A term coined by Saint John of the Cross in his poem “Dark Night of the Soul” from the 16th century. Return to Page

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One author spent a year avoiding advertisements as much as possible, while consciously removing or marking out any corporate logo present in his daily environment. This experiment led to a kind of hyper-awareness of logomancy and its otherwise subliminal effects, and led to a development of a personal theory about psychological space which went on [...]

We continue to promote collage work throughout this book because collage, by arranging pieces made of pre-existing media with a variety of materials into a new cohesive whole, is the same process of trimming, selecting, and arranging from various available sources that the brain naturally utilizes to make sense of its environment as it develops. [...]

Retroactive enchantment is one approach to achieving this goal, while specific forms of soul-retrieval can also be adapted to this kind of internal work. Friends have also adapted Dianetic auditing from scientology combined with self-hypnosis toward similar results. Return to Page

As Fenwick Rysen put it: SIGIL –> SERVITOR –> EGREGORE –> GODFORM Mark Defrates essay, along with related material, is available at Chaos Matrix’s library. Return to Page

In astrology, the rising sign is most closely associated with the persona, with the sun and moon signs roughly analogous to one’s conscious and pre-conscious self-image. Return to Page