| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
Advanced Sigil Projection I: An Inverted Cosmology
Over the years I’ve gotten continual requests for magick instruction from readers, which puts me in an odd position. First of all, I think the concept of magick in general is ridiculous. From what I’ve experienced, the only reason we think of this sort of thing as magick has to do with a profound and fundamental ignorance in regards to all things altered states of consciousness. If we knew more about this sort of shit or gasp, studied it, we wouldn’t think of it as magick anymore. We’d call it something else, something less mysterious and vague. And that’d be the other thing, I don’t honestly think you can learn this stuff in books or classes really. At least this has been my experience. You have to learn it by means of direct contact with the spirit world, which typically happens in some sort of altered state. That all being said, it has recently occurred to me I have in fact downloaded a ton of psychic intel into my being over the last 10 years of practice that could in fact be potentially helpful to an aspiring mage. I recently released my first largely channeled book (only a $5 download, it’ll totally re-write your cultural imprinting), but that’s almost an art book as much as it is a magick book, albeit a living art book mind you.
Mainly, when someone asks me about whether or not a particular book or class is a good one, I’ll take a quick look and go, ummm, well, that’s not remotely what I’d recommend, but ultimately I have no clue. In general it strikes me that a lot of say chaos magick is more influenced by atheism than anything else. It’s sort of taking the spirituality out of the equation and from what I’ve been shown, this stuff operates on a deep spiritual level that I personally don’t remotely comprehend. So I think you’re missing probably the most important aspect of the practice if you go that route. In fact, the most continual message that’s come through hypnagogic ether over the years in my microverse is that thought does not arise from matter, but rather matter is comprised from thought. I keep waking up in an alternate realm and having this explained to me over and over again. Look, your world is made of imagination at its core. Then I pull back into the tedium of my waking existence and am like, I get it on one level, but on another I don’t, which is why I imagine why they keep beating it into me. When you take this most fundamental of lessons out of your underlying philosophy, I’m not really certain magick is going to do a whole hell of a lot. In fact, the popular history of the Occult sort of leads one to believe that magick in general doesn’t work at all. More to the point, I’ve been sort of forced to confront the fact that because of organized religion’s calculated slandering of the craft, it currently attracts people who are going to use it to self-destruct quite spectacularly.
And yet you also have the ancient pyramids and all of these megalithic architectural sites which point to a star obsessed spirit science beyond what we’re currently capable of with all our flashy electronic technology. You also have new research into psychedelic drugs which is quite quickly demonstrating that you can create more profound spiritual experiences by calculatedly manipulating brain chemistry than you ever could by singing hymns in a church or reading the Bible obsessively. Another way to put that would be, culturally we think shamanism is a bunch of superstitious bullshit, but science has now formally proven that it’s not. Sorry about the genocide y’all. Our bad on all that. You also have meditation, which has now been repeatedly demonstrated to have all kinds of mental and physical benefits. And on the far end of the spectrum you have remote viewing, which again, has been demonstrated to work over and over again (albeit not nearly as effectively as military interests would have liked), but gets completely ignored by mainstream science and society because we can’t deal with the implications. And the implications are fucking weird to say the least.
Philosophers stone – selected views from the boat http://philosophers-stone.co.uk
Source: http://www.phoenixisrisen.co.uk/?p=10514
