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Quotation: No poison so effectually robs the mind of all
its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
-- Edmund Burke

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Monograph 1:

What Witchcraft & Paganism
Can Do For You.

Let me begin by stating that by following this path and applying these principals in your life you really can live a better life.  So why are so many witches poor?  Unfortunately there is a common belief in society, probably started by the Christian church, that poverty is holy and this idea had found its insidious way into our traditions too. Let me say, right from the start, that this is a con trick.  Has there ever been a poor pope?  A poor cardinal? No of course not.  There are two types of wealth, absolute wealth and relative wealth.

Relative Wealth: The greedy and unenlightened want to have more than everyone else. To them, being rich is not enough, they want people to admire them and respect them for being wealthy.  So to maintain their position of being relatively wealthy they need to keep everyone else relatively poor.  They need to maintain the differentials. This group of people have discovered the key to getting what they want and they have kept it a closely guarded secret in order to protect their dominance. They tell the poor that they must stay poor, that its more spiritual to be poor, that they must suffer to learn, and all the rest of the misinformation and propaganda that they spread.

Absolute Wealth is a different thing altogether.  When you have absolute wealth you don't care if other people have more than you because you know that their wealth in no way diminishes your own.  On the contrary, the richer your neighbours are the better your neighbourhood, the better your environment.  What's the use of having a mansion in a slum area? You want everyone else to be rich too. You want the things you want and you set goals and achieve those ambitions.  You don't feel guilty because you don't believe the propaganda. Whatever you have you are perfectly happy for everyone else to have as well. You want people to admire and respect you for the good you do in the world, for what you contribute to society, not for what you take out.  Like the Relatively Wealthy you have discovered the key to success but you want to share that knowledge so others can benefit from it too.

It is Absolute Wealth that I will teach you in this course. Of course wealth is not just about material things.  Following this course will lead you to spiritual wealth and emotional wealth too.  Trust me, there is nothing unholy about being rich.  If you have any doubts, ask the Pope!

So let's consider just what Wicca & Paganism are! Over the centuries the Christians have used the word "pagan" in the same way that Jews use the word "gentile"; to mean everybody else. This is highly misleading because only a tiny minority of non-Christians are actually Pagans. A Pagan is a follower of one of the many nature and fertility religions which exist or have existed worldwide.

As soon as I typed the word "religion" I could hear in my mind the sound of you groaning! But please stay with me. I am not talking of modern toothless religions, I am speaking of religions of great power! And you can learn to use that power in your everyday lives.

All religions worship the same god although they may call God by different names. We Pagans worship the same One God as everybody else. This is a very important idea, especially in the early 21st. century with the current upsurge of violent Muslim Fundamentalism. Al-Qaeda want to convert the world to Islam by force. They do not see the wisdom that all roads lead to the centre. The litmus test for all true spirituality is tolerance of other ways. Let us all pray that the God who is above all earthly religions will save us from religious fanatics! Help us spread this PRAYER FOR PEACE

As Pagans, we like to subdivide this one Godhead into a number of specific Gods and Goddesses, each showing a different face or aspect of the One God. This is for easy reference and convenience, after all 'God' is a huge concept for the frail human mind to comprehend all in one lump. I will speak more about this in a later monograph. Pagans seek God by attuning with the elements of creation - Nature.

Witchcraft is one of the Pagan religions. Modern Witchcraft is more properly referred to as Wicca, and the followers of Wicca, both male and female, are witches. The word "warlock" does not mean a male witch. In fact the origin of this word is obscure and was probably a derogatory term meaning "oath breaker", something that no real witch could ever do!

Witchcraft and Paganism are not:

an easy option
a way out of hard work
Devil worship
a get rich quick scheme
a way to impress
a way to get power over others
a way to harm others

Witchcraft and Paganism are:

religions (Wicca is one of the Pagan religions).
philosophies of life.
ways of making sense of the world.
a way to gain power within your own life.
a road to self mastery.

Witches & other Pagans do:

attune with Nature's cycles.
attune with the Moon's cycles
attune with the power of the Sun
attune into themselves
examine and change themselves
live harmoniously with nature, our home planet, and the universe
find the Godhead alive within themselves.

Witches & other Pagans are:

men and women who like to worship the God and Goddess,
working either together or alone.
raise power by singing, dancing, chanting, drumming, meditating etc.
use this power for healing and to cast spells (prayers) for good and wholesome purposes
eat, drink and make merry in the worship of their deities
and in the celebration of life!

So how did Paganism begin? Of course nobody knows for certain but the answer clearly lies in our far distant past. Just imagine early men and women, starting to become consciously aware of themselves and their environment. Imagine them looking up at the night sky and feeling awe. Imagine them realising that the herds they hunted moved in seasonal cycles and reasoning that these very seasons were the givers and takers of all that was good. It must have been a short jump for them to start praying to the Earth Mother and the Sky Father.

What is magic? Is it real? These are all good questions, I am glad you asked.  Magic works through the The Law of Attraction, sometimes called the Law of Intent or the Law of Mind.  This is a natural, universal law.  Basically is says that whatever dominant thoughts we hold in our minds must, sooner or latter, manifest in our lives.  The law is as old as time, like all natural laws it came into being at the beginning of the universe, with the big bang.  What use is it to you? That's entirely up to you.  If you learn how to use this law properly it can bring you everything you desire. Hopefully you will desire spiritual growth and attunement.

So is the Law of Attraction and magic the same thing?  Well, yes and no.  It really depends on how you use the word 'magic'.  Most modern Law of Attraction gurus would say "no, the Law of Attraction is not magic, it is a natural law".  I would say that their answer indicates that they don't know what magic is, they don't know what the word means.  There are lots of natural laws, the Law of Gravity, Boyles Law, The Second Law of Thermodynamics and The Law of Attraction being just a few.  A much older name of The Law of Attraction is 'magic', sometimes spelt 'magick' to distinguish it from stage magic.  Aleister Crowley defined magic as "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the will".  That would also be a very good definition of the Law of Attraction if you ask me.

So you can call it Magick or the Law of Attraction or whatever you like but how does it work?  Well there seems to be two quite different things going on here.  The first explanation, which may possibly account for part of the success people have been achieving with this process since the earliest times, may have to to with quantum physics.  I say "may" because we don't really know.  This is cutting edge stuff and the scientific jury is still out.  What we do know for certain is at the smallest subatomic level, what scientists call the Planck scale, particles of subatomic matter can be in several places at the same time.  Strange but true.  And what is even stranger is that they don't 'decide' which one of those several places to be until they are observed, then they snap into place.  Scientists call this the collapse of the wave field.  Ok, so very small particles are affected by observation which leads us logically to suppose that the aspect of observation which is controlling matter at the Planck level, is mind.  So have scientists finally proved mind over matter to be a fact?  Well scientists tend to be a very conservative bunch and, as I say, the jury is still out. To learn more about this I strongly recommend you study some quantum physics. If that sounds a bit heavy just start by watching the light-hearted DVD What The Bleep Do We Know?

The second mechanism by which magic works is a lot more mundane.  Whether we say a prayer, cast a Wiccan spell or say a Law of Attraction affirmation what we are really doing is stating an intention.  Our own subconscious mind will then take that intention and, just like an onboard computer on an aeroplane, it will take us there.  It will take us there by helping us to see opportunities and by inspiring us to take right action. This may involve hard work, magick is not a get rich quick scheme for the lazy.

But that's not magic you say, that's psychology.  My friend, magic has always just been psychology.  Magic is the earliest form of applied, practical psychology.  Witches, and before them Druids, and before them who knows who, were the earliest physiologists, long before Freud and his palls reinvented the wheel and made it all 'respectable'.  We can be  or do or have whatever we want.  We just need to believe we can, to give ourselves permission.  Society has brainwashed us since birth to believe we can't.  So all the wand waving and other paraphernalia of the occultist are just psychological tricks (very powerful tricks mind you, don't underestimate them) to make us believe we can.  And when we believe we can, we give ourselves permission and we can.  We always could, we just needed reminding.

At the time of writing, everybody is raving about the hit DVD "The Secret".  Get a copy, watch it, its brilliant!  People say there is nothing new in it.  They say it just teaches the Law of Attraction which has been known and practiced in a myriad of different forms for many thousands of years.  All true but The Secret does one very special thing. It peels away all the mystery, all the occult overtones, and presents the Law of Attraction in a very clean, modern, no frills way.  You don't need to wear special robes, burn incense, light candles, wave wands.  You just see it done and FEEL it done, and it is.  Feeling it done is the key and Wicca has some very powerful techniques for getting into the feelings. Personally I enjoy the drama of ritual, and I get a great deal from it spiritually and emotionally, so don't knock the wand waving, but don't get it out of proportion either. 

Of course advanced Wiccans and other occultists have always know that you just see it done and FEEL it done, and it is but now you know it too.  This knowledge has been hidden ('occult' simply means 'hidden') for far too long.  Along the timeline great people have come forward to give the Law of Attraction back to the people.  Great figures like the Buddha, Jesus, K'ung-fu-tzu (Confucius) and many others tried to make this stuff plain knowledge.  But the rich and powerful institutions of the world haven't wanted you to have this knowledge.  They want to keep it to themselves, secret, hidden, occult. Remember what we said about relative wealth? The relatively wealthy always need to have an underclass of cheap labour to work their land, and more recently their factories. So they frightened people by saying that magic was evil, the work of the Devil (which they conveniently invented for the purpose).  When that didn't work they resorted to torture and mass murder, remember the Burning Times, the inquisition?  How could people have ever been so cruel, so wicked?

Well today, burning witches is no longer politically correct thank goodness, so there is a new tactic, debunking.  They want you to believe that its all superstition, that there never were any real witches, that magic is for children.  Look at the way the subject is dealt with in children's fiction. Well I can assure you that magic is very real and that witches are very real, as real today as they have ever been.  But you don't have to spend years studying witchcraft or Wicca in order to master the Law of Attraction. Personally I love Wicca.  It is a very powerful system for getting what you want and for self transformation.  As I said, you just see it done and FEEL it done, and it.  The problem with learning The law Of Attraction on its own is that it tends to be a cold, intellectual process.  It offers few if any tools for really feeling the feelings.  Without the feelings, the emotion, the Law of Attraction is just wishful thinking.

That's where Wicca comes in. Learning Wicca will give you a lot of very powerful tools to help you make the Law of Attraction work better and faster by helping you to get really worked up about what it is you are aiming to achieve.  As Napoleon Hill said in Think and Grow Rich, "You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, UNLESS you can work yourself into a white heat of DESIRE for money, and actually BELIEVE you will possess it."  Whether you are working for money, or love or healing, or spiritual growth the same principle applies.  Wicca offers you a powerful toolbox to help you generate that "white heat of desire".

There are a lot of books on the market at the moment claiming to teach people how to perform magic without all the "silly old mumbo jumbo". The problem with this approach is that most students need to learn the mumbo jumbo; all the wand waving stuff; at least in the beginning. For most aspiring occultists it is absolutely essential for success. Magic is performed by the mind and the mumbo jumbo is a trick we use to give ourselves permission to apply its powers.

When an experienced occultist wants to get something done, he or she just sees and feels the thing complete and finished in his mind, and it is so. When you write a letter you just get out a piece of plain paper and start writing, but when you were a child you had to learn to write using specially ruled paper to teach you the proportions of the letters. It was the same for the Witch or Occultist. In the beginning he had to learn all the mumbo jumbo just as you will learn it in this course. In this course we are not going to cut any corners. We are going to teach you properly, so that you can enjoy real results.

During the next few weeks and months you will learn to perform the rituals with all the wands, ritual swords, incense, coloured candles; in fact the whole paraphernalia that is necessary to persuade our minds to do the magic for us. After a (long?) while you will progress to the second stage of your training and learn to do all the above entirely in your own head but that is really beyond the scope of this course.

Some time later some of you will, through much practice, move on to stage three, just see the thing done and it is. Some students progress to this stage easily and naturally, while others will never reach that stage in this lifetime. It really doesn't matter. You will start to see changes occurring in your life from the time you perform your very first Craft Ritual. Just let yourself progress at your own pace and through this primitive power you really can have everything you want in life.

Some students ask "isn't this primitive power dangerous? Isn't that why more modern religions call it evil?"

NO! It is no more evil or dangerous than electricity. If handled without proper training it can be very dangerous! Through this course you will receive the proper training. When you have mastered these lessons you will no more wish to live without the power than you would wish to live without electricity.

DIFFERENT PATHS

There are many different types of Pagan living around the world. In the Southern hemisphere there are Australian Aborigines, South American Indians, and a handful of African tribes still following their old traditions. In the Northern hemisphere Native North Americans still follow their traditional Shamanistic religion. There has also been much interest in the way of the shaman by modern western peoples worldwide and we shall be devoting a future monograph to the study of Shamanism and the Vision Quest. As well as shamanism there are three other forms of Paganism which are still very popular among modern westerners.

ASATRU (also called Odinism) is the worship of the Norse gods and goddesses. This very powerful form of pagan worship still carries the energies that made the Vikings strong. This tradition has a very direct form of divination (fortune telling) called the Runes. Runes work a bit like Tarot cards but are based on small pieces of wood or stone engraved with letters of the old Nordic alphabet. There is also a very powerful form of magic where the runes are deliberately carved to convey the outcome you want. And it works! We shall be dealing in depth with Runic divination and magic later in this course.

There is currently a strong revival of the DRUID tradition. The Druids were originally the intellectual caste, including priests and judges, of the Celtic peoples. Modern Druids follow the same seasonal ritual calendar that we do although the old Druids only had four sabbats as opposed to our eight.  They know much of Earth & Natural Magic. Trees are their special interest.  Druidism is our own native shamanistic tradition.

The other main Pagan tradition practiced in modern society is WICCA. Wicca has also been called Witchcraft and the Old Religion. Personally I do not like the word "witchcraft" because it is far too general and includes a huge range of quite different practices from all over the world. The word "Wicca" is a shortened form of the Old English "Wiccacraeft". It is not clear when the actual word "Wicca" was first used.  Some claim it is no older than the 20th century revival movement and as I don't know for certain, I shall not comment further. However the roots of the religion we now call Wicca clearly go back further than anybody knows, and probably grew out of Druidism, the religion of the Celts. Clearly witches existed alongside the Druids but that was not Wicca as we know it now. 

When the Saxons invaded Britain they brought with them their own brand of witchcraft and the origin of the religion we now call Wicca was probably a syntheses of Celtic Witchcraft, Druidism and Saxon Witchcraft. Remember that this was not a swift invasion.  It took the Saxons hundreds of years to slowly wear down the Celtic warriors and gradually push west across the country.  During this time there would have been much mixing of the two magical traditions.  As both were oral rather than written traditions it is impossible to know for certain. Also as the two traditions have such similar beliefs the divisions may be quite arbitrary. Wicca is an integral part of the Western Pagan Tradition. Over the centuries it has spread all around Europe, Australia and America as well as many other parts of the globe.

Both our indigenous form of witchcraft & Druidism were heavily persecuted by the Romans as they marched northward through Europe. The Druids were treated extremely harshly, in fact no Druid was permitted to live! As a result their tradition was almost totally wiped out. Modern day Druids follow a totally reconstructed path, based of the flimsiest traces of evidence but a lot of intuition.  I have heard it argued that through reincarnation, much of what people think they are reinventing, they may actually be remembering.

Witches, on the other hand, fared somewhat better. For centuries we were driven underground but never completely destroyed. Covens have always existed, worshipping the old gods and goddesses in secret. It is true that modern Wicca is also the result of a revival movement, and that much of what we know or believe of our past comes from non-traditional sources. But we have always had a thin thread of continuity from earlier times.

Just as Wicca is one of many forms of Paganism, so there are different paths within Wicca. Groups that claim to trace a direct, unbroken line back to ancient times are known as "Traditional"  or "Hereditary". Traditional groups still tend to be extremely secretive and do not usually recognise other Wiccan paths.

Back in the 1950's one man who claimed to have studied in a Traditional coven went public, writing two very open, fictional, books (Modern Witchcraft, Rider, London, 1954 and Witchcraft Today, Rider, London, 1957). He later published his Book of Shadows in collaboration with his High Priestess, Doreen Valiente. His name was Gerald Gardner and covens that follow the revivalist movement he started call themselves "Gardnerian". If you would like to read more about this fascinating character we recommend http://www.geraldgardner.com . Doreen Valiente was his High Priestess and after he died she worked with other High Priests who have all helped to move our understanding forward.  We owe these pioneers much respect and admiration, they helped us move out of a truly dark age of ignorance and misinformation about Wicca. As time goes on and more and more Wiccans are practicing, our knowledge of what works and what does not work evolves.  There is nothing disrespectful about saying "thank you Gerald and Doreen for opening the door, and as we walk through it and begin to dwell on the other side, vistas are opening up to us of which you could never have imagined". 

In the 1960's Alex Saunders and his wife Maxine broke away from their Gardnerian coven surrounded by much controversy and bad feeling. The result of this split was the Alexandrian tradition, with its more elaborate forms of ritual.

Some of the other paths include Algard, Celtic, Dianic, Feminist, Frost Wicca, Hasidic, Seax Wicca and Wholistic Wicca. There are other forms too, mostly in the United States where all religious groups can register as a "church" and receive tax advantages. This has led to much more openness than in Europe. It is not important to try to learn all the different forms of Wicca, but just to be aware they exist.

The form of Paganism taught in this course is predominantly, although not exclusively, Wiccan. As I said to you before, what I teach is what I personally believe and have personally experienced. Other teachers will teach you differently.  Personally I tend to steer away from my modern Alexandrian roots because I feel that it owes too much to the ritual magic of Aleister Crowley, the O.T.O. and the Golden Dawn, while ignoring the older forms on the grounds that they are too bawdy and pagan. Well we are Pagans aren't we?

I am British and I like to worship the old British Gods and Goddesses. However many Wiccans prefer the deities from Greece and the other Mediterranean countries so you will receive a thorough grounding in those too.

As you follow this course you will be a Pagan first and a Wiccan second. In this course you will learn far less of the Victorian ritual magicians and much, much more of the world's ancient Pagan heritage. As far as possible we teach the Old Ways. One big difference is in the attitude to the sexes. Some Wiccan paths put the female principle above the male. I feel more comfortable treating them both as entirely equal in all ways. Different of course, but equal. This also means the God is equal to the Goddess and vice versa. You will find no sexism in this course.

Paganism is a path for individualists, even peaceful anarchists. We can not be restrained by the tight straitjacket of rules and dogma. Basically we are rebels or at least free thinkers. In Wicca and in Paganism generally THERE IS NO DOGMA! Reality is too complex to be confined in a straitjacket of simplistic rules and dogma. All paths lead to the centre.

There are as many forms of Wicca as there are Wiccans and the various groupings are fairly arbitrary. We each know from experience that our path works. And we know from other Wiccans that their paths work too!

What is Wicca?
(Excerpt from The US Army Chaplain's Handbook)

Historical Origin:

Wicca is a reconstruction of the Nature worship of tribal Europe, strongly influenced by the living Nature worship traditions of tribal peoples in other parts of the world. The works of such early twentieth century writers as Margaret Murray, Robert Graves and Gerald B. Gardner began the renewal of interest in the Old Religion.

After the repeal of the anti-Witchcraft laws in Britain in 1951, Gardner publicly declared himself a Witch and began to gather a group of students and worshipers. In 1962, two of his students, Raymond and Rosemary Buckland (religious names: Lady Rowen and Robat), emigrated to the United States and began teaching Gardnerian Witchcraft here. At the same time, other groups of people came interested through reading books by Gardner and others.

Many covens were spontaneously formed, using rituals created from a combination of research and individual inspiration. These self-created covens are today regarded as just as valid as those who can trace a "lineage" of teaching back to England. In 1975, a very diverse group of covens who wanted to secure protections and benefits of church status formed Covenant of the Goddess (CoG), which is incorporated in the state of California and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service. CoG does not represent all, or even a majority of Wiccans. A coven or an individual need not be affiliated with CoG in order to validly practice the religion. But CoG is the largest single public Wiccan organization, and it is cross-Traditional (i.e. non-denominational).

Basic Beliefs:

Wiccans worship the sacred as immanent in Nature, often personified as Mother Earth and Father Sky. As polytheists, they may use many other names for Deity. Individuals will often choose Goddesses or Gods from any of the world's pantheons whose stories are particularly inspiring and use those Deities as a focus for personal devotions. Similarly, covens will use particular Deity names as a group focus, and these are often held secret by the groups. It is very important to be aware that Wiccans DO NOT in any way worship or believe in "Satan," "the Devil," or any similar entities. They point out that "Satan" is a symbol of rebellion against and inversion of the Christian and Jewish traditions.

Wiccans do not revile the Bible. They simply regard it as one among many of the world's mythic systems, less applicable than some to their core values, but still deserving just as much respect as any of the others. Most Wiccan groups also practice magic, by which they mean the direction and use of "psychic energy," those natural but invisible forces which surround all living things. Some members spell the word "magick," to distinguish it from sleight of hand entertainments.

Wiccans employ such means as dance, chant, creative visualization and hypnosis to focus and direct psychic energy for the purpose of healing, protecting and aiding members in various endeavors. Such assistance is also extended to non-members upon request.

Many, but not all, Wiccans believe in reincarnation. Some take this as a literal description of what happens to people when they die. For others, it is a symbolic model that helps them deal with the cycles and changes within this life. Neither Reincarnation nor any other literal belief can be used as a test of an individual's validity as a member of the Old Religion. Most groups have a handwritten collection of rituals and lore, known as a Book of Shadows. Part of the religious education of a new member will be to hand copy this book for him or herself. Over the years, as inspiration provides, new material will be added. Normally, access to these books is limited to initiated members of the religion.

Practices And Behavioural Standards:

The core ethical statement of Wicca, called the "Wiccan Rede" states "an it harm none, do what you will." The rede fulfills the same function as does the "Golden Rule" for Jews and Christians; all other ethical teachings are considered to be elaborations and applications of the Rede. It is a statement of situational ethics, emphasizing at once the individual's responsibility to avoid harm to others and the widest range of personal autonomy in "victimless" activities.

Wicca has been described as having a "high-choice" ethic. Because of the basic Nature orientation of the religion, many Wiccans will regard all living things as sacred, and show a special concern for ecological issues. For this reason, individual conscience will lead some to take a pacifist position. Some are vegetarians. Others will feel that, as Nature's way includes self-defense, they should participate in wars that they conscientiously consider to be just.

The religion does not dictate either position, but requires each member to thoughtfully and meditatively examine her or his own conscience and to live by it. Social forces generally do not yet allow Witches to publicly declare their religious faith without fear of loss of job, child custody challenges, ridicule, etc. Prejudice against Wiccans is the result of public confusion between Witchcraft and Satanism. Wiccans in the military, especially those who may be posted in countries perceived to be particularly intolerant, will often have their dogtags read "No Religious Preference."

Concealment is a Wiccan defense against persecution, so non-denominational dogtags should not contravene a member's request for religious services.

Wiccans celebrate eight festivals, called "Sabbats," as a means of attunement to the seasonal rhythms of Nature. These are:

January 31* [Imbolg, Oimelc, Brigit, or February Eve],
March 21 [Spring Equinox or Ostara],
April 30 [Beltane or May Eve],
June 22 [Summer Solstice, Midsummer or Litha],
July 31 [Lughnasadh, Lunasa or Lammas],
September 21 [Autumn Equinox, Harvest, Mabon],
October 31 [Samhain, Sowyn or All Hollows],
December 21 [Yule or Winter Solstice].

Some groups find meetings within a few days of those dates to be acceptable, others require the precise date. In addition, most groups will meet for worship at each Full Moon, and many will also meet on the New Moon. Meetings for religious study will often be scheduled at any time convenient to the members, and rituals can be scheduled whenever there is a need (i.e. for a healing). Ritual jewellery is particularly important to many Wiccans.

May the Old Gods and Goddesses within guide you in your studies and in your life. Blessed be!



Footnote:
*Imbolg is actually held on February 2nd. by most Wiccans and other Pagans.

MONOGRAPH ONE - The Meditative Ritual

Go alone into some natural place where you feel good. It may be a high mountain top or a particularly lonely part of the coast. It could be in a dense wood or a piece of desolate moorland. If possible try to go when the weather is especially alive but do not delay the ritual waiting for the weather. Nearly everybody can find somewhere suitable within a short distance from their home. If you really cannot get to such a place go into a quiet, darkened room, where you will not be disturbed and imaging you are in such a place.

Sit or stand quietly and just feel the energies of the place. Then try to feel the way a primitive person would have felt in the same place. Try to feel his / her feelings of awe, or even of fear. Remember, he could not rationalise his feelings as you can, so just feel the raw emotions he would have felt.

At this stage of your training, your meditations should last about five or ten minutes, fifteen tops! Whatever feels comfortable to you. Never force yourself, just increase the time gradually as you get more experienced. Its best to delay eating or sex until after your meditation. On no account should you attempt fasting at this stage of the course.

Remember, these exercises are supposed to be FUN!