The Mageibo Line

Exploring topics of naturalistic neopaganism and modern druidry, atheopaganism, philosophy, and placebo magic. Coiner of magibo, mageibo, and druibo - see pinned post for details. Environmentalist progressive and plant-based. He/Him. South-Eastern US

[themageiboline]

The Mageibo Line

If you’re interested in the occult or new age practices such as Wicca and Druidry, but are agnostic or atheistic and wish to take a rationalistic approach to your practice, this might be the blog for you.

Edit update: please see this post for an update on the direction of this dusty old blog and a couple suggestions on where to go for further information on the subject of it.

What’s Mageibo?

I decided to start this after an idea struck me as I considered the relationship between psychology, the placebo effect, and the occult - Magibo.

“Magibo," pronounced like "magic" but with “-bo” replacing the hard c, could be used to describe so-called magickal practices that seem to create placebo and nocebo effects. Mageibo, like "mage-ibo," could describe those that seek out these effects through practices like mediation, ritual, prayer, or self hypnosis. Thus, a mageibo is a magickal practitioner who believes in a rationalistic, agnostic or atheistic approach to the occult.

The name "The Mageibo Line" is in reference to two things. For one, it means the Mageibo Line, as in the mageibo’s way of doing things. It’s also a play on words with the Maginot Line, and while this was originally only thought up for the phonetic wordplay, I certainly do caution my readers against making exorbitantly expensive purchases involving the occult or new age practices (such as expensive rare crystals or pricey divinations or supposed protection charms), else you'll risk your magick becoming an ineffective Maginot Line of your own.

Things to expect from this blog:

-Periodical posts further detailing what it means to be mageibo, including a basic list of tenets which will be posted fairly soon.

-Posts developing a rationalistic magickal practice for Druidic Mageibo / Druibo inspired by the RDNA, ADF, and OBOD neodruid orders. I will call this Reformed Mageibo Druidry (RMD), or Reformed Druidic Mageibo (RDM).

-Reblogs dealing with relevant topics such as new age practices, meditation, hypnotherapy, psychology, and so on and so forth.

-Possibly an Instagram and Etsy store page for art and products related to the topics of this blog, as well as a possible webpage if this ever does well enough.

So that's the jest of it. If you’re interested hit the heart and follow buttons, and keep an eye out for my coming updates.

[thedreamsage]

Lucid Dreaming is fun, but it's physically, emotionally, and mentally intensive. I've seen many people on tiktok who are lucid dreamers start by sharing some of their experiences only to devolve into psychosis and the belief that they are "the chosen one" for the "ascension of the new dimension".

Reminder: YOUR DREAMS ARE A MIRROR

Just as Hindus will see Krishna, Christians will see Jesus, Agnostics will see their late family members, and Atheists will see nothing in Near Death Experiences, you will see whatever you believe is the truth in your dreams.

The 5D Spirituality believers will lucid dream about their beliefs. They'll wake up and further solidify their belief. This belief will be magnified in the next lucid dream (and so on) until all they trust to represent reality is their mind.

This is a feedback loop and can result in dream-related psychosis.

Look at the mirror, but do not mistake what you see for what is truly you.

[themageiboline]

Apologies to anyone that thought I'd actually do something with this blog like I said I would, and where I'm going with it now.

Several times now I've on a whim started a blog, or made promise to resurrect one for fun yet it's always fallen through for various personal reasons I won't get into now. So, I'm giving up on any serious blogging anytime soon.

Instead I'll be trying to steadily transfer over to a more broad personal space to vent and shitpost and share into the void willy nilly, and give that a try. Forget about sleek aesthetics or professionalism or whatever tf I was hung up on before. I mean this is Tumblr afterall, not an opinion column on some respected journal or something. With that said, I'm not necessarily ready to turn this one into shitpost central either.

So I'll just make a side blog for my totally random musings and share any relevant ones over here. I'm not ready to abandon this blog concept just yet but it's certainly staying on a back burner for the foreseeable future. Heck let's be honest here, it's been stuck in the closet to collect dust.

That dust might be getting wiped off right now but I make no promises it won't go back right where it came from in no time. Apologies to anyone made curious by a premise I never fully followed up on, but unfortunately some things have just had to take priority over hobby blogging I'm afraid.

If you've landed on this blog and want to explore the concepts I touched on here further, have a look at these pods (note these link to Spotify but I'm pretty sure both can be found elsewhere):

1 - The Placebo Magick Podcast

2 - THE WONDER: Science-Based Paganism

In addition, you may also look into SASS witches, and I'd also suggest having a look at your local UU church for a communal space of diverse progressive religious ideas if you haven't already, as I seem to be seeing a good deal of potentially in my own local church here. Your milage may vary though, as from what I understand attitudes can vary greatly from congregation to congregation. Atheopaganism as described by Mark Green and in his book by the same name is very nearly exactly what I was getting at here, and he happens to co-host The Wonder podcast as well so he's a very strong recommendation for this subject.

[teawiththegods]

THIS instagram post from Kelly Ann Maddox while simple was a huge game changer for me in regards to getting my butt to the altar. Your altar shouldn’t just be a place you go to when you have energy. It should also be a place for you to recharge and receive energy. That mind shift she talks about where instead of saying “I don’t have energy to go to altar” you say “I have no energy I should go to the altar” really blew my mind tbh. It’s truly reshaped the relationship I have with my altar so I wanted to share in case that wee bit of wisdom could help someone else. ✌🏻💕

[corupriesthood]

When I was still doing direct service, my shrine became the first place I went to when coming home from work. It was where I did some basic cleansing of anything I might've brought home with me but also became an opportunity for me to ritually "take off" my Service Provider Persona and put on the Chilling At Home Persona, which helped me manage things like work/life balance, giving myself permission to not think about work while not on the clock, and intentionally recentering myself with my gods and spirits.

Reframing how we conceptualize our relationships to shrines and altars can make SUCH a difference, even if the physical actions themselves don't change.

~ mc

[teawiththegods]

I really like the idea of using the altar as a way to shift from work mode to home mode! I’m going to try adding that to my routine! Thank you so much for sharing!!

[brianvoisin]

[kawuli]

Stones Have Been Popping Out of People Who Ride Roller Coasters

Using centripetal force to prevent a $4 billion healthcare cost

1. Doctor finds anecdotal evidence that people are passing kidney stones after riding on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World

2. Doctor makes 3-D model of kidney, complete with stones and urine (his own), takes it on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 60 times

3. “The stones passed 63.89 percent of the time while the kidneys were in the back of the car. When they were in the front, the passage rate was only 16.67 percent. That’s based on only 60 rides on a single coaster, and Wartinger guards his excitement in the journal article: ‘Preliminary study findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones.’”

4. “Some rides are going to be more advantageous for some patients than other rides. So I wouldn’t say that the only ride that helps you pass stones is Big Thunder Mountain. That’s grossly inaccurate.”

5. “His advice for now: If you know you have a stone that’s smaller than five millimeters, riding a series of roller coasters could help you pass that stone before it gets to an obstructive size and either causes debilitating colic or requires a $10,000 procedure to try and break it up. And even once a stone is broken up using shock waves, tiny fragments and “dust” remain that need to be passed. The coaster could help with that, too.”

SCIENCE: IT WORKS

[kawuli]

Update: 

“In all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and both failed.”Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.“The ideal coaster is rough and quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted movements,” he said.

MSU Today

[kawuli]

I just love this because it’s HILARIOUS and yet also a perfect archetypal example of The Scientific Method:

1. Hypothesis

2. Experiment

3. Results

4. Discussion 

5. Conclusions

6. GOTO 1 (the scientific method is iterative, don’t forget that part)

[kristoffbjorgman]

was this like… done in cooperation with disney management or did some  random scientist go through bag check with a 3d printed kidney and a bottle of piss and start looking for big thunder mountain fastpasses

[the-pie-initiative]

He asked first!

Of course, the researchers had to get permission from Disney World before bringing the model kidney onto the rides. “It was a little bit of luck,” Wartinger recalls. “We went to guest services, and we didn’t want them to wonder what was going on—two adult men riding the same ride again and again, carrying a backpack. We told them what our intent was, and it turned out that the manager that day was a guy who recently had a kidney stone. He called the ride manager and said, do whatever you can to help these guys, they’re trying to help people with kidney stones.”

[the-real-seebs]

that is beautiful.

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

I love this

Science makes your look really fucking weird sometimes, but by hell you’re helping

[minnesotadruids]

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[slowtovvn]

This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation

[themageiboline]

Enjoy the Moments

Enjoy the moments,

Don’t let them slip,

Into the void of the past,

Enjoy the moments,

Cause they’re never more than a moment,

And moments never really last…

[moki-dokie]

It's about to hit us here in Oklahoma and the rest of the southern states that are not used to this level of cold.

Please take this seriously if you live somewhere this is going to impact significantly.

I just sincerely hope texas' power grid doesn't fail them again.

but at least a small blessing is that this isn't bringing much precipitation with it and the worst of it will be the wind.

Anyway. Stay inside, wear layers, and bundle up. Get your cold weather shit prepped now if you haven't yet.

[sztefa001]

0.0?!

[asingularcanadian]

This is "if you go outside you will have frostbite in minutes" type cold, this is "your car may not start up" type cold, this is "your schoolboard should be advising you not to send your kids to school by foot" type cold, i live in Ontario and I've only ever seen it get to -44C here.

If you are in this swath of area and have never experienced this type of cold before please take whatever precautions you can. in extreme circumstances like this the best way to do that is to isolate activity to one or 2 rooms of the house that have as few outward facing windows as possible, make sure you wear lots of layers and even insulate those layers by putting wadded up paper between them, keep your extremities covered, keep your face covered, if you have blankets or pillows to spare and non-carpet flooring lay those out to help insulate the room, you can hang bath towels in front of any windows to help absorb the cold. Please limit going out to as little as possible, and if you have to make sure anything that can be covered is indeed covered, if you have to wear denim please layer something underneath it, wear ur heaviest fabrics, double up on socks and gloves if you need to, if you can get thermal underwear you can always layer those. When in highschool and had to wait at the buss I would often microwave some potatoes or perogis and keep them in my pockets to warm my hands as I waited for the bus. Keep extra blankets and candles and clothes in ur car. For whatever reason if you get wet and you're outside, please find somewhere to get inside while you dry. If you live in an area that's getting this and you don't have winter clothes like scarves or mitts take whatever thick insulating cloth you can find and use that instead. it might not be comfortable but it will be better than frostbite, I promise.

This is the type of cold that also comes in insanely dry so if you are prone to nosebleeds this will be a problem. Make sure you have moisturizer for ur hands and lip balm so you don't end up cracked and bleeding on top of freezing, its a shit combo.

[htmelle]

As someone from Winterpeg, let me expand and confirm;

This is exposed skin will get frost bite in the time it takes you to walk to the car cold.

This is Canadian school boards will close cold. Yes even here, I only saw a snowday at -55C.

This is colder then Mars is on a nice day.

This is cold as fucking balls.

If you have the ability, make sure your underlayers are sweat wicking and don't get wet.

Be VERY careful if using heating things inside, and stay warm.

Everything they said is good but I want to express on you this is OW cold. Don't be stupid, and if your not prepared I would try to stay home for saftey.

[kedreeva]

Happy winter solstice! The light begins to return tomorrow!!

[kedreeva]

Happy summer solstice! The dark begins to return tomorrow!!

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

This post is applicable in both hemispheres on both solstices!

[foolfortune]

so those porn bots huh

[minnesotadruids]

Hey, question, I'm a Christian who always felt miserable while worshipping my God the way I was trained to, but still felt connected to Them, over the years I met witches and learned about paganism and a bunch of other things, and I realized that there was something I felt was missing. I want to try practising druidism as part of my spirituality but Idk the first thing about this stuff as I was never encouraged to learn about other faiths and practices. What's a good place to start learning and practising?

There's a lot of leeway and freedom in the direction you might choose to explore, as modern druidry is vast and dynamic. As for literary resources in terms of books that are current, an easy read, and with a fair amount of historical context (both for the ancient druids and the history of the modern revival movement of the last three centuries) I would recommend The Druidry Handbook by Greer.

Greer puts the history of druidry (both ancient and modern) in a context that makes a lot of sense. Some of the things he outlines for the modern druid practitioner can be either used or ignored as you deem fit. He's showing a small glimpse of what is available, and his book largely speaks on behalf of his druid order AODA (Ancient Order of Druids in America).

If you're in a situation where you don't want to be caught reading books about druidry, one helpful reminder is that druidry has drawn in many reverends over the last few centuries. Even back in the 1700s some of those Christian clergy exploring and reviving druidism espoused different theological topics that relate to druidry in different ways. Another option if you need to avoid physical books about druidry would be to do a bit of web research on:

Latitudinarianism

Deism

Pantheism

Panentheism

Soft Polytheism

Ecospirituality

You may have noticed by now that as I am an active member of the Reformed Druidry movement (RDNA) I tend to have my own biases in favor of this order more than others. There are a few dozen different druid orders out there, but you don't have to join an order to practice druidry. The RDNA's resources are always free, mostly in the form of PDF files. Like the rest of the Druidry Revival movement, the RDNA was also founded by non-pagans. In fact the RDNA founder David Fisher also became an Episcopal priest, and the order still draws in a fair amount of Christian druids. Everything in the RDNA can be subject to a purely metaphorical or symbolic interpretation, with everything potentially signifying something unique to the practitioner.

I'd be happy to help with any additional questions!

See also: this list of modern druid orders

[mngael]

(Hi John this is Mariah) Great response, just adding in somemore suggestions- I'd also suggest looking into Christian feminist theology, including Goddess-focused or Divine Feminine based theology. And progressive/liberal Christianity in general. Another book I'd recommend is Christo-Paganism: An Inclusive Path by River & Joyce Higginbotham. They are both Unitarian Universalists, which is another religious group you might want to look into. They are 2 movements of liberal Christianity that have evolved into a religion that includes all sorts of theologies/practices.

[themageiboline]

I'll also add that if you want a very, very light read on Druidry (I mean, this book is something I could probably give to a ten year old and trust they'd both finish it and actually be able to get some out of it) then I can suggest The Druid Path, also by John Michael Greer. You'll know it by its very aesthetic cover in the same form factor (and from the same publisher, and in the same series) as the Wiccapedia.

Although the rest of the books in that series are, to my limited understanding at least, rather controversial for having occasional problematically misrepresentative elements to them this one is pretty solid, a very quick read, and will give you a few solid actual irl practice ideas you can take from it along the way. For any real deep dive you'll wanna look elsewhere but imo it's a pretty good lightweight primer if you just want a cheap $9.99 book to give you a basic bare bones practice adaptable to almost any prior belief system, and decide if it's worth diving in further after.

[reasonandempathy]

Our system is broken.  It is cruel.  It is dehumanizing, degrading, and it’s vile nature is so, so unnecessary.

We need universal healthcare today in America.  We needed it 40 years ago.  It’s cheaper, it’s simpler, it’s more efficient, it’s more effective and it is so, so, so much less cruel than what we have.

Additional sources/references:

Universal Healthcare Cost in America would be cheaper by trillions of dollars

The US has worse life expectancies than socialized healthcare countries

We have worse generalized healthcare results

We have the most expensive care

Our system is so cruel and unique that doctors from other countries literally can’t believe what happens here

I can’t tell you where or how to activate to help solve this.  There are politicians, groups, and activists pushing for this in so many ways.  I can tell you when, though.

Now.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[weaselle]

There was an arrest across the street from my place in Oakland one day – three cop cars with a bullhorn and guns out – and before I could even get out the gate there were a couple people posted up and one of them was filming and another one was narrating in a calm but very loud voice, just

“HE IS COOPERATING! HIS HANDS ARE EMPTY! HE IS DOING WHAT HE IS TOLD TO DO! HE IS HOLDING STILL! HIS HANDS ARE EMPTY! HE IS NOT BEING THREATENING! HE HAS PUT HIS HANDS BEHIND HIS HEAD AS ASKED! HE IS NOT RESISTING!”

and that was something I hadn’t thought to do before. It certainly let the cops know what the narrative of eye witnesses was going to be. 

I especially liked “his hands are empty” because this statement would still be true and a witnessed reason the police should not become violent even if it turned out he had a weapon on his person somewhere.

[lotrlocked]

I see people in NYC stop and record a lot. Even if they are just being nosey, that’s still witnesses if shit goes down.

[robphoton7]

We must be vigilant.  The New Solidarity.  You might just save a fellow human being.

[paddysnuffles]

If you don’t feel comfortable with doing the narrating thing (which really is quite clever), even just standing around and blatantly staring actually legit helps immensely.

There are studies that show that even an image of someone looking can be effective to change people’s behaviours.

Sidenote: If you see a cop stopping an Indigenous person, the same protocol applies.

[prismatic-bell]

I did this in a parking lot when I saw a group of Black men and teens being harassed by a cop. Stayed in my car, but whipped out my phone and started to record, pointing out via narrative when I could hear the cop contradicting himself and changing his story. At the eight-minute mark, when I knew he was past the reasonable-stop guideline time (thanks, legal tips side of tumblr!), I flipped on my dome light.

Fam, what happened next was INCREDIBLE.

The cop had been gesturing in a wild way, almost flailing, like he was actively trying to get these guys agitated. He saw my dome light, saw a white face with a phone, and suddenly his hands came to rest on his vest. Within 90 seconds he’d packed his shit up and gone.

The most outspoken gentleman in the group came up to me and went “whatchu doing in there?” So I straight-up told him “it looked like you were being harassed, so I was recording.” The whole group recognized someone who was on their side, and started venting about the shit that had just gone down.

Turns out the asshole had had them stopped for a good five minutes before I pulled in. That means they were stopped, with no probable cause and a cop changing his story no fewer than three times, for AT LEAST THIRTEEN MINUTES. While chatting in a parking lot. One car had pulled in next to another that turned out to belong to one of his buddies and they were just shooting the shit when Officer Bacon came by.

Want to know the kicker here? One of the cop’s stories was that a group “matching their description” had been reported by the grocery store security guy for shoplifting. Black man, red shirt with a sports logo, jeans. Know what this convenient report didn’t mention?

HIS HEIGHT.

This guy was, without exaggeration, at least 6’10”. I assure you any report of him would have mentioned his height FIRST. And you’d best believe I pointed that out in my narration.

Cops WILL try shit. You CAN stop them. I did it and it was as simple as having some patience and a camera.

[gayfirebird]

Same for muslims!

Look out for your fellow marginalized people!

[everythingfox]

Halloween cat

[gallusrostromegalus]

Today's Adventure is that I, after an unintentional 13-hour power nap,

Got woken up at 6AM by a phone call from a friend stranded in Montana because of the heat wave and almost no cell service because of their crap provider.

OhSoThat'sHowIt'sGonnaBe.jpg

Ok.

I somehow summon a week's worth of spoons and in less than 30 minutes and 5 phone calls, get them

A hotel

An appointment with a mechanic from 2 states away

A perscription refilled from 2 states away

and A Pizza

Go me.

But then it's 8AM and there are unscheduled live humans at the door and while EVERGENCY MODE is still on, I have already blown through a ton of spoons, and also probably shouldn't meet whoever it is wearing just a pair of bootyshorts that say "CRYPTID" in Gothic Font on my ass.

So I greet them in those shorts and a T-shirt that I manage to put on both inside out and backwards

#nailedit

It is, Fortunately, not the mormons.

it is, Unfortunately, two UPS guys trying to deliver my other in-house friend's new phone except the new guy doesn't know how to operate the "sign for package" device, and the old guy that's supposed to be mentoring him is like, 92, deaf as a post, and doesn't actually know how to operate the device either.

by the way

it is already

over 100 out

it takes almost 30 minutes to sign for the phone

when i get back inside, i discover that apparently the Corgi has learned how to open his kennel from the inside because he is now out of the kennel and waiting for me to come in.

he also has cat litter all over his face because while he was waiting for me he also learned how to open the baby gate to the cat's room and help himself to a cat shit breakfast.

He'll be fine

He's a cattle dog, they're legally required to have at least 1 really disgusting snack they love.

but

more to the point

i have no idea at what point he learned to open his kennel from the inside

has he been staying there out of politeness this whole time??

And

I got other shit to do today.

namely.

I'm seeing a realator

The Devils most pathetic yet effective demons

I get a reminder text that I have an appointment with her

at least

I think that's what it is because what she sends me is: "🏡⏰12:00 ❔"

With the time typed in the middle like that.

She is, according to her profile, at least 80.

so I reply "😎👍"

and then she sends me a string of GODDAMN POST-MODERN EMOJI HEIROGLYPHICS THAT TAKE UP MY ENTIRE SCREEN.

She's on an iPhone so half of them don't even translate across platforms

It takes me half an hour and three different software programs and goddamn wingdings to translate, but she has sent me the address and rules about masking and not wearing shoes inside.

in emoji

instead of like

literally any other format

I am

FASCINATED

and simply must meet the woman so if I don't come back to update I got stolen by the fairies but I'm taking the Corgi with me as protection so I'll see y'all later.