ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's just on 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 or comment 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 working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me and the teachers who influenced them in turn. Last week's honoree, Violet Firth Evans aka Dion Fortune, had the great advantage of coming of age when the British occult community was close to its apogee, and she had plenty of teachers. Some of them, such as Moina Mathers, have already appeared here; some of them, such as Maiya Tranchell Hayes, apparently didn't leave any photographs behind -- but there are several others, and this is one of them: Frederick Bligh Bond, who was the official church archeologist at the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey between the two world wars, and discovered a whole series of lost features by digs that just happened to go to the right place. Then it turned out that there was no "just happened" about it; he was using spiritualistic methods to talk to the spirits of long-dead monks, who told him where to dig. The church threw a fit and dismissed him, but he went on to publish several volumes about his experiences, at least one of which can be downloaded for free (here). Dion Fortune studied with him for a while and also did trance work with him; her connection with Glastonbury continued to the end of her life, and in fact she's buried there.

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Good morning JMG and everybody else!

I hope everybody has had a pleasant weekend and a great start into the week. :-)

If I may, I have a few questions today, to tie up some loose ends in my mind (and in my notes…):

1. I vaguely remember you speaking highly of Tarnas‘ „Cosmos and Psyche“ in a podcast. I‘m only halfway through it, but I keep on wondering… Tarnas extends Uranus-Pluto and Saturn-Pluto cycles with some examples back into antiquity, to show the cyclic influence of these planetary constellations.

What is your take on that, given the hypothesis you put forward about the time-limited influence of Pluto?

2. In browsing Abby Judson‘s original papers, she was talking a bit about the strong vs. weak half of the body (which is also referenced in the last step of the Judson exercise), and how the weak half is more prone to illness.

Would you happen to know any exercises or practices to strengthen the weaker half of the body? Or anything you‘ve come across in the course of your research or studies, which might work along these lines?

3. In the comments to the first post about radionics (way back then), there was some talk about plans for a potential „Aetheric Fellowship“. Would you mind laying out what your plans were/are for that Fellowship (or point me to a place where you have done so)? And is something like this still in the cards?

4. And finally, here in this comment:

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/71276.html?thread=6298988#cmt6298988

there was some talk about a „mass of material“ called „Druid Mental Alchemy Course“. Again, would you mind giving a quick explanation about the content of this course, or what it was/is about? And also again, is this course still in the cards, or has it been shelved very deeply, down in the lowest of basements, behind the dusty cupboards with the dozen-year old jams? ;-)

Thanks for all you do!! :-)

Milkyway

On 2), if it helps:

Not esoteric at all, but I learned years back that most folks have asymmetrically developed muscles, and that this is a big driver of injuries. Some trainers for professional athletes have developed routines for evening these out to avoid such injuries. Tim Ferriss describes such "Pre-Hab" in his book The Four Hour Body, and has links to resources on most of what's covered here: https://tim.blog/gear/#pre-hab

Of these, I can vouch that the "Turkish Get Up" is a deceptively simple whole-body workout where you can start with body weight and move into using a weight once you get the movements right.

Cheers,
Jeff

As an aside, I‘m currently reading Tarnas‘ chapters about the Saturn-Pluto cycle, which apparently where in conjunction during the first two covid years 2020 and 2021 (he‘s using a wide orb), with the exact alignment having been from Dec 2019 to Jan 2020..

What he wrote about such periods is eerily predictive - one might be tempted to think that there is something to this astrology stuff… ;-)

Milkyway

1) That's a point that will have to be sorted out by further research, as Tarnas's findings do seem to conflict with mine.

2) Not off hand, no.

3) I talked about it back a while ago, when I made a bunch of information on radionics machines available to people. If anybody had gone to work with that material and built machines to do so, I would have gone ahead and founded the Fellowship; it would have had three degrees of initiation, all focused on radionic practices. Apparently the demand wasn't there, though, since nobody got back to me -- so I shelved it.

4) I was considering a Druidified version of the Order of Spiritual Alchemy (OSA) materials. Once John Gilbert died and I was tasked with keeping his legacy alive, I decided to just go ahead and relaunch the OSA instead.

Not the OP, on 4) - out of curiosity, what would you have done differently with a Druidified version of the OSA? Is there anything in the current OSA that conflicts with any of the Druid practices in your books?

The only thing I would have done is change the terminology and the numerical symbolism a little.

3) Hm. I see the topic of radionics coming up again and again in comments, so something about it must be fascinating to a lot of people…

Would you maybe consider turning your thoughts into a Wednesday post over on the other site? This could fulfill two purposes: talk some more about radionics (and/or reach an audience which hasn‘t read the dreamwidth series) and maybe get some people to take action, and also to teach, on a meta level, how to structure such an occult course/fellowship.

Both might be useful (and transferable!) skills for a lot of people…

Milkyway

Hmm. I'll consider it.

Milkyway, if you’re on Facebook I came across an energetic gardening groups recently. Some folks are just screwing around, some are there to debunk, others are scientific about it, and others are aware of deeper esoteric connotations of things (or some combination of those four+). Maybe of interest?

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