Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's a few minutes before midnight, so we can launch into 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 mine only to a limited degree. Most of it was the work of my wife Sara under the pen name she used then, Clare Vaughn. We sent it to the publisher with the authorship as "Clare Vaughn, with John Michael Greer." The publisher used to make a big deal about being feminist, liberated, etc. -- but somehow that didn't extend to giving a female author the credit she deserved, at least in this case. So my name got put first, where it didn't belong. (We also had to deal with a sustained attempt by an editor to sandbag the book; turned out the editor had a friend who was writing a similar book, and wanted ours to fail.) There are reasons I haven't placed anything with that publisher for years. Nonetheless, Pagan Prayer Beads came out very well. Yes, it's about exactly what the title suggests: how to design, make, and use prayer bead strands and rosaries for the deity or pantheon of your choice. The publisher's kept it in print, too, which is more than I can say for some publishers; if you're interested, you can get a copy here if you live in the United States and at your favorite book retailer if you're elsewhere.

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Comments

Astral Aura Emotions

[(Anonymous)]

Any plans to change Pagan Prayer Beads to show Sara's own name as primary author?

I'm glad for the opportunity here to discuss a deeper view of emotions.

JMG, last week you shared this illustration of an astral view of auras of people experiencing various emotions. https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/file/231132.jpg If I understand right, I need to ask you to include the picture here.

You explained that the astral aura patterns are the cause of emotions. Physical psychology is useful, but deals only with the effects.

1. Is this the same for animals who can experience emotions? For a contented cat, a determined dog, an enraged elephant, a loving llama, does the astral view of their aura look like a human's with that emotion? Is this why people and their animals tend to look and act more alike over time? Someone like Cesar Milan decides he's the bold pack leader, and dogs fall into line. In the astral, is he projecting his aura condition into the aura of the dogs?

2. What causes these aura patterns in the astral?

3. I know of two ways brought up in your work to deal with emotions.
First, Octagon Society (and similar) material instructs how to psychologically introspect, to review when and how we chose meanings that shape our emotions.
Second, archetypes metaphysically, symbolically link our emotions with greater spiritual forces. Rituals and meditation can guide us through these connections. Divination, from a system with a big enough vocabulary of symbols, can help show us what's going on.

Do these work because they use are mental plane actions, using the more comprehensive and powerful mental plane to rewrite the subordinate astral plane? Are there other major techniques to work with our emotions, or do the useful methods all fit into these two categories?

Christopher from California
Mocha Amphibious Moose

Re: Astral Aura Emotions

[ecosophia]

0) It's still with the original publisher. If they ever let it go out of print, you bet I'll get the right name put on it when it goes to a new publisher; I wasn't confident then of my ability to find new venues, but of course that's changed.

1) I don't happen to know. You'd probably have to develop astral clairvoyance and then go see.

2) The astral plane is where emotions happen. You're seeing the emotions themselves.

3) The Octagon Society work functions on the mental plane. Ritual and other symbolic methods are astral in nature, though they can tap indirectly into otherr planes. Are there other major techniques? Yes, quite a few of them, ranging the planes from mental to physical.