Making It Work

Some of you may be familiar with the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks. It is set against the backdrop of a besieged England during World War II where three orphan children are evacuated to the country to stay with Eglantine Price. Miss Price shows a natural ability for magick having learned through a correspondence course from Professor Emelius Browne, who later in the film reveals that his course was created from an old book as something of a joke and did not work. He was a stage magician himself not a sorcerer. However work it did! And Miss Price and the evacuated children use her magical skills to aid the war effort whilst Professor Browne’s character arc shows him go from something of chancer to quite the gentleman. Fiction it may be, however we have come across analagous stories in the real world, or at least real world adjacent.

More than once we have worked with individuals who had skills that have bordered on or are outright siddhis, and they hadn’t reached the height of their abilities yet. What is even more fascinating is that they had built their power using systems that didn’t have a clear lineage, they were in part synthesised and in part newly created. Despite this these individuals used the respective systems to tune themselves up before applying the power to specific skills. It is worth saying that both the over use of the power that had been built as well as the methods themselves had risky elements and a couple of them paid the price with health issues.

Esoteric skills, as with many things in life, can be made to work in spite of any shortcomings. However we like to think that we have a coherent system that is both effective and low risk, and we have been able to apply it in the world as a minimal proof of concept. We hope in coaching other people that they will go on to do spectacular things with it that far surpass our modest achievements.