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habits, affirmations and gut feelings
Date: 2025-08-04 04:22 am (UTC)An intention for a while has been to change a couple of habits to see if doing that changes perceptual clarity regarding what seems to be happening with our society here in the UK. It’s something I’ve done at various times over the years as a sort of sanity check… a bit like fasting.
Anyway, sitting late last night and considering this, a thought came unexpectedly – “you need to do this now or fail”. Not so much a voice speaking as an announcement from somewhere and nowhere.
Kind of a surprise as in Whoa! Do what?
Since I had just been thinking about stopping drinking alcohol and smoking to check mental clarity – concluded it was about that – stopping not because I think those things are bad but in order to check perspectives. The crazy of the world just now seems like a good time to explore this. The Italians say: ‘A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine’, but I’ve been messing with that to give: ‘A mind without clarity is like a life without light’
Regardless, it was surprising and unexpected in its forcefulness and seeming seriousness.
Even though I do not know exactly what is meant, it was intense enough to properly consider the matter. My main area of interest is in esoteric arts, and concluded that the threat of failure could relate to that. Given where UK society looks to be heading, my inner practices have become more and more important as an anchor in an increasingly dysfunctional and chaotic whirlpool of a world, so failure through lack of effort would be galling!
The UK seems more like a tinder box masquerading as a house of cards all the time.
Failure in this is not an attractive option and to quote some fella called Yoda “Do or do not do; there is no try.”
And so I looked at my glass of red wine that was still 1/2 full and the rolling tobacco I was about to pick up and stopped; some consideration, and the wine went down the sink. Got some water, the tobacco pouch got put in its box and I sat wondering how this would play out.
The answer in mind was: ‘It’s up to you”
A day later and I have noticed certain triggers that might usually prompt a smoke; after catching that feeling , a surprisingly effective counter-measure has been to use a sort of affirmation set:
1. “A mind without clarity is like a life without light”
2. “I choose freedom of choice”
3. “I choose clarity through stillness”
Where:
1. is the interrupt to disrupt the trigger response – a thought stopper if you will
2. defines the choice as mine to make – not an auto response
3. not just words but a practical action that leads to a different destination to that of the trigger response
And am replacing the activity of smoking with other activities. Slightly tricky as I find that nicotine is good for focussed thought... so still experimenting with that.
I’ve done this sort of thing before and recall it was around a couple of weeks before new patterns seemed to establish and two to three months before a state of equilibrium was reached.
Like Eartha Kitt said: "I have things but things don't have me."
Anyway, maybe it’s something or maybe it’s nothing, but have been feeling a sort of build-up going on. Not particularly new as over the years things ebb and flow all the time. Read back 2000 years and it just looks like different tunes but very similar dances, and for the last 30 years I have been amazed at my ability to still be amazed at the world; but, has anyone else had any particularly strong 'gut feelings' recently?
EW
Re: habits, affirmations and gut feelings
Date: 2025-08-04 04:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 04:56 am (UTC)1) I am trying to find my ideal way of generating income since a regular job isn’t going to work for me over the long haul. I have willed myself to do it many times and it just isn’t good for me. When I was a kid and they asked what do you want to be when you grow up I never had a clue. All I’m sure of is being locked in a box with strangers all day is not ideal, so my affirmation is:
“I am a success in my ideal income generating situation”
Could I improve it?
2) I just read your post about matriarchy on the Ecosophia blog. I’ve always wondered, is there a goddess that would be like the female version of Hercules? A deity that would represent female bodybuilders/power lifters/strong women?
Re: habits, affirmations and gut feelings
Date: 2025-08-04 05:00 am (UTC)Ecosophia Prayer List
Date: 2025-08-04 05:18 am (UTC)If I missed anybody, or if you would like to add a prayer request for yourself or anyone who has given you consent (or for whom a relevant person holds power of consent) to the list, please feel free to leave a comment below.
This week I would like to bring special attention to the following prayer requests, selected from the fuller list.
May
J Guadalupe Villarruel Zúñiga, father of CRPatiño's friend Jair, who suffers from terminal kidney and liver damage, respond favorably to treatment and be cared for at home. May he also remain in as good health as possible, beat doctors' prognosis, and enjoy with his wife and children plenty of love, good times and a future full of blessings.
May 12 year old Sebastian Greco of Rhode Island, who recently suffered a head injury, make a prompt and complete recovery with no lasting problems.
May MindWinds' father Clem be healed of his spinal, blood and cardio infections and returned to good health and wholeness; and may he and his family keep up a robust sense of humor and joy in each others' continued company.
May Marko's newborn son Noah, who has been in the hospital for a cold, and Noah's mother Viktoria, who is recovering from her c-section, both be blessed with good health, strength, endurance, and protection, and may they swiftly they make a full recovery.
May Brother Kornhoer's son Travis's fistula heal, may his body have the strength to fight off infections, may his kidneys strengthen, and may his empty nose syndrome abate, so that he may have a full and healthy life ahead of him.
May Princess Cutekitten, who is sick of being sick, be healed of her ailments.
May Jack H.'s father John continue to heal from his ailments, including alcohol dependency and breathing difficulties, as much as Providence allows, to be able to enjoy more time together with his loved ones.
May Audrey's friend's daughter Katie, who died in a tragic accident June 2nd, orphaning her two children, be blessed and aided in her soul's onward journey; and may her family be comforted.
May Kevin’s sister Cynthia be cured of the hallucinations and delusions that have afflicted her, and freed from emotional distress. May she be safely healed of the physical condition that has provoked her emotions; and may she be healed of the spiritual condition that brings her to be so unsettled by it. May she come to feel calm and secure in her physical body, regardless of its level of health.
May Pierre and Julie conceive a healthy baby together. May the conception, pregnancy, birth, and recovery all be healthy and smooth for baby and for Julie.
May SLClaire's honorary daughter Beth, who is undergoing dialysis for kidney disease, be blessed, and may her kidneys be restored to full functioning.
May 1Wanderer's partner Cathy, who has bravely fought against cancer to the stage of remission, now be relieved of the unpleasant and painful side-effects from the follow-up hormonal treatment, together with the stress that this imposes on both parties; may she quickly be able to resume a normal life, and the cancer not return.
May Kallianeira's partner Patrick, who passed away on May 7th, be blessed and aided in his soul's onward journey. And may Kallianeira be soothed and strengthened to successfully cope in the face of this sudden loss.
May Linda from the Quest Bookshop of the Theosophical Society, who has developed a turbo cancer, be blessed and have a speedy and full recovery from cancer.
May Corey Benton, whose throat tumor has grown around an artery and won't be treated surgically, and who is now able to be at home from the hospital, be healed of throat cancer.
(Healing work is also welcome. Note: Healing Hands should be fine, but if offering energy work which could potentially conflict with another, please first leave a note in comments or write to randomactsofkarmasc to double check that it's safe)
May David Spangler (the esoteric teacher), who has been responding well to chemotherapy for his bladder cancer, be blessed, healed, and filled with positive energy such that he makes a full recovery.
May Giulia (Julia) in the Eastern suburbs of Cleveland Ohio be quickly healed of recurring seizures and paralysis of her left side and other neurological problems associated with a cyst on the right side of her brain and with surgery and drugs to treat it, if providence would have it, and if not, may her soul move on from this world and find peace with a minimum of further suffering for her and her family and friends.
May Liz and her baby be blessed and healthy during pregnancy, and may her husband Jay (sdi) have the grace and good humor to support his family even through times of stress and ill health.
May Debra Roberts, who has just been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer, be blessed and healed to the extent that providence allows. Healing work is also welcome.
May Jack H's father John, whose aortic dissection is considered inoperable and likely fatal by his current doctors, be healed, and make a physical recovery to the full extent that providence allows, and be able to enjoy more time together with his loved ones.
May Frank R. Hartman, who lost his house in the Altadena fire, and all who have been affected by the larger conflagration be blessed and healed.
May Open Space's friend's mother
Judith be blessed and healed for a complete recovery from cancer.
Guidelines for how long prayer requests stay on the list, how to word requests, how to be added to the weekly email list, how to improve the chances of your prayer being answered, and several other common questions and issues, are to be found at the Ecosophia Prayer List FAQ.
If there are any among you who might wish to join me in a bit of astrological timing, I pray each week for the health of all those with health problems on the list on the astrological hour of the Sun on Sundays, bearing in mind the Sun's rulerships of heart, brain, and vital energies. If this appeals to you, I invite you to join me.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 05:20 am (UTC)So there are these "cycles":
- the 7 years cycle(to test a demon pact, from the "demonic hypothesis"), I wonder if it has a larger scope and meaning...
- the 9 years cycle (from year numerology)
- 12, 60 year cycle in chinese astrology, they seem to work, at least the 12 years cycle which I was able to observe...
What other notable cycles are out there? I noticed there seem to be something around 35 years...
Thank you,
Keep up the good work,
Ed
Re: habits, affirmations and gut feelings
Date: 2025-08-04 05:26 am (UTC)I had that voice, about the waxxine, even before there was this open thread. I am still having it to an extent about moving back to the city, I am currently unemployed and living in the countryside and there is a strong push for RTO(return to office), living at this pecuniary level is very, very hard, but every-time I consider moving back to the city to get a job I get this voice.
Re: habits, affirmations and gut feelings
Date: 2025-08-04 05:31 am (UTC)After that there was no temptation to follow the mandates and I encouraged everyone I talked with who hadn't already done it to not do it for a job.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 05:35 am (UTC)This pattern would also affect each of our cells, and this could easily explain why so many occultists seem to have died of the disease. Even in cases where the outcome is good from a human perspective, if the magic fights against what the universe would do otherwise, it would establish the pattern of seeking what is best for a subset of the cosmos; in the microcosm, that would be cells rejecting the needs of the body....
b) I'd like to add one point to the topic of addictions as discussed last week: the need being met is not always strictly emotional. A few years ago I broke a long standing addiction to fast food by adding sufficient salt to my food, because what was happening was my body was craving salt and getting it from the most convenient source. Once I decided to ignore the health warnings about too much salt, and just start using it, all interest in fast food vanished pretty much instantly.
c) I'd like to make sure I understand the principles behind karma. Rather than using abstractions, I'd like to use a concrete example: I've gone to the other side of the country to visit my grandma each year for most of my life; when I go visit I usually help her with a bunch of things, ranging from cooking for her to fixing furniture and replacing damaged household appliances. I usually fly despite the environmental impact, given that the state of inter-city transit in Canada is atrocious, but I do check to see if it would be viable to take trains/buses. Sometimes I get lucky, but usually it is not possible for me to take such a trip.
So from this, I become the kind of person who is more flexible about certain moral judgments (good and bad depending on the context); who spends time and effort to help elderly relatives (good); who is willing to engage in environmentally damaging activities (bad); who puts an effort into checking if other options are available before committing to a course of action (good); and who considers the trade offs in actions (good); who is willing to accept the humiliation and discomforts of air travel (bad), when in the pursuit of a clearly defined goal (good).
The seemingly simple action of visiting my grandmother looks like it carries decidedly mixed karma: some of the consequences seem quite positive, others quite negative. If every human decision needs to be weighed like this, then knowing the full karmic consequences of any action seems like it becomes very difficult, and possibly impossible: this took me quite a bit of thought, and I'm still pretty sure I'm missing things.
Do you think I am on the right track for understanding the way karma is understood by the occult traditions of the Western World?
Re: habits, affirmations and gut feelings
Date: 2025-08-04 06:12 am (UTC)Since then, I have gotten a lot more of this kind of support, but I've never been in such a crisis again. I'd pay less attention but it is almost uniformly wise and useful, mostly being aimed at supporting my morale during an extended period of struggle I am going through.
Ingo Swann discusses a few personal examples in his book, Psychic Literacy. Most notably, a voice that stopped him from walking in front of a car.
Re: habits, affirmations and gut feelings
Date: 2025-08-04 07:03 am (UTC)I didn't however get any such messages over the covid vaccines. I, my family, and nearly all my friends took them, and haven't so far had any identifiable negative effects. I certainly wont be taking any more, but it may have been more personal with those vaccines and any mental moments of clarity.
My take on it is that given there's a personal component to it, is that it's mental sheath activity.
Misadventures with ghost cats
Date: 2025-08-04 07:19 am (UTC)Hey JMG,
I have an update, of sorts, on the "ghost cat" situation I asked about last week.
It didn't appear again, though of course it's only been a week. I had to get rid of the vinegar dish after two days—turns out that acetic acid fumes are quite good at driving me away, too. The smell was alright but my eyes started hurting. At any rate, it seems like the sage had a much bigger effect. During Tuesday's GSF morning exercise, I could properly feel (what I assume to be) the One Life's flow through me whereas before, I'd started wondering whether I was accomplishing anything other than treating my neighbours to a vision of me standing in front of my bedroom window, staring outside in my pyjamas. Sadly, this has since faded quite a bit, though it's still better than before. I also felt a lot more refreshed waking up that morning than I have in a good few years.
Christophe's comment that the entity might not be malevolent but simply trying to get my attention, a sentiment echoed by comments on a different forum, intrigued me, so I consulted the SGO, something that I probably should've done earlier. This was my first non-daily divination (I'm new to all of this), so I second guessed myself a lot, but I settled on myself, the entity, my bedroom, and the entity's intention as the four factors I asked about. In order, I got: Cube reversed, Square & Diagonal reversed, Tetrahedron reversed, and Progression of Roots. My take on this is that I've fallen into a rut (definitely true) and that the entity arrived as a consequence of that, to help me change. The room's role in this seems to be just a general store of negative, disruptive energy, as evidenced by how well the cleansing worked.
Further comments on that other forum suggested I might try summoning the entity to get it to explain itself and I decided to call it into a scrying mirror. I tried to prepare the space with the Opening and Closing of the SoP (I haven't gotten all that far with the GSF work so far, though I'm trying to keep at it) but really struggled with visualising the cleansed sphere. I probably should've aborted the experiment right then but went ahead anyways. I can share a detailed report if you or anybody else thinks I should but, in the interest of brevity, here's a summary:
I saw quite a few images in the mirror but they kept switching so quickly I could make very few out. There were several animals, other beings, and objects without any (apparent) rhyme or reason. The mirror seemed to expand and start to take over my entire field of vision but whenever it got close, I had to blink which reset it to a normal mirror shape. This was frustrating but, at the same time, I occasionally had the idea that I could endanger myself this way. The mirror itself very occasionally looked like a cat or, at other times, a bug.
Verbally, I was stuck at asking the entity to show itself and telling it that I couldn't make out whatever it was trying to tell me. Mentally, a few questions directed at it popped into my head and I'm not entirely certain they originated with me. The answers were very confusing and contradictory. The entity identified itself as several species of animal as well as archangels Uriel and Michael. I don't think either of these claims were truthful but have no way of being sure.
I twice heard a meow and once steps whose location I couldn't quite make out.
I had the impression that I could've seen more if the mirror had been bigger or if I could just let it grow big enough.
After about subjective twenty to thirty minutes, I realised I wouldn't get any further and, on a very reckless whim, blew out the candle I was using for lighting in the hopes of seeing a little more in a dark room. The steps came back, this time probably in the hallway, and I got rather scared, fearing for my life. A license to depart and run to the lightswitch later, I felt reasonably safe again. I then discovered that the endeavour had actually taken me about an hour and that there were some blood (?) stains on my couch and one of its cushions. While I had started out kneeling on the cushion, I'd quickly discarded it and didn't have any open wounds on my legs anyways, though admittedly a few old ones. I had been nowhere near the couch.
In the following night, I had a bit of a nightmare: I decided to summon the entity again to find out more. This led to a lot of fire (possibly hellfire, though I can't say my vision of the afterlife ordinarily includes fire and brimstone).
A couple of hypotheses:
A) I was really dealing with the being I'd tried to call up. Given that I explictly asked for it to show itself, this seems like what should've happened. But as the divination and its own statements confirmed that it's not malicious, I really don't understand the outcome. Possibly some form of tough love? Or maybe it really is just very ambivalent.
B) I was dealing with a different entity. Perhaps I've driven the entity out by cleansing the room and something else noticed an opportunity to fuck with me. I'm unsure whether it was properly malicious as I don't think I was actually harmed.
C) I was dealing with several entities, possibly including the one I was trying to talk to. That would explain the quickly shifting images and the contradictory responses. It also explains why the footsteps seemed to come from outside the room while the mirror images obviously were inside.
My questions are these:
1) Which of the three hypotheses, if any, seems the most likely?
2) Did I make any obvious mistakes? I can supply a more detailed report too if that'd be helpful.
3) I'd still like to know more about this entity. Do you think it wise to pursue this?
4) Scary dreams notwithstanding, I'm not too concerned about trying the mirror again, provided I know what to do differently. Would you recommend other methods of inquiry instead or in addition to that?
5) I'm struggling with the SoP. Specifically, I can't make the sphere "grow", I can just picture successively bigger spheres. Is that a problem?
—David P.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 08:22 am (UTC)Re: habits, affirmations and gut feelings
Date: 2025-08-04 10:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 11:01 am (UTC)Second, what do you think of the karmic inheritance of people who have outsized talents and opportunities but at the same time are faced with many personal challenges like ill health, psychological trauma, addiction, etc.? It feels like many of the most capable people I've known have also had chronic issues complicating their lives. Do you think the need to work through this kind of karma can be the collateral effect on a soul that's evolving to a higher state?
Thanks for these posts.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 11:34 am (UTC)To share, for those who wonder what CoP, IR, or LBRP mean, a list of abbreviations used on Ecopsophia.
And here's an overview of the eighty-three books our host has published so far.
(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 01:12 pm (UTC)1. "How will these changes affect me?"
RW - Caput Drac.
LW - Cauda Drac.
J - Carcer
Carcer is normally a negative figure except where stability and security is desired, and in this case stability and security is desired. Would I be right in interpreting this finding as "things will stay mostly the same"?
Realizing that geomancy isn't necessarily suited to answering open-ended questions like "how," I asked a follow-up question "Will I personally benefit from these changes?"
RW - Amissio
LW - Acquisitio
J - Via
Judge as Via makes sense - this is a change, and the "future" LW as Acquisitio seems promising. Is there something I'm missing.
Re: habits, affirmations and gut feelings
Date: 2025-08-04 01:34 pm (UTC)Back then it was a short and sweet.
Now it is a whole series of synchronistic events, omens and visions. Most of it to personal or lengthy to write here.
But the grist of it is that something is to come; stay put and ramp up spiritual practice as preparation.
Prayer, Queens and Druids
Date: 2025-08-04 01:35 pm (UTC)"One of the most spiritual people I’ve ever met, an elderly woman I knew many years ago, read a chapter of the Bible every morning, meditated on it, and prayed. That was her practice, and it took her places I hope I’ll be able to reach someday."
I remember you discussing her precise methodology somewhere but I can't find it. Could you point me in the right direction? Did she also do a banishing ritual?
(2) Apparently Queen Elizabeth II was a druid https://royalwatcherblog.com/2017/08/06/princess-elizabeths-bard-initiation/ after being initiated by one Archdruid Cryws Williams of the Mystic Circle of Bards. Is that an organization you have dealt with before? It seems that druidry had percolated to the upper reaches of society which makes the following Guardian story strange:
(3) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/27/druids-college-religion-lifestyle
Here, some lads are claiming to have invented druidry in the 60s as some prank. I had thought the modern druids had formed in the 19th century? I guess these kids did not do their research?
(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 02:00 pm (UTC)This is of dr malone, talking about a briefing rfkjr had:
Dr. Robert Malone says RFK Jr. received a classified briefing on UFOs, UAPs, and whether they could be interdimensional beings or time travelers.
Malone claims a federal investigator told him "alien encounters" are ramping up—and confirms they’re real.
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1951423143475585474#m
2 min video clip at link
(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 02:02 pm (UTC)I'd also encourage you to back up your affirmation with journaling or meditation -- a lot of people who set out to do this have absorbed negative programming from society and the media which leads them to sabotage themselves, so exploring your reactions to the thought of letting go of employment might be a good idea.
2) Athena! She's a tough, strong, savvy warrior goddess, always portrayed wearing a bronze helmet and breastplate (heavy!) and carrying a shield and spear (also heavy!).
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List
Date: 2025-08-04 02:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 02:07 pm (UTC)The old Druids apparently had a 6 year cycle. A 19 year cycle tracks the relationship of the Moon to the Sun. And then, of course, there's the 2160 year cycle of an astrological age and the 25,960 year cycle of the whole sequence of ages...
(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 02:10 pm (UTC)On the night of 7/31 and morning of 8/1 I had a dream that I think symbolizes a release or dissolution of astral patterns/tension. In the dream, I was standing on a beach looking at at the water where a large gothic looking space ship was hovering. The ship then violently exploded for about a minute straight and the dream ended.
To make things more interesting, my brother, on the same night, dreamt of what he said was "the world ending". He said it was basically a violent storm over the whole world with colorful lightning. My brother told me his dream and the date before I made a peep about mine (I had mine written down with a date) so I know no one is fabricating anything.
I think we picked up on some kind of collective astral event. Did you pick up on anything of the sort? Did any of you in the commentariat?
Luke Z
(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-04 02:11 pm (UTC)2) That makes a great deal of sense. The demonization of salt by the medical industry has caused a lot of problems; it really makes me wonder sometimes, because it's an old folk tradition that people who practice evil magic can't stand salt in their food...
3) Yes, that's pretty much correct. You'll have a hard time finding any action that doesn't have mixed karma like that; since the point of incarnation is to gain experience -- this world is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, to use the Biblical metaphor, and we chose to eat the fruit -- that's hardwired into our existence.