High Strangeness

I’ve been around long enough that a discernible pattern has taken shape, one that’s been teased for decades. Hell, from the very beginning, it’s just that we were too easily distracted. Each paranormal anomaly has been isolated and pored over — you’ve got Bigfoot over here, ghosts over there, UFOs flitting about like cosmic fireflies. Investigators and hobbyists catalog them, label them, and file them away in their separate drawers, because heaven forbid they cross-pollinate.

The truth hews closer to that of a unified presence when you look beyond these paranormal categories and stop seeing them as distinct. Occurrences of high strangeness are manifestations of a deeper, unified reality pressing against our own. What we experience is a symptom. Magicians have hinted at it. Physicists have circled around it. And those of us who’ve spent our nights in forgotten boneyards, shadowy forests, and neglected fraternal lodges have felt it.

The phenomena are not necessarily tangible in any real sense, but could possibly be described as extradimensional bleedthrough.

What if bigfoot is not a missing link but a being displaced?

Some ghosts are memories, some are praeternatural intelligences, while others appear to be akin to echoes caught between frequencies.

And UFOS, or UAPs as they are spoken of now,  perhaps they’re not visitors from distant stars, but apertures — brief openings where the veil thins and something slips through?

We are labeling them as monsters, spirits, or aliens,  when it more accurately feels like we are dealing with curious intersections. That’s why I look to magick to interact with all of these phenomena.

Magick is as much art as science, because it relies on both precision and intuition. You can calculate the geometry of a ritual circle, but if you don’t feel the current, if you don’t listen to the hum beneath the world, you’re just drawing shapes on the floor.

I think of ancient grimoires as field manuals written by people who didn’t have the vocabulary of quantum mechanics or multidimensional theory. They described what they saw, what they felt, and what they survived. And if you read between the lines you’ll see the same patterns that modern experiencers report.

It feels like we are on the cusp of something extraordinary.

The old boundaries between science and sorcery, between matter and spirit, between this world and the next, are beginning to blur.

The universe is larger, stranger, and far more interconnected than we ever dared imagine. And it is not alone, and neither are we.

The other is about to introduce itself.

Are you ready?