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Uhhh...Internet Occultists Are Trying to Change Reality With a Magickal Algorithm | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 75867864  United States02/23/2021 08:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is why we can't have nice things. What could possibly go wrong?  [link to www.vice.com (secure)] For thousands of years, runes, glyphs, and icons have been used in occult rituals and spiritual practices to mess with reality. Today, drawings imbued with the desires of their creators—called sigils—are undergoing a resurgence. Advocates insist they really work, and a new app called the Sigil Engine automates the whole process, aiming to make inventing reality even more accessible. A sigil is a symbol used for magickal practice, typically created from scratch by the practitioner, and imbued with psychic energy to influence events. (That's magick with a k, to differentiate these rites from pulling rabbits out of hats.) Aspiring sigil creators could already tap into a wealth of resources to learn how to draw their own magickal signs, from online libraries to how-to guides on TikTok, or influential "chaos magick" texts like Liber Null and Condensed Chaos. The sigil creation process usually goes like this: write down whatever you want to achieve, remove any vowels and repeating letters, and then position the remaining letters into a pleasing arrangement. Finally, you've got to "charge" your creation. Methods for this vary, but you could meditate, sing at, or, most commonly, masturbate to your symbol, before finally destroying or forgetting all about it and awaiting the results.... . Users of the Sigil Engine, though, rely on code to do much of the legwork. When visitors land on the URL, they're greeted by a sparkling black background and a prompt to type their "intention." Doing so will set the Engine in motion, drawing the sign in bright red. Co-creator Darragh Mason, who hosts the Spirit Box podcast, describes this flourish as "a prayer or a moment of reverence to the goddess Babalon," found within the Thelemic system first synthesised by British occultist Aleister Crowley. The backdrop alludes to "the great expansive void from which all things spring". "We wanted to create something that actually felt magical when you used it," Mason told Motherboard. "For a lot of people in their magickal practice, the aesthetic helps give it more potency, so we were very conscious: we wanted to have the process of creating a sigil—removing the vowels, removing repeating letters, creating the actual symbol itself—to be experiential, something that drew you in and [gave] it a sense of wonder." Released in late 2020, the Sigil Engine has now been used more than 300,000 times, with people typing their magickal intentions spread across seven continents. According to the creators, at least some of the Engine's users say it works, with success stories covering everything from home renovations to fertility, and even those who have made automated sigil production part of their daily routine. It was important for both Mason and Tidman to have the aesthetic drive the application, and keep the whole process feeling experiential, magickal, and accessible. "We wanted the input of the intention to feel like part of the app, so we created our own keyboard component from scratch instead — each key touch pulses red, with the key components slightly transparent so particles show through, which really connects the keyboard to the app itself," Tidman told Motherboard.. |
ThePassenger  User ID: 49744517  France02/23/2021 08:36 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  There are so many ways to change reality, as much as you believe in it.That s maybe how this "world" really works : "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Words are vibrations which are energy. Each word you say will feed the world surrounding you. And that s how they manipulate us too. Who wins? The ones who control the in-formation. A.I.B.I.A. |
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| Deckard666 User ID: 79740505  Germany02/23/2021 08:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Finally ... the tool I needed. Fuck Thanos' "Balance". 99% of you are going byebye ...  "This is a joke. This is all a joke." Edward Blake, tard (Watchmen, 2009) "I bow to no man." Richard B. Riddeck (The Chronicles Of Riddeck, 2004) |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80082045  New Zealand02/23/2021 10:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Words are vibrations which are energy. Each word you say will feed the world surrounding you. 100% "most commonly, masturbate to your symbol, before finally destroying or forgetting all about it and awaiting the results" Is this a q thing? |
