Transformation of the Flow of Mind
As with many systems of description, the Magical myth considers the psychocosm from two perspectives – as space and as flow.
In turn, space, the static component of the psychocosm, can be regarded as a field of potentials or as a field of actualization, respectively the Void (Choshekh) or as the Fullness (Pleroma). The flow of mind is the mode, the Way, by which Choshekh actualizes itself in the Pleroma. It is clear that from an absolute standpoint all three components – the source, the outlet, and the course – are one and indivisible, but from a relative, epistemic perspective they are perceived as separate realities.
Accordingly, so long as mind has not reached full realization, has not identified itself with the Fullness Pleroma, or has not cast off all its attributes and qualities, has not identified itself with the Void Choshekh, it remains in a state of becoming, a state of flow.
Treating as an empirical fact the mind’s dwelling in the flow, the Magical myth develops methods for harmonizing and improving the flow’s efficiency.
Since, from the flow’s own point of view, it has neither beginning nor end (that is, its beginning and end belong to other realities), it is precisely dwelling in this flow that constitutes the content of the world-process. Accordingly, for the Magus this flow is both the subject and the object of his development.
This development, from the perspective of the Myth, includes two main components: the harmonization of the “fabric” of the flow of mind, its immanent component, and the expansion of its awareness component, or, in other words – an increase in effectiveness and the cultivation of wisdom. At the level of an individual incarnation these two qualities of the flow of mind manifest as the Power and Authority of the Magus, and their imprints are preserved as essential characteristics of the flow itself.
Since, according to the Myth, from birth to birth, from incarnation to incarnation the flow of mind retains no personal characteristics, and accordingly Magic eschews the concept of an “immortal soul“, the Magus’s efforts are directed not at “personal” perfection but at the development of the “impersonal” flow of mind.
The Magus understands that even if in this life he does not achieve the Highest victory, does not enter the Pleroma, in his next rebirth he will lose all the personal qualities acquired in the current life, yet will retain the qualities of the individual flow of mind. Of course, mind will not retain fully the information, knowledge, and skills accumulated in the current incarnation, since it will lose the body – the instrument for acquiring and storing all these components; however, if the characteristics of the flow itself are altered, those changes will serve as a basis for further development in subsequent incarnations.
By increasing effectiveness, the Magus endows the flow of mind with a greater capacity to realize its goals and tasks more successfully, and thus increases the intensity of its realizational activity. By cultivating awareness, “wisdom,” the Magus increases the flow of mind’s ability to assimilate the experience gained as a result of that actualizing activity.
In turn, an imbalance toward either side deprives the flow of mind of the steady advance of its development: an overemphasis on accumulating Power is fraught with the accumulation of uncompensated, unassimilated impulses, which, of course, complicates conditions in subsequent rebirths; an excessive emphasis on knowledge reduces the capacity to realize and thus “hollows out” knowledge itself, depriving it of creative vitality.
Accordingly, the transformation of the realizational component of the flow of mind is, firstly, the reduction of its “karmic” burden, the resolution of problems and the removal of blocks accumulated in the flow during its prior specific manifestations, resolving its internal contradictions; and, secondly, increasing its intensity and directionality. It is precisely to this end that various psychophysical training, contacts with places of power, competitive rituals, and the like are directed.
The transformation of the cognitive component of the flow of mind is, on the one hand, the removal of distortions associated with narrowing of awareness, with the dominance of one pole of some binary, with the habit of constricting the perceptual and cognitive field of mind, discarding inconvenient components; and, on the other hand, the developing a steady ability to neutralize and integrate dualities, of broader vision and complex, intuitive wisdom. Concentration practices and the Magus’s intellectual efforts aim at this.
Let us repeat once more – the Magus does not expect to preserve his knowledge and skills, yet he strives to imprint his Power and Authority into the very fabric of the flow of mind, he seeks a stable transformation of that flow, and thus the evolution of mind as such. And someday, relying on the foundation of that evolution, a being born as the instrument of such a developed flow will prove capable of performing a decisive transcensus, a revolutionary leap that transfers the mind from a state of flow into identification with the Fullness.
I believe you are overgeneralizing magical traditions in stating that “a magician does not hope to retain their knowledge and skills”. In the sense that there are quite a few traditions where magicians strive to transfer the “throne of consciousness” to another plane. That is, to make, say, the astral body the main support of their flow. For example, a significant proportion of practitioners of African traditions directly state that these and those loa were once people, and they declare their intent to follow the same path. I think almost any tradition will have such examples: Catholic saints and other “ascended beings”. By the way, I’m curious about your opinion on the fundamental differences between these two approaches.
Of course, it is possible to temporarily “escape” from the Cycle: https://en.enmerkar.com/magus-way/fiksaciya-dush-begstvo-iz-gilgula. It is also possible to “change” the flow of life: https://en.enmerkar.com/magus-way/volny-zhizni-i-perexody-mezhdu-nimi. However, such transitions, firstly, require a large amount of energy, and, secondly, do not solve the problem strategically, offering only various tactical techniques for maintaining the continuity of consciousness with all its current characteristics.
I’ve read it. However, if I’m not mistaken, you only considered the explicit game of “lowering” there. I could be wrong, but I don’t have the impression that saints or loa are elementals (or even reduced waves of life).
There has also been a conversation about Loa and saints: https://enmerkar.com/en/myth/holy-manes
Yes, thank you. The blog has grown so much that it is not always easy to find or remember something.
Of course, when I write that “the magician should”, it may indeed look like some kind of general law. But I have mentioned many times that this blog and these articles represent only one private perspective from one private tradition, which is no more true than any other views or Traditions. So when I say “magician”, I mean only the magician of my tradition, the magician who adheres to that Myth, which is considered in this blog. And, certainly, other traditions have different goals and different paths to achieve those goals.
Why doesn’t the stream of consciousness retain its personal characteristics? Do you believe there is no Karma? No awareness of one’s actions through a series of incarnations? Then how does development occur? Random mutation? A pure flow, under the standard conditions for all streams of consciousness, will enter matter and suddenly there will be a transcendence? Due to a large number of attempts? Doing the same thing will yield something entirely new?
Personal qualities and individual characteristics are not the same. The stream of consciousness is individualized, but not personal. Conversations about karma have already taken place: https://enmerkar.com/en/way/just-recompense https://en.enmerkar.com/magus-way/pochemu-vrashhaetsya-koleso-zhizni. The development of consciousness occurs precisely through the improvement of its flow, through the actualization of its potential capabilities and properties: https://en.enmerkar.com/private/delimitaciya-soznaniya.
“Your personal” or “individual” characteristics? I have a question regarding the correctness of the terminology you have chosen. In terms of meaning – it is implied to be individual, but it is written personal. I understand that the stream of consciousness has its own personal – distinguishing characteristics different from others which go from birth to rebirth. For example, to kill one’s fears – to fight with them. And personal characteristics are traits of personality that are a projection of the personal features of the stream of consciousness. In different lives, they can be different, and after death, they can disappear. For instance, a personality used the method of visualizing fears and then their annihilation, while another created mental constructs. The third used shamanic methods. The fourth…
I have two questions. 1. If “Khoshek is realized in the Pleroma” (meaning this is a global process by default) and any consciousness, if it has not identified itself with Khoshek, moves in this flow; does this mean that sooner or later all consciousnesses will transition to the Pleroma? 2. If the qualities of the individual stream of consciousness are indeed retained from incarnation to incarnation, modified by each incarnation, how is this felt? We don’t just want to preserve the personality, it also changes over life; generally, we want to preserve consciousness – the continuity of sensations and self-perception. And can regression meditations restore this continuity of sensations? Thank you!
1. Yes, in an asymptotic approach, the global process should lead all beings to the Pleroma. However, since the number of potentialities of each monad is infinite, in reality, the process of their actualizations has no end. 2. Not the “continuity of sensations” is preserved, but the properties of the flow. This has nothing to do with any of the specific self-identifications, as in the stream of consciousness there is no idea of “I” as such; this idea is a product of private incarnation, not a property of the flow. Moreover, the individual characteristics of this flow are also quite conditional, as they are dynamic and not some permanent properties.
Indeed, there are states of consciousness when the “I” is “forgotten”; only pure perception of the surrounding world remains.
On the absence of permanent properties. What is your opinion on the idea of an invariant within a dynamic system, where some attribute or combination of attributes has the property of invariance? For example, the law of conservation of momentum states that m*v = const.
Is it correct to understand that in your description, the stream has only one direction, realization – from the Void to the Fullness? A direct association arises with the descending involutional flow of the Kabbalistic concept, which also has a reverse movement – the evolutionary, and this should culminate in Reintegration.
The flow of the stream from the state of Khoshek to the state of Pleroma describes a complete cycle: first involution, revealing potentialities, and then evolution, their actualization.
In your life, various moments constantly occur that teach you something. Various situations happen in your life that influence the transformation of your consciousness. Life offers you its lessons so that you finally understand that there is nothing in it to worry about.
When you understand that all the misfortunes that can happen to you throughout life are not worth even a grain of your attention, then a deeper transformation of consciousness will occur within you. Then you will experience such harmony and peace that you have never even dreamed of.
“And someday, relying on the foundation of this evolution, some being, born as an instrument of such a developed flow, will be able to make a decisive transcendence, a revolutionary leap, transferring consciousness from a state of flow to identification with Wholeness” – this is the Hope that one can indulge in while steadily approaching death..
…..such an idiotic feeling, like SOMETHING IS BEING MISSED, something does not reach awareness,…….maybe because there are no verbal explanations for this, to which we are so accustomed………..”Imprinting in the Flow” – what stands behind these words? – this process is objectified nowhere except in the mind. And why does the Flow of Consciousness need all this humanity with all its vices. Why not initially be Wholeness? What is the point in flowing from Emptiness to Wholeness?……………………… Something is happening on some other level, in another coordinate system – that is what we are not accustomed to Paying Attention to. We do not perceive the Flow of Consciousness as something real, but rather as an idea… an unembodied idea……….
Imagine that we simply cannot perceive a great deal, the infinity of worlds that exist right here and now beyond our windows………………… I have seen how Beings of Other Worlds manifest from Nothing, from apparently, Emptiness – something happens, some shift (I won’t say about assembly points))) and suddenly you begin to perceive them, but they existed even before you began to perceive them, it’s just that something within you was not enough for perception…
“Imprint into the Flow” (into your own flow) == “realize your Power” == “make it as accessible as possible for constant application.”
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“…such an idiotic feeling that something is being MISSED, that something doesn’t reach awareness,…….maybe because there are no verbal explanations for it, which we are so accustomed to…………..”
You need to figure out the overall picture/concept of this specific material world. Then it will become clear why “something is being missed” and so on.
“Your own” is a stream of thoughts, feelings, desires, and impressions. It fades away with the life of the self (the personality).
Something is missed BECAUSE we are not accustomed to paying attention to it…
For example, the moment is missed (the change in the system) from which a person “becomes tired of development.” The moment is missed from which health transitions into illness. The moment is missed from which an adult begins to age. The moment is missed from which an expanding consciousness begins to narrow—becoming rigid in self-repetition. A vast layer of life is missed, which we live at an energetic level. We live it right here and now and do not perceive it.
The world “beyond the frame” is a world beyond words and their meanings. Beyond the limits of that Semantic Core that a person operates within the process of thinking.
People “speak different languages” to poorly understand each other, so that, having found a piece of knowledge that is not embodied in words, we cannot unite our pieces into a Whole, nor can we glimpse Another World within the illusory boundaries of this, as you wrote, “specifically material”…
A system is capable of development only as long as it is open, as long as there exists a share of Uncertainty—a Unsolved Mystery, as long as Consciousness Craves to Seek, Searches, and Finds Something Principally New, as long as Consciousness is Capable of Integrating the New into itself—aligning it with what is already there and Restructuring the System—Becoming More—Expanding. We are interested, we learn about the world, we develop in childhood, adolescence, and youth—then a person becomes an adult and already “knows everything.” The New is replaced by a surrogate—Empty Experience—and a person automatically runs in closed circles within the framework of the matrix—within the Limits of the Semantic Core that Thought Operates on in the process of movement.
Words Come Alive only when we can experience what they express—in all the Wholeness available to us here and now.
..one just wants to ask: yes.. and what? what’s next? (I have known all of this for a long time, and it has been described quite well by you; mind you, the circle of problems, although it is not complete here. And the main reasons are not named, but alright…) so what’s next?..
…you might try to move from words to action. To embody Knowledge in Existence.
So go ahead. 🙂
“‘Your own’ – is a stream of thoughts, feelings, desires, impressions. It fades away along with the life of the I (personality).” ‘Your own stream’ – is ‘your own stream’ – in general. 🙂 If your own stream is limited by the life of the personality, and is tied to it – then yes, it will fade away along with the personality.
Personality, Individuality, Monad, Streams, Gods, Spirits, Worlds and much more – All this in one human life….
What made you think that??