Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's almost midnight, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. The picture is Max Heindel, founder of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, one of the big four American Rosicrucian orders during the golden age of American occultism -- that was most of a century ago, in case you were wondering.

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The telluric current

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, Ynnothir here.

Given your new project on telluric magic, this seems like a good time to finally ask about something that's perplexed me for a while.

First some relevant background. I studied jujitsu formally for several years during the 90's and kept practicing through the the mid 00's. At that point I was forced to stop by a rare autoimmune/neuromuscular disorder.(My immune system is attacking specifically and only the myelin sheathing of my peripheral motor neurons. It's called MMN, for the curious.)

My sensei didn't teach us anything about ki. He would answer direct questions about it in a concise and neutral manner and that would be that. However, at some point during my study of "the art of flowing", I became aware of its influence and started putting it to use.

That was fortunate, because now my lower legs are like toothpicks and that's where balance is brought to bear.

But I've never fallen, despite the fact that I share my home with a number of cats who love affection and don't really grasp how bipedalism works. (My neurologist doesn't even ask about falling anymore) That's because I have this trick where I blow ki out of the palms of my hands like highly maneuverable, independently operating turbofans. Part of the balancing effect comes from the weight of my arms shifting my center of gravity, of course, but that's not even half of it. I should know; I've been a jujitsuka for twenty-six years and the owner/operator of a human body for at least twice that long.

Now here's where I can't really fit things together conceptually. When I gather solar energy I can feel, usually, a slight warming in my palms. This is whether I'm inside or out. That seems about right; this is an astral current, and it's not necessarily something you'll even feel at all. But when I draw on the telluric current it feels like ki. I mean, there ain't no maybe sí, maybe no, I could about put this stuff in my mouth and chew it. Doesn't that mean it's etheric? And yet everything I find in the literature about the solar and telluric currents seems to consider them to be complimentary aspects of the astral plane.

Can you help me make sense of this?

Many thanks

-- Ynnothir Coll

Re: The telluric current

[ecosophia]

Sure. Remember that each plane of existence tends to shape the plane below it. The telluric current is astral, but it's pulling etheric energy along with it. You might consider deliberately trying to draw ki into your palms from the sun when you absorb the solar current, and see what results you get.