I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .

Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.

Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space , time , mass, and energy . However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological .

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.