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-seventh published book, a study of the utterly unfashionable approach to sexual energies in magic that Dion Fortune and her fellow occultists of the Society of the Inner Light pioneered. You can always get a lot of interest by telling people to engage in orgiastic excess, and curiously enough, you can also get a lot of interest by telling people that sex is bad and God will spank them for thinking about it. Suggest something in between these extremes and nothing like so many people want to hear about it. Be that as it may, this is a practical handbook of magical practices that use redirected, sublimated erotic energies; the participants sit several feet from each other, usually with an altar in between them, and stay fully clothed. How dowdy? Nonetheless the methods work extremely well, and I give full details. If you're interested, you can get copies here in the US and here elsewhere. 

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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

Whose Been Having Weird Dreams?

[(Anonymous)]

I've been having dreams of a strange particular quality as if they have to do with a definite vibe shift. Anyone else?

Oscillating Mauve Lobster Flaneur

Re: Whose Been Having Weird Dreams?

[denebalgedi777]

Yes - and I've felt a very obvious vibe shift in general of late, not only in the astral imagery of dreams but very obviously in waking consciousness as well. It slowly became more noticeable maybe over the last 4-6 weeks. At times, I have the feeling that something is interfering with my divinations as well.

Re: Whose Been Having Weird Dreams?

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting about the divination. I haven't gotten that myself -that I know of anyway. Some of the dreams feel like they are part of bringing in the vibe shift -which would make sense, because astral phenoms occur before material.

MOLF

Re: Whose Been Having Weird Dreams?

[ecosophia]

I haven't, but there's a personal factor in my case. I've been working on a new book project that excites me, and when that happens, my dreams go very pale and dim -- it's as though all the pressure from the unconscious that usually flows into dreams, or into my occult practices, is diverted down the spillway into powering my writing.

Re: Whose Been Having Weird Dreams?

[xcalibur_djs]

Yes, I too have been having vivid, surreal dreams lately. In one, I was in a fantasy setting, a member of a nobility who evangelized an official ideology of peace, love, and diplomacy... while having fortified castles, trained dragons, and powerful sorcery (fantasy magic like fireballs and lightning bolts, not the real kind). In the dream, I slowly figured out that all this rhetoric of rule by gentle persuasion was in fact a disguise for the real basis of our rule: power & violence. One would think that would be obvious, but I was very inculcated into the ideology of love, and had to piece it together for myself.
That was the dream, make of that what you will. There seems to be definite real-world parallels to this, especially in the Western world.