magick

Write of Passage’s Cohort 12 launches on the day of totality: a full solar eclipse. This is super occult, and perfectly appropriate for day 1 of a rite of passage.

The origin of my logging practice might actually go back to 2017-2019 when I read “Initiation into Hermetics,” an occult book by Franz Bardon. It’s basically 10 stages of exercises, the last of which brings you to DMT elf-land without any drugs. The

first level was trippy in itself, and I never even fully committed to stage 2.

Stage 1 was basically

Love permeates every mode of time: it is the mystical union with the field, the intense empathetic fusion with the other, the impulse behind the myths of your life, and the reason to take responsibility.

My book on hermeticism is showing me the psychological potential of meals. Of course food is functional, delightful, and a good break, but it also acts as a reliable threshold in your day that you can use for symbolic priming. The method is “alchemical” instead of scientific. It’s anti-Huberman in that it’s not about specific bio-sounding enzymes.

Existentialism is when the rational mind hijacks the meaning creation center.