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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With that said, have at it!

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

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Becoming Supernatural

[earthworm_uk]

Recently heard about a book - Becoming Supernatural [Dispenza 2019]; finally got around to looking it up and came across this:

"When we saw how our students were able to open the hearts of others, we knew it was time to start doing global meditations to help change the world. Thousands and thousands of people from all over the world have joined in and participated in changing and healing this planet and the people on it. After all, aren't we doing this work to make the world a better place? I'll give you the science of how this all works - and I do mean science. Enough peer-reviewed studies on the power of peace-gathering projects have been published to prove it works, so instead of just studying history, why not make history?"

My first reaction was "Run Forrest. Run!" Perhaps unfair as I haven't read it, but still...

Is this another case of 'giving dogs wings' by invoking states where groundwork has not been done? Perhaps it covers that - the sample doesn't show much.

As for "After all, aren't we doing this work to make the world a better place?" that seems to be an inversion of the age old rule - Wasn’t it Confucius who said something like ‘if something disturbs you, first look within’?
Like a 2500+ year old version of ‘Am I the *hole?’ of recent internet fame.

Maybe it's good, but looking at the world and despite the 'peer reviewed studies proving it works' results seem thin on the ground to this worm! Also a tad ironic given the last 6 years... if "thousands upon thousands of people have joined in and participated in changing and healing this planet and the people on it", well, maybe the increasing chaos is part of it working, or maybe it isn't?

Anybody read it?

Re: Becoming Supernatural

[ecosophia]

I haven't. Dispenza was one of the leading figures in JZ Knight's "Ramtha" business before he launched his own franchise, and he's pushing the same overblown "you create your own reality" schtick that's caused so much failure and misery in recent decades. (As usual, a half-truth is more destructive than an outright lie; the fact is that we don't create but co-create our reality -- there's this other little thing called the entire universe that also gets a vote.) I tend to avoid anything from that end of the spiritual or pseudospiritual scene, and encourage others to do the same.

Re: Becoming Supernatural

[earthworm_uk]

Ah, so that was why I got 'the ick'.
Never heard of Ramtha or JZ Knight before and will set that particular rabbit-hole aside for the moment!
Thank you.

Re: Becoming Supernatural

[ecosophia]

You can replace Knight and her pet spirit with any other heavily marketed New Age trance channeler you like; it's all the same story.