- So far, the results of the sigil have been…interesting. It's been an experience that, I suspect, any practitioner of magic would immediately point to and say, "That's exactly how magic works;" whereas a hardcore cynic (which I've been, at least until recently) would pooh-pooh the results and say I'm inventing a justification for the fact that nothing happened. I'll go into this in more detail tomorrow.
- Edit: I originally wrote that as "hardcore skeptic," which is incorrect. I'm a skeptic and will always be one. Skepticism isn't the outright denial of anything, including magic; rather, it's the ability to keep an open mind, question, and encourage experimentation, exploration and research rather than outright denial. A cynic says, "You're wrong because that's just stupid, end of story." A skeptic says, "You're wrong because of the evidence, here and here. See?"
- For a long time, years in fact, I'd been looking for audiobooks from Robert Anton Wilson, and I'd come to the conclusion that there must not have been any. But yesterday I managed to find a huge cache of them, just like that. This was a very interesting find.
- I've decided that I'm not going to accept the Star of Chaos as a symbol until I reach the point where I achieve something akin to gnosis – the altered state of existence that comes through meditation.
- And it's been absolutely no surprise at all to learn there are a lot of internal politics and arguments going on about this subject, even to the point where some people have long since declared "Chaos magic is dead." I wouldn't be surprised if at some point, I'm accused of looking into a subject that's considered obsolete and largely abandoned. This, of course, means nothing. After all, I happily embraced SubGenius for seventeen years, even amidst repeated comments of how that movement peaked in the 1980s and died out after that. Because, as we all know, a philosophical path is only worth pursuing if it's popular.
- Meanwhile, I did some good cooking yesterday - lemon pepper chicken with vegetables, then some rice pilaf later on.