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Luminous Beings Can Build Dinosaurs
Our meat suits can seem really frustrating at times. The behaviour of other people’s meat suits can apparently collapse Europe into another pre-war economic superstorm that has a tendency to give rise to violent dictators. Too often our silly little monkey brains can get tripped up with conflated words or prejudices even when the comparatively [...]
Magic Secrets As Taught By Robot Fish
Want to see what shoaling looks like? Proper shoaling, that is… the thing fish do. In this case, sticklebacks. Go and watch this video of scientists testing out whether a shoal of wild fish would follow an artificial leader. Of particular interest in the companion article is: Robofish moved faster than the real fish, which [...]
How To Enchant By A Thousand Paper Cuts
It looks like a few of my sigils may be coming down off the mirror soon as the -possibly semi self-inflicted- star storm abates and gives me my first clear view of what this new adventure could look like. What. A. Ride. These last two months are what we can call the Proof of Concept [...]
10 Universal Sigils To Bulk Out Your Shoal
There is a very specific reason for deploying multiple sigils at once: You’re playing tricks on your brain. It’s an extremely effective way of removing result lust. Take it from me, it’s much easier to detach from what each symbol means when there is more than one of them sitting in front of you. Shoaling [...]
5 Shoaling Examples To Improve Your Magical Results
Adama (senior) says a number of times during Battlestar Galactica “sometimes you gotta roll the hard six.” Most of the time, however, you don’t. Most of the time, the 5/6 chance will do just fine. Because unless your race is battling for survival against an unlimited supply of killer robots you were foolish enough to [...]
Sigilize Your Letters To Santa Today
As mentioned in the previous post, today is St Nicholas Day. Obviously, the contemporary egregore we know as Santa is a bizarre hybrid of a Levantine saint, various nature spirits, the devil, a Coca Cola advertising campaign and the broken dreams of countless millions of children. Despite being a supremely powerful creation, he’s more complicated [...]
How Spells Are Like Media Campaigns
An interesting article in the Telegraph caught my eye yesterday. Half of all Muslim men and three quarters of all Muslim women in Britain are unemployed. That’s a jaw dropping statistic. And you just know what’s going through going through the minds of the more bigoted sections of society as they read their “news“, pausing [...]
The Dangers of Results-Based Magic
I’m calling this my Turin Revelation. It would be wonderful to call it my Turin Working but the only ‘work’ I did was a bit of Jasonian ‘Pillar and Spheres’ by the Po River immediately followed by three Camparis. Not exactly buying a country house at the end of Loch Ness. Also, Jasonian is totally [...]
Spell Casting Lessons From The Movie Biz
There is a little trick I picked up in film school that has found many, many applications in my life beyond merely breaking writer’s block… Which was the reason I was initially taught it. I am going to share the trick with you but it strikes me that there are actually numerous parallels between film [...]
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