Noctifera wrote:To nijntje - Your argument is actually, irrelevant to what I have stated. There is not a contrary opinion, more like a differing perspective.
Good! Although I do think there are some fundamental subtleties that affect the way you approach this.
Noctifera wrote:On another note maybe, I don't really get where this 'trademark' 'Too Much magic' thing is coming from.. it reads like some new age self help book feeding me another version of 'The Secret' (trademark). Which makes me less inclined to take it seriously.
I love the Secret for bringing life-changing transformational magick to the masses. But no, I have not even touched it and it's not from there. Also, how mean. 1sa
Noctifera wrote:I don't think you realize I was weighing in as someone who gets how manifestation works, and what it has taken.
Meaning I was agreeing with your basic mentality, and from experience, but not with the nature of what you proposed.
You disagreed with the idea of "limitlessness", right? Because Nature and Spirit "do not allow" some things. We'll agree to disagree here, then.
Noctifera wrote:You need to understand energy in order to make it work. You cannot 'non grasp' until you have 'non grasped'.
Well, energy is not hard to understand at all, thankfully. It has the properties we imbue it with. That is Magick, afterall, isn't it? A projection of Intent into the ever-moldable world. Non-grasping is simply letting go of all the effort and letting it drop, which is when Energy will stop reflecting your tense, hard efforts and start unraveling for you in far easier ways than you previously conceived with your devotion to "proving yourself" and to "working really, really hard".
It's the premise of a lot of the new-age philosophies you have mentioned. When you stop trying, things happen. It is with dark humor that I note all the people who are now manifesting cars, houses, fortunes and spontaneous healings faster than many in magickal communities have been able to after decades of study. It is also the way, I believe, we have "naturals" in magickal circles, those who freely impress themselves on the Energy around us and those who after decades of study struggle to get results. We see the results we believe we are ready or able to see. Also where "beginner's luck" comes in, a huge one for me. A beginner will often readily see their optimistic expectations satisfied... Until someone comes in and says "OK now it's time to WORK HARD, newbie, you'll get absolutely nowhere now that you've used up your beginner's luck points". I have nothing against working, it's a way of "practicing expectation" however a lot of people approach work like they have to earn their way back to "heaven", not realizing it's their natural birthright.
Noctifera wrote:There are also many perspectives that are valid within any given state of being.
I don't disagree at all, they become ever more valid when Energy rushes in around all of us to congeal our expectations and ideas about reality in a way that looks solid and satisfactory. There are as many forms of validity as there are minds. "Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing" - psalms 145:16, just to speak a little bit more to the free-flowing energy that responds and is ever-responsive to us all.
Noctifera wrote:Ideally one who is a master of their reality would not need to manifest anything for themselves.
That is a bit of a sphinx riddle for you all.
Why's that? Oh it's a riddle. But I disagree anyhow. There are endless dimensions and realms, mastery is what it is. Which is to say that it may very well take endless forms. Which it probably does. Getting closer to the Source does not actually have to mean dissolving oneself as many believe. I have read a few transmissions that I agree with but ask no-one to, that in approaching that immense reality and to sustain its realisation, you need an equally strong sense of self. So, to me, not dissolving the ego or its desires at all! I actually think there are many layers of purist fluff we put on the nature of reality in attempts to be "spiritual". We are already as "spiritual" as can be, this incarnation and descension is the will of Nature and Spirit, therefore no less sanctioned and acceptable than becoming a Saint or a Monk. And that is adding to my final point that a master is
always and
already manifesting for themselves anyway. It's all Desire. The desire for another is still a desire for yourself. Let's not forget that the masters we are able to talk about spring from our culture of "selflessness" being the ideal notion of purity, so they would be informed by those premises. And yet Self is all there is. The eternal Desire and Ego of the One Consciousness. Sorry for all the capitalisations, just trying to make several points at once.
Noctifera wrote:However, on the original topic at hand we're not talking about ascended mastery, we are talking about vampiric mastery. Unless the OP meant to ask what way if any would they have these powers. They want to know through the dimension of vampirism, and being a vampire is very specific.[/color]
It keeps coming up, I'm sorry. It was only meant to be an illustrative point that I have since been responding to as a defence. My main point is very much in line with the topic, specific to vampires in an inclusive way. Energy will take on the form you expect it to, OP.