Magic Monday

Midnight is just a few minutes away, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will 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 1.1 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.  And further:  I've decided that questions about getting goodies from spirits are also permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

The image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above was my forty-fifth published book and the last of my books to come out of my former blog, The Archdruid Report. The last theme I developed in any detail there was the recognition that blind faith in progress had cut most people off from the single most useful source of working options available to us -- that is, the past. My novel Retrotopia had sketched out that theme in fictional form, my nonfiction work After Progress had delved into the bogus religion that had arisen around the myth of progress, but I wanted to say a few things about the practical side of using the past as a resource for the future. A flurry of posts, and then this book, were the results.

It sold very poorly, and there were reasons for that. The peak oil movement had collapsed completely by the time it saw print in 2017, and all the publicity and money had long since been redirected into a moronically oversimplified narrative about climate change that insisted that we were all going to fry like pork chops on a grill sometime very soon unless billions of dollars were flushed down the ratholes of photovoltaic solar energy and giant wind turbines, both of which had already been tested and found inadequate. All the other issues surrounding pollution and resource depletion, and every other aspect of the predicament of industrial society, got stuffed down the memory hole in a hurry in those years. The project of reviving older, less extravagant, and more resilient technologies from the past? Nobody was interested. A new edition will be out this October, and you can order a copy here; we'll see if the unraveling of the status quo under way right now gives it a chance to be heard.

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I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

And don't forget to look up your Pangalactic New Age Soul Signature at CosmicOom.com.

With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed and no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***