Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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. I'm currently tracing my Martinist lineage.  That's rendered complex by the Martinist tradition that one does not name one's initiator, so we'll have to go back via slightly less evasive routes. The last two honorees, Constant Chevillon and Robert Ambelain, both received part of their many lineages from this week's honoree, Jean Bricaud. Bricaud was a student of Papus and a leading figure in the French Martinist movement, as well as a major figure in the French Gnostic church of the time. He became head of the Martinist Order on Papus' death in 1916, and played a significant role in many other alternative spiritual scenes of the time. He died in 1934.

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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

Re: polarities

[(Anonymous)]

When has rape *not* been common in porn (so that you'd have a "prior" period to compare to now), particularly that consumed by women?

Re: polarities

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure. Frankly, the idea of looking into the history of rape in porn feels me with the creeps, so I'll pass; but porn has exploded in popularity since the 1990s or so with the rise of the internet; this is around when things started getting really ugly with rape culture, cries about rape culture, and the rise of celibacy among women; although I'm well aware all of these predate the rise of the internet, and all have other factors as well, it seems interesting timing to me.

Re: polarities

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. My impression from a distance was that "rape culture" was partly two things that had been going on to similar extents for a while previously: a form of motivated commonly accepted carelessness around intoxicants and consent, plus occasional clusters of men in that scene who would engage in darker things and support each other in doing so. This was amplified to a social construction "rape culture" by a moral panic, associated with changes in the surrounding culture and feedback effects through the power of social media, that worked through increasing the power of side-taking social actions against anyone who didn't themselves side with a higher standard (a standard that was so much higher than the previous practice as to be unreasonable, since it would predictably be taken literally). The allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are about his alleged conduct in the early '80s, and the way people act about those allegations suggest that they were not particularly unheard-of at the time. Also the internet didn't get that popular until the late '90s.