Scrying the Divine: Advanced Techniques for Spirit Communication and Behavior Alteration: Walking with Spirits, #5

By Taylor Ellwood

In Scrying the Divine I share intermediate and advanced techniques for using the magical technology of scrying to help you contact spirits and get answers and results.

 

Scrying can be a powerful method for working with spirits that engages all of your senses and brings them into alignment with the spirits you are working with. In this book you'll learn my unique approach to scrying that can help you take your own scrying practice to the next level. You will learn the following:

 

• How to create the ideal environment for scrying whether you're outside or inside.
• What tools to use for scrying (including modern technology!)
• How to use multiple scrying techniques at the same time to develop your spirit communication.
• How use scrying to change your behavior and habits.
• and much more!

If you're ready to learn a unique approach to scrying that helps you communicate more effectively with spirits and empowers you to change the deepest behavior patterns within you, then you'll want to get this book and change everything you know about scrying.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Taylor Ellwood
• Release date: Aug 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223793731

Taylor Ellwood

Taylor Ellwood is a quirky and eccentric magician who's written the Process of Magic, Pop Culture Magic, and Space/Time Magic. Recently Taylor has also started writing fiction and is releasing his first Superhero Novel, Learning How to Fly later this year. He's insatiably curious about how magic works and loves spinning a good yarn. For more information about his latest magical work visit http://www.magicalexperiments.com For more information about his latest fiction visit http://www.imagineyourreality.com

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Scrying the Divine:

Advanced Techniques for Spirit Communication and Behavior Alteration

Taylor Ellwood

Eugene, Oregon

Scrying the Divine: Advanced Techniques for Spirit Communication and Behavior Alteration

by Taylor Ellwood

© 2023 first edition

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.

The right of Taylor Ellwood to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

Cover Art: Mark Reid

Editor: Joanna Brook

ME0026

Magical Experiments Publication

http://www.magicalexperiments.com

Other Non-Fiction Books by Taylor Ellwood

The Process of Magic

Manifesting Wealth

The Magic of Art

How to Troubleshoot your Magic

Magic by Design

The Magic of Writing

Pop Culture Magick

Pop Culture Magic 2.0

Pop Culture Magic Systems

Space/Time Magic Foundations

Space/Time Magic

Magical Identity

Inner Alchemy

Inner Alchemy of Life

Inner Alchemy of Internal Work

Inner Alchemy of Wintering

A Magical Life

Mystical Journeys

Magical Movements

A Magical Stillness

A Magical Creativity

Walking with Magical Entities

Walking with Spirits

Walking with Elemental Spirits

Walking with Nature Spirits

Occult Poetics

Dedication

To Joanna, who provides a multitude of mystery, divine inspiration as well as infinite grace every day. You are a blessing to my life.

Acknowledgements

My thanks goes out to Colleen Chitty, Amy Nicole North Davis, Melissa Tessaro, Stacie Storm, Pietro Impagliazzo, Kara Smith, Robert Bisno, Adrian Addison, Lucas Bernardes, Anita Perez, Ross Ferro, and Bo Jacisin for submitting questions to the Q and A chapter for this book. I hope I answered your questions! A special thanks goes to Harper Feist who’s excellent class on scrying as well as the podcast interview inspired this book. Another special thanks goes to S. Connolly, who’s class on working with daemonic spirits inspired some of the experiments in this book. Mark Reid thank you as always for the evocative cover.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Why Scry Anyway?

Basic Scrying Techniques

Intermediate and Advanced Techniques for Scrying

Scrying for Behavior Alteration

Scrying with Modern Technology

Questions and Answers

Conclusion

About the Author

Bonus Chapter

Introduction

I got seriously into scrying in 2022 as a result of taking Harper Feist’s class on scrying offered through the Blackthorne school. If you haven’t taken it, I recommend it. She has a unique take on the subject. Prior to taking that class I had occasionally done scrying via a crystal ball or candle light. I hadn’t done a deep dive into it, because I already have a strong connection to spirits. I find it easy to connect with them on my own effort, through my natural psychic gifts. Nonetheless when I decided to interview Harper on my podcast, I thought it might be worthwhile to take her class and challenge what I knew about scrying. I’m glad I did.

What I realized as a result of interviewing Harper, and later taking her course, was that I was missing out on a significant subset of skills that could be applied to spirit communication through the medium of scrying. Taking the course grounded me in the basics of scrying and inspired some ideas for further experimentation. At the same time, I happened to also be taking a course on the 72 demons of the Goetia, offered through S. Connolly’s patreon. And wouldn’t you know it, that course involved a number of exercises as well. I took the opportunity to apply what I learned from each course to my own scrying. In the process I did what I always do: experiment to see how far I could take my own scrying abilities.

It also helped that I was in the process of teaching my own patreon course on developing psychic abilities for the purpose of spirit communication. The experiments I conducted naturally lended themselves to the course I taught, but even after that course wrapped up, I continued exploring what I could do with scrying. This book is the result of my experiments integrating and expanding the information from the three synchronous courses. Here I share my own theories and practices of scrying and how it can be applied for spirit communication as well as for an additional purpose, namely altering our own behaviors.

Unlike most of my other books, this book doesn’t have a significant bibliography. While I certainly wanted to make mention of Harper Feist and S. Connolly’s courses because of the role they played in inspiring this particular book, the majority of what I develop here is based off my own studies around sensorial, somatic, and psychic awareness. I have been continually researching and experimenting on these topics for almost thirty years at the time of this writing. I found that the activity of scrying naturally lent itself to my existing work. It reminded me of an adage I’ve coined and shared many times: Challenge what you know to discover what you can learn. It is very easy to get caught up in what you think you know. Certainly I’ve been guilty of that from time to time, which is one of the reasons I make it a point to challenge what I know by discovering what I can learn, whether it’s from other teachers of the occult, available books on different topics, or simply my insatiable curiosity.

Before I started writing this book, I taught some of the material in a class called Scrying the Divine at Conjure by Candlelight in Salem, Oregon. Teaching the class helped me recognize that there was a lot of good material that could be shared with people interested in learning how to scry or taking their existing scrying practice further. Writing a book also gives me a chance to take what I’ve learned and ground it in the writing. I teach myself all over again, and of course further develop the techniques through the writing process.

I’ve placed this book in the Walking with Spirits series because it is relevant to working with spirits of any type, however, the techniques and practices I share here aren’t solely limited to spirit communication. You can also do a lot with scrying for the purposes of behavior alteration. Scrying is another example (alongside invocation, evocation, and other such techniques. See my other books The Process of Magic, Magical Identity, etc., for my practical techniques with invocation and evocation) of how existing magical techniques can be adopted for purposes outside of the original intention and be potent tools for transformation in our lives.

Now let’s start exploring scrying!

Taylor Ellwood

Eugene, Oregon

March 2023

Chapter 1: Why Scry Anyway?

I started seriously studying and experimenting with scrying because I find it fascinating to explore the relationship between the physical and psychic senses all of us have access to, to some degree or another, how that sensorial awareness can be used to communicate with spirits, and how it can be applied for other purposes. In the other books in the Walking with Spirits series I’ve discussed the importance of connecting with spirits on their terms as much as possible, instead of expecting them to anthropomorphize themselves for our convenience. Thus it may seem odd that I’m writing a book about scrying where the initial expectation is that a spirit would present itself to the scryer in an anthropomorphic form and conveniently communicate using human language and imagery.

What I’ve found is that this expectation doesn’t quite apply to what actually occurs with scrying. If anything this expectation is a reflection of