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TOP NEWS STORY! How do we create a Chaosphere? But Isn't Chaos Dangerous? What do you do with Symbols? TOP NEWS STORY ! Mysterious multi-colored 8-pointed stars have suddenly began appearing across the town. First spotted at the Local Park, taking the form of various flowers in a garden. This symbol has also been spotted on the water tower, banks, and other various places. Could this be the work of some other-worldly creature? (Newscaster holds her hand up to her ear, appearing to be listening to her earphone) Wait- I have just been told that this town is not the only place experiencing this phenomenon. We have Mike- live on the scene in Another Formerly Grey Town, let's go to you, Mike. Mike: What is this mysterious object being spotted? I have word- unconfirmed at this time, that cities and towns across the country- possibly even across the globe, have been infected with this symbol. What does it mean? Authorities have been unable to comment... (Suddenly Mike and the cameraman are blinded by an immensly bright rainbow, that has just seem to spring out of nowhere) Mike: Oh, ow, uh, back to you. Ahh, the possibilities! What great fun! How do we create a Chaosphere? Template for the global chaosphere working. harken to this ye mages and magelings, for here be a basic template for the global chaosphere working of November 14th. At the time of writing it already promises to make the greatest worldwide chaos magic working so far, so rest assured that chaosphere previously called "Earth" will allready have a minimum of eight pointy bits. Here's how to join with the working, and add two more pointy bits. 1) Know ye that the earth is round, and also it is large. 2) Hold this in mind and know also that it is hot in the middle. 3) From the hot middle of the earth a bolt or a beam or an arrow of chaos energy shoots up through you into the sky. This beam may manifest in a variety of party colours as you see fit. 4) Know ye that the Universe is round, and also, it is large. 5) The bolt or beam of energy goes so far out into the universe that it comes back the other side, and goes into the hot middle of the earth. 6) At the same time, a beam or a bolt has gone out in the opposite direction, it comes down through you to the middle, so that you stand in a mighty column of energy moving in both directions at once. 7) Know that multitudes of others are doing the same kind of thing all over the world, and see their beams/ bolts columns as well. 8) You are connected. progress with your magic, and unleash your spells if that's what you. Some will be working on specific issues, or numbers of specific issues, some will be working on the general theme of "colour the grey". The chaos of this working will unleash the infinite possibilities of change for the better. 9) If you wish to disconnect afterwards, (some will some wont) then finish your magic, and see the beams or bolts returning to the middle of the earth. Now go forth, and have more fun! But Isn't Chaos Dangerous? Q: First of all, I don't think that most of us want anyone to be hurt, especially protesters and the actual people that are working and need the jobs. The little guys, so-to-speak. As we know, there has been violence and protestors harmed and etc. in the past. A: You're thinking of Chaos in the old sense of "disorder/destruction" rather than the fractal creative force spoken of in both chaos magic and science/math. The intent and method of the working is not likely to increase the destructiveness of this event. Why? Because it is not the disorder that gets people hurt in these things, it's the imposition of order. A lot of people were badly hurt in the Quebec City protests, one guy had his throat broken by a rubber bullet at close range, he nearly died and will likely be in pain for the rest of his life. But it wasn't Chaos that hurt any of them, it was authorities attempt to force their order that did it. I could go into detail as to why this is true, but this email would be way to long if I did. And shit like that almost certainly will happen in Sydney, no matter what we do. I honestly don't think your concerns have anything to do with this working, we're not talking about invoking more disorder and destructiveness, but rather opening a vortex to fuel the spontaneous organic order we call chaos, which will support those you are concerned for, not harm them. So long as all working, or at lease someone in each node, are aware of the distinction, there should be no problem. Bright Blessings Chuckles, the Wonder Monkey Magic often works with symbols, and symbols can get charged. Advertising and hype charges a product symbol with impressions, expectations, drives and desires, and causes these things to become assosciated with the drives, desires and impressions involved. With the example of the coca cola symbol. The coca cola symbol might have started out a freudian thing that repesents and umbilical cord, and connects with oral comfort in the form of sucking on a sweet tasting liquid, but advertising has given it assosciations with other things. It has become charged. It's charge involves childhood and teenage hopes and fantasies, and the need of youth to look for role models a few years older than them in order to be cool. They did this by bombarding us with advertising campaigns showing coca cola as an integral part of an idilic teenage life. Now, whenever we want to trick ourselves into thinking that we have a cool teenage side to our lives, or that we have more chance of an interesting existance than the average recriut to Tyler Durden's fight club, we can cast the coca cola spell on ourselves by consuming the coca cola product. When we do this, the whole process of denial and fetishistic substitution (which keeps us tame in the corporate controlled world) gets enforced by our choice to sacrifice survival tokens (spend money) for the myth around coca cola which it's advertising has imbued it with. On an unconscious level, the hype which the coca cola symbol has been charged with lies to us and tells us that we're satisfied and happy with our lives when we spend money on it. The reality of corporate products and the consumerist lifestyles get hidden and denied, however. If we lived a sane existance, we would not assosciate corporate products with idealised lifestyles in this way. We would assosciate them with overfarming, and deforestation to make way for ranches, we would assosciate them with indigenous people driven off their land and murdered for complaining. When we saw the Shell logo, we would see Nigerian people such as the Ogoni people choking and dieing on fumes from oil pipes, and beaten and hung for asking for the right to vote against it. When we saw gold rings we would think of extraction by cyanide destroying undergound watersystems used by Australian aborigial people. And when we saw those idealised teenage years that make the misfits (such as ourselves) feel even more alienated and dismayed at our lives, we would see headless teenage corpes still holding Daddy's gun. Advertising steals a part of human nature from us, it extorts money from us to fed it back to us in little dribs and drabs. It forms the carrots and sticks in our minds that make us think that we're only doing well in life when we can buy gimmicks with glamorised labels, and it makes us look away from the daily holocausts that sustain our capitalist world. Corporate labels have become the new sacred icons of a world run by mammons demonic side. And as every good chaos magician knows, when you smash up a sacred icon, you release a certain kind of energy, and you become a little bit more free. I presume that the idea of the workings which have been proposed is to feed some of this energy specifically into the resistance against the WTO, however much of a gnat bite on an elephant that resistance might be. best wishes, The Changeling |