Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

My parents died decades ago, but I can't get rid of them.
Through journalling, meditation and other practices, I have come to realise how much of my life is still governed by the subconscious need to get approval from my (long-dead) parents, and avoid their criticism, or avoid doing or even achieving things that they would not have understood or approved of. I've reached, I think, the end-point of purely intellectual efforts, and in spite of those efforts they are still there. I don't think I'm literally haunted, but it's as if my parents still possess part of me somehow.
Can you think of any kind of ritual which might, finally, get rid of their influence? I have no photos or mementoes of them, I live in a different country now, and I rarely think of them unless obliged to. Is there anything more I can do? (I can do simple GD-type magic but I don't know how to turn it to effective use in this case.)
Thanks as always for your time and commitment

[ecosophia]

Ritual isn't really well suited for this kind of purpose. You need to dig down into yourself and figure out why you cling so tightly to your parents, and then let go. The methods of the Order of Spiritual Alchemy (available here) might be a good place to start, since you're quite correct that this can't be dealt with by the surface levels of the mind, where the intellect functions.