Six Skills to Hone if You Want to Be Sorcerer Supreme
Six Skills to Hone if You Want to Be Sorcerer Supreme
Protecting the Earth and its solar system from energetic disturbances and inter-dimensional warfare is an undertaking of magical proportions. Following in the footsteps of Sorcerer Supremes like Dr. Strange, the Sorcerer or Sorceress must embark on a heroic journey to prepare for the role. As protector of the universe, they must master the following techniques. If you have no intention of assuming this role, these techniques will still help you day-to-day, as you continue on your path to ascension.
1. Astral Travel
AKA Inter-dimensional Travel
Sorcerers understand the multiverse: they can travel freely through dimensions and take astral flight. They understand the limitless potential of worlds beyond the physical realm.
2. Thought Projection
Sorcerers can use their minds to bend and manipulate matter. Through the powers of visualization and manifestation, thoughts may be projected onto people or things. Beyond bending spoons, the Sorcerer may build, repair and deconstruct universes with their mind power.
3. Energy Projection and Manipulation
Channeling energy is a unique and important skill for the Sorcerer. By harnessing Qi (i.e., life force energy), focusing positive intentions and understanding quantum physics, the Sorcerer can even heal themselves and others (e.g., using reiki).
4. Teleportation and Time Travel
Teleportation and time travel are the Sorcerers primary research leads: they gather information along the time-space continuum, without taking advantage of the omnipotent power to influence events.
5. Telekinesis
Sorcerers have innate and trained psychic abilities: through telekinesis, they can impact physical change through their mental and energetic prowess. While this power tends to go rouge during training, practice leads to precision and refinement.
6. Spiritual Connection with Instruments
All beings and things have innate energetic qualities. Relics, like a ring, wand or cape, are instruments that wield and carry power where our physical bodies cannot. Often, relics will choose you: look out for special rings, tools or attire that present themselves or catch your eye.
The way of the sorcerer or sorceress relies on research, reading, mentorship, intuition and practice. Find a mentor or guide, fill your bookshelves with literature on everything from spells to quantum physics, and practice as if your life depends on it.
About the Author
Achieving Modern Enlightenment With Gurdjieff's Fourth Way
Around the turn of the 20th century, the mysticism movement aimed to bridge the gap between western and eastern philosophies with theosophy, esotericism, and a burgeoning interest in the occult. This spiritual zeitgeist inspired George Gurdjieff to develop the Fourth Way; exercises that can be incorporated into one’s daily life to remove yourself from a state of hypnotic waking sleep.
The Fourth Way: Hindu, Sufi, And Christian Esotericism
Deeply devoted spiritual practices often focus on either a detachment from the physical or a strict dominance over it. Georges Gurdjieff did not see these attempts to embrace a higher self as practical, believing instead that enlightenment could be achieved without asceticism.
Born in 1866 in Alexandropol, Armenia, Gurdjieff was inspired by the theosophical movement and decided to travel to Central Asia and the Middle East in search of esoteric spiritual leaders and seekers of truth. Upon his return, he penned a series of books that would become the foundation of his spiritual practice: The Fourth Way. The second book in the series and 1979 film, Meetings with Remarkable Men, detailed his encounters with spiritual leaders on his journey who were more likely fictional characters symbolic of the three “ways” preceding his.
During his travels, he was inspired by the spiritual ways of the fakir, monk, and yogi, though he saw their methods as only successful in achieving a fraction of development, with the more practical roots of their disciplines lost in antiquity. At the same time, he believed that the effects of modern technology and society were entrancing everyone into a hypnotic waking sleep.
