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Which of the methods mentioned seemed more/less useful in achieving your new state? Do you believe it a matter of having certain teachers/methods for certain stages of awakening? Did you find any methods/teachers of no use at all?
Like I wrote, it's tempting to say that the methods don't really correspond with the result, but that would be oversimplifying things.
Those methods which kept me going, which kept me alert to the lack of clarity, which kept the intensity of my application to this process high, those were the useful methods.
Apart from a couple of weeks of jhana-coaching by Kenneth, when he originally appeared on the old DhO, I didn't work formally with any teachers (and Kenneth had not set himself up as a formal teacher back then). I had a few mail and chat conversations, mainly with Tarin and Duncan Barford, but also a few others.
I didn't list those methods which I found no use at all.

Could you tell me if you had any luck with the whole enoch business of magick? In what direction? Money, relationships, work, power?
Enochian Magick seems to be a huge topic - I only did the "aethyr scrying" operation: in the course of about 10 months, going from 30 to 1, like Crowley did in "The Vision and the Voice". It was also a very minimalistic rendering, more meditation than ceremony. My intention with this was that this operation should guide me through the "Anagami Fractal" by the shortest possible route. In that regard, it was successful. Improvements in my money/work situation coincided with the operation, now that you mention it, but that was the direct result of me changing jobs a year ago, before I started with this.
Magick tends to be content-heavy, so it's important not to get lost in the content. After each working, I spent a lot of time examining what had came up, in order to see it clearly for what it was, and gain insight from the frankly whacky results. I guess that's how many vajrayana practices work as well.
Jed McKenna (whoever he is - mystery man) writes about final awakening as a gut wrenching and terrifying process. Did you have any of that?/
I did have a few bad dark nights during the past few years; and they seemed to be getting worse toward the end, but this kind of stuff is hard to measure, of course. Like MCTB, Jed's books describe the process in a broad spectrum of detail. Not everyone who does Vipassana will experience every detail of the kind of dark night described in MCTB. Also, having been a dark-nighter for most of my life prior to stream entry (I'm convinced that I crossed the A&P pre-teen-age), there wasn't that much unexpected terror to be met any more.
Have you read all three of Jed's books?
Cheers,
Florian