Pop Magic

POP MAGIC! by Grant Morrison. This reproduction is faithful to the edition published in The
Disinformation Book of Lies and is not intended in any way to infringe on copyright, but simply
desires maximum exposure to those who might not otherwise come in contact with these ideas.
POP MAGIC! is Magic! for the People. Pop Magic! is Naked Magic! Pop Magic! lifts the 7 veils
and shows you the titsof the Infinite.
PART ONE
THINKING ABOUT IT
All you need to begin the practice of magic is concentration, imagination and the ability to laugh at
yourself and learn from mistakes. Some people like to dress up as Egyptians or monks to get
themselves in the mood; others wear animal masks or Barbarella costumes. The use of ritual
paraphernalia functions as an aid to the imagination only.Anything you can imagine, anything you can symbolize, can be made to produce magical
changes in your environment.
FIRST STEPS ON THE PATH
Magic is easy to do. Dozens of rulebooks and instruction manuals are available in the occult or
"mind, body and spirit" sections of most modern bookstores. Many of the older manuals were
written during times when a powerful and vindictive Church apparatus wasattempting to
suppress all roads to the truth but most of them are generally so heavily encoded and disguised
behind arcane symbol systems that it's hardly worth the bother - except for an idea of how other
people used THEIR imaginative powers to interpret non-ordinary contacts and communications.
Aleister Crowley - magic's Picasso - wrote this and I can't imagine say it any better than he did:"In this book it is spoken of the sephiroth and the paths, of spirits and conjurations, of gods,
spheres, and planes and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether
they exist or not. By doing certain things, certain results follow; students are most earnestly
warned against attributing objective reality or philosophical validity to any of them."
This is the mostimportant rule of all which is why it's here at the start. As you continue to learn
and develop your own psychocosms and styles of magical practice, as you encounter stranger
and stranger denizens of the Hellworlds and Hyperworlds, you'll come back to these words of
wisdom again and again with a fresh understanding each time.
HOW TO BE A MAGICIAN
Simple. Declare yourself a magician, behavelike a magician, practice magic every day.
Be honest about your progress, your successes and failures. Tripping on 500 mushrooms might
loosen your astral sphincter a little but it will not generally confer upon you any of the benefits of
the magic I'm discussing here. Magic is about what you bring BACK from the Shining Realms of
the Uberconscious. The magician dives into the Immense Other insearch of tips and hints and
treasures s/he can bring home to enrich life in the solid world. And, if necessary, Fake it till you
make it.
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Read lots of books on the subject to get in the mood. Talking about magic with non-magicians is
like talking to virgins about shagging. Reading about magic is like reading about sex: it will get
you horny for the real thing but itwon't give you nearly as much fun.
Reading will give you a feel for what's crap and what can be usefully adapted to your own style.
Develop discrimination. Don't buy into cults, aliens, paranoia, or complacency. Learn whom to
trust and whom to steer clear of.
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Put down the books, stop making excuses, and START.
MAGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Magical consciousness is a particularway of seeing and interacting with the real world. I
experience it was what I can only describe as a "head-click", a feeling of absolute certainty
accompanying a perceptual shift which gives real world transactions the numinous, uncanny
feeling of dreams. Magical consciousness is a way of experiencing and participating with the
local environment in a heightened, significant manner, similar...