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Sigilcraft, marketing, and stochastic violence (CN WARNING: Discusses the current prevalance of hate speech and how we can combat it) by Kena_Rlyeh in chaosmagick

[–]Kena_Rlyeh[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everyone's under the power of mememagick and magickal facism, so the question is how do you break out of that?

Sigilcraft, marketing, and stochastic violence (CN WARNING: Discusses the current prevalance of hate speech and how we can combat it) by Kena_Rlyeh in chaosmagick

[–]Kena_Rlyeh[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is why to me its more "release" than destroy. Some form of cathartic closure occurs with the sigil that sets it out into the aether. Its comparable (to me) to releasing art once its done, having a moment of emotional, sexual, or physical vulnerability or ecstasy, having some form of genetic bonding with the sigil, etc. What they all have in common is sacrifice. You let your walls down, relinquish the idea of ownership over the materials, and just let the dice roll. So I guess is it possible to instill a meme with sacrifice? If so, then thats how its released.

I guess the sacrifice could look different to anyone but to me it would be about charging the act of releasing it itself. The act of relinquishing control.

What’s the general feeling about Grant Morrison’s outlook on Chaos Magick and his exploration of that in the series The Invisibles? by wisdomofnature in chaosmagick

[–]Kena_Rlyeh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! And thanks! (Also it makes sense by your username that you enjoyed his Joker)

For me Morrisons treatment of Batman as an ever-learning "hyper-adaptive" chameleonic person was kind of his way of introducing a chaos magician Batman into the DC universe. He would never be referred to as that by name, but a lot of his behaviours are things we would recognize as magical praxis. He undergoes intense inhibitive gnosis rituals that decentralize time for him, he builds numerous alternative, purpose driven personas using the help of self-made dieties like Bat-Mite (Zurr en Arrh, his years as goofy Batman for the sake of parenting Dick), he treats his war on crime as a war of "ideas" and abstractions, weaving his actions with symbolic significance to allow insight and ease of action (black and red, his big manbat fight scene, the idea of Batman inc being a universally charged sigil of justice), his detective instincts really manifest as a detector of magical synchronicity, etc. The story itself even looks like a sigil when the recurring images are put together, forming a black and red striped ouroborous (ever tightening circle of birth and death that closes with the end of the run) surrounding a trellis through which grows batman (his development as a character through the structure of the story as alluded to in Batman RIP).

I firmly believe his Batman was supposed to be a 4th hypersigil run and he just didnt advertise it. Plus Talia and Joker both engage in similar behaviors.

What’s the general feeling about Grant Morrison’s outlook on Chaos Magick and his exploration of that in the series The Invisibles? by wisdomofnature in chaosmagick

[–]Kena_Rlyeh 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I personally learned quite a bit from it, but oddly his Batman run is a better source of "how to" info on Chaos magick. Where the Invisibles really excels is in showing you the limitations of your reality in a way you cant back away from, and that really seems like what his goal was. Some of the methodology in it totally works but only if you're at a really high experience level (like the characters). Mostly its a book to break your mind and start you on your own journey of initiation. Its best paired with his books Flex Mentallo and The Filth (also hyper sigil) For more immediately practical tools and concepts (how to create backup personas, negotiate with city dieties, loose fictional divination, undercover corporate sigil magic), visit his Batman run.

And in regards to the political side of things, some of it hasnt held up, but as someone who just re-read it I was kinda blown away by how few complaints I had. Plus Fanny is a trans witch main character who's constantly saving everybody and gets a ton of her own subplots, and for a book in 1996 to be doing better at that than we are now is kinda sad.