AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
On Aleister Crowley. Who is practically normie these days.
Magick as striving for wholeness, not purity (including the bad parts of self)
Crowley: Magick is for all, it sounds so funny to hear these democratic sentiments from someone like him.
"Every man and woman is a star" – interpreted in Aristotelean(?) sense, individuals are outside nature, autonomous...not actually sure what this means and it seems to slightly contradict other things here, about the continuity of the universe.
The discussion of science vs magick is kind of dumb, sorry. "Magick looks at every level of reality as equally real" – kind of Latourish, but it misunderstands science in the usual way. Drives me nuts.
I was impressed and surprised by the discussion of causality and synchronicity. JFM didn't believe in it because of mechanism issues, which really surprised me. I feel like they are on the verge of an insight, and I'm on the verge of the same one although coming via a different path – maybe that all semantic relations have this atemporal quality, where causality is not strightforward and mechanistic...not sure that's it, it's a fleeting image of a thought, at best.
Principle of Sufficient Reason etc. That stuff leaves me cold
Narrative theory of reality
Burroughs: Money is the worst thing you can ask for in magic. (56:45)
Minsky contra Crowley around 23:00 (???)
39:00 irreduction
Any intentional act is a magical act
Science deals with quantity, magic deals with appearance and the qualitiative