So in among the billions of messages I receive about Cr ypt0, S£0 and me supposedly going to hell, I just spotted the following messages. (I avoid writing those words correctly in case it encourages bots. Sorry about that).
I am looking to summon a jinn, please give me whatever advice you can about this
E.
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Help,
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I feel not good every single day and suffer a lot. I don’t want to die and I want to be able to still stay on this world I just want to feel better and be in a different state of conciousness then the one I have now, please give me whatever spell or whatever entity u think I should practice or call out on to help me , the reason why I said jinn is because I want to summon one so I can have better mental health and feel better everyday… please contact me when you can
E.
I am very sorry for what you are going through, E. It’s a hard question to answer. My recommendation to you is a bottom-upwards approach. Get the most important things sorted first or at least on their way, then work on the physical, then the mental and then the spiritual. I am very serious about this approach and it is similar to how I have approached it in the past. I am pretty sure this is the only way to safely address this problem to avoid delusion and worse depression. I used to do this, but luckily, I do not need to do it anymore. I still recognise the health benefits from it and I am thinking why am I not prioritising these things! A lot of this stuff is going to sound like common sense and possibly too obvious. In fact, you might read it and think “I have done all that!”, but you need to work it all together. You also need to enhance your efforts with spiritual techniques. You need to build one thing after another slowly.
Also, like all magic, it is important to keep a diary. In order to measure success you will need to write about how you’re feeling, so you can attempt to measure whether the techniques are working. There is a questionnaire called something like “the PHQ9” or “the PHQ 7” or something similar, which attempts to put a number to measure your mental health. You can use this to put a number to your mental health and try and create a bar chart to estimate your progress and attempt to guess what helped and what did not help. Numbers like 0 would indicate relatively good mental health, whereas numbers over 15 might indicate severe depression. If you notice that the numbers go up and down to begin with and over time they begin to stabilise at a specific number and then this is continued then we can determine that the following techniques stabilised you. If you start off normally around one number, but later the numbers are all over the place the these practices destabilised you and we need to remove whatever is causing that influence. If the number go from high to low, the follow techniques are working, if however they either stay high or go from low to high then these techniques are not working and you will need to completely review. Why work with numbers? Well it is much harder to deceive yourself. Often we want spells to be working because it tell us we were a great and powerful sorcerer or sometimes we want them to fail if we are already in the mood to wallow in pity and we’re looking for a good excuse to do so. Having objective numbers associated with it prevents us from doing so and makes the whole process more scientific. Watch out for when you’re answering the questions to get a certain result. Remember Crowley’s rhyme: “We put not reliance, in virgin or pigeon, our method is science, our aim is religion.” And remember that our art survived Christian persecution along with other sciences such as “natural philosophy”!
FIRST please access whatever mental health resources are near you
I am very sorry E about l the way you’re feeling. I can only assume what you’re going through. I have suffered from depression and felt sad every day as well, but I don’t know if it was the same as what you felt. What helped me, was to access health resources such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). I recommend the same to everyone, but not everyone’s mind works the same way. Going on to spiritual stuff can be unhelpful and dangerous if you do not first make sure that you have access to a mental health professional who will be able to help you in a way that I cannot.
It took a long time for me to have access to CBT via the UK’s NHS, but they were available here. While I was waiting for CBT, I decided to buy the following book, which I read while I was waiting for my treatment to begin and it did help me. I originally began treatment through group therapy which made me anxious about being truly open. I made sure that I engaged with the group therapy as much as I could and did the exercises, but talking openly was difficult. We were able to talk about CBT techniques in a hypothetical way and I was able to learn the techniques without having to open up to a room full of strangers. I could then apply the techniques to my issues in private. The people running the group could see that I had issues I was still struggling with and recommended at the end of the course, that I were referred for one-to-one sessions. Again, this took another huge wait and I was left with my book and the stuff I learned from the course to try to practice in the meantime. The techniques I had learned only seemed to work on light issues, but not deep seeded beliefs I held about myself. It was something even if it was only a small relief. Soon I was granted an initial 10 sessions with an incredible therapist who made a huge difference. What she did immediately built on the techniques, which were being used by the group therapy session so we had a starting point immediately. After the first 10 sessions, we were able to add more which allowed me to go deeper and recognise some of the core beliefs that were destroying my life. Those issues were deeply set and nearly impossible to move, but we began to use the techniques to work on the beliefs that were related to them. This is almost like loosening the soil around a deep root. You cannot get it out if you do not loosen the soil first and if you loosen the soil a lot then some of those painful deeply set beliefs we hold about ourself can pop right out.
Due to some personal issues which I would not like to get into, taking the medication for my mental health was not beneficial at all and put me at risk. However, I still recommend that people speak to their GPs about accessing mental health medicine as this might be suitable for you. If you think there is stigma associated with taking drugs, please be aware that 10-20% of the UK is currently receiving drugs for mental health treatment and that does not include people who used to take them and no longer take them. The hope is that for the time being they will take the edge off what you’re feeling and enable you to engage with life and craft a life that you are happier with. If you find a way to be happier the drugs can be dropped if that works or maintained if needed. The drugs themselves do not make you happy they just make the depression a little bit easier to manage.
If you do not access mental health resources first then nearly everything else you do will only be temporary fixes, which are not guaranteed to make you better. As soon as you stop them you will plummet back into depression. I am not qualified as a mental health professional so I cannot advise you on resolving your mental health issues in a professional manner. Only a qualified nurse or doctor can do that.
SECOND Please do whatever ordinary stuff you can
There are many ordinary things that you can do which will increase your mood temporarily and maintain your health. These will hopefully lift your mood enough that you can deal with some of the issues that are causing the problem. A mental health professional should be able to help you work through the issues you have and remove some of the things in your life which are causing you the most distress. This is a long process, but even removing just a few things makes it easier to be happy on a regular basis and your brain can react by physically changing its chemistry.
Sleep
Get a good night’s sleep for 7-8 hours, every night at the same time. The are some medical reasons for this, which I am not qualified to comment on. But if you sleep properly for 7-8 hours (not more and not less) then your brain is able to produce much more happy chemicals, scientifically. People who sleep less than 7 hours are more likely to be depressed, to be anxious, to get sick, to have heart disease, to get cancer, to have trouble thinking and remembering, to have lower libido, to become obese, to get diabetes and to develop skin conditions. Also, people who sleep over 9 hours are more likely to experience: depression, obesity, diabetes, heart issues, headaches, backaches and have significantly higher death rates than people who sleep between 7 and 8 hours. So 7-8 hours seems to be the golden amount of time to sleep for. Please google this and check on websites affiliated with large professional medical bodies to confirm in case my information goes out of date.
Spiritual practices which help Sleep
There are two spiritual practices that can really help with this:
Practice one: Get a few relaxing meditations that you can do just before bed. You might need a variety, so you do not get bored with them. Combining relaxation with a health-promoting meditation such as self-Reiki, Chakra meditation or Qi-gong is beneficial to your general health and your ability to interact with spirits.
Always begin the meditation so you can go to sleep at the same time. First, if you have anything on your mind that you’re worried about, write down a reminder for you to read tomorrow. You can think about it tomorrow morning when you wake up. Here is a meditation that I often use, but you need to use ones that YOU find relaxing AND, most importantly, help YOU get to sleep. Make sure you begin this meditation, so you go to sleep at the same time every night. Your brain will know what to expect and as soon as you begin the meditation it will know that you’re going to sleep soon and it will begin to wind down.
You need to train a brain like you would train a dog. You do the same thing over and over so the dog knows how to react and what to expect, and so does the brain. It takes a long time, but by doing this every day for a couple of weeks, your brain will be well and truly trained to sleep at the same time. It will begin to wind itself down even before you have started. But you need to train it that way. Same thing every day for 2 weeks.
Always wake up at the same time each day. Your brain knows you will wake up then and will prepare itself ready. A lot of people complain about waking up just before the alarm. This is why! Your brain knows that you’re going to wake up soon, so it is getting ready and giving you lighter and lighter sleep. Waking up with a shock is actually very bad for your brain and will probably encourage some of the issues we talked about earlier. If you always wake up at the same time your brain is able to prepare for it and help you to wake up without the issues.
Practice two: Do the Ritual Liber Resh vel Helios at times to suit you, but make it the same times each day. This is a ritual adoration of the sun which is normally performed at sunrise, midday, sunset and midnight. The human brain weirdly operates on a 28-hour cycle because we see the sun it readjusts to a 24-hour cycle, but if you do not see the sun then it will not adjust and it will run its 28-hour cycle. By doing this ritual and deliberately going somewhere outside where you can see some daylight you will ensure your brain keeps to the 24-hour cycle. At some point during the ritual, imagine you can feel the daylight on your skin. Imagine as you breathe in, the light of the sun is taken deep inside you. The sun is generally associated with happiness more than any other planet and taking its energy inside you will help with most Ceremonial Work and will help you feel happier. Personally, I find that doing this ritual can make me too aggressive and switched on, so I personally like to balance it with a lunar version which I do at night depending upon what is the current phase of the moon, if you want write your equivalent of that go ahead. (I used Selene, Hekate, Artemis and Nyx, but you can do whatever works for you). Do not try to get up at 4:30am to see the sunrise in the summer, you will prevent yourself from getting the 7-8 hours of sleep which is more beneficial than seeing sunrise for you at this time. Set specific times, which work with your timetable for example (Midnight, 8am, Midday and 6pm). You can adjust the last one to match the setting of the sun, if you like. Avoid complying with daylight savings if you can, but obviously, if it impacts your work, you might need to. You do this by adjusting the times 1 hour earlier during British Summer Time (or equivalent) so it matches the day before. The more your brain sticks to the timetable the healthier it will be. Also, any time spent observing the daylight even when it’s not sunny will help combat symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
This should help you feel better temporarily. Hopefully, you can use that feeling to remove some of the things that make you unhappy about your life with the guidance of a mental health professional and bring in more things that you enjoy. This means that if this timetable is interrupted, you should be generally happier about your life anyway and it will make it easier to return to the timetable.
Exercise
Exercise really helps, but only take on what you can maintain. Just like the stuff above consistency is the key. I used to do martial arts at least twice a week for 2 hours each time. Sometimes however work would get in the way and I would not be able to make it to my kung fu class. Weirdly, the day after I missed my class, I would feel like I was depressed. What I was feeling was actually my body lowering its metabolism because it was assuming the raised metabolism was no longer required. So having an intense workout like this, twice a week is brilliant for your endorphins and helps your body not feel depressed, but if you cannot keep that up it might be worse for you since you will feel doubly depressed a day or two after you miss a session when your metabolism crashes. I did it on a Wednesday evening and a Saturday morning and if I ever missed the Wednesday class, I would feel it on Thursday and if I missed it on the Saturday class I would feel it on Sunday.
Alternatively, a brief walk for just 20mins each day might be easier to maintain. I am lucky I have a dog and so if I don’t feel like I want to go for a walk, I make sure I do it anyway for her exercise. She forces me.
Spiritual Exercises which help Exercise
So here are a few ideas and I certainly do not recommend doing all of them. That would be a very big commitment, but perhaps one might stand out or they might inspire an alternative.
So when you do martial arts, you can focus on the movement of energy around the energy body. This can really deepen an exercise session. It might help you do well, encourage you to continue and add to your general health.
If you wanted to, you could practice shamanic drumming and dancing. This might give you time to explore trans-states AND give you exercise.
Finally, Voodoo worship often involves complicated dances specific to each of the Loa and this could provide both exercise and connection to spirits. I will caution here however that the Loa are not normally associated with being exclusively love and light. Each of the Loa has stories about how they respond when they were unhappy and I would caution against working with the Loa while someone is experiencing persistent symptoms of low mood.
Finally, foraging. This is where you walk in nature and collect plants you particularly enjoy. This is a time to breathe in the fresh air, feel connected to the energy of the plants, and collect plants that you might feel are suited to make a spell or talisman. It is also a time when you can connect your energy to the earth below you and let it drain out impurities or energies that will trigger unhelpful emotional states. Any time spent in daylight (even when it is not sunny) is helpful for dealing with things like Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
Doing exercise and maintaining a good sleep pattern. If extremely useful and temporarily lifts us out of our depression, but without the work of a therapist or mental health professional, supporting us in removing the difficulties in our lives that are encouraging the depression then we are in a state of temporary relief, we need to take advantage of this temporary state to help us craft a life that promotes better mental health.
Help our brains recover
Your brain is frequently taxed with things which use our brain’s dopamine. We often hit our minds with addictive things that trigger our brains’ dopamine releases excessively. Our brain then pumps out way more dopamine than is natural and eventually it needs to recover. How bad is this? Well, I understand from research in the past (sorry I don’t have any references to hand), rats who had their dopamine chemically suppressed grew very depressed. They couldn’t be bothered to move. They did not even eat. In some cases, rats with suppressed dopamine had food right next to them, but they were too depressed to eat and died of starvation. So it seems reasonable to assume that dopamine is important in mammal brains, at least it certainly is in rats and evidently it is in humans as well.
Social media, video games, Tiktok and addictive apps are some of the biggest culprits of the dopamine problem. Now, I’m not going to say don’t do them, but limit them. Do not spend an entire day playing video games, spend two hours instead! Give yourself a goal. I will try to complete this dungeon/level within 2 hours. If you find it hard to put the controller down, that’s because they have coded it to release the most amount of dopamine possible and you are addicted to that dopamine! It’s a natural addiction, but it is still an addiction. It’s being done deliberately to you by the people who make that game! If you fail to put down your controller at that point then next time you need to try to put down the controller earlier. If it helps, you can start playing 2 hours before your friend is coming to pick you up, two hours before your favourite show starts or two hours before something that you’re happy to stop for. You might stop more easily in those situations. Just don’t be naked when Joe Bloggs comes to pick you up for the cinema. With social media, one thing I did which made the biggest difference was to turn off notifications. I decided I will choose when I look at social media. I’m not letting social media tell me when to look at it. If you struggled to stop one of these addictive activities, later when you have time to meditate visualise that situation again, picture all the feelings and practice saying “no I will not continue, I am a magician with a strong enough will to stop” do this multiple time each time.
Give your brain a chance to recover. Take a break from the computer/device and do something that helps. This could be interacting with people, reading a book, something physical with your hands like making something, cooking dinner or my personal favourite watching reruns of old tv-shows. Yes! Watching reruns of old tv-shows (ones you have seen before) is very recovering for your brain! Your brain reacts positively to seeing familiar characters, but it is not nearly as impacted by the stress of unknown storylines because you have seen them all before. This is a major recovery time for your brain, but it is not nearly as productive.
Spiritual Work that helps your brain recover
The main thing that comes to mind is making talismans and fetishes, particularly if you have been foraging. Doing something with your hands is very good for your brain to recover its chemicals. An alternative is to spend that time reading books and sources of magic. Maybe you could write a blog… just don’t do it better than me. 😉
Again all of this stuff is temporary. You need professional support to help you deal with the issues in your life otherwise this will only provide temporary relief.
Spiritual Work
Heavy spiritual work is something I would not recommend at this point to be completely honest. Magic is launched from inner planes and when we are in a state of prolonged severe depression and/or anxiety, those inner planes are in turmoil. They are not a fit state to be launching anything. Even if they are able to be balanced through the following methods if magic is being used as a form of escapism from an unhappy life, it becomes difficult to approach it correctly. Often people begin to disassociate with physical reality and associate more with astral reality and in doing so, their magic gets targeted more at the astral reality and they cease to be able to use magic to affect physical reality. Also, when magic fails because the self-esteem is almost entirely based on the magic, the practitioner is unable to be honest with themselves about their results. I have seen this in myself and I regularly see this in others.
Jinn are frequently associated with negative events. They have a reputation for being mischievous. I personally disagree with summoning Jinn for dealing with depression, it’s just not their field of expertise. Most Arabic grimoires that feature Jinn use them almost exclusively for love spells, finding treasure and curses. I do not know of any Jinn who would be helpful here.
Grounding and Centring
If you do any energy work you should already know what you’re doing here. Spend some time connecting your inner energy to the ground and let any imperfections flow into the earth and let the earth return to you calm, grounded and nurturing vital energy. You can, if you feel it is appropriate, reach your energy up into the sky to counter-balance the connection to the earth. Once completely become aware of your centre and where you are in this energy structure.
If you practice Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn magic, this can be done with the Qabalistic cross, which is part of the LBRP ritual.
Banishing
Sometimes, but VERY RARELY, depression can be the result of outside influence from entities. To be completely honest, it’s more likely that a person experiences unbalanced energy that is causing harm than a willful entity. In the rare cases that it is an entity, it is normally a mindless parasite rather than a demon, jinn or ghost. Either way, a good banishing ritual will help clear all of these. This can be something simple like picturing a sphere inside you and pulling the sides of the sphere until it stretches and firmly rests all around you, protecting you from whatever is outside, or a complicated ritual that uses divine names like the LBRP.
Removing undue influence
An important part of having a good functioning energy system is making sure it is free of unwanted influence. If you calm yourself and look deep within your energy system you might be able to find some of the connections you have with other people. In most cases, those connections will be healthy equal exchange connections, but look out for any connections which are unhealthy. You might see them like spears or fish hooks whatever looks damaging or unhealthy to your mind. With your mind and an imaginary hand, gently remove these, making sure to avoid further damaging the energy body. You might need to mentally sear any wounds that remain or channel some energy into the shape of a plaster to cover the wounds. In many cases, the wound will be fine as soon as the implement is removed. Pay careful attention to who the connections feel like when you’re removing them. Some people psychically attack other people but do not realise they are doing it, you need to be aware of them.
Ganesha
This section is mostly my own personal UPG and not something objectively true, but maybe you will agree and it might be helpful. I was just trying to think about who is the most helpful entity/god for helping with depression. There isn’t really an allocated deity or entity for depression. But then my mind came to rest on Ganesha. As a general rule, Ganesha presents as very open to people of all faiths, his character is frequently joyous and he appreciates all sorts of worship. Sometimes Ganesha gives off a boyish energy that can almost make you almost forget he is a god! Make sure you do not forget that. Ganesha can and will respond to English, but I often feel it is respectful to learn what you can of his traditional worship.
The attribute most commonly associated with Ganesha, is that he is a god that removes obstacles. You can easily ask him to remove the obstacles that prevent you being able to experience the full range of ups and downs that match life. Ganesha also makes a delightful companion in life and frequently reminds people that life can be as fun as a game if you treat it as one.
Even when entities such as Ganesha speak the truth to us, if we are not ready to hear it we won’t. When an entity exists on the astral plane, its voice has to be filtered into our consciousness with our mind and if we are trying to avoid or ignore something, our brain will filter it out. Therefore even if Ganesha spoke to you with his infinite wisdom, if you were not ready to hear it you would not and frankly, he might then be upset. It’s best not to upset a god. Because of this reasoning, Ganesha is no substitute for a mental health professional and it would be sacrilegious to treat him as one.
Conclusion
This bottom-upwards approach is based on the most healthy way to approach magic. Taking care of the stuff that gets in the way of exploring magic first and using what magic we can to help that process, but focusing first and foremost on the physical, which is the easiest and least subjective to deal with. Then when benefitting from that work, you can work on more subtle aspects and then preparing the way before working with entities.
Since I am not a mental health professional, I cannot advise how to deal with depression. The most important thing is that you get support from experts who deal with depression day-in-day-out. My advice will be a mere plaster over the problem by comparison. Without accessing that support, this could actually be more dangerous than doing nothing! Attempting to do this work without accessing mental health support could lead to worst depression and delusion.