Spirit Medicine: Siddhis

The word "siddhi" [1] generally means some kind of non-ordinary power. These can be granted as a boon after accumulation of certain practices, developed through opening of energy centers within the subtle body, or learned in past lives (on or off Earth).

Clear Sensing


Also known as the "clairs", these are various ways the human consciousness can experience psychic and subtle energy phonomena in a way that is translated into a sensory modality.

Subtle Energy Body


These siddhis are loosely grouped together because they describe the use of the subtle body

Elements


These are the classic five elements from Western and Indian elements. Systems can differ. The siddhis for each of these elements can be invokations or evokations.

The minor arcana of the Tarot describes the element, instrument, and the Tree of Life .

Wuxing(五形)(Five Shapes)


These are the five elements from Chinese elements, although historically, there are systems that may have more, or less, and in different arrangement. Each of these have specific siddhi that is not related to the element, and not exactly an invokation or evocation.

Magical Instruments


The advance form of using ritual implements such as the athame or the kila is a kind of siddhi where conceptual principle underlying the use of a the instrument as a focus itself becomes distilled into a siddhi.

Footnotes


  1. The use of the word 'siddhi' here is in the English sense, borrowed from the Sanskrit 'siddhi', but conjugated using English rules. The plural is 'siddhis' rather than 'siddhiyo' or 'siddhī'.