Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for 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

[realmscryer]

Good Evening JMG,

A question regarding The Dolmen Arch. I am practicing the exercise in Gradd Y Damcaniwr of learning to see phantom complementary colors. The expected complementary colors appeared readily from the initial attempts, though they look like a ring or aura around the painted dot. When I shift my gaze to white paper they then appear as the solid phantom dot of complementary color as expected.

Is the aura-like ring meeting the intention of the exercise? If not I shall endeavor to hover the color! I ask as it appears the paint is overpowering the phantom color so maybe I am only seeing an outer ring as a result?

I also wanted to verify imagining the phantom nature is the expectation for the Ocean of Color and Color Breathing exercises. Getting the same level of intensity as the physical paint may take a while. I have perceived vivid colors in my imagination before but usually in daydream or deeper trance like states.

On a different note, do you find interest in learning or participating in occult practices and interest in professional magical services (divination, spellcasting, talismans, ...) to be somewhat independent phenomena? If interest is waning on the learning side does it mean necessarily demand for professional services is in decline?

My guess is demand in each might be somewhat inverse or maybe not connected. People might value the services but don't have time, energy, or interest to figure out how to do it themselves.

Thanks,

Monochrome Vitriolic Skunk

[ecosophia]

1) Don't worry about getting the imagined colors to any particular level of intensity; that comes with time and practice. If you're getting the "auric ring" you've gotten the point of the exercise.

2) They're correlated, but the supply of professional occult services increases and declines along with popular interest. Thus those people who stuck with occultism after the 1929 implosion of the Theosophical Society, and offered professional services, had much less competition than they had faced during the boom times, and even though the market for such services contracted there was still enough of a market that they did fine.

-- Persimmon Gibbering Mermaid