Introductions: Who do we claim to be?

[aegetheus]

Hello,

Aegetheus here.  I've studied Magick since the age of 12 or thereabouts.  My interests include correpondence with others about topics magickal, anthropological, and historical; reading; and writing.  I love drawing self-portraits in charcoal and ink, and then with a single color (usually red).  My mother, a seamstress and businesswoman from Paraguay, and my father, a Baptist minister from the Appalachian hills of Tennessee: apparently this explains something about me.  I myself do not dally with either religion or fabric, but have an interest in the history of religion, especially the archaeology of religious Cult in the late Paleolithic and early classical periods.  Most of all, I love ancient systems of writing: Mayan glyphs particularly, as well as Egyptian hieroglyphics, Babylonian cuniform, and Linear B; and I consider it one of my ambitions to become an expert in deciphering lost alphabets (or at least get a Master's in such).  I did my bachelor's thesis in the common eschatological themes in Spanish and Portuguese colonialist and Aztec and Mayan native religious literature.  I think it really fucks with people's heads when we see the world on the brink of imminent demise, and that society can really benefit from a revolution in how we experience and represent time, both on the personal and trans-historical levels. 

I do not "claim to be" anything for the purposes of this site other than interested in Chaos magick. 

Thanks for having me.

~Aegetheus

[myk]

Okay. I've been consuming books and information relating to magic and mysticism for some time now. I had some alarming successs with magic as a teen, which actually scared me a little. So I went for more oblique will based paradigms for reality hacking, encouraged by a 'crazy' uncle, for many years.

Just over a year ago I found chaosmagic.com and leveraged that website and anything else I found online to educate myself about chaos magic. I'd already been familiar with the writing of Robert Anton Wilson, experienced my own existential crisis (coming out as gay was a catalyst) - so I was ready for it. And I began a magic practice with sigils.

More recently I've developed an interest in Hoodoo, the chaos magic paradigm helps me get over what stopped me before, and it offers candles and inscnece and material goodies that 'seem' magical to me - which is a good thing.

What else? Oh yeah, I'm a graphic designer and frustrated comic creator. I draw very well, but I'm sadly aware that my draftsmanship is substandard for the level of comic creating I aspire too. The nice thing about art is that you only get better - I hopr to meet that standard soon. May try a hoodoo traditional cross roads work towards that end. I write comic stories too, am less clear how good I am at that. I know my concepts are wicked, but my dialog and characterization needs help.

I'm a very good graphic designer, have little passion for it tho. I wanna write and draw comics in a reality where comics simply do not sell. Need some serious magic to address that problem. 

I've attended none of Carrols workshops - and can't afford too if I wanted to. Hope I'm still welcome. I found this forum linked on Phil Hine's website.

Here's an image I donated to chaosmagic.com, it's the young ZOS by the way.

[StoryBoyZA]

hi!

just a brief hi from way down south on the african continent!
fresh off the boat from the last chaos magick journey at MLA.

a complete noobie, training wings and all!

 

and looking forward to exchanging ideas + thoughts + wisdom.

light
a!

[Isis]

Well , Myk, good enough for my standard.
That Zos of yours has an aura.

Besides if you are not frustrated as an artist you are not sane.