{"id":1166,"date":"2018-03-18T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/18\/in-emk-magick-is-the-art-of-altering\/"},"modified":"2018-03-18T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T17:20:04","slug":"in-emk-magick-is-the-art-of-altering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/18\/in-emk-magick-is-the-art-of-altering\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In EMK, \u201cMagick is the art of altering consciousness.\u201d While the statement seems succinct enough; it requires additional explanation and agreeance on the terms within the definition itself.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The most elusive word is consciousness. Not surprisingly, since modern science and philosophy has yet to come to a consensus on what consciousness is, how it is created, what possesses it, and if it even objectively exists. We make no claim to ultimate truth, but consciousness in the context of EMK has certain characteristics.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In EMK, everything a magus can perceive contains consciousness. Including the magi themselves. However, all things contain differing levels of consciousness. Levels of consciousness varies among different instances of the same object, from animal to animal in the same species, and from person to person. Consciousness also exists in non-corporeal entities and ideas. <br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Not surprisingly, this brings Emergent Magick in line with the first human belief system\u2014animism. In animism all things&ndash;rocks, rivers, animals, etc.&ndash;contain their own spirit. In most respects, spirit is synonymous with consciousness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Frater Threskiornis, <i>Emergent Magick<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In EMK, \u201cMagick is the art of altering consciousness.\u201d While the statement seems succinct enough; it requires additional explanation and agreeance on the terms within the definition itself. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The most elusive word is consciousness. Not surprisingly, since modern science and philosophy has yet to come to a consensus on what consciousness is, how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/18\/in-emk-magick-is-the-art-of-altering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,17,14],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emergent-magick","tag-emk","tag-magick","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}