posted July 27, 2016 09:21 PM            

You should be able to get this through the library, using ILL (Inter Library Loan) if necessary. If the ILL form wants the ISBN, then it's the ISBN-13. For your convenience (this would be the answer for ISBN on the ILL form): "978-157863150."

Others by Israel Regardie and Donald Kraig would also be for this path. There are covens of witches (male and female, often having the genders as balanced as possible) will encourage members to read these books as well.

That said, I must say two things. One, don't mistake metaphysics for physics. Many of this mind often do, and think of the metaphysical and metaphorical as just another layer of the physical universe that pretty much works by the same laws, when the metaphysical is more poetic than that. (That's the best I can explain it to someone outside that view.)

And two, I experimented with this path and it was bad for me. But obviously, it works for many people. I have reasons to think that this going bad for me is due to my upbringing (in which one did not trust higher entities, be they parents or judges, without getting hurt) and natal chart (in which my packed 5H requires a more creative approach, nothing else will work, and again going with my upbringing, what I do for myself is what I can trust, a lesson my subconscious has latched onto and it affects any magical or mystical practice of mine).

posted July 27, 2016 09:30 PM            

This will take practice and frustrating at times (especially at first), but all the Cappie energy in you makes me think you can do it.

Once you can do it, then increase the time.

The really advanced path is to focus strictly on your breathing, and then, when perfectly calm and relaxed, is to tune everything out besides that. Again with the timer. At first the timer is to help so you don't keep looking at the time, but at this stage the timer is to remind you to come back because you'll lose all sense of time. It's as refreshing as sleep in its own way, and back when I did this I had some incredible psychic experiences and awareness. However, this isn't always a good thing, and one time a mentor of mine had to shut me down psychically because of some disturbing experiences (and that included an ending to my practice of this).

posted July 28, 2016 01:13 PM            

sooooo, when asking "how to become a witch" you should first find out what you actually consider a "witch".. are you just trying to search around occult avenues and see what fits? something to remember when doing research on occult subjects is to validate the persons opinion/knowledge your studying as competent and valid, there are plenty of INCOMPETENT occult writings out there, and its easy to get lost in fantasy, vs a search for truth. so when you say "witch" I think of pagan religion Wicca, which focuses on the powers of goddesses, the earth, moon cycles and herbs, essentially worshipping the earth, ive read a few "shadow books" which are journals of knowledge, findings witches will write down to share with other witches. my best friends mom growing up was wiccan, she taught me how to do tarot when I was 15, she was truly a perceptive being, but I personally found wicca still to not be in-depth enough. its like hitting the surface but there's still so much more to uncover.. I find patterns and correlations throughout all philosophical and spiritual notions, you can find validity in anything.. you just need to know where to look..theres so much mysterious potential its all just accumulative experience. theres an underlying truth of quantum measures that pulses and literally vibrates through all occult studies/just being and its a basic notion that we are indeed..all one.

there are plenty of ways to "attune" your senses since its almost like a muscle.. practicing on focusing the mind through meditation is helpful. there are tooons of different kinds so I would recommend experimenting with what feels right for you. REMEMEBER THIS : our path, is unique to our journey! that's what's so beautiful about it, you make your own choices and validations of growth. a key signifier of good truths, are open to the freewill of individuals, you can tell that the more "dogmatic" and complex something is, the more likely your dealing with fragments of others egos and subjective info thrown in. unfortunately these kinds of studies are littered with that.. so its up to you to figure out what makes sense to you and what draws you in.