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 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.

The photo? One of my readers mentioned a little while back that a namesake of mine was a R&B saxophonist back in the 1940s and 1950s. I decided to check him out, and here he is in all his musical glory. Check out one of his tunes here. As far as I know, he's not a relative, though you never know -- there's been far more interracial marriage in American history, to say nothing of less formal interactions, than anybody likes to admit in these polarized times. If he does turn out to be a distant cousin I won't be unhappy. 

(If Big John Greer was an occultist, that fact didn't make it into his online bios, but of course it's always possible -- between hoodoo on one end of the African-American community, and a plethora of urban magical lodges on the other end, there was no shortage of black American occultism when his career was rolling...) 

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With that said, have at it! 

***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***

Comments

[open_space]

Hi! I am back. To paraphrase one phrase of yours: What a strange trip it's been. Today I see a stranger in the mirror and I am excited about it. There is one big message that has been tattooed into my brain and that is that it's impossible to come to magic and come the other way without a rugiste tentacle sprouting from my amygdala or what not. If you have to see something you will see it and you will see it good and proper until you get it, and I have.

Its easy for me to make something sound greater than it us but not today, for this year I have achieved the most important thing in my life so far and I didn't even have to leave my room. For I have started to make sense of the mess that I am, of the potentials should I clean it up and for God's sake stopping being so stressed about nothing important at all and have fun while doing it! :-)

But whoa, some things do scare the phlegm out of me with quite some force. I swear to you I thought I was going to die or turn mad, but of course it was just my mind doing a tantrum because it has to get up and put my rump on the meditation chair and keep looking at it.

There is another thing that I have learned and that is that drawing shapes in the air with intention and magical guidance, sitting in a chair breathing rhythmically is no joke by a long shot. For a moment there I started running faster than I could hold my breath steady and now I've been humbled to understanding that things won't happen until I am ready for it and if I try to outpace me I'll fail, hard, because this is not about proving myself at all it's about becoming myself and weaving all the dimensions of the things that I have been given to be a receptacle for it.

"I am one with the one Life of the universe, it flows through me to accomplish all my worthy desires"

This affirmation has become deer to me and though I am not, or at least have not realized that I am one with the One Life yet I'm and will make sure to get there some time. It has shown my the my desires are not petty, they are worthy of being pursuit and being Earthed through me because they are not distractions they are part of the process for me to get there.

My wholehearted thanks to you, dear JMG. Your approach to magic has shown me to be more easy with myself and it is helping me heal the wounds and fears from the last time I did, improperly and without a balance.

Fortune was right, sensible people are scared of any sort of psychic phenomena and I am certainly terrified in some way but I am learning to see that they are not out to get me but rather they are blessings.

Properly formulated questions incoming next week too ;-)

[ecosophia]

You're welcome and thank you!

[open_space]

You are welcome of course! But what did I do?

[ecosophia]

You took (and take) the work seriously enough to get results. That's much rarer than you might think.

[open_space]

Thank you for saying that! I am very hard on myself and often if not always forget to give myself a pat in the back, so hearing this helps me in seeing that I've done a good job even if there are still a lot of things to be done.

For what is worth, I find your style of teaching and presenting magic very conducive to getting results that are meaningful if you work for it (While at the same time deterring experience seekers). It feels to me you've charted the area and put signposts that mark the way without forcing your personal take on things which encourages me to find my own voice instead of following someone else's. I find that very inspiring to keep working at it, exploring and perhaps eventually doing some of that myself. Assembling a study program like that must've been a tremendous amount of work and it shows.

[ecosophia]

Thank you!