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

[(Anonymous)]

Talking with people I know who are into occultism, I’ve seen a weird pattern emerge in the past few months: a lot of people who claim to be into magic and the occult also claim to basically never read books and often lack anything approaching a full liberal arts education. This has struck me every time I’ve heard it as truly bizarre. I'm heavily informed by Dion Fortune, who writes in _The Training and Work of the Initiate_: "The good occult student should have a sound general knowledge of natural science, history, mathematics and philosophy," and goes on to explain that in order to successfully undertake esoteric studies one benefits from a good grounding in the exoteric. All of that said, I like to keep my snobbery closely in check and I value open-mindedness and flexibility. What’s your opinion on the degree of importance for aspiring occultists having or attaining a broad base of general knowledge?

[ecosophia]

It's absolutely essential. My essay "A Magical Education" (in the book of the same name) goes into this in some detail. An ignorant mage is an ineffective mage; because the powers of magic are subtle, they need to be aimed skillfully at their targets, and a good general education is essential to provide you with the background that makes that skill possible. I specifically recommend that students of magic study mythology, philosophy, and at least one natural science, as a good basic framework for their work. As for snobbery, just don't parade around that requirement; smile and nod when you encounter ignorant mages, and save your advice for those who ask for it, and you'll do fine.

[(Anonymous)]

If magic is the art and science of causing changes in accordance with consciousness, then I suddenly see that it can be used to address quite a few things which I was missing until now. These questions unfold from this.

1) Can it be used to address an addiction? If so, what would you recommend? My addiction is a porn addiction, if that matters.

2) Do you have advice for dealing with the aftermath of growing up with parents who strongly expressed the devouring mother archetype? I'll be moving out in a little over a month, and intend to cut ties as much as possible; I'm doing some journaling, but I'm also hoping there's more I can do, since it's currently a very slow and painful process.

3) My parents are filthy rich and have used money as a way to control me; and one result is that they left me with a pathological fear of being poor. I'm quite sure that it will go away on its own once I'm living on my own and clearly able to get by on a fraction of what I currently subconsciously think I need, but do you have any advice on how to get over this fear?

[ecosophia]

1) Yes, but not immediately. You need to build strength of will and self-knowledge before you can tackle a well-entrenched addiction. Concentrate on other things first.

2) The essential trick is to remember that your parents are not the archetype. They're just a couple of aging people with psychological hangups. The archetype, the thing that gives them power in your emotional life, is internal to you and you can confront it in yourself without having to mess with them.

3) The only cure I know of for that fear is to become poor and discover that it's not a problem. It's like losing a job -- everyone I know who was terrified about losing a job got over it once that happened and they found another one. "Plunge thee into the maelstrom of life!" That's Thor's advice, and it's worth taking. ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

I've been practicing DMH for a little while now, and was hoping to learn more about the higher self, and bringing about an awakening. Hopefully this list isn't too obnoxious: Are there any books you can recommend on the subject? Are there any practices you can recommend for awakening/contacting the higher self? Is Druidry well suited to this sort of thing or is there another path that is more appropriate to such an aim?

[ecosophia]

I'll take those in reverse order. (1) The style of Druidry taught in the DMH is as effective at doing that as any other system of magical training. (2) Daily meditation is the essential practice for this -- it's not fast but it does the job. (3) I don't know of any, and there's a reason for that. One of the very common problems in magical training is that people confuse their egos with their higher selves, and the more details about the higher self they get from books, the more likely their egos are to dress up in the mental equivalent of drag and prance around pretending to be their higher selves. It's much more useful simply to do the practices, concentrate on other goals, and let the opening of contact with the higher self unfold in a natural way, as it will.

[(Anonymous)]

Astrology question: given how lots of people make a big deal out of a lot of things and blow stuff out of proportion, how significant is the presence of a grand cross in a natal chart?

[ecosophia]

Depends on the natal chart. A grand cross where the four planets aren't especially strongly placed, essentially or accidentally, needn't mean a great deal. A grand cross where they're strong is another matter. The crucial thing to remember is that squares and oppositions (which is of course what a grand cross is made of) are sources of strength to the personality; a chart that's all trines and sextiles often results in one of those vague ineffectual personalities that drift through life in a warm blur. Look in the charts of people who accomplished great things in the world and you'll usually find squares and oppositions, and quite often a grand cross.

[(Anonymous)]

Two questions:

Is there a difference between hypnosis and trance?

Are they connected to meditation?

[ecosophia]

Hypnosis is one of the ways of getting into trance.

Meditation is the opposite of trance. Trance is a lowering of the level of consciousness; meditation raises the level of consciousness. It makes you more awake, aware, and reflective, where trance makes you less of each of these things.

Thank you!

[brenainn]

I don’t really have a question at the moment but wanted to make an observation and to offer my thanks. I really enjoyed your book, “A King in Orange.” Among other very helpful aspects, I found especially helpful the part on the tamanous spirit. As I consider this spiritual quality of North America, I’ve found that it acts almost like a decoder ring and makes sense of data as diverse as “spiritual but not religious” and Jesus as one’s personal savior.

I was even amazed to see it reflected in the homily I heard on Sunday morning. Even in a sacramental, liturgical church like the Catholic Church, the priest’s homily was about our individual relationship with the Holy Trinity and how we can develop it as individuals. I wouldn’t be surprised if many thousands of other liturgical Christians were hearing similar “tamanousian-influenced” homilies about the same time as me.

I can even apply it to myself, and can now see how I’ve been working on my own “Christian vision quest” for the past 20 years or so. And this is probably the most helpful part for me. Ever since accepting a basic polytheism and learning about the occult, I’ve felt pulled in multiple directions. It was disorienting at first but now I realize that it has been part of this tamanousian process of developing a very individualized personal spiritual relationship.

So, I want to offer a heartfelt thanks for your book! For many reasons, I got a lot out of it. It was very helpful in understanding the current political situation and how things might play out in the coming years. But perhaps the most lasting impact your book will have on me is how its given me an unexpected direction as I walk my spiritual path. Thank you!

Re: Thank you!

[ecosophia]

You're most welcome, and I'm delighted to hear it.

[(Anonymous)]

1. Since Alban Heruin is three weeks away, might you be persuaded to give an introduction to the lore of Beli for we beginners? (I’m on my first trip through The Druidry Handbook.) Everything that isn’t in his description in The Druid Magic Handbook seems a bit… jumbled…
2. Boy, howdy, I’ve just found a very big hole in my religious education – I don’t know much of anything about prayer. When a Pagan Prays by Nimue Brown looks hopeful, but I just started it. Might you say a few words about prayer for Druids, and/or suggest a title or two?
3. Did you pen anything about the well or fountain of Galabes and why it is important, or could you point me to a good start? Aside from our good friend Geoffrey, it seems largely overlooked… though The Holy Wells of Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1954) is still available…
Many thanks.
Rhydlyd

[ecosophia]

1) We don't know much about him, or any of the gods of the Druid Revival tradition. Invoke him and find out for yourself.

2) Prayer is simple. Talk to a god the way you would talk to a wise and powerful elder. Then listen. Don't do the cringing, on-your-knees, I'm-so-pathetic sort of thing -- I suspect a lot of gods sympathize with God in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "Oh, don't grovel! If there's one thing I can't stand, it's people groveling."

3) Have you read The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy?

[(Anonymous)]

Nickel tour of the Fludd illustration, please!
And... Is there similarity to the cosmology of The Cosmic Doctrine, or am I seeing a face on Barsoom?
R

[ecosophia]

Okay, this diagram is the structure of the human individual. A is the nous, the "simple breath of God" at the core of the self. B is the intellectus -- what we'd call the higher, intuitive mind -- and C is the mens, the thinking and reflective mind. D is the spiritus, what we'd call the astral body, and E is the anima, what we'd call the etheric body or body of life force. F is the corpus or material body.

Maybe you're seeing Dion Fortune's face on Barsoom!

Tai chi and sop

[sea_spray]

Hi JMG
I have a friend contemplating starting the SOP who has done tai chi for a while, though not in the last 14 months. I know they don't mix, so is it safe for him to start the SOP without the tai chi, and are there any warning signs to look out for?

Thanks

Re: Tai chi and sop

[ecosophia]

A year's gap is quite adequate. He should be fine. It's doing them at the same time that can be problematic.

[open_space]

Good evening!

While I was meditating I stumbled into a thread that took me a little bit too far and got some intense visuals, I got spooked and jolted back to the awareness of my body. I felt I was loosing it in a way, not that I would slip and die accidentally but it felt I would, or something would happen. Do you know what happened? I am not even sure on the last links that I was meditating on.

[ecosophia]

You probably started to perceive the astral plane more clearly than you usually do. Not to worry -- you'll gradually get comfortable with it, and thereafter you'll be able to see things, and do things, that you can't yet.

OCD

[(Anonymous)]

Are there any occult explanations and/or treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder? In particular, a compulsion to repeatedly check one's actions for accuracy and correctness.

Re: OCD

[ecosophia]

As far as I know it's psychological in nature, not occult, though it can involve psychological burdens from previous lives. Most often, though, it's a function of unresolved childhood anxieties and traumas.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG!

The conversation the last two weeks about not doing the LBRP in a forest got me thinking about the practical ethics of daily practice. (I'm just finishing up LRM, and as the world opens back up I'll presumably find myself staying places other than home from time to time.) Are there other situations you would avoid doing a daily practice that involved the LBRP? I assume hotels are fine? What about a friend's house? (Ask them first?)

If you're in a situation where the LBRP is inappropriate (say, camping in a forest), what would you do for daily practice during that time?

Thanks!
-Peter

[ecosophia]

Generally the LBRP is fine in any human environment, though it's polite to ask a friend first before doing magical work in his home. As for practice while camping, where the energies are clean, you might try using the LIRP instead.

[(Anonymous)]

Is it an explanation or concern for the etheric body to be weaker at some points of the body? My feet are always cold, and I get poor circulation there. Nothing physically medically wrong with me, afaik, so to be clear for legal purposes I'm not asking you for medical advice; but on the etheric level do I need to address something here?

[ecosophia]

It's fairly common. Breathing exercises, and other forms of etheric practice, will take care of it.

Jesus, Mary and an ancient tradition

[(Anonymous)]

Hello!

Over the years you made several comments about an ancient tradition that consisted of arranging marriages so as to increase the psychic powers of the offsprings. It appears that the timing of the marriage and the period of birth of the offsprings were also of importance in that respect.

(1) If the above is more or less correct, could it be that the birth of Jesus Christ was arranged in such a manner?

(2) And could it be that the persistent rumours of Jesus having offsprings that subsequently intermarried within european nobility with similar aims also be based on historical facts?

(3) Do you happen to know of any valid works on the above?

(4) Finally, some time ago, I came across a TV documentary that described an ancient Indian tradtition that went along very similar lines. Any thoughts?

I thank you in advance for your comments.

Regards

Re: Jesus, Mary and an ancient tradition

[ecosophia]

1) That theory has been in circulation in some alternative-culture circles for about a century and a half. The claim that he was the illegitimate son of a Roman soldier has been around a lot longer -- that's the story in the Toledot Yeshu, which was certainly around by the 9th century and may go back much further.

2) Those persistent rumors were manufactured in the very late 20th century by specific, readily identifiable people, who were riffing off Pierre Plantard's notorious "Prieure de Sion" hoax. (There's a nice summary of the hoax here.)

3) None that I'd consider reliable.

4) You'd have to ask someone with a background in Indian spirituality, which I don't have. The claim in some British occult circles is that there was such a tradition in very ancient times in a land area that drowned at the end of the last ice age, that survivors of the Sacred Clan (the group thus inbred) reached safety in Britain, and that's why the Celts have family lines in which "second sight" is common. Several attempts to do the same thing in modern times have taken place, without noticeable results; if that approach works, it probably takes centuries of careful breeding of precisely chosen bloodlines.

Meditation, Engagement, Ego, Guides and Astrology

[goatgodschild]

1) I have been told that the most important thing to do in meditation, what you should be working towards most of all, is to wholly clear your mind and to remove all thought and feeling. Once you clear your mind as instructed, however, I've never found any instruction of what to do after that -- mostly because there's an implication that no "lazy" Western mind will be able to achieve it, despite the fact I can. I've always been told that meditation is good because it's calming, but all that mind-clearing usually just leaves me tired and a bit confused why I did it in the first place. Are other ways to meditate available and/or preferable?

2) I do not know if I should engage with the Neopagan (Magic Resistance-y) circles I run in when they send off another list of things that we shouldn't say, do, or work with. For instance, they refer to ceremonial magic, particularly that of Crowley, as "ceremonial magickkk". Also that the Golden Dawn system shouldn't be used because it's racist, anti-Semitic, and created by rich people. Do I argue with them, or let them go into their own tailspins?

3) I hear the warning a lot that magic users, and people in general, should remember that they aren't special, and they should watch out for feeling like they're too capable or special, because if we're not careful, we'll become...disgusting, entitled, useless. While I understand that there is certainly the possibility of overestimating one's abilities, isn't it possible to go the other direction?

4) Can one have guides in different parts of traveling? For instance, when I put myself into the Tunnels, there is a weasel who guides me, while in other places, I am aided and guided by Pete (a grey horse), or the EarthThark.

5) What are preferable books to use in order to interpret one's natal chart? Most online sources seem to be extremely frothy in nature, and I am unsure how much to take seriously from them.

Re: Meditation, Engagement, Ego, Guides and Astrology

[ecosophia]

1) That approach to meditation is far from the only one, and I don't recommend it to Western people. Discursive meditation, the standard approach in trad Western occultism, is more effective for most of us -- you can find instructions here (start from the bottom).

2) Oh, how special. ;-P The people who make those claims are either ignorant or lying, and I don't recommend engaging with them; those claims are good examplez of one of the less edifying traits of today's popular culture, the seething hatred of the lazy and incompetent for those who are willing to go their own way, work hard, and accomplish something significant with their lives. That said, there's a silver lining -- if they shun ceremonial magic, that leaves the potent traditional lore for those who have a clue.

3) Of course. The opposite of one bad idea is almost always another bad idea.

4) That's quite normal.

5) If you can get an old (pre-1980) copy of Llewellyn George's A-Z Horoscope Maker and Delineator, that's the one I recommend. (It's long out of copyright, btw, so some enterprising publisher could do worse than to reissue it...)

[(Anonymous)]

Regarding the discursive meditation posts - https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/tag/discursive+meditation:

1. In the first post you say to put a chair in the area of the Sphere of Protection and the reason will be returned to later, but it's not mentioned again. What did you mean to say about that?

2. Does it make any difference what direction you face to meditate?

3. I learned a controlle breathing pattern that is six seconds in, six seconds out, with no breath hold. Would that have a different effect to fourfold breath?

4. How spcific is the palms on thighs position? For example would resting the outside of the forearms and hands on the thighs, or letting the hands overhang beween the legs make a difference?

5. Would it matter if the seat was a bit low so your knees were slightly above your hips? I can raise it up with pillows easily enough, but am curious whether it would matter.

6. What were some of the first subjects you meditated on? Are there any you particularly recommend as places to start? Conversely are there some subjects that won't make much sense until you've done other things first?

[ecosophia]

1) Simply that your meditations will be clearer and less burdened with intrusive chatter if you do them in a banished space.

2) Some people find facing east useful.

3) Yes, it's different. Try the fourfold breath and see what results you get.

4) Yes, it makes a difference. Try it the way the instructions tell you.

5) Yes, it matters. I really don't put in those details on a whim, you know!

6) My first meditations were on the knowledge lectures of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as given in Regardie's book The Golden Dawn. As for where you should start, why, it depends on what interests you.

CGD Druid Pathworkings

[(Anonymous)]

I'm looking over the CGD druid grade pathworking lecture. In the initial description of the ascent from Naf to Ner to Muner, it states that previous work has prepared the reader to make the ascent without a description of the path above Ner or the grove of Spirit. I know I have some meditation in my future, but was wondering whether the expectation is for the reader to meditate and build up an image of how such a path is "supposed" to look or whether the reader should instead focus meditation on the underlying concepts, colors, symbols, etc of Muner and allow the path and grove of Spirit to be stumbled across as they turn up in the pathworking itself without prior explicit expectation?

Is there something I should be looking for experientially when I finally get to the grove of Spirit? I'm realizing I picked up the bad habit towards the end of the Bardic grade of following the path until something like "It's been awhile, I feel like finding the grove now" popped up in the back of my head and near instantly there would be the gate into the grove. I'm afraid I'm going to dutifully wander about on the path a bit the first time and then second time decide it's time to check the box and get to Spirit without knowing whether or not I made the connection to Spirit which the book says is the point of the pathworking.

For that matter, should I have noticed something connecting during the bardic pathworkings? I did all of them as assigned, but I can't point to anything in particular clicking. Not sure if I'm focusing too much on checking the boxes, or if I just have the magical senses of a brick.

Also, if one is interested in exploring pathworking further, how does the CGD handle pathworkings on concepts other than the Tree of Life or Elements? Should that involve the groves or would it be more prudent to just imagine a trilithon above my physical altar with a drape of appropriate color and symbol call/test a guide and step through? Is the calling of an element integral to CGD pathworking in general or only done to relate to the groves? Just trying to figure out where the wires are and which not to cross.

Re: CGD Druid Pathworkings

[ecosophia]

1) The latter is what I'd recommend.

2) And if you do that, you may be surprised at the results. I mean that quite seriously. Pathworking is as much a way of creating patterns on the astral as it is of experiencing patterns that already exist.

3) Don't worry about it. A lot of times it takes months or years before you can look back and see the effect such things have.

4) At that point you're on your own. Experiment and see what works for you!

[mrwhite105]

Hi JMG,
I’ve seen you say to others in a few posts that serious magical practice will bring up unresolved karmic issues rather quickly. If there’s a particular instance of unresolved karma you’re aware you have from a past life, and nothing in your present life seems to be pushing you (or even allowing you) to resolve it, is magical practice the only way to make sure it does become available to deal with? And if so, which magical practices would they be (even if I have to gradually work up to them)?

Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

Not JMG, but from a buddhist perspective: if you become aware of something but can't resolve it, one of three things is happening. First possibility is that it isn't the biggest problem but it is relevant to what you should be working on. This basically means the unresolvable karma is connected to something that is either hidden or you aren't able to bring up to yourself. You may wish to meditate on it, and possibly consider what other work could be done that is only related to it. Second possibility is that it is actually severe enough that it will "hang" until you are able to deal with it. This usually means the karma will be intense enough that it will be highly disruptive or isn't easy to deal with without outside help. Third possibility, and this is an exercise for your own judgement, is that a delusion has set in and the mind has fixed upon some imagined past sin to avoid doing real initiatic work. In the second case, you can deal with it whenever is feels appropriate. The easiest way to set it off is to simply put your attention on it and try to communicate with it. Basically, "I am ready to attend to this now." Magic would force the issue sooner rather than later, but it isn't necessary to deal with suspended karma.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG !
I noticed over time that I was pretty sensitive to people's energy. If I spend some time with someone, their image and the feeling they give off crops up in my mind later and that can happen for some time. It can be annoying if there's a living arrangement involved, with, for instance, the arrival of a new roomate... Do you know of anything that could help to manage that kind of sensitivity to people ?

[ecosophia]

Some people find that regular practice of a banishing ritual such as the Sphere of Protection helps that kind of oversensitivity. (You can find instructions here.) But one way or another, if you're a sensitive, you'll have to deal with some level of that for the rest of this incarnation.

Cabbalistic cross

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,

When I am doing the Cabbalistic Cross and am imagining myself growing to the immense size of Adam Kadmon am I engaging in a form of astral projection?

Should I be expecting to eventually be able to see into the apartments upstairs and should I be literally seeing the surface of the moon etc? I have been doing it for 6 months now and it still feels mostly like it is “just” in my imagination...

Many thanks

Re: Cabbalistic cross

[ecosophia]

Not really. Just imagine it, and don't worry about seeing the apartment above yours.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you know of any reason why some people advocate pronouncing AGLA in full as Attah Gibbor Le-Olam Adonai when doing the LBRP?. Are their any benfits/detrimental effects on the ritual from doing it this way? Also, do we actually know what the original members of the Golden Dawn did?

[ecosophia]

As Robert Heinlein has one of his characters say, some people insist on pissing in their coffee because they think it improves the flavor. There are all kinds of people ringing all kinds of changes on the LBRP or, well, any other magical practice you can think of, since our culture fetishizes originality and making little tinkering motions like that is a way of pretending to be original. It doesn't seem to do a lot of harm, but it doesn't do any good. Yes, we know what the original members of the Golden Dawn did; here's an online copy of the first knowledge lecture, word for word as it appears in copies given to the original members. (I've checked.) The LBRP instructions are toward the bottom.

[stcathalexandria]

Good morning and happy Magic Monday!

Thank you again for reassuring me that if I stuck with the MP exercise, I'd deal with the waves of heat I was experiencing. They got worse for3-4 days after I posted two weeks ago, and then gradually better. What I finally remembered is the comments here about polyester fleece trapping in the etheric body and I was wearing a fleece jacket while doing the MP. I switched to all cotton clothing and not only had better results during the practice but also one night of relief from the heat wave. (It came back again but less severe each night and last night it was gone again.)

I'm so conditioned by a world that hits me over the head with actions and results that its been interesting have to really pay attention to subtle changes during this whole period. Recording the experience has been so essential too.

This experience has also made me wonder about the impact of coffee on magical practices. I feel like I'm getting the message to cut back on it. What kind of impact does coffee have in this work? Is it considering a mind-altering substance?

[ecosophia]

1) Hmm! Interesting. I dislike polyester -- it always feels like I'm smearing myself with crude oil when I wear it -- so I didn't think of that.

2) Coffee is indeed a mind-altering substance. It's fairly mild as such things go, but if you get the sense that you're using too much of it, consider cutting back. If you've become accustomed to the caffeine, you might try tea -- that's very widely used among people and cultures that do a lot of meditation and spiritual practice. One magical lodge ritual from the mid-20th century I have assigns the officer in charge of the element of water the task of making tea for everyone after the lodge meeting's over! Yes, it's from England -- why do you ask? ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

1. Can experienced practitioners in magic sense events happen on the astral plane? Kind of like sensing 'a disturbance in the Force' as in Star Wars? Say there is a natural disaster, or a plane crash - is this something that can be sensed?

2. Do you, or anyone else, know where I might be able to buy large prints or posters of the types of images you use for Magic Mondays, like the Robert Fludd images? I'd love to have some of these for the walls of my room.

[ecosophia]

1) Sometimes, yes. I know a number of people who had precognitive dreams and visions in advance of 9/11.

2) I wish I did. Anyone else?

[(Anonymous)]

First, i would like to thank you for your Archdruid Report blog, without it i would never have the respect for you and your idea that i do and i would never have follow you to ecosophia.

Couple years back if someone would have suggest to me to draw figure mid-air and imagine color i would have suggest they wear a straight-jacket. Now i'm doing it everyday and i'm glad i do.

Many thanks for the magical concept you have introduced to me and for this space, they have changed my life in very unexpected way.

I've been praticing SoP, the version presented on this site, for about 7 months now, i bought DMH and just started praticing ogham and discursive meditation. For my first question, i've had pain in my left leg right below the knee while doing SoP, i eliminate all others options i can think of, it really seem SoP is the cause of it somehow. Flare up during the exercise and slowly disappear to nothing half an hour or so after. The stronger the SoP, the stronger the pain to the point i stop doing it for the last couple days. I try to think my way through this one but im stuck on what it's mean or what i should do.

For my next question, i realize that doing SoP in a forest is very different that from my appartement. The last stage i can't push the light very far, its stay close to my body and walled from going further. My reflection on it seem to point to the facts that i expect SoP to be stronger in the forest. I try it at home
and SoP seem to be lot stronger when i expect it to be, but there is more to it than that, but i can't seem to figure out what is it.

Forgive my english as its not my native language and if these question has been asked and answer before i couldn't find them.
Thanks for any advice.

[ecosophia]

1) You might see if a massage therapist or an acupuncturist can help you. That sounds like an energy blockage in the leg.

2) Good! Keep practicing and pay attention to the differences in how strong the energies feel and how far they reach. That's part of the process of awakening your inner senses.

Jean Dubuis

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have an opinion on the work of Jean Dubuis? I'm specifically thinking about the study courses (notably the one on Qabalah) that he created for the Philosophers of Nature. Are they worth studying?

Re: Jean Dubuis

[ecosophia]

I worked through his Fundamentals of Esoteric Knowledge and Spagyrics courses with very good results and I would recommend Dubuis' work to anyone. Under the terms of his will, they're now avaiable free of charge here, which I thought was very generous of him.