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In my province I'm required to carry medical insurance if my company offers it, by law. My company offers it, but their terms of service for the online account access (I am not aware of being able to interact with them in any other manner) are not things that I would agree with were I not compelled to in order to use their service, containing things that would be outright lies (e.g., to paraphrase: I agree that is entirely reasonable and normal and accept it as binding etc etc).

Given that I have zero negotiation opportunity and must click "accept" (or to suffer legal, job-related, and possibly health-related consequences from lack of access, which could well be worse) if I wish to be able to access my health benefits, what are the karmic and other (astral? Personal magical cleanliness, etc.?) implications of "accepting" under these conditions (e.g. clicking the button)?

(This goes for most any of these increasingly ghastly corporate terms of service ... my usual approach is to just not accept the service and do without, but sometimes, as in this case, one is more or less compelled to.)

Thank you so much for these Magic Mondays!

Greetings JMG!

Quite a while ago I started with the CGD series, and I'm slowly meditating my way through it. Before that, I worked for a while with your first druidry book, and did the sphere of protection for a few months.

I've taken up the LBR, doing invocations in the morning, and banishing in the evening. I have a few questions regarding that practice:

1. Regarding the divine names. Am I supposed to just vibrate and forget them? Since they don't tie up in the visualization, I'm not really sure how to keep them present.

2. Also regarding the names, is Heu'k the same as Hu?

3. I've been vibrating Niwallen in the Northen pentagram, since I was more confortable with that name that with Ellen, and they appeared as being the two names of the same divinity. I feel it's more adequate, since I've made a connection with her through that name, but would like your input on this.

4. Often, when I'm doing the ritual in a more intense way, it feels like the elements and the pentagrams want to rotate around me, after all of them have been called. I'm not sure if this is just my work with the sphere of protection messing with the way the LBR is working (I stopped the SOP one mothe before starting LBR, and I've been doing the LBR since the beginnning of October), or if it is supposed to be that way. Any input on that?

5. also, a thing I miss from the SOP is the possibility to just expand the baninshing effect through all of my house. I feel the LBR is much more centered around me, and mainly affects the room where I'm doing it. Any guidance on how to expand it's effects?

Thank you and kind wishes!

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Hello JMG,
Would you (or anyone with experience reading this), have advice on how to train to improve your tarot divination skill ? I wonder if there are ways to make tarot readings more precise and straightforward. Initially, I wanted to use geomancy for divination because it tends to give much more precise answers - I feel like tarot readings tend to be very vague and psychological and give information about things the querant already knew or could figure out by themselves... Unfortunatly, the magical course I decided to take relies on tarot for divination and later for pathworking and is a bit unclear as to how to improve on that front...
Also, would you say that an awakening of some kind of aesthetic sense is a sign that you are making progress in magic ? For instance, feeling intensely the "blueness" of the sky when you never really noticed it before, or being hit by a strange, rich and powerful sensation by looking at how sunlight diffuses on the bark of a tree in your backyard. If yes, does that mean that an art practice can unknowingly flirt with magic at times and that magic can push and transforms itself towards art ?
Cheers

Good Morning,

I wanted your advice on something. I just started Mouni Sadhu's Concentration and had finished reading part II and had decided to lay down since I had just come home from work prior, and while lying I had tried to clear my mind of the usual thinking I do. Normally I tend to wander off into fantasy lands as I've done my whole life but had come to the realization I spent far to much time living in my head (one of the reasons I took up this book).

Things went ok at first I would start by telling myself to avoid the unneeded thoughts and my head would clear for a minute before my mind would start to wander off and once more I'd remind myself to stop, though I did notice it was a strain to keep my eyes closed and thoughts empty, and then it got a bit weird.

In absence of the normal thoughts I heard conversations in my head that felt more like background noise at a cafe, like the sounds just jumped up from characters I had no hand in consciously imagining, then images and memories started flashing through my mind like a playlist on random before I started feeling deep anxiety and where the little voice in my head started taunting me that I could never control my mind and I felt a panic attack start to set in when I remembered the part where the author suggested that some circumstances one should (paraphrasing) surrender to God, and I felt myself emotionally tap out which then brought up a small realization.

I came to question just how sincere my own faith in a deity was. I tended to pray twice daily but I realized that it was just habit in many ways, that I answered affirmative to the question of faith as if it were a yes no bubble on a sheet to mark and forget and that the so called faith I had lacked a certain energy. On a sort of logical level I can say I am not an atheist but it feels like I can't answer on an emotional level and thus I'm left in limbo. That was what I came too in the moments after the panic settled.

I spent the next hour or two in and out of restless sleep until I finally woke up hyperventilating with it feeling like my body took a beating.

I'm probably coming off scatterbrained at this I suppose. Though I guess I should ask if I should set this aside for the time being? The whole thing spooked me pretty good but at the same time I don't want to run away from it if it's something I just need to work through. I had planned on rereading that chapter again and spending more time really reflecting on it but I figured I'd ask here since no one else around me would hear all that without giving me the look. My apologies for the scattered nature of this whole question.

Is there any effect of wearing clothing or having items with logos on them while doing magical rituals? For example, wearing a T-shirt with a corporate logo on it, or using an item as part of the ritual that has a craftsperson's logo on it.

Regarding the part of the hypothesis where there will be a crack in the narrative, as there were shared on the open threads it seems that besides some occult, maybe demonic influence there is also a phenomenon called mass formation, give that due to this phenomenon the narrative is source of social cohesion for a great many people, I don't see it as possible for it to be just be dropped. Is it then that the only way for the narrative to crack some great cataclysm of narrative owns making to happen to destroy the current narrative?

Hi Grampa Greer, thanks for providing this forum! I've got a question sparked by the Cosmic Doctrine book club. One of the things that, for whatever reason, stuck during my first reading of the book was Fortune's description of obsession (the result of will being frustrated and condensing to leave a vacuum) and what to do about it (the will must be sublimated). I think I've got enough of an understanding of will and sublimation to work with that on a personal level, and my results, though preliminary, have been positive. However, I happen to also be naturally interested in instances of mass obsession, and in both the Rittenhouse and the GameStop story I've approached the situation with Fortune's advice in mind. The best comparison I can make between my perception of my personal obsessions and these mass obsessions is like juxtaposing a campfire and a volcanic eruption. So I'm a bit unsure how to proceed when the next mass obsession comes to my attention. Part of me wants to stay away entirely, part of me wants to keep observing them with a tourist's attitude, and part of me wants to try and capitalise on what seems like a rare opportunity (though for what I'm not sure).

So with that said, have you any advice regarding sublimation of the will during mass obsessions as opposed to personal ones? I have tried meditating on the question, and while I've gotten some ideas of how to proceed, 'Ask the expert' is foremost among them.

Hello JMG,
As I get older, I come to learn more and more of the unimaginable diversity and abundances of human culture, languages and ways of living that have been gradually erased and homogenized by large civilizations and empires. The exact same seems to be true considering non-human life on this planet where the majority of current ecosystems look eerily silent and dead in comparison to the abundance and diversity they had just a few centuries ago. I wonder, what kind of occult force do you think, pushed human beings to exist in a way that is so destructive towards the fabric of life itself and goes so far away from its tendencies of abundance and diversity ? If nature is filled with intelligence, intent and spirits which have power over us, why have they not acted on us to prevent so much destruction ?

Hello JMG,
I wondered if you or any of the commentariat were familiar with Damon Brand and the Gallery of Magic? They have a nice website, and a lot of material, including books for sale.
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Hi JMG -

Thanks for hosting this.

Recently I experienced an attempted theft, wherein my person was jostled and one of my belongings got knocked to the ground. Thankfully I was able to retrieve it and get away quickly. But have been unsettled, and want to address it in my spiritual practice, specifically with the planetary invocations detailed in The Art of True Healing.

This strikes me as a Mars issue in the aftermath (a need to strengthen vitality), rather than a Mercury issue, even though Mercury rules theft. Am I on the right track? Or would you suggest a different planet entirely?

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