ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's getting toward 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, past Chosen Chief of OBOD Philip Carr-Gomm, received most of his training in Druidry from Ross Nichols, who is this week's honoree. Nichols was a poet, a watercolorist, and an educator, as well as a good friend of Gerald Gardner, the inventor of modern Wicca. He became a member of the Universal Bond, one of the most active Druid organizations in Britain, in 1954. Ten years later, during a dispute over the leadership of the UB, he founded an order of his own, first called the Bardic Order of Druids and thereafter renamed the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, which he headed until his death in 1975. He was the author of three books of poetry -- Sassenach Stray, Seasons At War, and Prose Chants and Proems -- as well as The Cosmic Shape, a programmatic essay on nature spirituality with a set of poems attached, and The Book of Druidry, which was published after his death.

Buy Me A Coffee

Ko-Fi

I've had several people ask about tipping me for answers here, and though I certainly don't require that I won't turn it down. You can use either of the links above to access my online tip jar; Buymeacoffee is good for small tips, Ko-Fi is better for larger ones. (I used to use PayPal but they developed an allergy to free speech, so I've developed an allergy to them.) If you're interested in political and economic astrology, or simply prefer to use a subscription service to support your favorite authors, you can find my Patreon page here and my SubscribeStar page here.

I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

And don't forget to look up your Pangalactic New Age Soul Signature at CosmicOom.com.

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Good Evening,

To those who celebrate it, a happy (early) Beltienne! May the coming summer bring you life and gladness.

To Share: As much to hash things out for myself as anything else, I've started a series of posts on some of the big ideas in /The Decline of the West/. The first one talks about the morphological approach and the value of qualitative judgment in a world that prefers quantitative analysis: https://jpowellrussell.com/#understanding_spengler_s_decline_of_the_west_bit_1

To Ask: Is there any particular significance to having a "vision within a vision" while scrying? An example to illustrate what I mean: I was scrying Ioho and at one point, I went inside a hollow inside a Yew tree and laid down. I proceeded to have some adventures, and then I "woke up" back inside the Yew tree, still within the scrying. So, other than grist for the meditation mill, anything interesting to know about such experiences?

As always, thanks very much to JMG and everyone else here for all that you do.

To any who will have them, I put forth my blessings and best wishes,
Jeff

It depends. The experience of visions within visions can be used deliberately as a way of getting deeper into the scrying experience. Beyond that, it seems to vary from person to person.

In response to Jeff's article: whether or not one knows that I just began running a book club about JMG's Deindustrial Reading List ( https://dryreading.dreamwidth.org ), I propose a second one, about the books comparing civilizations, the ones I know about being Vico's The New Science, Danilevsky's Russia and Europe, Spengler's The Decline of the West, Toynbee's A Study of History, and Koneczny's On the Plurality of Civilizations (in that order by publication and my reading proposal); those interested please PM me.

JMG: how much do the meditations in The Sacred Geometry Oracle have to do with Fortune's The Cosmic Doctrine, and (if I'm correct in seeing commonality) when did people began proposing meditations that way?

There's no direct connection between the two sets of meditations. That said, I meditated my way through the Cos. Doc. years before I created the SGO, so the possibility of influence can't be dismissed out of hand. Other sets of meditations along the same lines probably date back to ancient Greek times.

Magic Monday

Spengler on Morphology and Question on "Visions within Visions"

Re: Spengler on Morphology and Question on "Visions within Visions"

Re: Spengler on Morphology and Question on "Visions within Visions"

Re: Spengler on Morphology and Question on "Visions within Visions"