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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Children knowing the chakras

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG

I have an 8 year old daughter, and my father (her granddad) mentioned a few days ago to her in casual conversation that the body had energy centers called chakras, and then she proceeded to show him the location of the main ones (heart etc) without any prompting.

A day or two later, my wife (who wears a bracelet that has small charms with the symbols of the main chakras) showed my daughter the bracelet and asked her where she should wear each of the charms on her body (she didn't say anything about chakras - she just said "where do you think I should wear each of these charms on my body" and my daughter matched them up correctly with the right place on the body.

I asked her if she'd read this anywhere or where shed learned it and she just laughed and said "Dad! I read books for kids! They don't have stuff like this! I just guessed it" and we couldn't get any more out of her.

Any idea what's happening? I'm fairly interested in non-mainstream stuff (seeing as I read your writings) but I'm not familiar with chakras and energy work and I'm sure no one in my family told her anything and it's not in any of her books and I'm pretty sure her very mainstream school wouldn't teach it?

(I also posted about her 2-3 years ago on Magic Monday when I visited the Koya San shrine in Japan and there were various signs that the deity Jizo Bosatsu was taking an interest in her and my family in general after that - not sure if it is connected but I now pray to Jizo every day among others, and my daughter was once playing with an imaginary friend she called "Jizo" a couple years ago, after the visit).

Re: Children knowing the chakras

[ecosophia]

Your daughter very likely worked with the chakras in a previous life. If she still remembers this much at 8, she's probably going to do a lot of spiritual work of some kind once she reached adulthood.

Re: Children knowing the chakras

[robertmathiesen]

'I just guessed it": "guessed" is the only word she knows that came even a little bit close to what she did as she considered the chakras.

She was probably aware on some level that the word "guessed" didn't really fit what she was doing. That's almost certainly why you couldn't get any more out of her -- she didn't know how to explain it in words.

There are so many unusual abilities (and other things) like this for which there are no words in English (or other Western languages). As she gets older, and comes to rely more and more on language as a means of thinking, and as a replacement for doing, she'll probably lose or suppress all her abilities for which she has no words. (That's one of the really negative things about growing up and learnign to talk around anything: your language can become a prison cell in which you will live the rest of your life.) You might explain to her how inadequate any language is as a pattern for life, and encourage her to pay attention and cultivate things for which there are no words -- and also not to talk much about such things with outsiders.

As Maurice Sendak said in a drawing he did. "I remember my childhood vividly. I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let the adults know I knew ... It would scare them." This is very wise counsel for any child of youer daughter's age when it comes to unusual abilities. (Sendak's was memory and insight. Other children may lack that particular ability, but have other unusual abilities instead.)

Re: Children knowing the chakras

[robertmathiesen]

Also: What our host said!