Meta-Magick - Magick and NLP - Up/Down Thinking

In this clip from a live seminar, Philip H. Farber demonstrates a basic principle of Meta-Magick, that where and how you place your attention can influence your reality. In this exercise, Phil places his attention up and is easy to lift, then places his attention down and is difficult to lift. This exercise and Exercise 1 are borrowed from martial arts to make a magical point - and this demonstration becomes very useful when taken with other Meta-Magick techniques.

Meta-Magick draws on diverse roots, including Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), martial arts, memetics, applied kinesiology, hypnosis, yoga, Taoism, neuro-scientific discoveries, and much more, in addition to Western esoteric traditions. Meta-Magick offers tools and systems to uncover, observe and replicate phenomena in ways that can be calibrated and tested. "Meta" means "above" or "beyond," and "Meta-Magick" signifies magick that enables us to think about magick and produce magick. It is magick about magick.

For more info: http://www.meta-magick.com/

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• magick
• nlp
• hypnosis
• thelema
• crowley
• farber
• chaos
• meta

[punjow]

so the act of intent will affect people working in direct contact with you? is it when they are focused on the person with the intent to alter to situation or when they are merely working together that intent will affect the others?

[metamagick]

Test all those options for yourself and find out. And maybe test with inanimate objects, too.

[metamagick]

I'm still rejecting comments from silly people who keep guessing about whether this is a "trick" or not, without actually practicing. If you can't find 2 friends to do something crazy with, you've got bigger problems than worrying about youtube videos. If you think it will work or not work with a chair or wonly after eating cheese or whatever, then PERFORM THE EXPERIMENT. If you are just guessing or repeating someone else's opinion from a book, you are missing the point entirely.

[TRIPLE333THREAT]

Why not do one while sitting in a chair? Have the two helpers pick you up by each grabbing a side, without touching your body.

[metamagick]

Sure... that's a good test, too. There are a thousand variations.

[HypnoSnoopy]

It's not laziness I actually put a lot of thought and time into studying your video and crafting my reply. I've also put effort into some research... This happens to be a classic mentalism stage trick. Google on "Georgia Magnet". It's been performed for 100 years. MM you seem sincere, but I think you are underestimating your own subconscious ability to learn to subtly adjust fulcrum and leverage. It's not a criticism of your ability. It's just an attribution of cause effect relationship.

[metamagick]

For your googling pleasure, try "Aikido Ki Testing"... of which this is an example. I make no claims HOW this works. We've done this hundreds of times with numerous people and with a 99% success rate. I find it really amazing how much effort people put into confirming their own beliefs without actually testing them. You're using the James Randi Fallacy - if it can be faked, it has been faked. Come back again when you've demonstrated the cajones to put your beliefs to the test.

[loverainthunder]

Fun fun fun... smart stuff too. Thank you.

[entheogenic1]

Very cool. I tried this with my friends and it works surprisingly well! I mean, almost scary how well it works!

[VictorMalvado]

Very good.  Quite inspirational too. Thanks for posting it man.

[zerosum2012]

Awesome stuff, I remember some kind of think like this when I was a kid where you put someone in a chair and lift (been a long time can't remember the specifics) same type scenario. Any chance you will come out with more Vid's?

[tapper36]

That was an interesting demonstration.

[acidtones1]

That's awesome stuff.

[burkspatrick]

in martial arts it's called rooting.