The Sorcerer's World

We talk a lot about sorcery on these forums, but I have yet to really see anyone getting down to business with regard to the actual workings of the magick. How does it work? What can we do to make the magick real - but even more important, what can we do to make reality "magickal"?

So I'm just going to jump into the middle here and kick out one technique that has been working well for me.

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About 2 years ago, I was standing in the shower allowing my mind to wander toward the past, and I suddenly had the thought, What if I had turned left instead of right when I was 11 years old? What if I had never shaken my fist at the sky and proclaimed to my double, "If I can't come to you, I'll bring you to me!"? What if...?

Suddenly, as I stood there with the water running over my back, I heard Orlando laugh in the way he used to do whenever I would say something stupid. "That's not possible, you realize," he said.

I wasn't convinced. "It's a big universe and free will is the wild card. I could have married a redneck and have 14 inbred children calling me 'mama'."

The image made him wince. I felt I had scored a point.

So we struck up a conversation there in the shower on an otherwise dull spring morning. When I really got nit-picky with him, and asked how he could be so sure that I wouldn't have turned left instead of right at some juncture in my life, he imparted some scrap of Knowledge that I didn't immediately understand.

"It couldn't happen because you sent me back there to seduce that little girl onto the path. And because it was your will, it did not have the option of failure as a possibility."

I had no such memory. "I did?" I replied. "When?"

"Tomorrow," he said, and chuckled to himself.

I got dressed that morning and thought no more about it... until the next morning when I was once again standing in the same shower, and had some sort of epiphany as to what he had actually meant by that cryptic statement. "You sent me bacdk there to seduce that little girl onto the path."

So in the twisted manner of sorcery and with the knowledge that time is only a map for the tonal, I decided to do precisely what Orlando said I had already done tomorrow, for now today had become that tomorrow and I simply knew it was time. That was the only decision required. To do it, even though I had no idea what "it" was, and even though "it" would be considered impossible and perhaps even ludicrous by educated men with letters after their names.

There is no easy way to describe what I did, but in essence, I began to visualize myself as a little girl, but with subtle differences in my history. Daydreaming, perhaps. But more than that. Actual sorcery - an intentional direction of energy onto a series of events which had occurred in the past.

Over the next few weeks, I began working more directly with this kind of imagery. And, perhaps not surprisingly to those of us who know the workings of the nagual's sense of humor, I began to have certain memories resurfacing which I had "all but forgotten". I began to remember moments in my life, for example, when I would suddenly just know something without knowing how I knew it. And I began to remember the sense of mystery and imagination that had always been with me...

I began to remember being seduced onto this path by forces I could not see, but which were nonetheless very real and very compelling. Dreams. Glimpses of the infinite through the eyes of a child, and then through the eyes of a rebellious teenager, a young woman... right up until the day when I walked into that post office in an unlikely setting in Southern California, and saw a man standing at the counter, and my only thought was, "He's not human."

It had come full circle. The being I had sent to seduce me onto this path stood there in front of me in the year 1988, each of us pretending not to recognize the other, even though we had met in a shower in 2006, when I had given him the agenda to go back in time to ensorcle the little girl who was me back in 1963 so that I would BE at that same post office in 1988 to watch it all come together.

Sorcery.

To those who have not experienced sorcery, no explanation is possible. To those who practice it, no explanation is necessary.

What I wanted to point out is that we can influence our lives and create our reality right down to a molecular level. There are those who would say the past is cast in stone, but there are sorcerers who will tell you that retroactive enchantment is the key to unlocking our potential as sorcerers.

How does it work? By falling in love - passionately and deeply and literally - with the nagual-aspect of yourSelf. Call it your double, or call it your muse. It is the most powerful and magickal being you will eer meet, and it is waiting for you to awaken your Intent and invoke your will.

Don't believe me. Do it. And prepare to be amazed.