Jason Louv’s Magick Precepts, 2007

systemofaclown:

xaos:

Eleven Precepts for Reality Manipulation 
 
0. Nothing comes from nothing.  
1. All surroundings are evolving.  
2. You are what you perceive. The dream and the dreamer are another dreamer’s dream.  
3. Change the environment to change the self. Change the self to change the environment.  
4. Many games, many players. One player, one game.  
5. In a mirror(ing) universe, all actions have an equal and mirrored reaction.  
6. Infinite love is the only truth. Manifest reality is a predictable mathematical equation for distracting consciousness into believing it exists and thereby constraining it. 
7. Be excellent to each other.  
8. All is gradient manifestation of one substance. Change a part to change the whole.  
9. Individuality is insanity.  
10. Everything suffers all the time.  
11. Sex, death and taxes.

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Which can you make use of? I find 1, 3, 7 and especially 8 to be significantly useful.

I like it!

My thoughts…

 3. Interesting… this implies that the environment and the self are the two opposing sides of a teeter-totter, the fulcrum in the middle being the ever-present – but often forgotten – third part of the trinity.  It also implies cycles.  The self changes the environment changes the self changes the etc. etc. etc…

8. The fractal nature of the universe… zoom in and change a feature, zoom out and see a great change.  Almost like the divergent time line concept explored in so many time travel movies and books.  One cannot perceive a thing without changing it, so if one perceives it as changing specifically for the purpose of changing it, the end result is likely to be more dramatic to the perceiver, even if the change isn’t always what they had anticipated.

9. On this I disagree.  While there is an underpinning order to reality, its richness comes from its diversity.  Individuality is a natural expression of this – something which is too often subdued or watered down by subcultures and genres and followings – the idea of an identity vis-a-vis membership in some collective or group or fandom.  While I am not afraid of ego dissolution (indeed, while it terrifies me, I try to indulge in it often as seems useful), I do feel that the ego serves a purpose. It is as much a function of nature, of reality, as raw, unfocused, consciousness, free of an identity or point of view.  Insanity, to me, is assuming that one is “better” or preferable than the other.  Of course, if the author does not intend to place a value judgment on insanity, then, I have no problem with it.  Perhaps in a world such as this, true individuality IS insanity.