Comments on: Is your biggification proud and mindful, or arrogant and gilded?

By: scwizard

scwizard — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:59:41 +0000

Oh ya, and this: “you should set your goals instead of letting others set them for you”

By: scwizard

scwizard — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:58:22 +0000

I translated this into: “you should set goals for yourself and try and meet them, and you should be confident in going about so.”

Is that accurate?

By: Oliver Danni

Oliver Danni — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:22:28 +0000

The big/small thing works great for me! It’s the feet/shoes part that doesn’t, because (at least, my) feet don’t get bigger. When I was a little kid my feet still grew, but not because of any conscious effort on my part. So that’s why the bookshelf example works better for me. :)

By: Pace

Pace — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:50:32 +0000

@Oliver: *shrug* The big/small thing is a metaphor that works for me. If it doesn’t work for you, perhaps I made the usual error. (; I like the idea of “When you’re caught up in your problems, become bigger than your problems.” That’s what the size thing feels like to me. As for the pizza thing… yeah, that sort of makes sense. Thanks for helping me understand that a little better.

By: Oliver Danni

Oliver Danni — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:06:19 +0000

I always forget to hit the clicky box to be notified of follow-up comments, and I don’t know another way to change that setting without making a new comment.

By: Oliver Danni

Oliver Danni — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:04:48 +0000

I was following along great, until the “…are you biggifying your feet?” part.

If I buy shoes that are too big for my feet, I’m going to trip and fall on my face! My feet stopped biggifying over a decade ago. Sometimes they biggify a LITTLE, but I usually call that “blisters”, not “awesome”. Even for someone whose feet are still growing, it’s probably not a good idea to buy shoes that are too much bigger than your actual feet. It might save some money, but if you trip and fall on your face, that probably won’t be your first thought.

Maybe a more effective example would be “I bought a bookshelf twice as big as my old one, even though the old one wasn’t full yet, with the intention of biggifying my book collection!”?

I had a similar struggle with the authenticity of “I have…” vs. “I want…”, and I came to realize that my creative imagination is not limited by constructs of past/present/future. Do you ever use visualization as a magickal technique? When I do it, there’s no past/present/future distinction…everything is in the present.

Like, let’s say I wanted a pizza. There are a number of different ways I could get that pizza. If I wanted to manifest an awesome magickal pizza, I would want to make my own pizza. If I just wanted my pizza really fast, I might call a delivery service. If I decided to use magick, I wouldn’t just make a list of things I wish my pizza had…I would imagine each ingredient, what it smells like, what it tastes like, what it feels like chopping it up or melting it, the heat and the texture…as if I were experiencing those things RIGHT NOW. Then I would get up and make pizza! Whereas, if I decided to call the pizza shop and have them deliver my pizza, they’d think I was nuts if I called up and said “I have a pizza already”…I would have to state my request for something which would happen in the future, saying “I want…” and listing the ingredients. Both of these are viable techniques for getting what I want, but in each circumstance, a different perspective on the difference between “present” and “future” is required for the technique to be effective. So, while it would be inauthentic for me to tell the pizza delivery person that I already have a pizza, it’s totally cool for me to tell the UNIVERSE that I have a pizza, because the universe doesn’t deconstruct time like the pizza shop does.