Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Once again, it's technically Monday now -- past midnight Eastern time -- and here I am on Dreamwidth, so it's time for another Magic Monday.  (The picture is R. Ogilvie Crombie, a Scottish occultist who helped the founders of Findhorn make their contacts with the elementals.)

Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer, though it may be Tuesday sometime before I get to them all.

I've had several people ask about tipping me for answers here, and though I certainly don't require that I won't turn it down. You can find my online tip jar here. 

With that said, have at it! 

***This Magic Monday is now closed to new comments. See you next Monday!***

Comments

Wild Wild Country

[(Anonymous)]

Hello JMG!

I'm watching the documentary on Osho's former Oregon community, and certainly you were aware of it at the time. The whole thing striked me both as an amazing and absolutely unbalanced work of magic. Such immense and sudden work of transformation was certain to amass imense resistance! What's your take on it from an occult/magic perspective?

Thank you!

Re: Wild Wild Country

[ecosophia]

That kind of thing is very common in the history of alternative religion. One of the routine thing that happens when religious communities head out into rural country to set up some kind of would-be utopia. Every action produces an unequal and opposite reaction -- so, yes, things very often spin out of control in colorfully dysfunctional ways.