 We're back! The greatest podcast of all time. Welcome to my esteemed listeners and welcome to my esteemed YouTube or Odyssey audience as well. Perhaps you are actually not a listener, a subscriber to the greatest podcast. I decided to post the first half of this fine episode publicly because I don't intend to talk about anything overly spicy. Not spicy, but good stuff nonetheless. So welcome everyone. I have as is my custom a few updates to give and these updates concerning training epic training. They are highly related to the topic at hand and as you see in the title the topic is of course elemental magic. Therefore I thought to first define magic. What do I mean with magic and I will quote a certain degenerate perhaps you know of him Alistair Crowley and he said magic is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. So that is a good definition of magic and that is spelled with a k at the end and he did that to distinguish between magic as you perhaps encounter in fantasy literature or something like that. So when we're talking about magic when I talk about magic it is more about mental techniques to use a different term so it's not about magic as you would see it in Harry Potter or something like that but rather about using your will to make some sort of change and the change can be completely in the subjective. So as I mentioned in demigod mentality which will be out in a few weeks the subjective universe it is what takes place in your mind basically your connection to God to the metaphysical universe and then you have of course the physical so the physical is if you touch your hand that is our physical sensation and if we're talking about the metaphysical sensation is if you do something in your mind with your will that can later on have an impact on the physical. So to take an example and this is an example I use in demigod mentality as well if you first decide to make a change with your will in your mind so in your subjective universe you say to yourself I am a proud gentleman and I walk with my back straight so that is a change first taking place in your subjective in your mind in your metaphysical then that influences you to walk with a straight posture and walking with a straight posture will have actual physical even hormonal positive changes to you so your body language it will have an impact and the change in body language it can come about as a result of you making a change in your mind basically so that can be a good explanation of what magic is what we mean with magic when we talk about it here and when I write about it and stuff like that now I know some people they chimp whenever I talk about magic especially Christians and you know immediately they chimp so I posted a book review and I posted to Instagram as well that these are the points I elaborate on in my book review and then they started to chimp there and commented stuff without even reading the the book review something to keep in mind as well if you're a content creator that sometimes or quite often actually that many individuals they react upon an image so they don't even take the time to read anything they just immediately give they immediately express their opinion on something without actually taking the time to read the context now of course I am quite fortunate in that I have a quite above average intelligence I would say I would humbly say that about my own audience so it's not often it happens but sometimes it does happen so that is hopefully a somewhat good definition of magic and I will quote again here Alistair Crowley magic is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will now of course it must be noted that Alistair Crowley was a true degenerate in the the truest sense of the word so he can also be used as an example of how it can go how life can treat you if you take too many drugs if you become a drug addict now I know there are individuals who they use the quest for enlightenment or the magical quest as an excuse to take a lot of drugs now there are of course individuals of the priest archetype who should in some cases I'm not saying that anyone should do anything illegal or do anything harmful but there are instances if you have a shaman for example who he wants to take some sort of substance to reach a different dimension in some cases in very few cases that can be reasonable but for most individuals if they use it if they take ayahuasca as an excuse to commune with spirits but in all actuality they they might just be drug addicts so for the absolute majority of individuals it's best to just stay clear of these things speaking of the witch and this is something I will make a separate video on I will urge caution when it comes to things like deeper magical operations and astral travel stuff like that because if you don't if you don't really know what you're doing you don't know what sort of entities you might invite so it can be good to stay clear of it and if I if I want to say something nice about christianity it's actually that since they usually have a quite strict line against magic it can be good for individuals so good for most individuals but not so good for spiritual seekers anyway on to another definition of magic you can use another example so when I say that I train MMA I use MMA as a term to encompass all martial arts basically so I can say that I train MMA but over the last few months maybe I have only trained boxing maybe I've only trained a certain part of MMA but I still label it as MMA because it's ultimately the aim of it so that can be something we can use for magic as well that you can encompass many different things within magic so you can have mental techniques meditations astral travel doing some sort of a change in consciousness anything like that or just participating in in some sort of ritual so when I say magic I mean that in a very broad sense and of course the term itself it's not particularly specific so everyone can you know have a different definition of it but when I say it it's a very very broad term I use for most things that have to do with any change in your subjective universe so what's going on in your your own mind basically and of course what goes on in your mind it can influence the first and foremost you as a person and therefore it can also influence the universe so something to keep in mind as well is that everything is connected and that is why these things work so if you don't believe in God if you don't believe in the metaphysical the hintere welt if you don't believe in any of these things then yeah all of these things they won't make much sense but if you do have an appreciation of the metaphysical side of the world then many of these things they will make a lot more sense now if you don't like to use the term magic because you think it sounds too unacademic or too unspecific or too vague or whatever it might be you can simply replace the term magic with mental techniques so we're talking about now in this fine episode I've titled it elemental magic but you can in your mind you can retitle it should you wish you can retitle it to mental techniques for optimal performance in cognitive and athletic endeavors something like that so anyway I have hopefully made myself somewhat clear at least of course it's a hard task to define magic but that is at least what I mean so do keep that in mind for future episodes and videos and posts and everything like that now on to the first training update a very glorious one indeed so we had bohemund cup two a few days ago and it was even better than the first the first one as I said earlier in summer it was an absolutely great day we had three events so we had chins dips and weighted chins so max repetition for all of these events and yeah it was just so fun the manas energy it was so high the vibe was so good and I was just filled with joy and inspiration and motivation afterwards so I thought the only reasonable course of action is to make another one so therefore we had bohemund cup two a few days ago and we had two additional events in the competitions we had shot pot if that's how you pronounce it actually had to search for the proper translation of it cool stutting in swedish so that's when you throw a ball a heavy ball so that is one of the new events I thought add for optimal olympian feels and then we had a sprint as well which was really nice I used to be quite fast back in the day running so I thought I would have the event but linus the the winner of the first bohemund cup he mugged me in the sprints I got sprint mugged I came in second at least I must train my sprints so I will have him for the third competition really fun at least so I added that event as well to get that ancient greek olympian athletic competition feel to it so I don't want these competitions to only be about gym exercises but an overall athletic well trained health oriented competition and then for future events I will see what more fun things perhaps a javelin throw and some other olympian exercises we will see but super nice day thank you to those of you who showed up it was a very nice day and I was full of joy afterwards and this also brings me to a related note on magic so I said manas energy manas is a rune in the elder futark and it is related to the men are bund or the men of the tribe so you have a certain energy which and this is something I've talked about many times before that my athletic performance is increased greatly when I have herios herios means members of one's own group in proto in the european so in plain english when my guys are there and I have that presence of them then I perform a lot better and I could definitely see this during this particular competition so to use an example a few days before the competition I did some body weight chins and I did 15 repetitions and it felt quite heavy indeed and during the competition itself I did no less than 26 chins at a body weight of 95 kilos now I'm not saying this to extol my own athletic prowess I am saying this to explain how much this manas energy this magical energy can actually impact an athletic performance for the record I also did 37 dips and yeah of course as you all know I'm quite fit and well trained and I have trained a lot of calisthenics over all of these years everything like that but the difference in performance between a session when I'm alone and a session where I have or a competition where I have the presence of 10 guys in this case on my side it's a huge difference and I can only attribute that difference to these metaphysical energies so I will of course need to study this more I will experiment more with different exercises and different configurations of high-thumos guys and everything like that but it's super interesting and of course do try this yourself if you have good friends that you can train with if you have max repetition you want to do if you want to set a PR in powerlifting exercise or max new record for chins or dips do try when you have this good high-thumos atmosphere with guys on your own side it will make a world of a difference and perhaps you remember I talked about this last year as well when I did a cycle of small of junior that it felt quite heavy and I actually had to wait because I was alone at the gym and I had to wait until some older Swedish men you know high-thumos they aren't explicitly on my side but I can only suppose they appreciate what I do anyway they came in big grizzly older big swedish grizzly bear type men they came in just yeah they spotted me of course but the it wasn't the spot I needed it was the manas energy just having them there to send those metaphysical energies so it might sound a bit skit so hippy posting here but it's absolutely legit and I would say that do try it out do check it out help me in my study of magic here my gym magical studies of optimizing athletic performance so something you can keep in mind when we're talking about this manas energies and this men are bound magic everything like that to put it in plain English again just view it as you have your good friends nearby or individuals on the same side as you nearby and you know within a few meters within line of sight and you can envision a stream of energy connecting you and if you have a good few guys say four five or even only two or three that will increase your own power within you now of course you don't need to overthink it if if I can only summarize it I can say train with good high thomas friends and something very important to keep in mind here you can't drag any low thomas guy to the gym and expect them to supply you with good energies so this manas energy I'm talking about this men are bound magic it can only work if the guys you surround yourself with are actually high thomas positive high vibrations so you can't you know drag an unwilling low thomas guy to the gym and expect to be able to tap into his energies so you need guys who are on a certain level they are also enthusiastic about life they have a certain amount of divine energy within them they are on your side so again you can't go into a normie gym and surround yourself with normies you don't have any connection to or individuals who do not really have any divine spark within them so do find good high thomas friends surround yourself with them and you will benefit greatly and of course they will benefit from you as well so both gain everyone gains from it in this situation now this brings me to my second training update big shout out to my man olympia perhaps you saw i posted to twitter or should i say x now as it's now known and also to instagram i posted his um deadlift indeed a pr 230 kilo deadlift a very respectable weight indeed so i posted me giving him a hug afterwards and i reposted his the lift itself and now this is a perfect example of using will to create change so of course olympia big strong guy he has trained very hard in portugal um so the physical preparation already in place but what was so interesting with this lift is that it was definitely the will that made a difference and something to keep in mind here as well that the will can only do so much but it can make a difference when you already have prepared well enough in many other ways so for athletic performance say a deadlift you have so many different factors coming into play you have of course how long have you trained how much have you progressed how strong are you what physical powers do you have how strong is your body so that is purely within the physical realm and then other factors like how much have you slept how well have you eaten these things they matter greatly so never overestimate the magical or metaphysical side of things you also need to train your physical but you should also not underestimate the mental aspect so the metaphysical or magical aspect of it also willpower in this sense and i saw on olympia now of course he was on vacation here in sweden usually trains in portugal where he lives uh and when you are on vacation you're never as you know strong as you are when you are in your everyday routine back in your own gym so being able to set a pr when you're out like this it's quite spectacular and i would say that he of course it was with me and his fair maiden so he had the support of both of us and he really wanted to he really wanted to get this pr so i could see that the deciding factor was that willpower so there you can see magic in in effect if we are to use that term magic magic in effect to get a pr in the gym because the willpower it was the thing that pushed over the top so you can definitely make a difference when there's only a few percent that will determine if you get the lift or you do not get the lift so that's something to keep in mind as well when we're talking about strength training most of it it's about preparation you know having a good schedule that you have followed for a good while you eat well you sleep well but then also the mental aspect and for me of course it's super interesting especially since i've trained so long and i look at what sort of things what sort of factors can you do to optimize your performance so that was my second training update now my third training update and art update and video update and everything like that you know of course i have said i have promised for a long time now that a classical training video is coming out and it will be out in a few days now hopefully you will see it and you will use it as inspiration to train yourself and and i thought to mention it because when we're talking about elemental magic and i will introduce the elements and how you can use them in mma soon i will just talk about this particular sequence that i posted to x and instagram so perhaps you've seen it otherwise you can look at it in the longer video to come this is traditional dutch kickboxing so it's a lot more fluid than traditional moi tai and of course you use more limbs than you do in western boxing so regular boxing so if you look at that sequence you can see that i don't focus so much on power or anything like that i'm focusing on being fluid of making a long combination of getting the entire body to flow basically so when you're doing this type of combination and dutch kickboxers they are famous for having this good long combinations of his flowing body movements and of course this is something you can envision when you train regular boxing as well especially when you do these longer combinations with some slips and some side steps and you know being a hard target to hit so think of yourself as being fluid like water can be applied in grappling as well now i haven't tried grappling with the mentality of the water magic element yet i will experiment a bit with it but yeah you can think of it as well when you grapple to be fluid in that sense then you can add on the other elements which will get back which will get into in just a bit now the elements themselves so the four elements you have air fire water and earth they've been trusted companions in western thought for a very long time a very long time indeed dating back to the good old greeks the ancient helens and the elements they haven't only been something to take into consideration in regard to magic and spirituality and stuff like that but also in the scientific history of the west and something to highlight here as well i usually do highlight it in my book reviews is that the occult masters of the past the magicians of the past they have also often been scientists so you have paracelsus take an example and he can be described and i quote from vikipedia of all places but it's a good quote anyway so paracelsus is widely held to be the father of chemical medicine chemotherapy and the science of toxicology so someone who was very into the occult into magic to use that term again and also who did contribute greatly to the the scientific progress of the west to use that term so when we're talking about the elements they have imprisoned in the scientific journey of the west as well but now in this particular episode we're concentrating on the magical aspect of the four elements now in preparation of this fine episode and for my own development as well i have read a book titled practical elemental magic magic spelled with a k at the end again to distinguish it from magic as you might see in fantasy literature and stuff like that so therefore you see magic spelled with a k every once in a while now it's written by david renkin and sorita de est if i pronounced that correctly you must excuse me for not being fluent in french this is highly barbaric of me so anyway it's a short concise practical book which i can recommend for anyone interested in the matter so in this book i found a few meditation techniques so some workings you can do and i have taken a few weeks to experiment a bit with them and i would say that they are quite good indeed so i did something similar as i did with the runes so the runes of the elder foothark as i've mentioned before i simply took a week at a time to meditate on them and to see if i could get some insights and this was a highly fruitful endeavor as you will see in demigod mentality i have a whole chapter dedicated to the runes now finally on to the main topic of this fine episode the elements themselves how can we use these four elements to improve our lives our mma game our parenting game our business game our education game whatever it is we use of course magic to improve our lives and if someone claims to be powerful in magic but doesn't really have any life success to speak of then yeah the magical power probably isn't there so that said we turn to the book that aforementioned book practical elemental magic working the magic of the four elements in the western mystery tradition now if you have read all of my book reviews i salute you if you are an enjoyer of the book reviews these are my most astute and esteemed disciples so anyway you know that i always say whenever i read a book i appreciate practical instructions if you have some sort of meditation technique and this book which i can actually recommend it's a nice concise good book and in chapter 12 they introduce the elemental pyramids so it contains four meditation techniques or magical workings we could call it one for each element then and i have used these pyramids when i have meditated upon the elements so similar again as to the runes and i've spent two weeks on each element which is of course not enough to gain you know the full understanding of them you have to continuously work with them and you have to apply them in practice so what i've done again to refer to the training video the boxing and tie boxing or rather dutch kickboxing is that i've tried to implement these teachings these mental techniques that are presented via these pyramid workings and also to yet again refer back to bohemund cup two and the chins and dips i said it was so much easier to do chins for example so that is primarily the manas energy but also touch of air element energy there that you feel like the wind also when you sprint you feel like the wind or when you punch you do striking pad work for example you feel fast as the wind so you use these sort of mental images you conjure them in your mind to improve your athletic performance or to take another example you have in the water element which is a bit more a feminine element but also good for us men especially for fathers you gain a sort of you can gain deeper patience with your children which is great so i'll get into this in just a bit the first element i want to talk about is air and that's because that was the first elemental pyramid that was presented in this particular book so i will try to explain the meditation technique and you can perhaps try it now i am presenting these meditation techniques as i have used them so they look a bit different in the book and of course it's highly subjective so you can do whatever you wish this is just my take on the matter how i did these meditation techniques during my daily meditation so when i do meditate i usually start with whimhoff breathing and then i go into some sort of deeper meditation and in this case using these meditation techniques so a pyramid basically envision yourself sitting in a pyramid or it's supposed to become a pyramid when you have created lines via your thoughts so i am paraphrasing from the book now regarding the air pyramid working so see yourself in a sky blue square whose corners are in the east south west and north in the first corner in the east is the first of the four powers of the air that of clarity see the energy of clarity as a sky blue feather in the eastern corner glowing with an inner vibrancy as it embodies the clarity of the beliefs and practices that you live by concentrate on focusing the energy of clarity in the eastern corner of the square clarity produces realization and inspiration which is not static so move the clarity to the second corner of the square in the south so the first power you're supposed to meditate upon you're trying to channel that energy within yourself is clarity so this can be very good to invoke before something that has to do with your cognitive performance so clarity it can be good if you're trying to study the history of the normans in the south for example as i did you're trying to gain clarity over a complex situation so when you focus that just as you would focus on fluidity of water when you do dodge kickboxing now in a more cognitive sense you're trying to focus the energy of clarity when it comes to a complex geopolitical situation in southern italy during the 1100s for example so that is the first thing you can focus on and you can envision a blue feather a sky blue feather in the eastern corner and then you move your focus to the south and the clarity is transformed into the second quality of the air that of inspiration and you can view the power of inspiration as a white cloud on a sky blue background so then when you have meditated upon that you can envision that cloud in some sort of nice way a beautiful cloud on a sky blue background and then you move your focus to the third corner in the west and then inspiration is transformed into joy and i quote from the book joy is an expression of clarity and inspiration the joy of doing the right actions taking pleasure in your life and path see the cloud on the sky blue background change into a sky blue disk radiating sky blue rays outwards focus on gathering the energy of joy in the third corner of the square in the west now on a personal note i actually think of glorfindel when i meditate upon joy there is the absolutely epic quote you have probably read it i've posted it a good few times i it's one of my favorite quotes by good old Tolkien and he describes glorfindel thus glorfindel was talon straight his hair was of shining gold his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy his eyes were bright and keen and his voice like music on his brows at wisdom and in his hand was strength i have a video planned where i will talk about the poetry of tolkien so you will hear me recite this fine passage in a coming video so that is at least the energy i am trying to invoke within myself when i meditate upon the air element of joy i envision glorfindel and as i see him in my mind's eye with joy and this is of course super important for many things especially when it comes to social interaction if you do try to be a happy and joyous person you will spread joy to others and that will make you liked and you will like the world more in turn so it's a very powerful magic technique you can use on yourself try to invoke joy and try to find the good things in life try to find joy in everything now of course i've talked a lot about this you know finding the white pills and trying to dispel the black pills so we can go on about this for yeah for a long time talking about how you can conjure the image of glorfindel and he defeats the demons of black pills in your mind so very powerful stuff indeed of course i will continue to experiment with this but as it feels right now i can definitely use this mental technique to enhance my mood especially since you know i've had some ups and downs as of late but i can always channel the energy of joy in my life and yeah feel better for it and now from the corner in the west we move to the corner in the north and joy is transformed into understanding now in the book it says wisdom but i asked my man shout out ginruna and he said that understanding is a better term to use here for this particular working so in the north joy is transformed into understanding and this again if you can combine this with clarity it becomes very powerful indeed especially if you try to channel this energy when you are trying to figure something out again to use the example of the normans so i used this mental technique when i tried to make the norman episodes hopefully they were informative and i managed to present the their story and the geopolitical situation the situation with the different ethnicities in southern italy and sicily at the time in a clear way so that is at least how i tried to approach that topic i'm not so powerful as i can explain the people intrigues and i'm not sure how interesting that would be i'm leaving that for maybe another time if i get super enthusiastic about medieval pope history it's quite interesting but i'm not sure how how clear i could have made the episodes so many different intrigues are going into each other so anyway main point you can use these energies you can channel these energies when you have a cognitive challenge in front of you so some workings you can do that are related to athletic performance and some of these workings some of these mental techniques some of these mental cues you can envision before embarking upon a quest of knowledge and wisdom and the mental image you can see in the north when you're working with the air pyramid is a sky blue pair of scales and then when you have these four mental images in place so in all four corners then you can envision lines drawing up so that you're ultimately sitting in a pyramid and that pyramid is then imbued with the energy of air so all of these different qualities so you have clarity inspiration joy and understanding these are the things you try to focus on and you can even try to envision that you're breathing in these energies into your body and then you try to hold on to that energy and then when you've done it for enough time so if you meditate every day do this meditation and then later on you can instantly invoke these energies for whenever you need them so if you need to be on in a good mood you invoke joy or if you want to study or something you can invoke the other clarity and understanding or inspiration everything like that so it's about invoking a state of mind to make you better able to deal with a certain situation so that is how to use this magic now again i'm no expert in it i have only just started with elemental magic so maybe i'll make an episode in a year or so with an elemental magic progress update in addition to my training updates so now we'll go to our short music break and then we'll be back to discuss the fire elemental pyramid and then the water and earth ones as well and i will say farewell to my esteemed youtube and odyssey audience or wherever you might listen to this if you would like to listen to all episodes you can sign up you can become an esteemed enjoyer of the greatest podcast you can find the first link in the description box below and for everyone who's already subscribed i will talk to 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