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. Papus and Chaboseau, the honorees of the last two weeks, each got their Martinist lineage by a tangle of mostly forgotten figures, so we can jump straight back to one of the founders of the tradition, Louis-Claude de St. Martin. St. Martin was born in 1743 in an aristocratic family and became a student of the elusive master Martinez de Pasqually, learning the distinctive system of theurgic magic Pasqually taught. Later in life, after Pasqually's death, he focused more of his attention on Christian mysticism, studied Jacob Boehme's writings, and penned a series of influential mystical tracts under the pseudonym "The Unknown Philosopher."

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

Comments

[ecosophia]

They're basic, rather narrow in their focus, but effective. I don't see any problem for them as a first step, especially if you've got serious practical problems to cope with. The problems would come if you get stuck there and don't go further on into the wider world these things open up -- but even so, if that's your work in this incarnation, that's what it is.

I don't know the modern versions of these but one of the 1930s equivalents, Burks Hamner's Order of the Essenes course, turned my life around in a big way and helped me get rid of a lot of unproductive habits. That being the case, I'm kind of biased in their favor.

[(Anonymous)]

I can speak some more on Dispenza’s work, which I’m learning is much broader than it’s outer face.

I recently was at one of his 1800 person retreats and witnessed multiple “miracle healings” (person with MS standing for the first time in a decade, crippling trigeminal neuralgia disappearing completely, spinal injuries vastly improving, feeling returning to “nipples” in a post double mastectomy, etc etc). They have also, at these retreats, had people heal completely from blindness, cancer, etc, either during or in the following weeks and months. It clearly happens regularly enough that he’s confident enough to tell people to expect it at the beginning.

The main catalysts are, after a full week of meditation, three coherence healings over three days where 1600 healers raise energy in a room at once and direct it at the healees all lying on the floor. I’ve been in plant medicine ceremonies, and those healings sounded about as nuts as the ceremonies.

They’re also collecting vast amounts of biological data and getting deeply promising results (brainwave, gene expression, protein expression, blood values, etc).

My question to you is:

Does this surprise you? Is this type of thing always happening, or is this significant? Is it perhaps a symptom of the second religiosity?

Fun fact: when asked to recommend books to the under 26s at the event, he recommended, among other things, two alchemical texts (The Red Lion and Brother of the Third Degree). There’s definitely more to him than a first pass reveals.

[ecosophia]

Ha! Okay, that's an excellent sign -- those two books are classics of occult fiction, and well worth reading.

No, it doesn't surprise me at all. 1600 people all directing energy toward some purpose can accomplish some pretty amazing stuff. I'd be interested to know what proportion of the healings remain effective after the event -- typically, most such healings reverse themselves after a little while, but not all.

[(Anonymous)]

I believe most of them last, although it wasn’t mentioned explicitly. It’s a pretty vibrant community - I think relapses would be mentioned.

I think a big reason might be that most everyone continues with the practices after the event, so they continue to lock into and embody the new energetic configuration.

Also… many people report seeing entities throughout the room, so perhaps that might have something to do with it as well.