Sanity Check

Intuition versus deductive reasoning. While mystical intuition might access information that is accurate, it seems as if there is a universal law in place preventing said data from being particularly useful. Or having direct real world application. To cite an example, in years past I was a consistently winning gambler in sports. Used a variety of deductive reasoning, science and observation in an effort to accurately predict the outcome of events. This is the type of data people generally seek when approaching mysticism. I would guess my data, math and science based approach would yield better results in sports gambling than any type of divination or oracle. And so in terms of wisdom and intellect I'm still waiting for someone to put forth a good explanation for why or how intuition based mysticism might be considered worth pursuing. When there is so much that can be done with logic & data.

What is going on with me? Its only basic evolution. Nothing you need ever worry your silly head about.

(They would consider it leaning too much on one's own understanding of things.) Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. -Proverbs 3:5

Interesting.

I'm shocked and surprised we agree on something. I might watch the movie "A Dark Song" eventually. Why would a christian watch that? In an effort to avoid being illiterate or uninformed.

Stories matter. Cultures like japan are heavily influenced by stories about robots, science, engineering and technology. For decades, americans have tried to recreate that type of pop culture movement in the USA. In an effort to encourage youth to be more interested in science & tech. To avoid having to outsource a high percentage of R & D to places like israel, japan, india, etc. I seem to remember Aleister Crowley criticizing others in the movement for "playing at magic". If Crowley were still alive maybe he would laugh his ass off at modern day magicians who might have derived their core terminology from children's dinosaur movies. The idea of magic users possibly borrowing terminology from Jurassic Park -- makes me laugh. It doesn't matter to me if its true or not. It makes me laugh. And that's all I care about it.

Look, the universe answered your question. Before you had even asked it:

That's exactly what people say. When they don't want to admit their terminology was influenced by books and movies about dinosaurs.

There's a wiki page of chaos magic here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magic Looking at its citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magic#References There appear to be only two brief mentions of chaos magic in 1974 and 1987. The vast majority of content written on the topic is 2003 and later. Almost as if Jurassic Park's chaos theory reference was what was needed for it to go mainstream.

Pop culture books and films do it better.

Jurassic Park was published in 1990. I don't think there is a written record of "chaos magic" preceding the year 2000. It probably was influenced by Jurassic Park although they very much want to pretend its not.

I personally dislike Castenada. He told one of his followers if they needed to find him (post humously) they only needed to drive their sports car as fast as possible into the desert. Remains of said followers were later found in the desert. Uncool bruh.

The book Jurassic Park popularized something called chaos theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory A framework intended to explain things which are unexplainable by modern science. I would guess chaos magic is a spinoff. Or was influenced by chaos theory in some way.

Is stealing, killing and destroying profitable or even cost effective though? Drug lords brag about their puny $20 million earned through crime. While Elon Musk has a net worth of $500 billion without needing to resort to crime at all.