The Dolmen Arch – A Druid Magic Course

Next month I will be finishing a two year course in magic and occultism from a druid perspective. The course is called “The Dolmen Arch” and you can find it bookstores online.

What have I been doing for the last two years?

Everyday without fail I performed a ritual, meditated on a theme, and did a divination for the day. The course contained philosophy, skills to develop, and other fun stuff. But the daily practice was the heart of the work. Except the divination. I added that piece to help develop my intuition.

Of the practices daily meditations will certainly be part of my mornings for the rest of my life. I really do look forward to them now. Oh meditating can be one of the most boring things you will ever do. But the gains are unbeatable. Daily banishing rituals have also helped quite a it in cleaning up my energetic life.

What did I learn over these last two years of meditation, study, and ritual work?

World Views

How I see the world is subject to change. On a fundamental level. How fundamental?

Does consciousness arise from matter? Brain goo creates consciousness.

Or, does matter arise from consciousness?

Do we live in a reality which is subjective or objective or both?

Can I ever prove this to someone? Probably not. I have learned what I can do though.

I can train my mind. I can change the lenses on my reality glasses. When I do the world becomes a very different place.

The world these days doesn't look any different physically. But wow does it feel different. There is a bit of living in two worlds. Not in the sense I am straddling two worlds. Which I used to feel. Now, I am almost floating through the world. Not attached is a better description.

The physical world feels less real. Sure concrete, trees, and rocks feel physically present. Realness and physicality though are not always the same thing.

Even these experiences are not really new to me. I have been having odd experiences since childhood. What is new is I am making some headway deprogramming the materialist worldview from my mind. And that is a tricky little belief system.

This week my meditations offer good examples. A few days go I started meditating on the Elements as presented in Franz Bardon's, “Initiation into Hermetics”. As of this morning I have had the Fire, Water, and Air Principles as themes. Over the coming days my themes for meditation will be the Earth Principle, Light, and the Akasha or Etheric Principle.

While it is easy to see the principles above as their physical world manifestations they are far more. As I work with them in meditation I am able to begin to understand seeing the world as being made up of these principles.

A Divided Will is Ineffective

Will is a fundamental force of creation. Certainly, Will is fundamental to the practice of many forms of magic. Everyone has plenty of Will. What few people have is unified Will.

Essentially, our modern world appears to be design to keep people ineffective through fracturing their Will. A divided Will is weak. While getting some help from your preferred god(s) is a strategy, unifying your Will is key to becoming more effective with whatever you want to do in life. Magic or otherwise.

Yep, my Will was as divided as they come. Can't believe I made it this far in life in such a state!

Trying to follow two or more paths in life created a lack of Will power for any one of the paths. So for example I reduced computer programming and technology to a minor hobby. This change left a lot more attention for magic and occult studies. My writing and blogging is the same. Instead of attempting to write about tech and the occult I now stick with the occult.

The key is to choose activities and interests which are all generally related to the path you want to follow. Want to be an occult writer? Align as much of what you do with writing or the occult. Hopefully, both. Want to be an airline pilot? Pump gas at the local airport while you do your flight training. Keeping your focus will change your life.

You might have noticed a distinct lack of Harry Potter or Hogwarts style magic in the above. As it turns out magic is both real and not at all like pop culture portrays. Which is actually pretty neat. The cosmos is filled with wonder and magic far more intriguing than the movies.

Magic you can do to make real changes in your life.