an occult education thread - 🧵 3/?

Spare's influence on modern occultism, or how a broke artist with cats changed magical practice forever

remember how punk changed music by showing anyone could do it? same with photoshop and smart phones?

Spare did that to magic. his "fuck your golden dawn cosplay" approach spawned chaos magic and fundamentally altered how we approach practice. he showed us magic isn't about who has the fanciest robes or most expensive tools.

the real revolution came in the 1970s when Peter Carroll and Ray Sherwin discovered Spare's work moldering in obscure bookshops and realized its explosive potential. chaos magic was born in squats and punk venues, deliberately weird and ruthlessly practical.

Carroll took Spare's ideas about belief as a tool and developed them into a complete system. "nothing is true, everything is permitted" became more than a cool quote. it became a practical framework for reality hacking. belief became something to use rather than hold.

then the internet happened. suddenly sigils were everywhere, hidden in plain sight. corporate logos, viral marketing campaigns, social movements.

modern chaos magicians realized something profound: if magic is about manipulating symbols and consciousness, what better medium than the internet? your social media feed is just a technologically enhanced sigil stream, bombarding you with symbols and programming your reality.

Spare would probably laugh at how his ideas evolved. tumblr witches crafting digital sigils, discord servers replacing magical lodges, viral posts becoming mass workings. but he'd recognize the core truth: magic belongs to everyone, works better without pretense, and thrives in the spaces between established power.

as reality becomes increasingly virtual, the line between magic and technology grows ever thinner. Spare's ideas about consciousness and symbols become more relevant, not less. we're all participating in mass consciousness manipulation whether we realize it or not.

we're all chaos magicians now. some of us just know it.

remember: every time you share content that shifts consciousness, you're doing magic. the question is: are you doing it intentionally?

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