Posted: Jul 16, 2017 7:18 am
I quite like Alan Moore, the former comic book writer. He said that on turning 40 he decided to get into magic, rather than have a midlife crisis. By "magic", I mean the 19th century occult stuff. He's very much anti-religion, and has said that, as an occultist, you have to understand that everything that happens in a ritual is just in your own head, but that doesn't mean you can't roll with it.
There's another occult type I like called Colin Low, a guy who I got into because of his intense love of Lovecraft. But he's mostly about Kaballah and his version of it which he practices in an occult form. Check this for his account of performing a magical ritual, with some introductory remarks about his take on mysticism as the manipulation of consciousness. Based on his other writings, I assume he's an atheist, though with some contempt for the New Atheist types. He's also a computer scientist, I believe, and has an idea I quite like about human's getting into stress by constantly trying to subdivide reality, or something, which he calls "the gnostic fractal."
Anyway, Moore's got a book coming out called The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic that I plan to get when it comes out.
I don't really have any excuse to try any of this myself. Colin Low has been into Kaballah since he was a kid, and I believe he had a teacher, as is supposed to be the case in mystic tradition.
There's another occult type I like called Colin Low, a guy who I got into because of his intense love of Lovecraft. But he's mostly about Kaballah and his version of it which he practices in an occult form. Check this for his account of performing a magical ritual, with some introductory remarks about his take on mysticism as the manipulation of consciousness. Based on his other writings, I assume he's an atheist, though with some contempt for the New Atheist types. He's also a computer scientist, I believe, and has an idea I quite like about human's getting into stress by constantly trying to subdivide reality, or something, which he calls "the gnostic fractal."
Anyway, Moore's got a book coming out called The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic that I plan to get when it comes out.
I don't really have any excuse to try any of this myself. Colin Low has been into Kaballah since he was a kid, and I believe he had a teacher, as is supposed to be the case in mystic tradition.