I hate it here

Everything is different now. So the same rules don’t apply. Kali spoke to me and what she said was “hate somethin’, change somethin’”. The ritual you knew is lying dead and smouldering in the debris of broken buildings and preconceptions.

Woah.
Stop.
Re-wind.
Let’s start over.

I hate the magic scene. I hate the pretentiousness. I hate faith. I hate religions. I hate the pages and pages of jargon and bollox that you find on magic forums. I hate using magic to fill a cultural void. I hate magic as a career and I hate it as a hobby.

I hate bullshit.
What I like, is the truth.

Atheism is refusing to believe the unreasonable. It’s when someone walks off a cliff because they think it will deliver them to ancient space gods you say, fuck that. Everyone is an atheist, it’s how you put your shoes on in the morning. It’s not a paradigm, and you don’t conform to it. It’s not being a cynic. It’s the way your mind functions when you get away from the stupid ideas people impose on you when you’re a kid.

Magic is really simple when someone explains it who isn’t trying to keep themselves special by keeping it occult.Jason Louv describes it as using your imagination to get what you want. If you can accept that your imagination is as real as the “real world”, and changing one can change the other, then magic becomes really easy. Magic becomes a whole lot of applied psychology and a range of techniques that fool the parts of your brain which stop magical interaction.

Or Grant Morrison’s simple and profound definition: Magic=Life + Significance.

I don’t think any of the above is unreasonable and I don’t think it needs to be mystified with bullshit like we used to do with science in the middle ages. There’s a lot of complicated physics that can explain how magic works, buy you really don’t need to know any of that, all you need is a paradigm that makes it all fit.
All that matters is that what you do works, so….

I’m going with what works for me. I’m launching 23 sigils by whacking one off and visualising the sigil at the point of orgasm. Then I’m burning them with incense to dispose of them. That’s it. I felt pressured to “move on” to find a new way of doing magic, but I’ve been doing this since I was 15 and it always works. This project of mine was all about changing the things about me that I didn’t like, and it’s working because I want to get away from the bullshit i know I've been asociating with. The personal liberation side of the magic isn’t necessary anymore, I’m out there trying to make it happen and trying to keep myself flexible, it’s become a lifestyle I suppose.

This blog is still going to be running, it’s just moved out of the basement. The sigils are just the beginning. I may hate it all, but im stuck here like the rest of you apes. See you next week. x.