The Story Within the Story – Inspiration

Hello. C J here. Welcome to my new series of posts about the inspiration and real life history behind the Astral setting. With the mini-conventions planned and novel writing done for the time being most of my job is playing Minecraft and typesetting the cookbook. This project was next on my list so I thought I’d take a break from Minecraft to type it up. There will be several of these posts here.

Fiction is rarely as made up or fake as it seems. A good novel, especially one in the fantasy genre, has to be realistic enough to be believed. People can just tell if a spell, story concept, or magic location makes sense. How? Why? Because magic is real. I don’t mean stage magic. I mean the sorcery kind.

The Astral setting is supposed to every spirituality, occult system and mystical practice all meeting together and coexisting within one galaxy called Creation. Creation is vast and this is the part of it where everyone meets on equal terms. I’d list the books and spiritual disciplines I’ve studied for this but that list is so long I can’t remember half of it.

The magic is real though, make no doubt about it. People often doubt this. I don’t really see why, personally, but then again I’m also a trained psychic, medium, Norse rune reader and specifically not a clairvoyant because that’s not a method I use. Magic is real and I guess people just don’t think they deserve to have it. By the way all of the cards in Regency are spells that work in real life. Regency is just me drawing images of things I’ve found in spell books and on tarot cards.

I’m a trained Norse rune reader and they do not ever tell you your future. In fact I’ve had my runes insult people several times who asked for what the meaning of life was, what their life purpose was, or similarly wishy-washy questions. Like, the reading read as follows.

Death

The Imminent Demise of All Things You Love

Suffering

So never ask for your future. You won’t get it. Instead all they will tell you is how to accomplish a goal. If you go in with a task, especially a business project or idea, they will tell you exactly on the dot word for word what to do with it in steps you can use. At least they will if I’m the one reading them for you. And, to clarify, I never ask what a person’s question is. They never tell me.

I’m not trying to prove anything here. You don’t prove things about spirituality. I can talk to ghosts though and I’ve been paid money on jobs because no one else could calm the local ghost down other than me. And if it’s not calmed down? Well, then it throws something at your head. It’s happened. Not to me.

C J Mcpherson