Comments are for the page: Dark culture: black magic as art and play
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Actually, incorporation was meant to come before inversion, but I ran into trouble writing that bit up, several years ago, and have not yet come back to it. Sorry about that! Incorporation is about “the shadow”, so it’s a little scary, but it’s not “black magic,” inasmuch as you can pursue it without ethical confusion.
Unfortunately, also, the novel is moving at a glacial pace, because I have so little time to write. About a third of it is visible now. We’re out of Act I (get the hero into the action) and have just started Act II (cause severe problems for the hero). In the most recent episode, he has been attacked by a vampire. A cliff-hanger ensued. In a few months, maybe we’ll find out what happens next.
I'm thirsty of that hot blood...
Hey!
Bring us more of this holy urine and feces…
This is the end? [Morrison]
I’ve never read about the philosophy of the Sublime – thanx, that was fascinating and intuitively obvious.
Does your series ends here? There must be more coming after this.
So I read the “Eating the Shadow” section as an ending for your sequence of:
rejection –> inversion (black magic) –> incorporation (eating the shadow)
But there you tell us: “I will describe other methods that can be used by anyone. “
But you don’t.
And in your footnote on that page you say “Eventually I’ll answer that in a follow-up post.”
So I look forward to those specific, concrete, non-Buddhist transformation processes which may contain more specific, concrete black magic stuff too – or are they the same?
Last question: As I am a rather literary dullard, I think reading your essays before reading your novel will help me to get the most out of your novel. Great essays, thank you. Is your novel done?