![]() I had some experiences with invocations of the Elementals as at that time that was my capability in all honesty. PAA: Are you able to share anything from your work in the second and third book? Such as experiences in mental wondering? First Evocation etc. That was a eureka moment for me, and I thought…’’Oh, so that’s it!’’ It’s a world away from my previous controlled fantasizing. I did exactly that, until one day there was an actual audible click at the base of my skull and an apparently complete disengagement from normal consciousness. I tend to think students mistake vivid mental impressions with actual experiences in spiritual realms and that can lead to delusion. Another challenge is distinguishing mere vivid imagination with actual ‘mental wandering’. The most challenging aspect for me personally was inertia. Was there any specific step that took longer for you than others? PAA: What challenges did you face during your training in IIH/ PME/KTQ. Even niggling muscular tensions as you sit in meditation may be locked in emotional traumas and the like. In fact the way your visualizations go can quickly indicate psychological complexes that are blocking the free flow of elemental energies. The development of character is also important but overlooked by those wanting quick results. The key of it all is sustained, gentle effort. PAA: What in your opinion are the crucial steps of IIH that ensure success and did you follow IIH by the book or did you go your own way with it? As alchemy texts say yet again, alchemy is child’s play! ![]() ![]() Yet don’t be rigid and tense in the visualization, relax into it, enjoy it. The imagination /mind is like Mercury, but the passion and sustained discipline is like sulfur that fixes the image so it becomes crystallized, salt. Sustaining a concentrated image is hard work, and to make it real is even harder. I think the alchemists speak of this in terms of fixing the volatile. I expect most people say this, but stick with it. What advice would you give to help students pass these steps? PAA: Many have problems with the early steps like VOM in step 1 and the visualizationĮxercises in step 2 (These are exercises in the first manual of Franz Bardon ‘Initiation into Hermetics’ often called IIH). I quickly realized that this was a logical system with definite goals and devoid of obscuration of method. Back then Bardon was not very well known and I ordered his books from an advertisement I found in an astrology magazine of all places. I found Bardon in my early twenties after having gone the usual route …you know…Dion Fortune, Israel Regardie, Crowley and the usual resources available in the 1990s. Well I’m Jason Read, and I expect a few people know me through my work in Chinese folk magic rather than Hermetic endeavors. PAA: Please introduce yourself and let us know how you found the teachings of Franz Bardon.įraternal greetings. Be sure to visit Jason’s blog after reading the interview. I hope that as more information comes out about his books we can do another update, but for now we have his insight on some questions I raised primarily focusing on Bardons work, for the Taoist segment of this interview scroll down to read about the training Jason received. ![]() Today we have an interview with Jason Read, someone who has undertaken a very interesting course of study in Asia, he is a student of Franz Bardons work and the author of what I think will be some very interesting books on hard to find subjects within Taoist Magic, due to be released in the coming years.
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