"Magic is always the tactic of last resort for those who refuse to give up hope. You do not summon Cthulhu to help you find the TV remote. You only visit the witch at the edge of the village when all other options have been explored, for she is the loan shark of the gods. It is only a certain kind of person who is willing to take the road we are about to walk"
- Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols
.. reality is neither 'just' an idea in our head,
nor something that independently exists ..
.. & while it's possible to get lost in the world between these extremes,
magick is the means of finding the Way through it ..
"There are no definitive, dusty tomes come down to us from hoary antiquity that tell us this is How Magic Works. In all cases it is someone’s best guess, it is the personal workbook of a particular person at a particular time … the spirits and incantations that he or she found to be efficacious"
- Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols
"Things aren't always what they seem in this place; you can't take anything for granted"
- from Labyrinth
.. I think strange things happen in this world,
& what we know of them is just a fraction, at that ..
.. programming the collective &con scious .. isn't that what magick reaLLy is ..? .. well then, let's cut to the chase, cuz there's not any time to waste ..
.. what words mean is how they're used .. in other words, there is a dialogical relationship between the world & the symbols we use to represent it .. it goes both ways: just as things in the world can affect what we see, our perspective can influence reality .. & if there's a key to understanding & using magick to its greatest effect, surely this is it ..
.. individuals & groups have used it to gain great power, wealth & success .. anyone can, really, if they Work at it .. indeed, none are better prepared & suited to do so than those magicians who have strengthened their will, mind, heart & body ..
.. but how is one to avoid becoming deceived by one's own symbols, trapped in among them, lost in a labyrinth of one's own making ..? .. if only there were a sure way to avoid this, surely it would be beyond price ..
.. as it happens, there isn't .. success in one's Work is the only real gauge of how well they've managed the dialogue between symbols & reality to their benefit .. & there will always be things we can't do, just as there are things we can affect .. but there isn't a way to know the difference; other than to try, that is ..
.. where there's a discrepancy between outcomes in the world & one's esoteric Work, there lie the seeds of (potential) delusion, & it is this feedback from reality which the magician must attend to, interrogate & account for, in order to attain ..
.. & ultimately each must be their own judge, as to whether they've lost, or found, the Way ..
"There really is no way to sugarcoat this. We do live in a “last resort” world. A biosphere in crisis, a wealth gap not seen since the age of empires, levels of youth unemployment that have previously triggered revolutions, total surveillance and the erosion of civil liberties, robots competing for middle class jobs that were once safe for life, an unelected overclass rigging the game at our expense, a global economy built on criminal banking and continuous war.
Even if this is the apocalypse, that is no call to avoid making things interesting"
- Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols
Taylor Swift aside, everything is a psy-op, or sales. Something-or-other vying for your attention, time, effort, energy - and....,
.. it's only a psyop if they're good at their job. Besides having access to a megaphone, how do you think characters like Swift or the Beatles come to prominence and maintain their connection to people's hearts, minds, and pocketbooks? They have to be channelling, unconsciously or otherwise, from a set of shared feelings and experiences and expressing them back to the body politic eliciting a form of resonance between the "unit human" (hey man, you might not like it, but I didn't come up with the idea...), and a more encompassing, because shared, form that exists in a different kind of space.
Why do you listen to whatever music or watch whatever shows that you happen to do? Is there something conveyed by the artist you find in common with yourself? Are there feelings and thoughts that you want to amplify, or that cause a pleasant feeling when they happen to be amplified? Use your own judgement, but people seem drawn to support figureheads when there is some apparent commonality with themselves - wouldn't otherwise somehow be a form of self-destruction?
Yes, and those facts can be used in\for psyops to de- and re-program. You can do it yourself: force yourself to ingest media, thinking right now of that type of experiences that are usually considered "art", i.e. music and fiction, (let's leave the "news" alone), that you are averse to. At the least you will become desensitized, but you may also find your self "putting on" those sociœmotional hats. Looking back on my life I, at least, have seen that I had done so, not often without substantial delay. This program occurs primarily in youth - neuroplasticity and all that.
IGNORE::
The internet existed long before its realization in-the-metal -, well, ok, maybe not a digital internet, but an analog one, but that's even unassuming the fact that our nervous systems acts as a smoothing function to discrete nervous impulses - something performs the transition, or lives between the discrete points of contact with some phenomenon.))
::IGNORE
The internet, subcultures and the non-global culture:
The self-selection process in more recent times has been opened to a wider array of "possibilities" by the wandering, not salesman nowadays, but by the wandering consumer, ever searching for the next bit of stimulation in whatever form - looking for something anyways. Our eyes cover more terrain, in less time: new human generated "things" can be had almost as if they were "materialized", not just digital representations, but even physical goods if you live within an advanced transportation network: I'm a person and I can just click some buttons with the words representing whatever "random" content happens to be sloshing around in my brain and which would like further elucidation or illumination.
PLOP: I'm watching CAT videos or listening to a POD CAST about the climate effects of METHANE from CoW FARTS << IGNORE::there is no secret code here, but, back to PSYOPS, that's what they would say, wouldn't they??
You already know it: you can find whatever shit you want to watch or listen to and that is in some sense a measure of your style, a part of who you are that has gathered about itself various accoutrements.
The major internet platforms that set the rules for how people interact with each other using digital devices determine much of what you see. They want to bank cash, so, generally, they don't really care about what it is that they are feeding you, just that you come back for more. Q.E.D. - one's own tastes or curiosities are reflected and sold back to you. So there's a bit of reverb going on here between yourself and your interests in the "human thought space: socio/econo/technic/art".
People associate with similitudes - You have sought out something inside yourself or something you think is missing (the curiosity) when you make a query into the internet, and you spend your Attention\time.
People are able to create
Seen, Scene, and Uns[c]e(e)]n[e]
.. the master creates their own world ..
.. beyond that, it's up to others to decide if they see themselves in it ..
"As the old gambling saying has it, if you can’t spot the sucker at the table, you are the sucker"
- Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols
"Knowledge is stronger than belief"
- from The Book of Clarence
.. there's a villain in every story ..
.. otherwise it isn't a story, is it ..
.. u gotta play to win ..
.. & if u don't play, that's okay; but u won't win ..
.. "as brothers fight ye", as Alick said, & what he meant is brothers, or sisters, fight to improve each other, not to see who ends up dead ..
.. but hate is not a religion ..
.. say it with me ..
.. HATE IS NOT A RELIGION ..
