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Magickal culture in New York City

02:25 / 24.03.07

where to converge w/ those already in flight from 'this' plane?

02:49 / 24.03.07

I don't understand. Are you trying to find NY 'lith-magicians for RL convergence, or are you looking for information on places to go to meet NY magicians?

Tho I suppose it could be both, couldn't it.

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02:54 / 24.03.07

03:31 / 24.03.07

did I say 'this' plane, I meant 'that' plane...

(thank you many)

07:53 / 24.03.07

You probably want the Gathering forum.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:57 / 24.03.07

Does anyone mind if this gets retooled into a more general topic--magical groups in NYC and surroundings, perhaps?

11:20 / 25.03.07

Not at all. Shall we?

15:55 / 26.03.07

Personally, I'm not a big fan of Enchantments, noted above. I've found it to be a bit of a clubhouse, and not too welcoming to shoppers who aren't part of the clique.

Your experience may differ.

Both the Samuel Weiser bookshop and Herman Slater's Magickal Childe have been gone for years, but East-West Books is excellent. And Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors seems to have interesting events from time to time.

(Also, for what it's worth, I work in NYC and I'm occasionally up for a beer and a chat about the occult. At least a few other Barbeloids here in NYC, too.)

One thing though -- I don't know if it's a good idea to be "in flight from this plane." Seems to me that the ability to regularly and successfully engage with consensus reality is one of a magician's most important skills.

16:08 / 26.03.07

A person I respect a great deal and is active in the NYC occult scene told me the stores/public venues have died off or gone to crap in recent years. I'm not sure if this is part of the cycle cities go through or something else.

Interestingly enough I'm also told the art scene there is far from thriving (support wise, not artist availabilty). Again I'm getting this second hand... the cost of living and rents on the island are forcing people to move away.

Are the folks that are there experiencing any of this?

02:24 / 27.03.07

This is kind of related, but forgive me if its not. I just got back from a trip to NYC about less than a week ago, and i fell in love with it. I live in tampa, FL, and the sheer mass of the city first through me, but then the architecture dead. The massive facade dedicated to Hermes, Zeus, and Hera on top of Grand Central station blew my mind. Seeing 20 foot tall depictions of Atlas and Prometheus in Rockerfellar center was breathtaking. I went out to Coney Island one day, and there was this one building on the Coney Island boardwalk, dating back to its heyday, covered with graven images of Neptune and mermaids. The papyrus of Ani in the egyptian wing of the MET entraced me for hours.

The trip was really cool and particularly relevant to my practice at the moment. I'm 8 monthes into working Liber $ by Crowley into my worldview, and the classical correltations fit perfectly. I never made it to the Temple of Sacred Images like I wanted to but the city seemed to shine with magical figures for me.

02:25 / 27.03.07

and that was Liber 4, not Liber $.

18:07 / 27.03.07

I think I might need Liber $.

18:23 / 27.03.07

Is that like Milch money?

18:43 / 27.03.07

I think I might need Liber £.

09:56 / 28.03.07

brilliant...thanx y'all.

though, a thing occurs to me, let's all meet in tompkins square park and dose up on mushrooms. Magickal culture will manifest i'm sure.

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11:44 / 28.03.07

I think we're gonna want to get to know you a little better before we schedule a communal ingesting of hallucinogens, dude. No offense.

Unconditional Love

14:25 / 28.03.07

Do you think humans make mushrooms hallucinate?

20:09 / 28.03.07

I'm a woman...

20:11 / 28.03.07

i think hallucinations are an immanent body unto themselves, thankfully humans and mushrooms are together compatible with them...

20:46 / 28.03.07

"Dude" is considered gender-neutral on the 'lith, I believe. At the very least, I consider it gender-neutral in this space. But I shouldn't have expected you to know what goes on in my noodle, and I understand that that might be confusing if you hadn't encountered it here before. Sorry for confusion, Rusty.

19:55 / 30.03.07

none taken monk, all tongue in cheeky...

Does Anyone know of a list of events of some sort? Perhaps a website feauturing a comprhensive of magickal happenings?

zines?
mags?
newsletters?
messanger bird rings?

06:59 / 01.04.07

messanger bird rings?

Hawks, maybe? What? Freya likes 'em...

--Ember--

15:34 / 02.04.07

brilliant!