about shapeshifting
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Caution!
The following text was written in a reality separate from our familiar and comfortable time space.
it may arouse,
At worst - a terrible and sticky connection experience, or at best,
which is actually the evil in its minority, disconnection, dissociation or maybe trance.
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Five names were called to her: soul, spirit, soul, unit, animal.
(In Genesis Rabbah, Parasha Yad).
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No matter what form they take, witches need an anchor on the other side.
These anchors are advisors, guides, allies and familiar spirits.
So if by chance...you got stuck in an endless shift of worshiping the Elohilill or maybe you got lost in the underground labyrinth of the elves from the Kingdom of Dimitria, you should establish some kind of esoteric-mental connection with them (or against them). One of cause and effect.
Otherwise, the same spirits infect us - girls and humans, hold us and speak from within us or to us in strange and strange voices!
Also, it is important to release the pressure from the activation button of the smoking and launching spaceship. [JUST IN CASE].
In short, there are quite a few books available these days about familiar spirits, demons and possessions or working with so-called 'totem animals', which focus on investigating unusual states of consciousness and unusual physical states known as trance, disconnection or dissociation states.
The concept of possession (POSSESSION) is known by different names, in different traditional societies around the world.
For me, attachment refers to the possibility that an external entity with a supernatural dimension buys it control over the body of a living person, temporarily displacing their normal identity.
The origin of these thought forms is in our inner and outer worlds.
All of them are characterized by crossing borders, challenging cohesive identities and breaking accepted distinctions.
Possession is the Jewish version of states of attachment that range in the wide range between attachment and possession, between transcendence and holiness and madness and impurity, between divine voices of angels, preachers and daughters of the voice, and voices of demons, deviants and spirits of 'external' ghosts.
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For many, the common form entities take is that of various animals.
Not surprisingly, many of them are traditionally associated with witches and the other old Prometheus.
The cat is probably the more familiar contender today, but long before the cat arrived, the wolf had a closer relationship with witches. And more traditionally, there is also the owl, the goose, mouse, snake, crow, dog, toad, rabbit, porcupine and salamander...a whole farm of animals that I would love to put into my aviation ointments in the form of live fat or sulfuric ash...so any animal that is linked With soul, shapeshifting, flight, agility, or night, the shlikhom to my Harlanmeirum. Thanks.
Familiar spirits can also appear in the form of familiar people or deceased relatives, this requires a little sharpening of the 'third eye'. That is, it requires a mental-self peeling ability from the endless delegations of our parasitic mind or as some lyricist from the 60s said... 'Throw acid. Not a bomb'.
[It only takes about eight hours to realize that part A of the trip affects part C of it, but let's play with ghosts and frosts until I peak and retire].
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Familiar spirits may also appear in the form of an entheogenic cloud of smoke, or an alkaline extract of hallucinogenic plants or an acidic extract of our bleak reality. By far the most contagious parasitic entities I have known are the obsessive thought forms that rule us. I think Castaneda used to call this little part of our brain 'the little tyrant'. But that's off topic so let's focus on your spirit animal.
More modern books talk about ghosts as if they were real creatures, just like your pet.
There is no doubt that a barking dog can wake the dead, but focusing on the physicality of the most familiar spirits will limit the possible forms of communication. You should not forget that these are spirits, and spirits can take many forms and can even change shape. Like a hybrid between an animal and a person or between two hallucinatory plants into one hallucinatory animal or like hallucinations of people who change their faces if you happen to come across them. Plant allies and familiar spirits take on human thought forms and form a deep sympathetic bond with their witch host.
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Part II
which is supposed to be part A, but it changed form to part C and you won't even notice.
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Transfiguration is rarely discussed, little practiced and mostly misunderstood.
What exactly is shapeshifting outside of folklore and fantasy, as part of both ancient and modern magical practice?
First, shapeshifting is not a literal physical transformation of a man or woman into animal form, as that is not realistically possible. As much as some of us believe in Cronenberg's cult films.
Some psychoactive plants can convince people that they are animals, or more accurately make them behave like one. In the same way that the dancer dressed in ceremonial costume and mask may imitate every movement and sound of an animal in a dance, but still, the form of the person or shaman does not change physical form.
Instead, transfiguration as a magical practice permits one of two types of trance - one of possession, where the medium remains unconscious and his body is taken over by the spirits. That is, part of the witch's soul changes into a spirit animal, leaving the body for a journey in the kingdom of cookies or whatever she wants to snack on during her tea break at the end of the world.
The second method, is closer to the intention of shamanism, where the witch, consciously notices another plane of reality and sometimes even changes form and leaves her body, in order to operate in the parallel and invisible world for most of the participants in this world.
In the latter case, it is about the spirit leaving the witch's body for the purpose of "riding" an animal or an external spirit animal or just a human spirit known in this world.
*I tend to agree with a number of authors who believe that spiritual holding (attachment) is not a native American element, but rather a local interpretation of Afro-Brazilian trance.
'Riding' is also found in European folklore in stories about witches using innocent people as "horses" or goats. Not like witches do in Hollywood movies, where they literally change people visually into horses, but more in the ultra femdom mental mindpack segment. Something hypnotic holds them and uses their bodies instead of the witch's. As in the folk tale of Pinocchio and Grandpa Geppetto.
+ It is traditional and logical for witches as well as fairy doctors, alchemists or herbalists to shapeshift into or "ride" liminal animals that have long otherworldly associations such as toads and frogs, deer, rabbits, cats, birds, birds of prey and bats - animals of the moon , nocturnal animals and those that dwell between the elements of earth, water or air.
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To change shape the witch must first possess the ability to separate her soul/spirit from her body.
To do this the body and the soul must first be in harmony. To reach such harmony we must be able to filter and differentiate between the real world and the other world. As well as getting to know ourselves, really.
Different methods can be found throughout the continents, cultures, mythology and folklore - from the skin walkers of the Navajo, the witch rabbits of the Celtic lands, the spirit dancers dressed as animals and imitating their movements to the werewolf and many other myths about metamorphosis found in Greek and Norse mythologies.
In some cultures, psychoactive plants are consumed as part of the ritual. In others, the drum is the tool through which the witch's spirit can leave the body and turn into an animal, and in others skins or other body parts are worn by the witch who wants to 'turn his skin'.
The shamanic outfit tends to give the shaman a magical new body in animal form.
From Celtic tradition, the 17th-century Scottish witch Isobel Goody gave instructions for charms and shape-shifting spells to specific animals during her trial. She and other witches - around that time, admitted that they had not changed physically and the only external change in appearance was wearing an animal shell or mask. They were not asked about ghost possession in these sentences.
The dangers of shapeshifting
The dangers of such a practice include not being able to return to your body because you have forgotten that you are human. Perhaps you have forgotten which family you belong to, or have traveled too far only to return to find that the physical body has gone into coma or death as a result. Also to be caught and injured as a spirit in the other world and as a result find emotional consequences, wounds or death while 'riding' an animal in this world.
Many of us may have heard the folktales of witches who steal milk from cows by shape-shifting into rabbits or witches, who when injured or killed as a rabbit or other animal become a human or are found in a stall with the same injury. Like the animal in the story of "The Witch Rabbit" collected from Mr. and Mrs. Hall by WB Yeats.
This is not a case of 'if you die in the world of dreams, you die in real life', but more of a section of "if your spirit is wounded, captive or tired so is your body. Give it rest from the spirit world".
Precautions witches and psychonauts may take:
1. Set a hard time limit before the transition, so that no matter what happens or where you are, you are pulled back into your body by the bell!
2. Use a witch rope and tie one side to yourself (to your wrist or index finger) and the other side to your spirit [an object of power, a bag of herbs, a signed and rolled paper. You can add something that rings or rustles]. So that when you want to return, you can follow the thread back from the spirit realm to your unconscious body. This method uses sympathetic magic - as what you create in 'magic' in the physical world will be reflected in the spiritual realm.
3. Create words/sounds of reassurance or a spell or seal, which when spoken/thought/imagined, act as a stimulating device to draw your spirit back into your body.
4. Wear magical protection symbols on your body or anoint tattoos with ritual oils so that you will not be harmed or your spirit will not be kidnapped while traveling in the other world. Symbols and objects of power also exist in the spirit world when they are well made and consecrated or by your own hands. Tying a linen or cotton thread around the waist\ closing a belt buckle as an act of closing a circle, etc... may also help with a sense of guarding and presence in the body after landing.
A sorcerer I know recommends a daily/weekly home check of 'what cult/spirit is trying to take over our brains today?'
A stable and healthy relationship with the mind and body dictates to us forms of thought that know how to limit and fence such infinite boundaries.
Good luck and hello grandma.
