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#41
The Study / Re: A Thelemic View on Fiction
Last post by Robert Solvec - May 18, 2021, 05:12:22 PMNow that I think of it, fiction can be looked at like kind of a buffer zone for reality. Not so much that it renders reality necessarily, but it's an "experience" we can have and learn from without having to actually be in the situation. I find my personality is very influenced by music, stories, and artwork of all kinds, and would consider it an important part of real life
#42
The Study / A Thelemic View on Fiction
Last post by Moon1ight - May 17, 2021, 11:43:46 PMI'm often drawn to fiction, but find it unfulfilling when I pursue it. I've been wondering about what its proper role is. I think I understand now.
The Paradox
Producing fiction - games, novels and so on - is apparently the True Will of some people. However, it's hard to imagine that consuming fiction is someone's True Will. So are the producers to create for nobody? That seems wrong.
The Resolution
"Fiction conveys experience" (https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/fiction) says Yudkowsky. However, reading Sword and Sorcery fiction won't teach you *much* about either. What it will show you is whether you are drawn to these topics. It helps with finding your True Will. That is its function.
If, however, you already know your True Will, then you should stay away and "Do what thou wilt—then do nothing else." (https://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib2)
The Paradox
Producing fiction - games, novels and so on - is apparently the True Will of some people. However, it's hard to imagine that consuming fiction is someone's True Will. So are the producers to create for nobody? That seems wrong.
The Resolution
"Fiction conveys experience" (https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/fiction) says Yudkowsky. However, reading Sword and Sorcery fiction won't teach you *much* about either. What it will show you is whether you are drawn to these topics. It helps with finding your True Will. That is its function.
If, however, you already know your True Will, then you should stay away and "Do what thou wilt—then do nothing else." (https://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib2)
#43
The Assault on Reality / Re: DKMU // OPERATION: SCREAMI...
Last post by Moon1ight - May 09, 2021, 11:37:22 PMI'm in, naturally. I've LS-tagged quite a few geocaches, I'll gladly tag some "random" points.
Thanks a lot for launching this Operation <3
Thanks a lot for launching this Operation <3
#44
Announcements / Re: And we're back!
Last post by NyxHollow - May 09, 2021, 02:26:03 PMBig nostalgic love being back on a forum.
#45
The Assault on Reality / Re: DKMU // OPERATION: SCREAMI...
Last post by Seisatsu - May 07, 2021, 11:36:42 AMOperation: Screaming Ratchet starts tomorrow! Get hype for some urban shamanism! You may find it useful to visit the About and 9 Tenets pages on Randonautica's website, to familiarize yourself with their magical paradigm. See https://www.randonautica.com/ The operation officially lasts from May 8th to June 8th, but some people have started early, and you are strongly encouraged to continue for as long as you wish. In addition, Yavhe Alexander and I intend to plan something to kick off on August 8th (8/8, Hexorius is 888), so stay tuned for more info later this year! HAIL HEXORIUS -[X]-
#46
The Assault on Reality / DKMU // OPERATION: SCREAMING R...
Last post by Seisatsu - May 04, 2021, 12:22:40 PMDKMU // OPERATION: SCREAMING RATCHET
Written by Sei, reviewed by Yavhe Alexander
A collaboration between DKMU, DKMU Latin America, and the Hexorian Movement
Original Facebook Thread: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DomusKaoticaMarauderUnderground/permalink/4804482449581486/
Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/vZKmzhp #operation-screaming-ratchet
I invite you to post your findings here.
====================================
DATE: May 8th to June 8th.
OBJECTIVE:
Utilize the Randonautica mobile app, the Hexorius Sigil, and the Linking Sigil to tag sub-reality pockets, causing deeper pockets to open which can then be tagged progressively.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES:
* Increase the reach of LS and Hexorius into deeper levels of (sub-)reality.
* Increase the average weirdness of Randonautica endpoints.
* Cause other randonautica users, magicians, and muggles to encounter the LS, Hexorius, and deep pockets.
* Strengthen the operatives' connections to the LS and the Hexorius.
* Liminalize the material plane.
* Fun and exercise.
DESCRIPTION AND THEORY:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use the Randonautica app to visit randomly generated endpoints, and tag those endpoints with the Linking Sigil and Hexorius Sigil. Each endpoint you tag will increase your affinity to the egregores and their effects, and will also bind these egregores progressively to the Randonautica app, resulting in increased weirdness for its players. Over time, use of the app will lead to deeper and stranger sub-reality pockets, which you will recursively tag, further amplifying the chaotic magical energy of the system.
By driving the LS and Hexorius into progressively deeper cracks in reality, their world influence will increase, and the veil will weaken. Other users of the app, as well as random passersby, are likely to encounter the sigils as well, and become drawn in, affecting their personal realities and the consensus reality in a manner in line with our greater goals. Also it will be fun and you will get some exercise.
This will be an ongoing operation. If you get interesting results, make sure to share them!
WHAT IS RANDONAUTICA?
Randonautica is a popular mobile app that uses a quantum random number source to send you on a randomized adventure. A point is selected for you to visit within your specified radius, based on a few presets you can choose from. This often has the effect of bringing you to a place that your day-to-day decision making never would, thereby expanding your reality. The app has a reputation for sending people to unusual or even blatantly magical locations, and for producing synchronicities. The app's developers claim that your intent when generating an endpoint will influence the outcome. For example, you might wish to encounter high weirdness, or something spooky, or something that makes you happy. The practice of visiting random points in this manner, charged with intent, is sometimes called Magic Drift.
WHAT IS THE LINKING SIGIL?
If you are not yet familiar with the Linking Sigil, I recommend that you watch Arjil's video on the subject (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4HlcMsJUlU).
Every image of the Linking Sigil is the Linking Sigil. All instances are connected together in a massive "web" that passes energy from place to place. They are tagged in places of power to draw power into the web, and tagged in places without power to fill those places with power from the web.
The Linking Sigil can be used to empower your rituals with chaotic energy (which can be filtered by your intent when drawing it), but its more ambitious goal is to transform the entire world into a liminal zone, spreading magical energy everywhere and inspiring belief and high weirdness among the masses.
WHAT IS HEXORIUS?
From the Origin of Hexorius Document:
(https://dkmu.org/text/The-Origin-of-Hexorius-and-the-Hexorian-Movement.pdf)
A street whose structures do not seem to have coherence, the graffiti of a heart in the middle of the street, a house that was not there the day before, a cabin lost in the middle of the forest.
Each city has two names: the one that is read from the right side and the one that is read backwards. And that second name is the name of Hexorius.
Hexorius represents and rules over the hidden aspects of cities, be they physical or immaterial. About that "other world" that is in sight but not everyone can see.
The synchronicities, the chance encounters, the messages written on the walls that only magicians can understand.
888 manifests itself in those aspects of the city that are strange or uncommon, from that tile of a different color from the others to that gothic-style house in which nobody seems to live. Each of these anomalies sends a simple but very powerful message: "magic is real" and serves to encourage magicians on their way as well as provide homes, shelters or bases of operations.
Also, Hexorius speaks of a twin world but inverse to the world of the mundane where non-magicians inhabit; a similar but different world, a world of forced coincidences, synchronicities and knowledge for those who dare to enter it. A magical world that lives close to the ordinary world which can be accessed through sacred, lost and hidden places.
GET OUT THERE AND MAKE THINGS REAL WEIRD, OPERATIVE!
DEATH TO THE IMAGE, HAIL THE NEW FLESH!
The City will feed us...
HAIL HEXORIUS...
- [X]-
Written by Sei, reviewed by Yavhe Alexander
A collaboration between DKMU, DKMU Latin America, and the Hexorian Movement
Original Facebook Thread: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DomusKaoticaMarauderUnderground/permalink/4804482449581486/
Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/vZKmzhp #operation-screaming-ratchet
I invite you to post your findings here.
====================================
DATE: May 8th to June 8th.
OBJECTIVE:
Utilize the Randonautica mobile app, the Hexorius Sigil, and the Linking Sigil to tag sub-reality pockets, causing deeper pockets to open which can then be tagged progressively.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES:
* Increase the reach of LS and Hexorius into deeper levels of (sub-)reality.
* Increase the average weirdness of Randonautica endpoints.
* Cause other randonautica users, magicians, and muggles to encounter the LS, Hexorius, and deep pockets.
* Strengthen the operatives' connections to the LS and the Hexorius.
* Liminalize the material plane.
* Fun and exercise.
DESCRIPTION AND THEORY:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use the Randonautica app to visit randomly generated endpoints, and tag those endpoints with the Linking Sigil and Hexorius Sigil. Each endpoint you tag will increase your affinity to the egregores and their effects, and will also bind these egregores progressively to the Randonautica app, resulting in increased weirdness for its players. Over time, use of the app will lead to deeper and stranger sub-reality pockets, which you will recursively tag, further amplifying the chaotic magical energy of the system.
By driving the LS and Hexorius into progressively deeper cracks in reality, their world influence will increase, and the veil will weaken. Other users of the app, as well as random passersby, are likely to encounter the sigils as well, and become drawn in, affecting their personal realities and the consensus reality in a manner in line with our greater goals. Also it will be fun and you will get some exercise.
This will be an ongoing operation. If you get interesting results, make sure to share them!
WHAT IS RANDONAUTICA?
Randonautica is a popular mobile app that uses a quantum random number source to send you on a randomized adventure. A point is selected for you to visit within your specified radius, based on a few presets you can choose from. This often has the effect of bringing you to a place that your day-to-day decision making never would, thereby expanding your reality. The app has a reputation for sending people to unusual or even blatantly magical locations, and for producing synchronicities. The app's developers claim that your intent when generating an endpoint will influence the outcome. For example, you might wish to encounter high weirdness, or something spooky, or something that makes you happy. The practice of visiting random points in this manner, charged with intent, is sometimes called Magic Drift.
WHAT IS THE LINKING SIGIL?
If you are not yet familiar with the Linking Sigil, I recommend that you watch Arjil's video on the subject (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4HlcMsJUlU).
Every image of the Linking Sigil is the Linking Sigil. All instances are connected together in a massive "web" that passes energy from place to place. They are tagged in places of power to draw power into the web, and tagged in places without power to fill those places with power from the web.
The Linking Sigil can be used to empower your rituals with chaotic energy (which can be filtered by your intent when drawing it), but its more ambitious goal is to transform the entire world into a liminal zone, spreading magical energy everywhere and inspiring belief and high weirdness among the masses.
WHAT IS HEXORIUS?
From the Origin of Hexorius Document:
(https://dkmu.org/text/The-Origin-of-Hexorius-and-the-Hexorian-Movement.pdf)
A street whose structures do not seem to have coherence, the graffiti of a heart in the middle of the street, a house that was not there the day before, a cabin lost in the middle of the forest.
Each city has two names: the one that is read from the right side and the one that is read backwards. And that second name is the name of Hexorius.
Hexorius represents and rules over the hidden aspects of cities, be they physical or immaterial. About that "other world" that is in sight but not everyone can see.
The synchronicities, the chance encounters, the messages written on the walls that only magicians can understand.
888 manifests itself in those aspects of the city that are strange or uncommon, from that tile of a different color from the others to that gothic-style house in which nobody seems to live. Each of these anomalies sends a simple but very powerful message: "magic is real" and serves to encourage magicians on their way as well as provide homes, shelters or bases of operations.
Also, Hexorius speaks of a twin world but inverse to the world of the mundane where non-magicians inhabit; a similar but different world, a world of forced coincidences, synchronicities and knowledge for those who dare to enter it. A magical world that lives close to the ordinary world which can be accessed through sacred, lost and hidden places.
GET OUT THERE AND MAKE THINGS REAL WEIRD, OPERATIVE!
DEATH TO THE IMAGE, HAIL THE NEW FLESH!
The City will feed us...
HAIL HEXORIUS...
- [X]-
#47
The Art Lab / Poetry: Flame
Last post by Seisatsu - May 01, 2021, 11:46:32 AMHave I forgotten how to feel?
Since I don't remember when,
I'm not sure I know what's real.
My soul feels cold and numb,
And most of the time,
The words just won't come.
This morbid stillness haunts my mind,
But somewhere deep inside of me,
A small candle flickers that I can't seem to find.
I can't let this flame die,
Even if it ends me.
I can still remember when
I used to shine so brightly,
But everything was simpler then.
I guess I gave up fighting
By staring at the sun too long,
And now that fire is hiding.
And every single day,
My bloodied phantom searches
While my spirit wastes away.
I won't let this flame die,
Even if it burns me.
What I wouldn't give to feel again!
The depths of sorrow, joy, and love...
If they could just feel real again!
In crushing darkness, blind, I crawl,
Seeking out that radiant light
I knew before the fall.
I think that fire is searching too.
It yearns for me, its long lost love,
To kindle something beautiful and new.
I can't, I won't let this flame die.
Even if it ends me,
Even if it burns me,
Even if it ends with me burning alive.
#48
Announcements / Re: And we're back!
Last post by Gnosin - April 28, 2021, 09:13:17 AMGlad to be around here again!
#49
The Art Lab / Re: Poetry: Shallow Voice
Last post by Moon1ight - April 27, 2021, 11:47:44 PMThat is very beautiful. Touches me deeply. It makes me sad too, yet is still beautiful.
#50
The Media Magician / Re: Shared Universe Meta-Ficti...
Last post by Robert Solvec - April 26, 2021, 08:51:49 PMI like this idea, not just for encouraging magickal thinking but removing the dull and bland flavor from popular culture. I feel that when done correctly, a good story (along with character design) can help people intuitively explore their own potentials.
"One thing I have considered, however, and this is HARD for me as a Marauder, is that if this is going to work, it has to be done with subtlety. We can't bludgeon kids over the head with an Ellisean mallet. We have to provide clues, not neon signs. "
Something I've thought about often too, occult paradigms can be really volatile to "normie/muggle" types, and they are quick to pass them off as fantasy or baseless. I feel 'expression' is an art in itself, or finding ways to catalyze states of thinking in people without blatantly serving them platitudes from popular chaos magic books or rules of thumb in witchcraft, and then expect them to see the same wisdom that a practitioner might. The art of knowing the lens they see through, and how to bend the light shining through it enough to make the symbolism visible. There probably isn't one cartoon or story that's gonna completely wake someone out of greyface thinking, but there's probably a way to peel the layers by understanding what they are willing to accept and sequencing it appropriately to help lead them there.
"One thing I have considered, however, and this is HARD for me as a Marauder, is that if this is going to work, it has to be done with subtlety. We can't bludgeon kids over the head with an Ellisean mallet. We have to provide clues, not neon signs. "
Something I've thought about often too, occult paradigms can be really volatile to "normie/muggle" types, and they are quick to pass them off as fantasy or baseless. I feel 'expression' is an art in itself, or finding ways to catalyze states of thinking in people without blatantly serving them platitudes from popular chaos magic books or rules of thumb in witchcraft, and then expect them to see the same wisdom that a practitioner might. The art of knowing the lens they see through, and how to bend the light shining through it enough to make the symbolism visible. There probably isn't one cartoon or story that's gonna completely wake someone out of greyface thinking, but there's probably a way to peel the layers by understanding what they are willing to accept and sequencing it appropriately to help lead them there.