Memory versus Learning

Memory versus Learning


From times to times I meet someone who is very proud to know by head a lot of information.

But how much this is usefull?

This is an article where I do a mix about corporate software development and the occult study areas as I have told for some years, I found my work to be a whole at all.

Ok. If your company dislike because I love to walk at mountains and nature places there's no problem. People have personal lives. And my work as any other professional worker is what I do for life and to help companies growing.But personal interests are not of your business most of times and we observed any skilled talents in the market have other areas of interest to add to their experience and skills.

So we have a lot of information we receive in life, plus all training and experiences. This is what make us reach levels of expertize and being able to solve our work needs.

So there are many levels. Some will do only the basic, others will be able to work alone, others will be able to create and to do. Some others will lead and teach others. And few will reach the "wisdom level".  Each company need all of them.

I fully agree with this quote cited as being from Einstein:

“Never memorize something that you can look up.” - Albert Einstein"

Here is the comment about at the site Brightdrops:

"This is more true today than it was back in Einstein’s time, because the Internet means you can look just about anything up. That frees the mind from having to memorize useless facts and figures and explore deeper thoughts that require creativity and imagination, two things that Einstein prized above all else. It’s true that even some of the most successful business people followed this strategy. Henry Ford was once questioned about how smart he was and retorted that he could get the answer to any question with just the push of a button, so why did he have to know it?"

My comments:

For sure at school and university and some level exams you need to know for each area, a lot of information. 

And for times ahead, for example, if you chose an area like Medicine. A doctor must know a lot of principles related to so many areas and be able to identify the most symptoms as fast as possible.

One way to do it is often review your study and reread even old books. Our memory is a machine and need be oiled, Ok? So is very good to add new material, but also give a look even at some very basic materials. And as a book lover, I had many old books I reread sometimes.

Uhm, well, that is what we expect from most doctors and the really good ones can do it. 

But not all times. The purpose is to understand the information you get and develop your own expertise.

With time you have to be able to know how to use it. Keep what is important, have the main principles and understand what is needed to develop it.

Even the character Dr. House from the TV series who was really brilliant needed to search for information. 

My "uncle" Mr Spock was so brilliant but many times had researched for information too. Star Trek fans will remember he was too often at the computer researching, but other times at his personal place meditating and working on yourself.

Ok. There are the information needed and at what is needed to know about to deal with it. 

To me, the important is not how much information you can keep at mind ready to call it at once.

The important is if you is able to use it. To know how to use it!

Even some occult orders appears to pay atention to how much information you can have at mind.
What?
Uhm, Ok, for sure the good ones have people skilled to just talk with someone and to be able to see who is who.


But what the difference this have to any professional area?

To me, none.
For companies, a leveled professional must talk with someone skilled for just few minutes for a match. No stupid basic school test as some still does. Most of times that is rude.

Sorry friends at any of such groups as I've been able to talk with any people at any of my work areas in respectful ways at all levels.

What some are looking for? 

I'm sad to comment, I had talked with so many people who work in a way to make sure their companies will broke soon.  They do not look for a wide scene.

Ok, about to know. A simple example: you may know how to do a very nice better barbecue? Great!!! Please, invite me, I'm a very bad at cuisine!

Anyways, I still know the theory about how to make the fire and the meat, but most of you just are better at the cuisine. LOL...


Yes!!! Just because I like a barbecue this in no ways means I have to be so good doing it!

Barbecue done in a typical south Brasil way."Churrasco".

Information is only data. Useless without the expertize for practice. 

A scholar is someone who love research. A scientist, some skilled software developers, a medicine doctor and many others.

And many scholars don't know all that information by head!
Get this? If you visit a scholar at work most for sure you will see a lot of books for reference opened around. Just for curiosity, now I have nine books plus printings and notes around me I'm using this week. Plus usually a dozen tabs opened at the internet browser for references I'm looking for. They will be back to the stand but next day I get more up the tables.
A reason we love libraries!

So well, why I became a writer?

For sure not because I know everything by head!

I use to say I become a writer because I don't like to remember too much things, no matter the expertise I may develop on it. 

And why? Just because I know where I can find the information I need.

I may write about computer development work, a fantastic fiction tale or something about the occult or my experiences on human development. 

What I really need is to know what to do. Dot.

Despite some capability to write since early age, my first formal article came to public only in 1986.

It was a ten pages article for for a local Computerworld journal (The DataNews Journal), about advanced software development of online systems (CICS/VS) for IBM mainframes. A high level technology and was ten pages at first. Wow! Guess how I felt! And the publisher did a lot on the Ads... LOL... 

But how I started that about writing? 
Just doing what I do almost all days since I remember. I always used to read a lot and was saving information and taking notes about my study. 
How many people goes to the bathroom with a 300 pages computer manual or an occult book? I was one since the 70s.  
And there was a lot of big books to study. Not only one, but usually a dozen each with 300-400 pages to read just for one area. And the need for practices few have did. 
Any  coincidence with occult area? Just to cite as you become better at some area, this will help to the others areas too. Need discipline and practice.

Computers to me always was related with the occult. And no mysticims about.  Just is something you need to go deep and try a lot, have errors and learn from that.


Both areas goes deep into realms with a wide knowledge to explore. 
And you can use your imagination to develop a personal method to work.


 
For sure I have a lot of processed information in my brain, but I have no memory about working only by head in life, but always working with all much I was using at time plus the need for references. 

And may be you do not know, astronauts who went to the moon had manuals to use all the time. They was real heros!
I remember to see photos of the Nasa people, all the team, doing trainings seated at the floor, not nice rooms, they was on extreme pressure and have to get the information as soon as possible, and put it in practice.
Just to remember, most of photos you will find about that missions had most seniors professionals, working hard, not only fashion teens as we see at many company profiles.

Apollo astronauts learning to survive in the depths of the Panamanian jungle.
Source: psyched4sport

Learning about the jungle is very related with many practical aspects of business. Are you able to continue despite the worst troubles?


So I found at some time, I had so many information collected to become an article and started to publish. This is how it started. Collecting notes. And I never stopped.

The result from that article was interesting. I received a lot of letters from all major companies in my country while my boss (who had a copy of the journal in his desk) tryed to ignore it because he knew my salary was not so good... (LOL...) and used to recognized me after being called due costumers... I was a big reference in the market that time....  
Funny but true. 

Ok, I was not after his aproval. The first is my own. And a hundreds of good ones had returned too.  

This have happened to my softtware professional area and at the occult areas.

Remember, I use to say I see my work very related to all these areas. Human kind evolution and computers.
Sometime we will have a development level very advanced. Many are just Sci-fi for now. 

I'm not against yours approval of this or that.

A main point if you have a work you know to be true and work for it. 

Not all people will agree with you. 

And many will question what you are doing in all possible ways. 

And the first way I point all times is: I'm not a scholar! I'm a practictioner! 


What your company pay atention for? To know or just only know the current fashion tool? 
To just obbey orders or have oppinions to create and make your company grown?

There's not much difference using tools from centuries or the internet fashion tools. 


You must to know what to look for!

Juan Manuel Fangio
A guy who really knew how to do it.

Sorry people, I won't appears in a chat and be ready to talk by mind an entire text from an old grimoire or whatever on technology. 

Nor I will be able many times to present by head a work about a computer software among dozens I've worked. But I can talk by myself at any time and if I have few hours to get into something new or not it may surprise you.

I work to learn and develop about how to do it at my areas!

I love Juan Manuel Fangio as a big example. 
This guy had not automatic machines. He driven F1 cars in brute. No computers. No fantastic machines. Just a man and the tool he chose.

This guy for life, until dead, received each week visitors, the best pilots of the world, and guess for what? Just because he was knew as being a Master in his work. The most famous pilots came into him to learn and give respect. In practice, he worked his entire life. 

I will repeat this to so company leaders: Juan Manuel Fangio was visited until his dead by people who came to learn with him how to drive. They never was against the tools. 

If you pay atention for the tools only, you are ready to become a looser. 

Like a company where they only goes after costs. They will broke soon for sure. 

Creativity, being produtive is the first. 
Never, but never about having some information by head. 

You must to know how to use it.. 



Any good pilot will be ready to learn and drive a machine. Get this company managers? A decent professional must know what to do. The tool is only the way we may use.

So I will be able to comment at instant about how things work. 

If I need a phormula, I know where to get it. 
At internet times we have lots of sources. One must be able to filter all bulshit, find the best forums, and for sure, look for the best authors and books. 

When it is some tool I have not worked, I will be ready to recognize what I need to follow on that. 

This is Learning. 

I don't pay a f*ck if someone only know the current computer software tool. This is not so different from dozens I had used in deep for years. 

Remember when Nokia had to admit they lose their creativity near to broke? Hummm?? I had an article in 2009 about intrusions on people life many years before that is a critical reason to loose profesionals. A senior manager commented in public article to prefer hiring a criminal instead a smoker so I had to comment about some human and company aspects. Real talents have a real life. But if your company chose a raper, a murder or any other criminal because dislike someone personal interest, well, pay the price and I really wish that won't affect your family. Or better, remember you have a family. 

And going into the occult, want to learn another Grimoire area? What you need to follow? The Great Art is also named The work of God. This means standarts to follow, discipline, brain work, not became a saint, Ok? 


Why real good creative people does not want to work at your company? 

I suggest you to read this fantastic Aaron Shapiro's article, and it is very up to date to any area where talent is needed: Why Digital Talent Doesn’t Want To Work At Your Company.

And if this is about occult, there are a lot to do, and I will follow that for the needed time.

Memory is good to immediate needs, like the ceremonial rituals you are working for many time. 

But just to know phrases by head never, but never is the same as to know how to deal with that. 

I'm always far aways from the ultimate goal,

But I'm always sure about what I want to do and with some decent idea about how it can be done and most of all, be ready to discover a new way for that!

Want to grow your business? Grow your mind!

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17/07/2016

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Extreme Tarot Readings and Some of The Art Behind It

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Extreme Tarot Readings and Some of The Art Behind It


Sometimes I had the opportunity to do what I call "extreme readings".
That are readings on fly, very short, for a lot of people at minimum time.
I say, something like one or two minutes maximum.
I will talk here using the Tarot as a good example. But in practice sometimes I used other oracles, like stones, peanut shells, broken sticks, metallic clips, nails, etc. Well, I developed an ability to read almost anything as an oracle. Someday I will write about how each work really different,  

So I will try to give some information more related to the aspects of doing a good decent reading, whatever the oracle you choose.

To make extreme readings will push your limits to show you really know what are you doing.

For example, you are in a bar, a party, in a park or barbeque with friends, or during a Sabbath,  you have your deck and you start doing readings for people and sudden, they become a lot.
Sometimes that can really became a fury, and many people want listen you.
Trust me. If you never exposed yourself to the public, be prepared for an avalanche of emotional requests, business opinions and with luck, some really very interesting ones. Some of the best people I knew, the ones who really make this a better world, and some of the best students I had I found this way.
And a lot of interference. I wish you already have learned how to work and know to enter in a calm state, focused and not allowing any intrude energy to disturb you. In public places is funny how many spirits you will find trying to make a mess too (read the final comment please). Plus some drunk people. A good time to remember about protection circles and all that stuff. But in such places, your personal protection area must be done silently. Remember this never but never can be a circus show. If you know how to do, you will be able to go unnoticed. This is a good point for you.


In practice, is easy to find people doing minor readings, like 5-10 minutes at many places, like fairs, public events. Many are good readers and many are just learning. In the 90s for a time I used to seat under a big tree in a park and do 5 minutes readings for the people. Was very interesting to know more about people and to do some money.

Lots of tarot (or any Oracle) readers may do short readings sometimes taking 5 to 10 minutes.


Many times I did "extreme readings" (1-2 minutes) even for free, and many do this way. Most of times just happens. Ok. Just remember to cleanup yourself after that. This is a reason to bill something. Even a such short work can bring you some very unpleasant attached energies. As shit may happens during a reading, see my final commentary at end of this text.

Note: I'm commenting about situations for doing extreme readings and how work with that. This is not a service I do as the reader will got tired after a session of extreme reading the same as doing complete readings for all that people. It's a matter of results, not time.


The most important to understand is: this is not a competition, it's not a car race, nor a circus show.
Some people who make public mystic fairs are always after someone to do a show for nothing. This is not the case.

The goal is to do a good reading as you will be improving your skills and yourself to be more able to talk less but with a complete overview.
If you need five minutes it's Ok. May be with time you will need just some seconds, for a direct and clear phrase to answer the client.

Many of us will have such experiences and that are good for training if you are starting.
But some people will expect a lot from you if you are experienced. I say, really a lot. Yes, there are the true interested, but also you will meet opportunists who will give you a lot of headache. So, it's an opportunity to learn to protect yourself.

But what is a short extreme reading as I will comment?
A short reading can be just a phrase, a specific comment, related with the person need. But this have to be complete in my point of view.
And this is my purpose here, to comment some aspects about a doing complete Tarot reading in a minute or two.
See, for "complete reading" in no ways you will talk about the entire life of your client, but the reply must be the needed to the question.


You are ready for a short extreme reading when you can see at once, just a second, all you need, even to talk for a long time with just one card. But I will keep in the 1-2 minutes limit, Ok?

Son of the Sun
Photo by Mathieu Degrotte - France

But what you can see in a "one card reading"?

The reply is simple: You can see all you need related to the question, the why and how, if something is hidden, the for what and even possible incomes.
This start just working with the most basic meaning, the "title" for each card. This is all you need, a simple, basic idea.Then the elements, the numbers, symbols. All that with time become part of your intuition too. And more, the personal wisdom you develop.
And as your skills increase, your capabilities to understand situations, people, companies, this become a phrase, a complete idea you can understand and express.

I always use the "one card reading" in my formal readings too, not just for short readings.
I always ask "whats happening?"
In a short reading, I just get the general idea and talk about that.
But in a formal reading this means I have more time to comment on detail.

So I first use just one card to see what is happening and that is the general line I follow and everything I do later will be related with that card.
As for years I do most readings to distant foreign people, by e-mail, I have more time to write. This is the same for a live reading (when I do). So with time I will talk about the whole scene I see.The result can be some pages plus any other information I see is needed to add. For example, may be what I'm talking about is related to some area so I will add information related to that. Some people don't know how care of himselves and need guidance, and this is what I do more, look who you are and what you need to know to follow on your path. But see, for an extreme reading, I have to get the main aspects and go direct to that and trust me, it's possible to add even guidance on that. This is not a matter of cut words, but learn to be direct.

Some readings may need some extra information, and this is Ok. The "one card" gave the needed information, but the client may have some adventure ahead, a business need, a life change they are on fear to do.  For such cases, I like to put three more cards if I really want to go on some detail already present at the initial card. Usually some variation of the standard "Situation-What to do-Results". Remember this have variations, like "Past-Present-Future", or "Background-Whats happening-what look for".
Each case is different and you must learn to explore such possibilities as needed. Remember, what is the main information from the "one card" to keep on track. That will guide you about how to explore more or not.


Following. I commented you will be receiving a lot of information.

How are your connection with the world of symbols you get?

This apply to any Tarot reading. And for any other Oracle in my opinion.

Each card have a major meaning, and have a lot of symbols drawn on it.
But the real reading comes when you go ahead, use the card as a door to the another realm, the sources of the information you are looking for.
Remember first what is the card title and the ideas related.

The Calender
Art by Mattias Adolfsson - Sweden

Now look about the sources of information:

You will have two kind of information sources coming from the Tarot:
1) The first is what you will see about your client, the person for who you are doing the reading.You will enter at his/her personal realm.
2) The second information is what the Tarot will show you.

Both are present at the card you get. And this can also give you an image at your mind, even a complete movie in a second.
So remember, the Tarot is a connection to his/her private life and will add information/symbols related to what you see.


Please, remember, be respectful. You are entering in the most sacred place: a personal life, so keep your prejudices and personal ideas and interests out!


You must understand, in a reading is the Tarot who will reply. You must process the information, and only when you are able to, comment more about with your study and personal life experience.

But not to judge your client because your personal choices.

What I want to make clear is some of your personal ideas can't interfere with the reading. Your personal preferences, like sports, sex, politics, kind of food, money, prejudices, etc. such conceptions about life style most of times are not the question.This is what charlatans and oportunists do most of times, just try to use the information to cheat or manipulate the client.


Warning: To keep your life apart in no ways means lack of ethics!

Please understand: to help who really want help/evolution is not the same as reply to anyone.
So, you does not have to help criminals or to harm others. I knew many who do this deeply in practice. To help someone to commit a crime make you a criminal too. Dot.

You are free to not reply on such questions. Just say bye.

So lets your reading flow.

Mystic River
Photo by Bill - United States

How to interpret the "one card" or short spread you are doing?  


The Tarot most of times will be very explicit just at the first card. As I told, is a wide image of what is happening.
So we have the card title and a image or just the idea related like in the Minor Arcana.

So that "one card" give you an image. Wish you developed your intuition, your senses are Ok and you are not affected by the environment. This is important when working for really beautiful clients or some famous people, they can be very boring or attractive. LOL...


Developing reading skills will make it s always clear to understand? No. It will not.

Even I recognize one and other time that "one card with the whole image" appears really strange, I say, really have no sense at first look. Yes, sometimes I look that card and I say to myself: "What?" This will happens with you, be sure.
So be humble and use a simple method, that is very useful also to learn more the Tarot. As you feel by experience, ask for one or two cards at once to explain the first one. Easy and simple, just talk to the Tarot "Please, explain the card I received".
When such strange conditions happens, the additional card may show additional hidden aspects you and sometimes the client are unaware or try to hidden. Or will show the question is really different and offer a complete different point of view. There are many possibilities. And yes, some clients will lie to you and you need to be able to go through it.

When doing short readings, people may or not have specific questions. Many just want a "message for this time".
And even when they have specific questions, remember most of them are not really able to express what they want or the question is really wide.
Anyways, you must be able to get the whole scene and interpret it at once.

And here again the idea of a door to the other realm, and there is your client world, with everything you can see (or even think was possible) and all the symbols the card is presenting for you.

Now you have what the client asked (or not), how his/her the private life is about that and the Tarot symbols about the situation.


An important note: Be aware, as you develop your skills and your personal wisdom, one and other time the Tarot may give a short and direct reply to you. Yes, sometimes the reply have nothing with the client, but is a message to your personal point of view, or an advice about something you have to know or change. The deeper you goo, this will happens too. So be prepared for a card with a message like "Use your experience to comment about N" or even "Hey stupid, not this way!". LOL...


So you have all it, let's talk.

First, be respectful. This is a major rule for both sides.

You will have a client who is ready to listen. Others not so ready due personal concerns, family traditions, etc. They need learning.

And some really don't want to listen, whatever you say. The same for opportunists wanting a lot from you. They will suck you the most they can. Do not waste your time with none of these. Really.


It is always important to say the truth. But be calm about this.
For some people, the truth can be a punch in the stomach so try to look around how you can be gentle and at the same time, explain the needed points. 
In this part, not always the Tarot will show you the client is "sensible". You must learn more about people too. 
Anyways, as you make your muscles stronger, you will be Ok when one and other talk bad about you because you "did a bad reading and that was not what they wanted". 

When you are true, it allows people to see you without masks. Are you perfect, without problems like some do for self promotion? Be sure I'm not and I had really a lot of deep good and bad experiences few people had. 

So be clear, who deserve what you do will get it.
You can always talk about the truth, just observe how you do it.

Many Tarot teachers talk about to develop your intuition. Practices like meditation will help a lot. Yes, this is very good and needed.
But you also need to go through the world of the symbols to be able to get the understanding of the scene related with that. Less is more, so work to develop this,

Some magickal areas and religions where they use some kind of oracle call this capability as something like "to receive a ray of light". Uhm, a nice image to describe it.


At the initial years, is common to the reader try to analyze all the symbols in each card. And there are a lot to learn and study. And this can do a lot of mess due too much information.

The Tarot symbols are important to to study, but see all this information as part of a cake you will cook. The result is the cake and you will just taste it without think about all many ingredients and how it was done.
Get this? With time and experience you will start to get the final taste, the meaningful result of the reading.

For example, you can look a picture of people and say at once if it is funny, if they are happy or not and how nice the place is. You does not need to fix your attention to each point of the image. You must learn to see the whole scene.


At the reading you have the client and a scene you received. What comes to your mind first of all?
This first imagery uses to be what is really happening, what you need to know.
For sure, as an instant movie, you can talk a lot about or just take the principal.



But how to get there?

Study, knowing well the basics and the main general aspects for each arcana.

There are many spreads that help you to learn the main: how to ask and how to get the information.
Ready layout spreads helps a lot on this, just because you divide the question in parts that make easier to interpret.
Remember, always you use some kind of spread, say to the Tarot do the reply using such layout.

Then ask about the whole question like "whats happening to X?"

Remember to disconnected from your personal opinions and follow with the reading.



Additional final comments:

Even in a short extreme reading you may get any of the possible interferences or strange events.
As I told, Tarot is like a door to other realms.
And what can happens when you open such door? Intruders!
Yes, even in a simple one card reading you can receive undesired interference, like opportunist spirits.
And more of that, when you open the door for the other person realm, may be he/she is being attacked someway. This mean, such spirits/forces my use the connection you did and come after you.

So remember, at the start is good to enter a relaxed state, do a prayer you choose specifically for such a moment and ask for protection.
At end, give thanks and release any spirits/forces you may had evoked and close your deck.
If needed, after all, do a banishment to assure nothing else is left around.

Extreme readings can be tiresome because of the required concentration. Whatever you choose to do, the best after a session of reading, is to do something to relax, walk, have a time playing music, etc.

Study, practice. Wish you have fun!

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20/04/2016

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To High Region
Art by Kirk Quilaquil - United Kingdom

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Leia também: 

• Livros em PDF disponíveis para download gratuito
• Meus videos sobre magia no Youtube

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Consultas e atividades com Gilberto Strapazon

Consultas e Trabalhos em Magia - Portuguese text

Readings and Magic Works - English text

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Seja Uma Grande Empresa!

Um grande carro, não, espera...

Seja Uma Grande Empresa!

É muito fácil ser uma empresa grande. Isto é só tamanho.

Difícil, é ser uma Grande Empresa. Isto é fazer a diferença.

A diferença entre conversar com líderes empresariais, diretores ou gerentes/supervisores, é que estes últimos, geralmente estão preocupados primeiro de tudo em segurar seu emprego. Segundo, em garantir seu dinheiro no final do mês. Terceiro, em ter uma boa aparência social.
  

Só os líderes, os que verdadeiramente estão no comando, se preocupam para onde vão.

Os outros apenas tentam garantir seu osso magro ao final do mês. Não tem outra expectativa além da própria sobrevivência. Infelizmente uns quantos, sem escrúpulos, apenas fazem isso. 


Para ser uma Grande Empresa, o verdadeiro líder empresarial vai buscar  o melhor, o extraordinário.

E não apenas palavrinhas baratas de um jornal qualquer, concordando com tudo, mas sim questionando, estimulando, incentivando para que saiam do lugar comum.

Os verdadeiros líderes, tem a coragem de enfrentarem até a si mesmos.

Não se ajuda uma empresa com métodos e planilhas milagrosas se o produto for ruim, os funcionários não conseguirem ser autênticos naquilo que fazem ou se tornarem apenas meras peças num joguete administrativo.

Empresas são organismos sociais, portanto, vivos. Pode-se aprender muito sobre administração, pesquisa, estratégias, etc. simplesmente indo para a natureza. Mas não aquela natureza esterilizada dos resorts e centros de turismo ecológico que mais parecem uma feira hippie organizada.
Deve-se buscar sempre que possível, o contato com a natureza bruta, que pode estar mais perto do que você pensa.

É fácil ser uma empresa grande. 

Difícil, é ser uma Grande Empresa.

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21/07/2014

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Veja também: 

• Livros em PDF disponíveis para download gratuito
• Meus videos sobre magia no Youtube

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Consultas e atividades com Gilberto Strapazon

Consultas e Trabalhos em Magia - Portuguese text

Readings and Magic Works - English text

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Natural Magick

China Rose
By GJ-Vernon - United Kingdom

Natural Magick

See this photo?
A great image of life.
If you are looking into magick.
If you are doing the needed work to attain magick.
If you goes deep at the study and have find some good books.
At some time you must forget all that and just look into the nature.
This photo is something you must find.
Pure nature beaty.
This is what God created and you are part of it.
Natural magick is a main source for any area you are working with.
So, is correct to become a lover of live.
To find the nature power of life on what you are doing.
You may be working to make your tools, prepare a ritual.
But if you lack all nature, you have not started anything.
Do the magick work, but open your eyes to receive the gifts life have to you.
Otherwise, if you does not pay atention, you become just mechanics. 
Be with the nature.
Offer your sincere atention.
Your magick work will increase and the colors of life will be part of your soul.
This is magick on practice.

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PS : Sorry bad english.

New book: Ritual Offerings: Feeding Your Spirits, Empowering Your Magick

"Ritual Offerings: Feeding Your Spirits, Empowering Your Magick"
Edited by Aaron Leitch


Now Available, and with a text of mine too.


Spirits are not merely an option or tool to be utilized when the magician deems it necessary. Spirits are the very heart and soul of all magick. A consecrated talisman has a spirit attached to it that contributes to the talismans power, the incantations we use work because the spirits heard them and acted. We are not alone when cast cast our spells; our patrons and familiars are always present present casting the spells with us.

Throughout history, ritual offerings have been the central pillar of all magick and religion. Very often, a magickal ritual consists of nothing more than the making of a prescribed offering to a particular spirit in a specified time and place, yet here in the West, the making of an offering has been equated with the worship of the spirit receiving it. The act of offering a spirit something as payment for services rendered has a close association with the dreaded “pact with the Devil,” by which a magician surely sells his soul to damnation, but to the rest of the world an offering is intended to feed and empower a spiritual entity, and to pay it fairly for its aid.

The art of making proper offerings to the spirits is a complex one, rife with strict protocols and warnings, but if you take the time to learn this ancient and powerful art, it will supercharge your magick like nothing you’ve experienced before.

Strictly Limited to 900 numbered copies and filled with over 280 pages of essays and actual photos of author’s ritual altars, Ritual Offerings unites twelve practicing occultists who share their knowledge and experience with this fascinating and important subject. Traditions from around the world such as Solomonic magick, Tibetan Buddhism, New Orleans and Hatian Voudou, Western Hermetic Theurgy and more are discussed in great detail. Regardless of your tradition, Ritual Offerings will guide you in feeding your patrons and familiars safely and effectively and contribute to our overall success and growth as a practitioner.

Contributors:

• Aaron Leitch: Introduction: Magickal Offerings in Western Occultism
• Aaron Leitch: Liber Donariorum: the Book of Offerings
• Zadkiel: The Elements of Making Offerings: The Offering as Sacrifice
• Bryan Garner (Frater Ashen Chassan): Whispers from a Skull: Lessons in Spiritual Offerings from a Conjured Familiar
• Brother Moloch: Ancestors & Offering
• Frater Rufus Opus: The Back Yard Path toward the Summum Bonum
• Denise M. Alvarado: Ritual Offerings in New Orleans Voudou
• Jason Miller: Severed Head Cakes and Clouds of Dancing Girls: Offerings in Tibetan Buddhism
• Nick Farrell: Offerings in Roman Deity Magic
• Sam Webster, M.Div., Ph.D., founder OSOGD: Offerings in Iamblichan Theurgy
• Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero: Ritual for the Declaration of Maa-Kheru
• Gilberto Strapazon: Offerings in Ceremonial Magick and African Traditional Religions (Ideas and Practices: Risks and Influences of Integrating ATR)

Now, some comments about what I did here:

This book is a great news I'm sure.

I say my thanks to Aaron Leitch as he is an honorable man.
Is not enough to have a great power if there is no wisdom and the courage of a spiritual warrior to put it into practice.

Those with vision, will know what I mean because this is an unique and unprecedented work that had an immense occult battle to be published.

Nephilim Press editors certainly are part of it I am very grateful to them.

I wrote just about a very sensible discussion: the risks of mixing practices. 
And I wrote about things I never found published before, from a practitioner point of view.

We have great authors in this work, all renowned and respected.
Even if you do not like some of their line of work, especially mine, all others are certainly highly qualified and has a gigantic work.


I participated in this book along with other great authors and I'm sure that almost everything I've written, no ATR priest will tell you. 
Hardly anyone will talk about the problems you may get when mixing these practices.
At most I found some disguised sentence. 
It is a fifteen years learning of hard work, going to the bottom of rot and the black side of things and literally my own blood and immense personal losses. 

It is a sensible discussion, but is something people who is working serious on magick, as any one who become a client of any magicians services is searching for.  


Edited: Here's my post commenting more what and why I choosed this area and what you will found on my chapter. No need of blood, just good.

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This is a comment from Brother Moloch about his contribution:

"See this book's cover? It's the book I submitted an essay for about Ancestors and Offerings. It's entitled "Ritual Offerings" and you can get it direct from Nephilim Press. Why should you get a copy? Well aside from yours truly's impressive missive in it, there are several other authors whose contributions you should know about as well. Order a copy. Read it. Study my section and learn how to get on your Ancestor's good side as well as how to work with them. Thereby amping up your sorcery and magic.

Trust me, I get $0 from this in royalties. In fact none of us make a dime from this except that old-skin-flint-stingy-bastard Aaron Leitch. Still it's going to be a legendary resource - the first of its kind. Oh yes there will be Johnny- Come-Latelies who will try to recreate what we do but we got there first and we set the stage. Nothing like being original. Emoticon smile

And seriously, screw all that Hoodoo, Voodoo, Santeria and McWiccan crap you see online about offerings and ancestors because it's all crap. If you are serious about wanting to know how to work with spirits of the land where you live, it's in here; if you want to know how to make offerings to spirits in Cermeonial Magick, it's in here; if you're interested in making offerings in the New Orleans Voodoo path, it's in here; if you want to know how I do it and how I teach my clients and students, like Ragu, it's in here.

The way I see it, you got two choices: 1. Continue on as you are and read from silly books and shitty misinformed websites on how to make offerings by people who were either only half-trained or never trained at all OR 2. Buy this book and learn how it's properly done. If I were you, I'd go with number 2 because it is much simpler and more reliable.

Brother Moloch 9.: 6.: 9.: . April, 11, 2015

The book is available at:  Nephilim Press

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Um Dia Especial

Nepal 
Photo: Martin Lion and Sebastian Gypser

It's A Special Day.
40 years ago I started an endless walk.
The great journey of spirituality.
A curiosity through a book, produced in me the desire to find out what was beyond the illusion of reality in which we live.
I met some of the greatest wonders and darkness and what is beyond the abyss.
To all my beloved Masters and traveling companions, my eternal thanks.
 

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É Um Dia Especial.
Faz 40 anos que eu comecei uma caminhada sem fim.
A grande jornada da espiritualidade.
Uma curiosidade através de um livro, despertou em mim o desejo de descobrir o que estava além da ilusão de realidade em que vivemos.
Conheci algumas das maiores maravilhas e trevas e aquilo que está mais além do abismo.
A todos meus amados Mestres e companheiros de jornada, meu eterno muito obrigado.

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25/03/2015
 

Dia Internacional do Amigo

Bem, esta pelo 20 de Julho, o Dia Internacional do Amigo.
Vou colocar este vídeo do YES como mensagem.
Primeiro porque acho uma ótima música.
Segundo, porque é uma versão acústica de um trabalho que mostra o quanto se pode fazer da mesma maneira, sem tantos acessórios.
E mesmo assim, ser fantasticamente sensacional como só aquela mensagem rápida e sincera de uma amigo de verdade consegue ter. Sabe quanto vale um simples "Oiiii!!!!"??
Ou como aquele simples café compartilhado a dois que pode ser tão intenso.
Terceiro, porque nem todos teus amigos te entendem, mas acham legal que você seja como é. Alguém é esquisito mesmo não é?
Quarto, pelos amigos que passam coisas boas e outras muito boas contigo. E continuam sendo teus amigos quando as coisas ruins acontecem.
Quinto, pelos teu amigos que continuam achando muito esquisitos os teus gostos, mas apreciam tuas qualidades.
Sexto, pelos que tem coragem de dizer que tu está errado e mostram o porque. Mesmo que tu não concorde.
Sétimo, pelos que tem coragem também de dizer que acham que tu está errado, mas porque não concordam com a tua escolha. Pode ser que eles torçam para outro time de futebol ou tenham outra religião!!! Mas não vão deixar de ser teus amigos porque vocês tem pontos de vista diferentes.
Oitavo, porque estes amigos todos, perto ou longe, mesmo que muitos anos sem estarem juntos, ainda pensam um no outro com carinho, pelas coisas boas e também pelas brigas. E se respeitam e valorizam e dão créditos a todos.
Nono, porque aconteça o que for, eles torcem pelo teu sucesso, tua alegria porque são parte do teu sangue, da tua vida.
Décimo, porque os amigos podem ter todas diferenças possíveis, mas sabem que só serão felizes quando todos formos felizes juntos!

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A Verdade! Copa 2014 - A Culpa é do Pessoal da Informática!

World Cup Italia
Foto: MrTiddleywinks

A Verdade! Copa 2014 - A Culpa é do Pessoal da Informática!


Está bem, não costumo comentar futebol, mas vou falar a verdade.

Apesar de alguns acharem engraçado quando falei da grande conspiração por trás da Copa do Mundo, que envolve muito dinheiro, política, religião, sexo, poder sem limites e a atuação silenciosa de grandes organismos internacionais e até dos extra-terrestres infiltrados, como os Reptilianos (sim eles estão lá) e dos grupos vindos de Nibiru (o Planeta X), tudo se encaminhou como falei anteriormente por alto nalguns fóruns de debates.

E o resultado é tremendamente óbvio. Publicarei mais nalgumas das revistas em que já participo como comentarista.

A culpa é do pessoal da informática. Sim, aquele pessoal da empresa que vive reclamando das máquinas tão velhas que precisam aparelho auditivo, da falta de recursos, dos sistemas de pelo menos de uns dez a vinte anos atrás e sem investimentos sérios.
Todo mundo entende que automóvel sem manutenção quebra. Mas os sistemas de informática da empresa tem que evoluir de alguma maneira sózinhos não é?

Sim, a culpa é dos caras da informática.

Claro que isto não inclui aquele geniozinho, filho do amigo do primo do chefe que tem um super-mega-equipamento, dois monitores de 40 polegadas 3D só para video games e porno liberado na madrugada e que sabe "tudo" de rede social.

Claro que a culpa tem de ser do pessoal da informática.
A seleção brasileira assim como qualquer empreendimento precisa deles.
Foi o pessoal da informática que sabotou.
Se o pessoal da informática ajudasse, como dizem os oportunistas, todas partidas seriam ganhas sempre. Que absurdo eles reclamarem da falta de recursos. Se o carro para no meio da rua porque está sem gasolina, é pura má vontade do pessoal da informática. 

Vejam, é uma situação comum, mas mais uma vez ardilosamente utilizada pelos ambiciosos que não medem conseqüências contanto que satisfaçam sua luxúria por poder mesquinha e vil.

E por quê é culpa do pessoal da informática? É óbvio, os elementos são os mesmos de várias décadas. São quase quatro décadas que vejo o mesmo e estudando os trabalhos anteriores, isto apenas se confirma.

Tantas vezes, acionistas e diretores, preferem dar maior atenção para alguns queridinhos que prezam mais. Muitas vezes os mesmos que causam o maior prejuízo com negociatas absurdas. Mas ainda assim, são mais queridinhos por algum motivo.

Aqui uma dica importante de negócios: A pior coisa é apostar numa boa idéia se você só tem uma boa idéia.  Cadê o plano B, C, D???

Então o plano único dá algum problema. O grande astro do queridinho do chefe.

Na verdade, o pessoal da informática tem duas dúzias de ótimas alternativas, mas nããããooo!!!  O pessoal da informática nem é ouvido e muito menos consultado. Ora bolas, pensam eles, todo mundo sabe que computador é algo mais milagroso que todos Mestres da humanidade juntos. É só aprender alguma sigla como "XML" num cursinho que o queridinho ganhou (foi mesmo é bater papo) e isto é uma sabedoria suprema maior que tudo. Computador adivinha qualquer coisa, tem telepatia, cura leprosos e cegos e caminha sobre as águas. Aqueles acham que milagre é fácil, não precisa ter fé, apenas gritar bem alto sua pompa.

Aí chega o momento. Ignoram-se as idéias e alternativas, os preparativos,  e na última hora, sem aviso, quando muito ao final do dia anterior, aquele que se acha o eleito dos deuses aparece de repente com uma mudança geral, para trocar todos de lugar, surgem de repente funções que nunca foram tentadas.
Bota o cara da direita na esquerda, desorganiza tudo e não admite que o responsável pela área faça seu serviço.

E o único teste obviamente será justamente em tempo real, numa situação que pode prejudicar mais ainda o empreendimento. Ou enterrar de vez.
Teste? Bobagem. Computador faz milagre e se não fizer, é culpa do pessoal da informática que não ajuda. Mesmo que o ar condicionado da sala dos servidores tenha queimado faz dias e todas carcaças velhas que estão lá dentro comecem a cheirar a queimado.
Bobagem!

Obsolete
Foto: Dezeray - Tomrad Photography -Canada

Isto acontece nas mais diversas empresas, pequenas, grandes, "fashion", as que tem tecnologia atualizada (pelo menos nas matérias pagas), cadeiras decentes, onde o ar condicionado funciona, os salários são dignos e a equipe não é só de novatos, ou que trabalham enlouquecidos até pifarem e serem descartados. Acontece em toda parte. Com certeza é sabotagem do pessoal da informática.
Já comentei noutros artigos sobre o estrago que sofreram grandes fabricantes de tecnologia em situações semelhantes, perda de criatividade, má gestão, planejamento ineficaz.

Aliás, é bom lembrar, está prometido por mim faz muito tempo um artigo chamado "Por que os grandes talentos não querem trabalhar na sua empresa". É um trabalho já publicado internacionalmente e que terá acréscimos meus.

Na hora de tirar vantagem e jogar a culpa, não muda muito. Empresa pobre, empresa rica. Time grande ou pequeno. É tudo empreendimento e que precisa de administração decente.

Claro que ajuda muito a equipe, ter algum tipo de motivação. Falo de motivação de verdade e não de "tapinha de merda" nas suas costas quando os queridinhos se deram bem com seus trambiques e a equipe se ferra.

Vide artigo "A Turma da Arquibancada" que dedico aos que fazem por merecer, os que batalham por mérito de ideais verdadeiros. 

Mas o que vemos é que interessa mesmo é o resultado individual para os queridinhos, o prazo e a promoção da vaidade de uns poucos. Dane-se a empresa. Os planos ficam por meses escondidos na gaveta de quem vai se promover, já com a intenção de ser ganhador em qualquer situação.E faturam seu dinheirinho sujo.
Na hora do jogo, pressão e mais pressão. Obviamente os queridinhos gritam que estão sendo pressionados.

Mandam o chefe da equipe calar a boca e acatar a opinião dos assessores e consultores  que estão a serviço sabe-se lá quem, mas foram postos ali por algum motivo, quem sabe, ter certeza de que o plano verdadeiro vai dar certo.

Se por acaso o milagre acontece, a máquina não quebrou, mesmo com programas feitos com a tecnologia mais obsoleta possível, e ainda funcionarem de algum jeito, ou então a mais moderna tecnologia mas sem treinamento e recursos necessários der algum resultado, um golzinho individual no fim do jogo, mas que os oportunistas usam para fazer uma maquiagem... então, é óbvio que o resultado positivo foi obtido "apesar" do pessoal da informática.

Uns poucos ganham. E danem-se os outros. A champagne está garantida para os queridinhos. 

E aí o resultado. Os adversários chegam treinados, preparados, com uma tecnologia usada seriamente, investimentos e abordagem sérias. Valorização da equipe como equipe. E sem mudanças de última hora.
E o chefe da equipe deles não teve um machado no pescoço no último momento, apresentado pelos queridinhos e seus amigos.

Mas o treinador, digo, o chefe da informática seguidamente sofre isto, em tantos e tantos empreendimentos. E a equipe vai junto. Depois se a empresa é vendida para a rival por falta de criatividade, é porque o mercado pressionou muito.

Se o programa, digo, o jogo não funcionou milagrosamente, sem nenhum teste prévio, é claro que a culpa é do pessoal da informática.

Mas e tudo o mais que houve? Danem-se! A culpa é do pessoal da informática e pronto. Todos os outros, principalmente os queridinhos, estes não aparecem. Ficam posando apenas para as fotos bonitas e bebem champagne, independente to resultado.

Se você usa computador, é claro que sabe que a culpa de todos seus problemas é do pessoal da informática, aqueles malvados preguiçosos que não pensam no bem estar dos queridinhos, digo, da empresa, e que acham que merecem comer, vestir, ter uma vida digna. Bobagem.

Fui aluno do Luis Felipe nos anos 70 e por todas estas décadas, ele sempre me cumprimentou como a todos. E sempre fez seu papel. E lá ficou agora segurando o pincel.

Perdeu o jogo por que? Óbvio, o pessoal da informática é culpado por tudo.

E mais uma vez, o encarregado tenta segurar a bomba sózinho.


P+ 

09/07/2014

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Leia também: 

• Meus livros em PDFs disponíveis para download gratuito
• Meus videos sobre magia no Youtube

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Consultas e atividades com Gilberto Strapazon

 Consultas e Trabalhos em Magia - Portuguese text

 Readings and Magic Works - English text