Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's a little 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 seventh published book, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult. I'd gotten irritated about the lack of decent reference works on occultism, and Llewellyn, the publisher I worked with in those days was enthusiastic about the idea of helping to fix that. It was a fun project, and includes a certain number of quiet and rather abstruse jokes; there are other occult encyclopedias available these days but this one still stands up fairly well -- though I'd make a lot of changes if the publisher was interested. (This also turned out to be the last book I did with Llewellyn for a long while, due to some issues involving their treatment of another project of mine.)  If you're interested in the encyclopedia, you can get a copy here if you live in the US, and at your favorite book venue 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

Q

[(Anonymous)]

1) Do you roughly look like yourself (or atleast have vaguely similar features) across lifetimes?

I found a photo of a guy from a 100 years ago in Italy and it unnerved me.

2) in my case, I find western astrology to be much more accurate about my natal influences than Vedic. Is there a good theory for why this is? Are different systems models for different societies etc?

3) why would we carry forward memories if we abandon everything else with the lower bodies? This means memories are going up to the higher bodies such as mental body to be preserved?

3)

Re: Q

[ecosophia]

1) Not usually, but it sometimes happens that souls are reborn in the same family, and then it can happen.

2) The science of comparative astrology hasn't been invented yet. As far as I know, nobody knows why different people have different results with the various schools of astrology.

3) That's correct. The experiences you have while incarnate work their way up the planes and are stored at the higher levels, which is why awakening on the mental level so often leads to the recovery of past life memories.

Re: Q

[(Anonymous)]

1) One thing to keep in mind is that sometimes people just look a like. It's usually a family thing (old photos of my grandfather in his 20s look incredibly similar to my brother, for example), but not always. There's an elderly woman who lives nearby who once showed me photos from when she was younger; I look exactly like her husband did when he was about 30, which was some 40 years ago now.

He's still alive; so it's likely we don't share a soul. The thing is, given just how many people are out there, some of us are bound to look similar to each other.