Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Midnight is almost here, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after that point will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 341,928th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.2 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.  Given the events scheduled tomorrow, I've pulled this one forward out of order; it's my 65th published book, the one that got me banned from science fiction conventions (despite 18 SF and fantasy novels currently in print) and dropped like a hot rock by most of the Neopagans I know. No, it's not a work of science fiction, nor does it have much to say about Neopaganism. It's a discussion of why the policies embraced by a bipartisan consensus of the elite classes in the US made the rise of Donald Trump or somebody like him inevitable. Yes, it also talks about magic -- the magical manipulations that were used for fifty years to silence any attempt to talk publicly about what the policies just mentioned did to the working classes in the United States, the magic wielded by a motley band of (mostly) young men living in their mothers' basements who marched off to the Meme Wars beneath the banner of a cartoon frog, and the magic attempted by the so-called Magic Resistance, whose attempts to cast death curses and other equally pleasant spells at the people they hate did a lot to bring about the events of last November and the days immediately before us.

That is to say, it's just a little controversial. ;-)  On the off chance you're interested anyway, you can order a copy here if you live in the US and at your favorite online shop or full service bookstore if you live elsewhere.

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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, and no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***

Comments

[anonymoose_canadian]

I have no question this week, but would just like to provide a followup for two things discussed a while back. I'm the person who had the truly strange increase in psychic abilities following one of the fake meat products back in 2020. The effect seems to have been permanent. A more meat heavy diet than I used to eat seems to help keep things under control; as do the more intensive spiritual practices I've been engaged with since, but my psychic abilities remain many times stronger than they were before. I'm still unaware of anyone else who has had this sort of reaction, so I'm left with the conclusion that this kind of effect is quite rare (I have Uranus and Neptune conjunct near my ascendant, so me having weird spiritual experiences like this are not surprising); but it is a very interesting phenomena.

The second observation is that placing one of the protective red bags in one's underwear is in fact an effective way to combat a porn addiction, or at least, it worked quite well for me recently. I placed it there, and then promptly lost nearly all interest in pornography; but also in all mass media; I'm unsure whether there is a connection or not, but it is a very interesting data point.

[ecosophia]

Thanks for both these data points! I haven't heard from anyone else who had the same experience you did with fake meat, but I notice that the grocery stores that carried those products here in East Providence, which brought them out with much fanfare, have shoved them into a corner and carry very little of them these days. One way or another they don't seem to please people. As for your red bag experience, no surprises there -- a very large percentage of media content uses direct or indirect sexual lures to keep people watching. I'll keep this in mind and suggest it when it may be useful.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no problem with fake meat. I prefer just something like a black bean burger to fake meat, something that is its own thing and not processed so much too, but if the option to eat is fake meat, it doeant seem to cause any effects at all

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