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The Hypnagogic/Magickal Techniques of Austin Osman Spare . . .

During World War One, Spare visited Egypt and found inspiration in its ancient monuments and sculptures. He realised that the ancient Egyptians understood the complexities of the human psyche – especially the awesome power that lies hidden behind the Unconscious. Again, the Hypnagogic trance state was all important in the attainment of this untapped power.
Through the trance state, Spare believed that he could tap energies, which he believed were the source of genius. From what I have already gathered from my own experiences and research, I would say that Spare was correct: the energy he tapped was from the Centre of his consciousness, which we could say is linked to, and is the same as the ‘Collective Centre’ – being the Source of Intelligence itself – i.e., ‘genius’ – the potential “Genie” that is locked-up within everyone. Spare began naming this Source and Centre, Kia.

In Spare’s cosmology, Kia is also equated with the ‘in-between’ state he called the ‘Neither-Neither.’ This would be correct, as the ‘Neither Neither’ (neither “this,” nor “that”) refers to the ‘Midpoint,’ or ‘Neutral Point’ – the ‘Third Force’ in consciousness. Again, the Neutral Point is the “doorway” into the Source and Centre – being Spare’s ‘Kia.’ The in-between nature regarding the time of his birth which seemed to have marked Spare’s destiny had finally come to fruition.
As we can see, Spare made no real distinction between the Midpoint, and the Source – however, we cannot really fault him on this as both are intimately connected. We could think of the Midpoint as the ‘Void interface’ between our divided consciousness and the One Source or Centre.
For Spare, ‘Kia,’ was his name for the ‘Universal Void’ of Hindu religion, the Ain Soph of the Hebrew Qabalah, the Tao of Chinese philosophy and Carl Jung’s ‘Collective Unconscious.’ This association between Spare’s ‘Kia’ and the ‘Unconscious’ would be correct, as again, the “doorway” into the Centre is the ‘Void’ – our unconscious point in the cycles, which we must capture and consciously.

The Midpoint is the ‘Unconscious’ – it is our unconsciousness of the Source which obscures the Source and keeps us “locked out” … that is, until we become fully conscious within this neutral threshold, and can sustain it. One must remain conscious at this “doorway” so as to “leap” through it and access the ‘Source of all manifestation’ – one’s Centre of consciousness – the One Truth, that ‘was,’ ‘is,’ and ‘always will be’ – that is, before the “big bang” that brought the universe into being, and to which our evolution is directed through our understanding.
Its no surprise that Spare’s system is based on the same information that came to me after my ‘Kundalini Awakening’ in 1993, which I say is one’s actual experience of this ‘Primal Atom’ of the universe and the “big-bang” that follows it, in which one’s consciousness explodes from the centre of the head and in all directions. Of course Spare had his own terminology – as do I - but at the most fundamental level the cosmology is the same. 

The other key element in Spare’s system is Zos, which is his term for the ego – i.e., one’s consciousness trapped between the two realms of body and mind. The term ZOS was also Spare’s magical name. We could say that Kia is the Source of the primal energy of consciousness and Zos the human vehicle for receiving this energy.

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