This fake frameworks thing looks quite clearly like Chaos Magic, and the reference to the Book of the Law quote “wine and strange drugs” is a dog whistle to that effect.
Some chaos magicians like to use drug experiences as ready-made containers for what Val calls the Mythic Mode. Some drugs can both increase the ability to suspend disbelief while inside the experience and make it easier to distance oneself from it when outside of it. A good description of techniques for this, with all non-scientific woo-woo strictly optional, is Julian Vayne’s “Getting Higher—The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony”.
There’s more where that came from. I like to recommend Philip Farber’s “Meta-Magick—The Book of Atem” with a bunch of visualization-focused techniques very similar to the ones Kaj Sotola has described and demonstrated to great effect. Julian Vayne’s and Nikki Wyrd’s “The Book of Baphomet” is perhaps the best example of an artificial myth created with great artistic and poetic skill and then inhabited with significant personal results.
The reference to the Book of the Law was intentional. The reference to chaos magic was not, as that concept had yet to be formulated when I wrote the essay—at least, not out where I could see it.
I myself do not use psychoactives for magical purposes; I’ve never found it necessary and consider them a rather blunt and chancy instrument. I do occasionally take armodafinil for the nootropic effect, but that is very recent and long postdates the essay.
There are a lot of different people who talk about similar thing. Impro was mentioned. There’s also Jung. They are probably interrelated and have similar influences. I’d be very wary of Chaos Magick in who it seems to explicitly break down useful psychic walls for the sake of freedom and power (eg. rejecting virtue).
This fake frameworks thing looks quite clearly like Chaos Magic, and the reference to the Book of the Law quote “wine and strange drugs” is a dog whistle to that effect.
Some chaos magicians like to use drug experiences as ready-made containers for what Val calls the Mythic Mode. Some drugs can both increase the ability to suspend disbelief while inside the experience and make it easier to distance oneself from it when outside of it. A good description of techniques for this, with all non-scientific woo-woo strictly optional, is Julian Vayne’s “Getting Higher—The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony”.
There’s more where that came from. I like to recommend Philip Farber’s “Meta-Magick—The Book of Atem” with a bunch of visualization-focused techniques very similar to the ones Kaj Sotola has described and demonstrated to great effect. Julian Vayne’s and Nikki Wyrd’s “The Book of Baphomet” is perhaps the best example of an artificial myth created with great artistic and poetic skill and then inhabited with significant personal results.
The reference to the Book of the Law was intentional. The reference to chaos magic was not, as that concept had yet to be formulated when I wrote the essay—at least, not out where I could see it.
I myself do not use psychoactives for magical purposes; I’ve never found it necessary and consider them a rather blunt and chancy instrument. I do occasionally take armodafinil for the nootropic effect, but that is very recent and long postdates the essay.
There are a lot of different people who talk about similar thing. Impro was mentioned. There’s also Jung. They are probably interrelated and have similar influences. I’d be very wary of Chaos Magick in who it seems to explicitly break down useful psychic walls for the sake of freedom and power (eg. rejecting virtue).