Waúrmwulf
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So I was parusing various posts today and stumbled across a cute but valid question:
Do the Gods Sleep?
Now, this was a simple answer from me, because I had to learn very early on how to deal with a potentially problematic anomaly associated with spiritual advancement, and that is I absolutely could not, for the life of me, get one minute of sleep. Upon just beginning the activation of my soul, it became impossible for me to rest, and so I wondered the same question once.
„How the fuck do I rest like this?“ I thought. There had to be some way, because you can have all the power in the world built up in your soul, but that flesh of yours needs a break, and the solution was pretty straight foreward from the get go: it is absolutely crucial to master the deep trance as quickly as possible. Surging with energy or not, your body can get very sick without sleep, and health on all planes is a balancing game.
Gods sleep, yes, but not in a state of subconscious background processing like lower forms of life, and this starts to become the case for some mages, unfortunately quite early on and before you fully understand what's happening, like it did for some such as myself. And at the time, back in 2012, I was just a 16-17 year old punk; my first thought was „Weed's natural, just knock myself out with that“
Nah, dude. See, cannabis is a lunar incense, and a powerful one, it opens your soul right up. Knock yourself out on that? You're a sitting duck with a big bright flashing beacon with a megaphone screaming „COME SIPHON/ATTACK ME“ to the enemy.
Don't even use shit like that. You need to be able to attain states naturally anyways, and the most you should be doing with that stuff is using it as a lunar inscence, or killing a tumor with the refined product that comes from it, and by a physicians instruction. There's no time for misuse of medicine or straight up abuse of...vile chemical concoctions, lets call them.
For any level of magick, we need to be able to attain trance states, and we need to be aware, all of the time. Especially once your fully activated. Same goes for when you're „sleeping“, and this requires the deeper trance states, so I want to make it absolutely clear how important this skill is to actually work on, because you may actually need it to rest your body at all eventually. Sleep becomes another meditative process, you either leave your body behind for astral exploration, or you use it as time to do some internal work. I usually spend my time traversing my mind-city, trying to understand myself a little better. This is the world my dreams used to take place in, but is now just a playing field for my mind in deeper states. Something similar should happen for you as well, eventually.
So, how will you pass your time once your dreams become obsolete? Start out in your Mind's Realm or your Astral Temple. Hell, Temples need renovations every now and then, don't they? Just a thought. Would love to hear any of yours.
Do the Gods Sleep?
Now, this was a simple answer from me, because I had to learn very early on how to deal with a potentially problematic anomaly associated with spiritual advancement, and that is I absolutely could not, for the life of me, get one minute of sleep. Upon just beginning the activation of my soul, it became impossible for me to rest, and so I wondered the same question once.
„How the fuck do I rest like this?“ I thought. There had to be some way, because you can have all the power in the world built up in your soul, but that flesh of yours needs a break, and the solution was pretty straight foreward from the get go: it is absolutely crucial to master the deep trance as quickly as possible. Surging with energy or not, your body can get very sick without sleep, and health on all planes is a balancing game.
Gods sleep, yes, but not in a state of subconscious background processing like lower forms of life, and this starts to become the case for some mages, unfortunately quite early on and before you fully understand what's happening, like it did for some such as myself. And at the time, back in 2012, I was just a 16-17 year old punk; my first thought was „Weed's natural, just knock myself out with that“
Nah, dude. See, cannabis is a lunar incense, and a powerful one, it opens your soul right up. Knock yourself out on that? You're a sitting duck with a big bright flashing beacon with a megaphone screaming „COME SIPHON/ATTACK ME“ to the enemy.
Don't even use shit like that. You need to be able to attain states naturally anyways, and the most you should be doing with that stuff is using it as a lunar inscence, or killing a tumor with the refined product that comes from it, and by a physicians instruction. There's no time for misuse of medicine or straight up abuse of...vile chemical concoctions, lets call them.
For any level of magick, we need to be able to attain trance states, and we need to be aware, all of the time. Especially once your fully activated. Same goes for when you're „sleeping“, and this requires the deeper trance states, so I want to make it absolutely clear how important this skill is to actually work on, because you may actually need it to rest your body at all eventually. Sleep becomes another meditative process, you either leave your body behind for astral exploration, or you use it as time to do some internal work. I usually spend my time traversing my mind-city, trying to understand myself a little better. This is the world my dreams used to take place in, but is now just a playing field for my mind in deeper states. Something similar should happen for you as well, eventually.
So, how will you pass your time once your dreams become obsolete? Start out in your Mind's Realm or your Astral Temple. Hell, Temples need renovations every now and then, don't they? Just a thought. Would love to hear any of yours.