Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Midnight is  here, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and 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.  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.  And further:  I've decided that questions about getting goodies from spirits are also permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

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 was my fortieth published book, and the product of an investigation that's still ongoing. I happened to notice back in the early 1990s, as a result of voracious reading in odd books, that a surprising number of temple traditions around the world are connected to legends about increased agricultural fertility. I know, that's supposed to be mere superstition -- but it's funny how often "mere superstition" turns into evidence that the ancients knew more than it's fashionable for modern intellectuals to admit. That launched a quest that resulted in this book. I've come to theorize that woven into the design and use of certain specific kinds of temples is a lost folk technology that boosts agricultural productivity. I've collected physical evidence (including controlled double-blind studies) that there are energies known to science that could have been concentrated and put to use with resonating chambers of stone, designed according to specific geometries, filled with volatile organic compounds, and activated with sound waves. What's more, it's a technology that could be rediscovered and put to work to help plants thrive now.

This book was my first progress report on that investigation.  It's about to go out of print -- Llewellyn, the original publisher, still has a few copies left on sale, which you can get here -- but there'll be another edition in due time, and probably a further book not too long after that, as I'm continuing to find relevant data. Yes, there are also other people busy with this; the prospect of a working model, so that the details of the technology can be tested in real world conditions, may not be far off.

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With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***

Comments

Re: Axe & Plough, PIE Religion, "Spook Central," 4 More All Father Drafts, and Q on Checking Divinat

[hearthculture]

Hi Jeff,
I can share my experience in hopes something is helpful. I started kinesiology "muscle testing" on the advisement of a skilled chiropractor, and it was solely for deciding whether my body was compatible with something. Later I saw a friend using it as a form of divination and she taught me her method. I used it for years, and encountering it in the MOE led me to increase it's use and better integrate it into my other practices. I've had less luck with the finger method. My go to is to use my whole body - standing with slightly bent knees, hands over my solar plexus, and relaxing into a balanced center and then asking my questions and observing my swings - like I'm a pendulum.

I've found that it is very accurate when asking questions about my body, things I might consume, and advisement about going (or not going) to places. From my friend, I had the habit of facing north and directly verbally stating "I am connected to my higher self." I place this divination in a category with Geomancy, though I haven't fully fleshed that out. Over the years, I've added a moment of pre-visualizing the gates of the SOP around me, quietly verbally stating that I am in balance with the elements, in alignment with spirit, and finally that I am in integrity - higher self to physical body and all bodies between. I've noted being muddled and unclear when not doing this.

I have a tendency to use separate "categories" of divination systems to flesh out a reading. So I might use tarot to understand the nuance around a situation that I received a more blunt answer about from kinesiology or geomancy.

Wishing you well.