On Becoming a Second William Mistele
If you follow me on Facebook, you're probably aware that this whole month has been a massive shitstorm of deadlines and that all of my free time has been replaced with last-minute scrambling to meet deadlines for various projects and proposals related to my work. Despite this, I couldn't help but take a break today to catch up on some of Camelia Elias's latest posts. One of them, titled Parallel and Oppositional , was quite interesting. In that post, Elias discusses remaining parallel to the world and ignoring those who are oppositional to you. One thought that popped into my mind while reading this was that it's difficult to act in a perfectly parallel manner if you are oppositional to yourself. In many modern esoteric circles with ties to the chaos magic movement, individuals are not seen as individuals, but as sets of individuals. In PsyberMagick , Peter Carroll writes the following. "You do not have to sell your soul to succeed with off-white magic. You