Nicholas Pearson: Sticks and Stones

But let’s look at this; let’s dive deep into the subject of spells and spellcrafting. Instead of just looking at it from the esoteric or spiritual frameworks, let’s look at the neuroscience behind it. Let’s really explore: is it superstition, or is it a super science?

I’m Adam Nox. Sit back, relax, and enjoy today’s episode. And remember to live deliciously.

I think we all are sometimes amused when we look at different forums and things on the internet and see all the newbies, and sometimes even the not-so-newbies, asking for spells, quick rituals to fix their problems. What this really demonstrates is someone in an emotionally entangled state. They’re desperate, and the thing they’re looking for they are seeing outside of themselves. Funny how that is the very factor that’s going to prevent the magic from working.

So let’s look at this a little bit seriously for a moment: why do spells work, and why are they the way they are? If you pick up a book on Slavic magic, for example, you may find spells to curse your enemies, attract love, prevent things, and all kinds of stuff. There is an array in every tradition. But let’s take that as an example.

In one of those examples, you may wish to bring luck or joy into your life. You may take a coin and spring water that you keep this coin in and put a blessing on it over the moon when the moon is at a certain tone. You will then utilize that water in a certain magical way. Another example may be where you take those same coins and go to the back of a church. You may throw them onto the wall of the church, saying a certain petition to a certain saint. You even see those practices in folklore, like practices of people that honor the various Catholic saints. You see the same practice carried over in hoodoo.

Now, that may extend even further. You may see examples of candle magic routines and things like that. Each practice, technique, spell, ritual, and ceremony has a number of different elements. For us to imagine we’re going to cover every instance and explain it all in a single episode is ridiculous. In fact, that’s kind of why there are courses like, you know, mine, on the point of view. It’s because it’s a lot of data, a lot of information, and a lot of aspects that we need to master in order to fully understand what’s going on with this occult science.

The cult, again, means secret, and science, however, should not be assumed under the same mantle as modern-day science or empirical science. Empirical science is definite and testable to, you know, the upper end. The reason for this is because it is an occult science. It is playing in a field that includes domains of study that cannot currently be measured by traditional science alone. It also expands into different avenues.

There may be aspects that we can verify in psychological experiments. There may be things that we know are true from tests, you know, within our own different framework. But there’s a paradigm here that is useful, and this is the idea inside the hologram, you know, inside the VR mask. Science itself tries to solve the riddle of the universe by doing so inside of the VR mask, making it subject. It’s like a video game. If you’re playing Grand Theft Auto or, you know, Hellblade, which is one of my favorites, you’re restricted to the rules of the game. However, there’s a programmer that sits behind that and is in charge of setting up those rules. If those rules weren’t in place, maybe the game would have turned out very differently. The probabilities or possibilities would have been different, and it’s all because of how it’s been set up.

We assume that science operates from within this place, and it can’t see outside of it because it’s subject to it. Hopefully, math and other sciences, which are also very common in the occult world, will take us further and give us the ability to research and accomplish things at a greater level. These are studies in the area of consciousness research that are now coming to the front. Subjects like string theory and many others explore these other things from a mathematical and theoretical pursuit. Many of these experiments give us results.

Without jumping off too much of a tangent about the latest research and science, which is something that I do recommend you look into, let’s look specifically at our subject, which is spell crafting and the neurology of it. Why do I even bring these two together? For most people, spells seem to be an esoteric taboo science that the witches had, like they’re graced by the devil. Now, am I saying that, you know, there aren’t supernatural forces? That’s a subject for another episode.

What I am saying is a simple example, and I use this example oftentimes in some of my old classes when I used to teach publicly. I use it, and I call it PTD Egyptian. If you’re from another country, that name may sound foreign to you. It’s just a common term used here for names or some names in South Africa. The idea is that he falls in love. Harry is just hanging out in ancient Cairo, and he sees Susan, or Sunny, and he says, “Yo, Sunny, you look cute.” He’s nervous as heck because Sunny is from a richer family. She has all these things going for her. She’s really hot by his standards. He’s nervous. So what he does is he goes and makes a petition to the sun god Ra. As he does, there’s a certain set of things that happen.

Now, let’s look at this from the outside. PT goes into the ritual. He goes on a whole journey along the Nile and on this little bit of a journey to find these very sacred herbs that are important, or these sacred stones that are important to the sun god. He does it, and he comes back after this journey that he’s been through, where he was hungry. He went through quite an effort to attain it, and he comes back. As he comes back to his sacred temple or sacred space, he waits until the appropriate hour when the sun is at its zenith and most powerful. He knows the god is watching over him and blessing him. He goes in and whispers the secret names he was taught in his initiations. As he says these secret names, he goes into a trance. The spirit takes him over, and he starts to say these things. He puts the stones there and makes the offerings. He sees his spell, and the spell quite poetically rhymes. It seems to follow this unique pattern, very much like a song does. There’s this intro, this chorus, and the chorus is not the words, and then the bridge. It builds, but there’s a pattern, a very specific pattern. At the end of it, he exhausts himself and releases this energy. Maybe he does something like cut his hand, with blood spilling over the offering, or he’s practicing sex magic and releases it, or maybe he just releases himself through intoxicated dance, or he feels in some way, shape, or form accepted. Maybe he sees the god come down and accept the offering. He knows his prayer is answered.

The next day, he goes out, and as he heads out, he sees Sunny. “Hey, how are you doing?” He’s feeling good. The sun god has blessed his magic. He approaches Sunny, and they just start a conversation. A couple of weeks later, they’re together. Things are going great. From the outside, stepping into this experience, they go, “Wow, the magical power of Ra, PT’s great ability as an Egyptian sorcerer, got what he wanted.” What happens in the rest of the journey, we’ll leave for, you know, “Ancient Egypt” TV to answer.

Now, let’s look at that from a bit more of a neuroscientific point of view, as well as a couple of other disciplines that are included in this. Remember, occult science is a holistic science, so it includes art, science, physics, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, and various philosophical systems, all wrapped around this practical, taste-repeat-alter-until-you-get-the-results-you’re-after system.

What happened at a deeper level is what we’re interested in. Firstly, was the sun god Ra real or not? Maybe, maybe not. But what happened is important for us. You see, since PT was a little boy, he grew up in a narrative. In this narrative, there was a certain authority that gave the crops its power, gave light to the world, expelled darkness or negativity, and eventually, because he was singing the praises, he was in these emotional euphoric states, and he saw other people preach about this. In other words, they were social proof, and he got into this self-induced hypnotic state. He linked the symbol that these people were representing, called Ra, to the sun, and he linked the symbolism to certain images. He attributed certain qualities, emotions, and states to this force.

That’s a very useful thing because that force can then be independent of his little problems and big issues. Sure, meeting a girl might be a big deal for him, but it’s no big deal for the divine god Ra to orchestrate, who orchestrates the very day and night coming in, and has all these relationships to these other gods that control his world. In doing so, he does a couple of other things. Now follow me on this journey.

A psychic archetype is established in the mind that establishes certain kinds of potentials, properties, and states attributed to it, in fact, entire ranges of consciousness. He now goes on a little quest, a hero’s journey, if you will—a Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey. In this journey, he sacrifices himself to a degree. He sacrifices his own comfort, his own laziness, and his own doubt because he puts in the effort. He sacrifices his doubt and disbelief. As he does that, he finds these things in the world that are sacred and aligned to this narrative. As he finishes this quest, he brings these items back home to his journey. Going into his journey, he goes to a place that, to him, is attributed more qualities of sacredness. It’s got all these divine qualities and attributes to it. Now he goes into this other stage.

Maybe he steps in and takes off his normal clothes, letting go more of his normal personality and personal reality. He dons the robes of a priest, an anointed of the god Ra. By the way, you can substitute this for anything. You can substitute it for Jesus, Buddha, Ra, God, whatever you want, whatever your sprinkle is. You could even substitute it for the great unconscious or the universe. Recognize that all these are symbolic at this point of this conversation. Again, we’re not debating its reality; we’re simply exploring this from a neuroscientific point of view or a neurotheological point of view, if I could rather put it that way.

In doing so, something very interesting happens. He now enters his sacred circle, which demonstrates to him this altered world, this altered reality where everything is possible. Not his normal day-to-day life, where there’s struggle, but in this place he’s entering, everything is possible. The circle he enters into aligns him in the favor of this ultimate authority. See what I’m getting at? In front of the table, he has a drawing, because, you know, printers weren’t as effective back in ancient Egypt, of Sunny, and he has a drawing of himself. He takes the two of them and puts them together. As he does that, he starts to say his prayer in rhyme. In other words, in his brain, there’s a symbol of what he wants, and he’s actively changing these symbols. You see this a lot in all magic, for example, how war generals used to play the war out in advance in their minds and actually with chess pieces or actual pieces, how it will play out, and then involve the gods with this divine authority inside of making it happen. The puppet play we see in practices like voodoo—there are all these dimensions that are important.

Here’s where things get even more juicy, because now he’s applying more things. In art, one of the things we get in the spoken arts is, for example, poetry. There’s a massive impact on us emotionally when things are spoken in rhyme. There’s a massive impact when things are spoken of in movement. There’s a massive impact when there’s color correspondence. We know this. We know as designers in web design, UX, and UI, we understand these patterns. We understand that if I utilize, as a photographer, the rule of thirds, I understand that if I utilize color in the correct way, if I use symbolism in the correct way, I’m having a direct impact on the viewer’s unconscious, on their psyche, on their heart, on their deeper inner self, and I’m moving that in a certain direction. This is important. This is really important. This is again where people confuse this as superstition when there’s actually a genuine system of science and technology here that is very easily overlooked because of all the pop culture around this stuff.

He now has these two symbols: himself and the other person tied together. Then he links them, and as he links them, he says the rhyme that affirms the new reality he’s starting to create. As he does this, he works himself into this intense frenzy, and then at the peak of it, he cuts his hand, with blood spilling out. As he does this, there’s a release, a biochemical cathartic release in the body. In other words, the emotional states that have now been anchored in his nervous system get supercharged, and that buildup of power suddenly gets released, the same way an orgasm almost brings about a child. This is a fundamental aspect of our nature, our operating systems, how we work.

As he does this, the psyche takes that massive emotional catharsis and rewires the relationship happening between these two people inside of this internal world. He then places the thing in a burning cauldron and offers it up to the god. In other words, he’s paying the currency inside of his own nervous system. We have all these rules of what you have to do to be good enough, and for others, it’s more complicated. For some people, it seems simple, and that is because they value themselves and see themselves as good enough or worthy. There’s a mystery here for initiations, and those of you who study the processes of initiation will find a key there. I hope you can grasp it. If not, keep watching.

As he does this, he gets to the next stage of that release, where his psyche now looks at this problem, which has now been altered. He’s taken the situation, altered it, rewired and reworked it, and now represents it in a very specific way. He sees this authority, this power greater than him that is over everything, and he imagines that force taking it. Now, either he imagines this directly or he does it by seeing the smoke coming off the fire and being accepted by the gods, who he now believes accept his offering of blood, this problem, because that’s what they want. He feels that it’s worthy, accepted, and the neurology changes because the emotional relationship changes. That’s the key.

As he does this, there’s a massive release, and the next day, he wakes up from this intense ceremonial process that he’s done. He goes and thanks the god for his thing, still being congruent with his narrative. He steps outside; the sun’s shining. Remember, the sun’s a symbol. In his nervous system, it represents these things. So the sun shines, and he’s just done a ritual to this deity. It must be proof. This increases his sense of evidence and certainty about his success. What he’s done in this process is eliminate all doubts, all disbeliefs, everything like that. Now he walks down and sees Sunny. Something interesting is happening, though. He’s no longer feeling hesitant or in doubt. He’s feeling confident and good. He’s not only done that, but he’s also accessed powerful states of the possibility of their future, and he’s bypassed his own limitations. Now, when he approaches Sunny, because why not, he already knows he’s successful. He’s just emitting that aura of confidence, that energy that she wants to know more about. She’s curious—what’s the change? What’s so different about PT? He’s so interesting today. He’s joking, no longer worried about losing her. He’s literally demonstrating all the behaviors we learn in the seduction arts and the Venusian arts are necessary for success in relationships, at the very least in dating. He’s not needy; he’s showing himself as a leader. He’s confident, powerful, demonstrating his personality, because he’s changed the neural association at a fundamental level to the symbols inside of his reality, which includes an individual inside of his reality. Because he’s done that, he’s changed or unlocked new states, new resources, and new behaviors within himself, making him more capable of getting what he wants.

This is an important thing to recognize, and here’s also the part where a lot of people go, “Oh, but is that it?” So it’s just neuroscience, it’s just this, it’s just that? No, there’s more. There’s always more. Truth is truth because it’s fundamental truth. It’s true at multiple tiers, multiple levels. If we look at the work of people like Joe Dispenza and many others who are now pioneering the areas of consciousness research and quantum mechanical philosophies, we also understand there’s entanglement. Entanglement also indicates that when I change, the world changes. In other words, the moment I change, what happens is the vibration I’m sending out to the world and what is possible inside of my world also changes.

Yes, these things are true because that’s what happens at a psychological, behavioral, and social level, but that’s only one dimension, the tip of the iceberg. There are far more dimensions beneath that iceberg that need to be explored, discussed, and mastered before you can truly call yourself an adept. That is the journey. Hence why spell crafting alone was always considered simply an art of lower magic versus higher magic being a form of theory, or dharma theory even, which is often referred to as true high magic or miracle working. In this state, we align ourselves with the gods, because there’s a reason. That’s again a discussion for another show of why the same type of gods show up in every single tradition. Even though they look different or act different, they’re so similar. Think of it for a moment: why is there always a goddess of love in every tradition, a god of prosperity? Why are they always connected to the planets? Why does that pattern consistently repeat itself? Why is the goddess in the Greek pantheon, the goddess of justice and truth, have the same exact colors of white, blue, and yellow in her tones as the goddess Ma’at in the Egyptian, which is also the goddess of truth and justice? Why these matching correspondences across journeys and generations? There’s so much here. Why are the patterns still there? That’s because the unconscious and the collective unconscious have specific patterns and rules that map throughout the years, and mystics and spiritual gurus have met them, but not everyone utilizes them. Some just utilize them in intellectual spaces. This is again where we recognize the difference between the mystic and the magician. The mystic goes in like the prophet and finds these altered states and gains these insights. It doesn’t necessarily mean they go and use them. For us to operate today, this is what the magician does: the magician goes and practically utilizes these things to bring about changes in their world. We are at a stage in our society and evolution where left and right is dissolving, where good and bad and light and dark are dissolving. This is the purpose of the work, the non-dualistic approach, the dissolution of duality. In so doing, we must recognize that even the mystic and the magi must come together, as we ourselves are not gods only; we are hybrid gods. One component of us is divine, and another component of us is disaster. We need both. We need the sin and the solution to the sin. We need the art and the science. We need the masculine and the feminine. We need to enjoy the delicate dance between art and science. We need to understand the relationship between the supernatural and the natural for us to truly advance and bring about new probabilities, new experiences, new levels of thinking, and creations of reality.

Yes, this is a generalization to a very specific field, and there is so much more that we can explore and discuss. But to really go in-depth with all of this, again, this isn’t called science; it’s an extensive piece. At the time of this recording, the content available just for us in “The Cult of You” is over a hundred modules, which is over a hundred weeks’ worth of material, and it’s still growing. That’s just in that. How many other pieces of material are out there? How many other research systems and groups are there? This is why the true mastery of this is a renaissance mastery. See how so many of the goetic entities all govern over the liberal arts? Mastery over the liberal arts leads you to a greater understanding of your capacity and your mastery of magic.

Many—and this is where the divide came between low magic and high magic—the low magic magicians and practitioners and the pagans of the land, it worked for them. They didn’t understand exactly the science behind it, so it was very superstitious, and it would work sometimes and not work other times, and they were “at the mercy of the gods.” Whereas the adepts of the high magics, the ones that were almost scholarly, studied this, they were able to get more results in certain ways. But not all of them, mind you. Some of them did not, and this is because of that spectrum: being top-heavy on experience versus being top-heavy in education. It’s in the middle where our actual power works. It doesn’t help you being purely intellectual and purely obsessed. It was a big challenge for me when I understood the neuroscience and quantum science behind this stuff to actually make it work, because it was all like, “Oh, but this is just science.” I had to give all that up and make it real again. I could understand the mechanism, but when you enter the path, I often say that doing the magic is the most demanding because it expects you to refine the edge of the sword of reason. But remember, it’s a double-edged sword, because on the other hand, it wants you to cut off all reason and become almost illogical. You must go from understanding that these are my representational systems, it’s the meaning these have within me, to that actually being the deity that is actually real. Once you do, you open up to another level of probabilities.

I’m not here to tell you these things are real or they are not real. The same way as if you listen to the conversation with D.H. Thorn, “Are you real?” I mean, the concept “Am I real?” is another debate. We can disprove that entire thing in another neuroscience experiment. But be curious about these things. Be curious about the mechanisms behind them, and understand why these things persisted as long as they did. Because if there was no merit behind any of them, they would have completely been weeded out of existence by now. It’s simply how the survival mechanisms have worked.

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