"Principles of Protection" Magical Self-Defense 301
This more advanced magical self-defense course focuses on how practitioners and magicians alike use their souls themselves as powerful defensive tools. Over the course of the three weeks, we will begin an exploration of how to cultivate the Realities within your soul as protective fields. You will come to recognize how to concentrate and draw our specific Aspects of your Nature and apply those to Reality using spiritual skills! Your soul contains its own ecosystem of protection and this class will teach you how to access it and make it stronger! After all, what forces in all of existence are more on your side than you yourself? Taking the basic principles established by the 20th century’s spiritualists and psychics, we refine those ideas using the Horizon Framework and more modern systems of magical thought. Amidst all the New Age magics, we will also dip into Taoism for the “Crystal Palace of the Mind” and how this ancient technique still eludes explanation by modern science. Combining these concepts, you will learn how to access the palace of your mind, change its structure to suit your own desires, and use that palace of memories to turn your imagination into the first and best line of self-defense!
Class one kicks off with a discussion of how magical energy itself works and why most conflicts in magic don’t resolve like firefights in Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. Exploring different arguments for how magical energy is sourced then leaning into the Framework’s explanation, we’ll review the concept of a protective ecosystem and give participants a chance to see if they’re as well defended as they imagine. The Witch King will look upon each and see how far he can get before having to actually try. This will give you some immediate feedback on your Nature, the aspects of the mental palace already in place, and whatever else is observed. Participants will then be given a chance to try the exercise against each other, “sparring” psychically during the week before we return for Class 2. With some experience under your belt, we will return to the three basic forms of protective magic and take it a step further: instead of magical arts, how can you use the spiritual skills to the same effect? During our final session, we will work through three magical scenarios: diagnosing the problem, choosing an approach, and theorizing how you would do that. This collaborative finale will give you practical, real-life examples of magical conflicts and how to handle them should you encounter something similar yourself: be it a disrespected forest gnome or a cult of magicians trying to possess you with a demon!
By the end of the class, you will:
be able to use the six spiritual skills to create ad hoc spiritual protections
learn about your mental palace and how to begin accessing and shaping it
know how to identify magical threats, correctly identify solutions, and review case studies of practical and curative magic in real life
SCHEDULING DETAILS
There are currently two sessions scheduled:
December 28th - January 22nd, Saturdays 10am CST -6
February 1st - February 15th, Saturdays 10am CST -6
Each session runs for three weeks, starting at the same time on the same day over Google Meets. Links will be sent to participants once their registration has been confirmed. If you do not receive a invitation from us within 48 hours of your registration, please email us directly at instituteofmodernmagic@gmail.com to get a direct link sent manually. Google is usually good about these things, but with Mercury Rx on its way, better to be safe than sorry! All classes run for one hour with recording and transcripts made available to all participants afterward.
This more advanced magical self-defense course focuses on how practitioners and magicians alike use their souls themselves as powerful defensive tools. Over the course of the three weeks, we will begin an exploration of how to cultivate the Realities within your soul as protective fields. You will come to recognize how to concentrate and draw our specific Aspects of your Nature and apply those to Reality using spiritual skills! Your soul contains its own ecosystem of protection and this class will teach you how to access it and make it stronger! After all, what forces in all of existence are more on your side than you yourself? Taking the basic principles established by the 20th century’s spiritualists and psychics, we refine those ideas using the Horizon Framework and more modern systems of magical thought. Amidst all the New Age magics, we will also dip into Taoism for the “Crystal Palace of the Mind” and how this ancient technique still eludes explanation by modern science. Combining these concepts, you will learn how to access the palace of your mind, change its structure to suit your own desires, and use that palace of memories to turn your imagination into the first and best line of self-defense!
Class one kicks off with a discussion of how magical energy itself works and why most conflicts in magic don’t resolve like firefights in Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. Exploring different arguments for how magical energy is sourced then leaning into the Framework’s explanation, we’ll review the concept of a protective ecosystem and give participants a chance to see if they’re as well defended as they imagine. The Witch King will look upon each and see how far he can get before having to actually try. This will give you some immediate feedback on your Nature, the aspects of the mental palace already in place, and whatever else is observed. Participants will then be given a chance to try the exercise against each other, “sparring” psychically during the week before we return for Class 2. With some experience under your belt, we will return to the three basic forms of protective magic and take it a step further: instead of magical arts, how can you use the spiritual skills to the same effect? During our final session, we will work through three magical scenarios: diagnosing the problem, choosing an approach, and theorizing how you would do that. This collaborative finale will give you practical, real-life examples of magical conflicts and how to handle them should you encounter something similar yourself: be it a disrespected forest gnome or a cult of magicians trying to possess you with a demon!
By the end of the class, you will:
be able to use the six spiritual skills to create ad hoc spiritual protections
learn about your mental palace and how to begin accessing and shaping it
know how to identify magical threats, correctly identify solutions, and review case studies of practical and curative magic in real life
SCHEDULING DETAILS
There are currently two sessions scheduled:
December 28th - January 22nd, Saturdays 10am CST -6
February 1st - February 15th, Saturdays 10am CST -6
Each session runs for three weeks, starting at the same time on the same day over Google Meets. Links will be sent to participants once their registration has been confirmed. If you do not receive a invitation from us within 48 hours of your registration, please email us directly at instituteofmodernmagic@gmail.com to get a direct link sent manually. Google is usually good about these things, but with Mercury Rx on its way, better to be safe than sorry! All classes run for one hour with recording and transcripts made available to all participants afterward.
This more advanced magical self-defense course focuses on how practitioners and magicians alike use their souls themselves as powerful defensive tools. Over the course of the three weeks, we will begin an exploration of how to cultivate the Realities within your soul as protective fields. You will come to recognize how to concentrate and draw our specific Aspects of your Nature and apply those to Reality using spiritual skills! Your soul contains its own ecosystem of protection and this class will teach you how to access it and make it stronger! After all, what forces in all of existence are more on your side than you yourself? Taking the basic principles established by the 20th century’s spiritualists and psychics, we refine those ideas using the Horizon Framework and more modern systems of magical thought. Amidst all the New Age magics, we will also dip into Taoism for the “Crystal Palace of the Mind” and how this ancient technique still eludes explanation by modern science. Combining these concepts, you will learn how to access the palace of your mind, change its structure to suit your own desires, and use that palace of memories to turn your imagination into the first and best line of self-defense!
Class one kicks off with a discussion of how magical energy itself works and why most conflicts in magic don’t resolve like firefights in Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. Exploring different arguments for how magical energy is sourced then leaning into the Framework’s explanation, we’ll review the concept of a protective ecosystem and give participants a chance to see if they’re as well defended as they imagine. The Witch King will look upon each and see how far he can get before having to actually try. This will give you some immediate feedback on your Nature, the aspects of the mental palace already in place, and whatever else is observed. Participants will then be given a chance to try the exercise against each other, “sparring” psychically during the week before we return for Class 2. With some experience under your belt, we will return to the three basic forms of protective magic and take it a step further: instead of magical arts, how can you use the spiritual skills to the same effect? During our final session, we will work through three magical scenarios: diagnosing the problem, choosing an approach, and theorizing how you would do that. This collaborative finale will give you practical, real-life examples of magical conflicts and how to handle them should you encounter something similar yourself: be it a disrespected forest gnome or a cult of magicians trying to possess you with a demon!
By the end of the class, you will:
be able to use the six spiritual skills to create ad hoc spiritual protections
learn about your mental palace and how to begin accessing and shaping it
know how to identify magical threats, correctly identify solutions, and review case studies of practical and curative magic in real life
SCHEDULING DETAILS
There are currently two sessions scheduled:
December 28th - January 22nd, Saturdays 10am CST -6
February 1st - February 15th, Saturdays 10am CST -6
Each session runs for three weeks, starting at the same time on the same day over Google Meets. Links will be sent to participants once their registration has been confirmed. If you do not receive a invitation from us within 48 hours of your registration, please email us directly at instituteofmodernmagic@gmail.com to get a direct link sent manually. Google is usually good about these things, but with Mercury Rx on its way, better to be safe than sorry! All classes run for one hour with recording and transcripts made available to all participants afterward.