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I wouldn't be so quick to label everything an illusion. The way I see it, it's more the opposite.

I'm curious to hear more about how it is the opposite.

However, understand the crowd you are in the midst of at this moment, and take heed-  Here there be Dragons.
and we mean it.

It's a fair point.
Though you do seem to discern my meaning.
I have a feeling that the other Pirates here can also discern.
My only intent in this is liberation.

The very most effective occult banishing is skepticism. In the world of magic and spells, skepticism has a power akin to nuclear fire. This force must be harnessed by any practitioner if they are to compete in the thaumaturgic environment.

Learn cognitive bias. Learn logical fallacy. Learn rhetoric. Learn the scientific method. Learn Venn diagrams and truth tables. Learn that the answer to many questions is not "yes" or "no" but some measure of probability.

Learn these things and soon you will see the thick layer of hypnosis that rules the minds of so many. We all live in an ocean of symbolic interpretation, not seeing the true ground of reality, but only a convoluted hallucination. What comes to our mind through our senses is distorted by assumption, suggestion and pareidolia. Imagine that, at the bottom of everything we know, there is nothing but chaos and static. Imagine that to understand the amount of sorcery that makes up our momentary experience. Our lives are witchcraft.

But is this witchcraft our own? How much of what we think we know comes from outside of us? How much of our life is influenced by media, parenting and social pressure? Who are the sorcerers that summon the demons in our life?

It does not matter. Drop the bomb of skepticism. Burn up the fake atmosphere with an incantation of "says who?" Destroy unsolicited magic with a cry of "prove it!" Say "I don't believe you" and kill the witch. Watch the enemy magic wither away.

The pentagram is a banishing symbol. It represents the number five, the four elements of reality plus one more factor. That factor has been labeled many ways, but in our hearts we know that it is nothing short of consciousness. The spark of life, which animates the awakened creatures, receives the unmolded substance of the four elements and turns it into something new. As humans, through our consciousness, we create time and culture; we see nature and give it names. By the power of our consciousness, our world is made.

Some of us own our own consciousness. Others are enslaved. Still more stand between freedom and slavery, struggling against the witchcraft of the fallen world.

If you are one who struggles, find skepticism. Make foul foul once again, and make fair fair. Skepticism is Dorothy's bucket of water. It is the drinking gourd, the unmoving North Star, nuclear fire, the icy wind of Stribog and it is the solid ground at the base of all illusion. Skepticism is all these things, yet nothing more than the singular truth that very little can ever really be proven. Take skepticism up as both shield and sword so that you may cut out a space in which to cast your own illusions.

Frater Mendax
11.13.2016
Somewhere at sea

There has been a method proposed for linking, via the LS, into fictional worlds. I have developed an additional idea for doing the same. This method is not intended to replace the previous idea, but as something else to try. . . 

Writing is a potent form of magic. It numbs credulity. It replicates easily. It persists into time. One sentence can change the world, if only the circumstances are right. Fiction is yet more potent, because it focuses the imagination. It writes deeply into the subconscious mind, and with great specificity. Here thoughtforms are created, worlds and people. Events occur in a timestream beyond our own. Yet, these events are still part of our world. We experience them again and again.
 
I believe that if the procedure described in this document is conducted, there is a potential for weird effects. Those effects will, hypothetically, become more remarkable as more people participate in the idea.

First step is to choose a character from within the target world.

Next, write a piece of fan fiction with that character as the protagonist. The length of the story is not necessarily that important. What matters most is that the character is portrayed with a lot of detail that closely matches the character as originally portrayed. Details should be diverse. Appearance, behavior, quirks of speech, attitudes and entertainment preferences are just a few ideas. It is also important to keep the character within its own world. Locations should be places that already exist in the original material. In short, don't try to get too creative. Just write a simple story that involves some sort of conflict which is inevitably resolved. 

Type the story up and post it to the internet. You now have a clone of the character.

Now write another story. This time, take the character deeper into the world. Go to major locations where multiple scenes have occurred. Mark the LS somewhere conspicuous.

You can try different things at this point, because this is the part where you should be creative. Maybe other characters see the sigil and want to talk about it, or do something. Your protagonist could decide to get the sigil tatooed upon her flesh--or his, or even convince other characters to do the same. It is even possible to write a story that includes the sigil as an important part of the plot. You can write a series of stories, each one a different experiment. You might even try taking your character into other story worlds and planting sigils there.

It could be helpful to establish a location in time as well. For best results, put your character into the earliest parts of the world's story. Have the character mention some major event from the original story, and then have multiple other characters respond as if they had no idea. Now every sigil planted will be stronger whenever the original material is consumed. An important character dies in the midst of a dramatic gun battle? On the wall behind him gleams the LS, planted there well before the gun battle took place. A reader might not notice it, nor a viewer, but it is there. The replay of the scene makes it stronger.

Now type this up and post it to the internet.

The more people who read the new "fan fiction" stories, the better. The planting of the sigil is visualized in mind after mind. It is not certain whether or not the reader should know the magical intent of the story. Here is another place to experiment.

Finally, it is time to try different things with regard to linking into the fictional world via the sigil. What can you draw out? What can you send in?

And now an afterword: As with so many things related to the linking sigil, this method ought to benefit from group participation. More practicioners applying the method ought to translate into more success. Not only that, though, written reports of these applications should, hypothetically, draw yet more attention, and result in more success. I encourage anyone and everyone to try this method. And I further encourage anyone and everyone to write an account of their work and to publish that writing in some form or another.

There will be practicioners who dare to write fictional accounts of having applied this method. The efficacy of fraud in this endeavor is uncertain, but it is not discouraged.

--Frater Mendax, somewhere in Spacetime

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Hello... DKMU people. There is good stuff going on here. It seems to me. I hope I can contribute.

Sometimes I get Ideas. Sometimes. Maybe I'll post something here once in a while. Out of the blue. Add bricks to the structure. Help furnish the noosphere with handmade cabinetry.

Experimentation has been draining lately. Not feeling my fullest. But I wanted to make a hello. Please think of frater mendax and add me some energy. I would like to make more than a hello, perhaps a thing, Something for the larger project. Something to add to the LS network. I would like to do that. Please think of frater mendax and place a finger on the sigil.

And I will place a finger upon the sigil. And I will return what I can.