Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Midnight is upon us 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 1.3 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.  This is my seventy-sixth published book, the second workbook and fifth volume in the Golden Section Fellowship sequence of occult training textbooks. Earth mysteries, for those who aren't familiar with the term, is a catchall label for all the strange things associated with ancient ruins, folk traditions, places where paranormal things happen much more often than usual. The book on the right, John Michell's visionary masterpiece The View Over Atlantis, was my introduction to the field back in the day, as it was for so many other people -- it didn't hurt that the cover art was by Roger Dean, more famous for all that hallucinatory Yes album cover art -- and this book is partly my homage to Michell and a vanished era, partly a guide to integrating earth mysteries studies with occult training, and partly -- or mostly -- a hands-on guide to finding the weirdness in the place where you live. You can get a copy here if you're in the United States and here elsewhere; I recommend the hardback if you're doing the course, because you're going to put a year of hard use into the book. 

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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

Affirmations

[(Anonymous)]

JMG, thanks as always for doing this.

Is it effective to string a couple brief affirmations together, or is it preferable to do each one separately?

For example, "I am productive and kind" vs
"I am productive"
and
"I am kind"
each repeated on their own at different times of day?

Thank you.

Re: Affirmations

[ecosophia]

I recommend doing one of these at a time -- and by that I don't mean at different times of the day; I mean that you would be better off focusing on one for a time to the exclusion of all else, and then focusing on the other. Intentionality gains power from unity of focus. If you fling all your strength into becoming kind, let's say, you'll achieve that, and then you can work on becoming more productive; that has better results than trying to do two different things at the same time.

Re: Affirmations

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP, but I have struggled with this in the past. When do you decide to stop one and begin the other?

For a clear binary type goal, I guess it's easy. But for something more amorphous ("I want to get better at XX"), at what point can I assume that the process will continue automatically (with work/practice) once I stop focusing on it and go on to something else?

Re: Affirmations

[ecosophia]

If it's something amorphous, I give it a year and a day -- 366 days, marked on the calendar. That's arbitrary, but it seems to work.

Re: Affirmations

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!

I should have asked you this months ago!