Author: James

I stumbled upon your blog, while sniffing around for blogs on chaos magic. I stumbled upon chaos magic while sniffing around for information on the artist Austin Osman Spare. (I am an artist myself.) I’m curious… are you a solitaire mage or do you work within some sort of pagan/occult group or network? Do you think being part of a group is necessary to development as a mage, or does structure contradict the nature of chaos magick itself? Cheers, Arc (Also I very much like your icon.)

Thanks for the compliment and the questions. I am jealous of you already. I am not, but have always wanted to be a graphic artist. I’m afraid all my artistic skills are in the written word. I’m glad you like my Chibi-Baphomat icon. It seems so appropriate for chaos magick.

I practice solitary myself. I would say it does not inhibit you from becoming an excellent magus. It does, however, make some types of rituals more difficult. I often wonder if a good initiation would help me open my mind, but that’s impossible to pull off as a solitaire. I do long to see how powerful a group working together can be.

My difficulty in finding a group is partially geographic. You just don’t find many practicing chaos magicians in Indianapolis. Not that I would necessarily feel the need to join with just chaos magicians. As long as I felt a synergy with the groups belief structure, I could work within it. So far, the two most organized groups, wiccans and thelemites, don’t fit the bill for me. I also feel that you should develop a level of trust with people you do ritual with.

I don’t think there’s anything truly inherent in chaos magick that makes forming groups impossible. The individualistic and sometimes self-centered nature of chaos magicians themselves does make things difficult. I am a part of a couple of online networks, but they lack organization, and I have yet to do any real work with them. I also attend a couple of local groups for discussion, but not practice.

I’m not above starting an online network that performs related magicks to see if they can influence each other’s workings.

In the end, I can see the benefits of working with other magus, but I don’t feel the need to rush into it. If a group comes along that I feel comfortable working with, I would do it. If not, I don’t think it’s going to stop me from achieving my goals.

I/III/I
Quero Regnum

Dream Journal

10/23-10/24/11

Putting this one out just to help encourage my fellow tumblr-dream folks. You know who you are. I haven’t had many things I remember recently, that seems to coincide with my amount of meditation. Less meditation = less remembered dreams.

I did, however, have a zombie dream which is always nice. I don’t remember much but I do recall teaching people how the sharpened shovel is one of the most effective weapons against zombies. People may complain about how the zombie genre seems to be overused now, and that may be true. But I know more people who consistently have zombie dreams than other other theme.

Here’s something I’m learning about my dreams. For the most part, I can make connections between what happens to me during a day and what I dream about. I only rarely have dreams that seem to explore something outside of my conscious experience.

Two, when I dream about things that may be slightly weird, but based on normal events, like work, I awaken drained and depressed. But I can have the most intense nightmares, ones where I wake up screaming, and the next day I am refreshed and happy. Being scared or experiencing horror is not the thing that bothers me. Experiencing the mundane does.

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

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“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971…before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land…all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*

1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.

The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!


Hey is it just me or is the person who made this circle a total fuckin idjit? I don’t think they understand that Tetragrammaton is a description of something, not a word to be inscribed. I feel sorry for this girl who is obviously being initiated by blighters. 

Magick Working Journal

10/17-10/21

Yeah, I’ve been that lazy. I have not made a journal entry in almost a week. To my credit I have taken on a new task. I find myself constantly returning to the works of Bill Whitcomb. A magician I respect for his open approach, his belief in discipline and acquisition of knowledge, and his advice to make things your own. In his book, The Magician’s Companion, he outlines a course of study for serious practitioners.

Partly because I want to test my Will, and partly to fill gaps in knowledge I know I have, I decided to partake in his long list of recommended reading. For too long I have been distracted from purposes and not finished them. I have a hard time finishing books, and I consider myself a writer.

So I’ve replaced meditation and journal time with reading and have had some success. I have finished the first couple of works on the list. One, a short by William S. Burroughs, and the first of the Carlos Castaneda books.

So during the time I would otherwise meditate, I light the candles and incense in my temple and read. Despite my lack of meditation, or perhaps because I treat my reading as a meditation, my banishing has become more intense. I find myself stuck in my visualizations for longer periods of time with more clarity.

I also attempted this week to add inscriptions to my new magick circle with dismal results. The paint bled out from the stencil and failed to produce anything close to the desired effect. Luckily, I repainted over the mistake and my circle suffered minimal damage. I am going to try using a large sharpie or a paint marker. Something that will not bleed. Unfortunately, the texture of the painted carpet makes it difficult to use anything over it.