weirdway

Sure. I think I'll describe a part of the core phenomena I'm referring to and then give an example. I think most people have a great deal of condemnation/judgment of aspects of themselves and others, often unconsciously. This unconscious self-condemnation results in (usually) unconscious urges to attain/achieve/be something to avoid the self-punishment/self-condemnation. If such a person can first realize they have such a split, and practice self-kindness and self-love, they can slowly free themselves from this self-hating self-torment and learn self-trust. I think what I've described is a issue for a lot of people, not just at the conventional level. I think what we might call insanity would start to approximate this feeling in the realm of magick.

So, this binding splitting attachment to things is motivated in a desire for self-love, but a restricted willingness to only give it if you achieve something you think you need to be worth being happy. This constrains a person to squeeze themselves into attaining these feats they think they need that don't make them happy. By unbinding that willingness for self-love, you can free yourself of such limitations.

More concretely, I'm still working through this in many ways as it is a core element of my own personality (I was raised by a narcissist in a cult-like environment). But the more familiar with it I am the more I see it in others, including perniciously in the idea of "reason/will/choice" as a motivating factor instead of emotion. That is a dangerous and widespread idea leading to extreme self-ignorance/delusion and consequential self-destruction.

So a concrete example for me would be a self-love attachment to being vegan/anticonsumerist/anarchist (or more broadly a perfectly moral person). As a result of this I sacrificed a lot of personal happiness and lifestyle options. In fact, it felt as if there were no other options on how to live my live and live with myself. But once I realized I can love myself no matter my moral attitudes, and started practicing that, and I don't have to be anything other than true to my own heart, I was able to slowly reflect on whether those commitments really matched my own emotional needs and respond to that in a way that gave me more happiness due to the greater flexibility.

That's a conventional example, but I'm convinced the same idea can apply to magical manifestation, and even to psi based phenomena like remote viewing, telekinesis, and precognition.

Originally commented by u/AesirAnatman on 2021-09-14 08:05:35 (hcqurjy)