1. I seem to remember you advising against mixing brain affecting substances, such as drugs, but even coffee, with meditation. Reasoning, that they all work by shutting down some parts of your brain. This got me thinking, since due to circumstances I have gone about a week without coffee and have in the past experienced a noticeable increase in awakened awareness after meditating with my favourite tree or at times just after a normal Session. Is it possible to get reliable performance results analogous to coffee with occult means?
2. I am gearing up to try my first set of calling on the currents rituals from your DMH. A bit nervous, but I intend to do it. I have been at this for some years now, but have yet to tell anyone of my friends, family, or acquaintances about my practices. A select few know that I go meditate, but I think most think it is the knotend legs kind of meditation. It got me thinking, if it ever comes up, that I have to talk with my family and tell them what I do. At what point can one call oneself as a Druid? Not being formally initiated in, or even established contact with, a Druid organisation.
3. last week I was taking a bus commute trough a city and was very annoyed at the traffic, and frequent stops and goes. Irritated at the cramped conditions. And impatient with all the … people cramped with me in this tin can. Then I thought; “wait, the other passengers are probably just as annoyed as me. Wait, am I being influenced by this crowd?” So I performed a Druid egg and I was immediately and markedly less annoyed with the situation. I was still in a tin can, crowded with other people, lurching with unpredictable accelerations down the winding streets, but I was markedly less annoyed by it. Then after about a minute I felt the feelings rise again. I performed the egg once again, this time the difference wasn’t as great, because I didn’t let the annoyance rise as much as before. And the trip was over. So I have an actual example of a field application of the Druid technique. TSW. I only did it for training purposes or at a family dinner table for practice before. Nothing dramatic. But this is a field application!
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branchandroot
A decaffeenated an possibly illegitimate druids
Date: 2021-11-15 06:23 am (UTC)Some relatively unrelated questions and facts:
1. I seem to remember you advising against mixing brain affecting substances, such as drugs, but even coffee, with meditation. Reasoning, that they all work by shutting down some parts of your brain. This got me thinking, since due to circumstances I have gone about a week without coffee and have in the past experienced a noticeable increase in awakened awareness after meditating with my favourite tree or at times just after a normal Session. Is it possible to get reliable performance results analogous to coffee with occult means?
2. I am gearing up to try my first set of calling on the currents rituals from your DMH. A bit nervous, but I intend to do it. I have been at this for some years now, but have yet to tell anyone of my friends, family, or acquaintances about my practices. A select few know that I go meditate, but I think most think it is the knotend legs kind of meditation. It got me thinking, if it ever comes up, that I have to talk with my family and tell them what I do. At what point can one call oneself as a Druid? Not being formally initiated in, or even established contact with, a Druid organisation.
3. last week I was taking a bus commute trough a city and was very annoyed at the traffic, and frequent stops and goes. Irritated at the cramped conditions. And impatient with all the … people cramped with me in this tin can. Then I thought; “wait, the other passengers are probably just as annoyed as me. Wait, am I being influenced by this crowd?” So I performed a Druid egg and I was immediately and markedly less annoyed with the situation. I was still in a tin can, crowded with other people, lurching with unpredictable accelerations down the winding streets, but I was markedly less annoyed by it. Then after about a minute I felt the feelings rise again. I performed the egg once again, this time the difference wasn’t as great, because I didn’t let the annoyance rise as much as before. And the trip was over.
So I have an actual example of a field application of the Druid technique. TSW. I only did it for training purposes or at a family dinner table for practice before. Nothing dramatic. But this is a field application!
Best regards,
V