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Abracademia
The News Journal of
Arcanorium College
Volume 1 Number 1
Winter 2006

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four times per year.
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Contents
Editor’s Message...3

The Significator
Interview with Peter Carroll by Joshua
Madara...4

Magick and Art

Katie Owens...7

Arcana...11
8 Wasps...11
Antonija Anic-Antic...12
Jaq D. Hawkins...18
Ian-Rik...19
Ian Read...23
Timothy...24

Bulletins...25
 E di tor ’s Message

What’s, Uh, accept the offer.

I figured, if a man with an idea and a few good

the Deal? friends could pull a Hogwarts out of their hat, I
could at least conjure up a house organ for them.
I had not planned on attending Arcanorium Col-
lege. I envision Abracademia as a record of the qual-
ity—both in the sense of a distinguishing charac-
Not yet, anyway. I had known about it for as long ter/istic and a degree of excellence—of students
as almost anyone (more than a year, now), from and teachers at Arcanorium College, and extend
Peter’s first mention of it at Maybe Logic and then my sincere gratitude and a resounding “woot!” to
at the IdeoSphere, and had always enjoyed the everyone who contributed samples to the premier
idea. I even snuck around one of the pre-campus edition on such short notice. And to you, dear
brainstorming forums just to see whose names I reader, who now holds in your vision a glimpse
could identify (once a hacker...). But I had made of ours: I promise you many wonderful things to
other plans for this Fall. Late in August, I had thecome; this party’s just getting started.
honor of meeting Bruce Lee’s close friend and
student, Taky Kimura, for coffee, and arranged to Hear me shout, ‘Come on in,
learn Jeet Kune Do from him and his son, Andy, What’s the news and where you been?’
beginning the same week as the College’s first
semester. Already committed to regular magical In LVX ex KAOS,
practice and reluctant to accept many more re-
sponsibilities, I opted to back-burner Arcanorium in Joshua Madara
favor of reinstating my martial arts studies. A few
days later, an unfortunate coincidence of rubber-
soled shoes and a spinning inside-to-outside kick
dislocated my left patella, indefinitely postponing
my lessons with the Kimuras. Exactly one week af-
ter that, while reconsidering my decision regarding
the College in light of some newfound time on my
seat, I received an email correspondence from Isis
inquiring whether I had any interest in helping with
a college newsletter. This time, I did not hesitate to
 The Significator
Interview with
Chancellor Carroll
by Joshua Madara
oneirobot@oneirodyne.org
Nearly twenty years have passed
since Peter Carroll and Ray Sherwin
published an advertisement in The
New Equinox, inviting readers to
drink “of the dual ecstasies of the
sex and death gnoses” and join the
Illuminates of Thanateros. During
the first decade since, Peter helped
the IOT (now often called simply the
Pact, after the Magical Pact of the IOT)
grow into one of the most recognized
occult organizations in the world, and
published several books establishing
Chaos magic as a worthy anti/pattern
of magical thought even beyond
the the Pact. In 1995, he withdrew
from occulture for personal reasons
and to pursue his interest in multi-
dimensional time.
Ten years later, while the Pact
and Chaos magic continued to thrive,
Peter returned “from a self-imposed
exile in the ivory tower of esoteric
research to engage once again with
those who would practise the strange
art and science of magic”—teaching
for Robert Anton Wilson’s Maybe Logic
Academy. While there, he got a big
idea...
JM: When did you begin to develop
Arcanorium, and what inspired you to do
so?
PC: I retired from the captaincy
of the IOT Pact about 14 years ago to
devote more time to three activities
in particular: family, business, and a
theoretical quest into some matters that
bothered me. All three of those activities
seemed to approach fruition at about the
time Maybe Logic contacted me. The long
and rewarding struggle to bring up two
kids suddenly got easier; one has gone
to university, the other can now cook her
own breakfast. I can delegate many of my
tasks in business now that it has become
well established. I feel that I have finally
got somewhere with the hypothesis of
three-dimensional time on a quantum,
cosmological, and magical level.
So when Maybe Logic called, I
thought, heck, why not give it a try?
Let’s come down from the ivory tower of
research and see what’s going on in the
wider world.
JM: You returned to the magic
scene in Spring of 2005, to teach a Chaos
magic class for Bob Wilson’s Maybe Logic
Academy. You followed that with a second
class a few months later and then your
“Chaos Magic in Business” course. What
did you learn from your experiences at
MLA that has influenced the College’s
development?
 PC: I was highly impressed with the
standard of the participants in the Maybe
Logic courses. Here were lots of people
with a commitment to the subject who
were prepared to put in a lot of effort and
to communicate enthusiastically with good
humour and in a very civil and intelligent
fashion. I really enjoyed doing the courses
and exchanging ideas and inspirations with
the participants.
The only drawback with the Maybe
Logic structure seemed to be that the
whole adventure just came to a stop after
a certain number of weeks. Lots of the
participants seemed to want to continue
and many of them ended up starting a
follow-on forum called the IdeoSphere
where they continued to talk. However,
due to the lack of structured activities on
the IdeoSphere, it has tended to be fairly
quiet with its many members posting only
occasionally at a very leisurely pace.
I realised that a lot of people would
appreciate an active, ongoing, online
magical society, but that I could not keep
up the pace of continually innovating new
material. The obvious solution seemed to
be to ask some other adepts with other
specialisms to join me in the project.
JM: Online learning has recently
turned into serious business, with
accredited electronic distance-education
institutions the world over. Even prior
to that, perhaps due to book publishers
such as Weiser and Llewellyn, it seems
the process of going out of one’s way to
find an adept or school whom to labor for
and learn from as they get initiated into
arcane traditions, has largely evolved
into a romantic glance over the shoulder,
like many apprenticeships. Although their
persist cults and fraternal orders and such,
today—perhaps more than ever—I meet
a lot of self-taught and self-made—or at
least self-proclaimed—magicians, especially
in my online travels. Do you recognize
any drawbacks to sharing magic with the
plugged-in public? Any fidelity lost to the
fecundity of high-bandwidth information
dissemination?
PC: I do not think that there are any
secrets about magic that are so dire that
they can only be promised to apprentices
long after they have surrendered their
lifelong obedience and common sense to
some master or other. That old style of
Crowleyesque mastership has little place in
the modern world.
Contemporary adepts should be
able to explain themselves and their
methods and ideas without charlatanry
or mystification. Magic does not work
by magic, if you see what I mean; it
requires hard work and dedication and
a lot of practise. I believe that releasing
effective magical ideas will actually lead to
less of the sort of satanic nonsense that
leads some idiots to try sacrificing the
neighbour’s cat.
JM: Formal—or should I say, former—
universities often require some standard
of academic achievement, to secure the
probability that all students can understand
and benefit from the lessons taught. What
prerequisites do you expect of the College’s
applicants?
PC: Literacy, Internet access, and an
inquiring mind will do for starters. Plenty of
background reading material is given with
courses and they are usually structured
to accommodate participants of varying
degrees of experience.
It may be that some members
wish to gain some form of accreditation
from Arcanorium College. If they have
the temerity to ask for a degree we shall
certainly test them most rigorously. We will
need to see plenty of peer reviewed work,
and some form of original contribution, and
they will probably have to lead a course or
two themselves eventually, before we grant
it.
JM: In addition to MLA, I have
noticed several distance-learning magic
programs about, both on- and offline
(I cut my magical teeth on Paul Case’s
correspondence courses, and recently
enrolled in cat yronwode’s home-study
hoodoo course, and the IOT started out
quite like that). What does Arcanorium
offer above or beyond “those other guys”?
What makes Arcanorium stand out with
regard to delivery, content, faculty, etc?
PC: I hope that Arcanorium College
will become noted for its intensity, its
creativity, its eclecticism, and the quality
of its ttaff and membership. We shall be
exploring areas well beyond Chaos Magic,
in the spirit of a comprehensive university
of the esoteric.
JM: How did the present instructor
line-up come about? How did you decide
whom to choose, and how did you get
them all involved?
PC: Some were people that I worked
intensively with before my retirement;
some were people who have made their
mark by publication and/or leadership in
the years since. I emailed them all with
a proposal and an outline of the project.
There are several other well respected
figures in the field who said that they
may participate a little later, or as guest
lecturers, due to pressure of other
commitments.
JM: What have you so far found most
challenging in all of this?
PC: Organisation and coordination.
We have already got through three practise
staffroom websites and several thousand
messages to agree on formats and
timetables, content and facilities, etc, etc,
etc.
JM: Most rewarding?
PC: Well so far I’m very pleased
to have provoked the staff to put their
material together; they have come up with
some fascinating stuff. It’s also pleasing
to see many of my old Psychonaut and
Independence crew logging into this new
adventure.
JM: What challenges and rewards do
you anticipate in the coming months?
PC: If I only get as much fun and
magical and intellectual stimulation out of
this as I did from the Maybe Logic courses
I’ll be well pleased, but somehow I feel
that this will turn out even better. I tend to
take a stokastic approach to things: give
it your best shot and see what the weird
and wonderful universe throws back. Then
see what you can do with that. Long-range
prescience is not my forte.
JM: Do you have anything else you
would like the world to know about
Arcanorium?
PC: Yes. It’s an experimental
venture. We have a structure to start with,
it may require a bit of tweaking along the
way, and it may take a while for word to
spread of what we are attempting. Within
six months we should have some idea of
how big it will get, and the sorts of activity
it may diversify into.
Fin.
magick and Art
Dawings:
Katie Owens

1 Elementals
2 Tentacles
3 Squidlike
4 Fire Pattern

The Drawings of
Katie Owens
inspire by their
Organic form,
cell structure
and elegant
lines.
 Major and Minor Arcana

The Major and Minor Arcana feature news about Arcanorium’s faculty
and students, respectively. In this premiere issue, we wanted to introduce the
faculty and students to each other and our readers. We posted a solicitation to
the College’s online bulletin board, inviting everyone to talk about themselves
and listing a few questions to get them started. Here we have published some
of the replies that demonstrate the diversity of expertise and expectations at
Arcanorium. Enjoy!

8 Wasps (Student)

When the headmasters behind this wannabe journal asked the College students
to write something introductory about themselves, I replied I actually feel I don’t have
enough useful experience to deserve the honour to add my personal platitudes to the
bunch of useless words published on the World Wide Waste.
Even so, I admit that part of the above-mentioned useful experience comes from
the three magick courses led by Peter Carrol at the Maybe Logic Academy, where I met
our chief editor, Joshua, together with many other improbable characters.
Even though I have still to meet a single one of them outside the World Wide
Weird, it’s a pleasure to know I live in a planet inhabited by the kind of people who
would gather at the College.
Having been there at the beginning of what’s going on today (wow, sounds cool!),
I feel the responsibility of at least helping Joshua in making this Abracademia seem an
interesting thing. (Thanks, Wasps.—Ed.)
So, let’s introduce something about me!
Firstly I’d like to convey that I’m the kind of person you would find putting up
“Keep away—Boredom inside” signs around the borders of the College, and enjoying his
work. I don’t call it misanthropy; I say elitism.
But my desire to keep you away is only as big as the wish to treat you like a
brother if you happen to be inside the borders.
Maybe this is the reason why I have been assigned a temporary label as official
bartender for the Arcanorium, even if, given the actual need of a bartender in a virtual
environment where you will surely act as a respectful gentleman, I suspect I will be
labeled janitor sooner or later.
Now, since I have so far eluded to answer the set of questions suggested by
Joshua to interview ourselves, and since elitism is not an asset you find on the Net for
free, I’d better pick one of those questions and turn it to advertising.

What convinced you to study at Arcanorium?

Well, thanks for the question. Of course, I could not miss the opportunity to study
Chaos Magic with the wizards who gave it birth, the inspiring Chaos Saints, crowned by
octarine Chaostar Halos, keepers of the answer to the World Wide Why, surrounded by
glittering synchronicities dancing at the rhythm of their eyelids. However I’d bet most of
them use the toilet same way as I do.
Lastly, I noticed that I used words ‘brother’ and ‘gentleman’ in my writing,
apparently not caring for the woman-minded readers. So the following is for you:
Darlings, I suspect some of you may think that you don’t need at all to be joining
yet another environment where egomaniac male magicians tell you what to do. If that
is the case, don’t panic. I’m sure our female teachers have a bag full of male-juggling
tricks to teach you.

Antonija Anic-Antic (Student)

Please describe your magical background.

Magic seems to be flowing through my blood. My wonderful grandmother was

what people call snake healer. She used to sit on the rocks behind her house with snakes
coiling around her body. She “talked with them,” as she would say. People would come to
her with their problems, and she would help, but she had no friends. People were scared
of her. I never met her in person, but I feel her presence whenever I ask her to help me.

When I was going through childbirth, it was she who guided me through all of it.
She gave birth to my father while she was collecting branches for starting a fire, alone
in the woods, cutting the umbilical cord with a stone, wrapping the baby in one of her
seven skirts, and bringing him home together with a whole bunch of branches on her
back.

I gave birth to my daughter while standing on my legs, in front of the mirror, so

I wouldn’t miss anything, screaming, “GOOOOO!!!” to her and experiencing the most
powerful orgasm which I haven’t matched yet. All the time I felt my granny’s presence.

Describe your earliest childhood memory of magic.

Soon after I was born, I got pneumonia and kept it for the next six years. Bed was
my world for all that time. I was alone almost all that time. The family that took care of
me was loving; they were great people, but very busy. I didn’t mind being alone, since I
wasn’t really alone—all kinds of entities were visiting me, and some of them lived under
my bed. Those I called Cartoons, since they were two-dimensional, and they made me
laugh a lot, and kept me awake some nights by being very loud.
 Your greatest magical achievement or most magical experience, to date?

My greatest magical achievement to this date occurred when I was four years
old: I taught myself to read and write, to everybody’s astonishment and my delight.
From that point my bed-life became a lot more interesting, and when I was almost
six I decided it was time to get healthy. So I got healthy and went to school. There
they told me that there was something wrong with my writing, so I had to fix it. I was
writing from right to left, and that was no good, they said. The fact that I was left-
handed was OK, but I had to write like everybody else. That’s when I decided to never
be “like everybody else,” because I didn’t see any problem with my writing, and I told
the teacher to just hold my paper in front of the mirror and she could read it just fine. It
didn’t work, of course, so I learned to write from left to right, even more determined to
never be “like everybody else.”
I managed to have a few friends, and on them I practiced some healing tricks.
If they had a bleeding wound, I would draw little stick figures around it, so that they
appeared to be pushing the wound to close, and the bleeding would stop, wounds would
soon heal.
I repeated this trick much later, on my friend’s arm where she had a tumor
developing. I drew two stick figures which appeared to be holding the tumor bump from
two sides, as if preventing it from spreading, and it worked for some time, about six
months. Unfortunately, soon after that I left my country, and my friend wrote to me that
her tumor spread soon after I had left. We still haven’t managed to meet again, but if we
do, I’ll do some stick figure drawing on her, that’s for sure.

What convinced you to study/teach at Arcanorium?

My reasons to study at Arcanorium College are simple: Arcanorium is the first and
only school of magic to this day is not part of any established magical lodge, order, or
society, and I always wanted to go to such a school where I could learn about things that
really interested me without wearing a uniform or compromising my individuality.

What rewards do you anticipate from your work here at the College?

I wish to further my talents and skills at Arcanorium, and they are many. I draw,
paint, dance, perform, sew clothes, heal with the help of stick figures, and see things
most people don’t. Maybe I have some more talents I’m not aware of, and maybe
Arcanorium can help me find them. That would be a reward for me.

Describe your favorite fictional wizard.

My favorite fictional wizard is Harold with his purple crayon, going about, drawing
his own world.

 I include here some photos from my Illumination ritual which I did in the “Chaos
Magic in Business” course by Peter Carroll, since I think those are the most appropriate
for this purpose. Just a few words about the ritual itself: It is a strip-tease dance ritual
titled “Illumination to the Bone,” in which I stripped from a demon to an angel, and from
an angel to an illuminated skeleton. All costumes (one of which is just body paint) were
made by me, and so were most of the props; the rest was found in the garbage. I danced
to a track “God Is God” by Juno Reactor. Photos are taken by my husband, who was the
only audience during the ritual (besides our eight cats), since I couldn’t imagine doing a
strip-tease all by myself.
 This picture is showing my wand and my sword, and the way they were made. The
only words to add to it are that the designs are my own, and the work was done by my
husband. (Photos Antonija: (1) Angel, (2) Demon, (3) Skeleton, (4) Me)
 Jaq D. Hawkins (Instructor)

Please describe your magical background.

I started out with Astrology as a child, and was doing ritual magic by the age of 14,
having been lucky about finding sources of books on magic. I was pretty much a solitary
practitioner most of my life, although I did come across networking when I was in my 20s.
Most networking then was done by Wiccans, but their magazines exchanged with magician-
oriented periodicals and I became familiar with the magical community in general. In the
late 1980s I came across Austin Spare and all the existing Chaos authors at that time, and
found my niche.

How do you define magic, or what does magic mean to you?

Magic is a part of my daily life. It is like one of the senses, something that is present
all the time. The awareness of it and its nature is what gives access to its use.

Describe your earliest childhood memory of magic.

I’d rather not, thank you.

Your greatest magical achievement or most magical experience, to date?

Greatest achievement was using magic to win my custody case against all odds, with
no money, no solicitor, and all the cards stacked against me. That spell took me further
into the centre of chaos than anything before it or since.

What convinced you to study/teach at Arcanorium?

When Pete asked me and named the other staff, I couldn’t refuse really.

What challenges do you anticipate in your work here at the College?

Apart from the challenge of making my log-in continue to work, it is always a

challenge to keep up with the questions that people will ask and try to use words to make
sense of something that is part of the nameless and undefinable. So much of magic is
experiential.

What rewards?

The pure gratification of spreading magic in a world that needs more of our kind.
 Ian-Rik (Student)

Please describe your magical background.

My magical background comes from fever. This awareness came to me in my

teenage time. I had some peculiar physical manifestations that stuck me out of the
consensual perception, sometimes for long minutes. A bit scary as you don’t know
what’s going on. I had them all my young life, but as a kid, you can be dreamy without
getting much attention. But when you’re 18 and the coach tells you something that
you can’t grasp because there’s a funny echo in the four dimensions between his face
and your present awareness gathering point (maybe Castaneda’s assembly point), it
raises questions that I now know find their answers in theta brain state or deep trance
when consciousness deconstructs itself. I never managed to fully talk about it, or
tried and was dismissed. I found comfort years later, reading anthropology reports on
shamanism.
 If you add to those phenomena strong fevers with OBE (maybe you know the
strange effect when you feel like a helium balloon who’s stuck in the top corner of
the bedroom while mummy is down trying to cool off your head and calm you with a
distorted slow voice), or nightmares so intense that they keep haunting you for months
until you find the solution and beat the ogre at his own game, among other oddities (like
my mother being picky about my spontaneous, rapture-like, object-less meditations that
could last one hour without me knowing, instead of doing my home work), you obtain
a young adult who responds with high interest to any hint about the paranormal or
alternative reality. So the potential intangibility of the world showed itself to me without
me really asking. Being very much protected all my teen age nearby a small, Alsatian
town (the middle-age castles; the Gothic church; the pre-Gutenberg, humanist library;
the vineyards and forests; the swimming club and the school), role-playing games were
my greatest escape. Then started my studies (sadly, I was forbade psychology by my
mother, for my own good sake), freedom to choose, new friends, and an esoteric private
library that allowed me at last to start the study of French occult classics. I usually take
this era as the beginning of the Work.
My esoteric studies were very classic French: a lot of 18th- and 19th-century
theory (Eliphas Lévi & Papus), some history, a lot of obscure texts from the past,
Hermetic philosophy, Tarot symbolism, and mysticism. All this with the synchronicities,
the strange meetings you understand years later, the rave parties (ah, the art lab in
Preston, the travelers’ visits to France), the depressions that follow…
 Then there is a dark moment: the end of studies, the conscription in the Army
(got out in three months, psychologically unfit and contagious after they decided to
park me as accountant secretary in the headquarters), the depressing prospect of
finding a job. So I dived into Christian and biblical scriptures, mysticism, angelology
(the serious stuff: Talking with Angels by Gitta Mallasz). Packed all I had into two bags
and left my remaining possessions to my flatmates. Gave a call to a business contact I
had in London and took the train, entrusting my guardian angel with my small budget
management. Followed months of very tough life; loneliness; mystical ecstasies; tears
under the night rain, banging at the doors of closed churches; in between worlds,
insights, blessings, and hermit joys.

After this London time, when I felt bored working six times ten hours per week
for a light check, I returned to my friends, worked six months to raise the money, and
left for six months in India. You land as a white European, reach Manali then Ladakh,
and start to get stuck in some temple and monasteries there. But with friends I got to
Kashmir (once the Indians and Pakistanis were done with the Kargil war). I then escaped
to Varanasi in good tantric company and, still unsatisfied with the delights of existence,
ran away to Rishikesh to spend the remaining three months in ashram learning
meditation and yoga. There I did a comparative study of biblical texts with the Bhagavad
Gita and Patañjali Yoga Sūtras, among other readings. I was blessed with wise and joyful,
non-sectarian teachers, and enjoyed the highs and the abysmal lows of the beginning of the
practice until I reached a sustainable meditative state.
Back in Europe I was still thirsty. Repacked with select high-flying, esoteric readings
and returned to the springs of the Ganga River.
There I failed. After some months of very satisfying practice, insights and gifts,
something deeply rooted in the subconscious mind became restless and I returned to my
friends after some reflective wandering.
“Flittering of the Mind,” told me Swamiji.
Back in Europe I settled in economically sustainable autonomy for six months, and
dived into the esoteric Internet, Tarot readings, Hermetic philosophy, and theoretical
Chaos magic. Then got a haircut and a nice, adventuring, freelance job, studied and
practiced mind control, supra-conscious decision taking, and mental magic (visualisation
and will projection). This phase lasted the past six years with a developing awareness and
understanding in shamanism, sorcery, and Chaos magic.
My main practice these years is in observation of the synchronicities, signs, and
guidance; in practical, regular mental magic; and in sigil magic when I want transformative
results. Study is still on top of the list. NLP and mainstream disciplines like hypnosis and
cybernetic sociology are acquired to draw a middle line between my aspirations and what
is socially and politically acceptable today. This helps me intellectualize the structure of
consciousness in its relation to the world and vice versa, and it appears to be the subject of
studies of some of the teachers of the Arcanorium. (Photos Ian-Rik)
 Ian Read (Instructor)

Please describe your magical background.

I have been involved in Ásatrú and galdr-seiðr for over thirty years now.

How do you define magic, or what does magic mean to you?

The ability to transform oneself such that what we might call the ‘higher self’ is in
driving seat more often than not, is the most important aim of magick for me.

Describe your earliest childhood memory of magic.

Watching Mary Poppins.

Your greatest magical achievement or most magical experience, to date?

As an Englishman I feel constrained to keep mum about such events.

What convinced you to study/teach at Arcanorium?

Working with such luminaries just has to be a wheeze.

What challenges do you anticipate in your work here at the College?

The challenges will all be the students’.

What rewards?

That remains to be seen.

Timothy (Student)

Please describe your magical background.

My magical background? Well, the short answer is that I started in ceremonial

magick. But to elaborate a bit, the first book I ever bought, the way I really started my
mystical research and study, was Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig. From there
I moved on to other things: reading on Wicca and other Earth-based mystical religions,
then general occult knowledge books, and finally I discovered Chaos Magick. From there
my discovery process skyrocketed, as I related very closely with the more “scientific
method” style of magickal working. Since then, I’ve researched every magickal tradition
and style I could find, and I’ve created a sort of mish-mash of everything for myself in
true Chaote style.
 How do you define magic, or what does magic mean to you?

I typically define magick as being anything that happens that has to do with
the subtle energies in the world, and although that may seem limited at first thought,
it really encompasses a great deal. Psychic abilities, rituals, meditations, divination,
reading signs, spirits, auras... all this and more fall under the category magick in my
opinion.

Describe your earliest childhood memory of magic.

All my life I’ve felt energy, both the energy in places and in people. I’ve been
able to tell what kind of people were kind and which were cruel, and places such people
frequented. My intuition about people and places was always sharp as a kid, and those
abilities have expanded greatly since then.

Your greatest magical achievement or most magical experience, to date?

A few times I have worked with the spirits in the Goetia, and have gotten
expedient albeit interesting results. I have always gotten what I wanted (once even the
very next day!), but not always quite how I wanted. I’ve been working on controlling the
results more precisely.

What convinced you to study/teach at Arcanorium?

For me, when I heard about Arcanorium, it was barely half a second before
shouting to myself, “I am signing up first chance I get!” I’ve dreamt of a good magickal
college for some time, and the chance to attend one so closely tied to Chaos Magick was
too good to be true.

What challenges do you anticipate in your work here at the College?

My biggest challenge I anticipate is the biggest challenge I have in life:

procrastination. But one of the biggest reasons I decided to sign up was to kick myself
into gear and get myself actively practicing magick. Something I’ve wanted so badly as
this should get me into action, I think! Also, I seem to be one of the youngest and most
inexperienced students thus far, and that may make it difficult for me to follow some of
the discussions, but I think the instructors and other students should be able to help me
along.

What rewards?

Really, the rewards are the same as the challenges: both getting myself practicing
magick on a regular basis, and learning from much more experienced occultists. I’m
confident that I will be able to both soak up the knowledge of the others and contribute a
bit of my own experience to the mix. Most of all, though, I think it’ll just be a lot of fun!
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Now Accepting Students!

Upcoming Course Schedule

Second Term (November 11, 2006 to December 22, 2006)

Practical Chaos Magic with Peter Carroll
Tantra for One with Lola Babalon
Alkaos with Lionel Snell (aka Ramsey Dukes)

Third Term (January 6, 2007 to February 16, 2007)

Writing Magical Fiction with Jaq D. Hawkins
Overview of the Golden Dawn System with Dalryada
NLP for Magicians with Dave Lee

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please visit http://www.arcanoriumcollege.com.