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 not be put through.  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 eighty-first published book, the third entry in my series of occult detective novels starring eighteen-year-old Ariel Moravec and her adept grandfather Dr. Bernard Moravec. As I think I mentioned here already, I didn't intend these to be young-adult novels -- I simply wanted a protagonist who was in a good situation to begin occult training, and had plenty of entertaining problems of her own. Nonetheless I was delighted a while back to hear from a reader whose young daughter, a fan of these novels, has begun calling them "Nancy Druid stories." 

In this third installment, Ariel and her grandfather are caught up in a mystery surrounding a strange artifact from pre-Roman Italy, a bronze plaque with wolves and an inset moon of carnelian. The Heydonian Institution wants it for their collection of ancient magical items, but somebody else is after it, too -- and circumstantial evidence suggests that the somebody in question might just run on all fours and bay at the moon on certain nights. As Ariel researches the truth behind the old myth of the werewolf she hurtles toward a dangerous confrontation on the night of the full moon...

Copies? You can get them here if you're in the US and here elsewhere. Owoo! 

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

Comments

Thought Transference - Edmund Shaftesbury

[(Anonymous)]

I have a deceased relative who was very widely known in the family to be "psychic", and almost everybody who spent time with her have their own stories about her abilities.

I always thought that she was just naturally born that way, but I recently spoke to one of her very close friends who told me that she actually just picked up a book called Thought Transference by Edmund Shaftesbury and developed her skills/abilities by simply methodically working through all of the exercises.

My questions:

1. Are you aware of Shaftesbury's work? If so, do you have any thoughts about him/his work?
2. Before I try to hunt down his books or find them online (the copyright has long expired by now), do you have any other recommendations in lieu of this particular work?

Thank you!

Re: Thought Transference - Edmund Shaftesbury

[ecosophia]

Good heavens -- Webster Edgerly! That was the real name of the guy who wrote under the name of Edmund Shaftesbury. I have, and learned quite a bit from, several of his books on "magnetism" (aka the life force). Here are some of his works, available for free download:

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Edmund+Shaftesbury%22

His methods are good, but his books are rather long-winded and freighted with attitudes many people find distasteful these days. Another author of the same era worth reading along these lines is William Walker Atkinson. Here's his book on learning telepathy:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41358

Re: Thought Transference - Edmund Shaftesbury

[ecosophia]

Let me add one more comment here: everyone is psychic. This notion that some people have psychic abilities and others don't is nonsense. Some people simply figure out how to use their innate abilities in early childhood, while others don't, and have to learn how later on. Books like Shaftesbury's and Atkinson's are good textbooks.

Re: Thought Transference - Edmund Shaftesbury

[neptunesdolphins]

I agree. My son read auras but did not know what they were until someone showed him what they were. I think that sometimes synchronicity plays a part in psychic things.

Re: Thought Transference - Edmund Shaftesbury

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you very much--hugely appreciated!