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A few things that you can do with magic that aren't immediately apparent:
- Body Jumping
You can superimpose your Astral Body into someone else's. This allows you to experience everything they do: See, hear, feel, etc. It does NOT give you any control over their body. You are entirely passive. But it can be fun.
- Image magic
Your subconscious tends to assume that what you see is what is
there. This subconscious assumption tends to mean that your mind will create what it thinks is
there. So, if you look at a picture, Astrally, your mind will create an Astral Domain in the
same place, which you can then enter. To put it simply, your Astral form can enter a picture.
You could walk into a "Calvin and Hobbes" strip, a T.V. show, a painting, whatever. Things can
look a little bizzare tho: Entering a B/W cartoon is like walking into a white world where
everything is made up of black lines, etc. More details
- Dreamwalking
As I mentioned earlier, every time you dream, you are in fact Projecting onto the Astral Planes. Which means that when you are consciously AP'ing, you can in fact meet other people who are dreaming. If you want to get in touch with a distant loved one, for instance. Or, if someone has been really getting on your nerves, you can take control of their dreams, and turn them into nightmares. There is a common misconception that a dream is totally under the control of the person dreaming it. This is NOT the case. You CAN control your own dream, but so can anyone else who is in it. And since you'll be there consciously, you'll have a lot more control than those half-asleep dreamers will. Many possibilities here.
- Akashic Records
These are a separate plane, where all the knowledge of the world is kept. You can find out ANYTHING here. The most useful part of the Planes, in my opinion. To get to them, try and visualise yourself into a huge library. This
usually works. The Records is the easiest way to find where someone is dreaming, if you can't find them directly. Some people say they are sacred and should be used only rarely, for important information. I say they're wrong, and use them all the time to
find even the most insignificant information, such as the lyrics to a song, what my forgotten passwords are, and where my friends are at the moment. They're there to be used, after all, so use them. You may find that the books are a bit laborious to get
information from: If so, try visualising a computer. This can REALLY speed things up. You can even Netsurf form the Records, WITHOUT any time delay while it loads the pages, and WITHOUT needing passwords for the protected pages. Exceedingly useful part of
the Planes.
- Astral Sex
Had to be here, didn't it? Very different from the physical, Astral Sex is a LOT much more fun. I don't recommend trying it until you are fairly experienced at AP'ing, since otherwise you tend to return to your body at EXACTLY the
wrong time! Essentially Astral Sex is where you merge your Astral body with someose else's. Since Astral bodies are as fluid as water, this is easy. And what does it feel like? Well, basically, it's like normal sex, only involving your WHOLE BODY, rather
than just one or two small portions of it.
I should point out: This is NOT a complete merge. It involves only your Astral body, which is NOT the same thing as your consciousness, as I mentioned before. You may pick up some sense of what the other person is feeling, but that's all.
Also, bear in mind that you can also involve more than one other person: there's no limit to the number of people that can merge like this.
- Key figures
I mentioned thoughforms earlier as being your individual thoughts given substance. Key figures are a little like thoughtforms, but much more powerful: They are actual parts of your Astral Self, split (temporarily) off from the rest of you. These can do many things, far too many to list here, so follow this link to find out about them: Key figures
- Mirror Maze
My own invention, and it's one of my favourite ways of getting someone who's annoying me out of my way. More on it through here
- Forbidden Magics
I said earlier that there was no way to use thoughtforms to control someone with magic. That was true. There ARE ways, however, of using magic to manipulate or totally control a person. You can also use magic to take possesion of someone, either temporarily or, in some cases, permanantely (If the person you take over has no real mind of their own, eg an infant or someone with certain mental conditions). You really can sell you soul for power, or even sell someone else's. You can bind someone's Astral form in an Astral construct, trapping them permanantly in a nightmare plane. You can do all those things. I know HOW you can do all those things. And nothing on Earth will induce me to tell you. I don't believe in Black Magic, but I do believe there are some things that just should NOT be done. If you decide you want to learn how to do things such as those listed above, that's your choice, but I will not help you do it. So please, don't email me asking me about it, I get fed up with them.