Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just a few minutes to midnight, so we can launch 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 was my seventeenth published book, and the first novel of mine to see print.  Fiction was my first love as a writer, but I happened to start trying to get into print about the time the market for original science fiction and fantasy started contracting sharply, and I spent a long time trying to find a publisher for any of it. The Fires of Shalsha's rather eccentric plot and setting didin'g help, as it's not in any of the standard subgenres of SF; it's a quirky science fantasy novel set on a colony planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani, and the setting and story were heavily influenced by Akira Kurosawa samurai movies, Ursula Le Guin's political science fiction, and a lot of research on my part into martial arts, planetary ecologies, and human psychology. That apparently wasn't to the taste of editors.

I wrote the first draft in the late 1980s and couldn't get it into print. Two revised drafts, one completed around 1992 and the other around 2000, had no more luck.  It found its first publisher, a tiny firm in Everett, Washington, in 2008, and sold so few copies that I can't find an image of the original cover online. The picture here is of the second edition, which came out from Founders House in 2015 and did considerably better. It's currently out of print but will be out in a third edition from Aeon later this year.

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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 posted. See you next Monday!***

Comments

[ecosophia]

The vortices are actually present in all three of the fully formed bodies -- astral, etheric, and material. They are clusters of nerve tissue in the material body (closely associated with the endocrine glands), centers of force in the etheric body, and swirling patterns of astral substance in the astral body.

[randomactsofkarmasc]

That is way cooler than I had hoped.

So, light is made of photons, which are basically packets of energy which create an electromagnetic wave.

A moving charged particle creates an electric field and a magnetic field (perpendicular to each other).

Leaving physics-land and entering metaphor-land: the light (astral) slows down and creates magnetic fields (etheric) and electricity (physical/nerves).

Matter is "dense" spirit (so a function of space). Life is "slow" spirit (so a function of time).

This will be fun to meditate on! Thank you!

[ecosophia]

Excellent. Happy meditating!