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by Gordon • • News, Science • 5 Comments
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Why Aren’t You Fighting Dirty?
by Gordon • • Black Hat Life Hacks, Science • 8 Comments
Whatever word you use for whatever it is you think we do… we’ve been called a lot of things before. Poisoner, abortionist, false-speaker, traitor, charlatan. At least two of our most celebrated professional ancestors have been spies for the Crown. Magic’s waters are murky and its sea lanes unguarded. So it strikes me that...
Read more →Are You Calling Upon The Right Money Gods?
by Gordon • • Prosperity • 7 Comments
Even accounting for wars and famine and such our understanding of wealth has been reasonably stable since the development of agriculture. It wasn’t ever really all that mysterious. There were a small number of haves and then the rest of us are the have-nots. Wealth -or other system capacity- was accumulated in a more...
Read more →Chaos Magic Is Enough For Me
by Gordon • • Life • 7 Comments
You could probably say this most days, but there’s a fantastic post over at the Secret Sun at the moment regarding re-enchanting every day life. This hits me right where I live. Over the last twelve months, some popular threads of magical discourse have become a bit too baroque for my tastes. No reason...
Read more →Volume Is The Best Magical Strategy
by Gordon • • Black Hat Life Hacks, Life, Magic • 5 Comments
In August I came within a single day of being fired. If the CEO hadn’t been on holiday in Tuscany at the time I probably would have been out the door. (His first question to my boss when he came back to Hamburg was “why is Gordon still working for the company?”) And part...
Read more →Magic Secrets As Taught By Robot Fish
by Gordon • • Magic, Sigils • 3 Comments
Want to see what shoaling looks like? Proper shoaling, that is… the thing fish do. In this case, sticklebacks. Go and watch this video of scientists testing out whether a shoal of wild fish would follow an artificial leader. Of particular interest in the companion article is: Robofish moved faster than the real fish,...
Read more →Collect The Little Victories Along The Way
by Gordon • • Life, Science • 5 Comments
Collecting the little victories along the way is good advice for any reasonably complex goal, of course, because the universe has an irritating habit of actually making you earn anything worth having. However it’s especially important for the Big Things like coping with grief or recovering from addiction. Spiritual illumination? Definitely a Big Thing....
Read more →Why Originality Requires Conformity: The Betrayal Of Gaga
by Gordon • • Life • 7 Comments
As Jan Fries puts it: If the visions you are receiving are exactly like those of Castaneda (or of me, or of anybody else) you are probably fooling yourself. Can you dare to be original? Yes, yes I can. But I wouldn’t recommend it as a strategy right out of the gate. There’s a...
Read more →Apocalypse Timeshares: Radical Strategies From Inside The OAT
by Gordon • • Black Hat Life Hacks, Life, Prosperity, Rants • 10 Comments
Last night was spent catching up with a journalist friend who is rather involved in the whole UKUncut movement. We were joking about how neither of us expected the End of Days to be quite so entertaining. Now, that’s being a bit glib but there is no avoiding the terrifying dark side of those...
Read more →Hedge Buddhas And Egyptian Weddings
by Gordon • • News, Science • 3 Comments
This is the first weekend more or less to ourselves in quite some time. I have been day-dreaming about it since Wednesday: sleeping in, cooking, reading, catching up on television, meditating, doing the monthly forecast. (Have you done yours? Sun sign astrology was the hands-down winner again this month.) Here are a few things...
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