Meditation

Contributor: Samantha Seto
Tested: Yes


Meditation:
I believe in escape into nature. Race into the wild. Awaken to the unexpected pleasures of life.
Hold on to hope in the world. Things may change. Nothing counts.
Memory inside your head. Pretend it was different. Search for reason in the world.
Reach into culture. Expand on the nature of past experience.
Life so bold to challenge our ways. Never doubt scars of human struggle. Contemplate the truth.
Dream at last.



About the contributor: Samantha Seto is a writer. She has been published in various anthologies including Ceremony, The Screech Owl, Coffee Table Poetry, Carcinogenic Poetry, and Black Magnolias Journal. Samantha studies creative writing.

The Luminoptiocon

The Luminopticon:

A codex of the experiences, questions and points of interest that arise from research into the inner mind and spirituality by do-it-yourself experimentation.

Manifestation Wall

One of the keys to bringing the things into your life that you want is not to wish for them and see them as being separate from yourself, it is seeing yourself as having those things already and truly living within that better life.

Manifestation Wall exists as a place where you can weave reality. It is a place where you can dream among the global consciousness and reach out to the universe, projecting a reality that you want to see come to pass. It is a place where you can write your dreams as reality, live as if they had already come to pass, and place that reality into the greater fabric of human global consciousness.

Take a look around, see some of the dreams that have already been put out there, and contribute some of your own.

Dream Journey to the Future

Contributor: Amanda Firefox
Tested: Yes


Sometimes I like to peer into the future. Dreams are, I find, one of the best ways to do that.

My personal technique involves a little bit of herb lore combined with a little bit of focusing meditation. First, you need some Mugwort. It’s a fairly commonly used herb for dreaming (not hallucinogenic) so if you can’t find it locally, you might be able to send off for it. Fresh hops also works.

Put some in your pillowcase (or make a tiny dream package/pillow out of cloth.) The more you use, the more vivid your dreams will be.

Before you go to sleep, take a moment to relax, focus your mind and meditate. Focus on your breathing, and put the person, object, time or other reference point for the future at the forefront of your mind. Fill your mind with it as you drift off to sleep, and feel your third eye opening to a vision of the future. Allow yourself to fall into the vision.

When you wake up, immediately write down what you saw before you forget it.


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Working Pure Energy

Contributor: Earl S. Wynn

We live in an age where the observations of a rapidly advancing science simply must be taken into account in regards to the presence, quality and inherent power of the non-physical elements of reality. Non-physical reality, as we understand it scientifically, is the part of reality that cannot be touched, but which can be interacted with. Wireless signals, radio waves, electromagnetic fields, these sorts of things are intangible and imperceptible to the senses most of the time, and yet they are there, mixing and swirling in the same space, and most importantly, they can be interacted with. But what do non-physical elements like radio waves and visible light have to do with spirituality? Simple– consciousness is an energy. It is composed of a wave that is merely on a different frequency in a part of the spectrum that is much more difficult to perceive, and yet which penetrates and envelopes everything. Sound implausible? As living organisms, we can only perceive a small amount of the energy around us with our established senses– beyond that, there is an entire spectrum of energy that we use every time we turn on the radio or use the internet or make a cellphone call. These energy fields are always here, occupying the same spaces as each other and yet (usually) never getting in the way of each other. But no one in the know will ever claim that we can perceive all of the frequencies of energy that exist around us, even with the use of technology. It is reasonable to assume that there are endless variations of energy frequency in any given space, and that’s where the more “subtle” energies are most likely to exist, if they exist within this dimension (scientists agree that there are many) at all.

But if spiritual (non-physical) energy is merely a particular frequency (or group of frequencies) then what does that mean for religion? It means a unification (or at least a universal acceptance) is a possibility. Ask yourself: How would you feel if you realized suddenly that every faith which is practiced by people who put conscious belief into their practices, is ultimately right or true, in a sense? How would it effect your life if suddenly it became clear that we’re all right in our own ways of manipulating the non-physical, however individual those ways may be?

Confused? Wondering how it could be that simple? Think about it this way:

Religion and spirituality as they stand today are useful, but they are ultimately flawed constructs which work in blunt, dualistic ways, applying simple logic to string together the things that we perceive and cannot explain. They are like emulators, operating systems or frames that give the mind a mentally tangible means of explaining how interactions within the realm of non-physical reality work. In short, individual faiths, regardless of how ancient or new, are like languages– no one language is right or wrong. They all have their beauty and their shortcomings, and some people will defend a given language to the death and try to spread it everywhere they go, but ultimately languages are only the means by which we can interact with the massive sea of pure thought which exists within the minds of each of us as individuals. Languages are the operating systems, if you will, the emulators through which thought becomes concrete and transmissible.

Now, imagine if we could strip away all the extraneous elements of language and just communicate in pure thought. That’s the approach this site takes toward non-physical (spiritual) energies. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you worship– if you believe, you’re working with the same energies. You’re creating harmony in the discord. Is this supported by science? Most definitely. Numerous experiments have shown that the mind is capable of effecting change on the quantum level, and we all have the same basic design of human brain. The same centers react in our mind when we have a spiritual experience because they are part of the emulation process that allows the physical to access and utilize the non-physical. We are powerful beings, even here, projected as we are into the densest layers of reality (physical existence) and we have only to realize that power to effect profound changes for the betterment not just of ourselves, but of others and the world around us.

The point of this site is not to start any new religion or encourage people to throw away their current faiths, but to reveal the unifying energy beneath all faiths and philosophies to encourage a greater involvement and impact within your religious experiences, as well as a greater acceptance of the beliefs of others. Everyone should be allowed to worship whatever they want, however they want. It’s not how the energies we align with spirituality are accessed that matters, it is what we choose to use them for.

Our first obstacle, however, is doubt.

Money Attracting Spell

Contributed by: E.S. Wynn
Tested: Yes


The best way that I’ve found to attract cold hard cash when you really need it is to:

1. Really, genuinely and completely believe that money is coming soon. Completely fool yourself into believing that there is a check in the mail. Anything that works. Change the world as you perceive it. If you start to worry or doubt, slap yourself. Every. Time. Accept any rituals you do around this as just ways to get the check faster as it trickles through the quantum fabric of the universe and the realities of every other person who handles it on its way to your door.

2. Don’t forget to do your ritual. Make sure it has some left over element to it that will linger in your subconscious afterward. I’ve known people who just went out and channeled Donald Trump or Howard Hughes, but praying to any deity you want works too. For those who need more structure (or feel lost in the chaos of their own universes) here’s what I do:

3. Get something to write, draw or paint with and put this symbol on the backs of both of your hands:
Ok, got it? Put a penny and/or an almond in each hand and make a fist around it. Now reach inside yourself and focus energy at whatever point in your body you associate with your spiritual power. (For me, it’s in the solar plexus.) Charge it up, close your eyes, then repeat the following lines thirteen times (increasing intensity as you go.)

Money is coming
I am going to have lots of money
Money is coming
I have an abundance of money
Coming to me.

Once you’ve done that, lay back, take a break, eat some chocolate, play with yourself, whatever it takes to get yourself in a 100% mellow mood. Forget about the spell. Bliss out and don’t even think about money. It usually comes within three minutes, hours, days or weeks.

Doubt As An Energy

Contributor: Earl S. Wynn

In our modern society, where too often people perceive their reality in sharp, party-like ideological dualities, people often take opposing positions to greater categories of institutions or collected values (like religion or socialism.) We are human. We like to put things in neat categories and boxes that we can simply accept or dismiss as a whole as necessary. Because of this, we tend to see only two sides of any issue (acceptance and dismissal) and lump everything even remotely related to that greater conglomerated issue onto either side of a line that exists only in our minds. I saw this a lot growing up in a small town– there were only two religious “boxes” that people were ever perceived to fall into: Christianity (Protestantism and local Quaker churches) and Satanism (Everything from Atheism, Buddhism, Catholicism, Islam, Paganism and Taoism to yoga and meditation.) I like to use this example because it shows how dangerous dualistic thinking can be in regards to ideologies and institutions, especially those that we know little, if anything about. We have to realize that there is a wider world of infinite variation out there and expand our perceptions to include and accept it. We have to perceive reality in a way that is deeper than simple dualities.

But even then, we can’t stop there.

Those who look beyond a simple yes/no view of the world and the issues beyond it will first notice the line between the two groups in any given situation and consider standing on the line itself. This isn’t always accepted in wider society, as there is a stigma about being “on the fence”– It means one is not committing to one “side” of an issue or another, and therefore not adding their strength to the energetic construct created by others embracing sides of an issue as it stands. Instead of falling back on dualism, however, I would encourage readers to stand up and look even beyond the “fence.” Realize that nothing ever really exists in such a two or three dimensional fashion. Nothing can truly be divided into two separate stances, and especially larger issues that people construct in their minds, pitting all of science, math and theory of a certain flavor against all of the science, math and theory of another.

This is where doubt comes in. All too often, people of an intelligent background fed up with the inadequacies of a particular religious construct where things that are unexplainable (like miracles) are accepted by virtue of an obviously flawed belief (or set of ritual codes) alone, reappraise their view of the world and, drawing upon their propensity to construct dichotomies, create instead a skeptical system of interaction with the unexplainable that denies it exists altogether. They project doubt upon the unexplainable because it reminds them of the belief system which they left behind because they viewed it as destructive and/or hampering, and by projecting that doubt into their reality, it not only colors everything they see, it also closes them off from that which is unexplainable. They don’t believe in it, and because doubting (consciously choosing not to believe that something will manifest) is a conscious action which expends detectable amounts of energy within the brain, (and the brain has been proven to effect reality on a quantum level, thereby making changes in the energy of which everything is ultimately composed) it actually influences the structure of reality within their perception in a way that makes such unexplainable events significantly less likely to manifest, if they manifest within that person’s perceivable reality at all. In simple terms: Your mind is capable of changing reality by influencing it on a level at which scientists have shown that everything you can see and touch is ultimately composed of energy. This means that our thoughts (all of our thoughts) effect the reality around us in degrees relating to how strongly we feel or believe them, or in relation to how likely we believe a particular outcome is to happen. This is why doubt is so powerful at stopping non-physical manipulation– the brain is the tool here. If you try to effect change, but don’t believe that you can (or even doubt that you can in even the slightest way) you are ultimately weakening your impact upon the non-physical elements of reality that would shape the physical reality as you perceive it. You have nothing to lose in the grand scheme of things by committing yourself wholly to belief, (after all, if the Atheist model is correct, nothing really matters and you are a meaningless, random blip in an endless sea) but start small. Sure, the size of a miracle attempted is only a perceptual construct (one that has no bearing on objective reality) but realize that even the subconscious mind has doubts about things like being able to jump off a bridge and fly in the face of all known laws of physics.

Are you powerless against doubt? Never. You are the universe. Doubt is an energy. Use it as a tool both to protect yourself from the unwanted manipulations of energy projected by others (i.e. non-physical attack) and as a fuel to enhance the changes you want to make within the world. Stand up and believe. Do it constantly. Accept and be an active participant in the non-physical elements of your reality no matter what anyone else says, thinks or otherwise projects doubt into. Learn to accept the doubts of others and use them to overcome your own doubts instead of allowing yourself to become a victim to them.


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