Digital Sigil Magic Q&A
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Congrats and a big thank you for the new book!
This is a really interesting topic and in my case very useful. I haven’t focused on technomancy or utilized it that much consciously, mainly because of this deep belief that “technology and magick do not mingle.” As if digital space, the states on hardware, are immune to it or crystallized physicality. The recent years have changed my mind a bit where I can see how that’s probably not the case.
I hope working with this book will change my mind for good.
Thank you A!
Hi John,
I love the new book so far, I’ve been exploring sigils again since earlier this year, and all my work so far has been digital. What is your take on the original sigil creation being done with Procreate and a stylus? Is anything lost compared to pen and paper? I have had results using Procreate but wonder if they might have been hampered by this approach?
Also, are you aware of any downside to using preferred symbolic languages in sigils like runes or the Celtic letters? I have a personal relationship with the runes, to the point of having my own version of a 24 character rune row with tweaked relationships and definitions based on my 20+ years of cross comparative studies, but I’m wondering about the impact of all the previous attention put on them over the years and if that could make working with them obscure the intentions trying to be encoded.
Thanks
Derek
Thx,
Interestingly Derek, in the book I do recommend using an iPad with your finger or stylus in order to digitize your sigil. In the book I recommend making a paper copy first, but this is truly just a personal thing. If you find it easy to doodle and get creative with your iPad, then do what works for you. Just make sure that you save your files, that way you can start a kind of sigil Journal.
If you have your own symbolic language, akin to something like Austin Osman Spare’s alphabet of desire, then use it if it feels right to you. This is an individual thing, so you must explore what has most meaning and feeling for you. Use your feelings, if this alphabet feels strong and untainted to you, then trust those feelings.
Hello John, I’ve been steadily making my way through the book and have just finished the section about the “ephemeral light”, and have some questions regarding it.
1. The incorporation of the fractal patterns seems a bit unclear to me. Are they added as part of the design of the base sigil? That doesn’t sound quite right, because then the overall mental learned image for the sigil changes to incorporate the new patterns. And incorporating new things seems counterintuitive if you’ve already completed the three paper charging days mentally solidifying the design. So if you could elaborate on how to implement the fractals, that would be greatly appreciated.
2. Can you elaborate on the practical usage of the technique overall? What I mean by this, is how it should be utilized to the fullest. The book mentions doing all the charging before implementing it. Is the final animated design used for additional charging days? How long are the sessions using the looping animations meant to be? Is the idea to almost hypnotize the symbols deeper into your brain? Additionally, the book mentions projecting it out a window. How long would this be done for? Are there additional steps that should be added, like visualizing the sigil altering reality as it is shot out the window?
Overall, I find the premise of the technique quite interesting, as is the rest of the book, but I would simply like to know more in depth knowledge about it.
The ephemeral light sigil is basically supposed to greatly augment micro charges and mini dedicated charging as described in the book. Once you have done the initial charge, bringing the sigil to life, it is set, and it will start to work for you. But this technomancy methodology as described is far more than standard sigil work, it basically supercharges your sigil through continual charging, and it shows you how to tap into a vast and honestly nearly unimaginable reservoir of energy available through the collective unconscious and through the power of “the machine” itself. It breaks the boundaries of simple old style sigil work to quite literally tap into gigantic pools of energy, that then may go about changing reality in very powerful ways.
Part of that methodology involves ephemeral light sigils. These are designed to help you better tap into the giant powerhouse that is your unconscious by literally rewiring your brain in a way that few (honestly I don’t know any right now) people have ever talked about. It does this by basically going straight into the unconscious through two potential methods, the first is a strobe (and here I say you have to be very careful and talk to a doctor just in case you are affected by strobe: PLEASE SEE DISCLAIMER BELOW), and the other is through a kind of hypnotic winding into the depths of the unconscious itself.
The fractal pattern is supposed to create that winding within, which then should be incorporated with micro charges and mini dedicated charging. As the ephemeral light sigil twists into itself, and it either gets bigger or smaller, sort of like a cascading fractal pattern where as you dive into yourself as you watch it, it seems to show you a recurring theme where the original pattern (your sigil) gets deeply embedded within the bigger pattern of the fractal itself. You basically have a pattern that repeats over and over, if you don’t understand what I mean then I recommend watching a fractal video on YouTube: A fractal video is a type of visual presentation that displays complex patterns made up of smaller, repeated versions of the same pattern, embedded deeply within each other. In other words, it shows a big overall design that is continuously broken down into smaller, similar patterns at many scales, creating an intricate, self-similar structure that appears infinitely detailed when zoomed into.
Through that winding, you fall into yourself, you fall into that symbol that you have brought to life. Your unconscious is aware of that symbol because you have done the initial charge, it’s already embedded in there, but through this winding that initial seed let us say, becomes more and more amplified. In time there is the potential for actual neuronal change:
Rewiring can occur at several scales:
• Synaptic level (micro-scale): charging like this ‘may’ strengthen or weaken the connections between neurons by altering synapses: the small gaps where neurons communicate. This includes the growth or pruning of dendritic spines, which are the receiving ends of synapses.
• Neuronal level (meso- to macro-scale): With repeated charging, entire neuronal pathways potentially could form. New neurons can even be incorporated into circuits, particularly in areas related to learning and memory like the hippocampus.
• Regional level: Repeated charging (which is a form of visualization) may increase grey matter density (regions rich in neuron bodies) and white matter integrity (axonal connectivity) in relevant areas.
[Here are links to a source on this kind of neural possibility, just in case you want to explore further: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-022-01370-w or https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10741468/ or https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557811/ ]
Through this kind of deep brain activation, new experiences and possibilities may arise; however, these outcomes are not guaranteed and are offered here purely for entertainment purposes. Whether or not you choose to explore this methodology is entirely up to you and at your own discretion.
Now, as to how to do this, well, I was trying to leave it up to each individual as to how to bring these fractals to life by giving just a general idea of what is possible, so I hope this gets you excited as to what to try. I don’t want to get into software too much here, but I recommend watching a fractal video, then perhaps embedding your particular sigil within a particular point within that fractal recursion or winding as I call it. If that doesn’t work, you can just have your sigil start out really small, then get bigger and bigger until it falls out of the screen, then it starts small again then gets bigger and bigger and falls out of the screen, and repeating this.
If you aim it through a window or are just looking at the screen yourself, do the micro charges and mini dedicated charging a few times, then just keep watching. If it’s pointed out a window, micro charges and mini dedicated charging a few times, then just let it go. In this way, it continues to work, and your unconscious continues to work, even though your conscious is not paying attention.
Great questions, thanks Allister!
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I’ve just finished the book, and I now have one key follow-up question: Can everything be combined? Or, if not exactly “everything”, can multiple techniques be combined? For example, let’s say I have one desire that I think is absolutely critical and want to empower it as much as I possibly can using technomancy and traditional methods. I start by crafting it using the traditional letter technique, intensely charge it over three days, and digitize it. I add it to my daily screens for mini charges through glances and smaller moments of charge. I then create a fractalised version to use on a projector for the ephemeral light technique. Then, I follow the mantrical method and take those initial letters and make the mantra. And I evolve that with the sonic technique, making it a looping sound file that I play throughout the day. After that, I find a way to recreate it in AR and anchor it in the necessary spaces. And finally, I take the base sigil and repeatedly throw it at an AI to analyze and interpret. Would doing all of this be too much and overextending? Or am I just further weaving the web of manifestation and amplifying it ever further with each step?
Anything and everything can be combined any which way you wish. But for you to do this properly, you will need to do your own tests. What I mean is that you should first try these techniques separately, see which work best for you personally, then try combinations or new techniques that come to mind, and then test those. Without your personal testing you may get a jumble of things that do not work.
Work with the techniques yourself, see what works for you, and then develop from there.
Hi John, I have a question about the charging using the first method. What if I can’t really feel the entity is coming out of the paper? I can focus intensly, I can believe it as much as I want but I don’t really feel anything is there.. I’ve done sigil magic and servitor magick in the past, I can say it worked. But I just can’t get this level of.. “realism” your method demands.
Any advice? Thank you!
This is a highly individual thing Vladimir, so if you can’t quite get that feeling of it coming out of the paper, but deep down you feel like what you have done worked, then that should be good enough for you. Just follow your feelings, if they give you a sense of the initial charge being accomplished, then it is those feelings that you must trust, which are yours alone.
Now, if you want to try something interesting as an exercise to try to overcome this issue, what you could do is play a game. Sometime when you’re all alone and you have nobody looking at you, perhaps you are in your own room and nobody can see, try taking a toy and play with it. Simply just start with a toy car let’s say, and bring it to life through play. You might grab the little car and run it across the desk making a noise like it’s revving, you might visualize it being in an actual track, or over some kind of odd terrain. Imagine all of this, and play with that. can you feel the car actually coming to life, becoming real in the way, as you play with it in this manner?
It is that same playfulness that you must then use with your sigil work. In time, as you relax and allow your more playful nature to come out, you may find that you find it much easier to see your sigil come out of the paper. But if it doesn’t, this is okay. Trust your feelings, what works for one person is not the same as what works for another. Always trust your own individual feelings in this matter.