Mote 2.0 Reminder
This is a reminder that the deadline for essays for Magic on the Edge 2.0 are due by October 15th. What I need is a rough draft. Right now I have approximately 9 essays, but I need more if this anthology is going to go to print. I’ve received one new essay and promises of [...]
Of Words and Worlds
I’ve always been fascinated by how words can create worlds. Or maybe its better to say they channel worlds. Regardless, what fascinates me the most is that the word is really an expression of reality that is half way between idea and reality. It is the beginning manifestation of possibility into reality, a way [...]
Discourse and Self-Secret Language
I’ve just started reading The Six Yogas of Naropa and in the preface the editor makes a very interesting point about self-secret language. He notes that not every person that reads a book will get it, because even if s/he knows the words of the language, it doesn’t mean s/he understands the message and meaning. [...]
Audience and Responsibility
Mike recently posted about audience, and specifically writing for audience, in terms of what topics should be covered and who might read what he writes. It’s an interesting quandary and one I’ve occasionally thought about in regards to this blog. What do I choose to say? What do I choose to reveal? How responsible am [...]
The influence of Cut-up on my magical work
Reading over some of the bibliographic articles in thee Psychick Bible reminded me of my own history with the cut-up technique that William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin developed. In the spring of 1998, I had the fortune to take an English literature class that focused on the works of William S. Burroughs. The professor [...]
Cut-up writing as a gateway to spiritual transmission
I’ve been reading Thee Psychick Bible for a little while now and came across an article by Genesis where he notes the following: No matter how short, or apparently unrecognizable a sample might be in linear time perception, I believe it must, inevitably, contain within it the sum total of absolutely everything its original context [...]
The role of concepts in magical works
Another interesting post from Mike on the word concepts. The more I read about his system, the more I understand it both in terms of entity work and in terms of using language for magical purposes. He explains the following with concepts: Communication is actually about concepts, not words. You wouldn’t have a problem sending [...]
An update on My New Book, Magical Identity
Here’s a picture of the cover, done by Kat Lunoe. Doesn’t it look great? Magical Identity is currently being edited. I had to switch editors, which pushed the book release date back to March of 2012. However I’m not presenting at Pantheacon this year, so it actually works out that the book will be [...]
Call for Papers/Writers: Queer Magic Anthology
E-mail for inquiries and submissions: aediculaantinoi (at) hotmail (dot) com; please put “Queer Magic Anthology” in your subject line. Megalithica Books, an imprint of Immanion Press (Stafford, U.K./Portland, OR, U.S.A.) is STILL seeking submissions for an anthology on queer magic and/or ritual. For the purposes of this publication, “queer” is primarily defined as anything of [...]
How I like experimental magic to other people’s practices
Recently when I taught a class on Space at Pantheacon, one of the issues I had to address was how my focus on space could actually be converted to other people’s more traditional practices of magic. I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a traditional magician by any means, although I am well versed [...]
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