Grab wrote:Doesn't it disturb the magickal process then if someone who is listening is thinking "Oh gosh, now he's at it with his nonsense again, his Adoooneeeey and what not" - if the ritual is performed silently they will not think about it so much, and hence not intermingle their threads of conciousness into the ritual - do you understand what I mean?
This isn't exactly an answer to your question, but just a comment: 8 or 9 years back now, I did some amazingly powerful personal work in trance (I'm talking about personal healing & transformation with spiritual assistance) all the while the guy living on the floor above me was holy-rolling and shouting prayers to Jesus constantly about driving out dark forces, and praising his God, and generally being a very loud and very evangelical Christian. Not because of me, he just did it anyway....
I had the utmost respect for him, he's a lovely guy and he'd be up at 3am after 2 hour's sleep shouting to Jesus and so on, day in day out... and, since I figure all energy comes from the same ultimate source, his shouting had in a roundabout way the same intent as my trance-work, to grow and to be made whole again.
Not sure how skepticism would have worked, but pretty much, you're not choosing a popular line of behaviour anyway, so I hope you find a solution that works for you!!
