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Hey, salutations from the dirt basin of WA state. I just found this site, seems very interesting. I've always been interested in matters of the occult. People tell me I have an affinity for magic of all sorts, too, so I feel like I might fit in here pretty well.

I'm 21, married, male, I have my own home, and I'm here to further my own knowledge and experiences. I believe everything we know comes from within, and therefore I have to expand my knowledge and understanding of self to learn anything new. My wife gets sick whenever I work my will around her, which is peculiar to say the least, so I have to do it in the shed. But that's okay, because I rather like the peace. It also makes really neat spooky sounds when it's windy. My interests pertaining to magic are mainly rooted in Gnostic beliefs, but they center around summoning, protection spheres, and time manipulation (this one I haven't gotten yet, but someday maybe).

And that's all she wrote. I'm really a pretty boring guy when you get down to it. But I love to talk.

Look forward to being in the community with you fine people.

~Isaiah

Edit: this is quite interesting, after doing some preliminary reading, it seems I would be considered a Chaos Magician. That intrigues me... I've long thought that everything magic that is successful, is charged with a specific energy, that of several people performing the ritual and it working for them. So every kind of ritual that didn't strike me as total bunk I've thought was credible at all and have tried, has worked. Norse, Icelandic, Italian, Germanic, South American... All pantheons seem to answer the call of a magician. So does any kind of sorcery piling together an amalgam of concepts. As to why, my thoughts on this come back to my quasi-Gnostic beliefs. I'm a very opinionated person, aren't I? Hehe.. Well, you live and learn. Already I've learned something, and already I like this place.

This post has been edited by Isaiah: Nov 13 2006, 03:51 PM

Oh, that would be quite excellent. I love long-winded conversations about random things. I figured out largely why my wife can't tolerate my magical dealings, it's because I go directly to the source of the energy I want to manipulate, and she likes drawing it from her surroundings. There is a clash there, I'm theorizing that's it, but I'm not too certain. Labeling, I'm aware, is a passing mutable phase, in some circles I'm considered a stoner, I've never touched marijuana. I'm considered a goth, but I hate that "goth poetry" crap -- "I DRINK FROM THE ETERNAL WELL OF SUFFERING. THAT BLACKEST DESPONDENCY".. etc. I'm also considered a mormon by some of my friends, which is odd, because I'm a hard-line pseudo-gnostic satanist. And my father raised me christian. Ha.

Also, I read the guidelines before I joined. Oh, what a good newbie I am! I'm enjoying it so far. Thank you for the quick reply.