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Why I Look Like Absolute Shlt Lately... The Voodoo Loa Utterly Intoxicated Me And I Now Suffer The Worst Hangover & Withdrawal Ever... Beware The Danger Of What I Call 'Pathworking Overload'...
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| E.A. Koetting |
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I have authored eight cult classics on black magick and co-created Become A Living God where hundreds of thousands of magicians experience Ascent.
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Hey Friend,
A rude Youtube commentor recently asked why I "look like shlt" lately. Usually, I would just laugh that off, but a truth hides inside this insult. Let me explain...
In pathworking, you essentially choose a system like Haitian Vodoun, Lovecraftian Magick, Qliphothic Magick, Norse Sorcery, Goetic Evocation, etc., and you fully immerse yourself into that system, working from the beginning to the end.
When you’re doing a Pathworking, you’re immersing yourself fully into that system. You’re basically neglecting everything else spiritually… all of your meditations, rituals, and your whole life revolves around the system that you are pathworking.
Pathworking becomes an extremely intense endeavor psychologically, because you’re not just learning the spells and the practical magick aspect of it, but you’re also using that system for psychic and energetic Ascent.
So as you meet with the various gods, goddesses, demons, angels, and entities of the system that you’re pathworking, they are all giving you gifts, insights, weapons, and powers that you can use in your Ascent.
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I Bullied And Beat Myself Up Last Year... It Is Dangerous To Plow Through Three Pathworkings In Less Than 12 Months |
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I’ll be honest with you: Last year, I beat myself up in every way by moving through multiple pathworkings without giving myself a chance to breathe between each one!
As soon as I was finished with the Black Magick Pathworking Course, I then moved immediately into calling on the Old Ones with S. Ben Qayin, like Nyarlathotep and Shub Niggurath, and these chaotic forces tore my life apart so as to rebuild me. You can watch highlights and clips from our Black Rites of Azathoth course right here:
Without taking a break at all, I immediately jumped into the Vodoun Pathworking Course, invoking the Loa and becoming possessed by them.
Now, this doesn’t just affect your spiritual state… it affects EVERYTHING in your life!
As you work through any pathworking, your whole being changes, even your physical body changes, and your daily life is altered massively by the forces that you are invoking daily into your life.
This series of pathworkings was intense… to be honest, it was too intense! It did traumatize me in a big way. It wasn’t just that I was working with the Loa, or that I had opened gateways into chaos with S. Ben Qayin, but that I wasn’t giving myself time to rest and recoup and digest the experiences before moving on to the next one.
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I'm Throwing Myself Into The Furnace Again... But For Healing & Strength With Viking Magick! |
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Despite the trauma, I’m throwing myself into the furnace once again and diving straight into a Viking Pathworking—but this time explicitly for healing and strength!
I must be crazy, or maybe I’ve just become addicted to the rush of Ascent so much that I can’t stop, but I’ve already filmed a couple of episodes of the Viking Pathworking Course, and I can already tell that this is going to be one of the most life-changing experiences that I’ve ever gone through!
For me, that’s what this is all about. As I’m experimenting with magick, and really as I’m using magick to experiment with the world around me, what I’m really doing is I’m experimenting with myself, I’m pushing myself as hard as I can and I’m finding out that I really don’t have a breaking-point!
But, I have to warn you that this is NOT the healthiest way to approach pathworkings.
You see, repeated trauma from my early childhood has actually been a blessing to me, because I learned early on that I could endure literal hell and not only survive, but grow stronger because of it. And, before getting a chance to recover, I’d be hit with another level of hellish trauma, so I’ve become adept at moving through trauma quickly, whether it is emotional, psychological, spiritual, or physical. When you’re doing a pathworking, all of these aspects of your being will be tested!
My suggestion is that you choose one system to pathwork through, that you spend your time with it, and when it’s over that you give yourself time to digest it, to recover, and to heal from the trauma that may have been created before moving on to the next pathworking.
But, if you’re an insane, hardcore black magician like me, you’re probably going to ignore this advice and dive headfirst into the challenge!
We’ll talk again soon!
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