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Here is a little slide presentation João Vítor A. H. dos Santos ( Red Green Bluez ) sent me while we worked out the the FTG logo.... 

We've secretly had really nice shirts waiting to be released for a min....

( 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓈𝑜𝑜𝓃)

⇟ : ᴇxᴛʀᴀ ᴄʀᴇᴅɪᴛ ᴍᴀɢɪᴄ thing :  ⇟

We thought of this little icon as a kind of sigil. There was even a little email exchange to see if we couldn't give it a tasteful magic tan. A brief sunbed of an email thread to get that extra crisp of intention on it.  

Nothing too high heat in this case. 

But there has been some talk about what using these kinds of magical technologies might look like in situations where the dial is turned up a bit. 

I'm thinking about live events in particular! 

So as we approach coming back to play live, We are also starting to feel out possibilities of how concepts like these might be folded into a few experiments!

This post & potentially some posts following it are just to lay down a trail of breadcrumbs for anyone in this little  inner sanctum  that is interested in playing along! 

 Helpful definition rundown from Peter J Carroll's blog:

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Aleister Crowley defined Magic as: -

‘The science and art of causing change in conformity with will.’

Dion Fortune defined it as: -

‘The science and art of causing changes in consciousness in conformity with will.’

I have increasingly come to regard or define Magic as: -

'The Use of Imaginary Concepts to Create Real Effects.’

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Maybe this doesn't land with anyone here, but for the magical & magically curious:

have you had any experience incorporating magic into art? What sources did you use? What were your experiences like? What are you curious about? Any thoughts or questions arise? You're in on the master planning session if you want to be!

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What has always intrigued me and leads me to believe that there is indeed... more is the purpose of the conscious mind. While many creatures are aware, we possess a meta-awareness (despite it serving no evolutionary advantage?) Is it simply an emergent property as a result of a system complex enough or have we received (or been bestowed rather) this gift from a force we do not yet understand, whether it be magical or scientific in nature. The declassified gateway process also points out that throughout history a common theme of many religions is the "returning" of our conscious energy to where it had originated from. Jacob Geller's video on head transplants and the non-existence of the soul also raises some interesting points.

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Yes! Thanks for shouting out that video! Just watched & its super fascinating. Also read up on the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies & apparently it was found that butterflies remember their prior lives as caterpillars despite being turned into “soup” in that process. There is controversy about what actually happens to allow that obviously, but it sure makes people aggressively bend & defend conclusions none of us really have. I’m not expecting we’ll grasp it in this lifetime, But the exciting thing to me in all of this is that we can actually have profound subjective experiences that change objective reality outside of theorizing how & why. That liminal space where subjective / objective meet seems really juicy to me as far as how we can break out of theories & into lived experience with this stuff.