ecosophia | Magic Monday

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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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.

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.

Would the influence of the zodiac signs be an archetype?

The expression of an archetype, in a certain sense.

I have a question about 1 I've always wondered. Once the kundalini is awakened at the end of the process, do you continuously have an energy with the rough dimensions of a serpent present in you 24/7 or does it come and go? I suppose the implication is yes, but I'm obtuse sometimes, so I'd like to ask. Luke Z

In my experience it's somewhere between these two. You don't have the full-blown energy flow all the time, but your energy level remains much higher than it was.

Wait, that weird feeling of energy flowing up my spine I sometimes get after ritual is a kundalini awakening? Aren't those dangerous?

When it's just a little intermittent flow after ritual, it's not dangerous at all -- quite the contrary, that sort of release is productive and relatively safe. It's when it all lets loose at once that you can fry your nervous system.

Did you have weakness in the body during that time that Mark Stavish describes in his secret fire article?

No, I had a lot of muscle aches instead. It really does seem to vary from person to person.

The original 1978 Battlestar Galactica was heavily influenced by the Mormon faith of the show's creator, Glen A. Larson. The original title of the proposal was "Adam's Ark." A quick web search will bring up many discussions of the subject.

The revised series' showrunner said he's not familiar with Mormon theology, but decided to leave intact the spiritual elements as shown in the original series.

Also, the original pilot movie not only was a movie full of pilots, it had a theatrical release in Sensurround. Which I found thrilling as a young lad who saw it with my Dad and brother. The planet's explosion was a really big boooom!

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