Comments on: Seduction, advertisement and black magic…

By: Steffan Postaer

Steffan Postaer — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:03:14 +0000

Despite your ambivalent review of my novel, The Happy Soul Industry I dearly thank you for it… and for the thoughtful essay it inspired. If you have a minute please do check out my blog, godsofadvertising as I’m discussing good and evil right now.
-Steffan

By: Andras Nagy

Andras Nagy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:10:39 +0000

This is from my favorite book “Queen Cleopatra” by Talbot Mundy..

“There are two forces, each having seven streams, and they again seven times seven, and so on downward unto an infinity of numbers.
They are right and left, hand positive and negative, light and darkness, good and evil. Each has many names and many attributes,
and in the ultimate the two are one; though not yet, nor for many eons, is their oneness manifested, and until then they are opposites.
Their oneness is an occult secret, difficult to understand, and it is madness for the choosers of the left hand force to meditate their treacheries when the star of the right hand force is in the ascendent.”
FRAGMENT FROM THE DIARY OF OLYMPUS

By: Steffan Postaer

Steffan Postaer — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:59:34 +0000

Thank you for this thoughtful review of my novel. Having read it all in one sitting is a deep compliment, regardless of the criticism, which, by the way, I found greatly rewarding. In the end, the story was intended to be a modern fable about good and evil. Thought provoking entertainment is the book’s primary goal and, judging from your remarks, it succeeded! Thank you for your readership. If others are interested in the pursuit of “goodness” while working in advertising please check out my blog, godsofadvertising.wordpress.com

By: richard

richard — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:19:08 +0000

A widening appreciation of all and ‘the’ one seems a help.

By: katinka - spiritual

katinka - spiritual — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:59:11 +0000

Jung may have talked down on Blavatsky, but he was friends with people who definitely knew her work. It doesn’t surprise me at all that he’d have the same (or a similar) definition of black magic.

That story about visualizing pulling the client in using a rope… Oh gee.

By: Jim Clark

Jim Clark — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:24:36 +0000

Hi Katinka,
I agree with you and Blavatsky, and I’m pretty sure Carl Jung gave a virtually identicle definition of Black Magic as well, I’ve forgotten where I read it though. I have a close friend who is studying hypnosis, and had previously worked as a salesman. He tells me he learns the same things in both, except with different motives. In sales he learned about psychology in order to manipulate the customer (he didn’t do this for long), where as in hypnosis the aim is to help the patient heal.

I recall someone else telling me that when they worked in a music shop the owner tried to get him to use “psychic persuasion” to hook the customer into a sale. He was told to visualize tying a rope around the customer and pulling them in. Surely that’s Black Magic, though amazingly many people consider that White Magic.

God Bless,
Hari Om