Greetings.

I'm going to give you my thoughts on a subject that is very near and
dear to my heart since it is one that I feel each and every person should
experience before they get INto the Occult & wonderful world of Metaphysics.
The late Dr. Israel Regardie, who was the author of the 'Golden Dawn' (a book
of Ceremonial Magic) believed that each and every person should go thru a
year of psycho-therapy prior to getting into the Occult. I must agree. I believe
that I've previously written about that in other previous essays however it
bears repeating again and again.
I spent a year in therapy when I was younger for some religious problems I had
over a church. My one college professor happened to be a trained psychotherapist and I didn't know that I was going to be practicing the Occult in the
future, at that time I chose to have the good doctor help me get thru some of
the miasma of things that bugged me. On top of that, I had an atheist friend
deprgram me of what the good professor could not get out of my head so in
effect, I had two therapists. ;)
WHY is this important you say? There are a LOT of things inside our noggins
that can cause conflicts with our practices both in the way of beliefs but also in
the way of perceptions & how we choose to take action in our lives. It's been
said by a wise person that the scope of our problems are not what is at stake
hear but rather HOW we choose to act on them that's important.
You may disagree with me but I firmly believe that peole with mental illnesses
should never get involved with 'Spirit' workings, especially if they're on a
prescribed medication for their mental illness. Of course many will dispute this
by saying while they're on their meds, they are level headed & on an even keel.
Ok, I'll buy that, IF the meds are working AND IF they're taking them as
prescribed, however if someone with a history of metnal illness decides they
want to take up the Occult, it's a very dangerous road for them.
First off, there's a lot of pitfalls to contend with such as fears. When things
begin to go bad for a lot of folks with mental illnesses, they often jump on the
bandwagon of "I'm being cursed!" when they're no more sure of that than the
Man in the Moon! They go thru a minor string of bad luck and immediately jump
to the conclusion that "X" is cursing them. *rolls eyes*
Now mind you this presumption is without ANY merit because when questioned,
NONE of these folks have provided any proof as backup. No Divinations, no
testing methods - nada. It's like claiming that a neighbor is harassing them
without any evidence to support their claim thus how can a judge be impartial
and objective?
Folks, if you have any history of mental illness and you feel you're being cursed,
the best thing for you to do is the Uncrossing Ritual as this 9 times out of 10
will fix those minor irritations that are plaguing you yet you feel are all
important. Thus just perform an Uncrossing for seven days straight and keep a
diary. The problems will disappear and you can sit back and relax knowing that
no one is really cursing you but rather you just went thru a small series of
minor pitfalls in life which your Uncrossing has eliminated for you.
Next, they often want to immediately jump into work with Spirits. This is highly
dangerous because Spirits often like to take advantage of people. Ok, you're
thinking, "Gee Moloch from your past blogs and essays, you seem to say Spirits
are GREAT to work with!" True I do not dispute that and with that said I also
know that the Spirits respect me because not only was I initiated but also went
about working with Spirits in a different way! Further I have also gone thru a
couple of years of personal introspection before I began Spirit work as well!

So what did I do during this two years of introspection? Candle work mostly.
It's low level Magic but it's effective. It primarily operates from yourself and
doesn't have to involve Spirits. I myself often incorporate Spirit workings with
my candle & Root Workings but as I've said, I went thru pesonal preparations
ahead of time & I also have the diaries to prove it.
I know this is over-generalizing but it's been my experience that most folks
with mental illnesses do not take the time to do anything like that. They always
want to jump RIGHT IN to the work and plug themselves into a 440v socket
instead of the 110v which is safer & easier to work with.
IF you have a normal brain and are not dependent on meds to keep you in
balance, Spirits then look for other shortcomings in your life to test you with.
For instance, if your'e (as I was in my younger days - just ask my ex!) they will
appear to you as come (re: gorgeous) people of arousing sexual interest to you.
Now believe you me, it's very difficult to talk to a Spirit who appears as a young
hottie when you're a young, full bodied, hetero male. No I'm not talking the girl
next door hottie but Playboy hottie!
In the old grimoires of the Medieval & Renaissance periods, there are warnings
against such things and you're instructed to command the Spirit to put on a
more pleasing appearnace - in other words to stop screwing around with your
head and look more normal. This CAN happen even in modern Paganism too! I
used to expereince a particular Goddess who would appear as a phenomenal
looking woman dressed scantily clad and lying on a divan. This being a 'Mother'
Goddess, it took a while for me to realize that I could ask Her to lessen the
sexual appeal & be more serious. When I did, my relationship with Her became
more cemented.
Now obviously a trained psychologist would suggest that we impose our
fantasies upon others and while that is most definitely true, that same trained
psychologist does not practice real Magic and deal with very real, independent
existing Spirits who can and will screw with your head if you allow it!
In the Eastern belief systems, Spirit contact does NOT begin with one's Magical
training UNTIL the student has gone thru a long period of inner contemplation.
Often this period involves pulling up doubts, worries, fears, phobias, dreads,
beliefs - that have no business being inside someone to begin with. The length
of time is different with each student as they choose when they are ready but
they are forewarned that should they leave something that a Spirit can use
against them, then they may end up fighting that Spirit eternally over it.
Now there are some folks who believe that Spirit contact is essential and it
permeates everything in the Occult world. Ok I'll buy into that BUT if you have a
valid medical history of mental illness, then direct Spirit contact is extremely
dangerous. You could simply work candles, roots & herbs, talismans, Astrology,
Divinations and other forms of Sorcery without having to fear possession.
However there are some aspects of higher Sorcery that should definitely be left
alone such as possessions, sumoning & evoking Spirits or Invoking a Spirit
(another form of possession) as well.
So what's the big danger you say? How do you know which voice is a real Spirit
& which is merely an impulse in your head??? If you get an impulse to reach
over and touch the stranger next to you on the subway in a very suggestive
way, it could be your own impulses or it could be the suggestion of a
mischievous Spirit. How do you know? Trouble is, you don't know! Therein lies
the dilemma.

Look, we all hear voices at times - ok maybe not voices in the plural sense but
we all have that little person inside us who suggests courses of action to us.
Some refer to this as our Id, Child self or Sub-conscious and it often will pitch
an idea that our Conscious mind or Adult/Ego will either accept or reject. Now if
your Conscious mind is damaged due to whatever afflicts you with a valid
mental illness, you may trust everything your Sub-consciou minds tosses up at
you.
I believe in the concept of the Three Selves: Conscious, Sub-conscious & Higher
self to put it in modern terms. In Max F. Long's version of Huna, he labele them
as Uhane (Oo-hah-nay), Unihipili (oo-nee-hee-pee-lee) & the Aumakua (owmah-koo-ah) respectively. There is a fourth term which is not indicative of the
'self' but the Universe itself which Long called the Poe-Aumakua (poe-ay-owmah-koo-ah). This is the place where everything else dwells - Spirits, life,
eternity and so on.
To make things simpler, I liken the Aumakua as what Regrdie called the MicroCosmic Universe (or that which is inside ourselves) to the Macro-Cosmic
Universe (that which is outside & around us). Both are interconnected and thus
with practice you can learn to make contact with your Aumakua thru workings
with your Unihipili because the only way we can make it to our Aumakua (again
our Higher Self) is thru learnign to communicate and work with the Unihipili.
Now regardless of whether you buy into Max F. Long's version of Huna or not is
moot. I don't give a rat's ass what your opinion about it is because I know it
WORKS. That's it. I've found it to work well for personal healing and a strong
system of Magic that anyone can safely use. If you're interested in Huna, I
suggest you start with the late Enid Hoffman's book, "Huna: A Beginner's
Guide" which is, in my opinion, priceless because it has a LOT of distilled
information from all of Long's books and offers you her method of pendulum
dowsing to help you facilitate control of conversations with your Unihipili.
The Aumakua alredy has the answers to all of your questions in life. It knows
what is best for you as It is a higher Spirit aspect of your own self. Plus it can
help you with healing yourself and allowing you to tap into greater aspects of
power all in a carefully controlled method.
Your Unihipili acts like a child most of the time because it truly is on a level of a
4-9 year old child. Thus when working with it you must always use simple,
common language and you must always be patient and pleasant. Why? It can
shut down on you faster than you can say 'Boo!" and that's not something you
want. But if you have managed to open dialogue with your Unihipili and get It's
attention (and can hold it as well!) you can get messages across the barrier to
your Aumakua and receive blessings, power, health, aid, insights and so much
more.
When my late friend & mentor, Ron Parshley introduced me to Huna, I
discovered that I had a system where I could learn to get thru to my own
Unihipili and disover what demons plagued It. The danger though for someone
with a history of mental illness is that they need to know IF what they're
hearing in their head is real or imagined. You cannot go arguing with your
Uihpili nor can you go and just jump on every notion and idea it throws out at
you either!
Yes I did say the Aumakua is always connected to our Unihipili's BUT any
message that the Aumakua sends back to us must be translated by the Unihipili
who may or may not get it right. The same goes for messages our Uhane sends

to the Aumakua thru our Unihipili. (See my point?) Thus it's not so easy and it
takes quite a while to really get thru to your Unihipili as well a sa lot of work.
Now we can develop our claireaudient skills to hear thigns that our conscous
minds cannot pick up with our ears. WIth time and practice, we can develo this
psychic sensitivity to allow us to hear what a Spirit is saying to us. Other than
that, we can use a method of Sortilege such as casting bones or using two dice
(re: Astragals) or the pendulum dowsing method for Spirit communication. Of
course if you have a friend who is a trained medium with natural gifts, then you
can get pretty accurate, direct answers as well and the only downside is that
the Medium knows your personal business with the Spirit in question.
Now this whole Huna gig may sound like Psychology to you and it's simply a
model that fits onto this that Long was fond of. I've often said that Magic is NOT
psychology and I meant that and still mean it. I've also said that one cannot
effectively practice Magic or Sorcery without a good healthy inner psychology
too. Why? Because the inner connects to the outer and if your mind is
unhealthy, you're screwed form the get-go.
In summary, to practice working with real Spirits, you M-U-S-T be level headed
& without any sort of mental illness because it is a deficiency that the Spirits
will capitalize on should you give them the opportunity to do so. There are many
other forms of Sorcery that you can utilize that are less directly invovled with
Spirits and you can use these with far more confidence and less fear of being
screwed with. All you need is common sense & the desire to manifest your
goals.
Please do NOT be stupid and thumb your nose at these non-Direct Spirit based
systems such as candle magic, talismans, Astrology, Divinations, Treasure
Mapping, Gris-Gris bags, Prayers & Supplications, Offerings to your Ancestors
and so on. These methods WORK! There is nowhere that's engraved in stone
that states you MUST work with Angels, Demoons, Ghosts & Ghouls to be an
Occultist. For those who say otherwise, I say you're full of shit and just want to
look tough.
Candle Magic is very old and it has a long tradition both in the Occult and in
religious circles of being extremely powerful & reliable. Learning to make
talismans is a very worthwhile way of getting some Sorcery in your life and
included in that is the art of Gris-Gris Bag making. Hell, even Treasure Mapping
is a TERRIFIC way of working a simplistic form of Magic IF you do it with a good
heart and focus your mind on the end result.
Remember, you do NOT have to summon Spirits to be a Sorcerer!

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