dejapu

One step ahead of you lol... I atually ordered the book a couple days ago, I got a couple copies because I saw from reviews there are some differences between editions, and also to give one to my girlfriend. I was doing a quick search for visualization suggestions on the forum and I saw you mention the book. It seemed somewhat serendipitous to me as my girlfriend and I are both also trying to learn drawing, painting etc... we've been drawing and painting Tarot cards as practice. Another funny coincidence is that on googling "how to strengthen visualization abilities" a couple days ago, one of the top results was a page from Llewelyn that turned out to be a technique from Don Kraig's "Modern Magick" which I've also saw you've mentioned before. In the past I never bothered looking into this book because the cover makes it look like it's written for Harry Potter fans, but it actually seemed like one of the more intuitive methods I've come across yet so I've been toying with that the past few days too. Thank you! You've already (even indirectly) been quite helpful.

The first section of the BOTA course "Seven Steps in Practical Occultism" has a bit of annoying "New Thought" vibe, reminds me a little of the Kybalion in tone which I find hard to stomach. I've heard from several people that the lessons focused on the Tarot are by far the most thorough and in depth method available for internalizing the Tarot as an initiative system, so I'm trying to stick with it. I'm making haste slowly though... I'm kind of at an impasse because the exercises are beginning to require lots of visualization and I have almost no skill with visualization. The past week I've been researching and toying with different exercises to try and improve my ability to visualize, but haven't had any luck yet. I was thinking of making a thread on it (if there isn't one already, I'll be sure to do a search first), but if anyone sees this and wants to give some pointers I'd be greatly appreciative

Hi all, Dejapu here. I have been an armchair occutist/mystic/whatever for probably about 15 years now, and I'm just now finally trying to ease myself into some daily practices of some sort and whittle down my path from the assortment of systems out there. I am most heavily read in Crowley, (though I would certainly not call myself a Thelemite or prospective Thelemite) and like Crowley my interests lie in about the whole gamut of ways of attainment out there... qabalah, yoga, Taoism, I Ching, Christian mysticism, Fourth Way etc etc... I'm currently getting my toes wet with the BOTA correspondence course. My first tastes of the mystical experience and all related weirdness probably came from psychadelics so I am also a bit interested "better living through chemistry" and ways that can be worked into spiritual practices. I've found that a lot of times "occult" forums can seem like "the bottom of the barrel" so I'm excited to be a part of this community because there seems to be a bit more level-head-ness and maturity here, as well as a knowledgeable core user-base. Thanks for accepting me into your community! (I'm assuming I'll be accepted, that is lol)