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. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) 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. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 

The image?  I've decided to do another pass through magical personalities, and I figured I'd start with one of my own teachers. This is John Gilbert, with whom I studied the teachings of the Universal Gnostic Church, the Order of Spiritual Alchemy, the Modern Order of Essenes, and the Magickal Order of the Golden Dawn -- this last, of course, is the parent body of the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose. This photo was taken in 2008 in eastern Tennessee at a Druid event there; it was the last time John and I met in person, though we corresponded via email and talked on the phone quite a bit after that. 

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With that said, ask me anything!

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

Comments

[ecosophia]

1) I recommend starting with The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances Yates and The Rosicrucians by Christopher McIntosh, then going on to the three original documents.

2) It's not stupid at all. If you want to change your tastes, you need to find out first why you have them; I recommend journaling for that. Simply write down, say, "Why I Hate Fish" and then write down anything and everything that comes into your mind in response. If there's some kind of emotional issue connected with fish, you need to deal with that before you can change your tastes. Once you've done that, try different kinds of fish cooked in different ways, as far as possible from the way you've eaten it in the past, and as you eat it, repeat silently to yourself, "This is really tasty." You'll find after a while that it is.

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2. How do you deal with underlying emotional components behind any compulsion? For example, say like something that is bad for you because you feel like you don’t deserve better. Would it be a good approach to use some affirmations to improve your feelings of self-worth?

[ecosophia]

Make it conscious. Once it's conscious, it's not going to blindside you, and you can simply face it and decide that you're not going to think that way. Yes, affirmations are another useful tool.