Talk:Invocation

From The Maze Where Realities Converge - the psychedelic encyclopedia of reality from The Ultimate Comment

Invocation

Invocation is becoming possessed by a spirit and using its powers. The skeptical explanation is that one only acts in accordance with one's self-image, so by tricking yourself into becoming someone else, you can do things you would not normally be able to do. Multiple personality disorder shows that the brain is capable of housing different personalities, with different handwriting, talents, brainwave patterns, language abilities, even allergies and medical conditions. Why not use this to your advantage and access the abilities of another personality?

There was a Soviet researcher called Raikov who hypnotized subjects to believe they were great artists, musicians or whatever. He found that people who believed they were Rachmaninoff - for instance - could play the piano maybe not as well as Rachmaninoff, but much better than they would ordinarily be able to.

Invocation serves to loosen the ego. If you've always acted a certain way because "that's just who I am", you need to try being someone else for a while. Invocation allows you to crash through the limits you've set on your possible behaviours. It also allows you to tap into primal psychological energies, like lust, anger, love, courage or bloodymindedness.

There are many ways of doing invocation. Hypnosis, as mentioned, is one. You can also use lucid dreaming or astral travel to enter the body of someone else, or do some invocation ritual. Invocation rituals work by entering an altered state of consciousness in a situation in which your mind and senses are saturated by reminders of the spirit you're invoking - numbers, colours, day and time, perfumes, clothes, items, drink, drugs, offerings, music, designs, sounds, words, location, actions, gestures, tone of voice etc. etc. all call your mind to the god.

Some adherents once did an incredibly insane ritual invocation of Baphomet, which you can read about here. Then there was the invocation of Eris.

Invocation: describe the power in the third person, call upon the power in the second person, identify with the power in the first person. Express love, respect, earnestness and trust.
Poetic techniques: flowing rhythm, solid rhyme structure, synaesthesia.
Hypnotic techniques: double-binds, pace-n-leads, time distortion, presuppositions, modals, ambiguities, embedded commands (with downward intonation), truisms
Warm up-lighting. A unique task for everyone. A music stand. Memorizing the invocation is a good idea - gets it inside your brain.
Assumption of god-forms and shamanic invocation. Formula of IAO as in the Hymn To Pan.
Invocation as acting.