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#76
General Occultism / Re: Everything you know in 5 minutes
September 25, 2014, 10:00:39 AM
I have to agree with Doktor Hellfire's point.  I've been pursuing the magical path for 18 years now.  It's been a deeply transformative experience that I couldn't sum up in a few sentences.  Magic takes time, a lot of time, and this 5min exercise is rather ironic, or at least a misrepresentation of what magic really is.
#77
Entheogens 101 / Just a few quotes about Lucy.
September 17, 2014, 08:11:26 PM

"Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'"  JERRY GARCIA, Quoted in Rolling Stone, November 30, 1989


"LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us."  TERENCE MCKENNA


"If God dropped acid, would He see people?"  STEVEN WRIGHT


"Always that same LSD story, you've all seen it. 'Young man on acid, thought he could fly, jumped out of a building. What a tragedy.' What a dick! Fuck him, he's an idiot. If he thought he could fly, why didn't he take off on the ground first? Check it out. You don't see ducks lined up to catch elevators to fly south - they fly from the ground, ya moron, quit ruining it for everybody. He's a moron, he's dead - good, we lost a moron, fuckin' celebrate. Wow, I just felt the world get lighter. We lost a moron! I don't mean to sound cold, or cruel, or vicious, but I am, so that's the way it comes out. Professional help is being sought. How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy. 'Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves' . . . 'Here's Tom with the weather.'" BILL HICKS



"I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control." KEN KESEY Quoted in the BBC documentary, "The Beyond Within: The Rise and Fall of LSD," 1987


"The Pranksters had what looked like about a million doses of the Angels' favorite drug - beer - and LSD for all who wanted to try it. The beer made the Angels very happy and the LSD made them strangely peaceful and sometimes catatonic, in contrast to the Pranksters and other intellectuals around, who soared on the stuff . . . The Angels were adding LSD to the already elaborate list of highs and lows they liked, beer, wine, marijuana, Benzedrine, Seconal, Amytal, Nembutal, Tuinal. Some of them had terrible bummers-bummer was the Angels' term for a bad trip on a motorcycle and very quickly it became the hip world's term for a bad trip on LSD. The only bad moment at Kesey's came one day when an Angel went berserk during the first rush of the drug and tried to strangle his old lady on Kesey's front steps. But he was too wasted at that point to really do much."  TOM WOLFE, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1968


"'Turn on' meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. 'Tune in' meant interact harmoniously with the world around you - externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. 'Drop Out' meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean 'Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.'" TIMOTHY LEARY, Flashbacks, 1983


"That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling 'consicousness expansion' without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him too seriously . . . All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped to create . . . a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody - or at least some force - is tending the Light at the end of the tunnel."  HUNTER S. THOMPSON, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971


"Of greatest significance to me has been the insight that I attained as a fundamental understanding from all of my LSD experiments: what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous - that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego. One can also arrive at this insight through scientific reflections. The problem of reality is and has been from time immemorial a central concern of philosophy. It is, however, a fundamental distinction, whether one approaches the problem of reality rationally, with the logical methods of philosophy, or if one obtrudes upon this problem emotionally, through an existential experience. The first planned LSD experiment was therefore so deeply moving and alarming, because everyday reality and the ego experiencing it, which I had until then considered to be the only reality, dissolved, and an unfamiliar ego experienced another, unfamiliar reality. The problem concerning the innermost self also appeared, which, itself unmoved, was able to record these external and internal transformations. Reality is inconceivable without an experiencing subject, without an ego. It is the product of the exterior world, of the sender and of a receiver, an ego in whose deepest self the emanations of the exterior world, registered by the antennae of the sense organs, become conscious. If one of the two is lacking, no reality happens, no radio music plays, the picture screen remains blank." ALBERT HOFMANN, LSD: My Problem Child, 1980
#78
It's difficult to define the assault on reality because it's also difficult to define what is "mainstream culture."  It's dynamic.


On a personal note, I view the assault on reality in relation to "initiation", we give information to a person that will change their lives forever.  Only, when it comes to the assault on reality, we give them that info whether they like it or not.  It's similar to Hakim Bey's poetic terrorism or Discordianism's Operation Mindfuck.


True, some people will prefer the "blue pill" to the "red pill" ... but I do believe that human nature is to take the red pill.  Either that or I have very little respect for people who want to live like braindead zombies.


The simplest way of living the assault on reality can be summed up by this quote from Albert Camus — 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.'


Just talking with someone, listening to their BS well enough to ask them only one, well-placed question is an integral part of the assault against reality.  Going to a bar or at a party, breaking out the tarot deck.  Carrying healing herbs with you when you go to work and at parties to help people with their headaches, stomach aches or colds.  Buying a few beers for someone just so that, for one night, they can feel free and look back on that feeling with nostalgia.  Having fun.  Anything to break the curse of the greyface, as Discordians call it.


But I'm just arguing psychology right now. 

As psychology as with magic, different people have different talents.  If your magic can't do jack shit, then it's not magic that is the problem, it's you.  And magic should first and foremost be a work on you - the initiatic process - before you go out and destroy the world.


What I mean to say, magically, is that the assault on reality is all about going over the top.  It's one of the more difficult aspects of magic, especially in this crazy world where everything si over-controlled to make sure that not one single act of magic slips through the cracks.  Now people look at their phones more than they look at their surroundings - you could summon the goddamn devil and they won't even notice - or think he's just a wierd guy in an ugly costume.


Which brings me to the propaganda strategy of the assault on reality.  Just telling people that magic is real and they should try it can be awesome.  It strikes their imagination, that little part of them that is unsatisfied with being stuck within the government boundaries of sanctioned thought.

"The great fascination of magic is in the type of thought on which it is based. Magical thinking is not random, it has its own laws and its own logic, but it is poetic rather than rational. It leaps to conclusions which are usually scientifically unwarrented, but which often seem poetically right. It is a type of thinking which has been prevalent all through the history of Europe, which lies behind huge areas behind of our religion, philosophy and litterature, and which is a major guide-post to the regions of the spiritual and the supernatural, the regions of which science has nothing to say. There is no necessity to accept it, but it rings many a far-away, summoning bell in the depths of the mind." Richard Cavendish, The Black Arts


I'm rambling away I think.


tl;dr My point is: the more creative you can be about the assault on reality, the better.
#79
Announcements / Re: CHELSEANACHT 2015 (Everything Thread).
September 07, 2014, 11:08:26 PM
If ever anyone has recommendations for travel, that would be nice too.  :)
#80
The Art Lab / Re: Le Arte Thread thing
August 21, 2014, 10:58:58 PM
Awesome pictures are awesome.  Thanks for sharing!
#81
General Occultism / LSRP
August 07, 2014, 05:40:26 PM
An LBRP-like ritual.


Link sends to PDF.  Enjoy!


http://juankurse.magiqc.net/txt/LSRP.pdf
#82
The DKMU Vault / Chelseanacht 2014
August 07, 2014, 03:59:41 PM
How did it go for you guys?  Below is a link on what I did and how it went.

http://juankurse.magiqc.net/TJK-Chelseanacht2014.html


Feel free to comment / criticize constructively, and better yet, share what you did.  I'm looking forward to reading up on what other people did on that night.
#83
The DKMU Vault / Re: Marathon of Evocations
March 12, 2014, 01:04:21 PM
The account had been linked on the facebook group.  I figured posting it here would make it more permanent.  And also perhaps more avaialable for comments, suggestions, critiques and the like.
#84
The DKMU Vault / Marathon of Evocations
February 26, 2014, 09:51:49 PM
In September of 2013 a suggestion was made in the facebook group that we should invoke or evoke all of the DKMU godforms in chronological order over the course of almost a month.  I participated in this activity and recorded my rituals and results.  It can be read at the link below.

http://juankurse.magiqc.net/marainvo.html

Feel free to comment / post your own variations of the rituals.
#85
The Assault on Reality / Rectangular Stickers
February 10, 2014, 08:36:50 PM
Ok, so I've been looking into making my own stickers and having them printed out.  So far, I have two working models.  Am I doing this right ?  Any suggestions ?

Also I do not have photoshop, so I'm not very fancy and 2nd, I want to keep them black and white so as to minimize printing costs.  The QR code directs to this website and I am told it works.  I think keeping the QR code on there is important.

Cheers !  Examples below :

#86
The Assault on Reality / Re: Ellis on a watch or clock
February 10, 2014, 08:32:53 PM
I think they call that the "phone interview" or the "pre-interview" where they talk to you a bit and see if they actually want to see you face to face.  In any case, sounds like it worked, nonetheless.  :)