I don’t imagine too many of you have had the experience of flaking flint or obsidian into tools. It’s not too hard to get a sharp edge, but to actually craft a reliable tool that you won’t accidentally maim yourself with, that won’t shatter when you use it… that’s pretty hard. Pressure flaking is an [...]
Magickal Record 04-23-07
My self immolation continues. Although, at least, I burn in a good way. Sift my ashes, if you will.
My apparent fruition seems to be holding up. I’m not having visions of Moses and Elijah in the garden or anything, but there seems to a be a real difference that’s holding. I will save the [...]
Building a Better Brand: Back on the Rails
In mainstream science, it’s well understood that progress proceeds through a process known as subsumption. Meaning, earlier and and more rudimentary understandings and processes are incorporated into the assumptions that later understandings and processes are founded upon.
Seems simple right? But in ‘magick’ this is often not the case. Often because of the ritualistic, culturally bounded, [...]
Building a Better Brand: …We Are, After All, Professionals
So before we go any farther I want to go back and clarify what it is we mean exactly by depth experience, gnostic state or magickal trance, because these are not only versions of the same thing, but also exist on a line of continuity that includes things you probably take for granted. [...]
Building a Better Brand: The Great Leap Forward
So, now that we’ve described a rather large space, wherein a fairly universal process proceeds in pretty much everyone, how do we narrow that down? How do we go from infants munching the carpet, to practitioners of science in the ‘deep’ sense?
What we’re really asking here is what makes a ‘magician’ what they [...]
Building a Better Brand: Do the Evolution, Baby
So, let’s knock down another wall, and this is the fetishised conceptual distinction between magicians, and ‘regular’ people, and since we have already demolished that wall, between regular people and proper scientists.
Nothing is every going to admit most people into the dogmatic halls of the scientistic priesthood, just as no [...]
Building a Better Brand: Return of the Prodigal
So the first thing we need to do is start knocking down some walls. And the first wall is the one that’s grown up between science and magick. It’s funny how easily people forget people like Alfred North Whitehead, Giordano Bruno, Wilhelm Reich, Roger Bacon, John Dee, Nikola- fucking-Tesla already!
And no I’m [...]
Building a Better Brand: Welcome to the Swarm
So, proceeding carefully, let talk about what I’m trying to do, and just as important, what I’m NOT trying to do.
It’s no secret I’m interested in exploring the cutting edge of unfolding human potentials. It’s no secret I’d like to see more people take up that discipline. But what I’ve come to realise is that [...]
Building a Better Brand: Magick in the Ghetto
Anyone who hangs around here for any length of time will probably quickly get the impression that I’m talking about something called ‘magick’ or variously, alchemy, hermeticism, yoga, or any number of other things. It’s sitting prominently in my sidebar, I refer to it in almost all of my podcasts, and the [...]
Magickal Record 04-07-07
Once more ’round the posts, I guess.
It’s been about a week since my fruition apparently dropped, and I do like to wait after these type of things to get a handle on what did or did not happen.
After my first profound mystical experience, I told a couple people that I was one with god, and [...]
