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# Introducing ... Me :)

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- Subject: Introducing ... Me :)
- From: "anunusednamedamnit <jtb26@...>" <jtb26@...>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 04:12:10 -0000
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    Hi, my names joe, i've been lurking on (and learning from) the
    franzbardonmagi group for a while, and I think its about time I
    introduced myself :) I'm a uni student studying physics and
    industrial psychology (i'm presently doing an msc in the later) in
    new zealand. My background in `occultism` stems from when I was
    introduced to a book called modern magick by donald kraig. I'd never
    encountered the idea of magical practice b4 and it fascinated my
    greatly ... over the next 3/4 years I ended up studying everything I
    could on the golden dawn and magical theory. I also practiced modern
    magick to lesson 6, and the meditative exercises as set out in a book
    by poke runyon called the book of solomons magic. At this point
    various things that had been `bugging` me for ages led me to stop and
    reasses my progress. I finally accepted that I didn't really like the
    ritual/symbolic/belief-making structure that most of the work I was
    doing was based upon. I felt that I was going about things
    backwards ... practice through theory instead of theory from practice
    if you will ;) Thats not to say the ritual exercises don't work, they
    did as far as they went, but I always felt I was just working with
    dogma instead of getting at what lay behind. Then I came accross
    IIH ... and found what i'd been looking for! (trite I know ;) but
    thats how it felt) So far i've had several false starts, there are
    aspects of the system that I find ... misleading shall we say ;) I'm
    now in the process of restarting my practice (4th time :) ), and
    would value input on a number of practical questions i'm still
    struggling with. I think i'll address these in another post though
    seeing as i've been a little more windy than i'd planned in my
    introduction :).

    Happy new years everyone,
    Joe.

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