Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just about midnight as I type this, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. This week's classic book of Western occultism is Self-Unfoldment by Disciplines of Realization by the inimitable Manly Palmer Hall, the most influential American occultist of the 20th century. Hall wrote scores of books and hundreds of pamphlets, some much more famous than this one, but to my mind this is his single best work, a clear, thoughtful, and balanced guide to meditation and spiritual development. It's currently out of print, though I hope some enthusiasm for it can change that; combine it with the Knapp-Hall tarot deck, which Hall helped design, and the notes on practice Hall slipped into the booklet that goes with the deck, and you have a tolerably complete guide to the method of meditation Hall taught to his inner students. 

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

1) I haven't done too much with it, but I seem to be naturally quite talented with it. I can see auras, and plan to do more with it, but for now I'm integrating a few basic occult practices (SoP, meditation), and don't want to try to do too much at once.

For now then, I'll make a note of it and return to the question later.

2b) Does the fact I've experienced what appears to be Pele then suggest it's more likely I'll end up living there in the near future?

2c) Fair enough!

3) My apologies! It should've read "I have issues with coffee most of the time. It gives me a nasty headache, but while I was in Hawaii, I drank copious amounts of it, and it seemed to have an effect much like tea does. I got to see a coffee farm, and asked about processing, and apparently there's no further processing done for shipping. I've also tried some since getting back, and found it causes the same issues as usual. Coffee appears to resonate with the tropics in some way, and is beneficial there, but harmful elsewhere. Do you know what could cause this?"

4) Huh, interesting. If I resonate well with the area, then would my health (physical, mental, spiritual) improve if I moved there? If so, perhaps I should plan to do that.

My other plan was to try to find somewhere with a strong telluric current, but perhaps it's best to just plan to move there.

[ecosophia]

2b) Again, you'll have to ask her! She is by all accounts unpredictable.

3) Precisely the fact that foods and drinks are usually appropriate for the places where they grow, and may not be appropriate for the places where they don't. That's partly a matter of climate, partly energetic, partly subtle factors not well understood even by occultists.

4) That's rather more likely than not. One thing you can do is ask the universe to show you if you're meant to move there, and see what odd coincidences happen as a result, if any.

[(Anonymous)]

3) Interesting. Might the strong tendency towards eating tropical foods be part of why there are so many issues with health in the western world then?

4) Well, for a variety of reasons I'm inclined to pursue a particular course of post-secondary studies, and just found out one of the best schools in the world is located in Hawaii....

[ecosophia]

3) Yes, very much so. In macrobiotic terms, tropical foods tend to be more yin, foods from the temperate zone more yang, and eating lots of tropical foods when you live in a temperate zone will unbalance you.

4) I trust you can take a hint. ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

4) I wasn't expecting it to be so quick! ;)

The islands

[(Anonymous)]

Just an anecdote:

I've visited Maui, and Hawaii, both in the last few years.

Maui, I experienced very strong telluric currents: while practicing Sphere of Protection, I encountered noticable feedback during Spirit Below.

In Hawaii/Big Island, it wasnt as pronounced for me. Saying that, I felt that Hilo vs Kona side of the island may as well have been different continents for how dissimilar they felt and ymmv depending on where you experienced your contact.

I loved being in Hawaii, and felt strong energy in the water as much as being on the land, much more so than Maui, overall.