Magic Monday
Jan. 19th, 2025 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

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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Re: Afterlife
Date: 2025-01-20 04:52 pm (UTC)That process doesn't require help frm the living, strictly speaking -- there are angels and helping spirits on that plane already -- but help from the living is valuable. Praying for the dead is of great benefit to them, and so are traditional rituals. If that isn't done, there's more of a chance that the soul may refuse to process its memories and flee from them, and in that case, yes, it tends to reincarnate very quickly in a complete muddle. That's what happened to me the last time around, and it helped make the first half of this life a steaming mess.
As for being in spirit, it depends entirely on how you spent your last life. The process of dealing with your memories includes experiencing them objectively, without the filters of self-interest and self-justification; you get to see exactly what you did and how it affected other people, and you experience the emotional and cognitive states your actions brought about. If you hurt a lot of people -- well, that's where the idea of hell came from. If you helped a lot of people, that's the source of beliefs in heaven.
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Date: 2025-01-21 01:14 am (UTC)This made me curious, do you know if souls that do that are more likely to have past life memories unexpectedly surface in their next life or is it more dependent on their level of development?
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Date: 2025-01-21 04:43 am (UTC)