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To render your economic fate over to a frequently unelected power elite because you don’t think you have a head for numbers is a fear response and an excuse. This provides the power elite with a strategic advantage known as information
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“mysticism is fundamentally irrational and that is its great power and solace. “Proving” mysticism with science is like using a slide-rule to measure wind speed.”
― The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality
― The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality
“We thought that replacing the singular, authoritative voice of the twentieth century newscaster with the digitally-enabled vox populi of the internet would forever change the narrative. All it did was ruin the spelling.”
― Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantments
― Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantments
“You are certainly free to join whatever nineteenth-century swingers club masquerading as a magical order you like, but do it on your own time.”
― The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality
― The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality
“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from the previous regime still stands.”
― Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
― Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
“As Patrick Harpur points out, we cannot ‘explain’ or ‘decode’ a myth. To look for the historic or scientific ‘truth’ of a myth is but to retell the myth, albeit in a less satisfying way. We render unto materialism the control of our most precious mythologies if we allow them to be ‘scientifically explained’ to us. A new language is required. New words.”
― Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
― Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
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