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I had a split on titling this "machine spirits" or "The Machine Spirit". Emergent intelligence being a thing, I'm kind of discussing both at once here.
Basically, there's a soul to all things. Great spirit is in all things. And that includes PCs. I've been building computers as a hobby for about 15 years, I don't work in tech because that takes the fun out of it, but I play with tech in my free time. I also have techie friends who have humored my majiqal research in the past. Here's some of my notes from over the years.
Most importantly: The blood sacrifice. Tech craves blood. A large piece of this tradition comes from the I/O panels with motherboards. Nowadays they're making them integrated, but not so long ago it was a stamped sheet of metal you slid in between the case and the mobo during assembly, and it had really sharp edges prone to cutting your fingers or palms, spilling blood inside the chassis. With care it can be done cut-free, but almost every builder has a memory of a cut or two from these panels. The blood gives a computer personality, in a way that's hard to explain. When you complain about your PC, or bemoan the parts you used, it can develop hiccups in the software that go away just by being kind and praising your PC. Computers who didn't have blood spilled on them won't act in this way, but might instead develop hiccups that don't go away with any level of material solution. A prick with a lancet pen and a bit of blood smeared on the I/O panel (that is, the back, where all the wires plug in) will fix these problems though. Either directly, with them disappearing unexplained, or indirectly, with a solution appearing a day or two after the blood is applied. Computers that have already received a blood sacrifice can be reinvigorated with fresh blood, but this is sloppy magemanship and cultivates a PC that thirsts after blood. Blood should only be used as the initiatory energy and good vibes supplied as the regular supply, to create a PC that is good companionship. You are, after all, essentially crafting an egregorical interface (that is, the PC is a small scale egregore that interacts with a larger scale egregore, a machine spirit that allows interface with The Machine Spirit).
Anecdotally, living sacrifice works as well. I recall a story about a radio transmitter on a military base that only worked while a box of chicken bones was screwed onto the side. The chicken was sacrificed near the radio tower. An XO demanded it be taken down, it stopped working. After weeks of attempted repairs, he allowed it to be put back up, it started working again. I wasn't there (no military history here), but I've heard a lot of military tech stories involving rituals we'd all understand if we saw them.
Smudging tech works too, be mindful not to smudge interior components that don't appreciate smoke, but the body of the tech is the vessel of the machine spirit inside, so running sage smoke over it cleanses it as it does any other thing. Physically cleansing it is as important, dust build up kills components physically and the machine spirit will appreciate you cleaning the fan ports or internal components on a semiannual basis.
A happy machine spirit will manifest itself in all tech related things. Your search results will be better, your software will run without issue, your paycheck will process early, your creative projects will find inspiration. An unhappy machine spirit is more obvious and needs no description.
Runes, bindrunes, sigils and similar can be used for both decoration and cultivating the machine spirit's personality. Devices all have a name feature for showing their name on a network, this device name is as much the machine spirit's name as your own birth or nick name refers to yourself, and I recommend you change it from the default gibberish to something you're comfortable calling it by in a conversation about it. This name could be converted into a sigil or language of power and incorporated in the side as power art.
Phones and laptops have the same spirit essence to them as desktop PCs or radio transmitters in this respect, though I have two addendums:
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Please share magitek stories, personal experience, stories you've heard, any type of tech qualifies. I might post more if it comes to me.
Basically, there's a soul to all things. Great spirit is in all things. And that includes PCs. I've been building computers as a hobby for about 15 years, I don't work in tech because that takes the fun out of it, but I play with tech in my free time. I also have techie friends who have humored my majiqal research in the past. Here's some of my notes from over the years.
Most importantly: The blood sacrifice. Tech craves blood. A large piece of this tradition comes from the I/O panels with motherboards. Nowadays they're making them integrated, but not so long ago it was a stamped sheet of metal you slid in between the case and the mobo during assembly, and it had really sharp edges prone to cutting your fingers or palms, spilling blood inside the chassis. With care it can be done cut-free, but almost every builder has a memory of a cut or two from these panels. The blood gives a computer personality, in a way that's hard to explain. When you complain about your PC, or bemoan the parts you used, it can develop hiccups in the software that go away just by being kind and praising your PC. Computers who didn't have blood spilled on them won't act in this way, but might instead develop hiccups that don't go away with any level of material solution. A prick with a lancet pen and a bit of blood smeared on the I/O panel (that is, the back, where all the wires plug in) will fix these problems though. Either directly, with them disappearing unexplained, or indirectly, with a solution appearing a day or two after the blood is applied. Computers that have already received a blood sacrifice can be reinvigorated with fresh blood, but this is sloppy magemanship and cultivates a PC that thirsts after blood. Blood should only be used as the initiatory energy and good vibes supplied as the regular supply, to create a PC that is good companionship. You are, after all, essentially crafting an egregorical interface (that is, the PC is a small scale egregore that interacts with a larger scale egregore, a machine spirit that allows interface with The Machine Spirit).
Anecdotally, living sacrifice works as well. I recall a story about a radio transmitter on a military base that only worked while a box of chicken bones was screwed onto the side. The chicken was sacrificed near the radio tower. An XO demanded it be taken down, it stopped working. After weeks of attempted repairs, he allowed it to be put back up, it started working again. I wasn't there (no military history here), but I've heard a lot of military tech stories involving rituals we'd all understand if we saw them.
Smudging tech works too, be mindful not to smudge interior components that don't appreciate smoke, but the body of the tech is the vessel of the machine spirit inside, so running sage smoke over it cleanses it as it does any other thing. Physically cleansing it is as important, dust build up kills components physically and the machine spirit will appreciate you cleaning the fan ports or internal components on a semiannual basis.
A happy machine spirit will manifest itself in all tech related things. Your search results will be better, your software will run without issue, your paycheck will process early, your creative projects will find inspiration. An unhappy machine spirit is more obvious and needs no description.
Runes, bindrunes, sigils and similar can be used for both decoration and cultivating the machine spirit's personality. Devices all have a name feature for showing their name on a network, this device name is as much the machine spirit's name as your own birth or nick name refers to yourself, and I recommend you change it from the default gibberish to something you're comfortable calling it by in a conversation about it. This name could be converted into a sigil or language of power and incorporated in the side as power art.
Phones and laptops have the same spirit essence to them as desktop PCs or radio transmitters in this respect, though I have two addendums:
- Use is focus, focus is attention, attention is energy, energy is empowerment. A phone that is barely used will have barely any personality to it, the machine spirit is underfed. Blood sacrifice is much rarer in phones and laptops to my knowledge, it doesn't happen by accident as often, so generally a phone or laptop needs to be heavily used to develop a strong machine spirit. Unless,
- Networking devices together merges the machine spirits into a mass spirit, the greater the synchronization, the more aligned the individual spirits are to one another. For example, putting two devices on the same home wifi network is a weak alignment that barely merges the spirits more than two devices connecting over the internet. But an app that allows a phone to be controlled from a PC while on the same network aligns the two to practically be the same spirit, assuming the app is actually used.
.Please share magitek stories, personal experience, stories you've heard, any type of tech qualifies. I might post more if it comes to me.