I voted Remain in the UK’s EU Referendum. Let’s get that straight, from the beginning. Let’s get it it straight from the beginning, because it’s the only thing about me, about this, which is. All is otherwise crippled and crooked – bent and labyrinthine are the roads we take now, as they have ever been […]
Author archives: VI
I’m sat here
In a country that’s dealing with an MP and mother of two being shot and stabbed to death by a man in the street in broad daylight. A man who, according to some witnesses, shouted “Britain First” before firing. A man who had a history of mental illness and had connections to Neo-Nazi and right wing […]
Living Lamps: Animism in a Pandaemonic Gnostic Kosmos
Let me share with you a vision: A man lies in his bed, unable to move for pain. It consumes his consciousness, snaring thought and perception, cutting into awareness like a barbed wire noose. Like an animal, he seeks to escape, to rid himself of the constriction of a ring of knives and fire, but […]
Grifters, Gods, and Disreputable Old Men
So. There I am, minding my own business, lying in my sickbed, surfing the painkiller tides, on Wednesday. And what happens? I see Gordon post about Kingliness and Jupiter, and fall into reading a nice little back and forth betwixt him and Jason Miller here, and here. You should probably read them, because they’re good […]
Find The Art & Not The Pop
Not content with me residing in a morphine-based haze, Gordon’s gone and done a number on the back of my brain with his post entitled “They Live In The Starlight.” Go and read it, because I can’t be arsed re-contextualising it fully. Suffice to say, his remarks about following the wrong birds and hence not […]
Authenticity & Wyrd
There’s no such thing as Authenticity, or being Real as opposed to fake. No static boundary to cross, no goal to make. To suggest that there is a quality, distinct and clear, is to misunderstand the fact that Being is continuous. This is not post modernism – on the contrary it is pre-modern in nature. […]
Marvel-ous Star.Ships
And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. –Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge In a way, it’s fitting that my first post after the blog’s return from […]
Pasty
On Stories
This was originally a comment on Facebook, but I’m preserving it here, because it’s important to remember and things get lost: The whole ‘hero of our own story’ thing is also bullshit modern Western enculturation. I love Joe Campbell as much as the next guy, but the monomyth is just a cultural comparison tool. We […]
Arrogant Contentious Generalisation #346
Most magicians/spirit-workers/witches/occultists (a large proportion of those who self-identify as such in the West) do not realise that a fundamental longterm change in epistemology, ontology, ‘conciousness’ and awareness is necessary and inevitable if you’re not just playing mental masturbation games. You are – you become – pitted against fundamental logocentric, trancendentalist/escapist ‘progressive’ and materialist ontology […]