Re: a question about the eucharist

["hermetics10" <hermetics10@...>]

Thank you Alan for your clarification. You make a good point by 
saying that I shouldn't think so restrictively.

beginner

--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Cook" <fish_studios@h...> 
wrote:
> 
> Dear beginner,
> 
> >> I went over the eucharist questions and replies and I couldn't 
find
> any specific direction of the working of the excercise. Could you
> please give an expample of the thought process of transfering the 
the
> idea into the food? <<
> 
> As far as a detailed description of *how* to transfer your idea 
into
> the food or water, I'm not sure you will find any. Magic is a
> personal experience and practice. The transfer of your idea into 
the
> food is an act of Will. You simply let it happen. Now that I try 
to
> explain this, I find that I can't really find the words for it. :)
> 
> It simply happens as it should. There's no forcing, it happens
> naturally almost. You formulate the idea or desire, concentrate on
> it, and then impregnate the food with it. You Will the idea into 
the
> food. It's not so much a thought process, as it is a perception.
> 
> I think that you may be analyzing the exercise a bit too much. I 
did
> that a lot when I first read IIH. But once I let go of all
> preconceived notions of how I thought an exercise should go or what
> the experience should be like, it became much easier and clearer. 
In
> most of the Step I exercises, it's about letting go of these 
things,
> especially the Vacancy of mind exercise. Let go of how you *think*
> the impregnating of the food should be done and simply *do* it.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Sof tov, hakol tov,
> --Alan