The Quareia Apprentice Study Guide
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2018
174 pages
978-1-911134-33-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Apprentice section of the Quareia course has no mentoring, which makes it the most difficult part of the magical training to complete. The Quareia Apprentice Study Guide is aimed at people studying the Quareia Magical Course. It provides answers to basic questions, details the structure and approach of the course, examines some of the common training issues, and explains the core concepts presented in the course. The Quareia Apprentice Study Guide is aimed at apprentices who are studying the course: it shines lights into the less obvious corners of magical training to help guide you along your magical path.
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Content
- Intro
- The Quareia Apprentice Study Guide
- Josephine McCarthy
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: How Quareia Works
- The ethics and code of Quareia: Ma'at
- The rule of absolutes
- Repeat repeat!
- From the outside in
- The three stages
- The Apprentice
- The Initiate
- The Adept
- Circles within circles
- The good and the bad
- Learn the rules first
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Common Study Issues
- Magic and modern life
- Distraction and commercialism
- Television
- Smartphones
- Sleep
- Time restraints
- Family
- Resources
- Ethics and culture
- Myths
- Fear
- Dead Ends
- Hitting a wall
- Cherry picking
- Broken links
- Chapter 3: Approaching Magical Study
- Discipline
- Study approach
- Confirmation bias
- Messiah trap
- Narrowed attention
- Not everything is magical
- Loss aversion
- Mythic reading and psychologizing
- Discernment
- Tides and timings
- Emotions in magic
- Reading and learning
- The horizon
- Chapter 4: Meditation Issues
- The stages of development
- The movement and the noise
- Remedies:
- The goal
- The lapsing and wandering mind
- The illusions
- The arrogance
- Touching the stillness
- Refuge
- Understanding necessity
- Questions
- What about Kundalini?
- I already do meditation but I do it differently. Do I still have to do the apprentice meditation exercises?
- I am having trouble meditating for a long time because of my work and life commitments. And yet I want to progress through the course. What can I do?
- Do I have to meditate every day?
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Tarot
- Issues, problems and approaches
- Working with a deck
- Uses of tarot
- The skill of interpretation
- Interpreting the cards
- Looking at the present and the issue of privacy
- Energetic hygiene
- Some student questions
- Do I have to use the Rider-Waite deck, as I don't like it?
- Can I just use my own layouts/spreads for the exercises?
- Can I make my own tarot deck?
- Can I skip the tarot sections, as I don't like divination?
- Is using a card a day a good idea?
- Chapter 6: Visionary Work
- Issues, techniques, and questions
- What is visionary magic?
- How do you know when it is real?
- The first step of visionary work
- What are boundaries?
- I cannot see anything
- Advice
- Chapter 7: The Adversity Of Magical Training
- The function of adversities
- Simple adversities
- Loneliness
- Cultural persecution
- Lack of money
- Complex adversities
- A challenge to preconceptions
- Crime and disease
- Lack of education
- Appearing different
- Gender and identity
- The Challenge of the Gods
- Chapter 8: Religions
- Why does a magician need to learn about religions?
- Understanding the evolution of religion
- Working with different religious patterns in Quareia
- Dogmas and dangers
- What if you are an adherent of a specific religion?
- Summary
