Grounding

Grounding
A ritual, or part of a ritual, to help one drain off negative energy already present. It implies sinking one's roots deep into the earth, allowing stress and negativity to drain away.

Grounding
There are times when we are stressed or have been to a ritual that we feel "all charged up" sometimes it is enjoyable and sometimes it's time to get rid of some of this excess so that we can calm down.

Nihilism as the ungrounding of all facts and the dissolution of all boundaries is expressed through the corrosive dissolving power of technology and of modern economics as its inevitable extension. It cannot be avoided, overcome or denied.

The reason I gave up the Integral Paradigm project is that at the time I was still thinking in terms of metaphysical principles or absolutes, in keeping with my grounding in Kabbalah, Theosophy, and Perennialism.

lack of European Tarot decks circulating in the English- speaking world and the stonewalling by the "experts" of the early twentieth century-- there have been numerous fads and styles of Tarot recently emerging that have little or no grounding in ...

The elements are the four forms of life: expansion, contracting, circulating, and grounding, these four, in their simplest forms, create everything we know by combinations.

There are a handful of key texts that should give you a good grounding in the man and his magick.
Sadly, there is still no really objective biography of Crowley.

The consecration of time and space; the psychic centering; grounding and unifying the participants into a "group mind."
The opening of the Gates between the Worlds and the starting of a flow of energy between participants and deities.

Because an upright pentagram shows the forces and building blocks of nature in correct manifestation, it has a very grounding, harmonizing influence, ...

"Esotericism is the art of 'bringing down to earth' those energies which emanate from the highest sources and there 'grounding them' or anchoring them." (Education in the New Age, p.67) ...

Earth is the grounding principle and the ultimate metaphysical place for the manifestation of the life and light "that shineth in the darkness". Given the deep mystery of the virgin state, this is entirely appropriate.

See also: Spirit, World, Spiritual, Symbol, Ritual