Heroic and misunderstood.

[jacktellslies]

"...magic allows us to take control of our own development as human beings. Magic allows us to see the world entire in a fresh and endlessly significant light and demands of us a vital and dynamic collaboration with our environment. Magic brings coherence and structure to psychological 'breakdowns,' psychedelic experiences or transpersonal encounters. Magic allows us to personify our fears and failures as demons and outlines time-honored methods of bargaining with these feelings or banishing them. Magic is the sane response to a world filled with corporate ghost-gods, roaming, mindless laws and peering surveillance lenses. Above all, magic is about achieving results. It's about manipulating real-time events, dealing with devious 'spirits' and other autonomous energy sources. It's about conjuring dead pop icons to do your bidding and writing it all down so that it reads like an exciting adventure story and changes the world around it. Magic is glamorous, dark, and charismatic. 'Magic' is the hopelessly inadequate Standard English word for a long-established technology which permits access to the 'operating codes' underlying the current physical universe. Becoming a 'magician' is a developmental skill, like learning to talk, to reason, to empathize or to see perspective.

"Magic, in short, is Life as it is meant to be Lived by adults."

-Grant Morrison for Disinformation's Book of Lies, Preface, page 9.