Feelings of holiness, glory, majesty, power, eternity, perfection, along with happiness, depression, fear, anger, etc all fall into the same emotive category - they are a body reaction to contact, power, energy and connection. That is normal, and every normal magician (and person) has them.without them we cannot operate as a living human being nor as a species. They are purely of the body - they are essentially the product of neurotransmitters - endogenous chemicals, a highly complex signalling mechanism that operates the body and brain, and pushes the body to react in various ways.

What has this to do with magic? Emotions are a form of fuel, they are also a survival and bonding mechanism, and they are complex necessity for our physical survival. Both are unbalanced extremes, but they were valid experiments that we could learn from. Others went the other way and immersed themselves totally in the senses of the body. Some realised the separate but entwined dynamic between body and spirit and reacted by rejecting the body in favour of the spirit - they starved themselves, denied themselves, and some groups used suicide to release the spirit. When we look back in history and look at the time just before Christianity emerged (say from 500BC) to when Christianity was starting to become a force (say to about 600AD) people explored this relationship deeply and came to different conclusions. The body is the vehicle of the spirit and through the body the spirit can immerse itself in the physical world, and the body can experience the inner none physical - it is a symbiotic relationship/agreement/construct/externalisation. not physical realm)/Divine/inner worlds is of the spirit. Once immersed into real magic and mysticism, the person begins to understand that the emotions, the urges, wants and needs are all of the body, and the connection and communication with everything inner(i.e. Mystics and magicians have struggled for millennia with this understanding and decided to approach it in a variety of different ways.

To really understand this dynamic of magic +/- emotions we first need to truly understand our bodies, our minds and our spirits.

Such ability to compartmentalise emotions is not a natural ability for most people and is something that is acquired through training and practice. There are times in magic when emotions also have no use or place and should be moved to one side for a variety of reasons, some of which are outlined in this post.

This is the same dynamic as when an airline pilot is struggling to control a damaged aeroplane, or a paramedic is trying to stop someone dying, or a doctor is doing emergency open heart surgery, etc – there are times when emotion does not help and has no place.

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