Monday, November 23, 2020

Industrial Post-Modernism

Industrial society can be seen as starting roughly around the time of the printing press. Our use of technology vastly predates that. I’ve often wondered if language wasn’t our first technology, in which case there’s an argument that technology is innate in our ancestral heritage. Like most things in our ancestral heritage, our relationship to it can be of great benefit. There are two important threads I’d like to follow through Industrialization. One is centralized banking interest, and the now infamous consolidation of wealth into the hands of just a few. The second, is the shift from familial/ancestral groupings to prescribed identity subcultures that has been happening since the sixties.  

The great empires of the past leave their legacy in the technology we use today. This can be seen in simple language, in the foreign turns of phrase, or legends that are adopted, in aesthetics, the art, architecture, style and clothing that is ascribed to the culture. There are even vast tendrils of empire that reach through history we are unaware of. For example, the rockets built for the American SpaceX launch in 2020 were built to the measurement of an Imperial Roman war chariot. This is because of a bizarre relationship between American railways and British railways, and railway workers and wagon building. 


The tools for wagon building were all set to accommodate the ruts in the roads in Europe which were created by the Roman Empire’s standard chariot size. The railway workers were also the wagon workers, and used the same tools. When Americans imported the workers, they brought their same tools. So rockets for all the spaceships, which travel by train, are built to a standardized measurement of a horses ass. Brings a new meaning to the phrase ‘All roads lead to Rome.’


The imprint of previous empires cannot be denied and yet it is the current American empire which has seen the abundant growth of the world population from around seven hundred million, to seven billion. There are many factors that had to be in play for this to occur, not least of them the political atmosphere that fostered the technological growth in America. Regardless of alternate histories or advanced pre-civilizations, modern industrialization is the story of the rise of the American empire. 


The American Empire has a bad reputation. For anyone who has been alive during the American Century (1900-1999) the endless foreign wars and pointless wars of ideology (drugs, terror) were a blight on an otherwise very comfortable and complacent period. If one sees the World Wars as being funded and orchestrated by generational wealth in Europe in order to further the political control of central banking institutions, much of the history of the past century begins to make much more sense. The tentacles of centralized banking had already seized hold of the American governance mechanisms by the time the World Wars came about, and the World Wars themselves would not have happened if it weren’t for the collusion of media, corporate, and banking industries in what we now call the Military Industrial Complex.


The shadow of the American Century is the Communist foil to the American ingenuity. Whereas the structure of Communism incentivizes cooperation:


‘From each according to their ability, to each according to their need’ 


Capitalism incentivizes competition;


‘A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.’


The irony of both systems is that as they are egregores themselves, they are subject to the principles of polarity. So while Communism is formulated to incentivize cooperation, in extreme it rewards divisive behaviour such as laziness and snitching. Capitalism is supposed to incentivize competition, but in extremes it rewards violence, and unfair practices. Neither are necessarily the true intentions of the people who believe in the systems, but rather a sublimation of the drives which run counter to the ideology. The biggest difference between Capitalism and Communism is the type of behaviour that is rewarded to rise in the dominance hierarchy.


The beginning of the 20th century was a strange overlapping of global narratives. The British Empire, which had been the pre-eminent imperial power, was in decline. Hot on the heels of this decline were the last vestiges of European nobility trying to lay claim to whatever they could during a power vacuum. Coupled with a number of tricky allegiances and treaties, and a mis-timed assassination, and you have the conventional story as to why the first World War happened. Of course, nowhere is anyone mentioning blood magicians orchestrating the deaths of millions to further their exo-political goals. 


An important detail is the change in family structure over this time period. Somehow despite a shrinking family structure we have ended up with more people. At the onset of industrialization, families with over ten children were not uncommon. By the beginning of the American Century, there was already a shift towards the nuclear family. By the end of the twentieth century, we see common trends across the first world of negative birth rates. And yet, even with the trend towards smaller families,  humanity has exploded in world population. There are a number of factors, not the least of them hygiene. 


The cleanliness and hygiene movement of the early twentieth century can be seen as mitigating the majority of diseases that had previously plagued humanity. Although many would attribute some of the success to advents in medicine and pharmaceuticals, these discoveries, including vaccines, and penicillin, were found as disease in the west was in decline. The pace of life had been changed by industrialization, and the production surpluses, along with the health and wellness of humanity was the perfect breeding ground for a population explosion. Counter to this thriving push towards mass population, were a number of groups who saw this rapid population explosion as a potentially threatening development. 


Very famously in Britain the Fabian society was formed. It had a number of high ranking intelligentsia of the day pass through their ranks, and still exists today. Their symbol is a wolf in sheep’s skin, and their philosophy is that gradual change can affect revolution much more effectively than open revolution. Two striking novelists who spent some time with the Fabians were Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell. There is a similarity of critique in the books ‘Brave New World’ and ‘1984’ which can be seen as a reaction to Fabian goals. George Bernard Shaw, prominent member and a notoriously outspoken playwright and activist said: 


“I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I want to kill. Not in any unkind or personal spirit. But it must be evident to all of you, you must all know half a dozen people at least, who are no use in this world; who are more trouble than they are worth. And I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board just as he might come before the income tax commissioners and say every 5 years or every 7 years, just put them there, and say, sir or madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can’t justify your existence; if you’re not pulling your weight in the social boat; if you are not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.”


This sort of arrogant extension of a desired philosophy into someone else’s domain is at the core of neoliberalism and the ultimate critique of collectivist ideology. In order to lawfully involve yourself in someone else’s domain, one requires permission or trust. Throughout the beginning of the American Empire there is an emergent pattern of the extremely wealthy investing significant resources into causes which outwardly seem altruistic, but are actually a means of gaining enough trust and permission from the population to extend their true machinations into our every day lives. This is a pattern that has been repeated over and over by billionaires such as John D Rockefeller, Jacob Rothschild, and even in modern times Bill Gates has followed the same blueprint. Once the fortune has been made, spend some pittance rehabilitating the image whilst establishing numerous avenues by which to profit from their ‘philanthropy’.

One needs only to look at the fruits of the so called ‘philanthropy’ to get a clearer picture of the sociological drive behind the spending of large amounts of money. Much like the quote from Shaw above, the true drive for most of the ultra-rich are so disconnected from a commoners reality that their true nature can be difficult to accept. On a micro level, everyone has heard and accepts that the Catholic Church has had a number of scandals involving child abuse. This is a sharp contrast to any other examinations of possible groups of pedophiles in positions of extreme wealth or power. If one of the oldest and most powerful institutions in the world finds itself complicit in pedophiliac behaviour, and the active covering up of this behaviour for centuries, how difficult would it be for other institutions to be infiltrated and controlled in this manner? Since the madness of the 2016 elections, the subsequent leaked and hacked information that has come out points to complicity at the highest levels of government, science, and industry. The arrests of Epstein and Maxwell were also obvious signs of the depth of depravity intelligence agencies have gone in the name of obtaining leverage or control. 

It’s very easy to accept these concepts in abstract. But when it comes time to put them into practice it’s much more difficult. So much of socialization is agreeing on aspects of reality. When one chooses to look beyond the agreed reality, it can be disconcerting to those who have not. The reality of the scientific, industrial, and political world being controlled by a cabal of pedophile blood magicians is a horrible thought. The truth is, all these hidden aspects of reality are not as much hidden as ignored, or conveniently forgotten. We all, on a base level, understand and agree to participate in the hegemony so long as certain conveniences and luxuries are afforded. 

One of the narratives of the late twentieth century is the consolidation of corporations into multinationals, effectively reducing the number of different companies in existence. On a fiduciary level, we’ve seen the military industrial complex continue forcefully installing central banks in the handful of countries still holding out. This centralization of power is carefully augmented by a global propaganda network that hides the true aims of this process of centralization. These propaganda networks serve to program society to emotionally accept ideas that are useful for the blood magicians, and to discard or avoid ideas which are detrimental to their goals. During modern times, this process has been hidden under the term ‘Globalization’. 

During the past few years we have seen increasing censorship in the media in the west. From whistleblowers like Julian Assange, or Edward Snowden, to the treatment of politically inconvenient mouthpieces like Alex Jones or Donald Trump. There is a push to severely limit the replication of memetic ideas across social and traditional media, and though it’s spectacularly failed numerous times, there is an inexorable interest for the blood magicians to control the narratives we spin to make sense of reality. More powerful than control of a nations money, is control of a nation’s narrative. The stories we tell ourselves in order to keep waking up and going to work, the stories we tell ourselves in order to fall asleep. Control of these is the final push of the centralized banking blood magician cabal, and we are fortunate enough to see this play out in real time. 

At the start of the 20th century, a new narrative gaming profession was established, called public relations (PR firms). Edward Bernays, the infamous nephew of Sigmund Freud began selling influence and advertising in ways previously unthought. Using techniques that would capitalize on the public's untrained psyche, desires and consent were manufactured, at first in accordance to group identity, and later when this form of advertisement was no longer as successful, it was manufactured as a choosing of individual identity. This weaponizing of individualism is the means by which the families who maintain the system have been able to ensure no challenges arise to their hegemony.

So to recap, the American Empire thrust the world into industrialization and free market capitalism, but drew the ire of the centralized banking cabal in the process. Using a philosophy of gradualism, these cabals use influence, bribery, blackmail, usury, and violence to practice regulatory and governmental capture. Once the internet shook the complete control of narrative that existed through much of this process, a push was made to censor and control which information can be ‘freely’ spread. Many of the cultural narratives that we grew up on were planted and fostered by this cabal. The most insidious of these narratives are the ones that push us away from family and reproduction, framing them as burdensome or reducing the individual’s freedom. It doesn’t take much digging to realize there are massive operations in place to try and limit the reproduction of the masses. This was never more clear than during the 20th century, when the true wealth of industrialization was pit against an increasing paucity of communal thriving.













Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Bankers

There are few egregores as powerful as money. Money, like any other thing in this world, has many occult layers to be peeled back. Money is anything which is generally accepted as payment for goods and services, as well as repayment of debts. Money serves the use of storing value, as well as being a unit of account and medium of exchange. Marx equated the value of money to scarcity and time. Some money theories propose that money is a social contract, an agreement to cooperate as a society.

Money historically has followed geographic borders, its use being enforced by state interest. But let’s examine money from a metaphysical perspective. Money, being an abstraction, is a codified collective energy people use to advance themselves, both individually and collectively. And yet, almost universally we bemoan money as ‘the root of all evil’, and the lack of money is more common than not. This is because of a fascinating mechanism called interest, historically known as usury.


I actually enjoy the descriptor of interest because it can accurately represents the extra attention paid on a currency because of current market events, or expectations of future events. Unfortunately, when centralized control of currency occurs, the mechanism of interest, or usury, can exert controls over people through inflation and deflation. In a natural system, if someone has a monopoly it is because they have cornered a technique or a resource that others have yet to discover. In a free system, within a short period of time another source for that resource, or a similar/better technique will be discovered. The only way a monopoly can be maintained is through state enforced law making. Unfortunately it is through this mechanism we see historically a repetition of money changers, bankers, establishing private monopolies on centralized control of currency.


Cultures globally have mostly similar attitudes towards interest. All the Abrahamic religions shun it, Buddhism shuns it, even Marxism is very clear on the abhorrent nature of it. The bible actually has a fair number of laws regarding money, including the forgiving and resetting of debts every seven years, called a Jubilee. One of the first recorded stories of usury is in the bible. The money changers cornered the market on silver half shekels that were accepted by the temple, and were making a mint off people’s religious offerings. They could charge whatever the people could afford for the coins, far above the value of the silver. All the other coins of the time were stamped with emperors or kings, and not suitable offerings. 

Usury centralizes money wealth where the means of production are dispersed. It does not alter the mode of production, but attaches itself firmly to it like a parasite and makes it wretched. It sucks out its blood, enervates it and compels reproduction to proceed under ever more pitiable conditions.” - Karl Marx, Capital


Capitalism thrives without interest. One of the longest used and most stable currencies in human history was the Tally Stick, and the split tally technique of the Middle Ages remained in use until the 20th century. It was a simple wooden stick, carved and split to denote a debt. Primitive, but one of the longest lasting currencies in human history. On an energetic level, without the need to centralize a decentralized energy, a system becomes more efficient and more stable.


Usury brings with it a number of tools to further deceive the common person. Interest on a fixed supply is impossible, so new money is constantly needed. This means that once markets like gold, or silver, (which though they are not a fixed supply are rare enough to act like one,) have been cornered (monopolized), different tactics are needed to further syphon wealth from the population. Fractional reserve lending is one such tactic.


Fractional reserve banking is easier explained during it’s infancy back before banks as we know them existed. Banks were preceded by private individuals who were originally goldsmiths, gold workers, or otherwise owned guards and a large vault. People would keep their gold in that vault for safety, and in return were issued promissory notes, usually in paper/papyrus form. These notes were then traded as though they were gold, as humans are excellent at abstraction, and abstracting abstraction etc. The problem comes in when some clever goldsmiths begin using the gold in their vaults, and dipping into the gold that isn’t theirs. At a certain point, the amount of gold in the vault becomes less than the amount of notes out in circulation. This is never a problem, unless everyone decides to get their gold back at the same time. This happens when people have reason to distrust the bank, and/or crises. Historically, bankers would end up being executed when bank runs occurred.


There is a great history of how the house Bauer, née Rothschild cornered the central banking power in Europe, but they are only a part of a much larger history of families dating back to antiquity who have been working the various magics of economic enchantment, and slight of mind to control vast swaths of society. Centralized control of currency metaphysically is allowing the siphoning of the codified, collective energy we use to better ourselves. This is incredible power being stolen from us, and when you consider how relatively small the population of these families are, they can be viewed as a breakaway cabal of magicians of blood magicians. Funding both sides of every war back to antiquity, the enchantment relies on a number of sacrifices to be made, of both blood (life) and humanity (morals). This is not just true of war time, but during times of peace as well, and this is why we think of money as the root of all evil. 


“Evil is a real life sport when the one who’s burnt turns to pass the torch” -  Fiona Apple


We are so ensconced in the enchantment, we don’t see the parasitic slight of mind occurring with our money. There have been many people who have seen through this deception though. One of the more interesting examples would be Andy Warhol, signing a one hundred dollar bill and selling it for one thousand. Another would be seventh American president Andrew Jackson, who famously spent his career trying to rid America of the tentacles of centralized banking. Another would be Satoshi Nakomoto (likely Adam Back), who in 2009 launched Bitcoin, a deflationary cryptographic asset on a distributed ledger. 


Having less energy siphoned away, we will thrive. Ultimately the goal is to have commonly accepted currencies that can be as unencumbered as we choose. The families that control the central banks are too well hidden and protected at this point to be rooted out. Likely, we are talking about beings that do not view themselves as part of the same civilization as us, and they may not be at this point. That is of no consequence, because when a critical mass of people see past the slight of mind, the enchantment will be broken.  

Friday, August 21, 2020

Alternate Histories

History as we know it is a lie. It is a very useful lie that is told in order to maintain power structure. As we established in the first part, because our understanding or interaction is affected by our contextual relationship to what is being interacted with, history is ever changing and evolving. Revisionist history comes forward and tries to combat established history, post-revisionists try and find a happy middle ground, and anything too far on the fringes gets shunned or memory-holed. The only true history, is the living history of our DNA, genetic and epigenetic information passed down by our ancestors. Almost everything else is suspect, although architecture, geology, and written record are the best physical places to find this info.

As such it’s extremely difficult to speak of certainty about human history past a few generations. For the purposes of exploration though, a certain amount of suspension of disbelief is needed. For a magician, history is about usefulness and accuracy more than reinforcing stories most have memorized in order to remain docile within a system controlled by other more powerful magicians.


Throughout the canon on accepted history, one finds a recurring theme of great rulers having mystical advisors or confidents. In antiquity the stories are of rulers who were magical (Solomon, Akhenaten, Sargon). There are some who argue that Jesus was a magician, whose story was later corrupted from its Gnostic roots in order to serve the Roman Empire (at the council of Nicaea). Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great both spent a night inside the king’s chamber in the Great Pyramid, reportedly having visions about their destiny as rulers. This drove Napoleon the first to attempt the same, whereby he emerged from the pyramid and proclaimed himself emperor. Most historical records seem to show that from the time of Jesus until present, leaders with mystical powers recur less often, and instead the mystic began appearing in the role of advisor. John Dee, famously for Queen Elizabeth the first, was allegedly the first person to coin the term and concept ’The British Empire’, for better or worse. Rasputin was infamously tied to the Romanov dynasty, who lost their monarchy shortly after his assassination. 

In Canada, Prime Minister William Mackenzie King was well known for using mediums, spiritualists, to contact the dead. Heinrich Himmler was famously obsessed with the occult, leading to many legends about Nazi’s that have made their way into popular culture. Julius Evola and Aleister Crowley both were in contact with their respective governments. President François Duvalier and his son President Jean-Claude were reviled in Haiti for their practices of Vodou. Recently, South Korean president Park Gun-hye was embroiled in a political scandal for her reliance on occult advisor Choi Soon-sil. The prominence of high level occultists in politics is much more common than not. History is full of famous politicians, inventors, and artists who have been initiated in the hermetic arts. Consider the long list of Freemasons that litter Western politics. Consider the odd familial relationships most people in politics share. It’s likely that variations of hermetic knowledge has been taught and kept within bloodlines. 

In gnostic hermeticism there is a teaching that people are of three characters; Hylic, Psychic, or Pneumatic. The Hylic have an unawakened soul, and as such no spirit, and are more condensed matter. The psychic is said to have an awakened soul, but only fledgling spirit. Pneumatics are described as having an awakened soul and spirit, Gnosis. Compare this cosmology with famed artist (and occultist) Leonardo Da Vinci ’There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.’ 


Occultists have influenced the direction of society from time immemorial. This is the hidden history of the world, that of combatting tribes of magicians whose work define the reality most of us live in. Whether or not you believe in the energetic pattern we shorthand as the ‘soul’, there is a definite battle being waged unseen to harness your life energy for others’ Will. Whether this is through economic money magic, or the various belief systems and religions that have been cultivated, the trade off is convenience and inclusion into the tribe, very powerful incentives.


The native language of black magic/blood magic is calculus, and geometry. Occult practitioners are the basis for modern science. Alchemy became chemistry, astrology became astronomy, metaphysics became physics, and the occult knowledge has remained hidden. Famous historical figures often have their ties to the occult down-played for obvious reasons, but back to Pythagoras, mathematic knowledge was rooted in the occult. Even in modern history, Newton, and Franklin, renowned for their scientific contributions, were both avid occultists whose scientific work was intimately tied to their occult work.


Modern rocketry is steeped in the occult. Jack Parsons, who started NASA’s JPL (originally Jack Parson’s Laboratory) was a member of the OTO, where he notoriously brought Ron L. Hubbard in to his lodge. The aftermath of all this resulted in Parson being kicked out of NASA, and Hubbard running off with Parson’s wife and money and starting Scientology. From 1934 to 1944, without ever completing a college degree, Parsons changed the course of modern rocketry. 


In Germany, the Thule society was formed in the ashes of WWI, trying to find a racial destiny amongst the occult histories of Europe and Asia. This ideology was part of the wave of sentiment that brought Hitler to power. The Nazi’s were also heavily interested in the occult. Although much of the information is difficult to find, it is well documented that Himmler formed a society called the Ahnenerbe to search out and document the occult. At the end of the war during Project Paperclip, the OSS/CIA imported all the high level Nazi scientists, and they went on to staff these high level Nazi scientists in the OSS, CIA, to run programs such as COINTELPRO, MKULTRA, and the Space Race. 


Past the 60’s the occult undergoes a revolution, and becomes mainstream. Songs about the ‘Age of Aquarius’ float through pop culture while sightings of alien beings that look suspiciously like the entity Aleister Crowley contacted (Lam) begin occurring. The Church of Satan is formed openly, as is the Church of Scientology. Musicians and celebrities experiment with Eastern philosophies and religions. Psychedelics become commonplace. The Wiccan revival begins in earnest, as atheism finds its first strong voices. Free sex, feminism, civil and gay rights all come part and parcel. The dark side of all this newfound freedom is the loss of innocence, as those who partake in the world of the occult become more subject to it’s influences. Truly powerful occultists operate brazenly while being shielded by low level cults such as The Source Family, The Manson Family, and the Jonestown settlement. With the fading ethical framework of ancestral socio-religious structure, birthrates begin to drop. Society falls further into the grips of one of the oldest and strongest enchantments, perpetrated by the largest cabal of co-operating blood magicians, the modern central banking scheme.










Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Magic

I'm not gonna use the 'k' just because i think it's pretentious to draw distinction between slight of hand illusions and tricking the mind illusions that most magic involves. 

A healthy dose of skepticism is great whenever you're confronted with potentially life altering information. Please keep truly skeptical of anything I write, but also eschew pessimism. I subscribe to Willhelm Reich's theory that pessimism is a psychic plague, and I see most debunking/skepticism these days as exercises in how to narrow your reality tunnel. The true skeptic (in the Pyrrhic definition) knows that real knowledge may be impossible.


Myself I'm a chaos magic practitioner and have been for close to two decades. A lot of ritual magic puts me off because of the hierarchies involved... they reminds me too much of organized religion. But after carefully evaluating the many ways in which I can navigate reality, magic definitely gives me the best framework to understand my existence. I've read a bit of Carroll and Hine, but definitely find more affinity with people like Robert Anton Wilson and Christopher Hyatt, Alan Moore and Grant Morrisson, especially his extrapolation of Spare's sigil work. Lately I’ve been going deeper into Hermeticism, with a healthy dose of Alchemy. 


The basic definitions of modern magic have to be from Crowley, reviled as he may be. 'Do as thou will shall be the whole of the law; love under law' might be a better maxim than 'nothing is true, everything is permitted' especially coming into the next few years. Also his definition of magic as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will." is fairly air tight. Succinct although somewhat projective, ‘All is Mind’ from the Kyballion is also a quite useful principle.


So as I understand it magic breaks down to three parts


1. meditation 

2. ritual 

3. action 


Another interesting model for describing navigation of consciousness is Leary and Wilson's 8 circuit model:


1. Bio-survival Circuit

2. Emotional-Territorial Circuit

3. Dextro-Symbolic Circuit

4. Ethical-Social Circuit

5. Neurosomatic circuit.

6. Metaprogramming circuit

7. Neuro-genetic Circuit

8. Non-local Circuit


One can see magic as having a gradient of emotional value, but for the purpose of the first five circuits of consciousness, we can divide magic into three ethical categories:


1. White Magic - Magic worked upon oneself.

2. Grey Magic - Magic worked upon another at their request.

3. Black Magic - Magic worked upon another against their will or knowledge.


Existence and consciousness are extremely perplexing, we've been trying to comprehend the reason for our existence and the nature of our mind for centuries if not millennia. I would posit that the study of magic is related to our perceptual experiences much the same way the study of linguistics can relate to whatever languages you find yourself fluent in.


Clarke's 3rd law:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.


Technology, in Clarke’s third law could be replaced with a number of different variables. Pretty much anything (language, consciousness, beings) too advanced for our understanding of reality will either be completely ignored or appear anomalous, be inexplainable, or worse, poorly explained.


A magical action is 'any instantiation of the will causing a desired change in reality.' and yes these are very very loose definitions. Magic in no way means paranormal, mystical or occult. It can mean these things, in fact many powerful magical acts appear to have occult basis and cause paranormal results, but it is not limited to them. Magic needn't be a mental telekinesis. It can be, I have never seen it, but I wouldn't discount the possibility. To paraphrase John Lilly, ‘in the domain of the mind the only limits one finds are created by the mind, and even those limits can be studied and overcome.’


So yes, the simple action of opening a door is a magic action. It is so common place to us that we'd never call it that, but it is. Tricking an audience with slight of hand is magic. Convincing a congregation to pay tithes is an act of magic. Gleaning any measure of understanding from the words on your computer screen is an act of magic, if you don’t understand how it’s done. The idea of magic is not to mystify the mundane, but to catalogue, understand, and navigate the mundane and the extraordinary as parts/facets of the same experiential reality. 


Once learning to read and write, the world isn't necessarily any less mysterious or fulfilling, you just have access to different indices of information, ones you didn't have access to before. Picture a rock, on the ground. Would the rock exist without consciousness? What if rocks are conscious and actually display the hallmarks of consciousness only on a magnitude of time inconceivable to humans? What if a hundred years down the line we discover that rocks are actually complex inorganic computation devices and we start using rocks instead of laptops and cell phones? It is in this manner that subjectivity or context appears to change the 'existence' of things outside of ourselves. 


Calling this magic is as contentious as calling the bio-electro-magnetic force that orders matter 'god’. There is, however, a truly magical aspect to this reality. Every moment of reality contains the entirety of existence. As far as I can tell there are infinite potentiate realities and it is our belief systems that allow us to navigate them. On a very basic level it could be as simple as your emotional attitude creating a domino effect on the people around you. It could also be as complex as completely changing a routine and ending up somewhere you never expected.


Magic is not synonymous with the Will. I believe magic is the science and art of instantiating will power to produce an accordant effect. Acts of magic are as meaningful as you make them, but generally the greater the change you wish to affect, the more energy needed for the act of magic. Desire is not the Will either, but desire may lead one to discovering their Will. Drives Theory in psychoanalysis is a good explanation of the way Will works in the first four circuits of consciousness. 


Magic is useful as a base operating system, as it  allows for the easiest cross-navigation of belief systems, it embraces the infinitely subjective nature of reality. As far as I can tell there are infinite potentiate realities and it is our belief systems that allow us to navigate them. On a very basic level it could be as simple as your emotional attitude creating a domino effect on the people around you. It could also be as complex as completely changing a routine and ending up somewhere you never expected.Each one of us creates the world that we glean meaning from. Cross pollination of ideas is the basis of all intellectual growth, and magic forces one to contend with synchronistic similarities across diverse studies and realities that otherwise may go unnoticed. We can discuss truth as subjectivity, because truth is an idea, like time, or the economy. It's a value that we assign to a collective definition, it relies on human minds to process and ideas to articulate itself.


I've heard of many different calendar systems, from the Gregorian to the Hebrew lunar calendar to the short-lived French 100 day/year calendar, to the infamous Mayan calendar. They are all  'maps of reality' (maps of time/space to get specific) for those who believe in them. All these calendars address the truth of the earth's motion through time/space only with different degrees of accuracy, or usefulness. They are not, however, 'true' time, only maps of it, that help us understand or decode our subjective experience of 'true' time. Scientific materialism fails when subscribers to the ideology confuse scientific materialism for 'reality. (It is a map.)


In sociology this is called ’Post-Positivism’, the recognition of the researcher affecting the researched. In science, this is the field of ‘Quantum Mechanics’. In philosophy, ‘Relativism’. The idea of 'objective truth' has to be articulated or redefined in order to not be a 'semantic spook' (Alfred Korzybski). Objectivity exists, and truth exists. I'm not sure that objective truth exists. (same way 'you' exist, 'jobs' exist, but 'your job' is a semantic spook). 


A magical perspective is not necessary to all people, though a skeptical believer is better than irrational rationalist. True Phyrric skepticism doubts that truth can be known. Belief implies a deep seated hope in something that can't be proven. The irrational rationalist refuses to acknowledge the limits of their belief system, and instead ascribe those limits to objective reality. To those who insist an objective reality exists, I challenge you to describe it without using subjective tools such as language, or art.  


Many notable magicians are adamant that magic acts should be meticulously documented so as to be as scientific as possible about the process. A magic practitioner must also have some sort of faith (or belief system). Really though, by the time you're an early teenager you have multiple different belief systems (that may or may not work with each other). Something that Grant Morrison talks is the idea that personalities are like scaffolding to a building, quite an apt metaphor. Willhelm Reich, building on classical psychoanalysis had a theory that ignorance or denial of certain of these drives (Will) results in physical ailments, psychotic breaks, and disease.


I think there is a great schizophrenia in our society today. People are unable to reconcile various personalities within themselves, and within society. When faced with information we can't parse, we shut down, have violent reactions, or rely on logical fallacies to ignore what constitutes a challenge to our precarious reality. As a result, victimhood is worn as a badge of honour. We no longer have heroes that have achievements, but rather martyrs who have suffered. People no longer have pride in themselves because our metric for measuring achievements have been debased. People who are, by all standards malevolent and anti-social, are in charge of society because we have been lured into complacency through violence, convenience, and glamour. This is the darkest magic, and likely has it’s seeds nine thousand years ago in the Saharasian dessert. (See Dr. James DeMeo)


Notable People


Hermes Trimegistus

Solomon

Pythagoras

Zoroaster

Jesus

Zosimos

Merlin

Plato

Jabir Ibn Hayyan

Apollonius of Tyana

Miriam the Alchemist

Merlin

Hassan-i Sabbāh

Sabbati Zevi

John Dee

Leonardo Da Vinci

St. Germaine

Paracelsus

Isaac Newton

Eliphas Levi

Rasputin

Franz Anton Mezmer

Austin Osman Spare

Albert Pike

Helena Blavatsky

Aleister Crowley

Julius Evola

Manly P Hall

Jack Parsons

Alan Moore

Lon Milo DuQuette

Phil Hine

Christopher Hyatt


More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_occultists


Notable Groups


Shamanism

Hermeticism

Kabala

Eleusinan Mysteries

The Mystery Schools (Greco-Roman Mysteries)

Bacchic Mysteries

Druids

Gnosticism

Enochian Magic

Hashishim

Knights Templar

Goetia Magic

Rosicrucianism

Freemasonry

Vodun

Santeria

Golden Dawn

Thelema

Theosophists

Ariosophists

Order Templi Orientis

Thule Society

A. ̇.A. ̇.


More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_organization


Notable Places


Nippur

Isle of Mona

Harran

Lemuria

Atlantis

Tartaria

Neuschwabenland

Shambala

Shangri-La