Hi everyone,
My name is Will, I'm a writer and lifelong student of occult practices. I'm on the tail end of a project I've been working on since about 2007 or so. The Children of Judas is a book in 3 parts with a Paeanic Hypersigil encoded into it. My first book Infernal Machines was relatively well-reviewed, with glowing blurbs from Joe Lansdale (Creator of the Hap and Leonard series) and Scott Nimerfro (Producer of Tales from the Crypt, Hannibal, and American Gods).
I write Horror, and this book goes into some pretty dark places, on multiple levels. If that's not your bag, than by all means skip this. But if you think you might be interested, links to the work are posted below.
Part 1.
Part 2.
Part 3 comes out on 3/30/18
They're 99 cents each, as is Infernal Machines... Here's a link to that one.
Now, because Amazon won't let you use original artwork and makes it rather difficult for independent artists who don't opt for their select program (which gives them exclusive rights to your work), here's what Infernal Machines looked like before I took the rights back, with a lot of the original reviews (You'll also notice that some rando is selling paperback copies of my book for $1999.99. I assure you guys that isn't me. However, if somebody sends me $1999.99 not I will I send them an autographed copy, I will eat a bag of mushrooms and add an impromptu audiorecording of at least 50 pages of the book while fully peaked).
https://www.amazon.com/Infernal-Machines-Vintage-Horror-Novel/dp/1938750829
You can check out a bunch of reviews over on Goodreads. Also, I wrote for Cracked for a little while, if you want to read some of my stuff for free you can just do a search for my articles there. If you like any of it, feel free to say hi.
Bugs and fishes, everyone.
*color me intrigued
genxgemini wrote: *color me intrigued
Cool, here's a quick update:
I released Part 3 on schedule. The whole experience has been positive and highly impactful, but in ways I didn't expect. Like a lot of people on this board, I'm a big fan of Gordon White, and was fully planning on enrolling in a few of his courses after releasing the books. Instead, I'm in therapy now.
I'm sure that sounds awful, but it's actually pretty cool. In finishing this giant fucking thing, it's given me quite a bit of clarity on some shit that I was avoiding. And if I really want to keep delving into the deep murky waters where all the cool tentacle-y things hang out, I can't have that. So, I'm eating the metaphorical/physical vegetables.
Also, that's not to say that some really awesome paranormal type shit didn't also happen, but I'm trying to figure out a way to frame that in a way that's got some meaning and utility for people who read it, instead of just hitting the all caps button and letting the crazy fly. I'll probably start putting a blog together this summer, based on notes from journaling over the years. Right now, I'm just taking a couple of months to recover.
If you or anybody on this site end up reading the books, let me know what you think of them.
Also, here's Part 3, for anyone interested...
So, here's an update to how this is all shaking out. I realize there may be some skepticism, so I'm going to post a few links to what I'm talking about.
Like I alluded to originally, this was a hypersigil linked to individuation in particular, and a basic sort of level-up spell. At the time I launched it, I realized that it was just going to take me where it wanted to.
Also at the time, I was working construction; framing houses. I knew how to read tarot cards, had a few novelty decks and the Richard Cavendish book (it's alright but not as good as The Black Arts, imho).
I'm trying to get this all down in a few sentences, and maybe that's part of the problem, because everything has just gotten so unexpectedly weird, but in a good way.
So, rather than try to narrate this stuff, because a lot of it is subjective, I'm just going to lay out some of the events since the working.
The one aspect I've written about here before has been my ongoing ketamine treatment.Going into that severe of an altered state every 10-13 weeks like clockwork, combined with the fourth way training I've been doing for years, combined (I believe) with the Children of Judas working led to a total shift in my career.
So, among other things I started reading tarot professionally. Like I said, I was a construction worker. Now, I tour weekends, and am a house reader in a couple places at one metaphysical shop -
Semi-tangent, I swear that house is alive, I've felt it breathing sometimes and the lady who owns the house agrees with me -
And I work in another side office that's part of a shop run by a coven of witches.
The metaphysical store is called Sacred Energy Empowerment Center. The witch shop is called Crone's Hollow.
I've continued to write on the side, but even that's changing. I've got another book and a project I'm not ready to talk about.
Yesterday, I was confirmed to teach a lecture on Comparative Tarology next April for SpiritCon 2020. Last year I'd never heard of tarology, let alone how/what to compare it to. In case you're interested, it's a lecture on the day to day practicality for professional readers, re: various tarot philosophies, including P. D. Ouspensky, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Phyllis Vega, and Barbara Moore, among others.
That's another thing - I've always been a reader, but ever since the launch I went from reading 3-4 books a month to 10-12. I also got much better with language and symbol structure. I posted before here about translating something called the Olaus Wormius Necronomicon, which is it's own story that I'm not even going to try to recap. Here's a link to that post, along with a Medium article I wrote on the experience...
So yeah, it's been strange. But I'm not climbing ladders with a 30 lb tool bag strapped to my waist all day anymore, which is nice.
I'm posting a link to my snitchbook page, you can see when I read, and updates about classes - I start teaching a tarot for beginners course twice a month starting 7/28 over at Sacred Energy
Magic works.
Here's the Sacred Energy FB page...
https://www.facebook.com/sacredenergyslc/
Here's Crone's Hollow...
This is my personal page. If you're in SLC and want a reading, hit me up. Later guys.
