Hi, I'm interested in studying the Quareia course, but I'm struggling with the requirements because of my living situation.

My income is low enough that I can't afford to rent an apartment or even a studio (For context, I live in the U.S. - West Coast). I rent a room in a large city and have very little private space. I live in an earthquake-prone area where the buildings are primarily made of wood and the place has rugs attached to the floor, so I can't safely use 1 candle, let alone 5 candles.

I also don't have the space to use tools and altars and I ran into problems with the exercises that required movement. I've tried walking the circles as instructed, but my room is so cramped that I don't have enough floor space to walk in a full circle and take front and back steps during ritual, even without the altars.

Another possible issue (although I don't really see it as one) is that I must keep my voice low because the walls are thin and the neighbors can hear everything. I don't have access to a public park either and have limited transportation and there are no woods nearby I can go to do ritual. My only private area is the room I rent.

To clarify, my limitations are due to my living situation, not a lack of willingness to follow the course rules or use tools or have an altar space.

Given those constraints, is it still possible to work through the Quareia Apprentice course? If so, how would one work through it without tools or space? For example, instead of walking in a circle, would I spin in a circle or imagine walking in a circle?

Or is it better to postpone Quareia until my situation changes? I'd rather not postpone though, given what's happening in the U.S., I'm not sure this situation is going to get better because prices and rent keep going up, so transportation and living space is becoming a bigger issue over time.

The thing is, I already bought the book and I don't just want to read it, I want to do the work and make progress, without skipping sections or jumping around, but I'm not sure how to do that given the circumstances and I don't want to break the directions in the textbook, it's why I ask.

If you've made it this far, thank you for reading. Any advice is appreciated. <3
Like, Polly Pocket altars, toy candles, idk. I'm open to it.

Note: Thank you for the encouragement you guys, but please don't suggest anything with real fire. As stated previously, it's a hazard due to how the building is made and the extreme lack of space. I would not endanger the tenants, or the property I'm renting, to succeed in this course.

Hello, fellow workers of the Quarry! I am a longtime Quareia Apprentice, having been content to float comfortably in Module 1 for many years while I pursue a different spiritual path. But I have a somewhat heavy request for the practitioners of this subreddit, as instinctually I feel the system of Quareia would be best suited to my needs.

Content warning for sexual assault, infant/child death.

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A couple days ago, a woman got violently sexually assaulted on a much-beloved woodland path just down the street from me. It is a path I've walk alone, as a woman, almost daily for several years. Since having initially scoped out the area a couple days ago upon seeing police tape—when I did physically go onto the path—I've avoided returning, as divination warns me strongly against doing so. I don't know if this is because the culprit is still at large (police have detained a suspect), or because of nasty, lingering energies. I suspect the latter.

There is an additional heaviness to this assault in that it appears to have taken place directly near what seems to me a sacred tree. I call it the Grieving Tree, as it's a tree that's long since been adorned with toys and ornaments and notes from those whose infants/young children have died.

My usual methods of cleansing and blessing do not entirely seem to apply here. It feels like the woodland itself is unbalanced and angry, and as a result of this crime the city might implement a surveillance apparatus that could greatly harm the natural environment of the path.

I can see a world in which helping is beyond my capabilities, but is there anything I can do to even somewhat rebalance this wood that I love so dearly? To cleanse it, or heal it, or something else that presently escapes me? Or should I just stay well away, until the energies resettle?

I would greatly appreciate the wisdom and guidance of this community. Thank you all!

Edit: Typo

I know those questions are unrelated to each other sorry about that. But I'm really interested in some of them. Thank you for your time.

1. Any army personnel in here and still practicing

Quareia?

2. Any religious people especially Buddhist or Christian here, how did Quareia affect your practices?

3. Any artist here who practices Quareia? How are you using your art magically?

Hoping for some clarity on a couple of inconsistencies in the ritual for cleansing a space. The text mentions pointing to the middle of the triangle while reciting the recitation of clearing:

> The triangle used is traced vertically in the air as it is working on a larger area. If you were working on a specific object, you would do it horizontally over the object. Stand in the centre of each room, and with the two first fingers of the right hand trace a triangle vertically in the air and then point through the centre of the triangle while reciting the recitation of clearing: “In the Names which are above every other Name, and in the power of the Almighty…” *(*point to the top of the triangle) “…and of the Mother…” (to the bottom right hand corner of the triangle) “…and of the Holy Spirits…” (bottom left hand of the triangle) Complete the triangle and then point in the middle of the triangle: “I exorcise all influences and seeds of evil from this room.”

But before the recitation of clearing itself, it says to sprinkle the consecrated mixture around the room as you recite. I think I must be misunderstanding what the recitation of clearing is- I understood it to be the text below, but is it really just the singular line "I exorcise all influences and seeds of evil from this room?"

> *Now begin to sprinkle the mix around the room as you recite. Sprinkle above, below and around the directions. * “I exorcise all demons, parasites, thought-forms, golems, ghosts, (etc)

Thanks for any interpretation advice/clarification

I have only started meditation fairly recently(1 week or so), but I have been doing them daily to keep a good routine going. Usually they're pretty normal and Im able to stay there for at least 10 minutes. However, last night's meditation was nothing like the previous times and it was actually somewhat frightening.

I began the first practice as usual and put my finger on my forehead. However, as I put my arm down to start the breathing visualization part, my mind began to play with itself and started generating random imagery. People i do not recognize talking, getting interviewed, walking around, etc. I thought it was just a normal distraction so i focused back on my forehead, but that's when it got weird. Instead of clearing my thoughts, the imagery became distorted, eyes, pale creepy faces and almost demonic figures were being uncontrollably generated inside my head, and I couldn't do anything about it.

Eventually I started thinking about happy memories and thoughts, which eased down this nightmareish headspace and I was able to return to a meditative state for another couple minutes.

Just wondering if this is normal? I was pretty startled by it afterwards because this never happened to me before. I didn't even know something like this could happen during a meditation.

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Hello I'm curious has anyone experienced, and if so found ways to overcome, a sort of almost a voluntary urge to move the head or muscles of the eye while you are in a vision exercise and walking around or turning around in vision?

For this is something that's repeatedly affected me, and it's hard for me to overcome. It is like I feel like I'm 'kind of there' but then, take for example in The Vision of The Void when I want to return back to my body and I'm imagining myself turn around them I find my eyes subtly start to turn behind my closed eyelids, and an almost involuntary urge to move muscles in my head subtly this way or that, depending on which way I'm turning in vision.

The problem is that it kind of takes me out of it, and it needs a lot of willpower for me to kind of overcome, and I have a feeling it shouldn't be like that. Sometimes the movement is very slight, like for example before composing this message I was doing a little bit of meditating and then did a little vision walkabout exercise while sitting in my car (I try to get small moments of meditation in as much as possible at different times in the day to just get some volume in there, as well as more formal sessions early in the morning or late at night)

So I imagine myself getting out and then trying to scout around, walking to the right walking to the left going across the street and walking up the hill and I caught my eyes making a slight stochastic movement to the right and then to the left as I was respectively turning that way and then the other way in vision.

Does anyone else experience this and if so is it something that's like a constant for you or something that you were eventually able to overcome or get over or is it even something that should be overcome? Like perhaps I'm overthinking things for example and maybe this is perfectly natural and I just don't realize that in any case thanks and happy Friday to everyone may you all be blessed.

When I look into religions as a historical and academic standpoint, the story of religions changes from God revealed it to man made it. In some religions, there's almost no archeological evidence, only after hundreds of years later of the founders death that we see those archeological evidences. So I asked myself, what's the point of believing in a religion then?

When I checked the exoteric teachings and primary sources of each religion, almost all of them are different. The number of hells and heavens differ, the amount of angels differs, even their descriptions differ. What angels are in Abrahamic traditions is completely different from dharmic religions.

But when I check the esotericism, that gap closes. Especially when I read the mystics of each religion. They are almost saying the same things. Those dogmatic ideas turn something else in their hands. God becomes not an outside being, the universe turns into a whole not a place created for Adam. How do they do it? How does a person from a dogmatic tradition become a mystic?

Whether a religion created out of necessities or someone's personal experience, whomever works with an open mind and heart, the path leads to the same place. It is not even religion that does it, whether it be science, art or a job they work in, it can turn into this mystical path.

It is not the dressing of a religion that turns man and woman into a mystic, but something in ourselves that does it. Whether you walk, speak, eat or drink, just being mindful, choosing mindful, listening mindful will change something in you. Establishing a connection to something greater than you, having patience, compassion, and helping yourself and your environment in service... To me it is Quareia, to someone else it is maybe art, but real work is in ourselves.

May we all be mindful.

I just heard about this free online divination course with Harvard. I believe it’s history of, not a how to.

https://harvardonline.harvard.edu/course/predictionx-omens-oracles-prophecies