Magic Monday
Nov. 3rd, 2024 10:01 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. As I mentioned last week, once I found a publisher willing to bring out my fiction, a lot of it found its way into print in a hurry, so we're going to be in tentacle territory for a while now. This was my fifty-first published book, the fifth volume in The Weird of Hali and the only book in that series that takes place in a town that actually exists. Yes, that would be Providence, Rhode Island, across the Seekonk River from where I live now. I had the chance to visit partway through the process of writing the story, which was helpful, and also has a lot to do with why I live in Rhode Island these days. I used a mashup of H.P. Lovecraft's Providence stories as the raw material, so we get to find out what Charles Dexter Ward was really up to.
One of the entertaining features of these novels is that I kept on having to come up with new, colorful ways to do in the villains. It's Lovecraftian fiction, right? They can't just die in some bland ordinary way, like being shot. This one borrowed one cause of death from Lovecraft himself and another from Arthur Machen, one of the writers Lovecraft admired most, whose writing I appreciate and whose thinking annoys the bejesus out of me. I thought they both worked tolerably well. If that sounds entertaining, why, you can get a copy here if you're in the US and here if you're 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 -- and in the meantime, if you're a US citizen and haven't done so already, VOTE.***
Re: Thoughts on How to Pray the Rosary and Get Results and "Consciousness in Part of Body" Exercises
Date: 2024-11-04 09:34 pm (UTC)Well, the idea that "you" are behind your eyes is just an idea. It's what we were taught at school. I read that the Romans thought you were in your liver. I suppose it would be hard for them to see themselves as behind their eyes.
One way to "become" my feet to do my feet's job. Place myself on the floor, step in a steady rhythm, carry a lot of weight, keep the body vertical, feel the floor, rub against other feet. It's a great way to run and much preferable to distracting myself with a podcast.
As Paracelsus would say, don't "imagine" being your feet, become your feet.
Re: Thoughts on How to Pray the Rosary and Get Results and "Consciousness in Part of Body" Exercises
Date: 2024-11-05 12:33 am (UTC)https://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/02/26/digger-24/ .
(Also https://diggercomic.com/blog/2008/07/16/digger-488/ .)
Re: Thoughts on How to Pray the Rosary and Get Results and "Consciousness in Part of Body" Exercises
Date: 2024-11-05 02:31 am (UTC)(Hyraxes are weird rodent-like leftovers of the lineage that later led to the more familiar elephants and dugongs, sort of like hyenas are weird leftovers of the lineage that led to the more familiar canines and felines.)
Re: Thoughts on How to Pray the Rosary and Get Results and "Consciousness in Part of Body" Exercises
Date: 2024-11-05 02:14 am (UTC)Cheers,
Jeff
Re: Thoughts on How to Pray the Rosary and Get Results and "Consciousness in Part of Body" Exercises
Date: 2024-11-05 02:54 am (UTC)