'Magick' Articles (con't)
Let’s bring elemental magic out into the world, shall we? The exoteric elemental magick, everything external to you, still falls into one of the elemental domains. Ever notice fiery people tend to like spicy food and favour the color red in their clothes or possessions or both? Down to earth people tend to like a “meat and potatoes” or vegetarian diet and favour earth tones in their clothes and home furnishings. And earthy people are more concerned with their homes, where fiery people tend to be more concerned with their cars or things that let them be energetic. Airy people… Seek More
June 12th, 2010 | Leave Your Insight
I will wrap up the subject of Elemental Magick with addressing the mystery of the fifth element. I have found wuxing to be the best model for explaining it. Pronounced wu-shing. It is Chinese alchemy/hermeticism for lack of a better parallel. In it, they do not use the element air as that corresponds to chi or the primal matter. Instead they use earth, water, fire, metal, wood, and air is the space between. It is the void element that gives form to these others. Wood would correspond to the body principle in western elementalism, actually. Metal would be the presence of… Seek More
June 12th, 2010 | Leave Your Insight
It seems like magic is about changing things. That’s correct. And in Buddhist thought, one tries to learn to accept things the way they are. Is there a contradiction there? The way things are is changing, and accepting is the willingness to remain in the presence of change. Vajrayana Buddhism is all about a traditional path of change. Also known as Tantric Buddhism, which doesn’t have anything do with the other tantric practice that people find so fascinating, not of necessity at least. You can’t change anything if you don’t accept it as it is. Otherwise you don’t understand the… Seek More
October 13th, 2010 | Leave Your Insight
One of my friends said she cast a spell to make a guy she was interested in contact her, and he came to her house and was really angry, and said, “I don’t know why I’m here.” That probably went bad as he came to subconsciously resent her. We are all linked, and you cannot force and have no force return. The secret behind “black magicians” is they set up a gyre of force and anchor it to one event/object, and then withdraw from the event horizon. But if they manage that energy wrong, it will just fail. I’ve seen… Seek More
October 14th, 2010 | Leave Your Insight
Ever wonder what it would be like if you could look under the rug of the world? Well, there is something to be seen. It can be seen if you know how to look, not where, because it’s everywhere. But how? Example. I will just use candles. I have seen people get really nervous if you have a lot of candles around. A look under the rug of reality would show you that it’s not just about candles, not really about candles at all. My friend and I are quietly changing one area of the world, my town, for the… Seek More
November 25th, 2010 | Leave Your Insight
What experience do you have with stealth? Hiding? I guess I played hide and seek when I was young, and capture the flag. I’ve discovered a cat is a good teacher, or perhaps a teacher at bad stealth. Daemon, our cat, is yes. He looks really intent. It’s obvious he thinks he has cover, and you can see him clear across the room. But it’s good, pets shouldn’t be good at stealth, not unless their owner is abusive or they have to live semi-wild, neither of which apply in the ideal case. I think I hide from the world often.… Seek More
November 20th, 2011 | 1 Insight
The first stealth magick was practiced by tribal hunters. This was undertaken well before the invention of anything like armour. From the primitive point of view, the spirit of a thing could be misdirected before the thing itself saw you. One could spook a deer to be looking behind itself while you approached from the front. They perceived the world itself to run according to perceptual patterns so these patterns stood out more clearly. The spirit of the deer in my first example was a sort of feel they would get for the deers behaviour. Its tendency to keep it’s… Seek More
November 20th, 2011 | Leave Your Insight
There have been uses of stealth magick in every culture from prayers to meditations, to ritual dances to carrying fetish objects, but they all work in the same way. Your own perceptual filters are elastic, but so are other peoples. So the purpose of these spells (to give them all a name) was to reconfigure your own awareness so you could hide in your opponents shadow, like a memory device to keep you focused on who or what you are seeking to hide from. I think we would want to do stealth magic with the devil. Traditions say to not… Seek More
November 21st, 2011 | 1 Insight
Stealth magick can only be fully understood alongside it’s counterpart, divination, because they are flip sides of the same coin. The patterns a diviner uses to foresee events are the camouflage being used in stealth magic. Seeing less and seeing more. Yes, and it doesn’t matter who or what is looking at the patterns. It works with animals, works with people, works with nature, works with the observer effect itself. You can exclude the actualization of a quantum potential for yourself by “hiding” from it. Don’t observe? Observe differently. But don’t you have to simulate it to hide from it?… Seek More
November 22nd, 2011 | Leave Your Insight
