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

Daydreams

[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG,
Something like 40 years ago, I had a brief flirtation with a lovely man. I only saw him three times and then my friends insisted I stop seeing him because he was not a criminal and therefore a danger to us all. We were working as narcotic smugglers at the time.

I regretted it extremely. I never even got to kiss him. I wished at the time that things had gone differently. Since then, every decade or two, I am seized by a sudden and violent longing for him. I then spend a lot of time daydreaming about him. I think I botched a major opportunity there although my life after that went well and I have been quite successful and even happy.

It just happened again recently but it is more extreme than ever before. He would be in his late seventies or eighty's now. He was a lot older than I was.

What I think is happening is that this is some kind of haunting. I am trying to make my daydreams of him very pleasant and successful as a way of letting him know how much I admired him and regreted listening to my halfwit friends. I am very tired and I am finding these dreams taking over at times. They are preventing me from sleeping.

How can I lay his ghost to rest?

Maxine

Re: Daydreams

[ecosophia]

You really have lived an interesting life, haven't you? As for the daydreams, if it's a haunting it's one that you're doing to yourself, by encouraging the daydreams. If you really want to let go of them, and him, say goodbye and then any time you think of daydreaming about him, do something else instead.

Re: Daydreams

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,
I did so last night. I told him I hope we get another chance to be lovers in another lifetime and I said goodbye.
Hugs from Max

Re: Daydreams

[(Anonymous)]

Yo Maxine, in my early 20s I fell deeply in love with a young lady. Managed to get engaged,move to Calgary but it came apart and she moved away. Like you I managed to achieve a good life but I still have very strong memories of her even 45 years later. Currently in Art school doing classical portraiture and pulled several pictures of her as a subject to paint. Well it's taken four tries so far to try and capture her elfin aura.
Someone raised this bond of souls question and John wrote he's working on a book that discusses this. So I'm looking forward to reading this and coming to some sort of peace/acceptance we might meet again.
Longsword