Author Archives: Michael Robin Cooke

Stephen Colbert’s mother has fallen ill and the show, Colbert Report, has been interrupted as the host takes time with his Mother.

The Colbert report is a very popular program and most of my readers I expect have some familiarity with the comedian and his ‘faux right wing’ persona. If you don’t know, Stephen Colbert satirizes the right wing pundit, such as those on FOX TV. But unlike John Stewart or other comedians that satirize right wing politics while clearly establishing a liberal bias, Stephen Colbert satirizes the right wing pundit by pretending to BE ONE!

How does this relates to Chaos magic and the idea of glamour magic? First, I’m using the word “glamour” as used in the folk myths of the fairie folk. In that mythology a human would find someone beautiful that in reality was not, or find a residence extrvagant that was really quite modest or even impoverished- and the illusion is labelled, “a glamour’. In a more relevant sense, glamour is creating an impression of being something you may not be, or of the person you want to be.

How Stephen Colbert relates to the concept os glamour magic is simple, he is an expert! How so? Because people that are Republican and right wing – THEY OFTEN THINK HE IS TOO!  Super conservative pundits that would NEVER be a guest on John Stewart’s Daily Show, they will be guests on the Colbert Report!  Because even if they understand Colbert is satire, his pretend conservatism is enough for them to feel comfortable, it’s enough for them to understand viewers of the show.. could be THEIR VOTERS!

Because for many human beings, the surface is as far as they go!

So, how can this be of use to you? Simple, you want to influence someone? Try to adjust your tone of voice and vocal patter..to theirs! If they are Conservative, you are conservative. If they are religious, you are religious. If they hate Corporations, you hate corporations. And guess what… you will get listened to! If you are in sales, you might make that sale!

This is harder to do if you are making a video or promoting something online. How you present yourself to match your audience, it’s simply not possible. But this is where fashion becomes power. Because how you present yourself has power, it shapes expectations and colors who you get to associate with and the opportunities that come to you.

For example, if you turn your hair into dread locks and wear tie die shirts – this becomes a social filter that allows you to smoke more pot and get access to more fun drugs andpeople of that milieu.

If you wear a suit, you get to be ‘professional’ and command a sense of respect. That’s the cultural dictate, it’s why some jobs REQUIRE a suit, usually high paid jobs or really low paid jobs in sales (where presentation is everything).

Politics is also about glamour, the Democrats are ‘Mommy’ and the Republicans are ‘Daddy’. And, very often gender influences who a person votes for. I’m waiting for someone to have the wisdom to sell progressive politics with MASCULINE glamour, harp on patriotism, accuse the opponent of ‘treason’ and pitch equal opportunity being the AMERICAN way, and corporatism being fascism! It would be a very powerful political sales technique!

Me, I’m an artist, writer.  My vision for dress is a three piece suit – black and customized with spikes and studs akin to what a punk would sport on a leather jacket. That would play with impressions and to my benefit I believe. My day job is a telephone market research gig so my looks are actually irrelevant in relation to job.

The catch-22 of magic is that lust for result will sabotage any result. And if you NEED a spell to work! NOW! It is often a guarantee that it absolutely will never work for you!

Sigil magic might work, but if the problem is so important to you, it is almost impossible to ‘forget’. And to not be attached to the result, to ‘know’ a spell worked so well you need not think about it – that’s almost impossible for YOUR problem.

This is why Hoodoo is usually a commercial enterprise. If you PAY for a spell, this creates an expectation of value for your purchase, the exchange of money in and of itself has magical impact. And anyone that casts a spell for YOU, doesn’t care one way or another intrinsically about your result, they can focus simply on the law of attraction and ‘be’ that the spell worked. And yes, usually the spell will WORK this way!

So, in your case, unless you know and trust someone that casts spells professionally – it helps to have a friend. A friend that is open to casting spells. Because guess what that can do for YOU! It gives you a disinterested party that can cast the spell on your behalf. THEY can be as disinterested and non attached as the caster of a powerful spell should be, because it’s not THEIR issue! And YOU, you may be their friend, but you really are not nearly as obsessed with their love life or rent as THEY are – you can cast a very powerful spell for THEM in exchange!

If you have a magical path already that suits you well, please use that! If you have none, Sigil magic is simple practical and very powerful! Information on Sigil magic is here! 

I eliminated the SMF forum, it was buggy. It had an awesome number of people registering for it, but I suppose a forum may require a sold group of friends to get it started, and I’m just one guy.

So the new forum is not just a forum – but a Drupal installation! Got it installed, updated and basically configure in about 3 hours. Not bad!

What this mans to YOU, is YOU can create content for this site! Your Blogs, Your Articles, Your Forum! Not kidding! And it will only get better! Go to My KitschChaos – Right Now!

So, I’m working out the book I’m going to write. If you’ve been reading this site, on one hand it may seem like I’m not offering anything really new in the book. And I know this even before I write the first word, because a lot of the content will be from this site.

Also if you’ve been reading this site, some of the ideas may seem more familiar from sales, self help or Law of Attraction than from classically ’occult’ sources. Allow me to blame Aleister Crowley, who distinguished ’magick’ as an act of will, any such act of will, including the blowing of one’s nose.

As a consequence of being introduced to that thought of Crowley’s  at a young age, it’s had an awful long time to peculate in my brain. Magic isn’t a fantastic thing like in Dungeons and Dragons, it’s a father losing his job and assuring his family they will be okay! Because if it your will to shoot fire from your finger tips, seriously the thing to do is to procure a flame thrower. Magic is any act of will, at is best it is  taking a stand that you can have a say in how your life turns out.

What of the supernatural? It is part of the real world, and even if you do not believe in a supernatural, it is concrete and real as an idea. And a cornerstone of chaos magic is the use your belief rather than be limited by it. If you can cry in response to a movie’s fantasy, if you can feel anxiety on behalf of a fantasy character in a fantasy circumstance – guess what? A movie maker or author has command over your belief! How can you believe you have any less command?

Children are natural magicians. And if you an adult, you once were a child and that part of you lives still and remembers! So it is a game, try believing in magic, do some magic and see what happens? Do you get your result?

If you don’t get your result, what did you do? And here’s where we get to the meat of the problem. Magic is not spell casting, magic is what happens before and after. If you cast a spell for money, are you actually working or gambling or running a business? If not, how do you expect money to come to you? This is called a path of least resistance, if the spell is powerful and you provide no easy means for the money to come to you, winning the lawsuit but not being able to ever walk again is a messed up way to get your money.

But it’s deeper than even that. Because what we really want are experiences. We want to be desired, admired, to have power and great friends. The heart of the best magic is knowing what you really want. And the problem with knowing what you want is that you are likely no match, not yet, for what it is you want. If you want to be desired, you have to love yourself first. If you want to be admired, you have to establish admirable virtues. If you want power, you have the have the courage to accept responsibility and the capacity to fulfill your responsibilities.

It’s a matter of will. What do you want, and who do you have to be to have that? How can you get from who you are now to where you want to be? And if magic is more than psychological priming (not that psychological priming isn’t potent and useful in its own right), it can only hack probability at best, produce an opportunity. Spells cannot give you what you are not ready for. Who you are may not be a match for what you want.  But magic need not be limited to spells! If you want a hot sex with a hot girl and happen to be overweight, what is stopping you from working out and eating a healthier diet?

And here’s how magic becomes a self help paradigm. Because to attract someone that is hot because they are hot in a superficial sense, it requires you yourself be hot in a superficial sense. Unless you can really believe you are hot with an extra 100 lbs, then the confidence may find you the person you think is hot that agrees with you. It’s a real world sexual fetish, the ‘chubby chaser’, but if you believe you are a hideous fat man – even a chubby chaser will believe you. And if you have heath problem and are overweight, maybe heath is what you want and need – what is stopping you?

And magic is critically important to personal transformation. That’s why Alcoholics anonymous will not relinquish GOD. And understand that as far as I’m concerned, working with God is also magic! When we do not know, we can fail to believe in ourselves – and we then we need something. And that something is magic, no matter what you call it. And there’s understanding your circumstances, which fear can obfuscate.

So of course magic should be akin to a self help paradigm! Because what we want are circumstances, and to have the circumstances requires being who we want to be, not just having what we want to have. Depending on who your are being, it may be impossible to have what you want!

Any spell is, or should be, a call to action. Because magic follows a path of least resistance, and the best magicians craft a path of least resistance for the magic t follow. If I want to be a successful cartoonist – I have to buckle down and create some good work, or else I may lose my life and the cartoons I’ve already done will win me fame posthumously! Magic is both a cookie, yes you can! – and a stick, or else! Especially Sigil magic, because it evades your self protection strategies of obfuscating your will by taking the desire straight to your subconscious/unconscious!

It’s Dec 17 and many people are preparing for holidays. With a meager budget I’m buying gifts for family..and self too. There’s a faux battle to put “Christ” back in Christmas – as if the suggestion “Happy Holidays” is somehow an attack on the Christian tradition. Of course “Happy Holidays” is superior as a celebratory wish because it is inclusive of everyone that isn’t celebrating Christmas (Haunnkah or Kwanzaa  anyone?) and it also includes New Years! The threat to Christ at this holiday time isn’t the exclusion of Jews and agnostics by encouraging a “merry Christmas” – is that, and to children especially, Christ – even God, plays second fiddle to… SANTA CLAUS! and Please, this is the Santa that drinks Coke, not that foreign and strange ‘St. Nicholas!

Santa is a mighty egregore! Try asking Santa for something, sincerely as if He exists! See what happens!

Again I’m typing this on a library computer. My Computer died. This may be the work of magic even, as I’ve been meaning to  get work done on my Ithacat comic – and my addiction to online entertainment was sabotaging that end.  So now I have little better to do but work on the comic, and I am working on it because progreess on that end may be just the thing that enables the tech folks who have my computer now, to fix what is wrong – or to help me get the money to replace it with a more modern and powerful desktop.

Ithacat, it is going to be a very good comic. I’m not that superstar artist I would like to be, so accepting my limitiations is key to my getting the comic done. And I’m breaking it up into accomplishable parts, chapters.

I also need, desperately, to get http://hosthamstercrank.com configured and selling web hosting. That project is HUGE and intimidating, and what that makes clear is that I need a TEAM. Even this site – many replies suggest ‘we’ are doing a great job!, But really this is entirely the work of one person. and that’s a problem. Because teams can accomplish things one person cannot. It’s not easty for me, to find peers – because I’m highly developed as a tech, graphic artist and cartoonist. But that being the case, and because I am strong in the domains I am strong in, there’s a lot of potential for good people wanting to work with ME! So I’ll be getting some magic in on this to help me out! Wish me well.

I wish you well, I’ve done my best to make this site a worthwhile resource. Make me proud, us the information here and make it WORK FOR YOU!

Because Magic, what magic is REALLY ABOUT – is living life as if you have a say in what happens to you and in your life, and therefore TAKING RESPONSIBILITY!

Love,

Micheal Robin Cooke

I’m not religious, but boy am i fascinated by it. I really am. And my Chaos magic practice has led me to curious conclusions.

The End of The WORLD! I’ve mentioned this before, collective will and expectation is not impotent! 2012 is coming up, let it be boring. But in this election it seems as if Doomsday anticipation is shaping Republican political agendas, as if more human suffering will allow the end times to come the much sooner. All I do know is that in the sincere Religious right is sincere belief in immanent end times and it’s not a belief system conducive to sane choices if the human race prevails anyway.

I wish some actual Christian religious leaders would distinguish this instead of me (’cause I’m not Christian): It is Christian HERESY to suggest Jesus loves the rich over the poor, that sincere Christians must be rich because prayer delivers money or something.

The Creative writing experience has taught me that if I imagine a character and focus a lot of mental energy into that character, that character can become ‘real’, even independent. As a Chaos magician this is called a servitor, originally called ‘Tulpa” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa . Now when more than one person invests mental energy into the same entity, it can be even more powerful and is called an egregore (an example is Santa Claus, a Corporation or meme ['welfare millionaire' is one example of an egregore as meme]).

So the Republicans that love a Jesus that loves the rich, believes in personal responsibility, and most ironically adores Ayn Rand. Guess what, that Jesus is REAL! If for not reason than that people collectively believe in that. If you believe in right wing Jesus, I bet he answers prayers, helps you win lotto – if you into it serious I bet you can convince yourself He’s communicating with you!

But no, this Jesus is NOT Biblical Jesus!

Is any Jesus the Biblical Jesus? Do Catholics, Mormons and Southern baptists worship three DIFFERENT Gods?

I’ve also been learning to be less prejudiced about Christians, to respect it’s a broad belief system. It’s really interesting that I can share many of the insights I make in this blog, with CHRISTIANS, that do not disagree with me?!

Like a blasphemous idea I’ve introduced here once before – Godhood through integrity in essence. The idea that if you always keep your word, take the discipline seriously, you word will become strong. And people that know you will have tremendous respect and belief in your word if you make it that strong. And the belief of others builds your own belief too – until your word is perhaps more powerful that it should be. Meaning if you are the person who always keeps his word, using that word to heal someone MIGHT WORK! That’s left hand magic if I ever saw it. And a Christian agrees with me? really?

Well, food for thought. Is where my head has been at recently.

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