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Dream and Trance Work
Dream and Trance Work
As one begins to dream, most dream books suggest that you carry
out an action to take some of your awareness into the dream realms. Carlos
Castaneda suggests looking at one hands. Yuggothik magic has a slightly
more difficult task. We strive (at first ) to utter a simple invocation in
a dream. This serves three purposes. Firstly it makes us aware of dreaming
and that we can act in dreams. Secondly it establishes a magical link
between dream consciousness and the great old ones. Thirdly it links us to
other sorcerers past, present and in the Is-To-Be that work in this current.
The phrase is short, and honors the Cthulhu,"Great God of the Labyrinth, I
dream of you, you dream of me!" These thirteen words are tied to the
thirteen runes written upon the brow of the Black Flame of Desire in her
form as the Scarlet Woman. After you have some success at controlling your
dreams, you may wish to begin sharing your dreams with a group of Yuggothik
sorcerers. This may be a pre-made group like a magical lodge, Wiccan coven,
Church of Satan Grotto, Temple of Set Pylon or a group you create with
persistence and of course Craigslist.
Sharing your dreams. Among the reasons you might want to share your dreams
two stand out. If you establish a dream contact with somebody - you have a
deep alternate way to communicate with him or her. This can range from a
dream that they're in trouble and need your aid to simply understanding
emotional aspects about each other. The second reason is if you become
well-versed in creating a dream space with others while alive, you will have
a better chance of doing after death or in your next reincarnation. The
group should begin with a right to synchronize - if they are in one location
the Mass of the Outer Hells is the best. The procedures that follow are
very simple, but require great discipline and trustworthiness of the circle.
False "sutures" or claims of contact are not helpful and lead to delusions
or depressions. It is more important to know that if the magic is performed
in good faith, the results will occur. Here is the procedure to follow:
1.
Pick a number of nights for the Dream Esbat, A good number
is four, following the schema of the rune reading. At first the group
purpose is simply to link up. Other Dream Esbats can be used to examine
questions such as "What is Immortality?"
2.
Pick a reading material that people should read nightly. I
recommend "The Dream Quest of Unkown Kadath" for the first Esbat.
3.
ater, and invocation method by now, you should all return to it for the
sesseion.
4.
On the mirror you gaze into tape up photographs of other
members of your group.
5.
Your Invocation should be "Reh.Reh.Reh.Reh. I send my
dreaming self through sea of awareness to ((Name of Group)) . I dream of
them, They dream of me. We shall remember our dreams. I learned this rite
from Cthulhu Itself. Nyar. Nyar. Nayr."
6.
7.
The next day e-mail your dream to everyone. Include
fragments and no result. Do Not Read the other's dreams until you have
posted yours.
8.
The next night the dream leader will post synchronicities,
"Both Tom and Laura dreamed of going down steps. We all had a restaurant in
our dreams. Bill and Jose heard dogs barking in their dreams and were
awakened by dogs barking in their neighborhoods."
9.
night.
10.
11.
When the Esbat his done write down each of your dreams that
matched up with others in any way in your Book. Write any profound thought
you had either about yourself or Yuggothik magic during the Esbat as well.
12.
For a short, but pre-determines time, say four days, do not
talk or e-mail other members of the group is possible. If you must talk
talk only about mundane things. Take down the photos of your friends, place
them in your Book.
13.
On the fifth night after the Esbat, perform the following
invocation before going to sleep, "In the Name of the God of the Labyrinth,
who made Dreams and Nightmares as my ancestors' ancestors made fire and the
wheel, tonight I will synthesize the Dream Esbat of ((Insert Name of your
Group)) in my dreams. Hail Cthulhu High Priest of the Old Ones I seek your
congress of oeneric magics! Tomorrow I will Remanifest my dreams." Write
down any dreams you have.
After you have performed the Dream Esbat successfully here are some
questions you may with to pursue. Simple add the question to your
invocations: "What are other worlds like?" "How will we know each other
after death?" "What is the dream-world of cats like?" "What magical
techniques can we learn in R'yleh?" After you have some success with sharing
dreams with willing participants, you may wish to learn to send dreams.
Sending your dreams. Dreams may sent for amusement, for beneficial reasons
or as a curse. Practice with friends at first. Just try the method and see
if anyone mentions that they dreams of you. As you will have learned above
timing is not exact in the dream world. People process material at
different rates. You may be trying to get Laura to dream you on Monday, but
she processes the dream on Thursday. Again your precision and passion play
the greatest role.
The general procedure is this.:
1.
For twenty four hours before the sending do not experience orgasm.
2.
3. Make a dream summoner that has their name written in Nug Soth Runes
and if possible a photo of the target. If you have anything else that
belongs to the target - hair, lipstick prints etc. Place these on your
dream summoner.
4. At your usual bedtime spend a few minutes quietly chanting their
name. Do this until your usual bedtime has passed.
5. Do your standard dream set-up for the invocation say: "My will is
great than ((Name of Target))'s will. He (she) dreams as I will him (her)
to dream. They process my thoughts. They process my images. Do As I Will
Is The Whole Of His (her) Law! Thus Cthulhu brought his cult to men, this I
bring my cult of (Name of Target)).
6. If the sending is erotic an act of masturbation tom orgasm should
follow.
7.
As you fall asleep visualize the dream you wish them to have.
8.
9.
10. After a two-day rest, repeat the procedure. This may be up to four
times.
11. As much as possible distract yourself when you start to think of the
procedure during the day. Forgetfulness of the operation is useful.
12. When the cycle of sendings is over dispose of the dream summoner in an
appropriate manner. If it was erotic masturbate and place sexual fluid on
the parchment, then "drown" it in red wine and rose petals and bury it. If
it was a curse burn the parchment while saying insulting things about the
target etc.
13. After 28 days write down results in your Book.
Dream sending can be used upon targets both living and dead. It can
positively effect coma victims or it can be used to drive tyrants to leap
from parapets. In effecting political change it can be done by a group
against a target. As always you can help your nighttime magic by daytime
activities like letter-writing and political protest.
After you have learned to send dreams, you are ready for the
most dangerous practice of all - receiving dreams.
Receiving dreams. The Old Ones do not only communicate on
one-to-one real time methods. Their communication with younger races is of
two types. The first type if the mythic and literary and magical artifacts
they inspire. They leave their shadows in the minds of creation outsider
souls. This is in no way to speak against the genius of the Lovecrafts, the
Bosches, the Clark Ashton Smiths, the Kennteh Grants, or Thomas Liggotis.
Each of these humans have given us shockingly well done pieces of realism.
The second way the Old Ones communicate with us is dreams. Their minds
often touch as nightmares or night terrors for their worlds, their essence
is overwhelmingly different than our own. It is because of the difference
of the Old Ones as=nd us that we have developed Imagination. Indeed true
consciousness would not be possible without the shock of their Otherness
spurring humankind to wonder what life is?
To receive a dream, you make a sash that you can wear. In the
center of the sash should be a pocket that you place either sigil of the
entity you wish to communicate with or its name written in Nug-Soth runes.
Here is the procedure you need to follow.
1. For five nights before you desire the dream you must awaken yourself
at an unlikely time. You nust rise from your bed and utter a brief
invocation. For example:
"Mighty Nyarlathotep, thou created communication from one ot another in the
great dark. Oh Haunter of the Dark I seek to know thee better! I would
praise thy Wisdom of Lord of the Third Angle. I would share my otherness
with you and have you share with me that we may grow wiser in all realms.
In shadowy Khem that walkest as man, and I would walk as a god in the Outer
Hells! I Nyarlathothep!" Place the sigil in your sash and return to bed.
2. Take naps at unusual times for the first four of the five days
proceeding seeking the dream. As you fall asleep (or try to) repeat the Old
One's name in your mind as a mantra.
3. On the day before you seek the dream, stay up as late as you can
reading everything you can about the entity to be invoked, watching films
and so forth. When you are very exhausted paint a dream summer with the
entities sigil and name in Nug Soth runes.
4. The day you seek the dream arrange for sometime to be alone about
mid-day. It does not have to be at your magical chamber. Say aloud in a
calm firm voice the reasons you seek the dream. Avoid any magical jargon.
For example:
"Tonight I hope my subconscious provides with a dream about Nyarlathothep, a
figure that Howard Phillips Lovecraft had a dream about. It is a symbol of
communication between the Old Ones, other sentient beings this magical
system postulates and us. I hope this dream will allow me to develop greater
skills in communication and ability to detect subtle messages. I believe
this will help me both in my mundane pursuits and the magical ones which I
indulge in for pleasure."
5. On the night you seek the dream paint the sigil of the entity you
seek upon your brow. Wear your sash. Create a dream invocation based on
ideas that have occurred to you in the last five days.
6. The dream may come later than you planned, when it comes ask the
entity what name you should call it, what magical techniques can it teach
you, and what you can do for it in the daytime world. Write the results
down in your book.
Now that you have the basics of dreaming down, I will give you six goals to
try for. As you achieve these write down the results in your Book. This
start will lead you to goals of your own. Afer this I will talk about
trance work.
1. Learn to use your dreams to find lost objects. This will sharpen
your ability to work with the objective universe with imagination and
para-senses.
2. Dream of your sleeping body. When this occurs it means you have
gathered your dream-awareness into a useable body and you can pursue Out of
the Body Experiences (OoBE)
3. Dream of R'lyeh. When you can dream of the sunken city you will soon
be able to find a Teacher - human or otherwise to take you to higher levels
of Initiation.
4. Visit others in your sleep in such way that they can sense your
presence.
5. Visit the past. Public parks where you can camp are useful tools.
One of the easiest things to visit at first is battlefields because of the
vast physic energy spent there.
6. Develop short stories and poems about the Mythos in your sleep that
you then publish. This enriches their lore.
Try your luck with them. Likwise there are commerical ventures that book
Peruvian trips to expereince ayahuasca ceremonies, which can be useful to
the more experienced practitioner.
As with all forms of Yuggothik magic, the magician should record
meaningful visions in your Book. At first a great deal of what you get may
be very low-level material. All your life you have been awash in a
media-heavy culture, and the first things to pour out of you will be
undigested bits of those control structures. This does not mean you do not
have uncovered wealth within you. One of the ways you are oppressed by our
society is by the layers of control you have absorbed that keep you merely
human. There has long been a war against the human race, mainly carried on
by the human race. The Old Ones aren't interested in liberating you, but
since they are related to you exposure to their Being will set you free.
You have greater cycles of being and pleasure to interact with than trying
to decide which soft drink you wish. Dream and Trance work will help awaken
you to possibilities, but beware its seductive side - it is easy to become a
Dream magician that looses the urgency to Transform yourself. Do not let
the new vistas that you glimpse simply become a more exotic form of sleep!
Dream and Trance work will enhance the ritual activities of this
book, but should not be thought of as a replacement for these activities.
The magician seeks not only to experience the signals the Old Ones send, but
to send signals of their own as well.