I have limited time because I am a physics student and will probably go on to goyslave at some engineering job after this. And my 2 big goals are to become a mage and to become a good artist. Is there any good way to combine these interests both so that each practice can reinforce the other but also to make it more meAnyways the main thing I do that currently combines it is I am into dream work and Jung's active imagination technique as a personal discovery development tool. And I like to paint the results but that isn't really doing magick as much as generic spiritual practice I feel like. I want to be able to use my art to cast spells. Also on a side note if I did this and said art got social media attention would this allow me to use other peoples unused psychic potential to increase the sync rate of my spell?
>>42484950Give offerings to the Muses, praise them, and dedicate your art to one, some, or all.
>>42484973how dangerous are the muses to work with? I get really sketched out by working with gods and entities in general.On one hand I am not sure how I fit them into my view of how the supernatural might work on the other hand I'm scared of disappointing them by not being faithful enough or whatever and then getting cursed by them
>>42484950chaos magick and sigils
Paint with your imagination op. Keep it simple. Those who observe us have limited time on us. Thus won’t find time to appreciate
>>42484950Look up Austin Osman Spare. He was a renowned painter hailed as a proto surrealist and a magician who created his own system, the grandfather of sigil and chaos magic.
>>42485585I will look into that thanks.Is the psychonaut field manual a good starting place or a reddit meme?>>42485597That's my current thing I really like doing paintings based off my daydreams, image flashes and active imagination sessions.>>42486082Interesting I will thanks
>>42486818>psychonaut field manualNTA but the author Bluefluke ironically "bricked" himself. That little zine or pamphlet goes a little too hard a little too fast. Start with breath meditations and if you really want to start inn on a book, look up Stephen Mace's Stealing the Fire from Heaven. There's a technique in there called automatic drawing that would lend itself quite nicely to your artistic interests.
>>42487052Has a cool title to I'll check it out.I wonder what "bricked" means
>>42484950March ni Tesla hertz Volta r foster Zetetic astronauts my and real science earth is flat and stationary
>>42484950study sacred geometry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLffxwRlXcc
>>42486818>Is the psychonaut field manual a good starting place or a reddit meme?It's good, BUT >>42487052>the author Bluefluke ironically "bricked" himself. That little zine or pamphlet goes a little too hard a little too fast. Start with the four fold breath technique.
>>42487052>Stephen Mace's Stealing the Fire from Heaven. There's a technique in there called automaticIt should be noted that it builds much on Austin Spare's work.
>>42487184By his own admission? A bit of a nervous breakdown. Then there's also the matter of him not following through with certain projects like a tarot deck or physical copies of the PFM, and leaving his crowdfunding backers empty handed.>>42488196For sure. I have a little bit of an issue with Mace also working in some Crowley into the book. There are some very important fundamental differences between Spare's and Crowley's ideas on and approaches to magic. Although, I suppose one of the activities of a chaote would be to incorporate and harmonize disparate influences he encounters and finds useful.
>>42484950>my 2 big goals are to become a mage and to become a good artist.lucky for you there is effectively zero difference between these two things. The literal first pieces of art ever made by humans was designed ritualistically, usually images of cave men killing mammoths because it was believed that painting a thing and visualizing it would make it happen. (picrel) A concept you will come across again and again in magick is that there is an above, and a below, and that these two things are actually the same thing. What this means is that there are inherent archetypical patterns literally baked into reality, and it is the job of the magician to draw synchronicities between these patterns as they exist in the universe to these patterns as they exist in your own mind. Contrary to popular belief, your mind is not born as a blank slate. You have a shitload of archetypal symbolism literally encoded in your psyche as a result of naturally occuring evolution. Aka, the subconscious. in creating art, you are taking these subconscious patterns and bringing them into reality. In practicing magick, you are also doing this. You are literally tuning into these patterns and allowing them to bleed into your reality, which changes things around you. This is the most basic and near universal concept in magick. See, Aggrippa, Geovani Pico Dela Miriandola, etc etc all the way through to Golden Dawn, to Crowley, to modern flavors of chaos magick. It is a consistent theme. Art is magick and magick is art and there is literally no difference because you are doing the exact same thing in both, that is, you are finding meaningful patterns in reality and yourself, and bringing them into the physical world. A painting you painted originated in your subconscious, and you brought what was once purely abstract into being. I'd recommend Alan Moore's The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic as a good starter if you want to get into this stuff, which opens with this exact concept.
>>42489479contSomeone mentioned ArchDukeBlueFluke's Psychonaut Field Manual and I would agree that it is a great entry into the more practical side of magick for the total beginner. Just keep in mind that it is BlueFluke's personal chaos magick system. You will not find any references to Gneo Geo or many of the other techniques it mentions because they were invented by BlueFluke. If I were to recommend you a few books to get you started, it would easily be the best for getting into the practice, while Alan Moore's Bumper Book is best for understanding the theoretical parts of magick which are equally important. And when you're done with those, go steal a copy of Nicholas Goodwin Clarke's The Western Esoteric Traditions, which provides a holistic overview of western esoterica.
>>42484950>>42489529As to whether or not you can use your art to cast spells, the answer is yes thats how literally all spellcasting works. Think about this for a second. When you are preforming a ritual, lets say, a saturnic ritual, you are surrounding yourself with saturnic imagery, building a general aesthetic of "saturn-ness", waving around lil wands and shit with saturnic symbolism. You are taking an aesthetic, which btw is the only actual way to experience higher powers, ie abstractly, and giving it physical form in reality. You are bridging a gap between the divine and the physical by assembling physical objects in such a way that they are mimicking the divine, and your subconscious all at once. And like, thats art dude. Art is literally the expression of the abstract feelings in your mind. Magick literally just takes it a step further and says that those abstractions exist literally, external to you.
>>42484950There is absolutely nothing to stop you from creating sacred magical artworks!
