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Okay, I'm going to brag just a little. That's me, of course, receiving the Louis-Claude de St.-Martin Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute for Hermetic Studies two weekends ago in Wilkes-Barre, PA. If I look mildly poleaxed it's because I had no idea that was even a thing.

Current Mood: baffled but giddy
Current Location: Wilkes-Barre, PA
Current Music: P.D.Q Bach, "Fanfare for the Common Cold"

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Here's another in my occasional series of book reviews, more or less whatever I've been reading of late.

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One of the many interesting discoveries from my recent trip to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was this slender volume. Abbot George Burke is a significant figure in the independent sacramental movement, and also an accomplished yogi, better known in some circles as Swami Nirmalananda Giri; his personal path has led him to focus on the substantial common ground (or as he would say, identity) between mystical Christianity and Vedic Hinduism; and he currently heads a monastery in New Mexico.

Many years ago, he studied a form of energy healing with definite connections to the Essene healing many readers of this journal practice, and this book is his instructional volume on how to do it. Don't be misled by the word "magnetic" in the title -- this isn't about using magnets of the usual kind. It's animal magnetism our abbot is discussing, and he's well aware of the history of the methods he teaches, back to Franz Anton Mesmer himself.

The book is a fine example of the better class of alternative healing manuals. It's short and clearly written, wastes no words, makes no extreme claims, and gives detailed instruction in the techniques it covers, with clear illustrations where those are useful. On its own terms, it deserves a much broader readership than it seems to have gotten. To regular readers here, though, it has at least two other useful features.

First, as already noted, Burke is well aware of the long history of healing methods using the energy centers in the hands. He cites sources, some of which I've already obtained and others of which I have on order as I type this. When he wrote this book, furthermore, he was also in contact with Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, at that time one of the most active groups researching the odder corners of paranormal human experience; his book spares room to discuss Vitic rods and Eeman screens, two central interests of BSRF in its heyday, as helps to energy healing.

The second point of value is the overlap between Burke's methods and those taught in the Modern Order of Essenes tradition. That overlap is far from total; the methods of awakening the palm centers we use don't appear in this book, nor does our reflexology -- though the woman who taught magnetic healing to Burke was also, interestingly, an expert reflexologist -- but his method contains techniques that can be done to very good effect with the Essene method. In particular, his techniques of "drawing out" and "putting in" magnetism, and his method of sensing spots that need work via subtle temperature felt through the palms, work very well with our methods and will make a significant addition to the tradition. Once I've read more books and done more experimentation, I plan on expanding the existing Essene lessons to include these techniques -- citing the source, of course!

In the meantime, this is a very useful work on energy healing, worth close reading and much practice.

Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: Yes, "Heart of the Sunrise"

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All religions have places which are important to their beliefs. Their practitioners make pilgrimages to these sites to embrace and experience the Sacred. The New Age religion is no different in having sacred places. Within the New Age religion however, the places of sacred geography (Note 1) also include various metaphysical ones. (Note 2)

For New Age believers, their sacred sites are considered to be “mirrors of the universal truths that connect all beings to the Divine Source.” These are the sacred places where the Earth’s energies are collected and radiated. Moreover, these sites are integral to Spiritual Ascension (Note 3), which is the ultimate goal of New Age practitioners. Moreover, these particular sites offer guidance to help the soul to evolve to its union with the Divine Source.

Many sites of the New Age are also places where the physical and spiritual worlds converge. For example, Avebury in England is believed to be a vortex to other places. (One of them being the sacred Isle of Avalon.) Judith Corwin-Blackburn, shamanic minister, in “The 6D Ascension Journey,” tells of her visit to the Callanish Stone Circle in Scotland that connected her to the higher dimensional realities. In “Portals of the Stars,” Mike Ricksecker, noted paranormal writer, says that the Stargates of Ancient Egypt (which includes the Great Pyramid of Giza) open to other worlds and times.

According to the New Age religion, the Earth is both alive and sacred, possessing subtle layers of energy. In “Gifts of Mother Earth,” Jaap Van Etten, a noted practitioner who focuses on metaphysical ecology, (Note 4) lists the various systems of the Earth’s subtle energy. These systems are grouped into the following:

Basic Grids. The lowest vibrations and frequencies.

Higher-frequency energies. The Meridians and Chakra systems.

Morphogenetic Grids. They allow for the existence of all beings.

Crystaline grids. Networks of Crystaline structures in the Earth. (This is considered to be a type of dragon energy.)

Consciousness grids. They are fields of the collective consciousness of various beings (humans, whales, and others).

Portals. Gateways that link to other worlds and dimensions.

Van Etten further explains that each system of subtle energy consists of three components: a field, grids, and connecting vortexes. The fields hold the different frequencies of knowledge, while the grids hold different parts of the field in their networks. Meanwhile, the vortexes (Note 5) are the connections between the fields and grids. People interact with each of the grids through meditation, energy work, being in nature and by making pilgrimages to scared sites.

Notes:

Note 1. Sacred geography is defined as “the mapping of spiritual significance on to physical landscapes.”

Note 2. The most important of these places are Atlantis, Lemuria, and the Isle of Avalon.

Note 3. “Ascension” is defined as “the raising of the personal vibrational frequency to the Higher Self, which unifies with the Cosmic Force.” A person moves from having a Light Body to being a Light Being (Higher Self).

According to various traditions, the Light Body is a multi-layered, energy-based system that surrounds the physical body. This body forms the vibrational density that connects people to the Divine Source and their Higher Selves. The astral, emotional, etheric, mental and rainbow bodies are aspects of the Light Body.

The Higher Self is the divine aspect of the self that exists beyond the individual’s ego.

There is a hierarchy of “souls” or “selves” in New Age theology. In the hierarchy, the highest is the Oversoul, the Universal Spirit that unifies all beings. It is the connective point between multiple Higher Selves. Second is the Higher Self. The next is the Spirit, the Divine Spark of Consciousness that connects the person to the Collective Consciousness. Finally, the Soul is the individual essence that incarnates into a physical body.

These are the Protocols to Ascension. The steps are 1) Ascension, 2) Ascended, 3) Crystal, 4) Diamond, 5) Emerald, 6) Golden-White Light, and 7) Grand Ascension.

The first three steps are for gaining mastery over the physical, emotional, and mental bodies. The fourth is to cultivate self-worth. The fifth connects the soul to their Higher Self. The sixth unifies the soul with the Higher Self. The seventh is becoming an Ascended Master.

Note 4. “Metaphysical ecology includes subtle energies, subtle worlds, and subtle beings. Earth holds visible and invisible measurable and immeasurable aspects that interact in a power dance.” (As defined by the Center for Metaphysical Ecology.)

Note 5. Vortexes are spiral connections between two energy systems. They allow the exchange of energy and information between each of the systems. (A vortex can be a portal.) A negative vortex such as a battlefield pulls energy inward without any release to the outside.

Conversely, there are “Vile Vortices” such as the Bermuda Triangle. As defined by Ivan T. Sanderson, a Vile Vortex is a hotspot area of strange activity. Each of these vortexes are connected with each other in a twenty-sided polygon called an Icosagon, considered to be a template of Sacred Geometry. (Sanderson officially called them “Vortices.”)

Portals are natural occurring doorways that give access to other locations, times, and consciousnesses. A Stargate is a Portal designed by an intelligent being.

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Imagine you wake up and you are filthy rich. You have it all. Your bed costs more than what most middle class families put as a down payment on a house. Your sheets are the purest white linen, washed daily by your team of servants. You are woken up by the pain in your cheeks where your buccal fat used to be. You had the fat deposits below your cheekbones removed in late 2020. You were never conscious of that area of your body before, but ever since having that surgery, your face has ached in the mornings. The pain is somewhere between the feeling of a sinus infection and a rotted tooth. You no longer feel hunger pangs, thank the Dark Lord, and you can finally count your ribs even when you are still wearing your lace bustier. They jut out prominently, and though you have been hammered in the press about promoting anorexia, you love every second of scrutiny. You worked hard in order to be a walking anatomy lesson on the stage, and starving yourself wasn’t the half of it.

The above paragraph could be from the standpoint of Ariana Grande . . . or not. There are dozens if not hundreds of celebrities who fit the profile. All of them live lives that are a constant barrage of publicity events, flashing cameras, and fielding both love and animosity from their handlers, fans, and haters. They have all run the gamut of dazzling celebrity, horrific abuse, and increasing desperation as they cling to the last vestiges of unearned wealth as the reaper closes in with one bony hand extended for his inevitable fee and the other behind his back. We are told over and over that we should want to be the celebrity and that fulfillment (especially artistic fulfillment) is a zero sum game that can only end in a binary of winners and losers. Those of us who believe it either fall in line and worship celebrities, happily taking our place as cucks and simps, or we join the other race of losers in the form of wanting to beat the celebrity and take her place. The third way and the road not usually taken is a road that includes both utter indifference and a nasty little tendency to call out celebrities and their handlers on their bullshit. Celebrities and more importantly their handlers depend on almost nobody taking the third path.

Ariana Grande is starving to death. The singer/actress is touring at the time of this writing, strutting across the stage in a state of alarming and visibly painful emaciation. She is being compared both to Eugenia Cooney and Karen Carpenter. Grande looks like she should be in hospice. She has reached such an advanced state of starvation, she needs an IV. It is too late for a cheeseburger.

I highly doubt Grande is entirely conscious of what she is doing. She is handled, managed, and puppeteered. Perhaps it is because she is addicted to fame, drugs, Ozempic (if you think diet drugs are not being abused by violent anorexics like Grande, you are naive) or more likely it is because her handlers are working her until she dies. The handlers have celebrities by the balls. Just ask Frankie Valli, who is currently touring himself to death at age 92. His concerts look like a LARP of Weekend at Bernies. His band does most of the heavy lifting and he goes through the nostalgic motions. He obviously owed somebody in the System a great deal of money that he will not be able to pay off in this lifetime.

Once a celebrity makes their deal, they are not allowed to stop. They are also not allowed to deal with their trauma, which ends up written in their behavior, their flesh, or some unfortunate combination of both.

Ariana Grande has been anorexic since at least 2013, but more likely since she was 10 years old. I speculate that anorexia, orthorexia, and the bitterness that accompany them have been features in her life since at least the Dan Schneider era. Anorexia has been a way for her to deal with that abuse — that is my hypothesis. She does not have recognition of the way she has been abused and has unwittingly become an abuser. Her creepy Creative Artist Agency handlers hate her more than they love her, and that is why they have perpetuated the current shock and awe campaign to promote lasting images of anorexic self-torture that are aimed like weapons mostly at women, girls, and gay boys.

For comparison’s sake, Madonna and Lady Gaga (who are nearly the same person) deal with their trauma differently, preferring their handler’s brash and openly satanic schtick. Their anorexia is not nearly as visible as Grande’s: make no mistake that it is still there. None of these women are allowed to enjoy a filling meal. Heaven forbid they should overeat. Gaga can wear a meat dress but Thanksgiving dinner or a summer barbecue is out of the question. They have money to afford the best food money can buy washed down with champagne that costs more than my annual gross income, yet they cannot enjoy a bite or a drop because that was not part of the deal.

Ariana's problem

At age 12 in 2006, Ariana Grande was thin and petite, her dark, curly hair one of her many Italian-American features. She was small but not emaciated. She looked like any average kid with a lopsided smile, not extraordinarily beautiful. She was mainly interesting for her disproportionately big voice. She was cute. As a teenager, Grande was part of a rotating cast of characters that starred on the Nickelodeon network. She played Racquelle on the show Victorious and Cat alongside co-star Jeannette McCurdy on Sam & Cat. Longer hair and clandestine orthodontics along with age transformed the singer into an emerging beauty, and the tragedy of this era is that she was likely abused on a daily basis by various old men such as Dan Schneider and Tom Hanks. There are grisly rumors of what goes on at Tom Hanks parties, and we know for a fact that Grande was over the moon when she was invited to one of these soirees from Jeannette McCurdy’s memoir. As would become Grande’s pattern, she swallowed any rational outrage or dismay she should have had in place of actual, nourishing food.

By 2013, Grande was in her 20s, a time which was also known as her Tumblr era. Tumblr is a photo blogging platform where most of the content is communicated via photographs, much like Instagram before it tried to become TikTok. Grande had an infamous blog that was full of photos of what she ate in a day — often a single piece of fruit despite being on tour or working long hours — and of what anorexics call body checks, such as fitting one’s entire body into a small beverage cooler or capturing the bony state of one’s own arms in profile. Anorexics are prideful creatures, and there is also a distinct homosexual element to anorexia that I will be discussing in a future essay. In it, I will argue that anorexia is a lesbian pursuit where women seek to please (and torment) other women. Though people compare photos of Ariana 2013 to Ariana 2026 and say “she was healthy then”, I would argue that No, she was not healthy then, she was merely younger and more equipped to handle her own severe anorexia.

By 2016, Grande’s body dysmorphia and trauma denial started showing up in alterations to her face. She became known for adapting whatever race was cool at the time, much like Gwen Stefani’s appropriation of Harajuku culture in 2005. Grande appropriated black culture first, and arguably did this before the Nickelodeon era as one of the many white/Hispanic singer-actresses of the time who were determined to sound like black gospel singers. In 2021, she would appropriate Asian culture much like Stefani did in 2005, whereupon she was accused of Asian-fishing. Experts speculate that Grande had multiple procedures done while she was still in her 20s: a nose job, a revision to the same nose job, filler in the cheek and jaw, a possible jaw implant, brow lifts and revisions, eyelid lift, mini-facelifts, and multiple lip fillers. By the time Wicked began filming in late 2022, Ariana had ricocheted through three skin colors and sets of vocal mannerisms, finally landing on Galinda the Soft, Extremely White Princess of Oz. She was not, however, done with surgery. Sometime between 2020-2022 she seems to have had another nose job, and not a revision. Her nose looks like it is about to disappear. She also seems to have had buccal fat removal, a procedure that is as stupid as medieval trepanning. During the early 2020s, it was a trend for celebrities (mostly women) to have the fat siphoned out from beneath their cheekbones in order to look more gaunt and aquiline. The result ages very badly, resulting in a Cryptkeeper hollowing of the cheeks as if the victim is perpetually sucking on lemons.

Grande had finally found her home in Galinda, the most toxic archetype of all: the Princess. Ariana’s vibe has always been docile, compliant, and quietly ruthless and cruel. In the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction, Bruce Willis’s character is married to a character played by Maria de Medeiros. Maria’s character Fabienne is soft, childlike, feminine, and forgettable, going along with whatever the men are doing without understanding what is going on. Ariana Grande embodies Fabienne despite proclaiming herself a feminist warrior. Her main flex is pretending that everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. The current tour, Eternal Sunshine, embodies denial energy.

Karen Carpenter, unlike Ariana Grande, tried to get help before she died. Also known as one of the greatest singers of all time, Carpenter was known as a great female drummer in a male-dominated field. She used dieting to handle stress, beginning in high school. She adhered to strict regimes that involved drinking 8 glasses of water a day. In a world where Ozempic did not yet exist, she abused thyroid medication, assuming a fake name to get a prescription that sped up her metabolism. She also abused laxatives, taking up to 90 pills a day. Carpenter actively tried to heal and allowed herself to be hospitalized after spending time in intense, live-in psychotherapy. With the help of IV while in hospital, she gained 30 pounds, which put a great deal of strain on her anorexia-weakened heart. Determined to get her life back, she spent only one month in the hospital, taking the weight gain to be the sign she needed to resume her career. Her heart failed a few months later. Paramedics found her collapsed on the floor from a heart attack. She died at age 32. Keep in mind, however, that she had been hospitalized because even though she was living with Steven Levenkron, a psychiatrist who was known for healing anorexics, she was probably still abusing laxatives and thyroid medication. Anorexics cannot help the urge to make themselves thin any more than a heroin addict can resist the needle in front of them.

Grande is still in denial that she is anorexic at all and has no qualms about it. She often tells the public at large that she is the best health and body of her life and that we should all shut up and not talk about people’s bodies. In other words, let the handlers continue to piss on our legs while they tell us it is raining. If they joined us in our condemnation of visible anorexia, they would be preventing semaglutide drug sales.

Ariana Grande is evil in a way that Karen Carpenter never was because Grande is more detached from the damage she is doing than Carpenter. Karen Carpenter recognized she had a problem and perhaps more importantly recognized that the images she was presenting to women and girls were a problem. Despite being horrified by gaining weight, Karen Carpenter underweight IV treatment that caused a 30 pound weight gain. Carpenter was 5’4” and 30 pounds was not a small amount of weight for her. Grande is 5’3”.

The legacy about to occur

The reason I write about this at all is because people who are more impressionable than I am in my solid, Midwestern, middle-aged dowagerhood are being victimized by the images that Grande and her handlers are feeding out into the general public. It’s not just about the children, however, little girls are telling their mommies that they can’t eat a full meal because Ari, their idol, is thin and pretty and you cannot eat heartily if you want to be thin and pretty. Personally, I wince when I see Grande’s bag-of-bones fashion looks but I have had a lifetime of bullcrap filtering and the mercenary attitude that goes with it; they have not. Nevertheless, I don’t want to see pictures or video of Grande doing her skeleton danse macabre while foisted up by her backup dancers because she is now awful to behold and I never liked her voice anyway. As a singer and a voice teacher, I admit fully that she is massively talented as a vocalist. I am intellectually honest. I have never liked her style, which has always struck me as overly sexualized, pleading, male-centered, and whiny.

Grande will likely die before hitting 40 and possibly before the Eternal Sunshine tour makes its final scheduled stop. She may even drop dead onstage, and that is sickening and horrible. Even though I don’t care for her music or her fans, I do not want that to happen and I openly wish that she survives her tour and finds a way out of the public eye. She is another Karen Carpenter waiting to happen, and even more sad and more tragic because she is still deep in the throes of anorexic delusion.

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Two woman practice ceromancy, the divining art of reading molten wax

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ecosophia

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Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Three Dog Night, "Shambhala"

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The final unit of the Modern Order of Essenes course is now available for you! :-)

Click here to get straight to Unit 32.

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“Give Me A Word: The Promise of an Ancient Practice to Guide Your Year.” Christine Valters Paintner. 2025. Broadleaf Books.

During the Second and Fourth Centuries, the Desert Fathers and Mothers would be approached by seekers to ask for their advice on life matters. The Desert Fathers and Mothers would often offer a word or a phrase to mediate on. This practice was called “give me a word,” which promoted a deeper listening to God.

In her book, Valters Paintner tells how to practice “give me a word.” First, quiet the mind to allow for any whispers to reach below the surface of ordinary awareness. After finally receiving the word, spend the year meditating with it. Valters Paintner writes, “The ‘word’ was often a short phrase to nourish and challenge the receiver. A word was mean to be wrestled with and slowly grown into.” She explains further, “When a seeker went out to the wilderness to approach one of the ammas or abbas and said ‘Give me a word,’ they were not asking for a command or solution. They were opening their hearts to a communication which would slowly transform their lives.”

Valters Paintner calls the practice of listening for a word as “looking for what shimmers.” “Shimmering is a way to describe when something in the world is calling to you, beckoning you, sometimes even urging you to pay closer attention, sometimes what shimmers is challenging but we know that wrestling with it will yield something bigger in our lives. Sometimes what shimmers invokes wonder and awe.”

How does a person listen for a word? First, they need to cross the Threshold, the liminal spaces. The Threshold could be a place such as an altar, a doorway, or sacred site, where they can be attuned to the presence of the sacred. Or the Threshold can be a liminal time like dawn, dusk, the beginning or ending of a year, or certain holidays (Note 1). A place or time where eternity can be briefly touched.

Let the word choose you. Valters Paintner counsels that “give me a word” is a process of receiving and not striving. Reflect what has been life-giving and life-changing in your life. Sometimes the word will come in a dream or with an inner nudge. If the word feels “bristly,” ask yourself why. Explore the resistance and dissonance of this word, and feel it deeply. As you give the word space, feel it unfold. Test the word to see if it rings true to you.

Once having received the word, carry it with you. Apply the word in your life. Be creative: write prayers or poetry. Create a word-centered rule of life with an affirmation that includes the word. Let it foster creativity and wholesomeness in your life. Listen deeply to the nuances of the word that you are given.

I believe that this practice of “give me a word” could be adopted by Polytheists. It can be a practice that entails meditating on a word or an aspect associated with a God. This method of listening involves allowing for a greater wisdom to come forth within you.

For Polytheists, “give me a word” can be a method to use in developing a relationship with a God or discerning Who is calling to you. Listen and feel the God’s presence. When the word is received from Them, it can be felt deep within the body. With time, the word will ripen with deeper wisdom for the Polytheist.

An example of “give me a word” for Polytheists could be meditating on “good health.” This could be explored in multiple ways as there are many Gods of Health and Healing. For Romans, two are Salus, who is the Goddess of Public Health or Venus Cloacina, who is Venus, the Purifier. A meditation or deep listening could involve the differences between these two Goddesses or their common points. Also, a person could meditate on how to relate to each of these Goddesses. Or they could focus on one Goddess like Venus Cloacina and ponder purification and miasma. The word “good health” can be explored in multiple ways.

“Give me a word” can allow a Polytheist to test what seems to be coming from a God is true. It allows them to feel what is “right.” As Homer in “The Odyssey” wrote, “False dreams come to humans through the Gate of Ivory, true dreams come through the Gates of Horn.” (Note 2) The practice of “give me a word” allows the Gates of Horn to be open for true wisdom.

Notes:

Note 1. This could be Samhain (October 31), Walpurgis Night (April 30), the Equinoxes or Solstices.

Note 2. “Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.”

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I am happy to read your Ogham free of charge -- that's how I hone my divination skills. Please limit your reading request to four or fewer Ogham cards: though this can take many forms, here are some common ones (all of them are basically combos of 4 cards):

-a single three card reading for the week or month and a one-off, one card reading

-four questions about four separate items that require one answer (card) per item
-a one card reading to answer a specific question and a three card for a more nuanced question
-Two separate readings, two cards a piece exploring the positives and negatives of two different choices

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I'm just wrapping up a book project on Renaissance methods of mind training now, and my next nonfiction project is a request from a publisher -- they want a book on practical polytheism, more or less the "practice" book to go alongside my "theory" book, A World Full of Gods. That strikes me as a very worthwhile project. I can think of quite a number of things I'll want to put into it, but I have the best commentariat on the internet and I know that a lot of my readers worship more than one deity.

Since it's worked so well, here and on my blog, to ask the commentariat for its input, I figured it's an especially good idea to do that in the present case, so that the book can be as useful to as many participants in the polytheist revival as possible. What sorts of things would you like to see such a book cover? What resources have you found that you'd like to see included, and what beginner-level issues do you think it can help new worshippers of the gods and goddesses deal with? Inquiring authors want to know.

Current Mood: enthusiastic
Current Music: Yes, "Your Move"

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Sorry for the long absence!

I'm okay. Well-- okay-ish.

My alimony is coming to an end soon. The end of July check (which pays for August) will be the last one. I still have a court order for a "quadro" or QDRO for some of my ex-husband's 401k money, but I've tried for that several times without success-- the company that processes such orders is giving me the runaround and I'll need to hire a lawyer at some point to get it. I'm honestly so exhausted that I don't know if I ever will. I know I should, but every bit of bullshit makes the trouble seem not worth it.

I am finally taking steps to apply for either SSI (Supplemental) or SSDI (Disability). My initial interview is the middle of next month. It took me two fucking years to just START this shit. Intense panic attacks kept stopping me every time I tried. I've been in therapy to try to get to the point I could do it... finally I managed to begin.

But it's taken a lot out of me. There's so much going wrong in the world, and for a while I was doing "desktop activism" by writing and calling various senators and attorneys general, etc. But working on this next step for my life goals is so important, and so... scary... that it's my biggest goal and most important one. I can't do anything if I don't have money and can't work.

I learned I can file claims for both SSI and SSDI at the same time and so if I don't have what I need to get Disability (mainly I'm not sure I've worked enough in my adult life to qualify) then I can get SSI instead. Disability pays $500 more a month than SSI, so it's worth it to try for it, and I'm definitely not able to work with all my issues, or I absolutely would.

I'm claiming chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, complex PTSD, and chronic migraines as the reason I need alternate income.

Every week day, I'm working on getting the information I need: witnesses to my illness (my roomies), and doctor's and therapist's contact information and recommendations, and the tests I've taken, meds I'm on, etc. All the stuffs to prove my case. I got a "starter kit" that explains what I need to collect before my phone interview.

I wanted an in-person interview, but they don't do that anymore (thanks Trump!) so I will be doing a phone interview while on my PC to send documents. The reason I'm doing it this way is that my fear of making dumb mistakes is so high I haven't been able to move forward for literal YEARS. This way, at least I'm talking to someone who can navigate the paperwork and make sure I file it correctly the first time. That will speed up the process by a few months, otherwise they have to collect the information I don't have ready to go, and it takes weeks to months to do that.

In the meantime, I negotiated a plan to cover my rent with Cat, so I won't go homeless (unless I'm denied ultimately, in which case, I'm sure all bets are off-- Cat's not THAT generous, as she's made abundantly clear, which is part of why I panic so often over this shit...)

I still have a tiny income from my blogging-- which I haven't been doing! Or working on my books! Or-- anything useful it seems like! The long-Covid migraines utterly derailed all my activities and goals, which were difficult to begin with. It's clear I've been struggling more these last few years. And I feel bad that I can't write or do as much.

But I'm trying. I think after I get this July interview done, and filled out all that paperwork, I will finally relax a little and be able to focus on other things while I wait. I expect to be turned down. Most people are the first time. But there's a chance I'll get it. If not, I have two more tries before it's a hopeless cause. Most people get a lawyer who just gobbles up a third of the retroactive check that basically pays you in bulk from the time you first apply for benefits. And, because it takes months and even years (I think 2 is about average) to get that "back pay"-- it's quite substantial most of the time. I have found a couple of local lawyers if I need to use them. I hope I won't, but I know how these things go...

So--! I'm forcing myself to do something very scary in small steps just like I did during my divorce. I had to have calendars and post-its to help me navigate the paperwork and court appearances for that. I'm doing something similar now for this. Between late May and mid-July, this is taking up all my mental resources.

After the application is in, it will be 3 to 7 months to hear back for my "first try" at SSI/SSDI. So I'll have to focus on other things while I wait. I don't go out much these days, so I won't feel as deprived as I would have when I was more functional. Maybe I can catch up some other things then.

In the meantime, I'm around. Just... struggling to do something that provokes panic attacks at the worst of times and unease and nervousness at others. It's hard to feel okay, but some days I manage it. It's like now that things are a "go" there's nowhere left to run, so... I surrender a little? Maybe? I'm not sure. Maybe I'm mistaking dissociative numbness for okay-ness. But honestly? I'll take that over freaking out any day.

Current Mood: uncomfortable

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The month of mid-June to mid-July in Sumer is called “Su-numum” after the Akiti Su-numum (the Ploughing Festival). Ploughing has begun and will continue for four more months. This month is also referred to the “Month of the Barely Seed,” reflecting the preparation for the planting season. Stones and stubble are removed, and the rows are ploughed. Burnt offerings of fruit and oil are made to the plough. (Traditionally, the festival is started at the full moon after the summer solstice.)

Since Su-numun is also the onset of summer, there also rituals that focused on death and mourning. The first day of the month is “The Festival of the Canebrake (Apum).” (This was traditionally held on the new moon after the summer solstice.) “Canebrake” refers to the burial practice of wrapping the corpse in a shroud and laying it in the burial marshes. “In the reeds of Enki” refers to the canebrake receiving the body. Burial marshes were common. This was also the time of the Dead to wander among the living.

During this month, the Greater Wail (Ergula) was conducted. During the festival, it is customary to read laments such as “Lament over the Destruction of Ur” and “Lament over the Destruction of Ur and Sumer.” These laments were read while the priests and people walked around the city walls. The “Time of the Great Wailing” commemorates when Ur was destroyed by the Elam and Sua peoples in 2004 BCE. (Some scholars believe that the Greater Wail is also related to the moon being in the sky the shortest time on the shortest night.)

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Another month, another Open Post! I'll be fielding new comments on this post until July 8, 2026. Please don't use the eff word unless it truly makes sense in the context you are using it. Thanks!

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After seeing the movie Obsession in the theater, I was inspired to re-watch 2 other movies about wishes gone horribly wrong from the past: Wishmaster (1997) and Wish Upon (2017). Obsession has gotten its own full, spicy review behind my Substack paywall, however, I will synopsize it here without spoilers.

Obsession is the story of a Caspar Milquetoast named Bear who lives a lonely, post-teenage life in the house he inherited from his dead grandmother. He is on a daily banquet of antidepressants which somehow end up being eaten by his cat Sandy, who tragically dies. Bear is in love/lust with his friend Nikki who is his co-worker at another friend’s father’s music store. On the night Bear finds his dead cat, Nikki invites him to a party. Instead of declining to mourn over his pet, Bear allows himself to be dragged into attending. On the way, he picks up a gag gift an an occult store called the One Wish Willow, a glorified stick that promises to grant one wish when broken in half. Bear is tasked with driving an intoxicated Nikki to her home. After Nikki mildly confronts him and asks him “Do you like me?” Bear takes the coward’s way out and denies he has any romantic interest in his friend. He then uses the One Wish Willow outside Nikki’s house, wishing for her to love him more than anything else in the world. Nikki becomes instantly obsessed with him, which is paradise for a short time but quickly devolves into Nikki having a violent split personality. The “real” Nikki suffers and rots inside as Bear has his way with the demonic Nikki who is in love with him. She begins an escalating campaign of possessiveness, jealousy, and self-harm that culminates in an eerie climax.

Wishmaster is a Wes Craven film directed by Robert Kurtzman that became an offensively franchised intellectual property. This review considers only the first Wishmaster from 1997 directed by Robert Kurtzman. The film begins in 12th century Persia. An emperor is using his second wish (it is implied that his first wish was to become Emperor) granted to him by a djinn who has been released from a red jewel. He foolishly asks to “see wonders”, and his wish is granted when his entire palace becomes infested with wondrous horrors such as a people being turned into reptiles and trees and H.R. Geiger-style aliens bursting out of their stomachs. The emperor’s mage corners the emperor before he can make the third wish to “set things right”, warning him that the djinn wants it because it would allow djinn-kind to spew itself all over the planet to presumably work more “wonders”. The mage traps the djinn in a fire opal with some esoteric incantations and the chaos ends without the third wish being made.

Cut scene to modern day America. A drunk crane operator accidentally drops a priceless statue of Ahura Mazda — the very same one that the mage used to embed the fire opal — and kills a guy while breaking the statue. The collector, Raymond Beaumont played by Robert Englund of Freddie Krueger fame, is rightfully pissed. A dockworker surreptitiously finds the opal in a chunk of the broken statue and brings it to an appraiser. The appraiser, Alexandra Amberson played by Tammy Lauren, accidentally wakes the djinn by examining the stone with a bright light. This ends up psychically bonding her to the djinn and all his upcoming misdeeds.

Not knowing what she has done, Alexandra or Alex as she is known in the film takes the gemstone to her colleague Josh, who ends up as a casualty of the djinn when it explodes out of the stone for the first time in 800 plus years. Josh examines the stone as a favor to Alex right after he makes it known he has a crush on her. The djinn asks Josh, who is bleeding out from severe wounds, if he would like some pain relief. Josh says yes and the djinn ends his life, which Alex feels as a sort of awful vision. The djinn uses more unfortunate victims to gain a human form. His regular form is very deluxe Spirit Halloween scary demon costume, complete with hooked nose and pointy ears. He hijacks some dude’s corpse via his ability to “wear” faces and bodies, transforming himself into a more debonair Agent Smith. With his new body, it is much easier to terrorize the general populace with wishes as boneheaded literalism. A woman who wishes to be forever beautiful becomes a mannequin and a man who wishes for a million dollars ends up getting his mother (also his insurance beneficiary) killed in a plane crash.

Wishmaster is a silly film and its ending is equally silly, and though I will try not to spoil it, it’s the adult rendition of “whoops, it was all a bad dream.”

2017’s Wish Upon, written by Barbara Marshall and directed by John R. Leonetti, opens with a tragedy. A mother says goodbye to her young daughter and her golden labrador, sending them off on her bike to ride down the block. She then retreats to the upper floor of a quaint Victorian house and hangs herself. Her daughter returns, witnessing the end moments of her mother’s suicide.

Years later, the girl, whose name is Clare Shannon, is an unhappy teenager and her dog is no longer a puppy. She is being harassed at school by an evil bully named Darcie and her crew of friends. Clare’s father, a compulsive hoarder, gives Clare a birthday gift in the form of a Chinese music box that he found in a dumpster dive near her high school. Clare, who happens to be taking Chinese in high school, deciphers the “make a wish on this box” part of the inscriptions on the box. She casually wishes for her enemy Darcie to rot. Darcie develops severe necrotizing fasciitis, which is worth a few laughs among Clare and her friends and also saves Clare having to deal with the aggravation of Darcie and her bully crew. The same day, Clare’s beloved dog dies, his guts spilled out underneath the rickety porch on the old Victorian house. The premise of Wish Upon is that the box grants 7 wishes to its owner, however, every wish has a price that must be paid in blood and the seventh wish’s blood price is the soul of the wisher. Clare slowly figures out this mystery, picking up goodies along the way, all with a commensurate price in the form of both boneheaded literalism and somebody literally dying every time a wish is made. Once again, the ending was a cop out, though done in a slightly more clever and stylish way.

Wishmaster was a big deal when it came out and Wish Upon was the talk of the town back in 2017 from what little I remember. Obsession made a huge splash because it was made for only a million dollars and raked in over 150 million on opening weekend, making it the most profitable horror movie ever made.

All three of these films use the plot device of wish-making as boneheaded literalism, and right out of the gate, it is a tiresome premise. Horror as a genre has always suffered from lacking nuance, and nothing says “this isn’t actually worth thinking about” than a jump scare where someone dies by getting her hair caught in a garbage disposal or having her head bashed in on the steering wheel of a car by an insane murderer.
These movies actually serve to keep us from thinking about the consequences of wishes by fooling us into the trance of the belief that wishes mean nothing because they don’t immediately result in obvious tragedy or grievous physical harm. Our world does not resemble the world of fantasy, where a wish made on a stick, stone, or box can bring instant fame and fortune, such as a billion dollars literally falling from the ceiling (Obsession) or the instant inheritance of a family fortune (Wish Upon, Wishmaster). We think that because we cannot wish to win the lottery (unless you are Jeffrey Epstein, who won it twice) and have it happen that we don’t have to reap any consequences from pining for unearned wealth. That is what these wish morality plays are about, by the way — the horrific karma of unearned wealth.

We all do magic

Our era is one of profound misunderstanding of magic. Magic is never understood as something that is done by everybody all the time. To grotesquely oversimplify, magic is the inception, process, and reverberation of intention. People will jump to even more oversimplified conclusions and say “magic is intention.” Yes and no. Magic is the way intention works, not intention itself. You are doing magic right now. You intended to read this article and you are reading it. This took a bunch of magic, such as applying the skill of reading, forcing yourself to keep your eyes on my words in an extremely distracting environment, and by the potential of thinking these words after you have read them. I thank you for the your magic you have done in reading this article, and this in itself is me doing magic on the article and you, its reader. Gratitude is the most powerful magic in the universe, and it spreads by the power of 7, which is a long story I won’t get into right now. At any rate, human beings are not the only ones capable of magic, and that is what my book Sacred Homemaking attempts to explain. Houses, trees, animals, rocks, towns, couches, doors, and even toilets do magic because they participate in the processes of intention. It is my opinion that the toilet wants to be cleaned and thanked every day, and that is the foundation of my quirky book, this idea that helping household objects by appreciating them can help them to help you. Magic is not as obvious as light beams shooting out of Harry Potter’s fingers. If it was, we would live in the world of Wishmaster, Wish Upon, and Obsession where stupid wishes brought even stupider consequences right on schedule. Instead, we live in a complicated, deeply enchanted world of intersecting intentions that is more akin to ripples in a pond. Never forget that there is more to the pond than just the surface.

The bad witch

Feminists like to imagine a fantasy of all ancient witches being good, persecuted by evilly evil Christianity for daring to operate outside of its toxic monotheist system. Yes, that definitely happened, and there were some herbalists who were burned at stake for the mere crime of being better at healing than the local priest or doctor. Sometimes, witches were burned because they actually were causing harm.
Everyone does magic all the time, and that means that intention is actually pretty important. Some people are extremely good at weaponizing the mental power to wish harm, and though it cannot be proven, if they put their mind to it, they can cause someone to get hurt, suffer, and die just by thinking it. I had one of these who used to attend the meetings of a group I was part of. She had no pretensions to doing witchcraft or formal magic. She just wished harm all the time, and sometimes her wishes came true. She was certainly good at antagonizing other people in the group and causing them direct drama and stress from her asinine behavior. In medieval times, I can see her being pilloried and cast out of whatever city she had blighted by her presence and she would have deserved it. Nowadays, nobody except I was able to detect what she was doing, so she and witches like her run amok and wreak whatever harm they want.

Intentions matter

I am going to pick on those who wish to win the lottery for a hot minute, as I think it plays into the theme of the 3 movies featured in this article. The wish to win the lottery seems perfectly innocent, and much like Bear of Obsession half-heartedly wishing for Nikki’s love and teenage Clare wishing for affection from the popular boy who becomes obsessed with her, wishes are made in a half-assed, thoughtless manner that can later ruin our lives and the lives of those around us. Wishing to win the lottery is a failure to be grateful for the lotteries you’ve already won. If you are reasonably healthy, have a roof overhead, clean water to drink, and plenty to eat, you are already richer than several billion people on this planet. Those who get the literal wish granted and come into a great deal of money are more cursed than blessed, even if they don’t know it yet. That is what Matthew 19:24 was talking about when Jesus said that it was very hard for a rich man to enter heaven. The more luxury you have, the more you want to wallow in it, and the more it acts as a prosthetic so you can be lazy and lose even the most basic abilities to organize, cook, clean, and think for yourself.

Pop stars and their intentions

Ariana Grande may not be long for this world. She recently went on tour and she looks terrible. She looks as if an evil djinn granted her wish to be the thinnest singer there ever was.

Though we are not officially allowed to comment upon women's bodies (men's bodies are fair game?) by the wokerati, we can easily observe that not only is the emperor naked as the day he was born, the empress has starved herself down to skin, gristle, and bones.

We can almost imagine a child Ariana (a childhood she seems desperate to capture even at age 32) wishing to become the most beautiful princess in the world. She got her wish. For a time, she was at the top of a game that was nearly impossible to win. Perfect pitch, perfect body. The blood price of Adriana’s wish was having to go through Dan Schneider, Tom Hanks, and who knows how many countless other pedophiles to get to the top of the heavily-frosted layer cake. These encounters have taken their toll and now a frail, skeletal Ariana struts the stage invoking images of Eugenia Cooney and Karen Carpenter. The powers granted her wishes but at great cost. The same is true of Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, and every actor, actress, and personality that has achieved Hollywood fame. They gained the largest stages and arenas and sold their souls along the way, because certain intentions carry a price.

So let's please stop thinking of wishes as things that literally come into being like instant coffee when you add water. A wish is an intention that morphs over time along with its consequences, shaping both the wisher and the environment itself. Wishes are magic. Not literally turning a pumpkin into a coach or zapping someone dead, though I suppose both of those are possible if you know the right tech crew. Wishes are dangerous enough without having to be literally life-ending, and though Hollywood will never catch on, that should not stop us from learning the truth.

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It's right on midnight 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 that point will not get an answer, and in fact will not be put through. If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 341,928th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.3 of The Magic Monday FAQ here.

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The next essay in my series on fermentation, both Hands-On and Inner Fermentation, just went up and is now available for your reading (and fermenting) pleasure:

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This is a surprisingly insightful video.

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Modern Order of Essenes Course: Master – Unit 32

“Give Me A Word:” The Promise of an Ancient Practice

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