... would make them "more prone to magical thinking". The distinction between magical and other pathways was created by Rick in order to more easily explain his ideas about "Mechanisms Underlying the Elemental Exercises". (Rick, please correct me if I misunderstood you.)

... our minds. I haven't done elemental exercises like the ones you ...I saw one of yours yesterday under Elemental Sensation. I can post it...until here: Learning to control the Elemental forces within ourselves is the work...are the manifestations of your expression "elemental forces", I don't think ... competence in controlling our internal Elements, that doesn't automatically equate ...

.... If we want to have 2- way communication we have to learn how to listen, and not just with our minds. I haven't done elemental exercises like the ones you described, but I have done similar work to learn how to interpret feelings that result from reacting to subtle cues physically and/or ...

... universe. If we want to have 2- way communication we have to learn how to listen, and not just with our minds. I haven't done elemental exercises like the ones you described, but I have done similar work to learn how to interpret feelings that result from reacting to subtle cues physically and/or ...

...up altars "crude" in comparison his Elemental Exercises. That smacked of "elitism" to me. Perhaps instead of getting insulted at what...the evidence that making an altar to express elemental corresopondences indicates that you are more "genetically ... than Rick, who expresses those correspondences by exercising a vivid imagination. I cannot see ...

...in which he called my mention of setting up altars "crude" in comparison his Elemental Exercises. That smacked of "elitism" to me. Perhaps instead of getting insulted at what ... integrate -- at all levels of perception -- the elemental system, and i believe you, that you have ... and think in the magical world of the elements. If you have any questions, please ask and...

...referring back to the Kraig-style Elemental Exercises I posted previously. My overall...much as we can (see the Elemental Exercises), and by practicing them ...enough to make our sensory-representation mechanisms respond automatically to our chosen ...if the correspondences of the magical Elements are accurate to real-world ... minds. I haven't done elemental exercises like the ones you ...

... no attempt to establish any elitism. I noticed a reply to me in which he called my mention of setting up altars "crude" in comparison his Elemental Exercises. That smacked of "elitism" to me. Perhaps instead of getting insulted at what you perceive as his lack of respect, you might have asked him what he ...

... Specialness. Particularity, perhaps. I see no attempt to establish any elitism. I noticed a reply to me in which he called my mention of setting up altars "crude" in comparison his Elemental Exercises. That smacked of "elitism" to me. cat yronwode

... if a stimuli is real or imaginary, that brain mechanisms respond to both kinds of stimuli. This is ...events is a sense of volitional control. When we first start out with those Elemental exercises, we're exercising volitional control, and of course we know that. We are instructed ... for example, if the correspondences of the magical Element are accurate to real-world dynamics, the subtle ...