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I’ve got a few blog posts started that I can’t publish yet, but I’m excited about what’s coming and I don’t feel like waiting. I’ll be making full announcements soon, but here’s the basics:

Courses:

We’re FINALLY going to be starting the LIVE Seven Spheres course and the Black Work courses. I wanted to start them this weekend, but I would have had to make the announcement last week to give everyone time to schedule things properly. This weekend I’ll post the schedule for the live courses, and let everyone know what’s going on.

Talismans:

I’ve been working with Pharos, a fellow Hermetic magician on the Key of Solomon talismans, and we’ve got a small inventory of Mercury and Venus talismans and talismanic artifacts that I can’t wait to announce! These were made during the last really good Mercury and Venus elections for the next year or so, so they’ll have the regular awesome juju of the Key Pentacles with the added juju of the astrological virtues of the electional times!

Special election versions of the Opener of the Ways, Miracle Maker, Key to the Universe, Come to Me, and Graceful Desires talismans are going to be available to a very few lucky folks soon. Pharos is also working on some innovative ways to wear these items inconspicuously that I’m excited about. We’re also working on a set of Solar talismans to be announced.

Super cool stuff coming your way in the talisman department.

Books:

I’m working on my Modern Goetic Grimoire, turning it into a magnum opus of grimoire-based easy-to-use Goetia. It’s going excruciatingly slowly, and I keep getting distracted by all the other cool stuff going on.

I’m also putting together a “Working with the Key of Solomon Pentacles” booklet that will go with the talismans, including ways to tap their power casually, as well as a formal conjuration expanded from the description on the talismans page.

On Tour:

I’m working on speaking engagements across the country. I’ll be at SOMA’s shindig in Austin, Texas, Omnimancer’s Crucible in Jersey, and at Azul Nox in Pennsylvania, Seven Gates in Kentucky, and Sword and Serpent in Dayton. Dates are still to be announced on a lot of these things, but it sure looks like a lot of fun. Hopefully I can get Moloch to speak with me in Ohio. That would be awesome. I’m also putting together some events for Minneapolis, so local folks, stay tuned!

Hangouts/Podcasts:

I’ve got another Whiskey Discussion in the works with Master Slee, and I’m going to try to get some Hawk and Jackal folks together to talk about some of the magic put together by Ebony Anpu back in the day.

When I was a kid, my mom enrolled me and my sister in a summer local Bible Olympics thing in Oklahoma. All summer we would travel and answer Bible trivia questions against other teams from other churches in the local counties. My sister and I kicked their fucking asses every time. Pathetic nominal hose beasts that they were.

One of the things they had was a scripture memorization contest. We had to memorize verses, and recite them to someone in our church. Whoever memorized the most got a Bible with their name embossed on the cover.

And you better fucking believe I walked away with a Bible with my name on it.

The other first-place-level prize was a board game based on CS Lewis’ Voyage of the Dawn Treader. My older sister won that. We tied for first, and she already had her own Bible, which she had taken to school to show her teacher why we weren’t actually descended from fish because we share some eye parts. We swept the contests, mostly because my mom was like UBER BIBLE BITCH.

In all the best ways.

She taught us how to memorize things in a great way. She bought a roll of butcher block paper, and wrote out the verses we were memorizing in multi-colored magic marker, and hung it on the walls of our dining room, kitchen, and living room. We spent time each night memorizing and reciting, memorizing and reciting, with the sole goal being the utter humiliation of the local backwater nominal Christian teens of Hennessey and Crescent Counties at 11 and 13.

To this day my mom feels bad about how harsh we skunked those illiterate bastards. LOL!

So these days, I’m in the A.’.A.’., and part of the curriculum incudes memorizing vast swaths of the Thelemic Holy Books. Doing so is a LIFECHANGING event, and everyone should totally do it, because they that seal up the book into their blood are the chosen of Adonai, and the Thought of Adonai becomes a Word and a Deed; and they abide in the Land that the far-off travellers call Naught.

The last one I didn’t mention in the post before, but let’s be real. “FUCK FUCK FUCK, GOD DAMN IT, as FUCKING Ra that gathereth his FUCKING clouds about Him at eventide into a molten sea of FUCKING Joy” might have resounded through the house a time or three.

In case you hadn’t noticed, I just wanted to point out that you’re doing great. The things that have happened lately can be kinda worrisome, sure, but you personally, you’ve been doing a lot of growing up. And don’t think I haven’t noticed. We all have.

That’s something I wanted to write on a friend’s wall on FaceBook this morning. Hm, do they still have walls? I think it’s timelines now. Shit. The olds are catching up to me.

Anyway, part of me was like, dude, you’re being a prick, don’t write that. He knows he’s awesome and doesn’t need your approval. And part of me was like, so, fuck you, I think he’s awesome and I’d love to hear it if I were being awesome. So I wrote something along those lines anyway and hit the post it button, and other people agreed. I hope it  was cool and not received like I’m being patronizing, but I also wouldn’t mind being this guy’s patron, because you look at him and know he’s going to go far and being able to claim some kind of involvement in his Work will one day be a good thing to have on one’s resume. Like Trithemius. I’d be cool with being a Trithemius. “Trained awesome magi” is a pretty sweet epithet.

But for the rest of you who I don’t interact with as much, if you’re doing the Work (and I get all kinds of reports in from people who have done Seven Spheres lately that are all, “OMG, AWESOME!”, so I know you’re out there), I just wanted to take a minute and say,

You’re Doing Great!

Keep up the Work. You’re better than you were, and people can tell. Don’t stop what you’ve been doing, and look for what comes next, it just gets better! Folks who went from looking at you and seeing a fellow sufferer in the world’s bullshit might not be equipped to mention to you that you’ve left them behind and are now sort of an inspiration, and also a bit of a mentor, but believe me, they are looking at you and feeling that thing, without being able to put it into words!

No Pressure

So be cool about it, and don’t let it go to your head, but start taking steps with more intent publicly, everything you’re doing has become a seed as a result of your recent attainments, and all the seeds you plant are going to grow (The LORD is with you, as you grow up, and will let none of your words fall to the ground).

Abrahadabra, man! It’s meaningful.

And…

Hell yea! Carry on with the onward, and the upward.

Love,

RO

I am working on putting together the class schedules for the next Seven Spheres and the Black Work sessions. Sorry it’s been delayed, I had some stuff come up that required my attntion the last couple of weeks and I lost track of some things. I’ll be getting that scheduled here shortly.

From www.Esotericarchives.com

This Saturday, come to Leaping Laughter Lodge to see Joseph Peterson, Scott Stenwick, and yours truly speaking on our favorite aspects of Solomonic Magic. Joseph will be speaking on the History of Goetia, Scott will be speaking on his latest explorations of Enochian Magic, and I’ll be presenting on the practical application of grimoire magic in your daily life.

I believe Joseph and Scott will be bringing copies of their latest books to sign and sell, and I know I will.

The event will be eld at Leaping Laughter Lodge, 3107 California Street NE, Minneapolis MN 55418. It begins at 1:00 p.m. central with Scott Stenwick’s presentation on Enochian Magic. I’ll be following his talk around 2:30, and for the grand finale, Joseph will begin around 4:00. We’re each planning on speaking an hour or so, with time left over for questions and answers.

So, chances are good thast you’re aware I’ve been referring to Joseph Peterson’s web site, www.Esotericarchives.com for years. Everything I teach is based on the materials he offers for free. I found Art of Drawing Spritis into Crystals there, and that’s become the foundational conjruation approach I use for everything. He’s got the Lemegeton, the Greater Key, every grimore you could ask for, and notes on the various manuscripts they are based on. He’s got copies of Iamblichus, writings of Dionysius the Areopagite, and nearly everything Agrippa ever wrote or was attributed to him. It is the very best place on the web to go for actual solomonic scholarship, and Joseph Peterson is the foremost authority on Solomonic magic I know.

I mean, guys, everything I got into in Hermetics is at Joseph’s site, and I’m secretly giddy with fanboy joy that I finally get to meet him and present with him in public. So honored!

Snacks will be available, and of course wine for those over 21. We’re asking for a minimum $10 donation, unless you’re a dues current lodge member. I personally argued that we should be charging $45, at LEAST to get in, but I was outvoted.

So, $10 “suggested donation” it is, and I will not tell you what I think about you if that’s all you’d pay for something this awesome.

For more information check out the following links:

On Facebook
On Google Calendar

TL/DR: I’m going to be doing live broadcasts for each of the Course Lessons, sign up at the link at the bottom of the page!

I tend to assume that anyone who purchases my books does so because they know me and have been reading my blog for years, and they think I’m awesome as a result of watching all the shit I’ve been through as I learned how to use Hermetic Magic to make my life amazing. I’ve been blogging here for … shit, going on nine years now. I started soon after attaining K&CHGA and right around the time I got to working through Agrippa and started using the Trithemian approach*  to conjuring spirits.

As a result of this assumption, I expect people who buy Seven Spheres to have a really thorough understanding of the Hermetic Cosmology, who they are, why they’re here, what they are supposed to be doing with their existences, and the proper application of the Great Work to their lives. I went through all that shit in great detail as I went through the process of getting here today, and I just assume if you’re doing what I’m doing, you’ve been through what I’ve been through.

But the thing is, you haven’t. Most of you, anyway. A whole bunch of people have bought my book and have none of the background education, framework, and experience to actually perform the work effectively, and that concerns me.

I laid out the basic process of what you should do to integrate the forces you can contact with Seven Spheres in the last post, but really, that’s not likely going to be enough to get you the fullness of the potential experiences off the bat. You really need to understand the Hermetic Theology and Soteriology that forms the core of the book to use it effectively. 

Don’t get me wrong, though. Using the book will lead you to this understanding, but it will take you there via the bumpy and sometimes rough road of gnosis, the school of hard knocks. There’s nothing wrong with that, for sure, I went through it and came out great, and eventually you’ll reach the appropriate conclusions you’ll need to reach in your path. That’s just how the magic thing works.

But I spent a long time, about two years, coming up with a shortcut for people so they wouldn’t have to go through and make a bunch of mistakes getting to the point where I’m at now. Or at least, not the same mistakes I made. I put together a series of courses that teach the principles of Hermetic Magic that I learned and use in my Work. These are the Red Work Series of Courses.

The Red Work Series of Courses

This series of courses are based on my understanding of the phases of the Alchemical transformational processes of the Great Work. The alchemists took some fundamentally flawed base material, subjected it to a series of refinements, or chemical processes, and when completed had a purified final form. Think of refining gold from ore. You get the ore-containing stone, you put it through a series of heat-based or chemical based processes in a particular order, and when complete you have extracted the pure gold. 

A similar series of processes was postulated for the spiritual refinement of human beings. The process became known as the Great Work. You start with a human being as the prime material, you go through various stages of the Work, and you come out refined and purified, able to reach your true potential, and able to project healing and longevity into the world around you. 

The phases of the Great Work began with the Black Work, in which you cooked the Prime Material, or let it decompose, and it turned black. The base impurities of the substance rose to the surface, and the basic materials that had been combined in an impure whole are broken down into their component parts. The next phase is the White Work, where the substances are heated further, or otherwise treated until the impurities in the mix are consumed and turned to pure ash, turning them from black to white, or the chemical equivalent. 

In some systems, the Green Work (or Peacock phase) followed, a series of processes you performed on the remaining material to further refine the component parts and begin to properly reintegrate them into the final whole. As the material passed through the Green Work, it turned various hues of blue and green and gold, like the colors of a peacock’s feather. Then the materia went into the Red Work, the phase at which the materia recombined into a single, pure and holy object, the Philosopher’s Stone. This last phase consisted of a great deal of applied heat over time. The Final stage of the Work is the Projection phase, in which the Stone is ground up into powder, which is used as a medicine to heal the world.

I based the courses on each of these phases. The Black Work is the most intensive, and provides the most comprehensive information necessary to understand the Work we do. It’s based almost entirely on Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, and my own experiences. By the end of this course, you will understand more about the neo-platonism of the Hermetic Cosmology than you ever thought you’d need to understand. You’ll have a solid foundation to do the Work of any of the grimoires, and a full comprehension of how you relate to the universe at large, the spirits we conjure, and ultimately your own divine nature.

After that comes the White Work course. This course is based on my studies of the Holy Guardian Angel, and the forms it took within the belief systems of the Zoroastrians, the Greek Magical Papyri, and into the Rennaissance grimoires. I explore what it is, what it means, and the various methods of contacting this spirit. I also provide a series of preparations and rituals designed to facilitate contacting this spirit. Attaining Knowledge and Conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel or its equivalent is not a necessary thing in most of the traditions of the West, at least officially, as such. It is implicit in all the systems though, and it never hurts to have a Solar Spirit at your back ready to help you conjure, feed, and direct the forces the spirits and intelligences represent.

The Green Work course has been temporarily discontinued, because I never finished it properly. The Seven Spheres book accomplishes the same thing, especially when combined with the Seven Spheres course.

I never decided whether I should write a Red Work course or not. If you do the Work of the Black, White, and Green Work, I believe you cannot help but finish the Red Work. Also, I feel like I’m always in this phase in some aspect of my life, and I don’t know whether I can really write a course on it. I think it varies from person to person, and within each lifetime it varies for each individual. The Red Work I do today is different than the Red Work I did five years ago, two years ago, or last month.

And Projection… well, that’s going to look however you want it to look. It is the creation of your world.

Standard Correspondence Course

If you want to take the standard courses, you can order the courses at the regular prices at this link below. These come with all the lessons in PDF, and a membership to the yahoo group where you can discuss the lessons with other course members. Here’s the link:

Link to Order the Standard Correspondence Courses for the Black and White Work

Live Lessons for the Black Work Course

I had so much fun doing the Seven Spheres courses live, that I’ve decided to go ahead and do a live broadcast for each of the Black Work course lessons, and eventually for each of the White Work lessons too. For right now, I’m only taking orders for the live Black Work lessons. With this order, you’ll be getting all the standard correspondence course materials, plus an hour long discussion of the topics in detail once a week.

That’s SEVEN HOURS OF MY LIFE, PEOPLE! 

Jesus, wait a minute. Let me think about this.

Ok, yeah, I’m sure. But it’s going to cost you extra, for sure. I know you saw that coming. 

If you’d like to participate, it’s $200 for the Black Work, that’s an extra $75, which isn’t too bad, in my opinion for that much of my time. I’ll be doing these on the weekends, and if you miss the class, I’ll be recording them and posting them to a private channel on youtube, which you’ll get access to super-secretly. you’ll be able to go back and watch them if you miss them, or re-watch them if you fell asleep, went to the bathroom, or got shit-faced drunk and forgot about it. I’m limiting the number of people who can join to 50, but don’t worry, that’s a relatively large number and I doubt I’ll get that many people to join.

If you CAN order, it means class is NOT FULL. If you try to order and you get a “Sold Out” page, then you’ll have to wait until next time I run this.

I’ll be putting out an announcement this weekend for the next live Seven Spheres course, and when I’m about a month or so into those I’ll announce a live White Work course, so keep your eyes peeled.

* As far as I know, I am the first modern magician to make extensive use of this technique, and I am completely comfortable saying that the reason The Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals has gained a huge amount of popularity in the last few years is because I told everyone I knew how cool it was. It’s a simple method of conjuration, and to make it even easier, I wrote up a neat little tech spec manual that put its simple practices into modern language (The Modern Angelic Grimoire). This method is sort of authentic and traditional, even though my version technically isn’t either of those things according to grimoire purists, but everyone who uses the technique finds it super-effective.

Wow, what a terrible idea a public “Seven Spheres in Seven Days” group turned out to be. There were people who wanted to do the rites in a week without ever having done them in the suggested order of the book. There were people confused about why we were ping-ponging around the spheres, and what the point was.

I suspect I must have misrepresented the process, the plan, or the effects. Or I misunderstood people.

There’s a reason I tell people to take it easy, spread it out over five to seven weeks. The book is designed to introduce you to the powers of creation used by God to create and maintain all of existence. You go through the spheres, you get initiated, you integrate the forces, and you learn to implement them. When I say it’s initiatory, I mean, the power gets pumped into your sphere, and you get tuned up in relation to that power. It cleanses you, shakes out the issues you have with that sphere manifesting in your life, cleans you up and prepares you to take on a little more power next time.

Over time, you learn to integrate the forces and expand your kingdom. You become a skilled manager of your life. You understand your intents, desires, and the consequences of your choices. You learn that you are a god, and you can direct the forces of creation, and harvest the results.

It behooves the practitioner to do this systematically, gently, and to integrate the forces a little at a time.

So why would someone do the Seven Spheres in Seven Days? What’s the point of releasing all the powers of all the planets into your sphere all at once?

To me, that’s like asking why you get drunk. You get drunk to get drunk. It’s fun, you have a good time, you get experiences and stories to share with your friends, you hit that point where you get all honest and understand something about yourself that you’ll probably forget in the morning, but so what? It’s fun!

And then you clean up the mess you made.

Doing the Seven Spheres in Seven Days is like that. It’s an ecstatic rite, or an ecstatic event. It creates the circumstances necessary to develop a gnostic experience of your personal deity-ness. You basically set the stage to see your entire life transform over the space of a month or so, in ways that will continue to unfold for years. You will see that you are indeed a God, and if you ever need a good reminder of what that means, you can do it again.

It’s awesome!

And dangerous. Power flows like water. The reason conjuring the Intelligences and deities of the spheres creates change is because like water, it pools into the lowest places. If there are blockages, it builds up behind the blockages until it can wash them away. When the blockages finally go, it’s like the breaking of the levies, there will be a flood for a while, and then the pure stream can flow through.

Going through the spheres at a reasonable pace, following the order I prescribe in the book is good for you. It’s safer. It’s more gentle. It’s focused primarily on turning you into the king of your world. It places you on the throne and takes you through the steps necessary to learn how to rule, the forces at your disposal, and the things you need to fix to get what you want. If you even know what that is. The book recommends taking  an inventory of your life, and getting to know your strengths and weaknesses, and doing the magic as you go along and take stock of what’s going on in your life. It’s a process.

The private Seven Spheres in Seven Days group I put together for those who took the class with me was fine. They were ready for it. They had been immersed in my prattlings. I was able to program them from the get-go with the basic framework necessary to handle the ecstatic result.

The public group had people with no clue champing at the bit to jump in, regardless of whether they understood what was going on or not. It quickly became clear to me that I had created something terribly dangerous, something I wanted no part of whatsoever.

So I eliminated the public group. I’m still going through the Seven Spheres in Seven days with my class. They can handle it, and we’re having fun.

If you’re interested in the ecstatic experience, for god’s sake (your sake), please don’t just jump right into it. Here’s what I suggest:

1) Read the Book. If you haven’t yet, buy it here and then read through it, cover to cover.
2) Do the recommended exercises. I highly suggest taking the Course that comes with it. I’ll be announcing that as available in a couple days, but even if you don’t, definitely take stock of your Kingdom as you go. Know Thyself.
3) Do the Rites. Perform each rites over 5-6 weeks, from Jupiter to the Moon, and then figure out if you want to do Saturn.
4) Wait a couple weeks to let the forces percolate and integrate in your sphere.
5) See how things look.

At that point, you’ll be able to decide if you should do the Seven Spheres in Seven Days. When I do them, it’s a lot like Charlie Sheen finding a spare couple kilos of cocaine in his couch he’d TOTALLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT. I have a good time. I love magic. I love the transformation. I love the power. It’s AWESOME.

But, but, but…

I’ve been doing this shit for years. I completed the Great Work. My shit’s solid, yo. It was forged in the fires, and it’s been made pure. I can handle it, I know what to expect, and I’ve learned how to deal with it. There were people in that group who I just couldn’t even begin to imagine unleashing that stuff on themselves.

I couldn’t be a part of it. It’d be like dousing kids in lighter fluid and then giving them those razor scooters that sparked.

Hey everyone, I meant to get this out a lot sooner, but I totally forgot, what with my life barrelling by at 110 mph every day. I wanted to get this out in front of y’all asap. Tonight at 8:00 PM Central at the Lodge. If you don’t know where it is, send me an email at:

And I’ll send you the address. Or you an look up the event at the Leaping Laughter Facebook page.

This gets a little vulgar, and I’m sorry. Probably not something you should feel obliged to read, but if you’re interested, by all means have a good time.

So the number of times I’ve actually been asked this is more than one but still less than five, and I figured I’d go ahead and address this publicly before it became something I got sick of answering and just sort of ignored.

Also, there was this article in the New York Times recently that Harper showed me, about what the things we search for on Google tell us about the basic insecurities of our fellow humans on the planet. I can’t stress this enough, read the article. It helps so much.

So this question was sort of a big deal for guys, the second most-asked question related to men’s sexual performance:

“How can I last longer during sex?”

Before we go any further, mini rant:

I personally suspect that most guys think they should be fucking like porn stars, and I know this is going to come as a HUGE shock to guys, but this is something you should know:

And this is going to hurt: not even pornos.

Most guys don’t last 30 minutes, and most partners don’t want them to. If you base your expectations for your performance on porn, you’re in for a bad time.

But if you really want to fuck like a guy in teh prons, study the things they do to last so long. Viagra’s a big deal to them. Also, treat fucking like a job. Do it several times a day (stamina comes from practice) every day on contrived sets thrown together in someone’s apartment with umbrella lights glaring on you, with people watching, critiquing, and giving you instructions in the background while you’re screwing a partner who’s fucked so many people they can’t even fake being interested in your tool that’s gone numb from sloshing around in a hole that’s been stretched by you and your tool and your co-workers’ tools for half-hour to forty-five minute fuck marathons. And there’s all kinds of drugs that hate brain cells to take.

The more you think about fucking like a porn star, the less interesting it seems, really.

BUT SERIOUSLY…

So if that’s not the problem, then keep going. Below are some actual things that have changed my personal performance in ways that are beneficial. I think this is actually some good advice, and if you email me asking about it, this is basically what I’m going to say. So don’t email me about it. Just read this.

I’m telling you things that work for me, because it’s something I’ve managed to overcome in the last few years.

This shit works for me, and it’s not hard to do.

These aren’t penetrating insights, and may seem anti-climactic, and yeah, that’s totally on purpose and entirely the point.

Ok, enough. On with the actual advice:

LOVE YOUR LOVER

I know this is a no brainer, but a major issue with stamina for me was that I wasn’t interested in my partner very much. That’s not ONLY because they hated me and blamed me for everything personally, or got on my nerves, or lied and cheated on me (so many times), though that does tend to make you care less about your lover’s satisfaction.

No, I was a selfish douche who was just in it for myself. Even the “wanting to last longer” thing was just so I could feel better about myself. It wasn’t about the partner, it was just me. I’d get started and get excited about how good it would feel, and fed on that until I was just totally into the orgasm.

Being with someone you love and actually care about changes things. You’re less nervous and more interested in the process. You’re not in a hurry. You’re into the shape of their jawline, the smell of their skin. The saltiness of their sweat. The flush of their cheeks. You learn what makes them get there, and the journey is awesome. You don’t mind taking breaks and getting over yourself while you minister to the brethren or sistren.

Be the kind of lover who loves their lover, and it makes a huge difference.

HAVE AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE

A drink helps relax you, and lets you take your time a bit more. It suppresses the CNS and lowers inhibitions. Don’t take too many shots, that gets to be a problem, but a shot a half hour or so before you’re making love is great for, ahem, some people. If drinks aren’t your thing, don’t drink ’em. It’s just something I’ve noticed.

BREATHE SLOWLY

Breathing slower makes you last longer. I don’t know why, but it’s true, and it works. Perhaps loving your lover helps you breathe more slowly, and being a little relaxed from a drink also makes you more relaxed and helps you breathe more slowly. Maybe that’s the secret, breath control. I don’t know for sure. These are just observations.

PRANA-FRICKIN’-YAMA

Ok, so this is the BIG SECRET that is probably the thing that’s actually helped me the most. And it’s totally about breath control, so that’s a good contender for being the thing that makes these things work. Because the secret of the sphere of Venus is that the entire universe is One spirit separated into many spirits so it can fuck itself all the time, and in every language ever the word for “spirit” is traced back to “breath.” But that’s probably just a coicidence.

I do pranayama like every day now because A:.A:. things, and there’s this thing Jason teaches in his book, Sex, Sorcery, and Spirit about throat and asshole locks. Mula Bandha is the asshole lock. Google it if you don’t know what I’m talking about, but Jason’s book is better about this than I will be for at least 30 years.Suffice it to ay, I incorporate the locks he describes into my practice. Mula Bandha is the key here. Basically you clench the muscles of your asshole (up to your nuts, not just the easy sphincter muscles) and hold it in rythm with your breathing.

I do pranayama using an app Harper Feist found called MySpiritTools on an iphone. It’s free and useful. We use the “Conscious Breathing” exercise. It’s got three phases that you can change the settings on. The way I have it configured on my phone is based on seven-second intervals:

• 3 minutes of two-stage breathing (just in and out); seven second inhalation, seven second exhalation.
• 3 minutes of thre-stage breathing (in, hold, out, repeat in); I exercise the throat and anal lock for the time I’m holding my breath.
• 10 minutes of four-stage breating (in, hold, out, hold, then in) for seven seconds each.

When it gets to the hold-your-breath phase of the conscious breathing part, I exercise the locks. I don’t know if that’s proper technique or whatever, but after 6 weeks of doing that every morning, your muscles get really strong. Use these muscles to control your orgasm. You just focus on Mula Bandha and steady deep breathing when you start to get close to orgasm, and it shifts things, and you last longer.

WHEN YOU’RE ABOUT TO CUM, DON’T

Seriously, pull out and squeeze that Mula Bandha lock hard. It’s like hitting a reset button on your approach to orgasm. It doesn’t always work, but the more you do it, the more often it does, and in no time you’re in control of your experiences.

I like the parts between getting started and orgasm best anyway. The actual orgasm part at the end is over too fast for my tastes, but the approach is just delicious, and making that last longer is totally worth it, if you’re me.

CONCLUSION

So none of this stuff is new news, I’m not teaching anything you can’t find on a google search, and Jason’s book is much more comprehensive than this article, but now that I’ve written it up I can send links to this instead of rewriting it every time.

Happy fucking!

V(=)IR

Have I not said, Ye are Gods?

I could change that, she thought. I could take away the drug action and make it harmless. But she sensed this would be an error. I’m within a rite of joining.

People are awesome. I like you all a whole lot.

Hermetics teaches that we’re all individual and unique manifestations of the Divine. Konx om Pax, it is written. Light in Extension. L.V.X. Lux, the Light of the True Cross. And that is very true. It’s why I get all shiny-eyed and gleeful when I ecstatically proclaim, Thou Art God! I am God, we are Gods! Living Gods!*

A lot of what I focus on in my writings and my efforts in this incarnation is related to reminding people that they themselves are, in fact, gods. That’s literally you reading this now. I want to reach out through the computer, grab you by your lapels (google it), stare directly and meaningful into the soul of your being and say, “You! You are GOD! Remember? Wake the fuck up!”

That’s how my Great Work looks, in a nut shell.** In case you were wondering why I do this stuff all the time.

So of course that’s nothing new. Jesus said it. Plato said it through Timaeus. Heraclitus said it before that. We say this shit because we see people suffering, and we want you to just … stahp! Snap out of it! Grow the heck up and make adult decisions based on an understanding that choice leads to experience and consequent enjoyment or suffering! Because you can, and you’re awesome! You can do better things, and enjoy a better life, if you want to!

And my focus is a lot about you, personally. Because I love you, and I want you to be happy. I really believe all that shit about us being gods, extensions of the same source, and I get that if we were all doing good, we’d all be happy, and it’s just that people forget you can do good sometimes and it might not seem great immediately, but then it turns out to be actually fucking great.

So I try hard to remind you you’re a god, with worth and value that is … worthy. And valuable. To you, but also to all of the rest of us. We need you to be cool, ffs. We need everyone to be cool.

Everyone.

And that’s what this post is actually about.*** It’s not about you, except inclusively. It’s about everyone else you interact with, and how you personally interact with them. Those “others.” You know, the other gods on the Earth.

Do you recognize them when you see them? I have a hard time in real life seeing the god in others. Because they’re assholes, unawakened lazy pink primate motherfuckers. I need a lot of work before I can bow to the god in others instead of honking at the dipshit standing in front of my car blocking my exit from the airport frantically gesticulating to his wife to just cut me off to come and get his entitled ass.

Is flipping the bird equivalent to “bowing to the god in others?” I sure hope so.

That’s Namaste, in Hindu, by the way, and it’s totally what it says, and if there’s a “fuck you” undercurrent to it, it’s probably a mystical secret only understood by stoned sufis. You probably already knew what Namaste means.

If not, here’s the Wiki explanation:

Namasté is spoken with a slight bow and hands pressed together, palms touching and fingers pointing upwards, thumbs close to the chest. This gesture is called Añjali Mudrā or Pranamasana.^[5] In Hinduism it means “I bow to the divine in you”.

I bow to the divine in you. That’s some bullshit, honestly. I have a hard enough time remembering my own divinity, and you know, slogging through your shit to get to your divinity on a personal basis is fucking hard.

Er.

Dammit, I’m really trying hard not to cuss as much, honest.

But here’s the thing: when I get you alone and we’re just talking, I see it. When we’re not trying to end the trip from hell as soon as possible by getting into a safe place with the one person on the planet we can admit to loving without it being weird. When we’re not just posting shit on facebook to make each other laugh and to show how cool we are. When we’re not cussing in blog posts to cover up how important this shit really is.

I had a great client today ask me for advice and a talisman to get what she wants out of life. She got how this all works, and she knows society would probably try to tell her she’s bad for going after what she really wants, and she had the courage to say what she wants anyway. And of course I helped her, because … Ok, we’ll talk about ethics for a sec.

This client was so cool. She wanted to be with a guy who’s in a relationship that’s bad for him. She doesn’t know if it will work out between the two of them, if they ever might have a chance to connect like a bulb and socket, all slowly screwing deeper and deeper until they can’t go any further and become, for the moment, a hot glowing thing that illuminates the world. She just knows she wants him. And that he wants her. And that he’s not happy now. And that everyone would be happier if they screwed. Her desires were pure, she wanted the god in him and the god in her to unite for a bit and to see what happened next.

That’s all we get, folks. It doesn’t get any better than that. And it’s perfect.

So here’s the thing.

When you start to see the god in other people, and recognise that thing with them that you have in common, you get what they need. What they want. What they’re after.

I think my “gift,” my “charisma” in this life is to see that in other people. I can spend five or ten minutes talking to you and know more about what you are after in life than you do. That’s why I want to go full time offering Hermetic consultations for a living. God-on-god therapy, you know? I grok people, and who they are, and what they want, and why that’s ok. I have an intrinsic understanding of the nature of the being that is you, the divine you.

I think that’s because I spent so much time learning to know myself, but … what do I know?

I recently had the opportunity to consider horses, and the “horse whisperer” phenomenon. Horses are huge, strong, and super intelligent manifestations of god. They are unique beings, from their smell to their hooves to their hearts. They love, they feel, and they understand in ways that are similar to, yet entirely different from human beings.

A horse whisperer is someone who can see to the heart of the horse, and see the divinity of that being, and commune with it in language it needs to hear, in the moment. They can put off their humanity enough to be the god who sees the god in the horse, the same god that is in all other aspects of existence, and to commune with it meaningfully in ways it can understand.

Can you imagine being treated that way? To feel the love, the sacrifice, the willingness to shrug off the differences, just for a moment so they can be with you in a way that makes you feel safe, valuable, worthy… Loved?

Makes you want to be a horse, huh?

People, all of us, are little sparks of the divine holed up in flesh suits with brains and emotions and autonomous reactionary protective circuits that have evolved to keep us alive. We feel things, and say things as a result that aren’t really cool. Useful, to an end, but robotic. Programmed, genetic, societal. Most of our lives we spend in that state, garbage in, garbage out. It takes something pretty special to knock us up and out of that realm of interacting with the world, to become mindful, aware, awake with another person. It takes intimacy, trust, love, and friendship. Camaraderie.

It’s rare, among people. We have these shells up that keep us separated from one another, a hardened lacquer of protective armor. A chitinous layer, a thick skin. It takes something special to get past that layer, to be the solvent that is necessary to open up a bit. Solvents are important in the Great Work.

You know that “I love you man!” moment people get to when they’re drunk? That’s the point at which their CNS is suppressed enough, and their inhibitions are lowered enough that they can say to people they care about, “Hey, I care about you, I appreciate you, and I am glad to get to hang out with you, because you’re cool, and that means something, coming from me.” It’s the moment when you can admit that your personal value of another person is meaningful, to yourself and to them. And it takes booze to do that. For a reason.

Ethanol is an amazing solvent. So is love. So are mystical exercises, and daily practices. Digging deep into the essence of you is the key to be able to appreciate that essence in others. shutting down the CNS, the inhibitions, the distractions and seeing the divine within you as the same divinity in others. The Great Work is a process that lets you get to that point and appreciate others. It helps you, and in turn it helps everyone else.

So whether you are a people whisperer, or are perhaps a people whisperer in training, or even a person in need of a people whisperer, the things we pursue are the solvent you need. Magical practice is all about that, ultimately. The knowledge of the self. The knowledge of God. The recognition of that and what it means in your life, and in the lives of everyone else.

That is the Great Work.

* And then people remind me that phrase was taken.

** Not a nut sack. Those look different. And I haven’t even made a dick joke yet.

*** My 10th grade English teacher, if he ever reads this, will probably think it’s the worst essay ever, introducing the thesis this late, but everything else was the hook, and the elaborateness of it will become apparent in a minute.