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Dark Moon Rite Dark Circle – Nuit's Veil Our Coven's approach to using ritual, such as the Dark Moon rite adopts the premise that every magickal working holds the potential to initiate us. What we mean by this is, that the central purpose of magickal ritual is to awaken a significant psychic experience. This preamble is intended to offer some insight into how Dark Circle enters into witchcraft practices and this type of magickal work generally. Although this is not a comprehensive discussion it will serve to help understand our approach and use of magickal ritual. This introduction does however provide a brief outlined of several important points and relevant terminology used in our practices.
The Psychic Reality We will briefly look at a few terms, some of which are used in common language, but for which we apply more complex meaning. Psyche: The psychic is probably one of the least understood terms, but a word frequently used to mean many things. Let's presume everything you commonly understand and associate with this word is in fact correct. I now simply wish to dig up a few more things about its meaning, to add into what you already know. Psychic comes from the Greek word Psyche (f. Greek psukhĂŠ ) meaning, breath, an inner life, and soul. Psyche is also the symbol of the soul personified as a young woman with butterfly wings. Her wings flutter a gentle breeze, just as light as a breath. Symbolically this it is liken to respiration while we lay sleeping; and it is especially associated with the last breath of life, being exhaled as the Soul leaves the body. Another layer to understanding the symbolism, or inner meaning of the butterfly motif and its association with the Soul is sort through its nocturnal cousin the moth. Both have the ability to transform from a terrestrial creature
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to one capable of flight. Both change from something undeveloped or functioning in one way, earth bound, and then transform themselves into fully developed creatures of flight using light to navigate by. It is butterfly's and the moth's attraction to light, that we use as a metaphor for the guided journey of Life; the butterfly travelling by day and the moth travelling by night. The Moth is a type that has become especially fitted as a nocturnal creature using moonlight, streetlights, car headlights, home-lights and even the fateful flame of candlelight to guide it night-time journeys. In the mythic language, it is the night Moth that has come to represent journey of the soul of a Witch. Again, using the mythic language it is our Life experiences, or light that is cast into the dark of the Unconscious, illuminating the flight of the Soul's journey. In a type of night voyage into the dark, guided only by the Moon, also a symbol of soul, we seek initiation into the Night world's mysteries. The word Psychic may also pertain to someone who functions as a medium or a go-between, someone who connects the outer, conscious world with an inner, unconscious part of us. In myth, the inner realms often pertain to the domain of the Sleeping and the Dead. The Psychic acts quite literally as a gobetween, known as a psycho-pomp, the guide of souls. The role of the Psychopomp is also ritual-image encountered in Dark Circle's well-known NOX ritual. The use of this word psychic therefore has much to do with inner journeys and the transformations. The Dark Moon ritual may likewise be understood to be the undergoing of a night journey for the purpose of experiencing the psyche's reality. Occult Darshan: In our Coven, each time we enter the ritual space and cast the Circle, we acknowledge an inner journey into a hidden or psychic reality. I coined the term occult darshan in describing the experiences of what these psychic journeys in ritual might potentially hold. Darshan is a Sanskrit word and means, to have a direct and personal mystical experience. While the word occult simply means, the hidden or concealed.
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When the two words are combined together it becomes an objective experience of the Self and into which we look to see a veiled mystery. The word darshan is usually associated with an experience in the presence of a Guru, where it is seen it is the Guru who initiates the experience. Contemporary Witches rely upon their own personal experiences rather than a personal guru. Other Witches are seen as peers rather than as all-knowing teachers. In this way occult darshan is very similar the concept of Gnosis, but where the later is always concerned with great Spiritual Truths, the former may only be personally relevant. Also certain things can be attributed with be mechanisms for occult darshan. For example, the occult darshan of a ritual is its ability to work in synergy with the individual to produce such psychic experiences. The ritual may actually hold a psychic energy of its own which is the occult darshan of the ritual. Objects and places too can be said to hold occult darshan, for contact with them produces psychic experiences. Any experience of occult darshan is significant and can be life changing. All experiences of personal initiation are an occult darshan of the individual. Initiation: This is another term that for us has a much broader application than is generally used in modern Witchcraft practices. Initiation is the mark of deep change in one's perception Self-knowledge. In order for such experiences to be receive and incorporated into the Psyche, time is needed in which to fully incubate the change. In other words, Initiations are rarely instantaneous as described in ceremonial Initiations. Dark Circle uses a short eight-part statement in document called Liber Primarius to delineate its philosophical stance about views on the Psychic Reality and Initiation. In this we state that experiences of Self-knowledge are an Initiation. We also acknowledge that this can be achieved through a wide variety of spiritual technologies, of which Sorcery, Witchcraft, Magick, Hermeticism and Shamanism are examples. While we do use Ritual Initiations these are simply an outer acknowledgement of personal experience and are more often used as a mark of fulfilment of a set of Coven based tasks. It is not considered the same thing as an Initiatory experience of Self-knowledge.
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Goals, objectives and energy of the Dark Moon ritual The Dark Moon rite acknowledges Spirit of Hekate, as the Nightshade Goddess of Animal powers and Familiar spirits. These are some of the Her powers as the hidden or Dark Moon we invoke within ourselves. On this night no visible light guides us as the Moon reaches it's nadir, the depths of an inner or Underworld, and where our ritual takes us. While there is a dedicated theme to the Dark Moon ritual we also acknowledged a broad scope of possibilities. These range from – a dedicate rite of invocation and evocation of the nightshade goddess Hekate; to invocation and evocation of Familiar spirits; and finally in the projection of Spells in wish fulfilments. In such magickal workings there may also a variety of supplementary and sometimes unintended effects. These might be experiences of the type which tip our emotional balance. These may include a range of emotional experiences eg., ecstasy and hysteria, feeling dishearten, isolated or emotionally over-wrought. Any of these things should be considered quite normal within Coven rituals; they contain the seeds of occult darshan and personal initiation. It is important not to short-circuit these experiences by suppressing or ignoring them. Be aware of what is happening as the ritual evolves and ask for support if you are feeling overwhelmed. Frequently, I find where someone is overcome with grief there will be another with an ecstasy or healing energy that can only now be put to good use. Often the synergy of the ritual plays out in many strange and seemly fated ways. It is importance that the ritualists to be able to flow with the synergy of the working, rather than a rigid ritual formula. In other words allow the inspiration of the moment to act upon you. Don't be surprised if a personal initiation of the acquisition of some psychic experience manifests changing you forever. Embrace the shadow and instinctual-self for it is in these dark places the Witch-within resides.
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A general note about Dark Circle rites As a rule our rituals are long to allow time for us to respond to the psychic nuances of the night. They are never rushed, can hold high energy, are often ecstatic, sensual and invoke psychic intoxication in the Circle. The energy may rise and fall several times during the night. The more relaxed you are at letting go and allowing yourself to fall under the spell of the rites, the easier it is experience their magick and power. Allow yourself to enter the occult darshan - a direct and personal experience of mystical states. The Dark Moon ritual is an invitation to allow you to encounter the nightside of the Self and join in the participation mystique of the Nightshade Goddess.
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Dark Moon Esbat Ritual outline The Rite is arranged in several stages: 1. an Admittance rite; 2. the Marking of the Crossroads; 3. the Rite of Hekate, the receiving of Her sacrament, the bestowing of the forgotten powers and the casting of spells; and finally 4. Closing the Veil.
1. Admittance rite—we commence our ritual by admitting people into the Circle one at a time with this simple ceremony. The ceremony helps us to leave the everyday reality and enter a sacred and psychic reality of the Witches' Circle. Our Coven will also use this rite to ceremonially share a mystery, to offer each Witch the anointing Sabbat oils and to ritually disrobe them. (From this point on everyone is considered a member of the Coven, or at least for the purpose of this ritual!) 2. Marking of the Crossroads and casting the Circle—we declare the purpose of the rite, call upon the spirit of Hekate, cast her Circle with the broom and mark her Crossroads with the four elements. When there are visitors present our Coven will lead and guide, we will be asking others to share in the performance of the rites. 3. Invoking the spirit of Hekate—a priest and priestess share the Grail of wine with the Coven calling upon Hekate to grant us her boon and enter the Temenos (the Circle and Crossroads). The chosen priestess lays upon a low altar in the centre and enters a reclining sleep, a nocturnal trance. As the priestess sleeps, the Coven commence a low evocation, calling the primal goddess through crooning, hissing, howling, croaking, calling, whistling the wind and murmuring cries. From this point on no ordinary language or words are to be spoken (except later at the Oracle Altar for the spell-casting). The priestess emerges and rises upon the low altar. She is anointed with the perfumes of Hekate. She discards the womanly persona and assumes the serpent and feline totems of Goddess. She is adored. 4. Receiving of Her Sacrament - the Goddess offers the Vinum Sabbati incubated in an alchemical blue flame of fire, and eclipsed by the Moon. The Goddess calls the Coven members, one by one, to taste and drink the elixir. The witches allow the effect of the sacrament to act upon their senses.
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5. Bestowing of the Forgotten powers—the Goddess calls up the energy of the primitive and animal within each Witch. She casts Her boon, whispering the words of power in the ear of each Witch. The Coven embrace new forms, new energies, and open themselves to the forgotten powers. They now dance, move, chant, croon, hiss, howl, bay, calling these energies in, giving expression to the primal powers. 6. Casting of Spells—much later as the primitive energy recedes in the Witches, the Goddess takes to the Oracle Altar. Any Witch, who seeks to cast a spell, kneels before Her, confesses their desires and performs a simple rite of sigil magick (to be explained). The sigils are released by the way of the elements: they may be buried in the earth; shredded and thrown in the air, hung in a tree; dissolved in water; or burned in the Cauldron fires. Those not casting spells are free to dance, to watch, or lay in the dark. 7. Closing the Veil—the rites will closed by the Goddess/priestess by drawing us all back into a Circle in a similar way as we began. The powers are not banished, but encouraged to take us further in dreams.
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Summary Overview Notes on objectives and attributes of the Dark Moon The rite is principally an Invocation of the Spirit of Hekate, Queen of Witches. She is Queen also of the Underworld, or that instinctual place in us where many things lay forgotten. The instinctual, the animal and the nocturnal are qualities that can be said to be the forgotten powers, for rarely consciously use them. Hekate became associated with the time of the Dark Moon, when no visible sign of the Goddess were normally visible. Witches gather at the time of Dark Moon in order to invoke rites of the Goddess as bridge to journeying into this Underworld. Her presence bestows the Familiar Spirits awake again within us. Through Her mysteries we summon the primitive and unforgotten parts of ourselves by turning backward or within. Initiator of menstrual blood in the renewal of life, she is also goddess of childbirth. Her totem the frog is fitted well as a type for all processes involving transformation; from that of a watery life or non- terrestrial time into a terrestrial existence. Hekate therefore rules all crossings or acts of crossing over, and is found at crossroads made sacred to her. Menstruation brings a sort of reversal of the usual alchemical phases of transformation, of Black (Nigredo), White (Albedo) and then Red (Rubedo). Starting with the Red element, life breaks out dissolving and making way for the new life, virgin again the White element 1. Night (Nigredo), Journey into the Deep Self. 2. The Dead, the Forgotten, the Discovery of Hidden Things. 3. Shape shifting, transformation in order to invoke the forgotten 路 powers, the animal powers, familiar spirits and primal instincts. 4. The daughters of Hekate - those who have experienced the ending of a life, sometimes called the forbidden grief, the unspoken sorrow of a life lost (abortion and terminations). 5. Hekate is Goddess of Transitions. Goddess of the buried Dead and acceptance of a passing life. Hopes for the future by the healing of a
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wound. Beginning again - empowering ourselves, seeing the new and invoking joy.
Summary notes on the structure for Dark Moon Spells Dark Moon brings into play a transformative energy that is expressed as three distinct stages to the incubation of a Spell. 6. Breaking apart, shattering the old form - Disintegration (Uranus) 7. Healing through making changes, dissolving, transcending, surrendering, and solving the problem. Purification (Neptune). 8. Transformative renewals, waiting, distilling, coalesce. Regeneration (Pluto).
We begin by breaking apart the blocks. Devise some act that will ritually break things apart especially in unexpected ways (Uranus). Next we can use those broken-up parts and dissolve them back into a potential or prima materia. Once the elements are free flowing and dreaming of what could be (Neptune), we now proceed to change dream potential into a newly expressed, undiscovered gold. As a final ritual act create an eruptive new energy to access the riches of Pluto.
Study Atu 18, the Moon card.
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Dark Moon Rite Part I : The Admittance rite to the Dark Moon Esbat Within the Temple, Hekate's priestess waits as the Summoner brings the Witches into the Circle one at a time. Ps:
Whom have you there?
S:
A seeker upon the crossroads.
Ps:
Come. (The Priestess beckons the Witch forward).
The Priestess pointing to the Cup upon the altar says, Ps:
What is this?
W:
(The Witch responds in her own words.)
Ps:
Indeed.
Picking the Cup up the Priestess says, Ps:
I offer it to you as a token of my body. Drink of me.
The Priestess addressing the Witch says, Ps:
Are you ready to shed your skin and forget the outer world?
W:
I am.
The Witch is assisted to disrobe by the Summoner. The Priestess with her back to the altar, she now positions the Witch to kneel in front of her. She addresses the Witch saying, Ps:
I am a daughter of Hekate, worship me and commune with the Goddess.
The Witch now offers the Priestess the Five Fold Salute by kissing her feet, knees, womb, breasts and lips saying, W:
Blessed be thy feet that have brought thee in these ways. Blessed be thy knees that shall knee at the sacred altar. Blessed be thy womb without which we would not be. Blessed be thy breasts formed in beauty and in strength. Blessed be thy lips that shall utter the sacred names.
The Witch now joins the others waiting with the others as each Witch is brought into the Coven Circle.
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Part II : Marking the Cross-roads Priest recites the Dark Moon Charge In times past when the nights grew blacker and mortals guarded themselves against visiting spirits from the Underworld, hordes of Hell roamed the earth on moonless nights. Yet She protected those mortals who purified themselves in Her name. With faces averted they offered Her ritual suppers at lonely crossroads, the gathering places of spirits. When Hekate's rites were observed, the black nights passed silently one into another and until the new moon slit the sky, Hekate shared clues to Her secrets. Those with wit to understand saw form was fixed, watched human become animal, become tree become human. Awesome are Her skills, but always Hekate taught the same lesson: "Without Death there is no Life." But if the Goddess were defied, She unleashed the power of Her wrath and swept over the earth bringing storms and destruction. Animals howled in fright, while Her ghosts stalked freely. Hekate's disturbances were fierce, yet not all mortals feared Her; some longed to join Her. In the Dark of the Moon Priestess taking the broom, casts the circle widdershins: Black spirits and white, red spirits and grey, Come thee and come thee and come thee that may. (Coven in this line) Round and around, throughout and about, a world within, a world without. . (Coven in this line) Four witches using the elements in turn charge the circle: Spirits of the East (north, west and south) Come! Open the way, Join us upon the crossroads." The witch, holding the elemental tool turns widdershins on the spot and passes the implement around the circle. Witches respond to the elements, calling, crooning, and humming the energies. The chalice is charged in the name of the Goddess. All chant Ia, Ia, Hekate! Abeu Ma IskurĂŠ! (Translation: "I call, I cry Hekate! Thou wanderer spirit Mother, mighty art thou!")
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The Coven stand a the circle. The priestess says: What is the hour? Priest replies Midnight. Priestess: What is this place? Priest says: The Crossroads. Priestess: Whom do you serve? Priest: The Dark Goddess, the Night, Mistress of Magicks, Queen of the Dead. Priest continues: I call upon Hekate, Queen of Hell, lead us into the Ways of Night. Teach us, guide us, and bring us into your fold. We stand here at the Crossroads to witness your rites, to honour and remember the Old Ways. Priestess: My dreaming is the entrance to the Ways of Night. Join me in the dream, the vision, the nightmare, the reverie of desires, my nocturnal trance of sleep. The Priestess mounts the altar and may be covered with a veil. The Coven lay in repose.
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Part III ~ The Rite of Hecate On the Altar On the altar a priestess lies sleeping, dreaming. (Atu II. High Priestess— Vampyre. Virgin, the entranced or dreaming priestess-medium.) The Adulations The Coven surrounds her and evokes the primal Goddess through crooning, hissing, howling, croaking, calling, whistling, crying. Fire-snake aroused in the Priestess The priestess, responding to the evocation, rises on the altar. Two ritualists who anoint the priestess-python with patchouli oil and worship her. The priestess sheds the form of the python and assumes the guise of a Cat. Hekate prowls the precincts of the Circle The ritualists recline in the ritual space, having imbibed the sacrament. The priestess, in the form of the Goddess' cat familiar, prowls among the reclining bodies then returns to the altar. Consecration of the Vinum Sabbati The priestess consecrates the sacrament. The elixir is ignited and charged by the fire. The silver pantacle (moon) eclipses the fire (sun) sending the bluefire into the liquid. Gong, bells, cymbals, ring in the ritual space to create a shift in the atmosphere. The Witches are summoned by the priestess to partake of the vinum sabbati and be transformed. One by one the Goddess kisses and embraces the Witches as they are called forward. By oracle, impression or clairvoyance, she reveals and invokes a summoned animal power or familiar spirit. She names the power or qualities, whispering it into the ear of the Witch. The Coven members embrace new forms, new energies, opening themselves to the forgotten powers. They now dance, move, chant, croon, hiss, howl, bay, calling these energies in, giving expression to the primal powers.
Hekate crouches upon the Altar
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Gongs, bells, cymbals may be used in summoning the animal powers in trance. The fire may be rekindled if necessary. Hekate presides over the Circle calling the Witches to dance. Hekate conducts the Circus She moves among the animals, riding them, playing with them, stroking them and embracing them. Hekate now conducts a procession into the night and outdoor ritual area. Witches cast the spells before Hekate She mounts the stone altar, bears witness to those who wish to invoke her favour through spells. Any witch, who seeks to cast a spell, kneels before her and performs the rite by first confession their wishes to the Goddess. The way of the elements: Buried in the earth, shredded or thrown in the air, poured, drunk or burned. Those not casting spells are free to dance their animal powers in the dark.
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Part IV : Hekate closes the Veil Hekate calls to the night, summoning the witches together. All release the energies through crooning, calling, baying, crying, howling, laughing and kissing. The procession is led back to the circle. Return to the circle's embrace. Hekate gathers the witches in the circle, pulling the Coven back together.
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Supplementary comments Ritual in Witchcraft is frequently used to acknowledge a moment in sacred time, when a physical act points to a time or inner state of change, or becoming, or initiation. Ritual in Witchcraft is frequently designed to carry the practitioner into the realm of the supernatural, beyond the limits of the mundane outer world to an inner and therefore psychic or soul world. The Circle, Crossroads or other places held to be sacred and magickal by Witches are entered as the region of the liminal divide between the rational world of every day things and a supernatural nocturnal world, where intuition and the psyche function freely. Traditional rituals act like a road map or well travelled pathway. In our own practices we have the opportunity it leave our mark and contribute to this tradition. We each of us share in the ancient themes in the ceremonies of the Craft a knowledge that others who have gone before have helped to map the way too – what I like to call our Witch ancestors. In this sense the rituals and tradition is alive through us. We may respond to the experiences brought into focus via the rituals and this may trigger in us a psychic reflex. Sometime the rituals bring us into direct contact with the numinous, the divine or spiritual dimension, the archetypes. The ritual practices hold a potential or power to enrich us through such experiences. The experience is liked to the Gypsies crystal ball, where such insights may inspire us and even thrill us; it may also frighten us, heal us or awaken us to our authentic selves. Opening ourselves to these experiences is bound to changes us and how we perception of our reality; that’s a true initiation. By reality I mean not only an interior and personal reality, which might be experienced as in an altered state of consciousness such as a dream state, but also experiences mediumistic perception from outside that affect you as well. One way this can happen is through personal encounters of the sacred. The sacred is anything that is capable of holding a numinous or spiritual quality. Ritual can teach us something about the way of sacred or numinous. It can do this indirectly through myth.
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Dark Circle ritual conventions We follow the counsel that nothing ordinary be brought into the Circle. Also, our Cauldrons are only used for ritual purposes. They will serve psychic functions in this rite, and several of them are antique and call for a reasoned respect. If you need to leave the ritual space at anytime, you do not need anyone's permission, but we would ask that you mark a doorway and close the Circle after you. Please do this unobtrusively. You are welcome to return using the same ritual procedure. If you are not sure how this is done, please just ask Tim, or any Dark Circle Coven member who will happily demonstrate. We also hold the expectation that you will be sensitive to the other members of the Circle and not disturb others by inconsiderate behaviour.
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Ritual Synergy In ritual, I have observed a number of fundamental energies at work. These are the prevailing energies and atmospheric influences coming from: 1. the moon cycles and other planetary/cosmic transits; 2. the weather; 3. the geographical landscape and location; 4. the contrived physical outdoor and indoor structures; 5. ritual and other objects used in the ceremonies; 6. substances ingested, inhaled or absorbed through the skin; 7. the energy of the Ritualists and others present; 8. the energy of the Ritual; and 9. the energy of the responding from Spirit, or evoked function of rite. All these things interact to each other in what I call a ritual synergy and will produce a psychic reflex in the ritualist. Synergy is where the phenomenon of the combined influence of two or more things, is greater than the sum of their effects individually. Ritual synergy is the act in magickal work where we bring these energies together either intentionally or unintentionally. The purpose of defining ritual synergy is to simply make us more aware when working ritually and that it is likely to have a corresponding reflex in ourselves. We may not be always able to see how things interact, but at least we can be aware. I always image the ritual synergy as energies with are acting to form a constellation to each other and the ritualist. This is just like a spider spinning its web by attaching it to various anchor points, some are stable, and some aren't. Various things get caught in its web, whether intended or not. The psychic reflex is the natural result of ritual synergy, especially when people are working magick together. A deep psychic field, bond or web of power is created by the use of regular rituals. One such psychic structure that is built within this is the Coven egregore or group mind or spirit. The combination of the diverse metaphysical verve forms a unique psychic reality, which may be sustainable beyond the initiating event. Each subsequent repetition of the ritual may add into the mix, helping to create
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and build the egregore or group mind. One way of understanding the development of an authentic ritual group or Coven is to observe the egregore is to observe it’s meta-genesis or psychically birthed being as it begins to develop. Each Ritual has its own quality of energy with which the Ritualist or Witch's energy may interact. The Witch by acknowledging a symbiotic relationship with the Ritual can more consciously respond to the energy, engage in it and be transformed by it. As a result no Dark Circle ritual is ever set in stone, or remains static; rather when I participate in ritual, both the ritual and I change through interaction. The ritual's job in a sense is to lead me on a journey, but in order for that to happen I must animate or breath life into it. Like awaking a sleeping partner, and immersion into a current of energy, a synergy is aroused where you become more than you were before. This is especially felt where a Coven, or whole group comes together accessing the mythic dimension of ritual. An amplifying quality of the energy occurs above and beyond the sum of its parts.; ie, the group mind or egregor. The ritual acts to stimulate the group mind, entering it into deeper layers of the Collective Unconscious (Underworld). If such experiences are successfully integrated then there can significant personal development within the individual members. If I use the analogy of drinking in a liquid for the effects of ritual upon us, we will begin to appreciate some of the things that can happen. Preparation the drink in the intended way might produce a stimulating effect. In any case, whatever specific types of ingredients have been dissolved and distilled into the brew will load it with it’s inherent qualities.
Dark Circle Collective exploring the psychic experience
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