FERAL ALCHEMY- Presentation Mysterium 2021
Based on aspects of Werewolf Magick
Denny Sargent feralmagick.com #werewolfmagick
FREEING THE ANIMALSELF THROUGH FERAL ALCHEMY
Unleashing Our Authentic Selves within Nature
VISUALIZATION
Close your eyes, you are in the deepest forest. You are naked if you wish to be.
Hear the creek, the birds, the sounds of animals.
Feel the warm sunlight through the trees and the warm breeze on your skin.
Smell the pine and cedar…Feel the earth under your bare feet utterly relax- forget about work, home, civilization…Breathe- Your busy, crazy, anxious self is slowly going silent….you sink deeper …down, down into yourself- deeper….until you find the cave- it is dark,
There is a large beast there but you do not fear for it is part of you
Has been hibernating since you were a child.- touch the big fuzzy beast…it will not harm you- feel it’s soft fur, hear it’s deep breathing, smell the musky scent of the cave and see its claws and teeth glint in the darkness – Hug it- it loves you and you had forgotten it so it has slept
It feels your presence and begins to wake…..Feel it awaken feel it rise up within you…. you have awakened your Animalself, feel it rise and stretch….. – it fills you and transforms you…
your are growing fur, your teeth and claws are different as your human mind sinks down into a gentle meditative rest,YOU ARE YOUR ANIMALSELF, here-now, free of worry, one with the Earth! Stretch, Breathe! No thought, no worry, no care- just be!
Now feel the Forest! Expand your animal senses -feel and see the vast green web of the ecosystem, feel the heartbeat of Gaia- You are filled with wild joy!
Release that joy andBE THE ANIMAL YOU ARE! open your eyes and HOWL!
INTRO
In this culture we have been cut off from nature and convinced that we are not the animals that we are. The answer is to reclaim our forgotten Animalself through ancient techniques of primal Feral Magick as described in my new book, Werewolf Magick. Derived from prehistoric and authentic shamanic sources, feral magick trance techniques reunite us with our Animalself and thus with GAIA and our ecosystem, bringing us more healing and joy. In this workshop I will present ideas of feral magick alchemy-together we will review techniques of transformation to help us re-embrace Gaia: the Prima Materia.
The Wildness, Wyrd, and Way
Wildness
Before all things, the Wildness is sacred in feral magick. All things come from and return to Gaia source of Wildness. It is the core spiritual energetic source of all primal nature and the flowing. When we are in any deep, wild ecosystem and open our whole physical and spiritual self to the experience, will touch the Wildness with a feeling of euphoria
The planet was covered with Wildness and this feeling was our natural state. Hominids were living within the all-embracing planetary weave of a vast quilt of ecosystems. The elixir of life was and is embodied in direct spiritual and physical immersion in Wildness. We have forgotten. Through our Animalself we can remember that this is our true home! Relinking with the flood of Wildness, of Gaia power, as an animal, free of a human filters and restrictions, that we can become the
Wyrd
Wildness is the purest primal power, the Wyrd is the weft and web of the vast interconnections and links embodied in every ecosystem. Visualize the vast, ever-shifting web of interrelationships, causality and communication that flows through your ecosystem, so complex that even scientists can’t comprehend it. Feral magick reveals our existence as a spiritual and physical ecosystem, a vast weave of ever-shifting patterns interwoven within the Wildness. This is the Wyrd
Way
In Taoism, existing in ‘Way’ is to BE as the Tao, without thought. In ‘In Japanese this Egoless state is Wa, which can generally be described with words like totality, harmony and always within Nature-Think of those moments of pure absence when the wall between ‘you’ and Nature vanishes and a sense of self evaporates. It is to truly be without ego or sense of self and Animals Live in Way all the time playfully living and doing what it is they were made to do. Fish do not “know” when to spawn, birds do not “know” when to migrate and wolves do not “know” how to behave in a pack. It is part of the Way. If we let go of everything except BEING while in wild nature, we experience moments of Way.
These three aspects of Feral Magick are woven together in the alchemy of the Animalself and results in the awakening of three primal powers that guide the Feral Magick Alchemist: Instinct, Intuition, and Insight.
Instinct, Intuition and Insight: Feral Powers
Instinct- is the deepest, most primal animal-mind, unconscious knowing, it comes naturally. Babies cry by instinct, and wolf cubs follow their mother by instinct. It is a genetically hardwired, species-wide unconscious ‘knowing and doing.’ It is connected with somatic or body memory present in every living animal at birth, including us. Civilization has mostly severed our instincts from us. Feral Magick alchemy enhances and expands instincts. Reviving and remembering our instincts helps us BE without so much wasted conscious thinking.
Intuition
Primal Intuition arises from the liminal, emotive state of transitional-conscious- ness. By awakening Animalself we gain more open primal awareness. Intuition rooted in Animalself “feels” the truth about doing and feeling without “knowing” why. It springs as a certainty in the awakening Animalself we abandoned, offering non-intellectual ‘gut feelings’ drawn from the deepest states of being. When a dog wags its tail at a stranger or we smile at someone without thought our Animalself is intuiting what kind of person they are.
Insight- When our Animalself emerges from the unconscious mind fully we replace mental chatter with focused Insight, lightning bolts of gestalt/gnosis knowing without knowing HOW we know. This electric communication from our Animalself takes the form of spontaneous insights as flashes of truth. Insights are not born from reasoning and intellect. They are “aha” moments that arise from deep unconscious feral alchemy “true and right” immediately, even if we ‘think’ they are illogical or crazy. Scientists and artists often describe entering liminal states to gain deep insights
A CHART OF FERAL ALCHEMY
| PRIMAL
ALCHEMICAL ELEMENTS |
SULPHUR | SALT | MERCURY |
| COSMOS | WILDNESS | WYRD | WAY (WA) |
| POWERS | INSTINCT | INTUITION | INSIGHT |
| 3 TANTRIC SHAKTIS | TRUE ACTION
(fire) |
TRUE WILL
(sun) |
TRUE KNOWLEDGE (moon) |
SHORT ALCHEMICAL FERAL MAGICK EXERCISE TO EMPOWER THE ANIMAL SELF
-Practice Growling & Rocking- get into the groove!
-Feel the primal power of Gaia under your feet- feel it rise as a fountain of green power that fills you and quiets your excessive thinking!
-Read deep inside you and awaken your Animalself! Let it fill you! Grow fur, claws, teeth, let GO of your human confusion! BE!
– Paws on you LOVER BODY:
SEE AND FEEL THE FIRE OF YOUR WILDNESS IGNITE AND GROW IN YOUR LOWER BODY, IT IS THE ALCHEMICAL FIRE OF THE EARTH!
LET YOUR INSTINCTS OPEN WITHIN YOU! FEEL THE RAW POWER OF YOUR TRUE ANIMAL BEING- STRONGER THAN YOU THOUGHT!
Chant- RA- RA- RA
– Paws on you HEART:
See and feel the FIRE RISE UP TO YOUR HEART- IGNITING THE SUN -YOUR TRUE WILL, THE SUN SHINES BRIGHTER AND BRIGHTER! YOUR ANIMALSELF GROWS IN THE LIGHT, YOU HAVE A POWERFUL PATH – INTUITION GUIDES YOU- OPEN TO THIS!
Chant- HA-HA-HA
– Paws on you THIRD EYE
SEE AND FEEL THE RAYS OF YOUR SUN-SELF SHINE UP AND ILLUMINATE THE HALO-MOON GLOWING ABOUT YOUR HEAD!
YOUR MIND STILLS AS THE RISING ANIMALSELF BRINGS A DEEP KNOWING
THOUGHTS DISSOLVE AND DEEP INSIGHTS AND CREATIVITY ARISES SILVER OF PURE BEING CENTERS FILLS YOU WITH DEEP CALM AND TRUTH
Chant- Aah-Aah-Aah
PAUSE- HOWL!
-PAWS ON THIRD EYE
THE ANIMAL SELF TIRES AND BEGINS TO WITHDRAW
THE MOON FADES BEHIND A CLOUD AND ALL DARKENS
YOU HOLD THE INSIGHTS YOU HAVE RECEIVED CLOSE TO YOU
Growl Chant: MA MA MA
-PAWS ON HEART
THE ANIMAL SELF TIRES AND BEGINS TO WITHDRAW
THE SUN DISAPPEARS BEHIND THE CLOUDS A CHILL ARISES
YOU HOLD THE STRENGTH OF YOUR TRUE WILL CLOSE TO YOU
Growl Chant: MA MA MA
-PAWS ON LOWER BODY
THE ANIMAL SELF TIRES AND WITHDRAWS DOWN INTO ITS CAVE
THE BLAZING FIRE DIES DOWN TO EMBERS AS DARKNESS COMES
YOU HOLD THE POWER OF WILDNESS DEEP WITHIN YOU
THE LOVE FOR AND FROM THE REAWAKENED ANIMALSELF
Growl Chant: MA MA MA
TOUCH THE GROUND, SEND ALL LOVE TO GAIA- ALL SAY
PRIMA MATERIA, THREE IN ONE, OM
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