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sessions.

For the session we used a simple opening rite based on the famous Golden
Dawn and Kemetically inspired Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram. Because this
was midway between a meditation and a seance, we did this in a more static
version, part outer and part visualized.

Afterward we’d setde down in a circle, hands linked but comfortable The images
we’d coloured during the week were displayed and looked at before we started
and the sigil was stationed in the centre of the circle or table.

When all these preparation were complete, we took turns to speak, verbalizing
in what I call “ordinary language trance” as suggested in the works of Golden
Dawn adept William Buder Yeats.

Everyone had a go at describing the card and entering the tunnel etc — slowly
speaking quiedy but not so much that the others could not hear. We spoke
whatever came to mind, what one saw, felt, etc. Whoever was leading the session
might quiedy prompt the others to speak by asking leading questions, in a similar
was to that described in Crowley’s The Vision and the Voice. This continued until
everyone had spoken, if only for a few moments.

When the circle was complete we sat for some time longer in private meditation.
By prearranged convention, when someone, anyone, had had enough, they could
draw the session to a close by chanting a mantra, something prearranged, for
example the gende chanting of ‘Awen’. When everyone was “back” we’d formally
close the circle by repeating part of whole of LRP.

The final debrief was to relax and talk about our visions, if we had any, and
perhaps even read a passage from Kenneth Grant’s Nightside of Eden. It was
noteworthy how often this simple technique provoked insights that were
confirmed by the readings from KG. We were not so good at making notes of
the proceedings. Several times we tried leaving a Dictaphone running but each
time the batteries either failed or nothing was recorded. So perhaps this was
comparable to W B Yeats first such experiments, where the results were not
worth recording?