Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's almost 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 more than 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

Jesus Malverde

[brenainn]

I recall a few weeks ago, you mentioned that Santa Muerte isn't the negative or malevolent being that some might imagine. I've since found a decent book that has helped me to start offering devotion to her. The book mentioned another Catholic folk saint, Jesus Malverde. I'm very interested in him and perhaps setting up a shrine to him. Do you happen to know much about him? He's sometimes called the narco saint but I'm going to assume that connection means as little as it does with Santa Muerte. I also welcome any comments from the commentariat about this folk saint, or Santa Muerte.

Re: Jesus Malverde

[ecosophia]

I know very little about St. Jesus Malverde, though I've seen his images and candles in botanicas and well-stocked hoodoo shops. Anyone else?

Best way to get started with Astrology

[(Anonymous)]

JMG,

First off, thank you for this forum. Here’s a newbie question I hope isn’t too basic. What’s the best way to start learning astrology? Is there a book or course you would recommend?

Thank you,

Steve C

Re: Best way to get started with Astrology

[ecosophia]

It's been so long since I took my first steps in astrology that I honestly don't know what's out there at the moment. I'll have to toss this one to the commentariat as well.

[(Anonymous)]

Is there anything occult to the spontaneous “F--- Joe Biden” chants at sporting events beyond public disdain for his failures? The practice has made it all the way to high school football games in my very backwater corner of Ohio… which seems a bit odd because the cultural norms against strong language and emotional displays are still enforced.
Crowds jeering aren’t particularly worrisome… but… combined with the buckets of unemployed, underemployed, and grey-marketeering testosterone – i.e., white men – making regular and un-self-aware comments that sound distressingly like the complaints and laments of Jim Crow era black men – do you think there might be cause for alarm?
Now, I’m pretty sure I’m frequently the only person for several miles to have a solid academic grounding in African-American literature; yet, I hear people who are supposed to be at the top of the heap wishing for level playing fields, less concern with appearance, and more respect for competence and reliability.
Perhaps Max Sheler’s ressentiment lurks.
Are you and the commentariat noticing what I see?
Rhydlyd

[ecosophia]

I don't think there's anything occult going on. People in crowds quite routinely have similar things to say about rulers they despise, especially in a pre-revolutionary situation like this one.

Affects of Baptism

[queenofcups621]

Greetings,

Going through magic monday questions last week I came across a post about the person having left the Mormon church and you mentioned that having been Baptized, the person could expect to have lingering energetic ties.
I was born into a Russian Orthodox family and the tradition is to be baptized as a baby. It is believed that you are given you Holy Guardian Angel at that time as well. I no longer practice the Orthodox Christian faith though I have respect for it and my family still does pratice. After about 10 years of being an agnostic I have followed my interests towards the Hermetic Magical Tradition.
1) I'm curious what differences are between having chosen to convert and be baptized consciously into a faith vrs being baptized at birth.
2) Having been baptized and left the faith how does that function for my energetically now and is it an advantage, disadvantage or neutral in regards to developing my magical practice?
3) I have read a bit on Guardian Angels in the Qabalistic context but am mostly familiar with them from the Orthodox Christian context. Are they often associated with baptism of some kind?

Much appreciated!
Be well

Re: Affects of Baptism

[ecosophia]

All these are good questions, but since I was never baptized at all, I have no personal experience with the energetic dimension of baptism. I know Dion Fortune argued that baptism leaves a permanent connection with the Christian egregor, but she said nothing about whether it was an advantage or a disadvantage for the practicing mage. As for guardian angels, we all have one, and have had one since the beginning of time. I know some Christian denominations use baptism as a way of invoking the guardian angel and asking for its blessing, but it was there all along.

LBRP

[(Anonymous)]

Happy Monday!

I've been practicing the LBRP daily for a couple of months now. I've noticed that my heart races at the end after I invoke the archangels. I was wondering if you could explain the effects that the ritual seems to be having on me?

Secondly, it is very hard for me to source occult books 'down under' and can take months for books to arrive (particularly in the current climate). I've started with your three books on the Golden Dawn, but was wondering if there are any other books that you think someone who is serious about studying this path (and is completely new to the occult) should own? I much prefer a hard copy book and would like to start building my library but it is hard to spot the 'trees' in the 'forest' so to speak.

Re: LBRP

[ecosophia]

1) Try slowing down and breathing more deeply toward the end of the ritual and see if that helps.

2) You should get a copy of Regardie's The Golden Dawn -- the original edition is long out of copyright and the four volumes can be downloaded here, here, here, and here. If you can, get his book Ceremonial Magic as well. I also recommend the books -- any of them that you can get -- of Dion Fortune and her student W.E. Butler.

[ecosophian]

JMG, you said you had a training system that is centered around discursive meditation. How do I sign up?

[ecosophia]

The book will be out shortly.

Garden of Mind and Spirit

[(Anonymous)]

What are some plants you would include in a garden to promote health of mind and spirit?

I am in the planning stage of next years garden, and the mention of angelica a few weeks ago prompted this question. I have decided to devote a portion of the garden over to plants I am not using explicitly as crops. So what are some plants to consider?

Commentariat suggestions requested too!

Melodic Teal Hyena

Re: Garden of Mind and Spirit

[ecosophia]

Most herbs have an effect on mind and spirit and which ones you want in your garden depends on what effects you'd like. My book The Encyclopedia of Natural Magic covers a fair range of the options.

CGD Druid Grade Pathworkings

[(Anonymous)]

I wanted to double check I understand the ritual for the initial CGD Druid grade pathworkings to Muner.

We're working in the Druid temple with the circle and cross arranged circle above cross, so we open with:

Lesser Summoning Ritual of the Pentagram -> purify/consecrate/circumabulate -> invoke the sun -> Supreme Summoning Ritual of the Pentagram

But then the book says to perform the Calling of Earth. The Bardic grade pathworkings seemed to lump the elemental summoning ritual in with the Calling of Earth, but we've already summoned Earth in the supreme ritual of the pentagram, so do I perform the additional earth elemental ritual of the pentagram or just go straight on to "In the great name Cernunos..." in the north quarter of the ritual space?

In either case, from there I'll need to enter into meditation with color breathing and find myself in the inner grove of earth. Does "establishing myself in the inner grove of earth" include doing the earth elemental ritual of the pentagram in the inner grove of earth or do I just check around the grove for subconscious messages and proceed to call my guide? If I do the inner grove ritual of the pentagram, would I perform it again upon returning to the grove of earth from my pathworking to clean up? I seem to recall we don't banish in the inner groves.

Re: CGD Druid Grade Pathworkings

[ecosophia]

1) You go straight on to "In the great name..." etc.

2) You do the Supreme Summoning Ritual of the Pentagram in the inner grove, and then proceed to call your guide. No, you don't do it again, and you don't banish in the inner grove, just in your own material plane grove (that is, the room where you're performing the ritual).

[(Anonymous)]

I'm out in the middle of the Pacific and want to keep Western occult studies alive here for as long as I can in the hopes that future generations can incorporate some of it into what comes next and don't have to start completely from scratch. What essential books would you recommend that I include in my collection before supply lines get cut off?

[ecosophia]

Mine, of course. ;-)

Sphere of Protection

[australiandreamer]

In the Sphere of Protection how important are the vocalised words and the performed actions? If you were tied up and gagged or stuck in a room with some archetypical Inquisitors who would burn you for perceived heresy but you imagined you were doing the actions and saying the words would it still work for you? If you were married to a Puritan who would report you for doing it as written how would you process it?


Is the ‘Sphere of Light’ from ‘Experience of the Inner Worlds’ (Set aside a time and place, free from interruption, where you may, sitting, kneeling or standing as you will, formulate a Sphere of Light about you in the imagination. Then relax your tensions, physical and mental, in the midst of it, breathing regularly and deeply. Put the mind and body at rest – in an attitude of faith, hope, and love of the Creator – who created you) the same thing using a different paradigm or do they do very different things?

Re: Sphere of Protection

[ecosophia]

1) They're important, though not essential. You can get some effect by doing the working in your imagination. You get a stronger effect, and have the capacity to influence the material plane, by doing the words and actions on the material plane.

2) I'd encourage you to do one daily for a year, and then do the other daily for a year, and draw your own conclusions. You'll benefit substantially from the training.

[(Anonymous)]

Given just how many people are in the apocalypse lobby/conspiracy theory camps, and how much emotional energy they put into it, is it possible that they are accidentally bringing an apocalyptic crisis into manifestation?

[ecosophia]

Well, if it worked that way, shouldn't something have happened in 2012?

Less flippantly, apocalyptic beliefs and conspiracy theories are both ways of trying to demand that the universe conform to human expectations. The apocalypse believer can't stand the world as it is, and longs for a cleansing catastrophe that will make it different. The conspiracy believer can't stand the world as it is, either, and insists that some malevolent group of people or other is to blame. Neither can bear facing the possibility that maybe the world is just going to do what it does, with serene disregard for human preferences, and so they get the appropriate karma: the world just keeps on doing what it does, with serene disregard for their preferences.

[(Anonymous)]

Can a person with Bipolar disorder take up the Spiritual Alchemy and Training the will exercises?

I am in my 30s, and I live in a Third world country. I have recently realized that I have Bipolar disorder. The mental health infrastructure in my country is not good. Neither is the level of social acceptance for mental illness. I suffer the most in the depressive phases.

On the bright side, I am quite intelligent, and I have developed a number of coping mechanisms over the years without realizing it. I am very religious, and I follow a somewhat rigid schedule. I avoid sensory overstimulation, and do regular meditation, chanting and idol worship (I am a Hindu). I have a steady, reasonably well-paying job. I am not a danger to myself or others, and I want to keep it that way.

The Training the Will and Order of Spiritual Alchemy look interesting to me, but I am hesitant to take it up because I am wary of making my condition worse. Any advice from JMG, or others with a similar condition?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,
I am doing the Octagon work and my advice is to take it quite slow. Do a little bit and take a break. See if it upsets you or not. If it doesn't upset you, take it in small bites with big rests in between.
Hugs from Maxine

Color Breathing and the Solar Plexus, Meditation Jerks, Merit of TV, Daily Dozen Update

[jprussell]

Good evening,

Thanks as always for your generosity with your time and thoughtfulness. A few questions and a comment/update tonight:

1. A question on the visualization part of color breathing. For the past few months, I've been visualizing the nwyfre coming into my body through the skin in front the solar plexus, and my results have been a bit disappointing. It occurred to me this week that I might have been doing it wrong, and perhaps I should instead visualize the nwyfre coming in through the nose, down the throat, into the lungs, and then into the solar plexus from there. I've tried this second way and it seems like it might be working better. Is there a more common preferred way, or is this something where experimentation is the answer?

2. Related to the above: I recently had one of those "oh, I've been doing it wrong" experiences when I reviewed the earth gate in the DMH - I had not been visualizing the nwyfre of each gate entering my body through my solar plexus. Since I've started practicing it this way (about a week and a half, now), I've noticed a weaker feeling when I take on the blessings of each element. I have been doing the visualization more like the former above (coming in through the skin on the front of my body, rather than through the lungs). Might this be some kind of blockage? If so, anything to do about it besides keeping up the work?

3. A couple times now during meditation, I have found my muscles getting a bit "jerky" - it's not so dramatic as a "spasm", and it's not like my arms are flinging around, but if I don't tamp it down, my arms and legs move around more than a "twitch". Both times, it has seemed to be associated with thoughts/images of force rising up from the ground, and both times it has been when I've been somewhat tired. Is this something to be worried about, or just a normal growing pain? (If it helps, I've been doing daily discursive meditation with only a handful of missed days since the middle of may, and in the past I've done a variety of mindfulness/breathing focused meditations daily for up to several months, and sitting still is usually not a problem)

4. This may not be precisely a magical question, but after listening to you mention TV on a couple of podcasts, I'm curious: do you believe that the medium of "moving pictures on a screen" is inherently not very worthwhile and/or its potential is played out, or is it more that the cacomagical system that produces pretty much all TV and film results in a bunch of dreck in a medium that might otherwise have potential? For example, if a gifted individual made a film entirely on their own, with no outside control or funding, might that have some artistic/spiritual merit? Or is it that moving, photo-realistic images is inherently bad for the imagination?

5. Not a question, but an occult-adjacent update for anyone interested in old-timey fitness: I've been experimenting with using Indian clubs during the "Daily Dozen" workouts that JMG discovered were ancestral to the workouts he was taught in the uniformed wing of an initiatory order. They turn out to pair very well! I would recommend 1 lb clubs for daily/near daily flexibility and conditioning, though I've also tried out 3 lb clubs, which gives one hell of a workout, especially to your grip and forearms, so likely very useful for anyone working on swordsmanship. (BTW, if you read the last sentence and thought to yourself "3 lbs, are you kidding?", that was my initial reaction - the fact that the weight is off-center from your grip makes a huge difference. I'm no weakling - I can do a handful of pull-ups on gymnastic rings and deadlift 285 lbs ~3 times, and I find it a challenge to complete the Daily Dozen with a 3 lb weight without resting.) If you don't have Indian clubs, I imagine you could get similar benefits from dumbbells with slightly more weight - maybe ~3 lb for minimal extra work and ~5 lb for a real challenge. I'm also working on a few supplements. There's not much emphasis on the legs, which I suspect is an artifact of the exercises being originally developed for the army (where you would be running your tokas off everyday anyway), so you might consider combining with running/biking/squats/deadlifts/leg-workout-of-your-choice for working out your whole body. I'm also experimenting with pairing with some other Indian club movements that have more rotation of the wrists and elbows, as I do a lot of typing and want to keep my hands/wrists healthy. Between (nearly) Daily Dozen working out and (nearly) thrice daily Sun Salutations, I've seen a marked improvement in flexibility, even just over the past few weeks. No updates on the spiritual/energetic side of these workouts just yet, but I'll certainly share if/when I observe any. If you're interested in trying the Daily Dozen, I found the video instructions on this channel the most helpful for learning them: https://www.youtube.com/c/Internalforcefitness/videos

Thanks very much,
Jeff

Re: Color Breathing and the Solar Plexus, Meditation Jerks, Merit of TV, Daily Dozen Update

[ecosophia]

1) I was taught to do it through the skin in front of the solar plexus. You can experiment with variations, however.

2) Changing the practice very often has that effect. Just keep at it.

3) It's a normal process. Imagine your body being open, so the energy can flow up through it without getting caught in the muscles and making them twitch.

4) I haven't done the experimentation to find out, and probalby won't, as little colored blobs jerking around on glass bore me. If visual media interests you, however, you could see whether you can find such things that don't have a toxic quality.

5) Fascinating! I have two sets of antique Indian clubs, 1/2 lb. and 1 lb. respectively; I'll give it a try at some point.

Magic bathing and such

[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG,
I have had a cold for a week or so and did not have my normal ice-cold bath in the garden for five days. In that time, I became depressed, insecure, felt isolated and oppressed and then I had the thought that I should just get the Covid shots. A Hoodoo bath certainly cleared that up! Now that I know it is malign magic, I am much better able to shield myself from its effects even though my cold came back and I have had to give up cold baths for the last few days. I just thought I should let everyone know how effective those baths are.

Last night, I got a little drunk and went to bed without doing my usual SOP to clear the bedroom. I couldn't fall asleep and got up at 3 in the morning, much more sober, and performed the SOP. The whole ritual felt unusually strong and at Spirit Above, I felt a heavy pressure and a little pain on my head and my knees started to sway. I felt I was going to pass out (I really was not drunk at that time) so I staggered off to bed and finished the ritual as a visualization. I fell at once into a deep sleep.

Do you have any idea what was going on during that SOP? It was new to my experience.

My Husband has seen his globe of red light a few more times since I last wrote. I asked him if he thought he should try to communicate with it but he said it felt very neutral and he didn't feel it wanted him to do that. He doesn't seem worried by it and he is very sensitive to emotions so I guess it is okay.

Thanks for this forum and all your helpful advice.
Maxine

Re: Magic bathing and such

[ecosophia]

Hmm! That's a new one to me.

Life lessons

[(Anonymous)]

Do you believe there are certain 'lessons' we are meant to learn in each incarnation or is that new age spiritual nonsense?

Re: Life lessons

[ecosophia]

I think of "lessons" as a metaphor, not a reality. Life confronts you with various challenges, and you can learn from them, or not -- it really is up to you. Either way, it shapes your future incarnations, but it's not as though you have some fixed curriculum you've got to slog through, with multiple choice tests at the end of each life!

[reid_pnw]

JMG,

I was going through the Saturn/houses ‘homework’ you gave to me last week, and in the process I learned about intercepted signs/houses for the first time. Suddenly my chart and the problems I have in my life (including the neuroses) started making a *lot* more sense to me.

Just for reference, b/c my chart is weird: all seven of my planets outside of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are intercepted in the same sign & house.

I already light candles etc for one of my really hard aspected planets, and I’m doing a bit of planetary charity. Could you recommend any sort of course of action beyond this? Obviously I know major workings etc are beyond me still. Would it help to start invoking and meditating on a planet energy for my weekly temple workings?

Hopefully this didn't come off as a total bunny-slope “oh god, I’m doomed” thing, but I'm definitely feeling the pressure a bit.

Cheers,
reid

[ecosophia]

Nah, give the candle workings and planetary charity time to work. As for your chart, everybody whose chart I've ever seen has at least one seriously difficult thing in it. Nobody gets exactly the same pressure, but we all get pressure...

SoP completed.

[abrahamjpalma]

I wanted to just say thanks.

I replaced EHEH with LOVE for the last invocation and now it flows. Kind of makes more sense to me. (Though it makes me look like a hippie, at least I'm not saluting with 'Peace').

For the ritual, I chose to call people who I think were masters of the elements:
Albert Einstein for Air. He's the first to come to my mind when I think of intelligence.
Napoléon Bonaparte for Fire. Same for willpower.
Mahatma Gandhi for Water. Same for resilience.
Kung Fuzi for Earth. Same for discipline.
This last one is not a XX century celebrity, but I didn't find so good a match in modern times.

It works well and it should be the only thing that matters. However, yesterday an idea struck me that was bothering me while performing the SoP. Where I live, a mediterranean climate, summer is the harsh season. Except for fruit trees, most vegetable life begins in Automn and dies in Summer. Summer is when we rest for no meaningful work can be done with extreme hot temperatures.
Wouldn't it make more sense to begin with Water and finish with Fire? The biggest mismatch I can think of, is that we don't end the day at noon, and the sun at noon suits Fire very well.

Alas, if it works, don't touch.

Re: SoP completed.

[ecosophia]

You're most welcome. As for the sequence of the elements, that's not a reference to your local seasons -- it has much more to do with deep structures in human consciousness, which don't vary by geography or climate.

Presence with my Daughter

[tumeric]

For quite a few years my daughter (middle school age) has occasionally mentioned she feels like "someone is watching her" when clearly there's no 'human person' there. She usually mentioned it when in the backyard and didn't feel in a negative way, and so I didn't worry about it.
Anyway, the other day she mentioned it again, this time said she was really creeped out by it, so I decided to do a banishing (LBRP) in her bedroom just before her bedtime.
I sat and talked with her while going to sleep. After the banishing, she said it felt like it was going away, and instead of feeling like a meter behind her, it now feels like a mile away. I asked again today and same. It's still there but feels like a mile away.
Anyway, I did a shield geomantic divination this morning for "Is there a NHP (Non-Human Person) connected to P?"
I got this chart : https://amissio.net/gen/cgd/85/3d.svg
Not the easiest for me to interpret, but I'd say Yes, likely an ancestor(LW, RW & Judge placed in 4th Triplicity & 3rd Mother), maybe land spirit (Judge also found in 3rd Niece). Someone who's sticking around and not going away (LW & 4thD:Carchar).

What are your thoughts on what this could be, and also help on other divination questions to refine my understanding of what's going on here would be appreciated.

note: I've just started Bard grade of CGD and haven't done anything foolish whilst she was younger to attract unwanted NHP (non-human person) attention.

Re: Presence with my Daughter

[ecosophia]

The world is full of spirits. Exactly what type you're dealing with is anyone's guess -- they don't necessarily fit into neat categories. I'd say keep doing the banishing ritual regularly, and you might consider teaching her Abby Judson's etheric exercise, which you can find here -- it seems to be perfectly safe for young people to do, and it has decided banishing effects.

[(Anonymous)]

JMG,

Thanks so much for the opportunity to ask questions!

This is from a total beginner to magic:

I‘m very sensitive to what‘s „in the air“, e.g. other people‘s emotions, general energy of a situation or place, … (I can‘t put this into better words, and I have no clue on which plane this is happening :-) )

Usually I cope quite well (i.e. I can appreciate the positive sides, and know how to manage it so I am rarely overloaded). But in the current times, with all that‘s going on, this is very demanding - frankly, by now, I‘m just bone-deep tired.

Are there any magic rituals or techniques I could safely practice to build up something like a shield?

And on a related note: my partner and kids are equally sensitive. Are there any rituals or techniques I could safely practice which clear or shield a certain space, e.g.a room or maybe even the house, so that they would have some respite, too?

Thanks,

Milkyway

[(Anonymous)]

I realised I left out an important piece of information: my kids are teenagers. From your FAQ, I understood that it would be ok to practice magic around them or in places they frequent.

Milkyway

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have any updates on the demonic pact origins hypothesis first presented here:
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/145097.html?thread=18149065#cmt18149065
Do you still hold that hypothesis as probable, possible?


On the other hypothesis your lates update to my knowledge puts it at stage 10.

[ecosophia]

1) It remains a tentative hypothesis. I have not yet seen any evidence that would either confirm or refute it.

2) Early stage 10 is where I place it. We haven't yet seen governments proclaiming that pretty much everyone has taken the genetic-modification drugs, and declaring victory.

[(Anonymous)]

I read with interest your delineation of the upcoming lunar eclipse. When I was looking at this a week or two back, I assumed that the position of the Moon in a specific house would be the defining message of the eclipse rather than the ruler of that house. You didn't seem to take it quite like that, giving perhaps more weight to the (state of the) house ruler. Would you agree with that?

Looking at Europe where I'm based, the eclipsed Moon for most of the continent is firmly in the 5th house. It's in the 5th for London, too, but only just. One of the main signals I'm looking for is where this pandemic is heading as well as the roll-out and possible fall-out of the "vaccines". So with the eclipse in the middle of the 5th, as it is for Berlin, I wouldn't normally think of anything particularly health related as being emphasized. However, in H.S. Green's book, he mentions death from heart disease specifically for the 5th. You didn't actually include this point in your delineation for London, was there a reason for that?

Now, it can't have escaped your attention that there have been people, celebrities and sports stars recently either having heart problems or even dying of a heart attack. The media are doing their best to play it down and of course they avoid any mention of the v-word as being a potential cause. In any case, I think this is really something to watch over the coming months.

Different countries are focused on different organs when it comes to disease. For the British, it as always been the bowels and maintaining good bowel movements. The French are obsessed by the state of their livers and any time they feel unwell they blame it on a crise de foie. For the Germans, however, it is the heart they worry about, so for them this would be their worst nightmare come true.

[ecosophia]

1) In traditional mundane astrology, the condition of the planetary ruler of each house is a crucial element in delineation, so yes, I put a lot of emphasis on it

2) That's a good point. I haven't yet studied enough medical astrology to be sure about Green's health-based predictions, but this is an excellent test case.

[emilyknapstad]

As your subscriber saw your moon eclipse prediction its grim . I think people should know and should be posted here .

On occult level few weeks ago i had a call similar to the one i felt in November / December last year but this one was more fleshed out like pictures moving in front of my eyes telling me to start hunting those responsible for the vaccines and its mandates . I was riding black horse in it . It dawned on me it was another demonic call i just help the iconography of st george slaying the snake and it was gone poof together with emotions . Is it possible after all this there will be demonic driven hunt of those who started all this?

Last one before i got pregnant the name Simeon popped up in my head is not usual name where i live in Norway nor in my home country . I just thought it was finally the guy who kept me safe telling me his name then even before i get to know the gender i refered to my baby as he all the time . Is it possible he have been introducing himself ?

[ecosophia]

1) My predictions are readily available to anyone who can afford the very modest monthly fee on my SubscribeStar or Patreon pages -- and I do have to pay the rent each month, you know.

2) That seems very likely to me. Demons always betray those who make pacts with them.

3) Hmm. Might be.

[(Anonymous)]

A question to everybody:

Occasionally, commenters here seem to say that they worship God (in a Christian sense) or Jesus, and at the same time other gods.

Doesn‘t that clash with the Christian doctrine of „you shouldn‘t have any other gods beside me“? How does that fit together?

Asking out of genuine curiosity. :-)

Milkyway

[the_copper_dragon]

Depends on the tradition you take tbh. The Golden Dawn Tradition and a good chunk of occultism has been practiced and revived by practicing Christians.

Personally I like to honor the roles of other pantheons and what they can offer for me or even teach me about the true message of Christianity, not the sectarian or dogmatist bs. The "no gods before me" bit is honestly a matter of context, and honestly it's a very complex matter to study and explain the nature and identity of a being far far far beyond our current comprehension. In all intents and purposes these gods could very well be fragments, manifestations, or masks of this divine source.

Running

[(Anonymous)]

Just an interesting data point - I had a long run in the woods a few weeks ago, and had somewhat exhausted myself by the time I got to a small grove of lime trees on top of a hill. In the clear evening sunshine, dappled by leaves, I did the Jusdon exercise and felt a tingle rush up through me. I then had almost fully recovered my energy, and ran all the way back (though granted, a lot of it was downhill). Just thought it was worth mentioning for any other runners out there!

An odd thing though - in my while hour and a half run, I must have seen about 4 other people. It was a beautiful autumn evening, and it's a popular dog walking woods. Where the hell is everyone...ill?

Re: Running

[ecosophia]

Hmm! That's good to know. I'll have to try it outdoors in a natural environment sometime and see what results I get.

As for the empty forest, thank you for the data point. I've been hearing this from other people of late. Funny how all the people I know of who say they've had the worst cold ever for the last month without a break received a certain inadequately tested experimental drug...

[(Anonymous)]

I recall that you said last week that when we're between lives, we're mostly on the Astral Plane with perhaps a brief episode on the Mental Plane. Where do tend to think that the classic Near-Death Experience takes place? My guess would the Higher Astral Plane, but I thought I might ask you because your guess might possibly be better informed than mine.

[ecosophia]

Your after-death experience takes place on whatever part of the astral plane you resonate most with, which will be determined by the kinds of thoughts, feelings, and experiences you cultivated during your incarnation. Thus you can experience any sub-plane of the astral from the highest to the lowest. According to occult philosophy, this is what gives rise to ideas of heaven and hell, so choose accordingly!