Magic Monday
Oct. 27th, 2024 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
Midnight is just a few minutes away, 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 then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.1 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.
The image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above was my fiftieth published book and my eighth published novel. (Once I found a publisher that was willing to take a chance on my fiction, it came out in a rush, so we're going to be in tentacle land for a little while!) Miriam Akeley, a sixty-something college professor, was an important subsidiary character in the first two Haliverse novels, and took center stage in this one. As usual with these novels, I had no idea where it was going to end up and was astonished by some of the twists and turns.
One of the reviews this novel got finally succeeded in cluing me in about why my fiction leaves so many people baffled. The reviewer thought it was a good story, but was completely floored by the fact that Miriam was, you know, an ordinary person, without superpowers or anything else that made her unlike the rest of our species. That's when I realized that the reason so much of today's fiction sucks is that it's obsessed with the dreary fantasy of being the One Special Person around whom the whole world revolves. Me, I prefer stories about the rest of us. If you have similar tastes, you can order a copy here if you live in the US and here if you live elsewhere.
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With that said, have at it!
***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***
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Date: 2024-10-28 05:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-10-28 07:12 pm (UTC)Could you expand on the weightlifting angle here?
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Date: 2024-10-28 07:51 pm (UTC)This is Joe Greenstein, a Polish-American Jew who became one of the major figures on the strongman circuit under the stage name The Mighty Atom; he used Cabalistic incantations and meditations to amplify his considerable strength. This is a guy who could, and repeatedly did, tie a #2 iron horseshoe into an overhand knot with his bare hands.
This is Genevieve Stebbins, the Jane Fonda of women's exercise at the beginning of the 20th century. She was also a very high-ranking adept in the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, one of the leading occult orders of the time.
These are the two figures on the interface between occultism and exercise that I know most about. There were thousands of others. Most of them weren't famous; they were ordinary men and women who decided that being strong and healthy beat the bejesus out of the alternative, and used the power of their minds as well as their bodies to get there. A lot of them lifted weights -- free weights, please note, so they could develop the little stabilizer muscles all through their bodies. They liked kettlebells, dumbbells, and Indian clubs:
It was good robust stuff and I hope to see it revived someday.
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Date: 2024-10-28 08:11 pm (UTC)Re: The UK
Date: 2024-10-28 08:33 pm (UTC)