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

[ecosophia]

I think there are a lot of factors going on here. First, the human population of the planet is so high that very few of us get to spend any significant amount of time out of incarnation, and so a lot of people are being born with strong subconscious memories of their last incarnation still mostly intact. That probably plays a large role in gender dysphoria. I suspect you're also right that spontaneous spiritual experiences misunderstood by the experiencers are also involved.

But there's another huge factor that needs to be taken into account: the medical industry is heavily marketing the transgender phenomenon, for crassly financial reasons. Everyone who gets convinced by doctors and counselors that they're transgender is a permanent customer for pharmaceuticals, surgeries, and the cascading medical and psychiatric services that follow on from those. Since more and more people are backing away from corporate medicine these days, finding new ways to lock people into their services is an essential part of the medical industry's strategy.

Medal establishment and transgender

[ritaer]

It is not that long ago that sex change surgery (as it was called then) was very hard to obtain in the United States. Some surgeries were done in Denmark, or in Japan or other parts of Asia. In the US most doctors both believed that transsexuals were mentally ill and that physical treatments were inappropriate, and they feared that they could be criminally charged for the crime of "mayhem" for removing a healthy body part. A few researchers were studying and treating trans people--I think there was a program at Johns Hopkins University, but I know most about the program at Stanford Medical School in the early 1970s. Patients were required to undergo psychological testing and review to determine how long standing and persistent their sense of opposite sex identity was. Once accepted into the program they would begin to receive hormone treatment which would cause some redistribution of fatty tissue--i.e. feminine hips and breasts, and reduced thickness of beard growth and other body hair. However for most male to female patients electrolysis would be necessary to eliminate beard. They would also practice speaking in a higher pitch and moving in a more "feminine" manner. Then they would be required to live fulltime in the gender they were changing to: adopt female name, wear women's clothing, etc. Only after a year or more of this would they be accepted for surgery. Interestingly, the head surgeon in the Stanford program was a Roman Catholic who didn't really believe in the process. However he worked with the other physicians in the program, feeling it was wrong to impose his religion on a medical decision. However he donated his fee to a program that provided free cleft palate surgery to children in underdeveloped nations. Since this was a research program at a teaching hospital no one was in it for the money. Obviously things have changed. BTW I know about this because my ex-husband (getting a divorce, if married was another requirement, probably advised by legal team to keep wives from filing lawsuits for loss of consortium) was a patient. She has been very happy with the results--no regrets reported. OTH one of our friends in the trans community died under circumstances that were ruled accidental but looked a lot like suicide of the "do something stupid and maybe I'll die and maybe I won't" type. So even with the screening not every result was good.

The US medical profession has undergone many changes toward a profit model. Doctors (and lawyers) were once forbidden to advertise their services, other than a office sign and a phone book listing--Dr. Henderson, Thoracic surgeon. Now we have radio ads for doctors who will prescribe the 'little blue pill' over the telephone or computer, not to mention the prescription medication ads. And many of the new drugs seem to be for diseases no one every heard of a few years ago. If advertising is a form of magic--convincing people that they need powerful drugs for every twinge is certainly malevolent magic IMO.

Rita

[(Anonymous)]

I’m not quite getting why the current huge population would necessarily interfere with the natural afterlife processes. It acts as a kind of gravity well that pulls partially processed souls downward into materiality?

I can imagine this is a first in the history of earth and its attendant non-material environs.

Thanks.

[ecosophia]

Because there are only so many human souls. As the number of bodies that need to receive souls goes up, the supply does not increase to match the demand!