Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just before 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 1.1 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 image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above on the left is the current edition of my sixth published book, Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings. These days books on investigating reports of monstrous entities are all over the place, but that wasn't the case in 2001, when this first saw print.  I happened to be doing a lot of investigation of certain entities in the Puget Sound area in the years just before then; I thought it would be interesting to get some of my experiences and ideas in print; the book was a pleasant project to write, and it sold like hotcakes -- and, er, I may have some very small share of responsibility for those books on sparkly vampires, because unless you happened to spend time in the stacks of old university libraries full of mostly forgotten anthropology publications, this was for some years the one place in print you could find out that there's a very lively werewolf tradition among the native peoples of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington -- you know, near Forks.   If you're interested, you can get a copy here if you live in the US, and here if you live elsewhere.

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Sparkly Vampire Humor, Germanish Afterlife, and the Solar and Telluric Currents

[jprussell]

Good Evening,

For any who marked it, I hope your Thanksgiving was joyful, filling, and full of gratitude.

On Sparkly Vampires and PNW Werewolves: So far, my most direct exposure to the whole sparkly vampire franchise was attending a "Master Pancake Theater" session at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin. Master Pancake Theater is like "Mystery Science Theater 3000," but performed live by a trio of comedians with microphones in a theater. My wife and I went to a showing of the second Twilight movie with some friends that were visiting from out of town. It was super funny, and is the sole reason I don't have an entirely negative view of the franchise.

To Share: This week, I keep on writing about Maria Kvilhaug's The Seed of Yggdrasill, this time about her chapter on "Death and Resurrection:" https://jpowellrussell.com/#book_the_seed_of_yggdrasill_7_death_and_resurrection

To Ask: Do you believe the writings of Giaocchino de Prati, the "alpine philosopher," described on pgs 27-28 in The Secret of the Five Rites to be the likely source for the teachings about the Solar and Telluric currents in DH/DMH/DA-flavored Druidry? If so, do you know more about the path of adoption/diffusion? And if not, do you know how they both ended up at such a similar place?

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

My blessings to all who welcome them,
Jeff

Re: Sparkly Vampire Humor, Germanish Afterlife, and the Solar and Telluric Currents

[ecosophia]

I never read the books, or watched the movies, but I know one thing:


As for de Prati, that's a heck of a good question that nobody's been able to answer yet. Gordon Cooper found de Prati's essays while searching for material on the solar and telluric currents; I was able to trace it back a little further into central European offshoots of Mesmerism; but from there? I have yet to find anything between de Prati and John Michell, who wrote about the solar and telluric currents in The View Over Atlantis. It's something I search for at intervals.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the person who had the weird experience with a Nirvana song that I'd listened to literally hundreds of times but struggled to recall it, and now can say nothing about the song. This has been on my mind a lot lately: it is one of the strangest things, to realize that a major part of my life until a few years ago is now essentially impossible for me to remember.

As a result, I've been continuing to mull over the hypothesis that state dependent memory is hiding just how thoroughly Pluto has already faded out, and had two new insights. The first is that if this is the case, then an awful lot of people, from at least 2007 until when the last people who were under its influence finish going through their life reviews, are going to be in for a major shock when they die and have to face what their life was actually like while Pluto was a planet; and also that this sort of thing could play a role in the fear of dying some people have. If at some level they know just how miserable the experience of going over their life again will be, it could explain a lot. This doesn't even need to be Pluto related: just knowing that a review of your life would be horrible, and that that happens when you die, could do it.

The second thought gives me a lot of hope: if it is as difficult to remember Plutonian states as it seems, then the people still clinging to Pluto could easily be moving away from it, but still look as if they are moving ever closer the Plutonian if they are moving slower than we are. This makes the various hypotheses about people being dragged towards the Plutonian, with the various end stages people have speculated about, vastly less likely. All the evidence collected for it is unreliable, and Pluto is the planet of hype, illusions, and failed promises; and so while it could be happening, it's now, to the extent you buy the state-dependent-memory hypothesis, far more parsimonious to assume this is nothing more than a final Plutonian illusion.

[ecosophia]

Two very interesting hypotheses. We'll just have to see how it turns out!

How to apply temple technology at my homestead

[(Anonymous)]

Good evening JMG.

I’m in my second reading of your Secrets of the Temple book. I now want to apply the ideas in the form of fieldstones outlining the shape of a temple and cairns to improve the productivity of my gardens and to help with protection and banishment for our homestead.

I’m thinking of placing the temple at the south end of our property in a part we reserve for the wild things and the Little People. I want to arrange fieldstone to outline the shape, with the entrance at the east. I’ll mark it at sunrise on the winter solstice, and again at sunrise on the summer solstice. I’m still working out details, lots of details.

Since our land has cross fencing between where the temple will be and the garden, my husband and I are thinking of piling up more fieldstone as it floats up every year in front of the fence, on the side away from our goats, to refocus the energy from the temple. This is a small piece of land, a little over three acres, so the cairn in front of the cross fencing will be about 75 yards from the temple.

Do you have any feedback or suggestions for this project?

Are there any other people in the commentariat who also have suggestions or feedback or who would like to work out this idea with me?

Annette

Re: How to apply temple technology at my homestead

[ecosophia]

That strikes me as an intriguing experiment. The temple technology in its mature form depends on an enclosed space (with walls, floor, and roof) to serve as a resonating chamber, but it'll be interesting to see what kind of results you get with the simpler approach.

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve been recommended to pray to Saturn. I understand that burning frankincense and singing the Orphic Hymn should work as well as with any other Greco-Roman deity, but knowing that Saturn is one of the more difficult deities to interact with, I’d like to ask those with experience interacting with him for any advice.

- Todd

[(Anonymous)]

a) If you say you'll do something, do it exactly as agreed. He is very big on keeping promises. He understands we are not perfect, but he tends to set higher standards than other gods do, at least in my experience.

b) Saturn is often turned into something of a boogeyman. He's cold, dark, and serious, but he's also very dedicated, stable, focused. Try to cultivate some of his virtues, such as self control, patience, hard work, dedication, and organization. He'll tend to help a great deal if you do that, and you'll learn to see the positive side of him by doing this.

MOE Apprentice Attunement - Dec 9th

[milkyway1]

A heads up for the MOE practitioners:

I'm going to offer an Apprentice attunement (i.e. the first one in the series) on

+++ Saturday, December 9th, at 6pm German time (i.e. EST + 6). +++

If you want to attend, make sure to study the attunement requirements well in advance – you will need to practice certain things daily for at least a week before the attunement! (If you have studied the material, you‘ll know where to find the requirements – and if you aren‘t sure anymore what they are, now might be a good time to go over the Apprentice material again in preparation… ;-) )

If you‘d like to attend, but can‘t make it this time: I plan on offering more attunements next year, and so does Kyle (and hopefully, there will be even more Master Teachers soon!).

If you were waiting for a Healer or Master Healer attunement rather than the Apprentice: I plan on offering these early next year, too. I will be posting the anouncements on future Magic Mondays, thus you might want to keep an eye on the MM comments.

Also, remember that you can always be „re-attuned“, which is likely to have some additional effects – so if you already received the Apprentice attunement, don‘t be shy about attending again on December 9th! :-)

And finally, if you have any questions: I have set up a post on my website for this attunement, and you're welcome to ask your questions over there, so that JMG has less comments to manage today, and we're not bound by the Magic Monday deadline:

https://thehiddenthings.com/moe-apprentice-attunement-2023-12-09

Looking forward to the attunement,

Regine (Milkyway)

PS: I'd appreciate knowing for sure that somebody is going to take me up on this offer - if none of you can make it on that day, I'll spend my time on other things and offer another date for an attunement early next year instead (no hard feelings!). I.e. if you're sure you'll be there, and nobody else has raised their hand yet, leave me a quick "yep" comment, either here or on my site. Thanks!

Re: MOE Apprentice Attunement - Dec 9th

[(Anonymous)]

Yes please and thank you! But if you need to reschedule, no worries. It's a busy time of year for many people. I received the Apprentice attunement from JMG, so have another five left on my punchcard. :-)

OtterGirl

Juliet Ashley's predecessor ritual to the SOP

[milkyway1]

Good morning (or still good evening?) JMG,

Thanks for hosting Magic Monday again! :-)

Last week, you wrote about the SOP: "I learned it directly from John Gilbert, who invented it based on a simpler ritual that was devised by Juliet Ashley." - and I totally forgot to ask:

Would you consider posting Juliet Ashley's ritual at some point, for the historically curious? Or, if it has been posted anywhere, point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Milkyway

Re: Juliet Ashley's predecessor ritual to the SOP

[ecosophia]

I'll consider it at some point.

[kimberlysteele]

Dear JMG and Ecosophians,

A disembodied being said a very interesting comment to me recently and I would love your thoughts on it and suggestions for further meditation. He/she/it said "Time is an illusion". I believe the same being also said "Meatworld is an illusion". As some may know, "Meatworld" is my semi-affectionate term for physical plane existence.

What I took it to mean, at least superficially, is that the physical plane is not at all what we humans perceive it to be. Our senses are faulty and they can easily fool us. Also, this idea of Meatworld as a simulation or a Matrix -- that film always struck me as the allegory of Plato's cave done up in sci-fi -- indicates that it could be a testing ground of sorts.

If Meatworld is indeed entirely fake in its way (I don't dare say this in any other blog on the internet because all sorts of butthurt people would come at me for trivializing their suffering) then it certainly puts a provocative spin on trying to be a better person, not trying to cheat the game, working diligently
towards whatever tiny glimpse of truth is afforded in a bleak and patently false landscape. But that's all I've got at this point.

[ecosophia]

Well, your disembodied communicator has a lot of mystics in agreement!

[kimberlysteele]

Thanks! I figured as much. Meatworld seems so real... le sigh. Once I asked a passing entity "What's it like to be a god?" and it answered "It's like teaching an amoeba to play the piano". Ha ha... I think? 🤔🤔🤔

Depression

[(Anonymous)]

Is there anything helpful to be done in phases of depression for an SOP practitioner? The causes are well known, I think, journaling and counseling have been helpful for that. But sometimes it’s like a part of me - or is it an outside entity? - keeps hammering onto existing negative thoughts, and using every occasion to create new ones.

Re: Depression

[open_space]

If I may, here is what works for me:

The best thing that I do to combat depression and anxiety from a magical and spiritual stand point not a medical nor psychological one, is to notice that both are an excess of energy not lack of (look at brain scans). Have you ever seen a dim light bulb with depression or anxiety?

Intrusive thoughts (negative, silly or positive) are, to my mind, ideas you've flicked into motion by emotional stimuli or otherwise (or have let other people do so; specially fast paced internet activities like content scrolling, where your rational mind is bypassed by a light trance caused the repetitive motion and you open up your mind to all sorts of waste) and haven't grabbed again to a conclusion and keeps bouncing. A nice trick can be borrowed from spells. Grab one intrusive thought, start meditating on it, learn from it: where is it coming from and what is it trying to tell me and then "add" another link to it if it's a useful thought or put a conclusion to it if it has run its curse. For void thoughts you can explode them into ash-less smithereens or kick them into infinite space and then focus on something else.

An exercise I find helpful can be found below (it can be done standing to play with your balance and tensions, like noticing your chest, back, head and face muscles, hips, knees etc).

https://open-space.dreamwidth.org/8223.html

[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG,
Dear commentators,
I hope you are well and healthy!
Thank you for this space.

I lost the financial support I had from the university to do my PHD. It was the money I had to support myself and pay for my mother's medication. Any suggestions or some kind of magic to renew my contract or even get some work? I thought about candles and offerings for Jupiter. Anything else I could do?

[thinking_turtle]

Any suggestions or some kind of magic to renew my contract or even get some work?

In my experience divination (like Tarot or Geomancy) gives honest answers. What works seems to vary for each person. For me Eden Gray's "Mastering the Tarot" works well.

[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG, Dear commentators,

Are there any typically Brazilian occult traditions? I think they should be associated with some Afro-Indian-American-European spirituality, correct? Any authors to read?

[(Anonymous)]

There are some Voodoo like traditions in Brazil, such as Quimbanda and Umbanda. I also recall Spiritualism being practiced there also.

J.L.Mc12

[(Anonymous)]

Good day, JMG,

Last week I asked you a question about mysticism, and it wasn’t until after MM was closed that I saw that Robert Mathiesen had responded to my question as well. I would like to thank him for his very thoughtful reply.

Robert, I appreciate your taking the time to write to me. I’ve never heard the terms kataphatic or apophatic, or even thought about these different approaches to mysticism or magic. You’ve given me much to research and meditate on. I’d like to understand the nature of mysticism and magic, their differences and overlaps, so that I can better forge a path for myself that will no doubt include both.

I have a great interest in the Christian mystics (I just ordered two books with the complete writings of Teresa of Avila) and will add the other resources you suggested to my must-read list.

I really enjoy reading the Christian mystics, even though I’m not Christian. I’m attracted in some ways to Christianity, particularly Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox with their rich histories, established traditions, rituals, prayers, etc.. And I’ve noticed that Eastern Orthodox has gained some popularity in the last few years, if the more public conversions of people such as Paul Kingsnorth and Martin Shaw are anything to go by. Sometimes I think it would be easier to follow a mystical path if I were Christian, but as far as I know, they wouldn’t welcome a polytheist.

No matter. I will continue to read and be inspired by the writings of mystics of all faiths. I think we’re all pointed in the same direction anyway. I just have to get over the feeling that I’m playacting Christianity when I borrow concepts and practices from their rich tradition. I’ve realized that the mystical (as well as monastic) life that I long for will need to be somewhat (re)envisioned as I go along. Fortunately, others with similar longings are paving the way with new writings (such as the wonderful little book “Polytheistic Monasticism” in which our esteemed host has an article) and pagan monastic communities popping up here and there. I am grateful for these new paths being forged.

Thank you again for your reply. I always enjoy reading your posts here and on the Ecosophia blog, and I am inspired by the knowledge and wisdom you so generously share. You and JMG are truly gifts in my life.

Happy Solstice to you both!

[robertmathiesen]

You are very welcome, Anonymous.

I took the terms kataphatic and apophatic from the English translation of Vladimir Lossky's The Mystical Theology of the Orthodox Church, especially chapter 2; they go back at least to the 500s CE. Since you are well-disposed toward Orthodoxy, you might have a quick look there. (I am not Orthodox myself, but I spent my 'teens and early twenties in Berkeley, where many of my best school-friends were Russian Orthodox. Later on, my graduate studies were in Slavic linguistics, with particular emphasis on Church Slavonic, which is the liturgical language of the Russian Orthodox Church. So I am fairly knowledgeable -- for an outsider ...)

In Roman Catholic mysticism the two kinds are sometimes called via positiva ( = katapatic) and via negativa ( = apophatic). Very generally speaking, Catholicism seems to me to favor kataphatic theology and mysticism, while Orthodoxy strongly favors the apophatic approach.

And thank you for your compliment.

[thinking_turtle]

Thanks for hosting this space!

To share, a list of abbreviations found in Magic Monday, now including an entry for Monsters :-)

TSOFR

[yogaandthetarot]

Thank you so much my friend. How about The Secret of the Five Rites book abbreviation?

Peladan translation

[(Anonymous)]

Hey JMG

I have enjoyed your translation of "How to become a mage" by J. Peladan, and inevitably I must ask if you are planning more translations of his work in the future? Also, how many years of study do you think it would take to be able to reliably translate his work into english, supposing others want to attempt translating him instead?

Re: Peladan translation

[ecosophia]

Er, I didn't translate it; I just wrote the introduction. I've considered translating his first novel, Le Vice Supreme, but I'm not at all sure I'll get to it. As for getting to the point of being able to translate his work, why, that depends on how hard you work and what your background in languages is; you need a solid reading knowledge of French, which is a whale of a lot easier than learning to speak the language, and then it's just a matter of checking your work with someone who's familiar with the language. I did my first serious translation from French (Thibault's Academie de l'Espee after only about a year of hard work, but then I came to French already knowing Latin.

Beatles and the Elements

[(Anonymous)]

Hi to everyone, this is just a lighthearted question, what element would you assign each Beatle?
I'm thinking that George Martin would be the 5th, Spirit? (Like Toto 😉).
I heard it mentioned recently that Paul McCartney, through Tarot readings he got, was associated with the Fool, so that may influence your thoughts.
Anyway, I'd love to hear what people think!
Helen in Oz

Re: Beatles and the Elements

[ecosophia]

That's an easy one. I'd assign John to fire, George to air (always the cerebral one), Paul to water (the element of sentimentality) and Ringo, back there laying down the beat, to earth.

[(Anonymous)]

I've recently had a family member - who was always trouble but who I put up with 'because they are family' - decide to cut me out of their life. I would say that they carry a lot of emotional resentment towards me and always seem to have done so (they tried to kill me as a baby for example, they were a toddler at the time). I hold much less towards them, but there are some things there from a lifetime of disconnect between us.

Is there anything I can do to cut ties cleanly on my end so that I no longer harbour any emotions towards this person? Anything to cut any karmic ties?

Ideally natural magic and not something that would prevent them from re-entering my life if they choose to - they are family' and I have very few of that. More just something to clean up any mess from my end.

[ecosophia]

I'd use journaling for this. Simply take some time each day to write out your feelings, deal with them, and thus get to the point of being able to let go of any remaining resentment and treat the whole thing as over and done with. There are family members I have nothing to do with, for very good and sufficient reasons, and this is how I dealt with that.

[corrnata]

Happy Monday

First question of the day
Given thr successful right wing elections along with the working nativist riot all within the past week, which planet influenced it and what's the astrological forecast looking for similar events in the future?

This past week on twitter you mentioned wokes turning to Islam in the not too distant future given its relgions in nature I'll count it as a magic question.

In terms of the location of wokes turning to Islam will this including the usa as its Islamic population is much smaller than let say the uk or Germany.

With the likes of Tate will the right start to revert to Islam in numbers?

If the pope would start to make Christianity stand for what it should again would Catholicllism rise again to appeal to the right?

Do you think both the radical left and right will turn to Islam at the same time and will both find unity?

When will this happen? People predict as relgion return in the 2040s will this before or after that decade?

[ecosophia]

1) Okay, first of all, astrology doesn't work like that. It's not one planet influencing people, it's the entire pattern of the heavens interacting with events on earth. You'd have to look at currently active ingress and eclipse charts for each country involved to get a sense of what's going on.

2) Your other questions are about religious politics, not about occultism, so I'm going to pass on them here.

[charlesnapo1]

I may be able to help you here, I am from Argentina and there was a very good occultist that lived in Brazil.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_El%C3%ADas_Adoum

He’s lineage was from some mystical Christian tradition from Siria among other things.
He wrote many books in portugués and Spanish.
His name was Dr Gorge Adoum (Mago Jefa) any books of his is well worth reading, unfortunately many of them are out of print.
His writings reminds me so much of JMG books.
It doesn’t have anything African about it, if that what you are looking for look into Macumba.

I hope that helps.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Charles,

Thanks you, very much!

And in Argentina? Any typical spirituality/esotericism from your country? I ask out of curiosity!

Well Forked

[(Anonymous)]

That's great JMG, about Forks, and the books that have a setting there... :) I'm glad your book has been well forked through...

I've been to Washington state twice, and the second time we spent the night in Forks while driving around the Olympic Peninsula and visiting the National Park. Going down to the beach for the sunset over the Pacific was amazing. I'm sad to say I didn't spot any werewolves on that trip, though there might have been some teeny boppers in town.

Justin Patrick Moore

Re: Well Forked

[ecosophia]

I spent a lot of time out on the Olympic peninsula in my teen years -- my Boy Scout troop liked to camp there, and so did my dad -- and a few visits later on. Forks struck me as a very depressing place to be a vampire. ;-)

[betwixttheworlds]

I've been wanting to do a consecration on my Regulus talisman, but Saturn has been sitting in opposition to Regulus for quite some time.

Would you say it's wise to wait until Saturn leaves the opposition?

Thanks, JMG.

[ecosophia]

Not merely wise but essential. Never make an astrological talisman with a malefic in a hostile aspect to what you're trying to invoke!

Nature spirits

[(Anonymous)]

Many years ago while reading occult literature I stumbled upon the concept of nature spirits. It was explained that they were intelligent beings who resided on the astral plane but did not incarnate on the physical plane but were sometimes visible there. You know anything about their origin and what their destiny is? Have you ever come across any?

Re: Nature spirits

[ecosophia]

Yes and yes. They belong to a different evolutionary track than we do, one that begins with elementals and goes up from there. We're spiritual beings that descended into incarnation in order to become individualized; they started out as centers of force on the material plane and are ascending step by step into the higher planes in order to become spiritualized. As for encountering them, you won't find many serious Druids who haven't!

[(Anonymous)]

Good morning and thank you as always.

I own an old coin from the late 19th century; based on its year, it should be about 90% gold and 10% copper. I don’t want to sell it because it’s an inheritance piece but I have no particular use for it so i was thinking of finding a magical purpose. Is there a way to use it for a sun talisman, for example, that wouldn’t involve melting it down or altering it in any way?

I also own a very high quality diamond, though my chart is mildly afflicted in Mars so I’m a little more uncertain as to how to use that safely.

[isaac_hill]

Not JMG, but I had some thoughts: For the coin, in terms of trad astro-magic, you may be able to draw a small sun sigil on the back or something like that, and consecrate it at the right time, but it doesn't need to be melted down. However, there are less intensive ways of imbuing it with solar energy without actually calling in a celestial spirit. You could, for instance, consecrate it every Sunday at dawn (best while the Sun is in good dignity, and he's not bad in Sag for fire triplicity ruler) 6 Sundays in a row with solar incense, and wear it in a yellow pouch over your heart, maybe with some Solar herbs.
In Jyotish, diamonds are a Venusian stone and are very powerful - you don't want to use a diamond if you have Venus as the lord of a bad house or in a bad house (I've heard of things like people going into organ failure after putting on a diamond because their Venus was in the 8th) so I would consult a Vedic astrologer before wearing a high quality diamond (especially in a setting where it touches your skin) If you have a good Venus that needs some help though, a diamond can be fantastic.
In Western Astro Magic, diamond is also the stone for Algol, which is one of Warnock's more popular talismans for protection.

Q

[(Anonymous)]

Greetings JMG and folks, some questions today:

1) How long did your kundalini rising process go on until it settled into the background and you were able to work normally? Mine has been rising since January (though the initial breakthrough was late 2018 before it went away), and its been incredibly tough, even with massages, breathing etc. On a tough day it feels like my nerves are connected to a wall socket.

On a bad day I can't get out of bed. The worst of it seems to have passed but I am still having a hard time getting normal things done. (I had health issues before and my nerves were damaged so perhaps its working on that, just speculating).

I will say it has cleared a bunch of emotional behavioral issues and fixed some stomach issues as it went up.


2) I was reading about the ending of battlestar galatica and ran a divination if humanity had a foreign genetic/spiritual origin, and it suggested yes. Now I suspect this divination may be wrong but curious on what ways this could be true.

3) Last week you said wotan was an archetype. I want to ask about how archetypes are deeper than merely emotional projections or habits of mind, or egregores.

Re: Q

[ecosophia]

1) I didn't have the fast, painful, can't-get-out-of-bed kind of awakening. I had the slow, fitful, now-it's-crawling-up-my-spine, now-it-isn't kind of awakening which unfolded over most of six years.

2) I always liked the bit in the movie Allegro non Troppo where some space travelers chucked a soft drink bottle onto the barren surface of the planet, and life arose from mouth bacteria on it.

3) Archetypes are not creations of the conscious mind. They're hardwired into the deepest levels of consciousness. We don't create them; in a very real sense, they create us -- they are the fundamental patterns of consciousness from which we construct the world we experience.

Knee Vortices

[yogaandthetarot]



Thank you again JMG for The Secrets of the Five Rites. So much tantalizing historical info plus the practical aspects of a totally workable system of energy exercises.

Many a burgeoning yoga practitioner (me!) cut their teeth on the Ramacharaka yoga books back in the day when info was scarce. Because of your book, I dusted off my lovely “Yogi Publication Society” editions and re-read a bit. It’s rather charming how very accurate his ideas were.
I’m assuming there was not really access at that time to the actual Indic texts (like The Hatha Yoga Pradipika ) yet, he nailed the deeper dimensions of hatha practices and the cleansing actions (kriyas).

As for the chapter on the vortices from your book, I found the two knees vortices rather odd and interesting. I remembered a great Iyengar hatha yoga teacher mentioning that close observation of a persons legs gives tremendous insight into their personality patterns. Energetically, I would imagine distance of knees from pelvic floor gives good indication of center of gravity for one. I think there are other indicators with leg shapes, knees to feet, etc.

Just wondering if you had any more thoughts about those knee vortices?

I’m about half way through the book and savoring it (until your new ArielMoravec fiction book comes out)… any date yet?

Jill C

Re: Knee Vortices

[(Anonymous)]

This discussion is the bees knees ;)

Woke turning to Islam

[(Anonymous)]

JMG, In a comment last week you said you expect the woke to turn towards Islam at some point. Saw this on Zerohedge today: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trans-tiktoker-gushes-over-quran-allah-beyond-gender - Croatoan

Re: Woke turning to Islam

[ecosophia]

I saw it as well. It was inevitable.