Snake-Oil Salesman: Spinning the Occult
I read recently in a book about disinformation that ‘spin’
is a polite word for deception. It got me thinking. Why is it that traditional
paradigms of religion such as Christianity, Buddhism, or even Islam are
‘treated’ differently than religious minorities such as Thelema? Why are occult
systems subject to exorbitant amounts of ‘spin’? Is the deception merely
monetary and would Thelemites be given more favorable provenance? Probably. But
this systemic mischaracterization goes beyond creating a counterfeit reality or ‘spinning a yarn’. The real problem is in
denying pertinent information about occultism by refusing to think critically
about it. Of all the religious systems out there, paradigms of the occult are
the most conducive for ontological discussion. After all, the entire mythos is
based on creation, sustainment, and interaction of Being. In each state of
affairs is a network of interactive autonomy. Whereas traditional religious
systems have an already established set of supernatural beings. (i.e. Father,
Son, Spirit etc…), occult is a fluidic assemblage of invisible mediators that
stay in flux re-assembling and re-newing themselves continuously. They are both
determinate and self-determining. Invocation is simply the means of gaining
rapport and making contact.
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