Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's 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. Along with Louis-Claude de St. Martin, last week's honoree, the inner circle of pupils of Martinez de Pasqually included this week's figure, Jean-Baptiste Willermoz. A very active Freemason, Willermoz played a central role in cleaning up the mess left by the implosion of the Strict Observance (the most important Templar order in 18th century Europe) and created a new order with its own rituals, the Rectified Rite, which survives to this day. Much of what became the ritual of Martinism came from Willermoz's hands.

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Comments

Changing consciousness

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,

I was talking with my spouse last night and something came up that made her suggest that I ask you. For context, she's pretty much my opposite: very intuitive about people's emotions, loves to talk, not much into non-fiction reading. She's a doctor of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalyst and did years of therapy as part of her training.

She is, however, quite anxious and has many exaggerated fears, especially concerning the health of our children. Therapy has helped her recognize at least a possible source (parental incompetence in her early childhood) but that recognition hasn't helped her outgrow those fears.

I mentioned your comment that magic has been used to change consciousness for thousands of years while psychology is only a hundred years old and still in its infancy. From there we wondered how to work on her anxiety with magic.

So my questions:

1) Do you think the OSA work could be helpful here, even after extensive therapy? She's a pretty much done talking about her childhood so starting anew in writing doesn't seem very attractive.

2) I've started working with the DMH but there has been very little time without small kids in the house, so progress has been slow. Given more experience, what would be the best way to approach this? Me simply banishing her anxieties seems like a candidate for serious blowback, given that there probably are (or have been) good reasons for them. Doing a working to help her trust in the gods or in life seems too remote, however.

3) I won't attempt this without a lot more experience, this is more a theoretical question about the process of healing other people's emotional imbalances (on their request and with their consent). Is that inadvisable anyway and the only way would be for my wife to take up magic herself?

Thank you in advance for your opinion!

Re: Changing consciousness

[ecosophia]

1) Probably not. If she's worked through her childhood in therapy, the OSA work may not help much. On the other hand, a more open approach to journaling -- doing written dialogues with her fears -- may accomplish more.

2) You'd need much, much more experience. Ask me again when you've finished working through the book.

3) The issue with the kind of habitual fears that have no relation to current conditions is that they're usually a distraction from something else. She will have to deal with the "something else" before she can resolve the fears -- and she may not want to do that. Ultimately, she's the only person who can solve this. You can't fix it for her.