Magic Monday
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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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MOE Master Attunement; Blessings; Five Rites; etheric vision
Date: 2024-01-15 05:31 am (UTC)1. Just a short reminder for those who missed the anouncement last week: I am going to perform an MOE Master Attunement on
Sunday, February 4th, at 6pm German time
All the details can be found here:
https://thehiddenthings.com/moe-master-attunement-on-sunday-february-4th-2024
Please post any questions or discussion about the Attunement over at my site, so that JMG doesn't have even more comments to handle on top of all the other ones. And remember that you can also be "re-attuened" if you already received the Master attunement - the first few re-attunements will usually have an additional effect.
2. I offer weekly blessings. These are open to everybody, i.e. not only for MOE practitioners:
https://thehiddenthings.com/categories/weekly-blessings
(I want to practice my blessing skills, so you'd do me a favour in signing up... :-) )
3. JMG, I own a 1997 German translation of the Five Rites which is presumably based on the 1985 edition, but also contains the extra chapter. There are quite a few changes compared to the text you quote in your book (i.e. the 1939 edition), but by far the biggest change seems to be the switch to the seven chakras as energy centers.
Do you know (or are you able to guess) a. if that has already been one of the changes in the 1946 edition, and b. the reason behind this change? (although the latter might have been as trivial as "it's all the rage in new age circles", of course...).
4. Last week, somebody reported developing etheric vision/clairvoyance after "some exercises online involving concentration and visual focus" (cf. https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/261830.html?thread=45725126#cmt45725126 ). The OP was trying to develop their astral clairvoyance, i.e. apparently the labels on such exercises are not always the most fitting... ;-)
Can you recommend any exercises to develop etheric vision? Or, alternatively, any pointers on where to look, or what to look for in such exercises?
Thanks! :-)
Milkyway
Re: MOE Master Attunement; Blessings; Five Rites; etheric vision
Date: 2024-01-15 05:40 am (UTC)4) The exercises I know of for etheric vision involve looking at a strong magnet in complete darkness, until your vision adapts to see the lines of force. There may well be other methods I don't know of.
Re: MOE Master Attunement; Blessings; Five Rites; etheric vision
Date: 2024-01-15 07:52 am (UTC)About 4: Would one of these strong, but rather small neodymium magnets do, or does it have to be a (physically) bigger magnet? I.e. does size matter? ;-)
Milkyway
Re: MOE Master Attunement; Blessings; Five Rites; etheric vision
Date: 2024-01-15 05:55 pm (UTC)Re: MOE Master Attunement; Blessings; Five Rites; etheric vision
Date: 2024-01-15 06:01 pm (UTC)Thanks!
Milkyway
Re: etheric vision
Date: 2024-01-15 07:42 pm (UTC)Lathechuck
PS: Be careful around these magnets. If allowed to come freely together, they can collide with such force as to shatter. And they'll pinch any skin that tries to get between them.
Re: etheric vision
Date: 2024-01-15 10:19 pm (UTC)Milkyway
Re: MOE Master Attunement; Blessings; Five Rites; etheric vision
Date: 2024-01-15 07:31 pm (UTC)Is there any book you'd recommend for the various exercises?
Tamanous
Re: MOE Master Attunement; Blessings; Five Rites; etheric vision
Date: 2024-01-15 10:01 pm (UTC)I am the poster from last week that seems to have inadvertently developed etheric vision after doing a series of exercises that were designed to allow one to see the aura. The exercises came from a very strange book by Dr. Tom Chalko called “The Freedom of Choice”, and were also available for free on his website. While, for me at least, the book failed to live up to its claim that it would answer all of the questions about existence, it did help me to break through a very powerful mental block that I had developed over years of institutional religious conditioning. And, of course, it caused me no shortage of delight to be able to see my fingers glowing! It was a companion piece to one of the most fascinating abduction accounts I have read, The Thiaoouba Prophecy by Michael Desmarquet. I believe that Dr. Chalko helped to edit that book and the Thiaoouba story certainly seems to have influenced his personal philosophy.
Best Regards,
Stephen
Re: MOE Master Attunement; Blessings; Five Rites; etheric vision
Date: 2024-01-15 11:00 pm (UTC)(just kidding - I appreciate the pointer!)
Milkyway