Rune Galdr

Projective Rune Galdr and Fundamental Principles of Vibrational Manifesting I

Introduction and Theory

This is an extensive topic and I cannot complete it in one post. The following is an outline of some fundamental principles the underly the method descriptions. Even then my descriptions are only brief summaries of what could be said about this topic, so I will post the topic in installments, each a separate thread so as to allow room for discussion (if any) and to answer questions (if any). Be that as it may, these installments are preliminary explorations of potential "advanced" course material I plan to organize.

Runes of sorts are found in many traditions. Galdr is, furthermore, a Norse term but the meaning isn't restricted to Asatru. Every culture with a sacred alphabet uses methods that can be called galdr: mantras, spells, incantations, holy names and letters, all these constitute part of the mysteries of galdr.

I am posing this discussion in terms of Runes and using the Norse terminology because the Norse Viking row of runes is condensed, conscise and easy to work with. As such, it presents a good example to convey the often difficult to understand concepts surrounding the magics of projective harmonic vibration such as those of the letter and the word. The meanings of the Norse runes are deep, but the symbols are direct and no-nonsense, reflecting a rather practical metaphysics. The principles of the metaphysical art of galdr, however, transcend any one culture, and are rooted in our own human nature.

The art and science of magic involves what is commonly called manifesting, or altering reality through the power of our conscious psychophysiological expression, which may or may not be ritualized. Essentially this involves an interactive relationship between the workings of the subjective and the workings of the objective frames of reference. I call this lensing because it is as if light from one end passes through to the other end so that the subjective image and objective image the light describes become identical.

The lens is that which exists in both worlds, subjective and objective although it takes on different names in each. In the objective it is called body and in the subjective it is called by names such as mind, soul, spirit etc, all of which may be different entities but also facets of the same whole. Thus, the lens of manifesting or magic can be conveniently termed body/mind or human psychophysiology.

Now that we have a sense of the two poles involved in magical manifesting (objective and subjective realities) and the fulcrum of their interface (human psychopysiology), we can examine the conveyance of manifestation or what corresponds to light in our lens metaphore. Some might say this is consciousness, but this conveyance needs to be common to both realms and consciousness is a subjective dynamic, which is not tangible, and cannot be objectified. The conveyance, on the other hand, needs to be present in both realms in some form or other, tangible in the objective and internally present in the subjective. This conveyance is vibration.

The vibration must be felt and ideally our connecting our three basic senses (seeing, hearing, touch) as well as the more abstract feeling sense bridges subjective to objective through the psychophysiological lens of what amounts to our self. When these criteria are met the conveyance of vibration can transfer a pattern from subjective to objective manifestation and vice versa. Psychic information beyond the five sense is the most common manifestation of the objective to subjective conveyance, whereas creating or precipitating events is the most common manifestation in the other direction.

Under that category of Subjective-to-Objective conveyance, projective galdr is one of the most advanced magics there is. Much of the work here involves structuring the patterns of vibration conveyance in order for internal patterns to be coherently carried into precipitating external situations. What I will discuss in the next installement is the fundamental magical act to accomplish this.

Projective Rune Galdr and Fundamental Principles of Vibrational Manifestation II

Toning

In this section I will describe principles of vibration manifesting in general terms so as to lend the reader a perspective that somewhat expands beyond the way these topics are usually put forth. Whether the reader fully understands or not doesn't matter as the principles will be expressed in terms of galdr practice and things will make more sense, albeit with the added perspective.

Toning is the backbone of all lensing. This is true because everything in manifestation has a vibratory nature, even what seems to be solid or chaotic. In the last installment we mentioned the basic requirements for conscious lensing to work. These are:

1)Poles of cause/effect
2)The lens fulcrum between the poles
3)The medium of conveyance through the above

To this we can add toning as the means to activate the lensing dynamic via the vibration of the medium of conveyance. I use the word “toning” to show that not only is the vibration consciously intended, but that it reflects a certain structure of harmony and resonance that actually underlies the dynamic of cause and effect in manifestation.

The magician's or lenser's skill comes into choosing how to tone and to make the best of the available of chosen media of toning. In terms of magic this involves using symbols as a primary resource of tonal representation. The lenser's creative skill also determines how symbolism, vibration, and meaning are to be weaved together so that consciousness and the sensate and emotive elements of our nature, based on our biology, can come into focus so that the thread of the conveyance of lensing can pass through the eye of the lens without friction or distortion.

It's convenient to speak in abstract and allegoric terms to make sure only those who have experience of what manifestation is about can connect the dots. At the same time, describing principles beyond ordinary experience with ordinary concepts is a challenge. The good news is that in various traditions such as mantras and galdr, chanting, spell craft etc, we find examples of toning, and indeed realize that toning or at least the attempt at it not only comes naturally to human beings, but is part of what makes life meaningful for us, tied intimately to culture, religion and artistic expression as well as play and romantic love.

We hum we sing, we croon, we make sounds, we think emotively, we are magnetized to beauty, good food, wonderful aromas, feelings, touchings, and generally experiences of the five senses and beyond. All of these experience are vibratory in nature mainly because that is how they feel. So toning is not just done with voice or sound. It utilizes all the senses and sensings, emotings and the way or creativity connects patterns into meaningful to it structures. Toning is not just chanting although chanting can be toning. For toning to result in lensing, however, the two poles must be coherent in the lenser's experience, his/her own nature as the lens and being sensitive to the conveyance, meaning being able to clearly sense vibration without tension and to identify with it are necessary for successful lensing.

Toning on its own only activates lensing when the vibration is one with the lensing dynamic as I described it, and for this to happen the tone needs to become one with the consciousness and identity of the one lensing. This identification is what I called passing the thread of vibration conveyance through eye of the lens.When this happens the vibration tends to expand in the individual, through their heart, energy centers, up their spines and every channel and radiate out their aura. The saturation of the psycho-biological lens that we are leads to the continuity of conveyance to link the poles of cause and effect that we call subjective and objective realities so the pattern from one end manifests at the other.

This manifestation most of the time does not occur all at once, given material inertia and conflicting forces that may act against our influence, but if our receptivity to the pattern as one with our identity and will is both subjective and objective (our physical body does not tense or resist) and can be sustained either continuously or periodically, then objective reality will conform in one way or another to the pattern our toning represents.

Like any skill lens toning is perfected through practice, and such practice includes the development of our energy conductance capacity, our will, our vibratory receptivity, our continuity of identity (through confronting and healing trauma and psychic fragmentation), activating nodes within the body where harmonics of experience are centered (such as the chakras of Indian traditions) etc., all of which are expressed partially, with distortion or clearly in many different traditions, usually with emphasis on one thing over another regarding the possibilities.

To apply skilled toning to lensing in a general way, could involve using one tradition as a foundation of approach and complementing it with principles from other traditions not emphasized in the first. Without symbol references creative tonal organization is impractical. It could in principle be done instinctively, but weaving cause to effect in a planned way requires some structure, just as artists and musicians gain from learning principles of harmony and composition. Given we are conditioned toward psychosomatic distortion, we need these principles and the benefits of symbols that concentrate our will and intent harmonically or we will end up resorting to brute force of active will instead of coupling magnetic desire, intention and sensed vibrations that carry meaning in a smoother and healthier manner.

Active will is not enough, and because of this we tense to compensate. Tension is a signal that we need to defend ourselves from something or that something is resisting us. Tension is the last thing you want in lensing because it gets weaved into both the patterns of cause/effect and in one's identity that centers them. The message tension sends then gets weaved into everyone one wills and can actually corrupt the identity matrix of a person over time. Most of us are already corrupt in one way or another this way, because most sustain chronic tension in one way or another, at one level of being or another. Thus learning to tone/lens also amounts learning to unravel tension in one's being. All of this constitutes part of the complexity of actually mastering something that would have been alot more natural if humanity indivudally and collectively wasn't so conflicted with itself and environment, but that is where we stand and what we have on our plate.

I have attempted to lay out concepts the encompass a relatively wide spectrum in this installment to give an idea of what I mean by toning and how toning is related to lensing. These abstractions will make more sense in the next installment when I put the expressed them in terms of prijective rune galdr.

Projective Rune Galdr and Fundamental Principles of Vibrational Manifestation III

Galdr Practice

I must remember to keep the material here on topic. Properly it is a small part of a metaphysics that encompasses many occult systems, or at least is similar. The ideas of lensing and toning connect with those of Qabbalah and more modern western systems such as Enochian as well as the angelic choirs as extensions of human potential in the cosmos. Those mysteries, however, are beyond the scope of this writing and to me worthless without a foundation in understanding and practice that does them justice. As I don't want to draw these installments out too much I will get to everyone's favourite part: practice.

First a few comments:

Some prectices are easy to describe. All are, I think. Even though simplification is convenient, however, it opens a lot of roomo for misunderstanding, especially in the details where the devil is. If I describe something out of the readers practical experience, the reader will most likely approximate to experience that seems closest to what they think I am describing. Sometimes this might suffice, but I think most of the time it can dampen the effectiveness of practice or distort it beyond recognition, where the best case scenario is that the practice becomes no more than a placebo (what some forms of modern occult thinking consider magic to be in the first place!).

The above rationale is what motivates me to be cautious about keeping things simple. Things are not simple. Toning is not chanting, mantras are not simple repetition, and belief is only one component of a greater dynamic behind the power of galdr, and anything but blind faith. We really do not want to rely on the placebo effect for magic to work because it is not reliable. This is because the conscious portion of our beliefs is only the tip of a greater iceberg of complex nuances of personal biases and preconceptions. To say I believe in so and so as a simple statement does not take into accound how any statement can be interpreted in multiple ways.

When the placebo effect or "off the cuff" faith or being fooled into believing in something is the only force behind our magic or lensing, the outcome is at the mercy of our own concealed predjudices, often ruled by our personal version of Murphies Law, hidden guilt or fear, judgments galore or even a death wish. It is far better to act with confidence and remain in the present to reinforce your experience in practice than pretend something is true when the nuances of how it is true diverge in unpredictable directions.

Galdr practice can, therefore, be a great teacher toward the cultivation of the most constructive perspective to gain maxiumum and intended results.

What you want to to pack one symbol with a complex set of avenues of experiencing that symbol. These avenues must involve the body's sensory systems as much as possible and to a greater proportion than the minds conception and assosicative capacities. In other words, you can have a list of associations for a symbol, and this will only be effective if you can channel the vibration of that list through your mental will. Many people do this instinctively, but in the end the process can be so inefficient that the practioner has to strain with mental will to compensate.

Stress can be relieved by compensating through experiencing the vibration in a sensory manner. It is this sensory experience that couples with mental processes that can connect it with the ideas behind the symbol. Here is what I mean:

We have the rune Fehu: The rune represents wealth on multiple levels. In order to activate the power of this rune, which is really the power to lense the harmonic of its meaning, it needs to be understood on as many levels as possible. If we try to manifest material wealth without realizing the esoteric and transformative levels of its meaning, we cannot close the circle that makes manifesting through vibration possible: the circle between what is within and what is without.

Fehu is mobile wealth, such as money only on the most superficial level. It really represents the energy of nourishment, the food that keeps us going beyond the concept of survival. The mobile power is that of kundalini, the fiery life force, the energy released in physical food that fires up our metabolism, mobile physical fire that consumes a forest.

Fehu is a vertical stave, a version of the world axis, our spine and the general concept of up and down that specifically channeles energy along a diagonal from the stave upward, from the lower to the higher. This is fire released that goes upward, and this path of fire is significant. Physical nourishment releases fire to be contained elsewhere. The ideas of money, energy consumption, nourishment are all about releasing energy from one area and mobilizing it to bring together elements of another area. This is also the idea behind kundalini, a fiery energy latent in our own human design and the world at large. When the energy is released consciously it nourishes a transformation for us to be capable of mobilizing far greater energy amounts than we had before.

All of these meanings of Fehu are complemented by the description of the name of the rune itself as an equation of runes F-E-H-U or Fe-Eoh-Hagal-Ur. Each of these runes also has an equation so the meaning goes deeper and deeper in cycling combinations of rune letter synthesis. All of these understandings of the mind come into practical application potential when they become vivid meditations. Through these meditations we are to get a sensed feeling, to transfer the abstract concept to the intelligence of our bodies, where it is felt. When we do this, holding the intuitive sense strong as well, the added vibratory component activates the lense to distribute this pattern as a magnetic attractor of our will/intent in association with it.

The vibratory component comes from getting a strong sense of the phonetics of the rune name, in association with the vowels or consonants that most complement its primary sound, that of the first letter. Hissing F works, but Ffffe works better because that E represents the primary function of F, which is alchemical and symbiotic, a sacred marriage of form and energy. The next step is to distribute the vibration in an amplified manner. There are a few phonetic options from sanskrit that can do this.

The idea is to nasalize the sound, to move the sound out the nose all the while feeling the vibration of the air carresing the upper part of the nasal cavity into the brain. That awakens a series of sensations that can later be triggered mentally once the vibration is well practiced. That is one set of sensations. Another set is generated by abruptly ending the sound of the final letter, usually a vowel. For example we tone and extended f, and exended short e (stronger if pronouced ei)and then abruptly stop the sound as if it got cut with a knife. This will cause a slight in-draw of breath, but also a distinct energy sense that shapes the tone as if it were made of packets of energy instead of the continuum sense generated by the nasal method. The idea here is to insure the body is vibrating with the sound as deeply as possible, like a tuning fork.

This brings me to a third category of experience to bring about vibrational manifestation. The first is the multi-layered meaning of a symbol, mythic, esoteric, its physical correspondences and especially its transformative or alchemical meaning. The second category is the sensate generated experience, visualization, sounding and the generation of tactile or energy like sensations through imagination assisted by the actual physical effects of moving and sounding. The third category bridges the other two, and represents meditations on identity (the sense of our own consciousness), on space (space within and space surrounding us), the projection of vibration into space as if it were our own limb, the sense of the present moment and the fusion of tangible sensations with abstract meanings via the bridges of our identity sense, space sense, time sense, projected energy sense etc.

All of these categories of the experience of manifesting vibration need to be practiced independantly and then artfully synthesized and weaved together into a seamless and reinforced whole. Once the combination comes together the energy is far more tangible and effective than before. Then the path is to own it and make it as natural a part of one's experience and expression as one can. This is done through repetition and simultaneous meditation on the fused experience. Ideally, to master this the practitioner will have exercised general capacities of moving energy, grounding, aura purification and amplification and effortless application of mental and emotional will to support the sensate vibrations. Ideally meditation on consciousness, body and space-time presence with an otherwise silent mind free of verbal distraction and a body that can sustain amplified energies in comfort, will awaken a natural intuition on how best to take care of the details here to wring out the kinks over time.

The next step is to select a target so the manifold vibratory presence of the symbol can flow. This target can be our own being or any part of it, our aura or any portion of the space around us or something or someone, even an abstract event. Whatever the target, it fills and resonates with the manifold vibration. This does not guarantee we will materially manifest our rune, however. We may need to go through a process of completing an internal transformation to embody the meaning within before we can sustain corresponding effects without. If not we may as well just use affirmations and mental will to manifest our wealth. Vibrational Manifesting only works when the inner and outer can co-vibrate the same pattern, meaning that either the inner or outer must sustain the vibration so the other side can come into resonance.

Magic often uses ritual implements or externals to facilitate internal states that in turn feedback into manifesting something on the outside. However, in principle and practice, one can just as easily focus exclusively inward until the vibration presence is strong enough without ritual or auxiliary items.

All of this is just a general overview, and I will leave it at that. Further development of the topic at this time will come through any potential discussions around it. I will, however, attempt to address similar themes via other areas of western occultism as examples.