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Pray: I don't do banishing rituals. Why would I do a different one. You said EVERYONE should do it. We're telling you that for some of us, a CM ritual has no point whatsoever to us.

If you said that "one option might be" or "what I do is", then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Cu doesn't respond this way just anyone, just people who aren't seeing beyond their own ignorance.

I thought freedom of choice was implied in everything you do. I siad everyone should do it, but does that mean you actually have to do so, or debate it?

If people want to, they will. I still believe everyone should do it, but i can't control everyone, and i can't control with paths they choose to follow. And thats okay, nothing wrong with that.

In order to make it fit my path, I would have to remove every element of it that tied it to CM or thelema, any theistic element, any part of it that implied dominance over another being or implied dominance of another being over me. Among other adjustments.

Tell me, what makes the LBRP the LBRP? Because I'd be pretty damn sure that making it meet the philosophical and moral requirements of my path would make it not the LBRP anymore.

And then there's the fact that a banishing ritual has absolutely no place in Etherism. My rituals do have not an express goal like that. Their goal is to enable the direct expression of one's will, so making a separate ritual for a particular goal is beyond redundant and moronic in my path.



I don't see why someone is so very dense as to think that methods incompatible or even destructive to a given culture or path are somehow beneficial to the people practicing in that given culture or path.

Not if the people involved or the path is fundamentally against it.

Are you that thick?


Because you're not listening.

Take your fingers out of your ears for once. It is not going to benefit them if they are fundamentally against it.

And for some of us, what use is a ritual that banishes things we don't even believe in? Because it's shiny? In which case, what would be different from any Satanic (or insert path of choice) ritual that accomplishes the same thing?

There are a shitload of reconstructionists of some degree crawling all over this guild.
You keep suggesting everyone should try this ritual, but it has no context, no place at all in our paths.

It would NOT be beneficial to those whom it is entirely irrelevant to. Especially if you take out all the symbolism and it's original religious context.

You've tried to convince people to try something new, people have decided not to because it is incompatible with their religious traditions. -Othershitexists- please be mindful of that, and move on. Stop making baseless generalizations because it makes you look willfully ignorant. If you aren't knowledgable about something, either be quiet or do a background check.

I didn't try the last exercise, but I have been trying a lot with energy exercises, and I did a few readings (rune and Tarot) for friends the other day. I've also been working toward seeing auras more, but it often gives me eyestrain.

There is a slight burn along the inside corner of my eye, and an ache along the upper eyelash which sometimes leads to a headache. Occasionally, the glow becomes so bright I have difficulty seeing the world. I've learned I can turn THAT off by immersing my hands in flowing water.