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

Meaning

[realmscryer]

Hi JMG,

My various experiments over this last year while continuing my core practice have led to a very interesting place.

Returning to the DA form of the SOP, for example. Feels richer somehow. This is happening with the books, too. Reading the DA books is a richer or deeper experience. Same with rereading The Kybalion.

I am also in yet another sequence of meditations on the tarot trumps. This time the Journey of the Fool from John’s book The Tree of Spirit. As I finish a session I drop all the thoughts, symbols, and such associated with the card and sense into a Union with the card. Beyond the card and also swapping perspectives with the card.

So much to explore. I am pretty sure John’s books could be a many year set of courses.

There is also a mystic-ish approach to the DA I am experimenting with now. Kind of a cross between some of the concepts Robert Mathiesen wrote about in one of his recent books and the DA.

Now to the subject line, Meaning.

This last week something new showed up. I am quite sure due in part to exploring duality/non-duality/Union while continuing the daily practices.

Essentially, I realized or became aware of meaning as pertains to myself. Or about myself. Not the meaning of my life. Just “Me” or “I” as a bit of meaning? I guess a sparkle in Indra’s Net or something. I can’t say what meaning. There is no purpose or magnitude attached to this meaning. Just, meaning. Full stop.

Maybe even “as within, so without …..” or something.

Not sure if there is much to ask regarding the above. It just is.

I am definitely getting more curious about John Gilbert’s work with alchemy as well as the cabala.

Thanks,
Eric

Re: Meaning

[ecosophia]

I'm glad that isn't a question, because all I can do is smile and nod and say, "Keep at it." One of the things that appeals most to me about Western esoteric spirituality is that there isn't one fixed truth that everybody realizes -- instead, every one of us experiences a different facet of a truth that transcends human consciousness.