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How Conspiracies Work: The Whisky Rant (Part 2)
From your own experience, ask yourself this honestly: how successful are surprise parties? How about this one: how long does it typically take for a workplace-based extramarital affair to become common knowledge? Even ones that ruin marriages and (more importantly) careers seemingly have the inevitably of avalanches. We are shit at secrets. Gossip is an [...]
Why Belief Is The Wrong Word To Use
Do you believe in magic? Please. If I ask you at the right time of day or in a room set to the right temperature you won’t even believe in racial equality. Ever wonder why it’s so difficult to articulate your beliefs? Because it’s like nailing vomit to a wall. Ask a black kid to [...]
What Happened To Chaos Magic?
Is it a meme if only four people contribute? Probably not. Doesn’t matter. So far I like Rose’s response best. (Technically there are more than four responses but the ‘not-a-meme’ was shared via Jack’s facestalk friends and I’m not one of them because I’m all up in the twitterz instead.) Anyway, Mr Faust asked his [...]
The Octavo: A Definitive Review
This review was a long time coming because, to be honest, I wasn’t sure where to begin. Is The Octavo that rarest of things… Something new? Also because -more than a mere review- it’s best considered a really a long love letter to Peter J Carroll. I could have written the letter anytime in the [...]
Exorcism On The Rise. Good Or Bad?
Apparently exorcisms are on the rise. And there is a worldwide exorcist shortage. This seems an unusual piece of news for the developed world in the twenty first century. At first glance, exorcism -along with no sex before marriage, literal creationism and the use of stoning to dish out punishment for minor civic infractions- belongs [...]
Use This Weekend To Think
Call it a seasonal thing. October drawing to a close and such. (“Seasonal” being a word that is allowed under VVF estimable All Hallow’s Challenge. Oh how I wish she had read this out at a mandatory UN meeting on the subject.) Cat Vincent alerted me to a previous unpublished Alan Moore essay late last [...]
How Sigils Are Like Firearms
If you leave them around loaded then the unexpected can happen. Like what happened to me last night and this morning. We had a lovely, warm evening here in London. And because these things are exceedingly rare, I had agreed to meet my partner at a restaurant after work. Somewhere where you can actually sit [...]
The Book Game & Its Benefits
So if you haven’t read it, I listed the details of a little book game I used to play. And so far there has been some really great responses. As Steve pointed out, it’s unbelievably helpful in working out what your core influences are. But it’s also a really good tool to assess your priorities. [...]
The 4 Epochs of Independent Chaos Magic
We like books. If someone asks us to recommend a book then we most certainly will. And some of us have recently been asked to do just that. Having given this some thought, I’m going to attempt something a little less helpful: A history of chaos magic through a century of seminal texts. There are [...]
Sorcery’s Next Top Model
Over at Strategic Sorcery, Jason posted about his frustration with the ‘model’ model. (Get it?) As ever, I am pretty much in complete agreement with him about their pitfalls and limitations. However, I think some of the people leaving comments may have missed what he is saying. They’re all making perfectly valid points but no [...]
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