When i first entered the crazy world of chaos magick, some people were fussing over the latest trend, which they called "the Octarine Spring". Now as a noob to CM who barely even knew what a sigil is, i had some real hard time understanding what this entire fuckery was actually all about, but i was able to gather some scatters of info and understand that this was some kind of a "magickal war" of some orders against anothers, like Wiccans agains Thelemites, Kekistans against the world and so on with stupidity... Obviously i got my hands out of this fuckery, but the term "Octarine" got my attention. I have never ever even heard this word before, So i did some reasearch...
Eventually i've found out that Octarine is a term taken from the "Discworld" literary by Terry Pratchet. In the books, Octarine is a special color, outside the normal human spectrum, only visible to sorcerers. I fell in love with the concept immediately, so i decided to set up a crazy magickal project that will be divided into 4 levels.
First thing on the list, obviously, is to see octarine and understand that this is what it is, at least once, to create the link between the phenomena and the term, so i'll be able to witness it more easily.
To be able to see octarine by will alone, whenever, wherever.
To be able to manipulate this magickal energy in such a way that it will be possible to "paint" in the air with octarine (imagine the sigils!).
To be able to make other people see it too.
And so i began working, and first, created a linking sigil that will function as an energy gatherer, specifically for this octarine project, a simple sigil that'll be easy to remember, paint and merge with other sigils.
^^ The octarine sigil
I started meditating on the sigil whenever i can, tagging it everywhere possible and experimenting with it in every magickal act, just like with the LS. After about a month of dedication i had a massive acid trip and at some point i was just laying down gazing at the wall looking at all those crazed psychedelic visuals that every psychonaut has learned to adore. After some time i've noticed that there is some kind of a pattern repeating in those visuals, so i decided to name this pattern so i'll be able to witness it more easily. The image of the pattern was slipping away so i really rushed and tried to find it a proper name, trying to mumble some words, then i heard something telling me "Are you fucking kidding me??? Didn't you wanna see Octarine??", and i was like "Shit wow you're right!", and then i realized something...
I realized that Octarine is not just one magickal color but an entire frigging spectrum. I realized that with this new spectrum of color comes a new spectrum of sound and even a spectrum of shapes. I realized that what we call "the psychedelic visuals/visions" are actually glimpses of complete and solid "worlds" or "dimensions", worlds that are built in those nameless shapes and painted by this tones of color on the Octarine spectrum, complete worlds that remain invisible because of the fact they are nameless, because we have no words to describe them, and we normally never even think about it, so we define those glimpses of those vast and glorious worlds we see as merely a simple "psychedelic visual", a "hallucination", and thus it remains outside the limits of our perception.
So the first step of expanding those limits will be expanding the language we use to describe the world we percieve, and now is the perfect time to finally understand what octarine is, and put this term to use. So i repeatedly saw that pattern i've mentioned, and kept on telling myself "This is octarine". Then i saw some other patterns, still octarine but a different color, and kept on repeating "This is octarine". I felt like i did this process thousands of times, maybe for the entire octarine spectrum, until the experience came to an end and i felt that finally i understand.
From this point on, i am able to "see" octarine shapes whenever i meditate on the sigil, especially in places that got the "woo", or in dark places, or on blank spaces, like a wall.
So goes level 1 and level 2.
to be continued....
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