Correspondence Excerpts Excerpts from my personal and public correspondence. Initiation Into Hermetics -- Practice: -- Step One -- u Thoughts on the Temporary Halting of the IIH Exercises u The Value of Journalizing u Recognizing Emotional Resistance to Progress u The Fatigue Response u Breaking Through a Blockage You Don't Understand u Thought "Control"? u Must We Remember Our Thoughts During the Thought Control Exercise? u "Segment Intending" and Thought Discipline  by EMC u Temporal Distortions and "One-Pointedness" u More On One Pointedness / Thought Discipline u Validating Internal Answers u The Key to Mental Discipline u On Applying "Discipline of Thoughts" to Everyday Life u On the First Part of the Second Step One Mental Exercise u On the Emptiness of Mind Exercise u On the Importance of Continuing the EOM Exercise Beyond Step One u Remembering What Transpires During the EOM State u Deepening EOM: Encountering the Different Layers of Mind u More on Emptiness/Vacancy of Mind u Deep Meditation u Looking Back On My Own Experience of the Step One Mental Exercises u Concentration Vs. the Background Agitation of Sexual Energy u Soul Mirror Tips u More Soul Mirror Questions u Is Mind Chatter a Negative Character Trait? u When Introspection Leaves the Student Feeling Alienated u Why Assign the Soul Mirror Traits to the Elements? u More Step One Questions u Eucharistic Magic Miscellany u The "Mystery of Breathing" u Daily Duration of the Step One "Conscious Breathing" Exercise u On Using Meditation Music u Energetics and Usefulness of the Cold Shower/Rinse u Concerning the Eye Bath and Face Bath -- Step Two -- u Dancing Visualizations! u Step Two Visualization Exercises: Dealing with residual after-images when eyes are closed u More on the Step Two Sensory Concentration Exercises u The "Plastic" Imagination and the Step Two Sensory Concentration u Step Two Sensory Concentration Exercises - Part Four u Visualization Redux  by EMC u Step Two: Olfactory Exercises u Sensory Concentration: Re-creating Pain u Elemental Correspondences Between the Step Two Sensory Cencentration Exercises and the Soul Mirror u Difficulty Working With Eyes-Closed Vs. Eyes-Open u Soul Mirror Work and the Elemental Equilibrium u On the "Hermetic Sciences" Article -- Charachter Transformation u Pore Breathing and Rawn's "Inhalation of Beauty" Exercise u On the Bardon "Asana" of Step Two -- Step 3 -- u Guaging the Elemental Balance In Preparation for Step Three u Sensory Concentration: Remembering - vs. - Creating u Connecting With the Elements -- Step 4 -- u Step Four Questions -- Working With The Elements -- Step 5 -- u Concerning the "Depth Point" u On the "Depth Point" and Transference of Consciousness u Real Vs. Imagined Communication u The Importance of Distinguishing Between What Bardon Expects and What He Says Is Possible -- Step 7 -- u Difficulties With the Astral Exercises -- Steps 8 & 9 -- u Fluid Condensers and the "Influence Through the Elements" Technique u Bardon's Step 9 Astral Wandering Vs. R. Bruce's Astral Projection: A Word of Warning u More on Bardon's Mental and Astral "Wandering" Vs. Robert Bruce's "Astral Projection"