JSK Verum: Conjureman Ali - 'Verum Hoodoo Results' (2011)

[MorganBlack]

thank you for this writeup. It's an inspiring way to work with such things, I would imagine.

You are most welcome! I am glad it was helpful!

I will say Trad Magic of the grims totally lives up to the hype. No gatekeepers are needed. The 'tradition' is totally open-source, which is one of the ways it gets appropriated and mangled, but the grims keep people honest.

They are also very flexible, as you can see from this Conjure / Cunning Folk / Folk Magic way of working. So the constant crys of "grimoire purists" or "just do magic" is just knuckle-dragging horseshit from mobs of ignorant fools. (Was that too harsh? Just tired of hearing it.)

I also think it's not helpful for people to pay too much attention to other people's experience. But I did hint very heavily here (below) at what an extreme theophanic manifestation even can look like from my own practice as a Grim Verum guy.

FYI, when I come 'out' of ritual I like to be just a regular guy, so I like to talk from an intellectually humble place using Chaos Magic to structure my Left-brain discursive chatter about what we are even doing. It keeps my feet on the ground.

See the section:

Essential Late-Stage Core Concept
(Don't open until a couple of years of strictly agnostic practice)

Book Club - Recommended Reading List for Chao-Animist Necromancy

Chao-Animist Necromancy, my half-joke fancy name for just Traditional Western Magic and Witchcraft, with some modern adaptations. For newcomers who have not yet ambered in cruft their personal operative myths... I say start with Chaos Magic, then move into practices that make you calm and...

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