity, physical activity, and/or irl social activity, so any habits that create that kind of inactivity.) For many it's only one or two habits, and there is a high chance you will not even have to dig for it, because I've listed the majority of habits people might have in this clusterfuck of a comment.
   
   Chaos magick: Being nihilistic can cause a kind of existential depression. Likewise being pessimistic and or "a realist" can cause a kind of depression too. These are both perspectives, and at the heart of chaos magick is being able to change perspectives to fit whatever works best in the moment. So therefore, chaos magick can cure one of the more common kinds of depression. For information on how to do this the book Prometheus Rising is a fun and quick read, though you have to read the whole book and do some of the exercises to really get a handle on it. The book is also a prerequisite for chaos magick, so if you're curious exploring the most powerful kind of magick, reading PR is two birds with one stone.
   
   edit: lol derp. This is r/chaosmagick.

> Think that's not accurate.

You're seem to be thinking from the part of your brain that ususally does the wanting.

maybe read some Kahneman - Thinking fast and Slow or Robert A. Wilson - Prometheus rising to get a better understanding. There's also good training exercises in the latter one.

I've been really enjoying Witchery by Juliet Diaz, Grovedaughter Witchery by Bree NicGarren, and Weave the Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff! The Hearth Witch's Compendium is also a really good resource for more kitchen-based witchcraft.

Yes.
I like your blog post.
Also read The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe by Lynne McTaggart

https://www.amazon.com/Field-Quest-Secret-Force-Universe/dp/006143518X

Related: Carol Bowman's books on children talking about past lives: http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Past-Lives-Memories-Affect/dp/055357485X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452956781&sr=8-1&keywords=carol+bowman

http://www.amazon.com/Return-Heaven-Beloved-Relatives-Reincarnated/dp/0061030449/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1452956781&sr=8-2&keywords=carol+bowman

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse has helped me through a few rough patches in life.

Also, The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell.

William Glasser has some pretty interesting ideas on personal and group psychology that I've used in my everyday life.

Finally, everything written by Amy Hempel brings immense joy into my life. Whenever I am in an anxious or depressive state, her short stories usually help shake me of all that woes me (at least for the time I am reading).

I'm currently reading The Field, which I think you'd dig.

It's still sinking in (I'm three chapters in), but but quantum physics has essentially proven that everything is energy and all energy is connected.

So going back to your letter, it makes sense to send love to those who appear to be our opposite, because they are you and you are them.

This book is great for all the questions you could ever ask.

http://www.amazon.com/Ecstasy-Complete-Guide-Comprehensive-Benefits/dp/0892818573/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310088852&sr=1-1-catcorr

I'm sorry you are being downvoted. There are some good answers given to you. Reddit is very hostile to things beyond atheist materialism, yes even the Wicca section.

Good news! If it's hexes and curses they can be combated. You can learn Magickal self defense.

You also need to change your mindset about wealth. You've lived in a cursed situation, learnt bad concepts and yes, it's made you self-curse.

Some books I'd recommend:

This book first: http://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Cleansing-Handbook-Psychic-Protection/dp/1578635209

Then this book: https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738705422

Consider this self development book. http://www.amazon.com/Awaken-Giant-Within-Immediate-Emotional/dp/0671791540

For wealth. Big factors:

• Don't use credit cards
  
• Save up for everything. Regular savings.
  
• Eat cheaper. Don't eat out all the time.
  
• When buying a house, the larger the deposit the better.
  
• have a $4-5k savings fund that you keep secret for emergencies. Don't tell people it exists.
  
  

Here ya go

It's from this book that I found at a used bookstore for around $8.
Pretty good stuff with lots of different animals in there.

Read this. Or at least check out the Cliff's Notes version here. Wait...found the full text here Read the summary, then full text if you are intrigued.

you should read a book called "the field"

http://www.amazon.com/Field-Quest-Secret-Force-Universe/dp/0060931175

This book is very good too.

While it isn't necessarily based on failed relationships, Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness will certainly give you a pick-me-up and help to fight the depression so that you can live for you. Russell is a wonderful philosopher, and this book has withstood the test of time. My mom read it so much that the book literally fell apart, so I had to get her a new one and ended up getting one for myself. I hope you try it. Life will go on, I promise. There are better things in store for you!

You just edited your post? You linked to a book. Are you kidding me?

You linked to THIS BOOK and then you edit your post?. I'm done with your shit. I don't have that amazon link in my history for nothing. You believe in magic supposedly and your link refers to......whatever.

Good luck in the future, I get whatever trolling you think you're up to.

I wrestled competitively in high school and early college and was always complementing my training with yoga and visualization. Here are some books that I relied on.
http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Body-Dancing-Mind-Extraordinary-ebook/dp/B0030CMK8K/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1416196445&sr=8-12&keywords=visualization+for+sports+psychology

http://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416196272&sr=1-1&keywords=inner+game+of+tennis

http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Dancing-Warrior-Performance-Athletic/dp/1602373647/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416196222&sr=1-11&keywords=sports+psychology+meditation

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Archery-Eugen-Herrigel/dp/0375705090/ref=sr_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416196253&sr=1-13&keywords=sports+psychology+meditation

Good luck (which is ensured by your earnest, focused training!)

I really recommend Neville Goddard's Resurrection. You can also try Faith To Fortune, which is a bible study guide on the seven days of creation. They are both excellent guides on understanding the Bible and honing your devotion on the real thing.
And visit the God Candy blog.

Thank you for your response. I'm sorry that I'm a month late in responding; it gave me a lot to think about.

I like thinking of the heat as a by-product of the body channeling energy and acclimating to it. It makes sense to me possibly in terms of how much energy may be being channeled, and makes me wonder whether or not one's ancestors having experience with channeling energy would have an impact on the descendent's body.

I took one reiki class so I'm not too familiar with it. The few times I've experimented with it the energy had different colors. Otherwise all I've been doing is following instructions from this book, where the energy is being called from the universe, or the divine, or just somewhere above the top of the head. I'll look into different sourcing, it sounds fascinating.

Oh, it's so hard to pick just three... but I would feel comfortable recommending these:

https://www.amazon.com/Prometheus-Rising-Robert-Anton-Wilson/dp/0692710604/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139963&sr=8-1&keywords=prometheus+rising

https://www.amazon.com/Not-His-Image-Gnostic-Ecology/dp/193149892X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492139398&sr=8-1&keywords=not+in+his+image

https://www.amazon.com/Seth-Speaks-Eternal-Validity-Soul/dp/1878424076/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492140107&sr=8-1&keywords=seth+speaks

I try to read a little bit of everything, but the main topics I enjoy reading about are religion, history, philosophy, occultism/esotericism, parapolitics, UFOlogy, and psychology.

http://www.amazon.com/Field-Quest-Secret-Force-Universe/dp/0060931175

This book changed my life, in terms of the way I see the world around us.

Ah! A fellow DTFHer! I'll be seeing him in Chicago this Saturday for his live podcast. :)

I own a copy of "Aleister Crowley and the Practice of the Magical Diary." I bought it shortly after I became fascinated by Crowley via Duncan's episode with James Wasserman. (The book is edited by James Wasserman.) Unfortunately, I've never gotten around to reading it in its entirety yet... The major diary portion of it is called "John St. John", and I'm not sure if that is another one of Crowley's aliases or if its one of his students or something, but it's very interesting.

An example from pages 14 - 15:

>12.17. Trying meditation and mantra.

>12.18. I find thoughts impossible to concentrate; and my Asana, despite various cowardly attempts to "fudge" it, is frightfully painful.

>12.20. In Hanged Man posture, meditating and willing the Presence of Adonai by the Ritual "Thee I invoke, and the Bornless One" and mental formulae.

>12.28. I'm hopelessly sleepy! Invocation as bad as bad could be — attention all over the place. Irrational hallucinations, such as a vision of either Eliphaz Levi or my father (I can't swear which!) at the most solemn moment! But the irrational character of said visions is not bad. They come from nowhere; it is much worse when your own controlled brain breaks loose.

>12.33. I will therefore compose myself to sleep: is it not written that He giveth unto His beloved even in sleep? "Others, even in sleep, He makes fruitful from His own strength."

>7.29. Woke and forced myself to rise. I had a number of rather pleasing dreams, as I seem to remember. But their content is gone from me; and, in the absence of the prophet Daniel, I shall let the matter slide.

Sidenote — Diary writer wrote and forced himself to rise at 7:29 am... just like Ferriss recommends in the podcast. :] Synchronicities...

> I could try to argue all this but I really don't have the knowledge for it

Admirable of you to admit, rather than getting angry and stomping off. I encourage you to look into it yourself, but I can't really recommend any sources to go to. What I can do is recommend you maybe have a look at The Believing Brain, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and, if you're feeling up to it, God is Not Great.

I've read the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and Rumi, so don't think I am a stranger to the idea of God as all; at times I find it so attractive, even, that I joke that I could be a "Hinjew." But having read the Torah far more times than the average man--although I do not know how many times you've done so--I can instantly spot confirmation bias regarding it. After reading these texts, you looked back at the Torah with the assumption that "God is all," when, in fact, the evidence of such in the text of the Torah itself is so thin. Off the top of my mind, I can think of maybe 5 verses in the Pentateuch that may plausibly--although not likely--relate to this Hindu/Buddhist/Dauist/Sufi view of "God is all." The Bible, unlike some find pleasure in believing, is not a book with infinite information density; its writers were human, all too human, and--unless the text were to be grossly misconstrued--were unfamiliar with such a conception.
But this won't convince you, as you seem to be locked into that reality tunnel. In myself as well, as I said, the thought often appears and brings me much solace. But at other times, I'll ridicule it (perhaps owing to the on-off stages of my depression). So, if you want an idea of what I'm talking about, try picking up a copy Prometheus Rising and take a look at yourself through another lense. You think that since you've found solace, you've discovered the meaning of consciousness, but you have much to explore.

P.S. There's no such thing as ground-breaking thought "for my age." There is only thought. I would take that as another insult to my intelligence, but after this discussion I know you mean well.
P.P.S. If you are actually interested in Prometheus, I can send you a pdf copy I have.

> There is also a book called Prometheus Rising that might help you there. It goes into the social spectrum of personalities and the somatic effects that thought scripts have on the body.

Thanks for dropping that in. I just bought the book from Amazon because of this comment. I've put off reading one of Robert Anton Wilson's books for far too long. Here is the description for anyone else interested.

>Imagine trying to make sense of an amalgam of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G.I. Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, and the several disciplines of Yoga; not to mention Christian Science, relativity, quantum mechanics, and many other approaches to understanding the world around us. That is exactly what Robert Anton Wilson does in Prometheus Rising. In short, this is a book about how the human mind works and what you can do to make the most of yours.

>"Robert Anton Wilson speaks for that tiny but indispensable minority who are changing the way we think. To read him is to learn what the future holds, how to be part of the future and how to help create the future." -- Robert Shea
"The man's glittering intelligence won't let you rest. First he shocks, then he enlightens. One is never the same after reading him. With each new book I welcome his wisdom, laced with his special brand of crazy humor." -- Alan Harrington, author of The Immortalist

>"Bob has done it again for the first time ever! This book is everything I ever wanted to write in a practical guidebook on how to get here from there, and he's-as usual-first in print again! Just the exercise on finding quarters has paid for the book many times over." --E. J. Gold

Amazon link

http://www.amazon.com/Am-I-Bipolar-Waking-Up/dp/1461178258

Yes, in that it's a skill to develop. Workouts? Do magic, daily if you can manage it.

I recommend:

• Liber KKK
  
• Liber MMM
  
• Meta-Magick: the Bookof ATEM
  
  These are some of the best general trainings out there.

https://www.amazon.com/Am-I-Bipolar-Waking-Up/dp/1461178258

You can buy it from Amazon in the UK,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Articulations-Utilisation-Psychedelics-Julian-Palmer-ebook/dp/B00QUBLR14/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419473230&sr=8-1&keywords=articulations

It has only just been released, so you will not find uptake on all online book stores, but it is in the ingram catalogue so you should be able to order it in pretty much any bookshop.

Are you into healing at all?

[Spiritual Healing] (http://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Healing-Guide-Yourself-ebook/dp/B00AV4Z104/)

[Medical Herbalism] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Herbal-Handbook-Medical-Herbalism/dp/0892817828/)

[Natural Remedies] (http://www.amazon.com/Rosemary-Gladstars-Herbal-Recipes-Vibrant/dp/1603420789/)

[Proof of Heaven] (http://www.amazon.com/Proof-Heaven-Neurosurgeons-Afterlife-ebook/dp/B008AK8FHM/) - about life after death.

[ARGO] (http://www.amazon.com/Argo-Ultraviolet-Digital-Copy-Affleck/dp/B00AHTYI5M/) - THE best movie I've seen in a while. It's a movie within a movie. I saw it 3 times in the theater.

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Taking MDMA with my girlfriend was one of the key moments in realizing that I was trans. I've had a subsequent experience with MDMA that helped me realize my body is beautiful - even tho I'm trans. Of course, MDMA shouldn't be the only method of self actualization one uses in their process of psychological and spiritual growth. But, it's a damn good tool if you go about it the right way.

Furthermore:

MDMA has a long history of use in psychotherapy. See http://www.maps.org/secretchief/sctoc.html and look up the research of Greer and Grinspoon. MDMA was used by hundreds of psychotherapists prior to the proliferation of the drug in the club scene and its subsequent banning by the DEA.

There are testing kits that can ensure one only consumes relatively pure MDMA. http://www.dancesafe.org/product/coomplete-adulterant-screening-kit/

MDMA is often very effective as an aid to psychotherapy used formally or informally:
http://psy.swansea.ac.uk/staff/parrott/parrott2007-MDMA-Psychotherapy-Psychopharmacology.pdf

There is lots of modern research being conducted on the use of MDMA for the treatment of PTSD and a variety of other issues. It's well known among educated users and researchers in the field that MDMA can be quite beneficial for a variety of psychological problems - if used correctly:
http://mdmaptsd.org/
http://thedea.org/therapy.html
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_MDMA.shtml#Glowing_Experiences
http://www.amazon.com/Ecstasy-Complete-Guide-Comprehensive-Benefits/dp/0892818573
http://www.maps.org/resources/psychedelic_bibliography/ (search "MDMA")

MDMA absolutely can help people with psychological problems - including shame about being trans. It's reasonably safe assuming one has the connections to get it and is willing to use a testing kit. If one does a little research and takes precautions there is little reason to be fearful.

Advocating that people suffering psychological pain avoid MDMA is doing them a profound disservice.

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I was introduced to the Occult by books like Prometheus Rising and Undoing Yourself.

Obviously I may be biased but I think this is the best way to enter the occult, with a paradigm that rejects absolute paradigms.

People will try and tell you that what they've read or believe is the Truth, and most of those people will be fools.

It's possible some of them are right, that there is a Truth out there that can be expressed in our 3d language, but I think that that is unlikely.

I think the Truth is more like 4d toys or like the blind men and the elephant. You can only get a piece, a snapshot of a perspective, but the Truth has more dimensions than your mind.

You probably know Terrence Mckenna but if you aren't that familiar, I just linked a lecture to someone else that I think you might appreciate.

Eros and the Eschaton

And let's not forget about the most magical thing of all--music.

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> telling people that it should be believed

You're projecting.



Communicating telepathically isn't magic. What you believe to be magic is actually just science that you cannot grasp.


That doesn't mean that others can't though.


Read Moar

I am familiar with it, and have covered a bit of it in the post. Quoting the first paragraph from that:

> "Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.[1] To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning.[2] A scientific method consists of the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.[3]"

I think I covered the main points of that. Direct observation and experimentation is what leads one to essentially know the truth of higher energies (can also be referred to as God).

As to the actual experiment, it's not something that I can describe in one post, the same way I can't teach you how to become a professional biologist in one post. However, if you're truly interested, I can suggest you read Raja Yoga, the book in the post. You can also get involved, and learn more about Buddhism. In buddhism, you try to see the world in the current moment, without using your mind as a filter through which you see everything. If you remove the mental filter, you'll see the world as it truly is, and you will be enlightened.

EDIT: Also, I STRONGLY suggest people read the book The Field. Scientists try to scientifically make experiments having to do with the supernatural and metaphysical. It in no way takes sides with any religion; on the contrary, no beliefs are used whatsoever. It brings in the scientific "zero point field", which is what the book is named after. From the back cover:

> Science has recently begun to prove what ancient myth and religion have always espoused: There may be such a thing as a life force. Lynne McTaggart, indefatigable investigative journalist, reveals a radical new biological paradigm--that on our most fundamanetal level, the human mind and body are not distinct and separate from their environment but a packet of pulsating power sontantly interacting with this vast energy sea. The Field is a highly readable scientific detective story that offers a stunning picture of an interconnected universe and a new scientific theory that makes sense of supernatural phenomena.