Fitting magic into daily life isn’t as easy as it used to be, with the pace of life making it more difficult to bring people together to practice magic and share learnings – work 10+ hour days, get to the gym, time with the kids and what’s left is 1/2 hour to an hour a day. Someone needs to bring magic into the 21st century, cutting away the dross for the gems, making it accessible and meaningful rather than the clutter that exists in the main today. Showing people that the energy exists and how to work with it does not require learning 20 pages of ritual but a commitment to learn how to use it and harmonise with it. Bardon for all his critics is the best contemporary magician of our time – at least insofar as book 1 goes – if you did half the exercises in initiation into hermetics for a year you would be a heck of a magician.

As for your question, I would define them as more the real far-out newagey types, or the kiddy-types that get involved in magic because it’s something cool or something convenient to solve little problems–the ones that seem to get the more press, arg, if I’m making any sense *g*

*chuckle* actually, this reminds me of a quote from Stephen Grasso’s ‘Learning To Open The Haunted Kaleidoscope’ from Generation Hex:

“The London scene was filled with what I call ‘Doley Crowleys,’ funny-looking geezers in black clothes trying to start the Aeon of Horus out of a bedsit in Hackney, masturbating furiously over a series of lines drawn on a post-it note to make their unemployment benefit come through more quickly. There were too many beardy pagan guys sitting around in pubs singing empty hymns to a nonspecific Goddess with all the passion and Gnostic rapture of a village green church choir. Too many socially marginalized people for whom magic and paganism seemed to function as more of a support group than anything else. A shared comfort zone that provided a sense of empowerment and community but, for the most part, seemed to have precious little to do with magic, with the mysteries, with getting things done.
(Emphasis mine)

I hope that helped clear things up a bit *g* Great job on the website btw, it looks real awesome.

Git ‘ir done!

*g*

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So, how do you define “fruitcake” and “fluffbunny”?

That said–I think ‘willful intentionality’ is just plain silly. In fact, I would define ‘willful intentionality’ as magic itself! What a good alternate definition, but isn’t ‘magic’ just easier to say?

I think the issue boils down also with the vast amount of fruitcakes and fluffbunnies who use the word. It’s as if people don’t want to be associated with it anymore–but that certainly won’t stop people like myself, who live and breathe magic into everyday life, and not just when the fancy strikes me, or just during some ritual.

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