Okay. Joe, my bro, aka , said he wouldn’t be impressed until he saw World of MindCraft…so here goes.

Consider this The Lesser Banishing Ritual of The Pentagram For The Mind.

Theatre of Operations: Your Mind

Enemy: The Shadow

Briefing:

Effective Immediately, you are being activated as war has been declared. Your mission, after basic training, strategy and tactics, you will engage The Shadow with the objective of subduing and containing it. You will psychically-vault this entity and you will document the full term of its incarceration. It will not be allowed out, save for when you find it beneficial to give it a limited scope of time where it will be allowed full monologue and then time will be up.

We will start by clearing the mind using these daily steps. These should take no more than 15 minutes, at the most and should be performed at the end of your day.

Phase 1: The Banishing

N.M.E. Protocol: Daily Entry Template

Date: ____

The Shadow is speaking.

VALUE LOG:

• __________________________________________ (Why it mattered)

• __________________________________________ (Why it mattered)

• __________________________________________ (Why it mattered)

SHADOW CHECK:

Quote what The Shadow said. Add Trigger Rating (1-5) and a ONE-WORD Theme.

• __________________________________________ Rating Theme _

• ______ Rating _ Theme _

SHADOW REFLECTION:

• Where did old pain echo?

• What did you choose instead?

• Lesson for next time:_______

DISCIPLINE WIN (S-A-C format):

Specific – Actionable – Context

Closing ( Write This When You've Walked Away With Control ):

The Shadow spoke. I answered. I remain in control.

Phase II: The Mirror

This is how to take your newly-reclaimed mind and discipline it. Aurelius will teach you how a disciplined mind actually thinks.

After 30 Days, move to Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Again, same exercise, same notebook. Now the entry is going to be different. 5 - 15 minutes max.

Read one entry of Meditations, think of a parallel in your life that fits that quote and write a short reflection, be honest with yourself.

Write what your Shadow would say.

Write how you would respond.

Close out with a signature all your own that just states “Conversation over. Take A Seat.” and close your notebook and your copy of Meditations and go on with your day.

Your choice, complete the entire book or do it for 30 days.

Phase III: The Alignment.

The Final 30 Days Are Your Most Crucial.

We just spent Sixty Days doing the equivalent of cleaning out and stitching up wounds. We’ve cleared out the attic, the closet and all the stuff in the basement. Now, what do you fill that with? Where you focus your attention is what you’ll be putting out into the world. Your thoughts become your words, your words become actions and, if We Are Our Deeds then the first thing you need to pay attention to is where your attention currently is.

You have a choice. Whatever your Tradition, pick up that text. For me, it will be The Havamal.

I’ll spend the next 30 days doing exactly what I did with Meditations but now, I’m going to use my own spiritual text that focuses on the character of the person and I’m going to use it as a mirror.

Now, my attention is focused on The Words of The High One (Oðinn) and now I have to make some attempt to live each of those maxims or use them to critically, honestly analyze how I live my life. That starts to tune your direction a little better. This helps you to align yourself to your tradition, whatever that is for you.

So a Christian using my system here, could easily use The Psalms for this next step or even The Sermon on The Mount, A Wiccan can use whatever they came up with based on The Wiccan Rede, you get the picture. Whatever your language is, use that and now you’re solely focusing on the content of your character.

This builds your Hugr (Mind) and your Hamingja (Reputation) hand-in-hand.

You don’t change the world by screaming at the outside. You change it by changing you first.

This is how you start.

Now get out there and take your damn life and reputation back.

After that, it’s time to get cracking and start building your own thing.

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