like most of you i have an interest in off-the-wall subjects, and that led once to the purchase of a book called Monsters. its by john micheal greer
and subtitled an investigators guide to magical beings..
the book claims to offer a magicians opinion about classical monsters..
its a fun read but im not here to plug it, im here to ask a few questions of the ATS cryptid community.
questions like, Is there crossover between cryptozoology and occultism?
for example, i once asked a UFO researcher that i knew how he felt about European folklore.. he said he knew nothing. I asked him if we couldnt
connect the dots between faerie circles and crop circles, between changelings and alien hybrid babies, between abduction time-loss syndrome and the
Rip Van Winkle phenomenon...
The researcher told me that as a UFO guy he had to keep his stuff strictly scientific, and couldnt even get NEAR folklore because it would (by
association) make him a looney (or MORE of one LOL)...
if you read up on ole Al Crowley you will find some that say that he was doing a magical work at boleskine on Loch Ness and that after he failed,
people started to sight the lake monster we all love so much.
the book i mentioned earlier basically blames occultism (Magick) for most of the cryptids... not things like the coelacanth, but things like
greer claims that bigfoot is a shapeshifted shaman, he also claims that the viking berserker phenom involved not a crazed warrior, but a magician
sitting at home PROJECTING a crazed warrior.
he claims that energy projection and or shapeshifting is responsible for most of the bigfoot / mothman / mermaid / dragon stuff...
vampires he blames on energy collection being used to feed a piece of the soul empowered to survive the death of the body... (actually his take on
vampires is worth the price of the book)
which leads me to demons.
HAVE ANY CRYPTOZOOLOGISTS TRIED TO SUMMON A DEMON?
it sounds like it would be inside the bounds of the quest...
unless the semi-phisycal nature of this whole class of "monsters" moves us out of the scientific and into the looney bin of occultism and folklore.
how much crossover will the cryptid community tolerate? or are there any occultists here working with the classical grimoires who would tell us of
although i dont practice i love to read crazy stuff, and i understand that there are 72 named "things" that are summonable in the goetia..
of course it would take a certain amount of lunacy to just summon demons on a whim so instead of searching the local stores for chalk and a bunch o
black candles, i thought id ask you guys...
what do you make of Magical Monsters?
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