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Pop Culture Magick
Have you ever watched a television show, or read a book and been inspired to work magick based on what you've seen or read? If you have, you're not alone in thinking that. More and more people are discovering that the modern mythology of pop culture has answers for their spirituality and approach to magick. Pop culture is the mythology of our times, offering us a universe full of new gods, stories, practical magickal techniques and a lot more! It is a reflection of the need for magick to change and evolve with the times. With Pop Culture Magick you can take the cartoon characters of today and make them into the elder gods of tomorrow. In this book you will learn how Create Pop Culture godforms and entities Invoke yourself into a godform or a person Integrate pop culture into existing magickal paradigms Charge sigils by playing video games And much, much more!
208 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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About the author
Taylor Ellwood
98 books160 followersI'm Taylor Ellwood.
I've been writing since I was a teenager. I published my first book in 2003 and since then have continued writing and publishing books regularly on a number of topics.
I originally started out in the traditional publishing world, but I have since become a self-publisher. I love being an indie author and write both fiction and non-fiction.
Check out at my zombie apocalypse fiction reader group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imagi...
Check out my occult reader group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Magic...
I write in the following genres:
1. Occult/esoteric books - I share my experiences and experiment with magic and the occult. I write cutting edge books that explore what could magic can be and how it can evolve. Here are links to just a few of the books I've written in the occult genre
The Process of Magic: A Guide to How Magic Works
Inner Alchemy: Energy Work and the Magic of the Body
Walking with Magical Entities: How to Create and Work with Servitors, Egregores, and Thought Forms to Get Consistent Results
Pop Culture Magick: A How to Guide to Practical Pop Culture Magick
Space/Time Magic: A Guide to Practical Probability Magic
2. Fiction books - I write fiction books, currently in the superhero fiction and zombie apocalypse fiction genres, but there will be other genres as well. Here are links to a few of the Fiction books I've written:
The Zombie Apocalypse Call Center
Learning How to Fly
I've been writing since I was a teenager. I published my first book in 2003 and since then have continued writing and publishing books regularly on a number of topics.
I originally started out in the traditional publishing world, but I have since become a self-publisher. I love being an indie author and write both fiction and non-fiction.
Check out at my zombie apocalypse fiction reader group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imagi...
Check out my occult reader group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Magic...
I write in the following genres:
1. Occult/esoteric books - I share my experiences and experiment with magic and the occult. I write cutting edge books that explore what could magic can be and how it can evolve. Here are links to just a few of the books I've written in the occult genre
The Process of Magic: A Guide to How Magic Works
Inner Alchemy: Energy Work and the Magic of the Body
Walking with Magical Entities: How to Create and Work with Servitors, Egregores, and Thought Forms to Get Consistent Results
Pop Culture Magick: A How to Guide to Practical Pop Culture Magick
Space/Time Magic: A Guide to Practical Probability Magic
2. Fiction books - I write fiction books, currently in the superhero fiction and zombie apocalypse fiction genres, but there will be other genres as well. Here are links to a few of the Fiction books I've written:
The Zombie Apocalypse Call Center
Learning How to Fly
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November 25, 2012
I have been practicing anime and video game Magik since the first semester of my junior college years and man was I surprised to see this! This was the first book I read by Taylor Ellwood and it's quite the treasure tome! It's mostly for intermediate practitioners and by extension, advanced. It has a lot of practical techniques and I like how he uses cowboy beebop characters as elemental spirits as well as some bits from DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho. It's a wonderful system of Magik and one of the most fun types I've ever practiced and still practice today!
February 19, 2018
An interesting book on working with modern pop culture icons as aspects of old deities.
December 23, 2008
Read it in a day--could have asked for a bit more meat to it--and at the same time gleaned a few good gems: justified.
November 19, 2020
Very unconventional! I loved how everything resonated and the usage of anime magic. this was the perfect book for me to fully work my magic
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March 9, 2021An excerpt from Pop Culture Magick (Current version: Pop Culture Magick: A How to Guide to Practical Pop Culture Magick):
When I first began writing this book I was asked why pop culture as a form of magick? The many people I told about the concept of pop culture magick were astonished and skeptical of the workability of such an idea. One fellow magician even told me I was reinventing the wheel. He might be right.
But despite the skepticism, I also saw – and see – a market for pop culture as a form of magick, and other writers and even publishers would seem to agree. In fact, the media has made pop culture into a promising meta-system for practicing magick, with lots of potential for anyone who is creative and imaginative. I might be reinventing the wheel, but at least when the wheel is reinvented, it’s my wheel instead of someone else’s. For anyone who chooses to test and try out the ideas and practices in here, a chance to reinvent the wheel and make it your own wheel lies before you.
But before that can happen, it’d be a good idea if I answered another question in regard to pop culture. What is pop culture? Pop culture, as mainstream society understands it, isn’t quite what pop culture actually is. Most people, for instance, will associate any kind of celebrity that dominates the media news as being pop culture, but that’s not always true. Michael Jordan or Ben Roethlisberger, though popular within media coverage, is not necessarily pop culture icons. The athlete is accepted and adored by mainstream culture, largely because s/he presumably represents the values of mainstream culture. That said, people give power to athletes and it’s not unreasonable to draw on that power. For the focus of this book however, I focus on what I consider pop culture to be (which may differ from what you think of as pop culture).
Pop culture is defined by what it does. Pop culture resists the mainstream blah culture. It possesses and represents different value systems, which clash with the values of mainstream culture. However, the value system of a pop culture icon can and usually is consumed by mainstream culture, unless the pop icon changes. For example, who’s heard much about Christina Aguilera these days? At one time she was a pop culture icon, but she rarely makes the news any more. She is now part of the mainstream.
When I first began writing this book I was asked why pop culture as a form of magick? The many people I told about the concept of pop culture magick were astonished and skeptical of the workability of such an idea. One fellow magician even told me I was reinventing the wheel. He might be right.
But despite the skepticism, I also saw – and see – a market for pop culture as a form of magick, and other writers and even publishers would seem to agree. In fact, the media has made pop culture into a promising meta-system for practicing magick, with lots of potential for anyone who is creative and imaginative. I might be reinventing the wheel, but at least when the wheel is reinvented, it’s my wheel instead of someone else’s. For anyone who chooses to test and try out the ideas and practices in here, a chance to reinvent the wheel and make it your own wheel lies before you.
But before that can happen, it’d be a good idea if I answered another question in regard to pop culture. What is pop culture? Pop culture, as mainstream society understands it, isn’t quite what pop culture actually is. Most people, for instance, will associate any kind of celebrity that dominates the media news as being pop culture, but that’s not always true. Michael Jordan or Ben Roethlisberger, though popular within media coverage, is not necessarily pop culture icons. The athlete is accepted and adored by mainstream culture, largely because s/he presumably represents the values of mainstream culture. That said, people give power to athletes and it’s not unreasonable to draw on that power. For the focus of this book however, I focus on what I consider pop culture to be (which may differ from what you think of as pop culture).
Pop culture is defined by what it does. Pop culture resists the mainstream blah culture. It possesses and represents different value systems, which clash with the values of mainstream culture. However, the value system of a pop culture icon can and usually is consumed by mainstream culture, unless the pop icon changes. For example, who’s heard much about Christina Aguilera these days? At one time she was a pop culture icon, but she rarely makes the news any more. She is now part of the mainstream.
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