Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance . To explain their occult and mystical experiences , magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems .

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

Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

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 .

It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.