WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.920 Welcome to introduction to witchcraft everybody. This is lesson one. So this 00:00:03.679 --> 00:00:13.599 slide occurs at the beginning of every class. We very rarely do this slide out 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:18.880 loud. I'm going to do it today. I use it when honestly for me as the teacher 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:22.400 sometimes when we start class I'm like not really in the zone. Like there's 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:26.160 stuff going on in my life that I'm anxious about or whatever and I need 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:29.760 help like now it's time for learning witchcraft. And that's what this prayer 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:33.120 is. So, I'm going to do it out loud, but we don't normally do it. It just sits in 00:00:31.439 --> 00:00:37.760 the slides if anybody ever wants to do it for yourself. So, it goes like this. 00:00:35.440 --> 00:00:41.680 Blessed goddess of the crocco, you are limonality who keeps the doors of 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:47.200 initiation. And so many call you propilia or she who stands before the 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:52.239 gates. You are liberation who helps us freely choose. And so many call you 00:00:49.440 --> 00:00:56.079 triadus or she of the forked path. You are a goddess of learning who guides us 00:00:53.920 --> 00:01:00.640 from ignorance to understanding. And so many call you Didalos or she who knows. 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:06.640 Blessed goddess of the crocco. In the name of Python Draena, I ask be with me 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:10.880 now as I open my mind. This is introduction to witchcraft 13 lesson. 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:15.119 Oh, okay. This class used to be called 13 lessons in practical spellcraft. But 00:01:13.119 --> 00:01:19.680 on the advice of my publisher, it is now called 13 lessons in the practice of 00:01:17.119 --> 00:01:25.360 magic, which is a better name. Good job, guys. This is lesson one. We say it's 00:01:22.320 --> 00:01:30.080 about color and candle magic, but really I think this class is about like opening 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:34.880 your heart and soul to the wonder of magic. Like that's the big theme of 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:40.320 today's lesson. So I'm Sarah Mastros. Please call me Sarah. I guess you can 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:44.320 call me teacher Sarah if you want. I like that's good. I've been practicing 00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:47.280 witchcraft for it says 30 years, but obviously these slides are 10 years old, 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:51.759 so I suppose about 40 years at this point. Um, I used to teach university 00:01:49.520 --> 00:01:55.600 and then high school math and then I quit to be a degenerate with no real 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:58.960 job, which is going great for me. I've written a bunch of books, including the 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:02.560 one the textbook for this course, which is not on this list because I failed to 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:07.200 update the slide. Our divine patron for this class, if 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:10.319 you're into that, but if you don't, just if you're not, don't ignore it. It 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:15.680 doesn't really matter. Like, it's not central to the class, is Thoth, the 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:19.760 great teacher of teachers, right? So, he's an ibis headed. Ibis is a kind of 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:24.879 an aquatic bird kind of like a stork or a crane. If I had to say I would say 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:29.120 Ibis is like a cross between a stork and a goose. We don't have ibises where I 00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:32.959 live. Right. So Ibis had an Egyptian scribal god. He's a lunar god of the 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:36.480 crocco peplo which it doesn't matter what that means. You'll learn in a later 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:41.120 class. And occasionally he's going to pop up like this image will pop up and 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:45.200 there'll be like a a bubble here and he'll like give you advice that is not 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:50.480 really about magic. It's just about what as a teacher we would call studentship. 00:02:47.920 --> 00:02:54.800 Okay. He's an ibis. So the way his voice sounds in my head, my human throat 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:59.840 cannot make that noise, but I'll do my best. It goes like 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:03.440 most important because he's like a goose crane and 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:08.879 that's what he sounds like. But I can't make the right noise because I have a 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:13.200 human throat and not an throat. So this course, as I mentioned, is for adults 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:17.120 only. If you are a parent, you are welcome to have your child sitting next 00:03:15.200 --> 00:03:20.720 to you as long as you are also in the room. I will tell you for people who 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:25.200 want to do that, the lessons on planetary magic have a little bit of sex 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:30.319 magic in them that I personally and I'm a like witchy libertine do not really 00:03:27.920 --> 00:03:34.080 feel like as appropriate for kids. But other than that, maybe some naughty 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:37.680 words. In my opinion, far more appropriate than regular prime time 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:42.239 television where people are like getting their guts pulled out or whatever. 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:46.400 Everyone is welcome here. If you are a beginner, you should think about this 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:49.840 course that your goal is to like learn fundamental skills that you can then 00:03:48.239 --> 00:03:53.680 take into whatever kind of magic you want to do. If you think of yourself as 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:57.920 like intermediate, right? You've been practicing for a while, but you would 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:02.640 not consider yourself advanced, then I think the best thing to do is look for 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:05.280 the like look to fill the gaps, right? Like you know some stuff and you don't 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:09.840 know some stuff. Look to fill those gaps. And also like I encourage you to 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:12.720 come at it with like a fresh and open mind which is also true for advanced 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:17.840 people but for intermediate people right? If you consider yourself advanced 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:22.560 then I think you should try and pretend that you are a beginner in this class 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:26.320 because at least for me like I consider myself an advanced sorceress. Like I've 00:04:24.400 --> 00:04:29.120 been doing this for a long time. I teach it. I take your money to teach it. So 00:04:27.919 --> 00:04:33.280 it' be pretty sad if I didn't think I was advanced, right? Sometimes I feel 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:37.840 kind of stuck and stagnant and I just want something new to like break me out 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:41.520 of a rut. And if that's you, I think the best way to do that is try and come at 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:46.800 everything with like a beginner mind. That being said, this class is designed 00:04:43.520 --> 00:04:50.720 for and like centered on beginner level teaching, which means that like 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:54.880 sometimes somebody's going to ask a question and I might say that's a little 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:57.360 too advanced for this class and then I'll tell you like ask it in the 00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:01.440 Facebook group and we'll talk about it there. No prerequisites for this class 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:07.280 except you probably should be fluent in English because I talk pretty fast. This 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:11.440 class is also available in Italian and traditional Chinese like with a human 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:16.400 translator in Italian and traditional Chinese, but I assume you speak English 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:18.880 if you're here already. Every month you're going to receive it says a 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:23.039 written chapter, but that's false. There's a textbook. You have a textbook. 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:28.240 You'll get a Zoom lecture. It says about three hours. They're rarely shorter than 00:05:26.080 --> 00:05:32.320 two and they're never really longer than four, but about three hours. This one I 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:35.680 think is this one's a little long because there's all this like boring 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:41.039 syllabus stuff at the beginning. You'll get a video of the lecture. Uh there's a 00:05:38.960 --> 00:05:45.680 human being named Caroline who edits the videos. So sometimes she has a life and 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:49.919 it takes a little longer than a week. If it's been more than a week and the 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:54.560 video's not up, please email me because usually she's not the one who's late. 00:05:52.320 --> 00:05:58.720 She said it to me and I failed to put it like I failed to put it in the syllabus. 00:05:56.320 --> 00:06:02.320 If it's late, I apologize. I'm gonna tell you guys the worst thing about me 00:06:00.400 --> 00:06:07.440 as a teacher is I'm kind of sloppy and disorganized. 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:11.120 Sorry, I'm an ADD magician. So, I think honestly I'm less sloppy and 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:16.240 disorganized than most of my colleagues. Okay, if you do all of the homework, 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:22.240 like if you do everything I tell you to do, then in addition to the four hours 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:27.360 of class, it's probably 10 to 15 hours of work on your own. For most people, I 00:06:25.039 --> 00:06:31.840 actually don't recommend doing it. Like, do whatever catches your fancy. For most 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:36.160 people, I think the best way to go through this class is to take it once 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:41.280 and like not do a very good job. like take it, watch the videos, you know, do 00:06:38.880 --> 00:06:46.080 any homework that seems fun and not the rest of them. And then if at the end of 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:50.880 the class you still want to deep dive, go back and take it again. In terms of 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:54.080 pricing, once you've paid for this class, you're just in this class for 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:57.440 well, I don't want to say forever. I mean, I'm going to die at some point. 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:01.520 You're going to die. Like, it's not eternal, but you're in this class until 00:06:59.440 --> 00:07:06.880 either I stop teaching this class or you tell me to take you out of this class. I 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:13.360 strongly encourage you guys to keep like a magical journal. And some people get 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:17.919 really precious about their magical journal. I am not encouraging to you to 00:07:15.440 --> 00:07:22.080 make like a super fancy beautiful book of shadows grimmooire that's like bound 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:26.240 in fetal goat skin. That kind of art project is fun and if you're into that, 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.199 go for it. I'm kind of into that. Like I like that. But I'm just saying like a 00:07:27.599 --> 00:07:33.759 sloppy journal where you just take notes. just whatever you think about, 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:38.560 whatever you research your exercises, write it all down. There is a Facebook 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:44.080 group which is the primary group like discussion group for this class. I'm 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:49.280 trying to move it off Facebook because Facebook is a toxic cess pit 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:51.520 and also getting worse day by day. Yeah, 00:07:49.599 --> 00:07:55.039 there is also a Discord group, but nobody uses it. 00:07:53.440 --> 00:07:58.080 I'm looking for other options. So, if people have ideas, please send me an 00:07:56.400 --> 00:08:04.000 email. like I would like to get this class off of Facebook and somewhere else 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:08.240 before Facebook implodes. The I the in the Facebook group, it's 00:08:06.479 --> 00:08:11.199 not just this class, it's all my classes, which I like. It's kind of one 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:17.599 room schoolhouse, right? So beginner students and advanced students are all 00:08:12.960 --> 00:08:20.960 in the group together, right? And if you watch the questions and answers, you'll 00:08:19.280 --> 00:08:26.560 be able to sort out who's a beginner and who's not pretty quick, right? But I 00:08:23.919 --> 00:08:30.319 very much encourage discussion. I am of the opinion when I am asked what is the 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:36.159 my single piece of advice for beginner magicians. It is get a com magician. 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:43.360 Like it's not that I have some moral objection to solitary practice but like 00:08:40.959 --> 00:08:49.200 Talmud says in terms of like studying Jewish stuff that studying alone makes 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:53.360 you stupider. Like I just think partners and working together with other people 00:08:50.800 --> 00:08:58.640 one is good for the soul to like engage with other human beings ideally without 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:02.480 a robot in between you like in the same room together but if you can't do that 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:08.399 on the phone online I just think it's good practice it helps people learn and 00:09:05.760 --> 00:09:13.680 it's fun okay beg you to read the syllabus every 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:17.519 if you email me about logistics I'm going to answer it but I assure you any 00:09:15.680 --> 00:09:23.040 question you have about like when is class, what's the Zoom link? It's there. 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:26.240 It's all in the syllabus. Um, which is that that's the document I sent out 00:09:24.560 --> 00:09:30.399 called like welcome to introduction to witchcraft. Everything you need is in 00:09:27.920 --> 00:09:35.200 there, but I'm always here. I'm a nice person. You're welcome to contact me at 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:40.320 any time. What I do ask is that you please not use Facebook Messenger for 00:09:37.760 --> 00:09:44.480 course stuff because Facebook Messenger is where I talk to my friends. And if 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:49.360 every time I'm trying to talk to my friends, my job, my work, I get work 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:54.560 messages over and over and over, it's like hard to have a life, right? So, if 00:09:52.880 --> 00:09:58.240 you have a question about content, like you have a question about witchcraft, 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:02.399 the best place to ask it is either in class or in the Facebook group because 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:05.600 that way like you can get answers from a lot of people, including, you know, many 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:09.440 other professional teachers of witchcraft. Like Jason Miller's in that 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:13.760 group, BJ Swain is in that group. So, like they'll answer your questions too 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:16.800 sometimes if they feel like it. I'll tell you I answer questions in their 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:21.279 classroom groups when I'm bored basically. Um, 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:23.760 but also that way everybody can learn together. Like everybody gets to learn 00:10:22.640 --> 00:10:28.240 from your question. If you have a question about logistics, please email. 00:10:25.839 --> 00:10:31.760 But again, I I beg you don't send work messages to my Facebook Messenger. 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:36.079 Please. I mean, if you do, I'll be nice and answer them. But also, 00:10:34.880 --> 00:10:39.839 if you send something Facebook Messenger, either I'm going to answer it 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:43.680 right away or never. Where if you send it by email, like my email box is like a 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:47.519 to-do list. I will eventually like chuggle through. 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:51.920 As I mentioned before, I am sloppy and disorganized. So, if I miss an email, 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:58.240 like you should always feel free to nag me. I apologize for being ADD and 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:02.079 disorganized. My dream in life is to have like a gaggle of secretaries who 00:11:00.079 --> 00:11:07.440 just follow me around and organize my life for me. That's that's my dream. 00:11:04.880 --> 00:11:11.680 Problem is everybody I like is like the sort of people who are uptight and have 00:11:09.680 --> 00:11:15.360 everything like are really good at organizing. They I don't really get on. 00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:19.519 I will say so I mentioned this before. Caroline who edits the videos is not a 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:25.440 secretary but like does help. And I also have an assistant named Alice who every 00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:30.079 once in a while does stuff like I don't think you guys ever notice 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:35.680 anything she does. She does like backend like paperwork kind of stuff for me. So 00:11:32.959 --> 00:11:39.920 probably you'll never hear about her, but maybe she'll send you like the 00:11:37.760 --> 00:11:44.959 Google calendar. She made that. She's 22 and like knows 00:11:42.959 --> 00:11:49.680 how computers work better than I do. So she really does that for me. As I said 00:11:47.839 --> 00:11:55.360 before, I really encourage people to find a study buddy to like partner with. 00:11:52.720 --> 00:12:01.040 The easiest thing to do is just ask in the Facebook group, right? But, you 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:04.079 know, there are 400 people in this class. So, hopefully you can find a 00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:07.519 study buddy that like you can work out times with. If you don't like to use 00:12:06.079 --> 00:12:11.920 Facebook, which is totally legitimate because as I mentioned, it's a toxic 00:12:08.800 --> 00:12:16.240 cess pit. Um, if you email me, I will hook you up with the next person who 00:12:13.760 --> 00:12:21.519 emails and asks. But like I can't matchmate. I'm just gonna kind of give 00:12:18.800 --> 00:12:25.120 you somebody and if you don't get along, I don't know, find somebody else. Don't 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:27.839 get along is usually not personal. It's usually like you're in different time 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:31.279 zones and you can't get the schedule to work or something like that. Okay. So, 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:34.560 we're going to move into like actually getting to learn some witchcraft now. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:38.639 So, this is just a quote from Redard Kipling. It goes, "I've had six faithful 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:43.200 serving men who taught me all I know. Their names are what and why and when 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:47.360 and how and where and who." And Thoth says, "Asking questions is the best way 00:12:45.040 --> 00:12:52.079 to learn." Honk talk. There we go. So, we're gonna talk a 00:12:49.839 --> 00:12:57.200 little bit about the styles of magic you learn. So, sometimes on like, okay, 00:12:55.200 --> 00:13:00.880 sometimes I'm just hang out in beginner witch groups on Facebook and answer 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:05.200 questions. And sometimes I ask questions like, "What kind of witch am I?" And I 00:13:02.880 --> 00:13:10.240 don't I don't know. I've been a witch for 35 years at this point. I mean, in 00:13:09.040 --> 00:13:14.079 some ways I've been a witch since I was born, but like I've been identifying as 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:18.959 a witch for 35 years and I don't know what kind of witch I am. I'm the Sarah 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:23.360 Mastros kind, right? So, I'm going to try and teach you like a sampler of all 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:28.480 different methods. So, if you're in a class and you see a lesson and like it 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:31.040 just doesn't seem like your style, well, the next lesson is going to be a 00:13:29.839 --> 00:13:37.040 different style. I tried to do a sampler. Of course, it is biased towards 00:13:33.839 --> 00:13:40.480 the kinds I like best. And what the the most important thing you need to know 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:45.680 about my style is that I'm a nerd and I like nerd magic. So there's a lot of 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:50.000 like poetry and like numerology and like nerd [ __ ] in my magic because I'm into 00:13:47.839 --> 00:13:55.200 that. You'll see as we go through this class, right? I try to keep this class 00:13:52.320 --> 00:14:01.120 what I call paradigm agnostic, which is to say even though sometimes I'll like 00:13:57.839 --> 00:14:06.000 reference like gods, there's really no religious content in this class. You 00:14:03.760 --> 00:14:10.079 don't really have to believe anything. It doesn't really matter what you 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:15.920 believe. I'm going to say that sometimes as we get very much later in the class, 00:14:14.079 --> 00:14:21.440 like when I'm teaching you how to conjure a spirit in a mirror 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:26.000 to make it work the way I teach it, you probably do have to at least be able to 00:14:24.160 --> 00:14:29.839 convince your you need to be able to pretend that you believe spirits are 00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:34.959 real for approximately an hour at a time. But even that you don't have to 00:14:31.839 --> 00:14:39.199 believe until like lesson 10 or 11. Just to be clear, this is not a class on 00:14:37.040 --> 00:14:44.639 Wikah, which is a religion, a religion I do not practice. This is not a class on 00:14:42.160 --> 00:14:47.839 traditional witchcraft. How about a traditional witch? Like kind of yes, 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:51.920 kind of no. It depends. Like I don't think traditional witchcraft has a very 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:56.880 clear definition. I am certainly a witch and the witchcraft I practice is very 00:14:54.560 --> 00:15:01.680 traditional but sometimes the phrase traditional witchcraft means something 00:14:58.880 --> 00:15:06.720 more specific that I'm not exactly. This class is not about like religion or 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:13.760 beliefs or anything like that although sometimes those come up right is a class 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:18.880 is a craft class like the witchcraft is the craft that witches do like craft in 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:24.880 this context means like profession like you do stuff right you make stuff right 00:15:22.560 --> 00:15:29.360 and the stuff that witchcraft you're making is resultsoriented spell work 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:34.399 like I'm going to teach you to do spells that will make changes is in the world. 00:15:32.079 --> 00:15:39.600 Not just in your heart and mind, but also out in the world, right? But also 00:15:36.959 --> 00:15:43.920 in your heart and mind. And again, the goal of this class for me as a teacher 00:15:42.160 --> 00:15:47.839 is to teach you fundamental skills so that you could go to any when we talk 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:52.639 about like kinds of magic that you could just show up at say a Golden Dawn ritual 00:15:50.800 --> 00:15:57.279 and know what's going on. Like you can follow what's going on by the end of 00:15:54.160 --> 00:16:02.240 this class. you can go to like a voodoo, right, and like understand what is going 00:16:00.560 --> 00:16:06.399 on, right? Like that's not to say you're an initiate in those things, but like 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:12.639 you you know what's what. Like you have you're basically fluent in magic. That's 00:16:08.959 --> 00:16:16.959 the goal of this class, right? So the specific skills you're going to learn, 00:16:15.040 --> 00:16:21.360 this is just the curriculum. So today we're going to learn candle color and 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:27.519 petition magic. Next month we're gonna learn sympathetic magic and about like 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:30.320 magical materials. And it says amulets. We're going to learn a little bit about 00:16:28.800 --> 00:16:34.560 amulets, but truthfully most of the amulet stuff is in lesson three, which 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:39.839 is about like symbols basically. Talisman, sigils, seals, symbols, right? 00:16:37.839 --> 00:16:43.920 Um, and then divination. I'll tell you that historically I taught divination 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:46.880 and then symbols and my editor was like, "Hey Sarah, that's dumb. You should take 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:50.160 symbol." I mean, she said it. They said it nicer than that, but like, yeah, 00:16:48.880 --> 00:16:54.399 obviously I should have been teaching symbols before divination, so now I do. 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:58.160 Lesson five is about the sun and the magic of the sun and the moon. Lesson 00:16:56.160 --> 00:17:01.600 six is the rest of the planets. There used to be one planetary lesson, but it 00:16:59.920 --> 00:17:06.720 was like five hours long, so I split it into two lessons. Lesson seven is about 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:11.120 centers and circles. Lesson eight is about cleansing and protection. Lesson 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:14.959 nine is about cursing and also curse breaking because you can't learn to 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:18.480 break curses until after you learn to cast curses. It's actually easier to 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:22.240 curse someone than it is to break a curse. So, you kind of have to learn 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:26.079 cursing first. Lesson 10 is all about dreaming and dream magic, which is a 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:29.760 favorite topic of mine that in my opinion other like just doesn't get 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:33.919 taught. And I I don't know why people don't talk about dream magic. I think 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:38.480 people should talk about it more. I think it's amazing. Uh lesson 11 is 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:42.400 trance journey. Lesson 12 is shapeshifting. Although I'm going to 00:17:39.840 --> 00:17:45.919 tell you, the last time I taught it, I felt like it didn't go very well. So, I 00:17:43.919 --> 00:17:50.799 might tweak it around a little bit. Um, and then lesson 13 is dark mirror 00:17:47.919 --> 00:17:54.320 conjuration. So, the art of summoning a spirit in a I do it in a dark mirror, 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:57.360 but you could also do it like in a crystal ball. It's basically the same 00:17:55.760 --> 00:18:02.160 technique. For me, that's the thing I learned that 00:17:59.520 --> 00:18:06.240 made me feel like a real grown-up badass witch. Like the first time I could 00:18:03.919 --> 00:18:10.480 conjure a spirit and have a face-tof face conversation with a spirit in a 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:14.240 mirror, I felt like a badass magician. So that's 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:17.520 when I thought about what do you want what I want people to be able to do in 00:18:15.760 --> 00:18:21.679 some sense like this course is to prepare you to be able to do that, 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:25.200 right? But you learn tons of other cool stuff along it. So the first thing we're 00:18:23.840 --> 00:18:29.600 going to learn and you're going to learn o over the yearong that we're going to 00:18:27.679 --> 00:18:34.240 study together. You're going to learn a lot of different ways to like enter into 00:18:32.080 --> 00:18:39.600 magical consciousness, which you we could also call like tramps or like not 00:18:37.679 --> 00:18:43.360 all altered states of consciousness are magical consciousness. There's lots of 00:18:41.280 --> 00:18:46.559 different kinds, but like we're going to learn a lot of different kinds. The one 00:18:45.120 --> 00:18:52.080 we're going to work with today is childlike wonder, which in my opinion is 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:54.400 honestly one of the best ones for magic. And I think people don't talk about it a 00:18:53.600 --> 00:18:58.799 lot because they think it's embarrassing. Like it's like silly to 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:04.160 behave like a child, but that's dumb. That's just dumb. Right? So the essence 00:19:01.760 --> 00:19:07.280 of the magic that we're going to learn today, not 00:19:05.760 --> 00:19:11.520 through the whole course, but today is that we're going to play make believe. 00:19:09.280 --> 00:19:16.559 Right? And we're going to do that until we make ourselves believe it. And then 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:20.480 we're going to keep doing it until we make other people believe it. And then 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:25.280 we're going to keep doing it until the universe believes it, too. That is the 00:19:23.280 --> 00:19:30.000 essence of the kind of magic we're going to do today, which I personally just 00:19:27.520 --> 00:19:36.080 call makebelieve magic, but other people would give other pretentious names, too. 00:19:33.520 --> 00:19:40.000 The most important thing that you need for this kind of magic is to not be 00:19:37.919 --> 00:19:45.120 ashamed of yourself. You can't be like, "Oh, I'm too cool to pretend I'm an 00:19:41.919 --> 00:19:51.360 eight-year-old. I'm too cool to like say magic rhymes and wish for things." Like, 00:19:49.280 --> 00:19:55.280 you're not too cool. You're not cool enough. Like if you're too cool for 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:58.480 magic, I believe you to be not cool enough for magic. But I know I'm 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:01.919 preaching to the choir because you guys literally paid to be in this choir. Most 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:07.200 of you, many people are on scholarship, right? So shame. The thing you have the 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:11.520 thing if you if the magic we I teach you today doesn't work. The most likely 00:20:09.760 --> 00:20:15.280 reason is that you're ashamed of yourself because you think magic is 00:20:13.840 --> 00:20:19.679 silly because you think you're going to go to hell. Some kind of reason. And I 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:23.440 encourage you to like be on the lookout for that. That being said, you signed up 00:20:21.919 --> 00:20:29.360 for a witchcraft class. You've probably already made it over that hurdle, 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:33.919 right? Okay. So, the next piece of most magic, so almost 00:20:31.760 --> 00:20:39.520 all magic, step one is enter into magical consciousness. Step two is enter 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:44.159 into magical spaceime. And o you'll learn lots of different kinds of magical 00:20:41.919 --> 00:20:47.679 spacetime. The kind we're going to do today, which I believe to be the easiest 00:20:45.760 --> 00:20:53.600 kind. That's why I do it in lesson one. I call standing at the sacred center. 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:58.320 Many people call it centering, but that word can mean a lot of 00:20:56.080 --> 00:21:02.400 different things. So, I'm going to call it standing at the sacred center, but 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:08.640 most people would call this centering. I just think my name is clearer and I'm a 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:12.000 fussy wizard, so I care about names. Okay. The essence of standing at the 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:15.520 sacred center, and we're going to learn like details about how to do it. This is 00:21:13.520 --> 00:21:20.480 like the coming attractions, is that your heart, by which I mean both like 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:25.760 your metaphoric heart, like the seat of your soul, but I also mean literally 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:30.720 like the organ that pumps your blood, you're that you should put that in the 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:34.320 center of the universe. That's the essence of standing at the sacred 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:38.080 center, which we will talk about a little bit more, but that's more or less 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:44.640 what you're going to learn how to do. So the first thing to do when you center is 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:50.159 just like become aware of your body. Just like move around a little bit. And 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:54.320 my my teacher my one of my teachers would have called this like airrating 00:21:51.840 --> 00:21:58.720 yourself, right? Like take some deep breaths, move around, maybe dance a 00:21:55.919 --> 00:22:02.640 little. Like get yourself in your body. Then whenever you're ready, you're going 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:08.159 to stand up nice and straight or like you know sitting down is also fine, but 00:22:05.679 --> 00:22:13.039 like try and keep your spine vertical. If for whatever reason like you have to 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:17.760 lay on your back, that's okay, but it is easier to do this with your spine 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:22.159 vertical. That is like your head pointed toward the sky and your feet pointed 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:27.120 toward the center of the earth. Right? Close your eyes. 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:30.000 Just breathe slow and deep. We're not going to do this right now. like I'm 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:35.679 going to teach you how to do this, but we're not going to do it in class. If we 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:41.039 if in class we did every piece of magic we were going to learn, then every class 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:44.960 would be like 20 hours long. So that's why we don't do it together, right? So 00:22:43.679 --> 00:22:50.720 you're just going to close your eyes, breathe deep and slow, and then take 00:22:47.520 --> 00:22:55.120 your fist and put it on your sternum and push on it. That really helps. that 00:22:53.520 --> 00:22:59.679 little trick I learned from Jason Miller about like pushing on your sternum. It 00:22:57.520 --> 00:23:03.679 does help, right? So, put your fist on your sternum and push with your other 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:08.080 hand. Personally, I've used my left hand for the fist and push with my right. I 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:11.640 don't think it matters, right? And then you're going to sing out 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:17.840 and you're going to feel it in your chest. 00:23:15.840 --> 00:23:22.000 I can't carry a tune in a bucket. So sometimes people ask me what pitch I 00:23:20.159 --> 00:23:26.080 don't know like the pitch that feels like it's in your chest is the only way 00:23:23.600 --> 00:23:30.880 I know how to answer that question, right? And just do that a bunch of times 00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:34.159 until you can feel it vibrating in your chest. Sometimes people will say 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:39.120 something like like the Golden Dawn sometimes has like vibrate a god name. 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:44.640 It's not like a metaphor. Like you're vibrating a piece of your body like 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:50.000 like if you hit yourself, you can make it vibrate really obviously, but you 00:23:47.600 --> 00:23:55.600 don't need it to be that obvious, right? Vibrate, right? 00:23:53.200 --> 00:24:00.480 Okay. Next, you're going to you're going to reach upward with your whole body. 00:23:57.919 --> 00:24:05.000 So, up on your tippy toes, reach up up to the heavens. And here you're going to 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:05.000 go 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:13.120 in your head, right? Just do it however many times you feel like you need to do 00:24:10.320 --> 00:24:18.400 it to like get it to fill up your head. Basically, once you've done that, you're 00:24:15.679 --> 00:24:24.240 going to just like grab the heavens and pull it down. And you're going to pull 00:24:21.120 --> 00:24:29.039 that down through the top of your head and into your chest. And your chest 00:24:26.080 --> 00:24:32.240 should already be like lit up sort of because you did that vibrating before. 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:36.000 You're going to pull it down into your chest, right? And then you're going to 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:41.039 just keep going down. So, just like we reached up, we're going to go down, 00:24:38.080 --> 00:24:45.200 right? But don't bend over. Like, don't bow, don't lean, keep your back 00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:51.200 straight, but reach down with your hands as low as you can. Bend your knees. You 00:24:49.360 --> 00:24:55.679 know, I'm a fat old lady and my ability to like squat is and then get back up is 00:24:54.080 --> 00:25:01.440 not that good. Like, I use a cane. My knees, my left knee in particular is 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:07.000 like not right. Right. But just push down with your body. And then you want 00:25:03.840 --> 00:25:07.000 to sing 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:16.080 and you should feel it vibrating in your genitals or maybe like your lower belly, 00:25:14.159 --> 00:25:20.320 but like that part of your body. And just do it. And then right and just like 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:25.919 you pull down the heavens, you're going to pull up hell. Pull up the underworld. 00:25:23.760 --> 00:25:29.520 Pull it up through your bum and up your spine and into your chest. So now the 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:34.159 heavens and the underworld have like combined in your chest. 00:25:32.320 --> 00:25:38.320 If you're really good at this, you could just stop here, but we're learning. So 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:43.039 we're going to do it a couple times, right? Just going to do it a couple of 00:25:39.919 --> 00:25:46.520 times. For a while, you want to go top, middle, bottom. 00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:54.720 For right now, I encourage you to simply think of those as sounds that you are 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:59.520 making. But if you're a nerd, they are also the ancient Greek what we would 00:25:56.320 --> 00:26:03.279 call barbarous magical name. Yao yao like the correct that is what we're 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:09.080 doing. But that's you don't need to know about that. Just the sound. Focus on the 00:26:06.080 --> 00:26:09.080 sound 00:26:09.840 --> 00:26:12.840 right. 00:26:13.840 --> 00:26:20.480 Do it a bunch of times. Play around with how fast we're going to spread a 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:25.679 rainbow. Like I will say broadly the answer to your question is your body is 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:30.240 going to become a rainbow pillar with red at the bottom and violet at the top. 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:35.360 Like it's an electromatic spectrum in that order, but we'll talk about that a 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:38.880 lot more. But good question. Um again, so you want to like do it a bunch of 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:47.200 times and like play around with the pacing. And then you can also play 00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:52.159 around with the order like uh uh o e o uh like play around, right? And you 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:56.320 want to get fluent at doing this like fast and easy. So just play because 00:26:54.240 --> 00:27:01.279 right now we're just learning, right? We haven't actually done anything really, 00:26:59.600 --> 00:27:07.120 right? We're just sort of prepping ourselves, right? We're like energizing 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:11.679 our body. So whenever you're, you know, you're ready to go, like keep playing 00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:15.600 around, feel the energy move around. When you feel like you're full of light, 00:27:14.080 --> 00:27:19.120 and for some people that might be visual, like you might be able to see 00:27:17.120 --> 00:27:22.720 your aura, right, light up. And for other people, it might be like a for me 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:29.039 it's more of like a physical sensation in my body. Kind of like getting chills 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:32.240 but slower. kind of like I don't know if this is true for men or not but my 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:36.960 experience and I think most women is that orgasm can kind of ripple across 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:41.919 the body and that's kind of the feeling you're looking for probably not that 00:27:39.520 --> 00:27:45.600 intensely right but whenever you feel like you're full of light whether you 00:27:43.520 --> 00:27:50.559 can see it or not some people will never be able to like see it visually 00:27:48.159 --> 00:27:54.000 musicians sometimes experience I will say musicians have told me that 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:59.039 sometimes when they do this what they experience is like a chorus of angels 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:03.120 making singing with them, like making those sounds with them. But I think 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:06.799 we're all kind of experiencing the same phenomenon. We're just experiencing it 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:12.080 in different ways. So for me, it's a quite physical like vibration kind of 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:17.520 tingle in my body, but there's no like visual component to it for me, which is 00:28:15.120 --> 00:28:21.919 why like what color I don't know. Mine aren't colors at all really when I do 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:27.360 it. There's just like a vibration. Okay. So, just like we went up and down, 00:28:24.399 --> 00:28:34.000 now we're going to go front and back, right? So, I always do front first and 00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:39.600 then back. But you could do it however you want, right? So, just like you reach 00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:44.399 high up, reach high as far front as you can and pull that into you. I personally 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:48.799 don't make a sound at all when I do that, but if I was gonna, it would 00:28:46.080 --> 00:28:53.679 probably still be ah like everything on this slide because it's kind of in your 00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:56.640 chesty region, right? Like in your heart that I would use the a sound, but I 00:28:55.360 --> 00:29:00.080 actually don't make a sound at all when I do this. Right? So, you're going to go 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:04.320 just like you pulled from above and below. You're going to pull them in from 00:29:01.600 --> 00:29:09.440 the front and the back. Again, I typically do front first and then back. 00:29:07.840 --> 00:29:13.520 I don't actually think it matters which order you do front and back in. So, you 00:29:11.919 --> 00:29:19.520 can try both and see what feels better to you. Left and right. I pretty much 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:23.120 always go left and then right. I'm right-handed, but again, I don't 00:29:21.840 --> 00:29:27.200 actually think it matters what order you eat them in. But I do think it's 00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:32.320 important to first go up, down, and then front, back, and then left, right for 00:29:30.399 --> 00:29:37.120 like biological reasons, right? So, human beings are not even remotely 00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:42.480 up, down, symmetric. Like the top of your body and the bottom of your body 00:29:38.320 --> 00:29:46.880 are completely different shapes, right? The front of your body and the back of 00:29:44.320 --> 00:29:50.320 your body are like more similar than up and down are, but they're still very 00:29:48.320 --> 00:29:53.840 different. And then left and right, you're not left right symmetric either, 00:29:52.320 --> 00:29:58.799 but like you're more left right symmetric than front back symmetric. I'm 00:29:57.120 --> 00:30:02.799 going to say almost all humans. Like even if you're missing an arm, I would 00:30:00.080 --> 00:30:06.080 tell you're still more right, left symmetric than you are front, back 00:30:04.399 --> 00:30:11.520 because internally you're pretty symmetric, right? 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:15.520 So these six directions, up, down, front, back, left, right, that when I 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:20.399 say six directions, those are the ones I'm talking about, right? And you're 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:24.960 going to pull all those energies in and like feel the mix. And when you're new 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:29.200 at this, this can take a long time. Like this ritual that I'm teaching you, the 00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:33.039 first couple times you do it can easily take 20 minutes or half an hour to do, 00:30:31.520 --> 00:30:37.440 but once you're good at it, you'll be able to do it really fast. It's just 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:41.360 practice. It's just practice. I mean, some magic is about skill, some magic is 00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:46.799 about talent, but this one just practice, right? So now you're going to 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:52.240 try and ex like you're going to breathe in. And when you do, I want you to 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:57.760 expand your body or your aura or however you think about it. Your sensory bubble, 00:30:55.279 --> 00:31:01.919 expand it outwards in all six directions at once, like a balloon blowing up, 00:30:59.760 --> 00:31:08.000 right? All directions at once. And then breathe out and like shrink back. 00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:11.120 Breathe in and get big. Breathe out and get small. And you know how when you're 00:31:09.919 --> 00:31:15.200 going to blow up a balloon, you like stretch it first? That's really what 00:31:13.520 --> 00:31:20.240 we're doing. We're like stretching out your energetic body to prepare. Like we 00:31:18.159 --> 00:31:24.720 still haven't really done any magic yet. This is all we're just like getting 00:31:21.600 --> 00:31:30.080 ready to do magic. This is the important step of centering. You've been 00:31:27.360 --> 00:31:36.080 stretching, expanding, and contracting. Keep contracting down until you're like 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:42.399 your consciousness, your unice is a tiny little ball in the center of your body. 00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:48.320 And I need you to know for a fact that that is the center of the universe. 00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:52.159 Now, the universe does not have a center. Like, it just doesn't. Some 00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:55.200 people would say the center of the earth is the center of the universe, but 00:31:53.360 --> 00:31:58.320 that's false. Some people would say the center of the sun is the center of the 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:02.480 universe. False. Some people would say the galactic center is the center of the 00:32:00.080 --> 00:32:07.279 universe. False. All of those things are false. I do have a graduate degree in 00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:13.120 mathematics with a specialty in fancy space-time geometry. I assure you the 00:32:10.159 --> 00:32:17.279 universe does not have a center. You can put the center wherever you want it to 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:21.039 be. What's the center is just about how you kind of lay out your coordinate 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:27.679 grid. And I want you to lay out a coordinate grid with your heart at the 00:32:23.679 --> 00:32:32.960 center. An axis that goes up, down, an axis that goes front, back and left, 00:32:30.399 --> 00:32:39.679 right. So these are internal directions not east west and north south but front 00:32:37.120 --> 00:32:45.840 back and left right. So as you turn the entire coordinate like you're as if you 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:50.640 were to turn around then what I want you to imagine is that you're holding still 00:32:48.320 --> 00:32:56.240 and the entire universe is turning around you which is true. Like that is a 00:32:53.760 --> 00:33:01.519 mathematical fact for any point anywhere in the universe because movement is 00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:06.720 always relative. So like there's no like this is really all you're reentering is 00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:10.640 really your understanding of the earth. You didn't do anything to the universe. 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:16.640 You didn't really even do anything to your body except notice it like pay 00:33:13.760 --> 00:33:20.640 attention to it. Like like those energy flows like the cord of energy that is 00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:25.360 now running from the heavens to your heart. It it's actually always there. 00:33:23.600 --> 00:33:29.120 The ritual just made you pay attention to it but it's always there. You didn't 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:34.960 establish that chord. If you are a living breathing creature, those cords 00:33:31.760 --> 00:33:38.320 are always there. It's just like they I don't know everything's connected to 00:33:36.399 --> 00:33:42.080 everything else as we will discuss a bit more later in the class. 00:33:39.600 --> 00:33:47.279 So that is centering, right? And then what you typically we would 00:33:44.320 --> 00:33:49.760 center and then do some magic and then let go. But this time we're just 00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:55.039 practicing. So we're just going to center and then whenever you're done 00:33:52.159 --> 00:33:58.880 being centered, just let go. And you should be able to just let go. Like it's 00:33:56.799 --> 00:34:02.480 actually pretty hard to stay centered. It requires you to pay attention to it. 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:07.360 So pretty much as soon as you stop paying attention to it. It It's not 00:34:05.679 --> 00:34:12.000 you're not centered anymore. You're just not noticing that you're centered. 00:34:09.919 --> 00:34:16.800 You're always centered. It like human beings cannot be uncentered. 00:34:14.720 --> 00:34:20.720 Nor can anything else. Like that's just not how the world works in my opinion. 00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:25.520 So it's really about what you're paying attention to. Sometimes on the internet 00:34:23.200 --> 00:34:29.919 I see people say like magic is all about intention and I don't think that's true. 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:34.800 I actually think intention is like barely relevant. What I think is 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:40.480 important is attention. What are you paying attention to? That's the secret 00:34:37.520 --> 00:34:43.599 sauce of magic is paying attention. Right? Pay attention to what you're 00:34:41.839 --> 00:34:48.159 doing. Pay attention to who you are. Pay attention to what you want. All of those 00:34:45.839 --> 00:34:52.560 things, right? But when you're ready, just just be done. just stop do paying 00:34:51.200 --> 00:34:57.359 attention to it and just go back to your regular however you normally live your 00:34:54.720 --> 00:35:00.960 life. Right? Move around. You might feel like especially if you're good at this 00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:04.960 like not good you've practiced a lot but you have a natural talent for it. You 00:35:03.040 --> 00:35:08.720 might feel like your body has like stretched out like Alice and Wonderland 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:12.160 style but if you just move around a little bit you'll shake it off unless 00:35:10.560 --> 00:35:16.400 you're on a lot of drugs which is not a wise thing to do. Like beginner 00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:22.480 magicians should not really be doing magic on drugs. it like it's not wise. 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:27.680 Yeah. Again, you're always centered. All incarnate beings, everything that has a 00:35:24.560 --> 00:35:32.320 physical body, even if it's not alive. Like a rock is also always centered. 00:35:30.640 --> 00:35:36.560 That's just what it means to be incarnate, like to have a body. I 00:35:34.560 --> 00:35:41.119 encourage you if you are a beginner, like if you really haven't done any 00:35:38.240 --> 00:35:44.880 magic before, in general, for everything I teach you, I do encourage you to 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:50.480 follow the instructions the first time you do it. after you've done it a couple 00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:53.839 times, you should adapt it for yourself. But if you've never done it before, I 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:57.359 wrote the instructions because I think that's the way that is best for 00:35:55.200 --> 00:36:01.760 beginners to do it. That being said, as an advanced man, I actually don't do it 00:35:59.359 --> 00:36:05.920 that way exactly. Like that is how I think beginners should do it. It's 00:36:03.119 --> 00:36:09.599 easier, but not exactly. So, if you have experience, I don't know, do whatever 00:36:07.839 --> 00:36:13.359 you want to do, but you're in this course because you want to learn my way 00:36:10.720 --> 00:36:18.160 of doing it, presumably because that's the only kind of magic I can teach you 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:23.200 is mine. That's the only kind I can teach you, right? So, just a reminder 00:36:21.200 --> 00:36:28.240 that like if you're not sure if it's working, it's kind of a fake it until 00:36:25.680 --> 00:36:32.000 you make it situation. Like make believe that you can. So, if you don't know what 00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:36.160 I mean when I say it it feels like you're lit up with like you're full of 00:36:33.839 --> 00:36:40.320 light, make believe that you're full up with light, like what do you think it 00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:45.280 would feel like? And make believe that really hard and then eventually it'll 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:49.440 happen and you'll be like, "Oh, oh, that that was real and not imaginary." And 00:36:47.839 --> 00:36:54.560 you'll be able to tell the difference. You'll be able to tell. Everything we've 00:36:51.839 --> 00:36:58.400 done so far, I really would not characterize as magic. I would 00:36:56.640 --> 00:37:03.280 characterize it as preparation for magic. So, now we're going to start to 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:09.760 talk about some magic. And the first magic we're going to learn is color 00:37:05.040 --> 00:37:14.640 magic. I love colors. Every time I see somebody make like magic art in black 00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:19.839 and white, in my heart, I'm like, that is a missed opportunity for using 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:24.560 colors. If you are color blind, I apologize. This lesson is going to be 00:37:21.839 --> 00:37:28.560 pretty theoretical for you, but only this one. So, you know, and I will say 00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:33.599 if you're color blind, I would actually really like your feedback on this 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:39.760 lesson, right? Which is primarily about color blind, right? Our spectrum has 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:44.640 seven colors. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. When I say 00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:49.599 ours, I mean the English language. Like that's how we label it in English. Does 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:53.200 anybody want to guess why there are seven in English? Not in every language. 00:37:52.160 --> 00:37:57.040 that like different languages have different numbers but in English we use 00:37:54.480 --> 00:38:02.560 seven. So the answer is that the person who like named the color spectrum in 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:08.480 English like who decided that indigo is a color but like blue violet 00:38:05.839 --> 00:38:12.240 is not one of the spectral colors. The person who decided that was Isaac Newton 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:17.040 in English. Like he's the one who labeled them in English or the the 00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:20.240 labeling we typically use today was invented by Isaac Newton. He was an 00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:24.720 alchemist. I know they didn't tell you that in high school science class, but I 00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:29.119 assure you Isaac Newton was no question a magician. If you just read I mean 00:38:27.040 --> 00:38:32.079 honestly probably his Wikipedia page will tell you that he's an alchemist. 00:38:30.240 --> 00:38:35.920 Like it's not a secret, but they didn't tell you that in high school because in 00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:38.800 my as a high former high school teacher sometimes high school teachers seem 00:38:37.040 --> 00:38:43.599 really committed to making things boring. Like Isaac Newton was a magician 00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:49.040 and they didn't tell you that which would have been interesting. I imagine 00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:55.599 he chose seven so that he could assign them to the seven classical planets used 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:58.800 in alchemy and traditional western magic which we'll talk about more in lessons 00:38:57.200 --> 00:39:03.839 five and six but that's why there are seven in English before Isaac Newton I 00:39:01.839 --> 00:39:07.119 think there wasn't necessarily a clear number like different people would just 00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:10.240 say it differently okay 00:39:07.520 --> 00:39:16.560 and in other cultures so for example I believe that in Russian there are 12 but 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:20.079 I'm not positive. Like in other languages there are other numbers and 00:39:18.240 --> 00:39:24.720 again it's a rainbow. How many colors are in a rainbow? All the colors are in 00:39:22.560 --> 00:39:28.720 the rainbow but you have to chunk it into bits to talk about. And like the 00:39:26.640 --> 00:39:33.440 question of is this green or is this blue? Obviously there's like a bunch of 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:37.839 colors in between. So when we teach little kids there are seven colors. I 00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:42.720 mean obviously that is false. Like there's way there's an almost infinite 00:39:41.359 --> 00:39:46.400 number of colors. We're going to talk about seven. The reason in this class 00:39:44.560 --> 00:39:51.200 we're going to do seven is because we are later on in the class going to tie 00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:55.599 them to the planets. A useful thing we can do that was invented by Isaac. Like 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:59.839 that magical trick. Like one weird trick that makes your alchemy work is to label 00:39:57.680 --> 00:40:03.520 the rainbow so that it's actually secretly corresponding planets. And 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:08.560 that's an a trick I learned from Isaac Newton and our culture learned from 00:40:05.520 --> 00:40:12.560 Isaac Newton. I don't I don't know what it used to be in older English. In 00:40:10.560 --> 00:40:17.119 Greece, I believe in ancient Greek, there's, I believe, five. 00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:19.839 Like, blue and green are not really understood to be diff. I mean, it's not 00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:24.320 that they don't know the difference between blue and green. They also have 00:40:22.640 --> 00:40:27.760 arguments. Is this blue? Is this green? Is it green blue? Is it blue green? Blah 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:30.480 blah blah. They can see all the colors. Like, it's not like their vision is 00:40:29.200 --> 00:40:35.200 different than ours. They just have different words for it. Sometimes I see 00:40:33.200 --> 00:40:37.040 like internet like ancient Greek people didn't know about the color blue. I'm 00:40:36.720 --> 00:40:38.800 like, oh god. 00:40:37.680 --> 00:40:43.359 But they did. They did. They they call it wine. If 00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:46.160 you've ever seen the internet memes I'm talking about, I'm going to tell you as 00:40:44.560 --> 00:40:50.800 a person who reads ancient Greek, when they say the wine dark sea, they're 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:55.040 actually not talking about the color at all. They're saying the sea is drunk. 00:40:52.960 --> 00:41:00.480 It's drunk and that's why it's so wild and violent and stormy. Like the way we 00:40:58.240 --> 00:41:07.040 would describe a an ocean as like especially wavy when it's storming, 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:10.720 they refer to that as the ocean being drunk. When they say wine dark, they 00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:15.440 mean drunk. The same way that people's faces turn darker when they're like 00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:21.760 excited and drunk. Why do I teach colors first? It's because 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:27.440 sometimes a lot teach like and vibration magic first and it's I find it a little 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:34.240 vague what they are talking about. Like color is a vibration. That's how color 00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:38.240 works. Like it is an energy. Like and I think color is like a good way to start 00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:44.319 with that. But color is also a good way to learn to work with spirits. So like 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:48.880 the spirit of the color red, I actually think all of us already kind of have an 00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:52.720 idea what that spirit's going to be like from just sharing a cultural 00:41:50.640 --> 00:41:58.800 understanding of the color red and sharing even more so a biological 00:41:55.119 --> 00:42:02.079 understanding of the color red. Again, if you're colorb blind, I'm interested 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:07.119 because that means you have the cultural one but not biological one. So, I'm 00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:07.119 interested in how this works for