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 .

We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

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

As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.