powerful visualization...

[Llucifersfire]

  Hi,

    I'm new though I've been lurking here for a few months I've never posted.  I had an experience today with manifestation and would like some input.   Most of the time I visualize what I want and concentrate until I just can't concentrate anymore then that's it.  Today I raised some energy and then begin with a fairly vivid visualization of what I wanted, focusing all my attention on it.  Also new today I found this state of mind focusing on the object not wanting as much as feeling I have this.  Suddenly, there was this powerful burst of energy directed at the place where the object was in my mind and the energy was more powerful than any I had ever felt.  Also I felt I could draw more and more as much as I wanted.  It shocked me silly, my eyes popped open and I quickly ended what I was doing directing all the energy into the ground because I'd never felt so much energy and I got scared.  My fear is I'm not mentally ready to have something instantly transformed by my mind alone.  Am I being paranoid?  I don't really know what the result if any would have occurred  and am not really afraid now but the experience was intense.  I have studied a mish mash of occult ideas and practices but have practiced few.  Currently Initiation to Hermetics the 1st part of mental exercises to help me focus, though I'm a pretty intensely focused when I want to be already.  any thoughts? Thanks

[bloodsong]

Congrats, you just performed a magickal act on the astral.

Bloodsong

[Llucifersfire]

     Thanks.  I guess what I want to know are there dangers I should beware as I explore further?  My rituals are pretty bare bones.  Raised energy, visualize, and project.  Is there something I should be doing to protect myself?  Is there anything, besides my own self, to be wary of?  Side-effects?  Preparation?  Limits?  After most of my mental wandering I find it hard to shut down and sleep.  Any advise?  Thank you.

[bloodsong]

Read the basics, Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig, Psychic Self-Defense by Dion Fortune, and the second and third parts of Magick, Book 4, by Aliester Crowley (though that last is really more advanced), these are just for starters, and can't hurt.  You can learn better that way than with talking with me through a forum, at least if you are practicing, anyway.

Bloodsong

[Llucifersfire]

Thanks