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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I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

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With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed -- as in, no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***

Comments

Re: Well Forked

[(Anonymous)]

I've also not read or watched anything of Twilight. Without seeking, I do come across "worst of pop culture" takedowns of it. I wonder how different Stephanie Myers's life would have been, as well as countless people whose entertainment glamorized abuse, had she turned to discursive meditation to understand her dream, rather than publish an expanded version. "Why have I dreamt of a bland, boring girl whose only characteristic is willing acceptance of an abusive, toxic relationship with a much older and literally deadly man who can barely refrain from murdering her? What would be wise for me to understand about this dream?"

Mocha Amphibious Moose

Re: Well Forked

[(Anonymous)]

Ain't that the truth?

Sometimes the cure for a distracting and persistent daydream is to face it squarely, ask it (directly, like I would ask a person) what it is saying about my life, desires, unfulfilled needs, and how I could address those things in real life. The answers are often quite embarrassing, amazingly useful, and allow a glimpse at root causes. At which point the sparkly veneers evaporate, and the gross little segmented critters underneath go scurrying away. They dislike having bright light shone on them.

Since I started doing that, it is much harder to read basic dumb wish-fulfillment fiction (which I used to like!), and I have rather more productive time. YMMV.