'Familiars' Articles
A familiar is like an ally, an agent of sorts. A spirit, that because of your connection to the force it lives in has taken an interest in you. They work on the law of sympathy, that energetic connection. No spirit is superior or inferior, and knowing your familiar is the best way to maximize your relationship. It is also a way to learn more about yourself, because you attract what you are kin to. By deliberate intent, by making something your concern, your focus attunes you to the energy. The more intent the more attunement, until it’s like standing in their world.
“The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.” William S. Burroughs
Familiar Companions
Familiar spirits is not unlike the term kindred spirits. It’s even sort of like the concept of soul mates. It’s basically the idea that birds of a feather flock together. That as you are spiritually, so you connected to other spirits. Some people feel very close to nature. They love the trees, flowers, and animals. They often have an almost mysterious way with animals. Has anyone observed this? These people often, even if not consciously, are in communion with the spirits in nature, incarnated as we know it or not. Life, life energy, is a broad spectrum. This has even been physically observed,… Seek More
Connection with a Familiar
The Kami is one kind of familiar spirit. They do form bonds with humans as is evident in Japanese legend. The Kami are a sort of elemental spirit, but rather evolved. They tend to draw their energy from plants and want them to thrive. They also tend to like children, as do fairies, and this is sort of spirit wide. Children live in the now as do spirits. Adults are like a constant psychic scream, and this is why they tend to avoid them unless they are meditating or something. Adults tend to tax me at times, but unlike a… Seek More
Identify Your Familiar
If you want to avoid confusion, identifying your familiar is helpful. If your familiar is a Kami, they tend to be sort of organized so they are good at networking. If your familiar is a Fairy, they are more free spirited, attuned to the raw pulse of life, and understand the primal desire in life. Kami are a bit more detached. Like with any business partner, it’s good to know their strengths and weaknesses to deal with them better? Yes, and they want things too. So they have to be willing to negotiate. Fairies are mischievous. You have to find a… Seek More
Law of Sympathy with Familiar Spirits
We can perhaps call a familiar spirit if none have noticed us, and we can also select as well? One might not have the qualities I’m looking for. Yes, actually. If you want to connect more with say a primal force, you can open yourself to storm spirits. The progression of a familiar bond is like the progression of a friendship. Do we always have a choice in this? Well, yes and no. You will attract these spirits that feel resonance or “something in common” with you. Different energy calls different familiars. Mine must be the storm spirits or very… Seek More
Experiencing Your Familiar
I won’t go into familiars as a phenomenon. Today, we are discussing working with them. There are a lot of theories for how it’s possible to do this, but first I will just go into the experience of it, and how to do it on purpose. To summarize what familiars are, this is a spirit we have identified as a companion? Basically yes, but it’s sort of like a psychic paternal twin. You are not identical to each other, but you share a core trait in common with the spirit. Do they take turns being familiars for each other? Oh,… Seek More
Working With Familiars: Magic Mirror
All techniques to work with your familiar are ways of triggering right temporal lobe access. Now, from my earlier explanation, it sounded like the hemispheres mirror each other, yes? Well, they do in a very literal sense, so let’s start with the “Magic Mirror” technique. You get a mirror either of the old fashioned style or use one in a dimly lit room. (This is the origin of the Bloody Marie parlour trick some people scare themselves with.) You fix a distant gaze into the mirror and this slows the left temporal lobes analytical monologue. I hate mirrors for that… Seek More
Individual Familiars
Familiars all have different temperaments and talents. So your familiar may have inclinations that make it unsuitable for some types of information retrieval. If it’s “not a people person”, it won’t recognize psychological information you might ask it to learn. It will try, but the feedback it gives you would be distorted. My own right temporal lobe is much too open, so I get a lot of static there. It should be easier for others. It’s a powerful moment when you realise this is not just some magic trick. Yes. You will likely remember it quite vividly in the future,… Seek More
Working With Familiars: Automatic Writing
Ready for another technique to communicate with your familiar? This one is known as automatic writing. It’s more subtle, but is in some ways easier than the magick mirror which is more generally called scrying. With automatic writing, the set up is the same. Focusing your inner attention on the familiar, and working out your intention for contacting it. Then you use some sort of relaxation, or trance inducing technique, to open your temporal lobes. The automatic writing technique is also practiced in another tradition for its own sake. Among monks and mystics in India, it’s known as Japa. The… Seek More
Familiar Advocacy
Working with familiars isn’t just information gathering. Besides information gathering, you can ask your familiars to undertake “advocacy” for you. Your familiar is a part of the same field of consciousness that you are. Just as you can sense other peoples emotions and states of being, so can it. And just as they can senses yours, they can sense your familar’s. Will they go out of their way to get you to notice them? Oh, potentially. Some can be attention hogs, but if your will is set against it, they both won’t and can’t force themselves on you. They will… Seek More
