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-second and most recent published book, a book on UFOs somewhat unoriginally titled The UFO Book. It's from the same publisher as my titles The Occult Book and The Conspiracy Book, and like them it's a coffee table book, with 100 vignettes from the history of unexplained things in the sky. It's not like my other book on the subject, The UFO Chronicles, in that I don't propose explanations -- this is purely a chronology of remarkable sightings from around the world and across the years. What's behind them? That's for you to decide. It was a fun project, and should be fun to read. Interested? You can get copies here if you live in the US, and at your favorite online or bricks-and-mortar bookstore otherwise. 

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With that said, have at it! 

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

Comments

Re: Dolmen Arch

[jprussell]

I'm still working through it, in the first grade of the Greater Mysteries, but one potential challenge I might anticipate for a group from how it's gone for me (and I seem to remember hearing from others as well) is that the grades rely on self-judgement for completion. Depending on one's temperament, that might lead to rushing through things that deserve some more time and practice, or stalling out on one or more practices trying to get it "perfect" when it's actually plenty good for moving on. In a group, you might get lucky and have these tendencies balanced out, or if everyone is alike, they could be exacerbated, or if y'all each go at your own pace, you might end up at wildly different places over the same amount of time.

For what it's worth, whether it's the material or the kind of folks it attracts, or both, it also seems to lean more toward "taking longer than strictly necessary" than "prone to rushing through," so I'd especially look out for that.

So, it might be prudent to discuss a bit how y'all will handle judging when it's time to move on to the next grade (deadlines? majority vote? consensus?).

Cheers,
Jeff

Re: Dolmen Arch

[(Anonymous)]

Appreciate the suggestions, Jeff. We are going to be meeting in August to create a group framework and discuss these very things (plus some other ideas).

I am hoping that the group aspect and sharing experiences will help to balance out some of these things, but only time will tell at this point. Will let everyone know how it works out as we go.

-Trubrujah