Hi everyone!

It's been a while since I last posted here. A lot has happened. I thought I'd share my experience working through Modules 1 and 2, what happened during and after, and where I am right now (magically).

I started Quareia in January 2023 when I still lived in North America. I finished Module 1 and reached Module 2 Lesson 4 before returning to my home country (in Asia) in August of that year. I will pause here to emphasize that practicing Quareia brought major changes. As Josephine writes,

The triggers in the Apprentice section can change where the student lives, who they live with, what they do for a job, where their interests lie, or how they behave as a human being.

In hindsight, I could see that the changes were, in particular, triggered by working with Saturn and Pluto (regardless of how limited an extent).

When I returned to my home country, I first stayed in the city before moving to an island. From September 2023 to March 2024, I was able to work through Module 2 until the tail end, until I got, for lack of a better phrase, 'kicked out'. I not only couldn't progress (the famed wall) but something actively wanted me out of the island. Just before I left the island, an opportunity came up to move to another country (Europe). So, from April to September, I was pretty mundane other than twice monthly ritual baths. I was already sensitive before doing Quareia, so doing it heightened my sensitivity... so it's hard for me to go long without a ritual bath. Sometime in September, I decided to go back just by doing M1L1.... putting the cat food out, as Josephine once wrote here... but I felt 'kicked out' again after about a week...

Now, I've moved to that other country. Since getting 'kicked out' twice, I thought that maybe I've learned what I needed to learn from Quareia and it's time to move on. But, just today, I got a feeling that maybe now is the time to return...

If indeed now is the time, it's also maybe because a lot of self-knowledge had to be realized and processed during the time I was on break from Quareia.

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Anyways, apologies if I'm rambling... I know I must do a divination with regards to this... but I would also like to know if anyone has any perspective/similar experiences...

Many thanks.

Hello, fellow Quareians.

I'm currently in Indonesia, on Bali, until December. Can you recommend any interesting places to explore in terms of magic, please? Thanks in advance.

Do you think that wearing a mjolnir pendant (thor's hammer) and making offerings to the norse gods will interfere with the quareia course ?

This symbol/signs appered on my bathroom mirror today and I don't know where it came from or what it means. Does anyone have any knowledge that can help me in my search for what this could be about? any help is highly appreciated!

Just read module 1, lesson 7 where she mentions this:

“One of the best anchors is the pentagram pattern. The pentagram was used by the original nineteenth century golden dawn magical group as a method for teaching beginners ritual patterning using sound, shape, and movement. However, it somehow morphed into a mishmash of fragmented understanding, immature use of deity patterns and divine names, and a good sprinkling of drama. This became known as The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram: the only thing it really banishes is the magicians common sense.”

I got my start in magic a year or so ago following the traditional golden dawn path drawing from sources like Dion fortune, Israel regardie, or more modern ones like Damien Echols. For the last 6 months or so I’ve been practicing the LBRP daily as well as the middle pillar and LIRP in an alternating schedule, basically trying to follow what these golden dawn associated people suggest.

Now reading this excerpt above is quite the divergence from what I’m used to reading about ceremonial magic but my intuition really resonates with the material in Quearia and I feel that Josephine McCarthy may have information that penetrates beyond these beginner “mishmash” rituals, and I’m curious what you guys think/have chosen to do in regards to the LBRP.

Is it still useful for me as a brand new magician? Should I keep using it to practice the movements and vibrations and visualization?

I have felt positive affects from doing it so it doesn’t feel energetically useless but I do resonate intuitively a lot more with the approach this course takes to the pentagram and magical protection in general, so I’d like to follow that intuitive feeling, but I am not sure where that leaves me with the LBRP.

I appreciate the thoughts friends

How’s everyone’s studies coming?

Hello, I just did a “success” tarot spread following the manifestation spread. This particular spread has three cards in it that I would consider “success” cards. Do I have to pick one, or can there be three possible routes to success?

Good morning everyone. I have a doubt regarding M2L5: I did the work to establish the elements in the directions and to know the gender of the earth. The place where I did it is a place where I often go and with which I have already established a "magical relationship", I immediately thought of this place when I read that there was work to be done with the earth. Now, however, reading further on in the lesson, I see that I have to take a stone in which to "insert" the result of the ritual and then it has to be put back in place in the place where it will then have to operate. Everything is ok but the place where I intended to work is 8 km from my house. JMC gave a maximum distance of 10 km so I should be fine, has anyone worked with the elements and identifications at this distance? Should I take the stone I take from near my house or from the place 8 km away? Should it return to that place or near my house? Thanks

Hello and apologies in advance for the extremely long winded account below, but I feel the context is important here. There’s a lot to unpack.

Edit: I have started the meditations and have begun looking at Tarot

TLDR My grandmother was diagnosed with mild paranoid schizophrenia. I had a psychotic episode that propelled me into spirituality. I’m an experienced meditator. Is it wise to continue on this path?

There was a time when I was going through some big changes; I was moving out of my family home to live on my own and I was making a big career change. I had a powerful vision of my future prosperity. It wasn't a vision in the sense of an image, but a deep and true feeling at the core (6 years on and it has been confirmed more than I could have possibly imagined). I was pacing around my room in a state of euphoria, tears streaming from my face.

Ever since I was a small child, I have always had an affinity with ancient Egypt. It has been an enduring point of fascination and magnetism for me for as long as I can remember. I felt compelled to commemorate this vision with my first ever tattoo - an eye of Horus on my inner wrist.

I wouldn't describe myself as spiritual in the slightest. Very much your typical scientific sceptic type. But about 5 years later I would experience a profound event that would send me catapulting into the spiritual realm.

In the months leading up to this event, I had undergone another massive change. I'd exited a very bad 5 year relationship. Without this blockage I was attacking life with a renewed energy. I was always a very anxious person and very socially reserved as a result of prolonged psychological abuse as a teenager. I started reading books on personal development and different ways of controlling the mind and I started to develop a system, whereby I would start to look at my thoughts and asses them rather than blindly accepting them.

Further to this I started to incorporate visualisation for the first time in my life. I imagined myself as the king, and I could go into my mind and sit at my throne. A thought would be presented to me by a subject at court and I could choose what I wanted to do with that thought. I would visualise myself smiting down a subject that presented a particularly pernicious thought for example. It was working wonders and I started to get the sense I was developing a kind of super power.

I was enjoying another day of elevated thinking. My mind felt fertile, more open, and more flexible to new ideas than ever before. I felt like I was figuring everything out... And then something terrible happened that would shake me to the core.

I was in my kitchen making dinner and out of nowhere I had manifested a negative feedback loop whereby my mind would compulsively switch focus back to the loop, feeding it and ramping it up with every repetition, like a black hole accumulating mass in my brain. It persisted for hours. I tried watching a movie and could not concentrate at all. It was causing me great concern, which in turn fed the beast all the more.

I decided to go to bed and try to sleep it off, but I had already imprinted into my mind that I would be thinking about it in bed, so of course, I did. After some tossing and turning I managed to get to sleep, only to be woken up at 4:00 am with the feedback loop ringing intensely in my mind. It's at this point I began to seriously panic, all sorts of visions flooded my brain.

These past few months, I had been plunging the depths of my mind, becoming much more in tune with my thoughts and feelings, and it made me think about the story of Hermes flying too close to the sun. I told myself that with this increased perception I'd opened myself up to a virus of sorts. I thought that I'd given myself an OCD, and that I'd need to be medicated. I saw myself in a mental hospital, paralysed with this affliction for the rest of my days. I had brief suicidal ideations. All of these visions fed into this terrible narrative that I'd lost my mind, which in turn compounded my anxiety, which amplified the narrative all the more in a hellish loop of unimaginable torment. I was scared for my life.

Until at some point, I began to gather myself, I started to meditate to bring my anxiety levels down, from this state i was more able to think rationally. I started to think about the different systems I had at my disposal and began to present them at court. I started to re-write the narrative. I cited the precedent of my tendency to have a negative bias to my thoughts and my habit of catastrophising an issue and blowing it way out of proportion. These catastrophies I create are, at best, extremely exaggerated and, more often than not, completely false and lacking substance. And it's by recognising these tricks that I took some of the wind out of the sails of the feedback loop, and began to calm down somewhat, although I was not completely over the hump yet.

By some random chance, I started reading Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, I’d owned the book for years but never thought to pick it up until then. And then, like magic, I came across a passage of profound alignment: "Take Courage, for these experiences have tempered the spiritual metal of which you are made and are assets of incomparable value. Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start and pass through many heart-breaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point for those who succeed, usually comes at some time of crisis, through which they are introduced to their other selves."

This hit me like a truck; what were the chances of me reading this passage at this moment with a message that struck so close to my present situation? Ideas of the spiritual significance of narrative were swirling around in my brain and I was vividly drawn to a vision of the Disney movie Hercules, a movie I had loved as a child but had not seen in decades. In this scene Hercules is swimming in a river of death. I immediately pulled it up on my phone. Seeing Hercules emerge from the river of death, his thread now golden and a divine glow to his figure made every cell in my body begin to pulsate. And in that moment, I had a feeling that could only be described as ascension. And just like that I became a spiritual being... but there's more.

The real bombshell dropped when I looked back at the dates, and saw that this episode coincided with the very same day I got my eye of Horus tattoo 5 years prior. If there was any doubt in my mind it was surely gone. I knew what it meant. Life is magic.

I had been meditating for years but started to get serious with it, devouring literature on eastern mysticism, Buddhism, Taoism. Such that my mental state is much more to my design. Thoughts can be neutralised through pure presence now, before spiraling into an anxious state. Whereas only a few years back I was very much at the mercy of my anxious catastrophising of trivial things. The idea of thought being a projection onto the self, as opposed to a development by the self was a major breakthrough allowing me some distance. I can now sit for an hour in meditation. Pursuing this avenue led me to happen upon the Kybalion and so began my introduction to the occult and as of 2 days ago, my purchasing of the Quareia apprentice system.

I can't tell you how excited I am about this journey, having now read the first few modules. This work just oozes wisdom, quality and consideration. I feel a great sense of honour when I sit to behold this great tome. I have that strong feeling again, that this is the start of something absolutely ground breaking. But, there is one major point of consideration I need to mention..

My maternal great grandmother was diagnosed with mild schizophrenia. She was a pious Christian and certainly had no knowledge of Buddhist thought or had any meditation practises. I also know that she was bullied by her colleagues at work for many years and without systems of the mind to moderate thought, thought can and will run rampant. I'm of the mind that I am a very different case to her and all of the experiences I've had have done nothing but embolden my sense of spirituality and mental resolve, I think of a Joseph Campbell quote "the waters the mystic swims in are the same that the madman drowns in". I will add that my mental state is very solid otherwise, now more than ever, the event I described above is the only psychotic episode I’ve experienced in my 31 years of life. I feel strongly compelled in this direction, but there is also a tiny voice that worries I may be dancing on the rim of a volcano.

Thank you to anyone that took the time to read that little novella above. I would very much appreciate any thoughts, I want nothing more than to continue this practise in earnest but would be remiss in not undergoing due diligence beforehand.

So I’m watching this quite old tv show about Merlin and there’s a lot of wisdom in that. I find a lot of teaching about complexity’s of fate. There’s a lot of scenes where simple decisions that seemed right are bringing so much worse outcomes in the future.

I'm just looking for some opinions here. This would be a book recommendation for a friend that has zero esoteric experience, but due to some recent experiences is becoming interested in learning more. So this would be for a "novice" person. What do you think? My personal opinion is the writings are more "accessible" than authors like Dion Fortune (certainly with less complexities), but they also seem a bit "recipe" like in nature, and don't really have enough spiritual foundation to be used independently. I'll be there to help her, and guide her, but I also don't want to just hand out a crap book, so would appreciate your thoughts. I'm about 3/4 through reading it currently. It's been interesting, but I'm a bit unsure.

My goal in helping others is their spiritual independence. I never want to be the "keeper" of anything that is necessary, but I'm always happy to be the "pointer" to truth and knowledge. So while I have my own rites and workings that have come from trial, experience and Guidance, I don't want to be the repository of that for this person, I want her to be able to stand on her own with bold confidence.

Thoughts?

During this last period the cards seem to suggest me to go a little under the covers with Tarot divinations; so, after finding a wooden die on the street, I painted and engraved it to make it into a divination die. My feeling was that a divination die could be a solution for those periods in which the Tarot makes you a little too visible. The die requires less energy, less visualization of the layout and must be executed more quickly. This makes you less visible, from what I intuited. So I engraved it, the six faces are:

1 Yes = positive answer etc, magical south, future, fire, wand...

2 No = negative answer etc, magical north, past, earth, shield...

3 Give = energy outgoing etc, magical east, grindstone, air, sword...

4 Receive = energy incoming etc, magical west, unraveller, water, cup...

5 Helpful = obviously it concerns what is useful, the creative factor, and is slightly linked to what in some JMC layouts is called Angel of Mercy...

6 Harmful = obviously it concerns what is harmful, the destructive factor (in itself destruction is not harmful a priori but here I had to condense various factors into a few faces of the die so it will then be interpreted from time to time) and is slightly linked to what in some JMC layouts is called Angel of Severity...

I’ve been working on the first module meditation for a few months now. It’s been an on and off again process for a few years now.

I’ve worked “mindfulness” meditations and single pointed focus meditation consistently for about a year 30 mins daily.

I’m having difficulty “seeing” the colors and entering “the void”.

Like I’m imagining it and hoping that will lead to eventually “seeing” it. I’m a little concerned I’m doing something “wrong” or I’m not able to “see”.

Ive read ahead in the program and it seems the “sight” is important/ fundamental to be able to go into vision and approach the library. And also in ritual. Being able to go into vision during ritual.

With this all being said is it ok to continue and work on tarot and ritual and other lessons in M1 without “fully” developed vision ability?

My concern is moving on and building the temple upwards without a solid foundation

I did this spread as a response to my previous post about my financial predicament. Special thanks to u/chandrayoddha who pointed me to this layout and offered their valuable eye on certain cards.

I have tried my very best, over the course of four days, to interpret the cards myself. My interpretation follows the list below. For those who wish to take this on without influence, feel free to skip that section. Thank you so much in advance for anyone who is willing to help!

1. Current fate path -- Foundation Stone
2. Lessons learned -- Akh
3. Highest possible potential -- Voice of Truth
4. Seeds to be nurtured -- Ancient One
5. Mountains to climb -- Companions
6. What needs releasing -- Loadsharing
7. Harvest -- Threshold Guardians
8. Angel of Severity -- South Gate
9. Angel of Mercy -- Parasite

10 Influence -- Magic

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Current fate path as Foundation Stone makes sense to me. I have been saying all week that I have "hit rock bottom." I believe I am learning, through this trial, a new depth on what having a strong foundation truly means as it pertains to the physical world. Perhaps it can be said that I am in this situation because the shaky foundation fell out from under me.

Lessons learned as Akh. It's hard to wrap my head around this in its mystical aspect, so I'm inclined to see it like this: just before this current fate path opened up, I was illuminated about how it's time to rely on myself (i.e., my own light and wisdom). Relying on my family financially for so long has made me crumble in a lot of ways.

Highest possible potential as Voice of Truth. This trial will have me aware, experientially, of what Truth and Balance mean uniquely to me -- and to live it out as reality, as opposed to theory.

Ancient One as seeds to be nurtured is rather mysterious to me. Again, the mystical component doesn't seem to fit here. I wonder if it's about learning to be "rooted deeply", as the painting illustrates...Or, if that is too literal, it might be something about a significant female figure?

Mountains to climb as Companions. I see this as representative of the intensely lonely, isolated journey that has been my lot for many years. I have no (physical) friends; circumstances have made me a recluse. So this suggests that trying to make connections, making new friends, somehow aids this fate path in a significant way.

Loadsharing as what needs releasing. As I briefly mentioned, my family has been my world and focus on so many levels, for so very long. So I think, in order to attract new companions and stand on my own feet, this hints at letting go of that in some capacity; either emotionally or physically.

Harvest as the Threshold Guardians. Could this be saying that, in light of the previous cycles, I have learned to recognize my limits? Where to push and where not to push. I feel I have a better instinct in that regard, but I may be taking this too literally.

Angel of Severity as South Gate. I read this instantly as "no magic", since it has been on my mind as a result of the present desperation. South Gate, to my understanding, is both about the future and about magic itself. If this interpretation is accurate, then the final card holds a particularly interesting meaning.

Angel of Mercy as Parasite. My instinct on this one is that perhaps by learning to be in my own field of energy (i.e., without load sharing, without magic), I will begin to sense for myself what is mine and what is parasitical. Help appears to be given in this regard as I help myself.

Last card of Influence as Magic. For a moment I wondered if this is literally about this magical community, since it is the only community that has had influence on me in the last couple years...But I am going to try and see a little deeper: In withholding flowing magic into this situation, am I being taught magical wisdom through the experience itself?

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I've read that chocolate and wine will be things that we won't be able to have as we advance in training. Are we allowed to know why before working it out for ourselves?

The reason for me asking is I think I'm about to be diagnosed with something rare that is triggered by these things (and other foods too).

Has anyone done any research or readings? I'm reluctant to do tarot for myself at the moment given my energy levels and health issues.

Hello! I’m starting up the Apprentice work. Used to do a lot of magic through various Thelemic circles. I have a Thoth deck that I’ve used for years. The apprentice modules specifically uses the Rider-Waite, but my situation doesn’t allow for me getting one. How much do you think it will impact the work if I use my old Thoth deck instead?

Last two weeks I have been doing daily abridged pentagram ritual an also two full versions. Today is the first day I thought the pentagram ritual did in fact work. So I did a spread and it was cute to see confirmation. Although the answer is very general as was my question.

It would be interesting to see alternative explanations if anyone wants to join in.

Question: show me the consequences of pentagram ritual for me. (Death fell out when shuffling)

1. Question is about: Justice
2. Present aspect: The Moon
3. Withheld aspect: The Devil
4. Help given: Knight of Pentacles
5. Withheld: 7 of Cups
6. Centre of situation: Death
7. Grindstone/emotions: 4 of Wands
8. Unraveller/mind: The Sun
9. Home: The Empress
10. Outcome: 3 of Wands

My interpretation:

1. The question is about balance (which pentagram ritual is all about) and truth.
2. I have been deceiving others by pretending all is fine at work or hiding something bad which came out. Or maybe deceiving myself that it is better to hide than to face the issues.
3. There is less and less temptation to hide away from the truth/consequences. I am improving and imbalance is fading.
4. I will be given responsibility in order to improve. Or responsibility for past mistakes will be on the table (this actually happened)
5. The illusion is gone. Truth is out.
6. Central to all of this is my willingness to transform and keep on with internal work.
7. I will reach peace of mind by working on knowing myself and correcting failures.
8. I need to balance this out with some optimism, but not overindulge and skimp on the work.
9. My home/family will benefit and be nurtured by my transformation (this position confuses me the most in general, I will appreciate help with this)
10. I will be strengthened by adversity.

Overall, I think this is a very constructive feedback from the cards:) although I knew what happened in advance, there is some additional insight here.

My living situation doesn’t leave me many options for finding 5 differnt surfaces to place in my ritual space and I also don’t even have enough room to fit them all. I just have a small bedroom and that’s it.

Can I construct astral altars? Or somehow get around this?

I don’t even have enough objects to my name to place around the room even if I used random things.

Any suggestions? Or just wait until I can do it properly? I’m usually not too put off subconsciously by doing things unconventionally but figured I’d see what you guys think

ETA: thank you so much everyone! These were great suggestions and very helpful!

So my family is going to my father’s burial/internment of ashes on Tuesday. ( He died in January. For reasons, we knew the burial would be in November.)

The extended family of cousins/siblings is together this weekend.

My very young for his age autistic nephew was distressed tonight about seeing a body and a casket. We explained there isn’t a casket; there isn’t a body; his grandfather was cremated.

I don’t know if that made it better or worse. Ashes in a jar are creepy in a different way I suppose. What’s left energetically of a person in ashes, in an urn?

The environment wasn’t conducive to exploring what my nephew’s fears were.

When we’re not in a crowded, noisy restaurant, do I explain that death is not the end? His parents, my brother and sister in law, may believe death is the end.

I don’t know how to best deal with my nephew’s distress. Let him feel his feelings and go through the experience of a funeral for himself? Comfort/reassure him somehow? And let him feel his feelings?

I’m feeling judgmental. I think my brother should have discussed reincarnation. —Or some explanation about what happens next.—with his kids.

If the serpent of chaos is chaos and disorder, what is the "symbol" for its opposite, that is, when there are too many regulations and restrictions?

The Binder? Although the binder would be a necessary restriction, I'm looking for something more in the lines of too many restrictions that are stiffling.

Why? Simple curiosity.

Edit: the answer is Balance

I hope you’ll bear with me that I seem to show up here these last few months with such urgent appeals! But I am truly at the end of my rope. After mining mundane solutions to their limits, I can’t think but to turn for help through other means (i.e., magical aid). 

Let me get right to the point. I am in dire straits financially. If it weren’t for my rent holding me for another 5 months, I would be in real danger of being completely adrift. And due to fateful restrictions, this has been tougher to get out of than it would perhaps be for most.

The restrictions surround my background and place of living (I am in UAE, Palestinian with Saudi citizenship). For many reasons, I could not finish high school, let alone go to university. What kept me afloat since then (I am 31) was assisting my father with his marine spare parts business. However, that exclusive source of income has since dissolved, and my father himself is unable to find employment. We are now living on meagre savings that dwindle rapidly by the day. 

Around the clock, I have been trying in vain to find jobs — in Dubai and elsewhere — but with my lack of credentials it is tough beyond belief. I have wrung my brain juices out entirely trying to capitalize on my own natural talents, but I cannot think how to market myself in that regard. My talents lie in unmarketable things such as being an advisor (I would handle my father’s business correspondences), conflict resolution, spiritual guidance, painting, and acting (I have been in a number of unpaid plays and movies). I am not eligible for unemployment benefits, for the reasons stated above. Both sides of my family are too poor to help us stay on our feet for a while. 

I am at a loss. For the last few days, I have been doing spreads from Tarot of the 21st Century trying to get a bird’s-eye view of my situation. The last one I did was the Solutions layout. So far, the pattern I’ve observed when it comes to Finances keeps turning up the Obscure Path card or its equivalent. Go figure! Beyond that, they seem to be calling for me to keep my senses out for deeper lessons (Inner Library signifies this Event, and my Responsibility is the Light Bearer; I do not know yet how these will play out.)

Because I am at such a dead end, my deepest concern right now is I must not — will not — act out of desperation. I was tempted to apply for asylum in the US/UK (on account of being gay), but without being able to afford a good lawyer it is unlikely that I will obtain legal employment for several years. I was tempted to appeal to the Saudi government to grant me a scholarship abroad, but it is not wise considering they would require me to come back and work there exclusively (and my Arabic is total rubbish). And I was tempted to do results magic, but I cannot afford to be in more energetic deficit than I already am.

I desire to work hard at something I am capable of — even if it is purely physical work, like gardening or caregiving — anything that pays well enough to get me to live with a roof over my head. I wish we lived in a world where I could be apprenticed to a job out of passion for it, without previous experience…But I try not to fall into such unfruitful daydreams.

Since this is the Quareia sub, I should mention that I am not yet at the point of opening the gates; I am still on the Tarot lessons. If anyone out there has any guidance that I’ve been too stressed out to consider, please share away. I would be immensely grateful for any practical or magical assistance! Thank you for your time. 

I've been reading the Franz Bardon initiation into hermetics for a broader perspective and there's the description of tarot that I've observed is different from what we work with in Quareia. The sword is associated with element of fire and the wand with wind. My question is simply to know what reason such differences are present? Is it because the base framework on which the courses work on differ widely? Or something else....

Hello people,

We dabbled with Franz Bardon in here at times. I've read his IIH book from start to finish. And when he talks about levitation, telekinesis etc. it starts my bullshit meter. I've believe some sort of occult powers can be true, but levitation? Breaking a mirror only by looking at it? Changing the whole temperature of the room? This all seems too much to me. Plus I don't remember reading similar things in Quareia which I considered Bardon was saying similar themes with the course. I don't practice Bardon by the way.

My question would be, does Quareia support such phenomena, if it does, what Quareia says about them? And what's the general idea of this subreddit regarding occult powers? I managed to do some stuff myself, like moving a paper, making animlas answering my thoughts and some body phenomena. But those were small, and some of them didn't happen often. That's what I believe, small things can happen but big things like flying, yep my bullshit meter goes on.

I am someone who has doubted if I can experience visions or succeed at visionary work; I still don’t know if I’m aphantasic or not but a particular book helped me expand my understanding of perception and it might help other apprentices as well.

It’s called The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature by Emma Restall Orr. It is a dense philosophical argument of a text, so a dry and slow read, but very worth it for me.

I would love to hear about other people’s experiences of this book! It helped me feel more relaxed about what I was experiencing and more accepting of what it turns out WAS visionary work. I hope it helps others too!

You guys — Big reddit turned on an harassment filter which automatically removes comments based on a large language model that Big Reddit selected.

It’s already filtered out 1 comment, which I think it picked up on because an established religion was referred to in unfavorable language. The rest of the comment was fine but the whole thing was automatically removed.

As far as the civility of the Q site is concerned, it does make it more civil.

So I’m inclined to let the filter do its thing.

If you get caught up in the filter—erroneously in your opinion— send a mod mail and we can review it to approve as appropriate.

Just wanted to let you know.

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Hello, I’m new to Quareia as of this year. I was listening to a podcast interviewing the author and a story she told about parasites catapulted me to my childhood. I can’t believe I almost forgot about this…

I didn’t have cable TV growing up, but we did get one station that came in through the antenna. It was a Christian channel (PAX) and they had a show called Touched by an Angel. If you’re not familiar with this show, there is a line that the angel would say every episode. Something along the lines of, “I’m an angel sent by God to tell you he loves you”.

One day when I was a kid, I woke up in the middle of the night and there was a translucent figure standing in front of my Princess Diana poster. I sat up straight in my bed and I stared at it because I was in disbelief. It said, “I’m an angel sent by god to tell you he loves you.” I said, “Really?” and it replied, “No I’m just kidding,” and zapped away. I sat there stunned for a moment and then got the courage to run to my parent’s room.

Now that I have recovered this memory, I cannot wait to read the section on parasites. I know that they can be very bad news, but this one (if it was one) made adult me crack up.