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“Achievement Unlocked” –
This is what I’ve been saying to friends and peers within the Occult community about my interview with Tommie Kelly. Cheekiness aside- I’ve admired Tommie’s Podcast (RSS) and his Blog, Adventures In WooWoo, for quite some time. Recently, his custom arcana THE FORTY SERVANTS, have been bopping their beautifully illustrated heads throughout my mystical studies revealing themselves as a modern achievement in custom magicks; a creation that has been realized for wide-application amongst modern practitioners.
Tommie and I have nearly an identical trajectory within the confluence of Art and Magick – we are both tour-weary musicians having recalibrated our creative pursuits towards writing, podcasting and creating comic books- albeit my first comic is still in progress and he’s published multiple! There’s a mutual trajectory both in our artistic journeys, but also in our metaphysical paths, too, as we both birthed our beginnings as Chaos Magicians into artistic expression. We share the need to “get-out-of-the-way” of our creative fervor by utilizing magicks within a multitude of creative mediums and stop overthinking so damn much.
Those of you who have been keeping up with PRAGMAGICK know that I’ve been wrestling with my Chaos Magick beginnings; having the “crisis of faith” (the irony is not lost on me) about Chaos Magick’s modern identity and the tenets imposed on this “ronin-like” practice by outspoken modern practitioners. But Tommie has helped refortify my own definition of Chaos Magick and it’s crafty custom pursuits. MY Chaos Magick does illicit devotion and piety for other practices and is not just a willy-nilly disrespectful hodge-podging of sorts. But we also must not get too mucked up in the mire of Chaos Magick as a label, but more as a utility that is unique to each practitioner. I am not a chaos magician; I am a writer, music, an and podcaster who utilizes the “reality tunnel of chaos magick” to communicate my art – to use a Tommie (by way of RAW) phrase.
TOMMIE KELLY LINKS:
ADVENTURES IN WOOWOO
Tommie Kelly’s PATREON
Tommie Kelly’s The 40 Servants
Tommie Kelly Podcast / Soundcloud
NOTES:
† “PRAGMAGICK is A MULTI-MEDIA GRIMOIRE conjured, conducted and curated by REVEL KEATS ROSZ and produced through the Portland, Oregon based occult-media collective, WE THE HALLOWED. Please visit and subscribe to WETHEHALLOWED.ORG for more info
† The following interview was recorded and conducted by REVEL ROSZ February, 18th, 2018 in front of an audience at the Waypost in Portland, Oregon.
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CREDITS:
† Original Theme and closing track : “The TETHER” By DAKOTA SLIM from 2018’s CACTUS CROWN / synth soundscapes performed live by Bryan Bruner
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