Hi everyone, my name is Thadius Elijah Penner ... I'm a Time-Traveler from an alternate dimension!..
Now THAT'S a mouthful!
Now that we've got THAT elephant out of the room, here is my official introduction!:
I'm here and exist within this timeline to both teach and entertain. I've got much on my writing docket and it's constantly incoming and channelled through my fingertips regarding the broad subject matter of Magick as well as many other various psychological nuance elements that I've come to learn along my journey as well.
Much of what will be conveyed will be emplored through my ramblings and musings, but I also have plenty of upcoming stories and modern mythologies that I can basically guarantee will to entertain you with their grandiose and fantastic splendour .. that's my job, as well as my promise to you .. Your job here is to fucking listen.. Got it? .. Trust me, if you pay attention, you'll learn a lot. I'll be less abrasive from here on out, I promise.
In order to understand my of my work and writings, it's rather important to be familiar with "magick", but more importantly "Chaos Magick". The following is what wikipedia has to say about what Chaos magick is, for those of you who are unfamiliar with this topic .. for those of you who feel ARE familiar with the philosophy surrounding Chaos Magick, feel free to skip ahead, it's a bit of a read! Here is a basic rundown. I will highlight and pick out sections that I find to be of relative importance:
From Wikipedia
"Chaos magic, also spelled chaos magick, is a contemporary magical practice. It was initially developed in England in the 1970s, drawing heavily from the philosophy of artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare. Sometimes referred to as "success magic" or "results-based magic", chaos magic claims to emphasize the attainment of specific results over the symbolic, ritualistic, theological or otherwise ornamental aspects of other occult traditions.
Chaos magic has been described as a union of traditional occult techniques and applied postmodernism – particularly a postmodernist skepticism concerning the existence or knowability of objective truth. Chaos magicians subsequently treat belief as a tool, often creating their own idiosyncratic magical systems and frequently borrowing from other magical traditions, religious movements, popular culture and various strands of philosophy.
Early leading figures include Peter J. Carroll and Ray Sherwin.
Concept and terminology
Chaos magic differs from other occult traditions such as Thelema or Wicca in that it rejects the existence of absolute truth, and views all occult systems as arbitrary symbol-systems that are only effective because of the belief of the practitioner.[4][5] Chaos magic thus takes an explicitly agnostic position on whether or not magic exists as a supernatural force, with many chaos magicians expressing their acceptance of a psychological model as one possible explanation.
The word chaos was first used in connection with magic by Peter J. Carroll in Liber Null & Psychonaut (1978), where it is described as "the 'thing' responsible for the origin and continued action of events." Carroll goes on to say that "It could as well be called 'God' or 'Tao', but the name 'Chaos' is virtually meaningless and free from the anthropomorphic ideas of religion."
Beliefs and general principles
Magical traditions like Wicca, Qabalah or the Golden Dawn system combine techniques for bringing about change with "beliefs, attitudes, a conceptual model of the universe (if not several), a moral ethic, and a few other things besides."[8] Chaos magic grew out of the desire to strip away all of these extraneous elements, leaving behind only the techniques for affecting change; hence the emphasis is on actually doing things – i.e., experimenting with different techniques, rather than memorising complex rules, symbols and correspondences – and then retaining those techniques that appear to produce results.
This "pick'n'mix/D.I.Y" approach means that the working practices of different chaos magicians often look drastically different, with many authors explicitly encouraging readers to invent their own magical style.
Belief as a tool
The central defining tenet of chaos magic is arguably the "meta-belief" that "belief is a tool for achieving effects". In chaos magic, complex symbol systems like Qabalah, the Enochian system, astrology or the I Ching are treated as maps or "symbolic and linguistic constructs" that can be manipulated to achieve certain ends but that have no absolute or objective truth value in themselves[8] – a position referred to by religious scholar Hugh Urban as a "rejection of all fixed models of reality", and often summarised with the phrase "nothing is true everything is permitted".
Some commentators have traced this position to the influence of postmodernism on contemporary occultism. Another influence comes from the magical system of Austin Osman Spare, who believed that belief itself was a form of "psychic energy" that became locked up in rigid belief structures, and that could be released by breaking down those structures. This "free belief" could then be directed towards new aims.
Other writers have highlighted the influence of occultist Aleister Crowley, who wrote of the occult:
"In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them."
Kia and Chaos
Within the magical system of Austin Osman Spare, magic was thought to operate by using symbols to communicate desire to something Spare termed "Kia" (a sort of universal mind, of which individual human consciousnesses are aspects) via the "passage" of the unconscious – hence the need for complex systems of symbolism. Provided there was enough "free belief" to feed them, these desires would then grow, unconsciously, into "obsessions", which would culminate in magical results occurring in reality.
Peter J. Carroll inherited this model from Spare, but used the term "Kia" to refer to the consciousness of the individual: "the elusive 'I' which confers self-awareness". The more general universal force, of which Kia is an aspect, Carroll termed "Chaos". In his own words:
Chaos... is the force which has caused life to evolve itself out of dust, and is currently most concentratedly manifest in the human life force, or Kia, where it is the source of consciousness... To the extent that the Kia can become one with Chaos it can extend its will and perception into the universe to accomplish magic.
Later chaos magicians have stressed that this basic operating process can be explained in multiple different ways, from within different paradigms. For example:
Within a spirit model, the job of a shaman is to communicate their intentions to their spirit helpers, who then work magic on their behalf.
Within an energy model, a magician might direct their own qi/ch'i towards specific aims.
Within a psychological model, a magician uses symbols to condition their unconscious to work towards their goals.
Within an information model, a magician transmits information to an underlying matrix or field in order to produce specific effects.
Cut-up technique
The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged, often at random, to create a new text. The technique can also be applied to other media: film, photography, audio recordings, etc. It was pioneered by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs.
Burroughs – who practiced chaos magic, and was inducted into the chaos magic organisation The Illuminates of Thanateros in the early 1990s[29][30] – was adamant that the technique had a magical function, stating "the cut ups are not for artistic purposes" Burroughs used his cut-ups for "political warfare, scientific research, personal therapy, magical divination, and conjuration" – the essential idea being that the cut-ups allowed the user to "break down the barriers that surround consciousness". As Burroughs himself stated:
I would say that my most interesting experience with the earlier techniques was the realization that when you make cut-ups you do not get simply random juxtapositions of words, that they do mean something, and often that these meanings refer to some future event. I've made many cut-ups and then later recognized that the cut-up referred to something that I read later in a newspaper or a book, or something that happened... Perhaps events are pre-written and pre-recorded and when you cut word lines the future leaks out.
David Bowie compared the randomness of the cut-up technique to the randomness inherent in traditional divinatory systems, like the I Ching or Tarot.
Other chaos magicians have elaborated on the basic technique. Genesis P-Orridge, who studied under Burroughs, describes it as a way to "identify and short circuit control, life being a stream of cut-ups on every level. They are a means to describe and reveal reality and the multi-faceted individual in which/from which reality is generated." Dave Lee suggested various magical ways to use the cut-up technique, such as cutting together two people to form a love spell.
Synchromysticism
Synchromysticism, a portmanteau of synchronicity and mysticism, is "the art of realising meaningful coincidences in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance". It has also been described as "a form of postmodern animism" that "combines Jung's notion of meaningful coincidences with the quest for the divine, or self-actualization through experience of the divine."
All magical paradigms partake of some form of action at a distance, be it distance in space or time or both... In magic this is called synchronicity. A mental event, perception, or an act of will occurs at the same time (synchronously) as an event in the material world... Of course, this can always be excused as coincidence, but most magicians would be quite content with being able to arrange coincidences.
Essentially, chaos magic consists of a set of techniques for deliberately engineering synchronicities, As Carroll makes clear in later texts, magical "results" consist of "meaningful coincidences" or "a series of events going somewhat improbably in the desired direction." Later chaos magicians have made the link between chaos magic and synchromysticism more overt.
So .. Now that we're a bit more caught up .. Are you ready to convert your greatest dreams into the molded destinies you've always truly wanted and deep down knew you always deserved??? Chances are .. Nope, you're not!!! ..
Are you finally at a point where you are ultimately ready to get out of your own damn way? .. again, chances are ... NOPE, you're not!!!
Most of us aren't! This isn't surprising, given the current state of the world. This is why we find so many people living to an old age and coming to find that they are only living in regret, because throughout their sad lives, they never claimed their true inner "God-ness" and God given right to be the greatest manifester they could have ever imagined. You must fully believe in yourself .. faulter as you are guaranteed, but be quick to pull yourself back when you catch it. It's not necessarily easy to truly hold onto this basic truth/skill with absolute confidence, but after hitting yourself against the wall enough times, and through practice and much dilligence, you too can eventually find the confidence within your own life path that will come to prove this fact by showing you the evidence you require to reach this state, if you are in fact waiting to be ready to take the helm of your own lives, instead of living by somebody elses rules .. eventually with said practice, we come to unfold our highest truth for us in our lives .. In fact, here it is, here is THE truth that they try to keep from you at all costs .. Wanna hear it? .. I know you waaant it! .. ;)
Here is THEE TRUTH ... Drumroll... : You ARE God! .. Alright, that's it, my job here is done... Thadius brushes himself off and walks away
OBVIOUSLY me telling you this FACT won't awaken you to this literal Truth, so why even bother? .. So, I just WON'T! No hard feelings. Not only does it also look embarasssing on my part, being some flambouyant new age yuppie regurgitating the exact same thing, truthfully it's just a waste of everyones time. Eventually you may figure it out for yourself as well, so I'll just forego any further attempts to try and "awaken" anyone the "easy" way you to your Highest Truth, because the actual truth is this: .. You don't even WANT to know the full scope of the Truth! .. or as Jack Nicholson popularly stated "You can't HANDLE the Truth!". The web gets more and more convoluted as you pull it all away for yourself. The rabbit hole gets progressively more and more fucked up the deeper you go, just a warning. Trust me, and it's hostile as fuck down there at the end, so watch it! .. Tell this to a seeker of truth though, and you are only enticing them more, so that's all I'm going to say about that.. I don't need my karmic entanglements to become anymore convoluted, I'm personally done with "truth seeking", trust me, I've seen more than enough to last at least a few lifetimes at this point.
For now, this is just my brief introduction, but there is much more to come.. I've got a pet Hyper-Sigil project that I've worked on, and continue to work on, which has yielded some AMAZING results that I wish to share with everyone, so stay tuned as I relay them over to you through the Steem platform. Much Excite!
So for now, I bid you adieu.
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