Magic Monday
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It's just past midnight 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.
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:10 am (UTC)My imagination could have cooked that scene up. Hot metal, I assure you, has a personality… so does cold, but a different… never mind… but – The scene had the real feel, although it was without the sense of altered state.
So… Either my mind is trying to tell me something, or I had an experience without a having good framework for interpretation. Either way, might you and the commentariat have any insights into this event or suggestions for future action?
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:17 am (UTC)No, I'm not just engaging in a classic bit of archdruidical snark. Imaginal experiences like that one always draw at least some of their raw material from the subconscious of the person who experiences them, and so that person and that person alone can interpret them accurately, given adequate meditation. Give it a try!
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:15 am (UTC)Totally unrelated and not a question... Today, Saturn made the exact conjunction with my natal Saturn. Oy...
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:19 am (UTC)2) Oy indeed! Saturn returns are always rough. Saturn's very well placed in my natal chart, but he reliably kicks me in the backside on his returns.
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:43 am (UTC)I hope you get a good night's rest and wake up refreshed. I have a few CGD-related queries for you following my Bardic initiation, which I finally plucked up the nerve to do. The ceremony had a definite sense of hidden depth and the parts fitted together very neatly. Wearing the robe and saltire at the end was more moving than I expected. It was also very, very satisfying to see the grade through!
I did however lose my place once in the ceremony and offered and swallowed my Air herb to Sirona - I realised immediately and apologised (and got a gruff "hmmm OK") but think I should make an offering to Sirona using a CGD Calling of Water. I was thinking of reading out the Levi translation of Prayer of the Undines (changing King to Queen). Can you suggest any suitable objects to offer?
My subsequent readings were interesting. My omen to guide me was LW Cyswllt, RW Carchar, J Ffordd, which I took to mean your life's going to change, you don't get much of a choice but you won't be on your own. Sound reasonable?
I asked what would happen if I took Druid grade, and got LW Pobl, RW Bendith Fach so J also Bendith Fach, which I took as the choice is yours, (again) you won't be on your own/you'll be guided to success but get on with it. Bendith Fach was repeated in 3rd and 4th niece and 3rd mother so that figure is significant, however your CGD guide to what a repeated Bendith Fach means ("discord, envy, madness") is pretty downbeat. What am I missing? Another cast for "would it be a good idea?" again had a repetition in LW/RW as Llawenydd, J Pobl, which seems a clear yes.
Am I on the right track? If so, I don't have any remaining vervain tincture from the ovate grade for the Serpent's Egg, would it be ok if I made another batch?
With thanks as ever for your valuable time and wisdom. My blessings to you and all your readers if you will have them.
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Date: 2025-11-03 03:45 pm (UTC)2) The divinations seem clear enough. The doubled Bendith Fach tells me that as your life improves, someone you know -- someone you associate with but not a family member or close friend (4th niece) but who you interact with regularly (3rd niece) and who's known you for a while (3rd mother) -- will get jealous and brittle about the changes that magic is making in your life, and you should be braced for that.
3) Of course you can make another batch. I'd say go ahead with the next grade.
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:53 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 Patrick's mother Christine's vital energy be strengthened so she can continue healing at home without need for more surgical operations.
May both Monika and the child she is pregnant with both be blessed with good health and a safe delivery.
May Mary's sister have her auto-immune conditions sent into remission, may her eyes remain healthy, and may she heal in body, mind, and spirit.
May Marko have the awareness and strength to constructively deal with the situation.
May 5 year old Max be blessed and protected during his parents' contentious divorce; may events work out in a manner most conducive to Max's healthy development over the long term.
May the abcess in JRuss's left armpit heal quickly.
May Brother Kornhoer's son Travis's left ureter be restored to full function, 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 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 HippieVikings's baby HV, who was born safely but has had some breathing concerns, be filled with good health and strength.
May Trubujah's best friend Pat's teenage daughter Devin, who has a mysterious condition which doctors are so far baffled by necessitating that she remain in a wheelchair, be healed of her condition; may the underlying cause come to light so that treatment may begin.
May J Guadalupe Villarruel Zúñiga, father of CRPatiño's friend Jair, who suffers from terminal kidney and liver damage, continue to respond favorably to treatment; 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 DJ's newborn granddaughter Marishka and daughter Taylor be blessed, healed, and protected from danger, and may their situation work out in the best way possible for both of them.
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 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.
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.
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Date: 2025-11-03 06:01 am (UTC)1) I have read your method of de-consecrating astrological talismans on a previous MM, thank you for that. If it is a metal talisman to be de-consecrated is there anything more to do after censing it with asafoetida and rinsing it with cold water? Should it be melted down or have the engraved images ground off?
2) In your experience what does owning multiple astrological talismans do as far as influencing consciousness? Do you find there is a difference in keeping one/some in close proximity to yourself vs put away wrapped in silk. Do they use our energy in some type of way?
3) Did you mention something about a grand trine of Mercury, Saturn, and the Sun in your birth chart and this relating to an affinity for magical practice? I know you don’t do natal astrology, but do you think having these three planets conjunct in the 8th house might have a similar effect?
4) Have you ever looked at Kabbalah, Magic & the Great Work of Self Transformation by Lyam Thomas Christopher? If so, do you think it would be an effective system? (It’s a GD based system)
Thank you for doing MM
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Date: 2025-11-03 03:48 pm (UTC)2) It depends utterly on what kind of talismans they are and what their intentions are. I don't wear talismans so can't help you with that, and no, if you make them properly they need no energy from you.
3) No, I don't have a grand trine, though those planets are in harmonious relationship in my chart. You should talk to a natal astrologer about what that stellium would mean.
4) No, that came out long after I'd finished my GD work and went on to other things, and I haven't looked at it.
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Date: 2025-11-03 06:03 am (UTC)Whatever emotional storm hit me in October began to dwindle and passed completely by the end of last week. I've come away a little lighter and with some new wisdom. I'm still working through some of it but it's no longer a constant drum-beat of misery.
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Date: 2025-11-03 03:49 pm (UTC)Oracular Encounters
Date: 2025-11-03 06:06 am (UTC)Several years ago I was at a party with some major occult vibes in a magically significant location. At this event there was a guy wandering around in a chaotic mental state, clearly affected by some combination of exotic substances, speaking in non sequiturs. He didn't appear aggressive at all and was tolerated by the people there. He approached me to talk several times and I humored him. Among other things he repeatedly asked me if I embodied a specific esoteric archetype, one of the major arcana from the tarot. He must have asked me this strange question ten times. It just so happened that I had gone through a kind of grueling, years-long initiation focused on this archetype, the nature of which I came to understand at the end of the ordeal. I thought the situation was absurd on its face but at the same time I wanted to reply to his question by saying "Yes, I am."
The other incident is something that happened just the other day. I was walking in my neighborhood and I noticed something wedged into the juniper hedge in front of a house. It was a pink envelope with a wax seal on it, labeled "Collective Conscious." I wasn't sure if that was supposed to be the sender or the receiver. I thought it was probably intended for whoever lived in the house so I left it, but I had a feeling it may have also been intended for a passer-by to pick up. I made a mental note that I would check back later and see if it was still there.
A few days later I remembered the envelope. There had been a bit of rain in the meantime and I figured it probably wasn't there anymore but I walked over to check anyway. It was missing from the hedge and then I noticed that it had fallen to the ground with slight water damage. Satisfied that the people in the house weren't concerned with it, I picked it up. Inside was a note handwritten in red pen telling me that I was in the process of awakening to my potential and fulfilling my work from past lives. I picked up the letter just before some heavy rain came in that would have turned it to mush. Like the erratic guy at the party, the writer seemed to know some specific things about my path. I'm not disclosing all of what was communicated to me in these transmissions out of a strong sense that their full contents are intended only for me.
Have you or any readers had these kind of oracular encounters? How would you interpret these experiences, and are there any books or other sources you would recommend to give some context? I take these encounters as strong signs that I'm on the right path, but I also look twice at anything that appears certain. The guy at the party seems like a classic example of someone in an ecstatic trance state. I also wonder about the letter writer -- could the letter be considered a form of magical initiation with no contact between the giver and receiver? It was placed along a sidewalk that lots of people traverse, so the fact it wasn't picked up over several days gives me a strong sense I was meant to get it. I also wonder if it could be intended to have a harmful or parasitic effect by encouraging egotism or the like.
Thanks for reading.
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Date: 2025-11-03 03:50 pm (UTC)Días de los Muertos
Date: 2025-11-03 06:46 am (UTC)Good evening JMG and All,
First of all, thank you to the ones that wrote to me about Día de los Muertos for showing interest and wanting to give it a try. And also thank you for letting me know most of the drama was in my head and not in my writing.
Dealing with the trauma that I lived in Seattle was still a few months ahead on the list but this season helped to face it and I would like to share some of my experience applying the OSA work to it.
I think I've mentioned before that I grew up, as many mexicanos do, looking up to the US, of our parents. My late grandfather Octavio Carbalahes studied his residency at a Children's Hospital off in Maryland.
While writing about it and the things I lived in poor Seattle, at some moment, the hand refused to write. It just stopped as in saying, ah, ah, careful. W. E Butler used to say that the relationship with our subconscious mind many times benefits from approaching it as with the card The Lovers, instead of someone on a quest to conquer something. That came to mind. So I started digging and pushing around the rocks somewhat clumsily until at some point: furious writing that is to this date ineligible happened, accompanied by a scratched primeval half growl half haul. That was interesting.
At that moment it just felt like, not all of it, but a big chunk of crud blasted off a pipe and let more water flow through. Admittedly it felt as if chunks of it stuck and drooled down the walls in repulse. And then it made me think about The Lovers, what if I had pushed it? Surgery requires some care, and trust, I guess.
All in all, it was very relieving, and revealing because almost all of a sudden my memories and thoughts and ideas I had of the country I loved where there within reach, even if some of them tentatively. A sense of energy was there too. Then I remembered part of the rich relationship our countries have had for centuries in trade, in the arts and in science, even in magic and the occult.
Did you know, for example, that Michael Bertiaux, born in Seattle to a prominent Theosophist, went to found the O.T.A --Ordo Templi Astartes that was part of the Gnostic Voodoo Church-- in Acapulco, Guerrero, a popular beach town in the Pacific? He probably was one of the first ones to explore the occult from a western perspective using ceremonial methods but also merging with non european sources of power. After the german doctor and occultist Arnold Krumm-Heller, who among other things sided with Francisco I. Madero, a Mexican president who also was a prominent spiritist and probably helped in the introduction of mexican Espiritismo which came from Europe and then mixed with shamanism, to the States.
Also, during the Cristero War in the late 1920's, which was anti-clerical, groups of American Wandering Bishops of Independent Catholic traditions went down to México and ordained priests and established lines of apostolic succession not linked with the Church leaving them outside the control of the Vatican. These lineages became intertwined with a mix of mexoamerican occult traditions that blended Catholicism with magic. And lastly, Timothy Leary, the famous psychedelic psychologist (The Psychedelic Psychologists ought to be a soft pop jazz band somewhere), first experienced with psilocybin mushrooms in my hometown of Cuernavaca, Morelos.
This was a lot of fun to retrace and value and allowed me to become lighter and also grateful of all the people here that have put on with my occasional snark, for their patience, kindness and from colluding with me from time to time.
Today on Día de Muertos I went to the capital's Zócalo, or main square, to see the decorations and festivities and also have a quick talk with a friend with which I had had a small grudge, before her performance. I couldn't watch the show but I went to one of the galleries of the museum next to Palacio Nacional and was struck by a mural towering over me showing many of the national heroes of all backgrounds, colors and races being empowered by technology Made in the U.S.A (zoom in) in its glory days and left me wandering (not a typo). What if we could make that happen again with partnerships of Mexican and American assembly lines? Or some other way that we can work together to create different blends talents and cultures and many Días de los Muertos? All this gives so much more meaning to all the suffering of those 8 years and its many serendipities and blessings. Wouldn't do it again, not the same way at least, might as well. Such are sometimes the demands of love, apache love, that is.
This last one is a bird's eye view of a cemetery in Oaxaca. I hope everyone has had a blessed All Hallows Eve, Halloween, Día de Muertos, Samhain and Calan Tachwedd, to those who celebrate.
Listening to Llorona by Chavela Vargas and Besame Mucho by Lisa Ono with flowers, veladoras and booze, watching skeletons amongst the living. JMG, how was your Día de los Muertos party?
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Date: 2025-11-03 07:04 am (UTC)a) I am no longer sure who I am, because a lot of my self image has been based on a lie. I'm not sure what I want out of life anymore, because I no longer trust that I know myself well at all: I'm realizing that a lot of people actually find me a better person than I've allowed myself to see, and that I don't need to be lonely; but loneliness has been part of my self image since I was a child, and it's very disorienting to realize I don't actually have to be lonely: I've chosen to be lonely. While long term I think this will be great, it's pretty disruptive in the here and now.
It is also incredibly painful to realize that the reason someone I loved is no longer part of my life is because I pushed her away; to realize I almost certainly badly hurt her; that I still love her and miss her badly; and that as part of lashing out in response to this I destroyed a lot of important friendships. It hurts a great deal to realize just how many people I hurt, because I was being a fool, to use no stronger word (the best terms I could use about me would not be permissible here).
Do you have advice for dealing with these feelings constructively?
b) I've had past life memories from four different lives in various levels of clarity; all four of them checked the various tests I had for legitimacy (divination; explaining odd details of personality; including details I would never have known otherwise; and suggesting potential skills that I have developed in a few cases), but since this realization, all four of them have become much clearer, and all four of them appear to include a repeating pattern: there is always some opportunity for romance, which is then blown: one of us, or sometimes both of us, have a hard time admitting our feelings, and so we pushed each other away.
I am somehow quite confident that in each case, the person was also a previous life of the person I pushed away in this one. This seems like far too much of a coincidence, so is there a reason this would drag up past life memories that seem to indicate we've been doing this to each other for a long time?
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/347398.html?thread=57881350#cmt57881350
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Date: 2025-11-03 04:06 pm (UTC)Would you call them a fool or an even worse term?
Would you beat them up on every occasion?
would you hit them where you know it really hurts?
Then why would you do that to yourself?
You seem to be stuck in a situation where you can't accept the love of another nor can you see yourself as lovable. This hell you live in is your own creation. If you can find a way to forgive yourself and a way to see that divine spark within yourself you can walk out of that hell.
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Date: 2025-11-03 07:19 am (UTC)And the first day I did the LSRP, I did steps over when I got them wrong and I might have been managing to draw some energy down multiple times. And my karma started cumilating within a few days.
Why do improperly executed beginner rituals (at least) seem to be effective?
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Date: 2025-11-03 07:21 am (UTC)I've actually been experimenting with a similar ritual but with just "JESU" for a 4 letter name
1) I assume this would be suitable to work with the FHR grades?
2) I am curious if you know of any middle pillar suitable for it or similar ritual with mostly Christian symbolism/language, less poorly lifted Jewish references. When I was doing the Sphere of Protection, I enjoyed the grail ritual and kinda been thinking about doing it with Eucharistic themed visualizations. (chalice, host, and dove instead of cauldrons)
also if you know of any Marian focused ceremonial magic system or authors I should checkout that would be really neat!
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Date: 2025-11-03 04:24 pm (UTC)1) Yes, you could certainly do that. JESU would be a good solid name of power for such a ritual, having as it does the fourfold structure.
2) Yes. Stephen Mandes Thomas's new book The Book of Sacramental Magic includes a Middle Pillar-derived exercise called the Kyrie energetic practice, which seems very suitable.
3) I don't know of one -- I'll suggest to the author of the book just mentioned (he's a friend) that he should consider something like that!
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Date: 2025-11-03 08:12 am (UTC)To share, for those who wonder what BOL, UGC, or INRI mean, a list of abbreviations used on Ecopsophia.
And here is a list of the books our host published so far.
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Date: 2025-11-03 08:32 am (UTC)Hope your week is off to a good start!
A few random questions, if you don’t mind:
1. Last week you said that Prague, Vienna, and Kraków have stellar places in the history of Western occultism. Which places are those? Or did you mean the cities themselves? Any tips on what to visit in those cities?
2. You also mentioned the druidic gods of the Earth. Since Druidry is a modern reconstruction, wouldn’t these gods also be a modern creation? Or are they just masks of a primary archetype? If so, which archetypes would those be?
3. A few years ago, I did something foolish: I entered into a “spiritual war” with someone. While that person was casting spells, I was praying Psalms against them. It feels like the backlash is reaching me now. My life is stuck. Is there anything I can do, or is it just a matter of waiting for the storm to pass?
Thanks you!
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:03 pm (UTC)2) It interests me that so many people these days can only think of gods as human creations, either conscious inventions or products of the human collective unconscious. There's at least one other possibility -- which is that gods are objectively real beings, who are perceived by different people at different times and places. That's the view I tend to follow.
3) One of the harsher downsides of magic is that it doesn't permit "backsies" -- that is, once you do a working, you can't take it back, and you will get to experience the consequences of your actions for good or ill with absolute inevitability. Thus there's nothing you can do at this point but suck it up and accept what happens.
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:04 pm (UTC)Joe Dispenza
Date: 2025-11-03 09:15 am (UTC)Joe Dispenza has come up a few times and I think he's been a bit hard done by. He very much comes across as part of the 'create your own reality' new age milieu with a side of quantum woo woo thrown in, however, there is a bit more roughage underlying what he is teaching. I've read two of his books, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Becoming Supernatural, and found surprising depth and some useful information from an occult perspective.
The core of what he is teaching is working with elevated emotions and states of consciousness to seed the unconscious mind with desired experiences. His description of the ways that we become conditioned into rigid routines by barely noticed emotional responses to our environment and past experiences triggered some very useful reflection for me. He also explains how advertising emotionally manipulates our unconscious to get us to buy stuff. His material covers these processes in far more detail than you'll find in most occult texts and I found it worthwhile.
Another big focus is the importance of cultivating various meditative states of mind to facilitate manifesting desired circumstances. He has done a lot of work monitoring brain waves, heart activity and other bodily functions during meditative practices and has discovered that elevated states of consciousness and high vibing emotions like love and gratitude produce profound physiological changes, especially with repeated practice. The basic practices given to actively cultivate positive emotional states are probably worth doing for most people, given that he provides a lot of evidence to support the links between emotional and physical health.
His practices are limited to changing one's own consciousness in accordance with one's own will, and so pale in potential when compared with even beginner-mid level ceremonial magic practices, but as a guide to becoming aware of your own emotional programming and developing conscious control of it, along with some training in meditation and imagination, they are reasonable enough. It's bunny slope stuff, though, and for me the value was in the detailed discussions of the mechanics of thoughts, emotions and the unconscious.
He does, wildly, include a method for raising kundalini without any warnings in Becoming Supernatural - reader beware, as activation in some people can be disabling or deadly.
Thanks for Magic Mondays!
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Date: 2025-11-03 10:02 am (UTC)As it's November, I've been thinking a bit about pornography and its harmful effects (which one can tell are real by looking at how Wikipedia goes out of its way to insist that they're just pseudoscience). Of course, there are chemical effects on the material level, but is there an occult dimension to it?
Specifically, I've been thinking about what you've dubbed the One Handed Path. Focusing on a sigil while, ahem, having a “handsome” can bring the intention behind the sigil to manifestation. Now, logically, the same has to happen when you're not focusing on a sigil but porn, right?
If that's the case, what would one manifest? Most internet porn seems to display an alternate reality in which any two (or more) people who interact are destined to end up in bed together—or on the couch, the floor, the dining table, the shower, a park bench, a beach towel, a bar/shop counter, an office desk, an office chair, a conference table, and probably a myriad other places I can't think of right now. The logical conclusion being the free use fetish, in which sexual intercourse is not just the inevitable outcome of any given situation but something at least one participant simply has a right to.
I'm not trying to claim that anybody is actually manifesting that reality, certainly not by watching porn. In fact, my conclusion from several of your comments here regarding attraction is that that's a surefire way to repulse potential partners. Rather, I think the reason for this very effect might be that, viewing watching porn as a magical working, the effect on one's consciousness is to implant the expectation that reality works this way, which would of course creep out everybody whose minds haven't been damaged this way.
Does that make sense or am I way off base here?
—David P.
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:24 pm (UTC)But fixating on fake images of people having sex can indeed mess with your psyche. It takes regular repetition, but yeah, people can end up imprinting on the images, with various consequences; I've long suspected, for example, that the fad for "futanari" (women with male genitals) porn played a major role in the rise of current transgender ideology. That it makes compulsive masturbators creepy people would make sense.
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Date: 2025-11-03 11:48 am (UTC)thanks for taking the time to answer our questions here. I really appreciate it.
Currently I am in a bit of a conundrum and could use some help untying a few knots:
I've started the work of the Golden Section Fellowship. At the same time I am in the slow process of becoming a Freemason (That would be European continental, regular Freemasonry, hence the interest in the material of the Fellowship of the Golden Section, since continental Freemasonry is fairly on the rationalist side of things - but that's the one available where I live.) I figured these two practices should go well together and I see no reason, why they shouldn't.
However, since there is some mention of incorporating other deities/deity into the practice (and some related Druid concepts) in the FGS-material I thought about doing that. I have had an interest in the norse pantheon for a while but couldn't really relate to the cosmology. (Similarly I can't relate to trinitarian Christianity.) So, I figured, I'd read your book about polytheism (with which I am almost through now) in order to better understand how to square different metaphysical/ontological concepts from different traditions. But so far, I have not succeeded.
My questions would thus be:
1) How do you do that? You work (or at least have worked) with very different traditions at the same time. How do you cognitively manage the differences between them? Do you have any connecting elements that you use to bridge the gaps/differences?
2) In practical terms: How for example would the "Great Architect of the Universe" fit into a cosmology like that of European Paganism? (I am having a real hard time imagining a coherent mental model forming from these different traditions.)
3) Am I going about this the wrong way? Would there need to be a coherent model that one aligns oneself to? Or would one switch perspectives depending on the practices one does?
For now I figured that trying to resolve this cognitively by myself is futile and I would likely just practice the FGS material in the basic "non-religious" versions you provide and let the rest figure itself out in due time. But I would nonetheless be grateful for your thoughts and perspective on the matter.
Thank you very much!
- Florian
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:46 pm (UTC)2) Good heavens, that's not even difficult. Here's the third and fourth stanzas from the Voluspa:
Of old was the age when Ymir lived;
Sea nor cool waves nor sand there were;
Earth had not been, nor heaven above,
But a yawning gap, and grass nowhere.
Then Bur's sons lifted the level land,
Midgard the mighty there they made;
The sun from the south warmed the stones of earth,
And green was the ground with growing leeks.
That is, the Aesir (Bur's sons") made the world. Who among the Aesir had the intellect to serve as architect? Why, Odin All-Father, of course. Within a European Pagan context, he is the Great Architect of the Universe, full stop, end of sentence.
3) I've just given you two options -- the via negativa and via analogia, if you'd like their technical names. Nor are they mutually exclusive!
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Date: 2025-11-03 11:53 am (UTC)Have you read Alan Leo's Esoteric Astrology and what was your impression if so? Did you find his system useful? Its an interesting concept where he suggests you can determine the age of someone's soul. It sure adds a little more substance to natal astrology than today's standard reading.
/Fredrik
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:47 pm (UTC)Thank you for your letter
Date: 2025-11-03 12:59 pm (UTC)Thank you for your note to my 6 year old daughter last week concerning your Ariel Moravec books. She was delighted to receive it. Your impact on her life is more than either of you realize. Your November 21st 2007 article entitled "Adaptive Responses to Peak Oil" had a huge influence on me and I shifted the course of my life to align with its strategy.
As a result my daughter has grown up off the grid, in a “scalable, modular, and open” little village I built in rural Maine. She knows how to work our oxen, raise chickens from an egg, build her own fires, make her own electricity, and pump her own water. She is warry of the “dark wizards” in glass towers who put candy right next to the checkout isle, and is excited to get older so she can start to learn some more about magic.
Her life is a good one surrounded by free people living resilient, "collapse now and avoid the rush" lives. Your work has had a great deal of impact on myself and on our little community. Thank you for all your hard work over the years.
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:50 pm (UTC)The fourth book in the series, The House of the Crows, has been delayed a bit and will be out in April; I'm going to try to get things back on an autumn-release schedule with the fifth book, though.
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:52 pm (UTC)Everyone has unique insights and a distinct set of intellectual skills, by the way. The great tragedy of our species is that so many people are bullied and bribed into suppressing their own unique capacities for magnificence and stumble along instead in a life made out of other people's thoughts.
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Date: 2025-11-03 01:22 pm (UTC)What’s your opinion on the work of Lyam Christopher Thomas?
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:55 pm (UTC)2) He started publishing after I'd wound up my Golden Dawn phase, so I haven't read his work.
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Date: 2025-11-03 02:27 pm (UTC)Our Samhain get together was a little sparse this time, as we had several members joining the Scottish Rite this past weekend who were unable to attend. Still managed to get a nice nature hike in though. Looking forward to wrapping up the Cantrefs this week and starting on the Mabinogion next week.
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Date: 2025-11-03 05:55 pm (UTC)Trauma Release Exercise
Date: 2025-11-03 02:28 pm (UTC)You don't do YouTube so I'll briefly describe it here.
Basically, you slightly fatigue out your legs by lying down, putting the soles of your feet together and raise your hips. If you are fitter you can do something close to a full bridge. Do it for about one minute. Then rest with your hips on the ground for another minute. Then slowly bring your hips towards each other, they will start "tremoring" on their own.
It's a very similar experience to when you sit on a chair, with your feet on the ground, then slowly tiptoe up. At some point you will naturally shake.
The exercise is about letting the tremors spread throughout your body from the legs up to your head.
That's the basic technique which they teach for free online. They offer consultations but the creator of the technique himself says it's for people with specific trauma or other requirements that would be helpful to have a coach.
The basic theory as far as I understand it, is that traumas, emotional shocks, and other negative experiences are tied with your body, and especially the limbic system. Animals in the wild naturally tremble and tremor after a shocking experience, e.g. an antelope who escapes a lion, when it's in a safe place, will tremor for a while and get on with life. Humans and domesticated animals have lost this instinct and PTSD among others is one manifestation of not letting the limbic system shake through and release this.
I've only done this a few times since last week but found it very beneficial so far. It relieved most of this low level brain fog that I've had for quite a while, I managed to have the tremors spread up to my hands and neck.
My question is, based on your occult knowledge, are there any risks of this exercise? I am completely conscious throughout the process and can stop at any time.
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