Generation Hex

Generation Hex

Generation Hex
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Editor: Jason Louv
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN: 1932857206
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: The Disinformation Company
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Book Review: Mmm Content
Summary: 5 Stars

I sat on that fence. I sat on that fence through the majority of chaos magick, I sat on that fence through feckin' silver ravenwolf's piles of fluffy crap, and slowly became disgusted with the whole business of occulture in general. I loved it, but couldn't find my place in it, couldn't find my belief in it, despite the fact that I did and do have a huge faith and belief in magick. It's so easy to get bogged down by Lewellyn's joke of a publishing company and just figure that magick really is nothing but make believe. It's terribly easy to remember the "witches" in highschool who had their vapid little witchy wars, binding and hexing eachother like they were starring in "The Craft" pretending to be possessed by whichever demon du jour. I tired of it, didn't know what was real and what was fake, and just let it go.

I'd come back again, and become disgusted... again. Over and over, and I'm only in my 20s. I picked up this book, because if anyone was going to do it right, Disinfo would. They didn't let me down. No small press books written by snotty prats with bad grammar, no fluffy ish, just experience, and truth. I don't agree with every essay, and didn't *like* EVERY essay, but they all had truth to them in some way. You don't have to like or agree with everyone to take something away from this book. I've found myself within the occult *finally*. I knew it was there somewhere, but the avenues presented to me in the past only lead me to dead ends, presented me with uncertainty in myself and within the validity of the whole experience. This book presented me with everything I needed, tossed my uncertainty out the window and helped me grow in my practice.

From Christian Sedman, to Crucio to Louv (whom I've developed a ridiculous girly crush on) there is so much to think about and digest, it just leaves you completely satisfied, like after a really good Thanks giving dinner, all fat and happy.

Summary of Generation Hex

Generation Hex is a collection of essays, both practical and autobiographical, which explore the overwhelming levels of interest in magic and shamanism in youth culture.

The book is a collective portrait of initiation, and what it means to rediscover the dizzying heights, primal terrors and recursive ironies of the magical landscape in a world that has largely forgotten its connection to spirit. It is also a practical grimoire for engaging with the psychic and occult undercurrents of the world, and a template for an emergent shamanic Ultraculture.

Generation Hex assembles some of the brightest magical talents of the current youth generation, who ask not only what magic is and what place it holds in the Twenty-First Century, but also how it feels to engage with magic.

Within the anthology's pages, editor Jason Louv situates the current moment as the emergence of a new magical culture, describes his experiences as a shamanic apprentice in the foothills of Mount Everest and blueprints the alchemical wedding of magic and genetics;

Christian Sedman shows what happens when the onslaught of magical initiation collides with the life of an American high school student;

Scott Treleaven lists the benefits and pitfalls of instigating international sex magic rituals for fun and profit; Stephen Grasso unveils the occult landscape teeming beneath the modern urban area, and proclaims the role of the modern shaman in our thoroughly troubled world;

Rachel Haywire describes her years of travel through the lunatic psychic underground of millennial America and her coming-of-age both as a young woman and a chaos magician;

James Curcio tackles the mythic structures of the modern world, and shows the duty of the modern magician as one who is able to create meaning in a cultural void;

Angelina Fabbro explores the processes of ritual magic from the hard language of cognitive science and physics, showing just what's going on at both the quantum level and in the body of the magician within the temple space; Elijah discloses the process of attaining to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, the central goal of magic, and outlines the skills that must be mastered by the budding magician;

Shaun Frent? escorts the reader into the world of Disco Discordia, and shows just what can happen when hundreds of revelers break through into group magical consciousness;

George Holochwost describes the vicious interplay of the Fool and the Magus;

Micki Pellerano examines the role that entheogens play in the process of magical initiation, and discusses the social need for "other level" experience;

Atman and Simon Forrester describe the ins and outs of high-octane group psychedelic ritual magic;

and Chris Arkenberg discusses what it's like to conduct a guerrilla attempt to enlighten a malevolent corporation.

Generation Hex is an ongoing networking point, developed to both initiate and continue a morphogenetic dialogue-"where to evolve next?"-which has been continuous since the beginning, but is currently in need of direct and immediate attention.

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