Month: March 2012

Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the ‘normal people’ as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like ‘Have a nice day’ and ‘Weather’s awful today, eh?’, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like ‘Tell me something that makes you cry’ or ‘What do you think deja vu is for?’

Timothy Leary  (via bohemianspirit)

‘More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A law making it unlawful to resist even unlawful arrest. Laws establishing detention camps for potential subversives. Gun control laws. Restrictions on travel. The assassinations, you see, establish the need for such laws in the public mind. Instead of realizing that there is a conspiracy, conducted by a handful of men, the people reason—or are manipulated into reasoning—that the entire population must have its freedom restricted in order to protect the leaders. The people agree that they themselves can’t be trusted.

Robert Anton Wilson, The Eye in the Pyramid (via gravity-rainbow)

chaosgarden asked: How would you say that Chaos Magick (on the internet and in real life) and attitudes about it have changed since the 90’s – around the TOPY era?

xaos:

I’m not the right person to comment with any authority, but I might say that the excitement has waned. TOPY made my eyes wide back then, but what makes people’s eyes (or minds) widen today?

Peter Carroll’s thoughts in the 90s made me work to seek understanding, made me reflect and change. Now, the simplest answer is celebrated and complexity is eschewed. Chaos Magick broke down pseudo-archaic ceremonial tosh, but some things are not simple. (Yes, my own sigil work is of this simplicity movement, but I’m returning to Chaos Magick Theory in order to go beyond Results Magick and sigils.)

Remember when adopting shifting, protean beliefs for rites was important? Who does that anymore? Is it necessary, when we can achieve vacuity through boredom and dance? I mean, I’m so postmodern, I literally maintain the ‘neither-neither’ mindset for most of my day.

Some even see Chaos Magick as ‘old hat’, and presumably seek exciting dark secrets from Victoriana and the Americas.

If TOPY return, will they shake things up? Will I be swept along for the sake of riding a wave (any wave) or will paradigms actually be challenged? Will the Spirit Model of Magick dominate the personal, Info-Energy Model? Will it be all Tiamat this, and Evocation that? But with iPads? Ov course, I’m too young to remember the 90s…

I’m a Neologist (I make words up, and I’m entranced by the new) so I’d love to know what comes after Modern Magick and after Postmodern Magick.

tovalholl:

Hail to the mighty sleipnir! He, son of giants! Who will go into the battle with Woden at ragnarok, the Horse that which carries the greatest warriors to valhalla! May I and the rest of my warrior brothers, earn their way to valhalla, either by Valkyries, or by Sleipnir! May sleipnir bring you all home. 

aureliusj:

I had the pleasure, no pun intended, of getting my hands on some original Austin Spare books, bookplates and prints! Here are some photos:

1. Cover of The Book Of Pleasure, published by Spare himself in autumn of 1913.

2. The Death Posture in Action

3. The Dwellers at the Gates of Silent Memory

4. The Instant of Obsession

5. Stealing the Fire from Heaven

6. The Self in Ecstacy

7. The Death Posture