Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just past 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 picture?  I'm taking a momentary break from chasing down photos of my lineage. Today is the spring equinox here in the northern hemisphere, one of the holy days of the Druid calendar, and this is a photo of the spring equinox sunrise as seen from an ancient stone chamber at South Royalton, Vermont -- one of many astronomically oriented megalithic sites here in New England. The photo's courtesy of New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA), which was gracious enough to send it around yesterday morning.

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

Comments

Magic and electronics

[(Anonymous)]

Hello John, towards the end of WOH:Chorazin Jenny makes the comment that sorcery and electronics don’t mix. I suspect there’s more than a little truth to that, and if so, what does that say about the practice of magic in our over-electrified world?

Re: Magic and electronics

[ecosophia]

Oh, magic works quite well in the presence of technology. It's the technology that tends to fail, like the cell phones that Jenny went through.

Re: Magic and electronics

[(Anonymous)]

How high-tech does something have to be to get messed up by magic?

I'm guessing clockwork and mechanical mechanisms barely at all, basic electronics a little, transistors moderately and complex computers significantly?

I am reminded of what is known as "Streetlight interference phenomenon", where streetlights either come on or off as people walk under them. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_light_interference_phenomenon) Weirdly, I used to be able to do this myself, but only before the streetlights changed from the old sodium arc lamps to LEDs. I noticed that if I had a particularly strong emotion in mind, the lights were far more likely to go off, so I'm assuming this was some etheric effect?

Mr. Crow

Re: Magic and electronics

[ecosophia]

It's an etheric effect -- electricity and electromagnetic radiation are on the border between the material and etheric realms. As to how complex a technology has to be, that's something that would have to be determined by experiment.