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=== Unfettered ===
Described as "Otherness through detatchment",<ref name=":1" /> this path involves entering one's Self with astral projection and altering it. Battling past internal barriers and automatic defences against damage, it is possible to physically destroy things like one's own mortality, bad karma, certain connections, curses, memories, psychological issues etc. This is very hard and dangerous, generally requiring one already be an experienced Practitioner with backup, with the more fundamental aspects or those that connect with the outside world being harder to reach.<ref>Finally, the most accessible Unfettered practice is the Shadow of Oneself.  The Self is opened up and astral projected into, sometimes while the practitioner is asleep.  Individual issues, memories, and facets of the Self can be explored and confronted as physical things and places, growing more meaningful as one gets deeper, and may be slain with physical means or altered with practice.  At seven points along the periphery of the Self where it meets the rest of the universe, often past key barriers (core memories, Karmic barriers, inner demons), one can address or attempt to slay things such as specific connections, specific marks of karma, mortality (and other incarnation-related aspects), and any attached curses or abstract qualities.  Once sufficiently threatened (and it <em>will</em> be threatened even if the practitioner is ‘healing’ it, such as by removing a curse), the Self can be expected to attack the practitioner, in hopes of destroying the part  of them that seeks to change so drastically.  A moderate ritual for which assistance is strongly recommended, primarily used for strategic targeting of key problems by those who cannot wait as long as Citation requires. - [[List of Books#Quasi|Quasi]], quoted in [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/03 Bonus Material: Bedtime Reading].</ref>