JMG on Infinite Path podcast

[ecosophia]

Something entertaining for podcast fans!

I'm back on the Infinite Path podcast with Niles Heckman, talking this time about Christmas glurge, Krampus, Dion Fortune, the Cosmic Doctrine, and much more. You can check it out here.

Comments

[ecosophian]

I think this is the article you referenced in this podcast:

Shocking New Study Finds You Will Not Live Forever

And more references from this talk:

Don't think TV

History of Santa’s Flying Reindeer Traced Back to Shamans and Magic Mushrooms

Could Magic Mushrooms Explain the Story of Santa Claus?

[thuley]

This is awesome, thank you for the links!

Thanks

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoyed that very much, thanks.

I picked up the CosDoc and muddled through the first few chapters. Definitely clear that I'll need to work through your posts, since I am not a physicist and all the discs are confusing.

But then I flipped closer to the back and had a curious thing happen. The chapters on the law of limitation and the seven deaths made complete sense to me, flowed through me like water. I slid into the track in space easily, as if I had already made it there on my own, just not in so many words. My mind was like "Of course. What's next?"

Is this what it's like to reread a book you read in a past life? This worldview feels completely natural to me, in a way that Christianity never felt growing up. I remember arguing with kids in vacation Bible school about how humans *become* angels; we level up. Yet statistically, I don't see how I could have been a Dion Fortune-style occultist in a past life.

Re: Thanks

[ecosophia]

If you lived in Britain in your last incarnation and had an interest in occultism, you probably read the Cos. Doc. If you lived anywhere in the western world in your last incarnation and had an interest in occultism, you probably read many books that embodied much the same worldview as the one set out in the Cos. Doc. So it's quite possible...

[(Anonymous)]

Greatly enjoyed this one. I may just have to become a patron so I can hear the whole thing.

[thuley]

I always appreciate your podcast appearances. Since so little of the content I enjoy is mainstream, I always support independent creators on Patreon when I can.

Put me down for a copy of your book on writing if that ever becomes a reality.

[samhays]

I will echo the desire for a book or monograph on (occult) writing. I'm especially interested in the way that you and other fantasy writers balance real occult philosophy and magic with the more colourful and fantastic elements of fiction. To the best of my knowledge, there hasn't been a formal exploration of that subject.

Also, thanks for bringing Dion Fortune's (or V.M. Steele's) pulp fiction corpus to my attention. "Hunters of Humans" sounds like a fun read!

[ecosophia]

I'll certainly consider that.