Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. (Any question received after then will not get an answer, and will likely just be deleted.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here.

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Comments

[ecosophia]

I'll put it on the long, long list of things that don't interest me much, but that other people think I ought to do anyway...

[(Anonymous)]

Mind if I ask why it doesn't?

Is it because it might be too similar to where you are and have gone yourself? It being another kabalahistic magician with interest in Lovecraft being not different enough?

[ecosophia]

It's because I'm not greatly into visual media. It's been years since I've watched a movie and I haven't owned a television in my adult life. I'm just not a visual person -- and when it comes to Lovecraft, I prefer my own mental images of the gods and critters!

[(Anonymous)]

JMG seems happy as he is, but if anyone wants to develop more visual skill, I recommend not only Betty Edwards’s Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain, but all of Tristan Gooley’s works. There’s a whole lot going on out there that many of us never perceive. Gooley will also improve the perception of your other senses.

For Drawing... the first edition, with the white and brown cover, is by far the best. After I worked through it, as a test I rustled up a stock picture of William Shatner as Captain Kirk, because Shatner is generally perceived as hard to draw, and used it as a model to draw a 10 x 14 pencil portrait of the Captain. Then a professional artist kindly put it out at her booth at a Science fiction festival. My Kirk sold for $10. If I’d had any way to get to the festivals I might have made extra money—who knows? But I did satisfy myself that Drawing... works. I think editions after the first would work too, but they’re not as good—more words, less instruction. Stick with the original if you can. It went through many printings, and I still see copies at Half Price Books from time to time.

—Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, Lady Cutekitten. I hadn't heard of Tristan Gooley before. I will check out his books!

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP,
Your Kittenship. I've been interested in Gooley since I heard him on a podcast a while ago! Do you have a recommended starting point to getting into him or just wherever seems like a good entry?
Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello,

I’d just start with whatever you find first, I don’t think he has a set order to work through like JMG has with his books.

—Lady Cutekitten

Thanks for Drawing our Attention

[(Anonymous)]

I also thank you, Lady Cutekitten. I knew of "Right side" since many years ago. It's been on my list of things to explore "some day" for far too long. Perhaps it can move from the "some day" list onto my desk this very year!

I didn't know about Tristan Gooley, eager to look him up from your recommendation.

- Mr. New-Writer

Re: Thanks for Drawing our Attention

[(Anonymous)]

You’ll learn a lot and have fun doing it!

My dad grew up in an extremely rural, 3rd-world environment and he knew everything Tristan Gooley knows. But when you’d ask Dad how he magically knew there was, say, a fox around that you might see if you watched carefully, he’d get frustrated trying to explain it, and point at a patch of ground that, to a mid-20th-century American kid, looked like all the other ground, and say “Well, look! There’s her tracks, and her kittens’s tracks, right there! What do you mean, you can’t see it? How can you NOT see it?” He’d been learning the outdoors literally since Day 1 and was so used to it he couldn’t explain it. Imagine yourself and a primitive tribesperson walking around the Loop in Chicago and you trying to explain how you knew to steer away from that alley even though you couldn’t see if there really was a mugger there. You probably couldn’t—but Tristan Gooley could, and I’m glad he not only learned Dad’s skills but learned how to explain them to the rest of us. God bless him.

—Lady Cutekitten

—Lady Cutekitten