Before You Do Magic: Train Your Mind to Awaken Occult Skills
Countless books teach you the mechanics of magic, but very few teach how to develop your occult mental abilities so that you can perform magic effectively.

Before you perform spells and rituals, you need to develop your mind's muscles. Without mental preparation, you'll just go through the motions without any results. Everyone, regardless of experience or traditions, can learn from these exercises and gain the mental focus to make your magic much more effective.

Donald Tyson provides twelve chapters that each cover a different topic or type of occult skill—such as concentration, meditation, scrying, astral travel, and aura manipulation—and why it is necessary for better magic. Within each chapter, you'll find ten exercises to help develop the corresponding topic or skill. Magic comes from the self, and you need to work on yourself before you can cast spells that work. This book has everything you need to do serious magic.

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Before You Do Magic: Train Your Mind to Awaken Occult Skills
Countless books teach you the mechanics of magic, but very few teach how to develop your occult mental abilities so that you can perform magic effectively.

Before you perform spells and rituals, you need to develop your mind's muscles. Without mental preparation, you'll just go through the motions without any results. Everyone, regardless of experience or traditions, can learn from these exercises and gain the mental focus to make your magic much more effective.

Donald Tyson provides twelve chapters that each cover a different topic or type of occult skill—such as concentration, meditation, scrying, astral travel, and aura manipulation—and why it is necessary for better magic. Within each chapter, you'll find ten exercises to help develop the corresponding topic or skill. Magic comes from the self, and you need to work on yourself before you can cast spells that work. This book has everything you need to do serious magic.

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Before You Do Magic: Train Your Mind to Awaken Occult Skills

Before You Do Magic: Train Your Mind to Awaken Occult Skills

by Donald Tyson
Before You Do Magic: Train Your Mind to Awaken Occult Skills

Before You Do Magic: Train Your Mind to Awaken Occult Skills

by Donald Tyson

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Overview

Countless books teach you the mechanics of magic, but very few teach how to develop your occult mental abilities so that you can perform magic effectively.

Before you perform spells and rituals, you need to develop your mind's muscles. Without mental preparation, you'll just go through the motions without any results. Everyone, regardless of experience or traditions, can learn from these exercises and gain the mental focus to make your magic much more effective.

Donald Tyson provides twelve chapters that each cover a different topic or type of occult skill—such as concentration, meditation, scrying, astral travel, and aura manipulation—and why it is necessary for better magic. Within each chapter, you'll find ten exercises to help develop the corresponding topic or skill. Magic comes from the self, and you need to work on yourself before you can cast spells that work. This book has everything you need to do serious magic.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738781365
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date: 12/08/2025
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Donald Tyson is an occult scholar and the author of the popular, critically acclaimed Necronomicon series. He has written more than a dozen books on Western esoteric traditions, including Tarot Magic, and edited and annotated Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Donald lives in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: Opening Your Mind 1

Chapter 1: Occult Sympathies 5

Chapter 2: Controlled Breathing 19

Chapter 3: Meditation 37

Chapter 4: Visualization 55

Chapter 5: Concentration 67

Chapter 6: Dramatization 81

Chapter 7: Incantation 101

Chapter 8: Realization 125

Chapter 9: The Aura 143

Chapter 10: Scrying 165

Chapter 11: Channeling 187

Chapter 12: Astral Projection 217

Afterword: Walk Your Own Path 237

Bibliography 241

Index of Exercises 243

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