Visual Magick: a manual of freestyle shamanism by Jan Fries

Author:Jan Fries [Fries, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 2012-10-30T23:00:00+00:00

Cup meditation

Here is a practice of the most elementary sort. At least, this is what I assumed it to be when I learned it from two friends who had received it from a Yoruba priest. Indeed I almost considered it too easy at first. My friends had been told that it is a method of prayer. This is a good description, though not the only one. When I teach it to people who don't like the idea of 'prayer' I call it an 'exercise in congruent speech and vivid imagination'. The practice is based on the eucharist, force and sentience are invoked, charged into a cup of fluid, which is poured as a libation and drunk to integrate the energy.

What you need is simply two cups, horns or drinking vessels, and some of you may find this working easier when only two special vessels are used, consecrated vessels that are dedicated only to ritual use. As a fluid, we may use water which will change in taste during the working, or wine, or stronger spirits such as gin or rum. If you are familiar with ritual, give this exercise the ceremonial beginning you are used to. If you are not, and feel uneasy about it, simply make yourself comfortable. Relax, take a few deep breaths and sit for a minute or three in silence, so your mind can prepare itself for the good things to follow.

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