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Occult Memetics: Reality Manipulation
"Occult Memetics" is more than a description of the concept of information transfer. It is a brief hand guide to constructing and using propaganda in spiritual forms, and to manipulating reality.
Those who understand the concepts within this work, should they choose to apply them, can potentially change the views of others without even a single spoken utterance. It delves well beyond merely propaganda itself into the nature of reality and its core form.
Those who understand the concepts within this work, should they choose to apply them, can potentially change the views of others without even a single spoken utterance. It delves well beyond merely propaganda itself into the nature of reality and its core form.
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37 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 27, 2016
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Tarl Warwick
466 books104 followersTarl Warwick is a writer, illustrator, occultist, blogger, and avid gardener from the state of Vermont. Active in multiple online communities, he was administrator for the Times of Pol, a short-term news website and platform for activism, and has participated in dialogue with numerous pagan and occult orders.
Originally a student of plant biology at the University of Vermont, he has also studied archaeology and religion at Castleton State University.
Originally a student of plant biology at the University of Vermont, he has also studied archaeology and religion at Castleton State University.
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May 20, 2017
From the opening paragraph: "[...] like Sisyphus and his waxen wings predating human flight." He meant to say 'Icarus' there, I'm pretty sure. (Sisyphus was the boulder pusher.)
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December 20, 2017pretty stupid
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March 26, 2018Creepy book by dude claiming to be an influencer through memetics: Pepe & the election, etc. Defines magic as proto-science of reality manipulation, similar to neurlinguistic programming. Dude is self absorbed without much innovation, but interesting primer if you take memes seriously and like battling the 4chan bromen.
February 25, 2019
schizophrenia + 4chan = this book
September 22, 2019
I wish I could give this negative stars. I literally threw this book in the garbage when I was done. Absolute waste of time and paper.
July 9, 2017
Loved this book as I did the last book I read from Styx
I'm so glad I stumbled upon Styx as a youtuber. I can't wait to read more of his books. This book in particular went into the Occult of Kek, which I wasn't too convinced of at first a year ago, but now sport a pin in my laptop bag.
I'm so glad I stumbled upon Styx as a youtuber. I can't wait to read more of his books. This book in particular went into the Occult of Kek, which I wasn't too convinced of at first a year ago, but now sport a pin in my laptop bag.
October 15, 2025
A pretentious blogpost that talks a lot but says little. The book skims the topics of propaganda and makes one mention of the concept of servitors and egregores then drops the topic. In contrast to the title, there's nothing really “occult” about this book, and any of those two concepts you could learn just as much, if not more, from a quick Google search. What this book does offer that those quick Google searches can't is surface level knowledge about some dated 4chan memes run through pretentious prose that manages to squeeze in a few misspellings, a run-on sentence, and gratuitous usage of the word “twain”.
Its very much of its time, as the book was released during the height of 4chan and *chan adjacent communities “meme magic” phase, as evidenced by the book referring to the Pepe meme as “an egregore of unimaginable force”, alongside the use of Ebola-chan as an example of occult workings (the writer gives no examples of synchronicities other than people dying of Ebola and mock altars scaring some people, if you stretch it a bit.)
In the latter pages of the book, Tarl explains how to make an internet meme, where the rules are essentially to be funny and simple; the more of those two attributes, the better. Around page 35, the writing of one paragraph takes a sharp nosedive where I can't tell if the sentences are simply cloaked in purple prose or genuinely incomprehensible. After this, the whole book makes a sharp downward turn.
Tarl then proceeds to write the most face palm worthy pseudo intellectual nonsense I've read in a good year or so about how, when shown the halve of an apple, a person is usually just going to call it an apple instead of mentioning it had been halved. This means they didn't consider it was cut, that measurements are false and ultimately reality is an illusion. For those who don't see the midwit idiocy of this statement, they don't call it a halved apple nor half an apple due to it seeming pedantic in casual conversation, not whatever psychedelic induced word salad our author thinks it is (on his YouTube channel, he's discussed taking many psychedelic substances.)
The book ends with a story of the writer, who was a Luciferian at the time, epically pwning Christians on ICQ during the late 2000s by essentially annoying the few users that were there, telling people there was a grand movement so they too would be annoying, culminating in excessive moderation where everyone was mad and said moderators left, potentially leading to the site being shuttered (reminder the site was dying before his one man war, as the author states himself.)
Tarl is, as of writing, most notable for owning a dying YouTube channel, wearing a pirate hat 24/7, being imprisoned for beating his ex-girlfriend, and drunkenly passing out on his friends political livestream from the comfort of his childhood bedroom while surrounded by Hazbin Hotel fanart and LEGO sets.
This book is exactly what you'd expect a man in such a situation to write.
Its very much of its time, as the book was released during the height of 4chan and *chan adjacent communities “meme magic” phase, as evidenced by the book referring to the Pepe meme as “an egregore of unimaginable force”, alongside the use of Ebola-chan as an example of occult workings (the writer gives no examples of synchronicities other than people dying of Ebola and mock altars scaring some people, if you stretch it a bit.)
In the latter pages of the book, Tarl explains how to make an internet meme, where the rules are essentially to be funny and simple; the more of those two attributes, the better. Around page 35, the writing of one paragraph takes a sharp nosedive where I can't tell if the sentences are simply cloaked in purple prose or genuinely incomprehensible. After this, the whole book makes a sharp downward turn.
Tarl then proceeds to write the most face palm worthy pseudo intellectual nonsense I've read in a good year or so about how, when shown the halve of an apple, a person is usually just going to call it an apple instead of mentioning it had been halved. This means they didn't consider it was cut, that measurements are false and ultimately reality is an illusion. For those who don't see the midwit idiocy of this statement, they don't call it a halved apple nor half an apple due to it seeming pedantic in casual conversation, not whatever psychedelic induced word salad our author thinks it is (on his YouTube channel, he's discussed taking many psychedelic substances.)
The book ends with a story of the writer, who was a Luciferian at the time, epically pwning Christians on ICQ during the late 2000s by essentially annoying the few users that were there, telling people there was a grand movement so they too would be annoying, culminating in excessive moderation where everyone was mad and said moderators left, potentially leading to the site being shuttered (reminder the site was dying before his one man war, as the author states himself.)
Tarl is, as of writing, most notable for owning a dying YouTube channel, wearing a pirate hat 24/7, being imprisoned for beating his ex-girlfriend, and drunkenly passing out on his friends political livestream from the comfort of his childhood bedroom while surrounded by Hazbin Hotel fanart and LEGO sets.
This book is exactly what you'd expect a man in such a situation to write.
April 19, 2018
In all honesty, I consider this to be an excellent work with only minor complaints.
In regards to drawbacks, spelling errors/typos are found on a few occasions which while not taking away from the content are annoying.
The rest of the work is an informative and intelligent discussion on the use of memetics, perfect for use as a source of information on an otherwise obscure topic or as a hand guide to founding your own, online cult.
In regards to drawbacks, spelling errors/typos are found on a few occasions which while not taking away from the content are annoying.
The rest of the work is an informative and intelligent discussion on the use of memetics, perfect for use as a source of information on an otherwise obscure topic or as a hand guide to founding your own, online cult.
June 21, 2017
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This was an interesting read for me. I had not thought much about the content of this book in a long time so this was a nice refresher.
June 2, 2021
Es lässt viel zu wünschen übrig. Unabhängig von der Person die hinter dem Buch steht, lässt es sich auf jeder Ebene scharf kritisieren - ob philosophisch, psychoanalytisch, medientheoretisch oder von Seiten der Hermetik. Die Verwechslung zu Beginn von Ikarus und "Sisyphis" ist da nur ein kleines, irrelvantes Manko.
January 29, 2025
Slightly interesting concept. . .well, if you believe that Memes can "influence" and/or "change" the world but other than that, it's just absolutely hilariously ludicrous!
P.S: like most (if not ALL) of Tarl Warwick's works, it was obviously missing a "Table of Contents" for readers!
P.S: like most (if not ALL) of Tarl Warwick's works, it was obviously missing a "Table of Contents" for readers!
January 10, 2025
Such an interesting perspective
January 16, 2017
I like this book! This libertarian wizard gives some cool insights on memetics.
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