And you’re as mad as a hatter. But I like hats. I’d like one with crow feathers, thank you.

I wrote about spiders and raccoons today from a similar experience to your crows. Namaste and enjoy your dinner.

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You guys are weird, you know that? ;-)

…The first stage of seeing through the game can be a shocking enlightenment that leads to either weary cynicism or Buddhism. The second stage of actually applying the insight to oneself can destroy the illusion of a soul and create a magician…

…The magician is not one striving for any particular limited identity goal, rather one who wants the meta-identity of being able to be anything.”

Peter J. Carroll, Liber Kaos

Well… Ragnarok is a lovely, cyclic beast, is it not?

I’m not sure that I’m necessarily being anti-ego – to reflect on Tool’s lyrics, crucifixion transformed Jesus from man to Christ… but rather exploring the ways that the ego (and everthing else) destroys and creates itself endlessly… and its a pipedream to hope for anything else.

I guess I’m right there with Nietzsche when he celebrates his bracing mountain airs as much as he does the pain of his going under.

There’s a lot of very silly ego magic carrying on in the world of rune magic these days, so I guess I am also trying to offer a point of balance to that. False promises of perfected and immutable life. Might as well be a funamentalist Christian.

I guess for me destruction and creation are the same thing… and I take seriously Nietzsche’s dare that we celebrate the eternal return of the same, celebrate the misery and the joy with equal devotion.

I could say so much more about this, and joyously contradict myself without relent… but perhaps another time ;)

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I must say I’m a bit surprised by all you lot, speaking of other sites I’ve been perusing recently also, this antipathy toward the ego. It seems to have sprung from a mis reading of something Buddhist, but I could be wrong. Anyways, the ego is the seeds of the self. You don’t kill it, you transform it. Magic is as much about embracing, loving and creating as it is destroying.