Last night I had a really shitty dream about my ex-girlfriend. In it, I went to see her in New York as kind of a last stand to try and win her back, and she was already seeing another guy. I woke up and I felt kind of groggy about it all, and then I just started laughing. That's right. I laughed and laughed. Laughter is one of the most powerful tools any Mage can ever employ. I just recently read about it as one of the ways to induce metamorphosis in the practice of Chaos Magic, and lemme tell ya, it totally fucking works. After the laughter had subsided I realized what a silly little joke my subconscious was trying to pull on me, crafting this clever drama in the theater of my mind to try and keep me wrapped up in memories and feelings that I no longer have any use for. It amuses me how we sometimes wallow in self-pity and act like it is the most serious thing in the world, when we would see that it simply makes us look like exaggerated clowns if we could only step outside of ourselves and view it all from a higher perspective.
"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. "
--Martin Luther
I read about an experiment the other day that a fellow occultist had devised, a method of rolling dice to see which numbers commonly come up for you, and then TRYING to roll those numbers in a number of trials. I was skeptical of it, but I wanted to give it a shot to see if there is anything to it. There were indeed certain numbers and certain combiations of numbers that came up quite a lot (3+5=8 on 2 six-sided dice), but I had very little luck in willing them to appear. The best I did was 50% of the time in one trial. It was fun though! Either it's bullshit or it's real and just doesn't work for me, or maybe it's both. Paradox is one of those deliciously beautiful things about life that shows you by the mere fact that it exists that all the rules can be broken, you can be free, you can change your stars.
So next time something has you feeling blue, just laugh. Force it if you have to. Do it full-throated. Make it loud and maniacal. Fake it until the absurdity of it all inspires you to laugh in earnest. If you can do this, I think you are one step closer to mastering yourself.
"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. "
--Martin Luther
I read about an experiment the other day that a fellow occultist had devised, a method of rolling dice to see which numbers commonly come up for you, and then TRYING to roll those numbers in a number of trials. I was skeptical of it, but I wanted to give it a shot to see if there is anything to it. There were indeed certain numbers and certain combiations of numbers that came up quite a lot (3+5=8 on 2 six-sided dice), but I had very little luck in willing them to appear. The best I did was 50% of the time in one trial. It was fun though! Either it's bullshit or it's real and just doesn't work for me, or maybe it's both. Paradox is one of those deliciously beautiful things about life that shows you by the mere fact that it exists that all the rules can be broken, you can be free, you can change your stars.
So next time something has you feeling blue, just laugh. Force it if you have to. Do it full-throated. Make it loud and maniacal. Fake it until the absurdity of it all inspires you to laugh in earnest. If you can do this, I think you are one step closer to mastering yourself.
Yes, the Sox got Ken Griffey, Jr. As I've said in various baseball related groups and threads, I don't see this as a helpfull move. They're in need of pitching most of all. Their pitching success got them into first place for quite a while. The collapse of their middle relief and their erratic starting pitching lately are the main contributors to their current struggles.