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Being Responsible Teachers
By: Jaguar Spirit Date: March 5, 2019, 10:41 am
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This is from a few posts from another forum, combined:
It might behoove you all (in general, please), to add a
disclaimer to your rituals to note what “level” mage it is
appropriate for…and definitely NOT appropriate for. This isn't
telling someone what to do, but rather advising precaution. We
cannot keep others from doing a ritual we post, but in all
fairness if you know they're brand new, doing an advanced ritual
might run them into danger. It's a precaution of caring about
the wellbeing of others under your tutelage.
A “cool & powerful” ritual or ritual series may land a new mage
in serious hot water if they don't understand the repercussions.
For instance, calling on multiple gods at once without having
the experience or energetic tolerance to withstand the
overwhelming energy. For some, one god might be overwhelming.
Even as experienced mages, we must take precautions. These are
precautions we probably take for granted and just assume others
take them too.
If you fancy yourself a leader, or innovative mage please lead
responsibly so you don't have a dozen new mages out there
picking up the pieces of their awful experience.
For new mages: please ask about experience level or precautions
needed before taking on big rituals.
I try to break things down into the raw techniques so it is then
self evident if an individual can perform the ritual or spell
based on whether they can properly perform all the base
techniques and then combine them. Part of the reason I break
everything down so much and when dealing with more dangerous
forces provide methods of protection and have such a heavy
emphasis and training and conditioning oneself. I definitely
feel it needs to be more common especially among those who post
their rituals with lots of ideological phrasing and hype which
while it can set the mood is often impractical in terms of
adequate explanation of what is required.
I think this is more a response to some people who post
extremely dangerous and/or unfounded work with no mention of
what foundations and base skills you need to properly perform
the spell or ritual. Things such as working with energies that
are naturally destructive with no regards to what safety
measures should be used to protect from it. It is the same logic
as asking people to post the proper safety precautions to say a
chemistry experiment dealing with caustic or explosive compounds
and what base procedures you need to have under your belt to
safely perform.
Magic is as much a science as it is an art, as objective as it
can be subjective. This is why there are some techniques and
spells that work and many others that no matter how hard you
might try will not work until you put to a solid foundation of
proper techniques.
There is a difference between a warning being condescending and
a warning that says for example do not use if you do not have a
grasp on your own emotions in relation to x spectrum or can not
properly shield. It is like my posts on necromancy where I
always cautious against taking the death energy into the body
and give methods on shielding the vitals against its influence
and methods that can be used to heal any damage done by
accident.
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