So I've been commenting on the main blog for some time as "Epileptic Doomer" -- I actually grabbed it as a throwaway to answer a question about seizures and kept it. Before that I was "Dusk Shine" (a my little pony fandom reference I guess I outgrew) and before that (on The Archdruid Report, starting way back in 2011 or so) I used my full real name, Tyler August. (inb4 doxx.)
I suppose my question is, if names have power, did calling myself "Epileptic Doomer" give the disease and my depressive/doomerish tendencies more power over me? I'm thinking maybe it did, but I wonder what the occult tradition has to say about that.
I recall from your numerology posts that you chose to write under John Michael Greer as opposed to J.M. Greer, John Greer, or some other combination because the name number was more auspicious that way. My intuition is that a name with clear meaning can have even stronger influence than that, and is worth choosing with some care. On the other hand, the cosmic oom grants us names with zero care and we're all fine with that here. So. What is in a name?
What's in a name?
I suppose my question is, if names have power, did calling myself "Epileptic Doomer" give the disease and my depressive/doomerish tendencies more power over me? I'm thinking maybe it did, but I wonder what the occult tradition has to say about that.
I recall from your numerology posts that you chose to write under John Michael Greer as opposed to J.M. Greer, John Greer, or some other combination because the name number was more auspicious that way. My intuition is that a name with clear meaning can have even stronger influence than that, and is worth choosing with some care. On the other hand, the cosmic oom grants us names with zero care and we're all fine with that here. So. What is in a name?
--Pallid Maniacal Paramecium