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Memetic Magic

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Very unusual and definitely will effect your views on magic and how it can be done. It is mostly geared towards writers, artists or people capable of putting things into public view. He gives you the means to create mental "viruses" which infect the minds of others and change brain programming. Very useful if you have a way to diseminate work into a public forum.

It is also useful as a means of seeing how people get programmed and offers a way to get a measure of your mind un-programmed as well as giving you the chance of what you will re-program your mind with.

"Memetic Magic" by R. Kirk Packwood is that rarest of books, not so much a paradigm shifter as a paradigm exploder. To that rarest of individuals ready to absorb what Packwood says, "Memetic Magic" can not only change the reader's Reality, but assist the reader in what he terms manipulating the Root Social Matrix, the very fabric of consensus Reality.

How many are actually at the stage of being able to both comprehend and utilize memetic magic remains to be seen, but Packwood's exegesis of his main thesis, the centrality of the meme, "the basic unit of socio-cultural transmission..." page 21, is a fascinating new departure from the prevailing theories of memes and the cultural diffusion of ideas, which are themselves quite avant garde.

Truly an essential text for those interested in mass magic and particularly for those obsessed (as the Saturnine/Mercurial combined types tend to be) with the deep, hidden and occult factors of the human condition.

No, this tomb will not teach you how to dodge bullets or walk on walls. But it will teach you how to dodge social programming and walk your own SELF chosen path.
I have read many books on magic(as I am sure many of you have too), but what sets this book apart is its intelligent and historically proven approach to magic. If that isn't enough Mr. Packwood explains in detail how over 99% of people are programmed not to use magic or to even think for themselves for that matter.

This book is a marvel.

My suggestion to you....take the green pill.

It will render you binoculars in the land of the blind.

I read this one a couple of months back, and after reading a couple of these reviews I thought I should write my own. Memetic Magic was actually one of the better books I have read this year, and I can't help but wonder if the `duh' from the last reviewer was not more a spontaneous sound emitted because of his lack of intelligence than a book review title.

To claim that Memetic Magic is full of tired ideas is absolutely absurd. Artistic evocation, literary evocation, attack memes, defense memes, reality manipulation through art, embedded spirits, psychic engineering, artistic-reverse engineering, astral mapping and pictures that look differently depending on the direction from which they are looked at are hardly "tired" ideas. One sure would have to be a real well-read person to consider these ideas "tired" since most have never been written about anywhere before. There are even hints of the existence of thought molecules and artistic time travel in the book. All you got to do to discount any conception that the book is full of "tired" ideas is look at the list of phrases in the book on this page.

About the only idea which is a repeat in the book is the vital importance of individuality and resistance against the group will. But this is a message that never gets old because individuality has got to be reestablished in every generation.

As for the Vampire thing talked about by another reviewer, it's equally nonsensical to claim people are interested in Vampires because of Anne Rice. The Vampire myth is thousands of years old. It did not start in the 1990s. The books not about vampires anyway, though. There's like three pages written on the vampire myth and its relation to memetics, and I actually thought the vampire discussion was interesting.

The key to the most powerful variety of magic is contained within the book. I tried it out and it sometimes scares me how good artistic evocation works. Real magick is powerful but simple when stripped from the ceremony concealing it. Packwood clearly hints at how it is accomplished and it doesn't take a genius to figure it out.

This book is not meant for the fools who think that visualization-based magick is powerful magick. That's for people who don't really know anything about magick but think they do. Memetic Magic teaches -real- magick, the kind which the major occult publishers shy away from.

My only real concern with the book is that it is kind of complexly written, but it's no more complex that the writing sample contained on this web page. If you can understand that sample you can understand the book. Are you going to let a little complexity stop you from experiencing the truth?

If you want a recipe book that lists verbal spells without any discussion of philosophy or the reason why the spells work, this is not the book for you. This book is very theoretical but for smart people that's the only way to go.

You're smart, right?

This is one of the most extreme books on magick and social philosophy available right now. It's not meant for everyone.

Memetic Magic is the first halfway-decent new magickal paradigm to be successful since Chaos Magic, which is past its prime.
I am not one to give a good review lightly. But, the overall quality of the book and the originality of the ideas contained within surprised me.
The system is simple but effective.
In terms of up and coming magickal paradigms, I think that Memetic Magick is the one to watch.
Excellent read.

This was a very eye opening text. I had not studied neuro-linguistic programming before reading this, so having my first exposure to the subject be couched in the terms of a magical discipline was especially enlightening. It very much helps you to become aware of all of the ideas and thoughts that are changing us without our knowledge. By creating a magical practice out of NLP, the author has allowed readers to further empower standard NLP techniques, and effectivley "recondition" reality. The only reason I am giving this a 4 of 5 is that even as the author explains the inner workings of memetic magick, he himself is casting it upon the reader using text-based techniques to make certain words stick out, creating a snapshot message that goes straight to the brain. By telling us about that little trick, then pulling it, the author is tipping his hand in an unsettling way that should have been more clandestine, and the odd typesetting made it difficult to read.

I'm glad I decided to ignore a couple of the recent reviews. It looks like someones' X-girlfriends are angry heheheh. But please... can we keep that kind of stuff out of book reviews?? Huh?

This book is non-scientific only in the fact that Memetic Magic is the cutting edge of occult memetics. This is the kind of stuff that won't get mainstream "scientific" (cough.. cough... can you say "Dark Ages and Catholic Church") acceptance for another 50 years or so. But it's true nonetheless. That's what I like about this one. Packwood's not afraid to talk about the occult aspects of memetics, society, and magick even though mainstream scientists would never let this kind of information come out. It's too dangerous to our essentially conservative society.

This book was out there, but that's why it was so cool. I checked out the Jaguar Temple Press webpage (jaguartemple com) and saw some more weird-weird pics and a list of upcoming releases that go even deeper into occult memetics and hardcore real magick. Looking good.

and Mr. Packwood... don't let the naysayers bother you. You're writing what needs to be written and the truth always gets heavy resistance.

This book is for the rare SMART individual who (at the very least) has a sense of what's really going on but can't express it or can't make that last step into real-reality.

A REALLY good book. Read this one.

Language and terminology change so quickly in this Age of Instant Information but what hasn't changed is the way most people LOOK at the world.

This is an approach that incorporates the new language brought about by innovations in scientific theory with the changes in the mental construct of humans in this Apocalyptic Age.

If you want results this can be a key to getting them. This is an HONEST & INSPIRED presentation.

A reader

I have mixed feeling about this book. But there is no question that of the few books openly available on `real' magick MM by K. Packwood has the most going for it.

The independent occult bookstore here kept selling out of the book before I could there to buy it, so I finally got the book off Amazon.com. Maybe it's a good thing MM is an `underground' hit. We don't want this kinda cool artistic magick to become commercialized. Commercialization ruins everything.

A couple of the drawings in the book are some of the coolest things I have ever seen. I also wish they were in color, though. You can tell he's on to something cause the pics appear different from different directions. No body can draw like that unless they are a genuine psychic medium.
The book is really odd but great at the same time. Parts of it you gotta read slow or you'll miss the meaning. Other parts are real straightforward. Kinda like one of the other reviewers said, it gives you a kickstart to practicing real magick. But again, maybe this is for the best, because we don't want just everyone to be able to learn magic. Magic is potentially dangerous.

One of the better magick books around... but shhhhh... let's keep this one to ourselves.

Alright, to begin with I have to concur that the book is really weird. But Reality Manipulation is fun for the whole family. Weird in a good sort of way. The guy reminds me of a mad scientist-social sorcerer in the tradition of a magickal-social Frankenstein-warlock or something.
The spirit art is great.
Its one of those books that if a couple of the chapters were a little better could have been one of the best books around. As it is, the books pretty good though, definitely better than about 90 percent of the Llewellyn-type fluff bunny stupid stuff. This one's got a hardcore edge, which is a nice change.
It gave me a lot of ideas. A couple of the ideas contained in this book were fantastic.
Glad I read it. Looking forward to more.