with MWCB



Magic, Witchcraft, Chaos and Beyond presents our Spring events:

The ideal work situation for many a magician is self-employment. We spend a large part of our daily life working, and a magical life is (among other things) one in which you find meaning and satisfaction in your daily life. The opposite is having what David Graeber called a bullshit job, one which produces nothing, wastes everyone’s time and degrades human relationships via pointless activities and hierarchies. 

You are someone who has a great idea, or ideas. Maybe you’re an artist, a musician, a writer, or some other creator of physical things or digital services. Maybe you’re part of a community that will benefit hugely from your learning the skills of prosperity magic. 

You may be in a job which you may or may not like, but would probably prefer to earn sufficient income from your own work to pack it in.

You may have the bare bones of a great business idea that needs fleshing out until it’s a plan, one that you can follow until you achieve your goals. 

The course takes you through proven techniques from magic and practical psychology. You will have plenty of opportunity to practice and get feedback from me and the other students. 

You can make a massive difference to your life in those six weeks. This course is not exactly a boot camp, but I assume that if you join it you’ll want to make time on most days, preferably every day of those weeks, to give it your best and really transform your prosperity. 

The course will launch on Monday 23/3/22 - 27/4/22, at 20.00 GMT/BST and run for 6 sessions. The first one will be 1.5 hours, the rest 1 hour. 
- Plus a dedicated Discord forum, and access to course videos throughout the course.

£65, with concessions - please enquire if you want to come on this course but need a lesser fee.

The final course in my series Qabalistic Pathworkings, The Supernals will launch on Monday 9/5/22 - 27/6/22, at 19.00 BST and run for 8 sessions. The first one will be 1.5 hours, the rest 1 hour. 
Plus Discord forum, and access to course videos throughout the course.
£65, with concessions - please enquire.

To enrol for this live course, you need to have attended the first two parts - Journey to Tiphareth and The Magickal Triangle, in their live MWCB versions, OR if you missed those, you can now enrol for both courses at my Chaotopia School of Magic, combined as Qabalistic Pathworkings Parts 1 & 2. 

If you've done Part 1, Journey to Tiphareth, but not Part 2, The Magickal Triangle, you can enrol separately for the latter. 
If you're out of pocket because of the offers involved, please email me and I'll compensate you. 

with VIKTOR WYND

New two-course Introduction to Chaos Magic: Part 1, Spells and Sigils.
We need Chaos Magick more than ever since the explosion of magickal thinking that has followed the lockdowns. People are getting into magick without a critical perspective, resulting in the current rash of deranged theories about what is happening. Chaos Magick provides multiple perspectives, a beacon of magickal sanity in a world gone mad. 

Join this course and learn about belief as a technique, about the use of extraordinary states of consciousness (gnosis) and discuss theories old and new as to what makes magic work.

But mainly come along to make spells using powerful sigils, in this two-part workshop with me. We’ll talk about what we need to do a spell then explore a variety of approaches to making sigils - including graphic mashups, mantras and the idea of the artwork as hypersigil.

This mini-course consists of two two-hour sessions, 4th & 11th May, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. £50



Part 2: Servitors and Spirits will run in October 2022, but if you want to be sure of enrolling for both Chaos Magic courses, you can book now. 
In this second introductory Chaos Magick course we’ll be working with spirits. We’ll be starting by assembling helper spirits tailored to your own requirements - what chaos magicians call servitors. Then we’ll explore spirits that exist ‘out there’ in the collective mind, which we can invoke, or ‘call into ourselves’. This includes Gods and Goddesses, ‘culture heroes’ and even characters from fiction and popular culture whose powers are useful to us. Join me in choosing a deity or character which we’ll then invoke!

We’ll take a peek at the theory behind such magic and we’ll continue exploring simple but powerful techniques for entering appropriate extraordinary states of consciousness.

This mini-course consists of two two-hour sessions.

OCT 05TH 2022 - OCTOBER 12, 2022
Oct 5th 2022 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Oct 12th 2022 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
£50

Introduction to Energy Magic part 1 will run in November 2022 but tickets are now on sale.
Do you know how to project healing energy from your hands? Over the years of my coaching Connected Breathwork my clients and I had numerous experiences of sensed energy, and I developed techniques for raising and directing that energy. 

You can raise and entrain sensed energy, also known as chi, prana and athm, for healing and for other magical operations. In this course we’ll practice breath patterns for raising energy and  techniques for deploying it outside your body, such as energy portals, and the group energy patterns known as Chaotrons.  

This course will be followed next year by Part 2, which will consist of explorations of internal sensed energy practices and energy alchemy.

NOV 09TH 2022 - NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Nov 9th 2022 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Nov 16th 2022 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
£50

 

PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS, BLOGS 
 

One of my publishers, Mandrake of Oxford, did a newsletter special on my work, with an interview, see above.

The Blame Blake video is now out! A record by professional filmmaker Andrew Musgrave of that day last August when Sheffield was treated to a day of art and poetry and magick inspired by and in celebration of William Blake.It was one of those intensely magickal days which strengthen a scene and create inspiration for further creations. Check it all out!

The film is structured by performers, featuring interviews with @johnhiggs @cloudbolt23 @dleeahp @KaliGeo @bengrahamwriter @shlab_sheffield and many more. After each interview, we see the film of their performance. I’m on at 35.02, doing my first ever performance poem We Are All In Chapel Perilous, complete with magic hat and vitki trousers. This bit of verse is a recognition of how we’re confused and alarmed by world events, leading us to a stage recognized by magicians - the Chapel Perilous within which our comfortable ideas of ourselves and the world get shaken apart. That’s the point where we may adopt magickal thinking and, with a bit of rational thinking to counterbalance the tendency to go overboard, we may start on a magickal path. Without that touch of scepticism, we may become prey to the rash of demented theories that are currently on offer.

… we really don’t know much for sure

So it’s far healthier to stay unsure

And not get stuck in one belief

So ‘BS’ won’t bring us to grief

We’re all in Chapel Perilous

So let’s have a caring thought for us

Let’s help each other stay aware

As part of what we do to care 

Rune-Poems: The Reawakened Tradition. Most of our knowledge of the meanings of the runes comes from the mediaeval rune-poems, AngloSaxon, Icelandic and Norwegian. This is a collection of new translations of those, and of a previously little-known Swedish poem, plus  rune-poems by contemporary runic magicians. Including myself - both my Elder and Younger Futhark poems are in here.

Here's a verse from my Younger Futhark Rune-Poem, dedicated to those who might need it in these challenging and confusing times:

NAUTH    ᚾ nauðr ("need")    

Need’s the fire ‘neath wizard’s pot

Nightside art’s the poor man’s sword, when

Naught’ll do but sculpt a lot and

Nail his soul to carven board.

Narrowed fire is fierce, do not 

Neglect the power of straitened word.

Nothing breaks the grip of lack like

Need itself turned on its back.
 

Diamond Jim of Festival 23 interviews the brilliant and highly magickal Grant Morrison about all sorts of things. 

Tim Holmes (The Buddhist Punk) has got a new collection of poems out. Tim is a performance poet who has graced many Discordian events including Blame Blake. The poems are from two decades; compiled during the lockdowns, the book reflects our weird and interesting times. There's also some artwork by Max Charles. 
Tim's poems are down-to-earth diction shot through with militant compassion. Here's the end of Grief is Love Persevering:

Loss makes us re-evaluate
To see beyond the veil
To connect with each other
Once and for all
We need to grieve on a planetary scale

If I had to define what he is offering us, I'd say it is weaponised hope.  

Jimmy Cauty's dystopian model village experience Estate, possibly the best artwork in the UK at the moment, resumes its tour at The Triangle, in Bournemouth BH2 5SE, 1st March - 3rd April.
I have fond, if hungry, memories of Bournemouth from my youthful period of wandering the land with no money. The Triangle used to feature a cafe where I longed to eat. 
They're doing an opening event - Art School Disco, Friday 4th March, 6:30-11pm.
Jimmy Cauty & The L-13 Light Industrial Orchestra present a brand-new audio visual experience: Wall of Death videos, plus live guest DJs. Tickets available here