The Empty-Handed LBRP

I love tools. I have a temple set up where I live. In my temple, there’s an altar, sticks of incense, candles and my athame. I use sigils and crystals and Holy Water and Tarot cards. But you don’t actually need any of that to do magic.

Today, I hiked up a mountain. I stopped and did an LBRP before I turned back. I didn’t have my temple or my altar of any of my tools. Those things are all useful to develop your concentration precisely for when you need it the most: when you’re all alone and you have nothing with you.

The more tools you use, the more physical crutches you’ve enlisted to assist your work. Those crutches are a useful conveyance until you can get up and walk on your own. Going from the temple to the mountain requires a transition to greater subtlety.

Another subtlety: performing the LBRP standing in place, but projecting the circle around the entire mountain. The training of the empty-handed technique helps develop the same concentration you need to properly expand your working past your physical movements. An adept should be able to do magic without lifting a finger. But that doesn’t mean the adept throws away all his tools. They’re fun.

Video filmed by myself today at Mount Baldy with a DJI Mavic Mini 2 and an iPhone X. Music by me.