Slowly those things become letters, they become words, they become reduced to abstractions, complexes of meaning, and you can take that basic idea, people like Austin Osman Spare, the magician from the early part of this century, or Crowley, or the chaos magicians from the 80s who were a big inspiration on me.

They used this stuff, and what you can do is this, like I say, you can try this at home. Write down a desire

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Quite simple say 'It is my desire that my cat wins the Olympics'. Haha. Take out all the vowels. Write this down for fucks sake, and do it! Don't just listen, do it!

Right, Take out the vowels, then you'll be left with a string of consonants. Take out the repeated consonants and you'll be left with a string of consonants that will have no repeats in it you know X, Y, A, D, whatever. Turn that thing in to a little image. Take the D, draw a big D, you've got a T, draw a T under it, keep reducing it down until it looks magical and there are no rules for this thing, do it until it looks magical. At that point you now have a sigil. The sigil will work, you can project desire in to reality and change reality. It works!

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This is verifiable. People have been telling us about this for thousands of years. Even the Tibetans have been telling us about this, the Mesopotamians have been telling us about this, and why has it been made occult? Because Coca-Cola have got the secret, these people know what we're talking about here because what you do is you create a sigil, Coca-Cola is a sigil, the McDonalds 'M' is a sigil, these people are basically turning the world in to themselves using sigils. And if we don't reverse that process and turn the world in to us using sigils, we're going to be living in fucking McDonalds! Magic is accessible to everyone, the means of altering reality is accessible to everyone, and when everyone starts doing it we're going to see our desire manifest on a gigantic scale.

Everyone's desire. What happens when everyone's desire becomes manifest?

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INTERVIEW OVER CREDITS

Grant Morrison

People get streamed, they actually believe there's a lot more, there's a, uh, there's a lot more hierarchical caste system goes on in this culture than we think. In the sense of why are there always policemen why is there never a sense of there's no policemen any more? You know, we always stream just enough people in to these roles and suddenly we're filling the roles that once Timothy Leary or William Burroughs filled but we get born and suddenly we streamed in to those ones and there'll be kids right behind us who do it. So all we can ever hope to be is some kind of leading edge of oddball ideas that refresh the culture behind us because we're always a little bit ahead of what's popular and what's fashionable. And that's why it seems cool, because it's a little bit hidden and a little bit hard to understand.

But ultimately it gets swept up, you know, The Matrix is mainstream so those ideas that to me were very unusual and abstruse back in 1994 and now they're the vocabulary of every kid who can afford to go nd see a movie.