All traditions are a fusion of the teaching and the teacher. Eventually, there were forty-three people, just as many as would fit in the chairs and on the floor in a circle around the room. I repeated the warning that this was all under copyright, and that therefore all I could do was read from the book. I could not guarantee, however, what would actually happen when we got into the Presence, but what they all must hear is that my plan was to read from the book. I spoke to them of the intent to go to the primal temple of the UnderWorld, which is also the Innerworld, and enter the presence of the Dark Goddess.
Intent is the key.
Teachers have said that energy follows thought, for thought is energy8, so therefore intent leads. The people at the working mostly knew what this meant, for many of them had come to Pantheacon already trained to some extent in magical or esoteric work. This working can be called a guided meditation or a trance journey or a shamanic journey but as it goes to a real place that is perceived by our senses and imaginations as similar to, and also very different from, our consensus reality I simply call it a journey. That with which we were about to work was real on an energy and sub-energy level and available to our conscious minds in forms taken from our knowledge. You can say that the forms in which we see them are from our imagination but my hesitation in describing them in this way is that they are in no way themselves imaginary.