Shadows grow protective
Snatching gasps of presence
Holding it back behind perception
At the instance of an enemy eye
Your fringes grow wild
A silent hymn begins
Your edges dance
Into the outer gates
Out past the eldest space
You nothing to behold
Another pattern on the wall
A distant echo to ignore
Hey, Elle here. The above charm poem is one that, should you hold it in mind while practicing Voidspace alignment, will phase you partially into the outer realm. It's important to be immersed in Voidspace's conceptual realm mentally while doing so, as otherwise you could stir up something in the outer realm that either sees you as a snack or tries to communicate in ways you can't comprehend and temporarily breaks your brain. If done correctly, you should exist neither fully in physicality, nor in the outer realm, but in a strange liminal space between both.
Voidspace's philosophy is one I have yet to fully ingrain and develop in my own mind. "I am always letting go," is easy to say, but to feel it you really need to open yourself up, all of yourself, everything, everything you're attached to, everyone you hold in your heart, and just … let them go. You can't even hold on to the hope that they'll return in time. It's about letting go of all attachments, all ideas, all things, all connections, from physicality itself to your presence in the noosphere to your closest loved ones to your favorite novel. If you've got a strong pattern, a core self will survive in Voidspace, a part of your pattern that doesn't dissolve and drift away. And when you emerge, your edges should reconstruct, though they probably won't be the exact same, and (since changes are retroactive) you won't notice the difference.
This full, total surrender is one I instinctively resist. I tend to repeat my core values and parts of my identity, afraid to lose them. Yet that makes a relationship with and understanding of Voidspace difficult, tenuous, because how do you connect (by letting go) if you're always holding something back?
I'll work on giving myself fully over to Voidspace during meditation.