Hands-On Chaos Magic: Reality Manipulation through the Ovayki Current - Andrieh Vitimus 2009

Creating Entities with Energy and Information

Earlier in our adventure, we made little puppets out of general life force energy, and then we made a puppet out of emotional energy. The emotional puppets did indeed seem to have a contagious effect, causing an emotion in other people. In this chapter, we will cover a couple more ways to build artificial entities using different techniques from the previous chapter.

When we created the puppets earlier, we were, in essence, creating very simple entities. These entities had extremely short lifespans and very narrow purposes. As with many metaphysical techniques, there are thousands of ways to create artificial entities, and I can give you only some options that have worked for me. Budding off parts of yourself has the additional benefit that you, the magician, can work to directly empower parts of yourself. The result itself is far more interconnected to you. This particular style of information/energy servitor creation will create artificial spirits far less connected to you. Sometimes it is a very good thing for these spirits to be less connected to you, especially in negative or riskier efforts.

Your First Created Entity

Simple one-purpose entities often get surprisingly good results for many tasks. A simple framework that you should try is to generate a state of mind congruent with the task and then project the energy out into a sphere. This again goes back to gestures, breathing, memory work, etc. Anything that generates a particular desired state of consciousness at the strongest level can be used. From here, you can work and shape the energy into whatever form is desired, assuming that the chosen form of the creation will give the entity some ability to carry out the task. Often at this point, magicians will use a sigilized mantra and sigil intent to bind the energy they produced together while shaping the energy into the desired form. This gives the creation intent and form. I personally like the idea of tactile shaping and visualizing the energy coming into a specific form, but it should be clear that other magicians might only choose to use their minds for the task.

Most books will say that a servitor should have a time limit for success, but in the examples I gave, the tasks are much more repetitive and simple. In examples such as these, keeping the simple servitors around seems like a more efficient use of time and effort. Besides, a servitor that can do one really simple thing with great results is very useful. Once the servitor is created, the magician usually then sends it out into the world to achieve the desired results.

One of the tricks to creating servitors is to know what form to give them. This is something that, again, you could scry from your subconscious. Ideally, the form should be something that makes sense for the task you are creating. For money-drawing servitors, I might choose something like an octopus, since they have suckers to pick up the money and bring it to me. For other tasks, I might use very different forms. For me, an entity to create "joyful" feelings in a room might be a small teddy bear with balloons, but for other people it might be a rabbit. Really, magicians are limited only by their imagination and their ability to explain how a form would be able to do the task.

Secondly, a big question is what kinds of information best fit the desired task. This question, as well as the form of the question, takes some thought before going into ritual. If we can use any energy to create a base pool to work with, we can push energy linked to any possible state of consciousness, including invoked spirits, concepts, divinatory constructs, etc. At first, keep the different combinations of energies simple, perhaps just an emotional or divinatory energy (only one), and work from that point to apply the form and intent for the servitor.

A third question to consider is how much energy a servitor will need. A more difficult task will require a more developed and powerful servitor. This is not always true, but usually this is the case. Creating a servitor to acquire a few million dollars might be a fun project, but how the millions will manifest is the real question. If you have that kind of money, and understand investment strategy, chances are that the magic to do this will be relatively easy. However, if you are working at McDonald's at minimum wage, generating that kind of wealth will be difficult. As with sigil magic, if the current conditions make the outcome of the request dubious, it makes overcoming the current conditions even more difficult.

Once the servitor is created and formed via the shaping method, I prefer to go into a full-out evocation of the newly created servitor. To me, this empowers and strengthens the ties that hold the servitor together. Phil Hine uses a rather theatrical air burst launching, and I have seen many dramatic methods to send a servitor out into the world. I have also in a pinch created the servitor, and basically told it to go and carry out what I needed done (usually with a sense of immediacy because it is in a pinch).

Magicians can form a simple servitor from the produced energy and instruct the creation to go out into the world to carry out the task, usually with a time limit. Then, as a final instruction, they tell the servitor to "reabsorb" back into them in a way similar to the method we discussed in the previous chapter.

Practical Servitor: Messenger Bird

This is how to evoke and create a very simple servitor that I have used on a few occasions. Create a sigilized name for your messenger and a glyph. A possible intent is, "Tell person x message y, and keep bringing the message to him until he responds directly to me."

Relax your mind and banish. Create a pool of energy in the way we have been doing. It is often helpful to use the mantra you created while you are creating the pool of energy in your hands. Sculpt that energy into your favorite bird. I personally like the raven, so my servitor looked like a raven. It may help to do a couple divinations to see if you have enough energy to get someone else to take action on the message, and of course the divination might include different types of information that must be included in the servitor or the message. The divination offers another chance for you to confer with what your subconscious says you really want in this situation.

Once you have a bird formed, visualize, feel, and even smell the sigil you created on the chest of the bird. Imagine that this sigil is part of the servitor, and that the sigil (along with the name) binds it together. Of course, to really produce and push enough correct and specific energy, you will need to have that singularity of focus that a deep trance state allows. Although we encapsulated a message into the very essence of the servitor (its name and glyph), a message sent in this fashion can contain far more information than merely a "call me." In fact, rarely will your true desire be "call me." Your states of mind are again the key to contextualize the message delivered.

If you want an ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend to call you and possibly reopen the door to a reflaming of the relationship, make sure of what underlying information patterns you want to attach to the message. In this case, you would want to feed energy into the servitor, in order to go back and relive experiences where you and the significant other were "blissfully" together. Another option is to include energy tinged with memories of you and the significant other in the heat of orgasm. These two contexts change the message and action greatly. In one case, the message has the underlying theme of reopening a romance as a friendship. In the second case, the message has a more visceral, lusting feel.

The context of the message might also determine the amount and type of energy that you need to include with the servitor to have the desired result. It also provides a context for how the communications should go. If this is about getting laid and your ex-girlfriend or exboyfriend is really mad at you for some reason, it might take more informationally tinged energy to push those thoughts to the forefront. Essentially, remember that states of mind (like emotions) are essentially viral. This means that once the person starts going back to those emotions in relation to you, this will overcome the internal inertia (being mad at you) to recontact. At this point for this type of work, I will have instructed the servitor to dissolve into its energies. (Essentially, if you want someone to contact you in this manner, I would assume after success in this type of work, you might want the other person to keep you in mind for a little while.) For other servitors, you will want to tell them to absorb back into you after completing their tasks, so you get that energy back.

I have used this type of servitor for other reasons than merely to get an ex-girlfriend to contact me. (Since I have not yet had an ex-boyfriend, I haven't tried this with an ex-boyfriend.) Of course, the underlying "context" of the information contained was very different. There have been times when I dreamed something that was highly relevant and specific to a friend whose contact information I had lost, and decided to send that information through a servitor with the appropriate context. Inevitably, people would e-mail me or call me and say they were thinking about me and wondering if something was up.

Now, this servitor isn't mentioned in the book so that all adventurers can get their ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends back. Of course, if you want to do that, you are perfectly free to try it. This servitor experiment was included to demonstrate the process and the effect information context can have on the reception of a message, as well as to provide more ideas on the use of "mental states" in magic.

Envisioning a Form while in Different Types of Trance

In practical terms, many of the minute details of "how" an entity goes about doing something are encompassed by the form. There is a certain logic to an entity, like the octopus example. I have a servitor that is primarily protective and is like a turtle, and when I need it, it transforms into a turtle-like armor, because in my internal logic "turtle" shells are hard and protective. Clearly, you might have a very different internal thinking process. Generally, if you can imagine the process of how a servitor would carry out its tasks, while understanding what states of mind will give it the best chance for carrying out those tasks, you can abstract away the minute details. The subconscious mind will fill in those blanks for you based on what your goal is and what "form" you have chosen for the entity.

But wait, now we are coming back somewhat to what we were doing in the last chapter. Phil Hine, in his book Condensed Chaos (1995), uses a method of creating a flowchart that comprises the essential operations and choices an entity can make. While going deeper and deeper into a trance state, it is probably not consciously possible to remember all the details of the flowchart, but your subconscious mind does remember and will encapsulate the chart into the creation process. In fact, much of the "way" a servitor works can be thought out and conceptualized before the working starts. When you start to go into a deep enough trance, while pushing the energy, the subconscious knows all of the pre-work you have linked to the process and, in a way, seems to download that to the container you have made for it via the ritual and visualization. Of course, other people will have vastly different interpretations, but without a strong use of trance, interesting flowcharts and personality analysis can provide only limited insight. For an example use of flowcharts and algorithms, here is one working I have done.

Practical Technique: Viral Laughter Matrix Inhibitory Servitor Launch

Let's assume it is possible to create an entity as an equation (or series of equations) or even as an algorithm (for the computer scientists out there). An algorithm is a series of exact steps toward a particular goal. It is a very exact recipe. Phil Hine breaks this style of entity creation into a flowchart (1995). The key is to break down the entity into a series of small decisions and then execute the list of decisions. Phil Hine's method is simple but not unique. Break the tasks into a series: If this condition applies, then do this. If this other condition applies, then do this. Then make a list of the conditional statements. The key is to make the decisions so simple that they can be answered by a yes/no question or a multiple-choice question.

Given that you have an entity's purpose, break that purpose into these steps. Then combine the steps into a large flowchart. The flowchart maps how the entity will react to any one set of conditions. For instance, let's take a servitor created to get people to laugh.

How would you break the task of getting someone to laugh into tiny steps? I might break this down into the following series of questions and answers (before drawing a flowchart). I will refer to this as an execution plan.

Is the person laughing? (Yes or no.)

If yes, you have achieved success. If no, move to next step.

Access the personal memory information streams of the intended target. Do you have a humorous memory you are trying to bring to the conscious mind? If not, find a humorous memory.

Are the memory streams protected? (In other words, is the person willfully blocking the servitor?)

If no, access the memory stream of a funny occurrence and feed information to conscious mind.

Did the person laugh? If yes, you have achieved success and can stop. If no, replicate yourself and make a copy of the memory you are trying to push into the conscious mind. The replicated self and the current self start the execution plan with the same humorous memory. If the memory streams are protected, replicate the self. The replicated self targets a new random person in the close vicinity (laughter is contagious, and one person in the vicinity laughing helps lower the resistance to laughter). Repeat the execution on a new target. Replicate the self. The replicated self attempts to re-access the memory files to cause laughter. The current self repeats the execution plan.

To a computer scientist or someone familiar with the concept, this plan is simplistic and possibly not technically correct, but it does illustrate the point. This is just a series of simple steps that a computer can run. Even DNA is a type of execution plan (although it is a complex set of instructions). Servitors essentially can be given a very specific set of information or, in this case, a very simple but exact process to follow. Graphically, the instruction set that was just described can be constructed into a flowchart for better understanding. Here is an example flowchart for the execution plan.

Look carefully at the flowchart. In a way, it looks like a glyph or sigil if you drop the words. By using the reduction technique discussed earlier, you can create a sigil from the flowchart itself that encapsulates the information execution plan in a way that bypasses the conscious mind and the psychic censor. Making a flowchart is an individual process, and different people will produce different flowcharts for the same process or idea. Each person will, of course, break down a task into different series of steps as well. Again, experimentation is the key here. There is no right way to break down a task into minute steps, only the ways that work for you.

Once the experimenter has the encapsulation sigil, the process of launching the sigil is very similar to other methods we discussed earlier. Essentially, the magician has to go into trance and execute the plan in the universe. Any type of gnosis/launch procedure will work, but the visualization should tap into the idea that the servitor is being released into the information streams of the multiverse (there maybe more than one universe). Sometimes, I will encapsulate the execution plan into a sigilized mantra/name in addition to the flowchart synchronization.

One visualization/trance combination I have used successfully with these ideas was the notion of the film The Matrix, with Keanu Reeves, particularly the idea of a digitized surrounding and information streams. Before doing the working, I will memorize the sigil I will be working with. I will take note of the physical surroundings in which the ritual is to take place, such as the furniture. Then I will use meditation and inhibitory gnosis to go into a deep state of trance. For added effect, I suggest using a light and sound machine to help generate the trance. The added techno-mantic flair adds tremendous mood to this type of working. As the trance state deepens, I will start to visualize the flashes from my physical surroundings deconstructing from solid to flickering into a series of binary streams of information or random unknowable characters that retain the basic textures of the furniture. Or, in the case of the bursting light, its a burst of binary numbers (or random small shapes). The effect is similar to the effect generated when Neo discovers he is the One and sees everything as merely a digital outline. Of course, even the digital textures of the furniture or light are merely contextual information. I will at this point increase the amount and flow of the binary numbers (or random small symbols), reducing the contextual information and receiving only information in a digital fashion. Next, I will visualize the encapsulated sigil as a solid glyph of my preferred color. With the background as pure information, I will allow the sigil to become digital in the same fashion as I had done before, and allow it to continue to stand out but appear as a digital construct. Then I continue the visualization, increasing the flow of information until the sigil is one with the surrounding information pattern. At this point, I will come out of trance and end the ritual by banishing by laughter. The full ritual/meditation usually takes me a good hour of inhibitory gnosis to work with the visualized patterns and feel where I need to be. When the servitor is indistinguishable from the other information streams, I assume that it is executing.

Of course, if you are an inventive reader, you can twist this methodology as you see fit. I myself have gone so far as to actually encapsulate desires into fully functioning computer programs. For example, a second useful way to transform the information of the execution plan that I have used is to translate the execution plan into a binary stream using an ASCII translation and Perl scripting. Basically, with digitized text, all letters have a corresponding number value. I translate all the letters into a binary stream. From there, I break this binary stream into groups of binary numbers. Sometimes I will use planetary numbers to form the size of the groupings or a random number less than ten (just to make it easier later). From here, I will take each binary group and translate that straight into a set of ten-digit numbers. I will then take each pair of numbers in sequence and use that and graph paper (or a program, although I am not the best at graphics programming) and draw out the sigil via the coordinate points provided by taking each pair of numbers. From here, the complexity of the created sigil is reduced until I am happy with the design. The entire sigil process in this case is done in a sort of gnosis focused only on the task of the binary manipulations. Of course this is only one idea from a magician who has fairly extensive computer science knowledge; you are encouraged to develop your own ideas.

In this example, there is no way I could have possibly remembered the intricate logic of a full program while in a deep trance state. However, the creation is linked to the process of creating it, which means that the creation is linked to the information and energy that went into the preparation. Now, of course, it is a little ironic that I included a long servitor chapter on getting people to laugh (which, mind you, I have tried). Using a servitor in this manner is probably a huge waste of time; however, you could use the ideas for things more valuable for you personally.

Again, one explanation for how this works is that states of mind can be contagious. So if the servitor is replicating within the confines of the other person, the information pattern may spread through that person until the conscious mind manifests the state of mind. Once the conscious mind begins to "experience" that state of mind, it can then (with extra effort) snowball into that state of mind. If you think about it, people can also get caught in "thought" loops that also seem contagious and link to different states of mind. For reference, again, remember that the body itself can generate a state of mind. So many possibilities, so little time.

Physical Bases

Personally, I have found that physical bases for thoughtforms greatly enhance their ability to produce physical results. Tying a servitor to a physical base greatly blurs the line between what is a talisman and what is an entity, and a creative magician can use the same base either way. For me, it makes it easier to tie created entities that work with "world" processes to the physical world. Tying the spirit partially to a physical form tends to increase the longevity of the servitor. Usually, you have to destroy the base to destroy the servitor if it is tied to a physical item.

So how would you tie a servitor to a physical base? The answer again lies squarely in the subconscious mind and your intuition, but there are a few methods I have used. First, we covered attaching an external spirit to a particular "physical" talisman and creating the talisman by querying the subconscious mind for the details. Clearly, we could use the same techniques with an entity we have created. Linking the entity in this fashion will achieve the desired goal if the servitor is not a one-time entity. This can be done after the fact as I am suggesting or right in the creation process.

For instance, let's take the example of the messenger servitor again. In this example, let's abstract the idea of a single messenger servitor into something more permanent, so that the servitor can give any person a message and then return to the magician when the message has been delivered and acted upon. Instead of linking the servitor to a physical object after the fact, let's say you find a bird statue. Now, you could look for a bird statue that resembles what you believe it should look like, or you could accept that your servitor looks like the statue. The physical base could just be a rock, a Coke can, or anything that makes sense to you. In the initial creation process, you form the energy, but this time form the energy around the physical base. (I will often paint the sigil on the physical base or somehow mark the physical base.) Since this is a more general creation, you might not want to "muck" it up with information from specific states of consciousness, but you might want to add mercurial vibrations or even imagine what different conversations about different topics might feel and sound like. Throughout the creation process, the servitor is tied to the physical base. For this particular servitor, you can hold the physical base and do a ritual evoking the spirit with the context of the message and then the message itself. Essentially, you give the servitor a lump of informationally tinged energy and tell it to deliver it to a person. When it returns, you would cleanse the messenger of the other message, and then it would be ready to use again.

An informal example of using the physical bases was the imaginary best friend approach in chapter 27. Clearly, we subconsciously tie the results to the statue.

Time Limits and Reabsorbing the Servitor

For practical purposes, time limits are a great idea. Although some occult authors will claim that magic will happen in its own course, without a set time for manifestation of the desired result, there is no way to really confirm success or failure of the attempt. In the beginning of your magical work, that feedback is critical. If a servitor gets results within the desired time, it sends a message to the subconscious mind that physical reality and the conscious mind were in sync enough to produce the desired result. Essentially, the magician has correctly assumed that conditions were right for the push, and was unified in himself or herself to make the magical push to cause a change to occur.

Failure to achieve the desired result within the time frame gives the budding magician a lot of feedback, and it can cause him or her to look within and outside of himself or herself for feedback. Maybe there were internal issues that needed to be worked on before the result could be achieved. Perhaps more energy or a different ritual operation was needed to give the magic a way to open the necessary door, or perhaps the magician didn't take the physical steps necessary for a servitor (or any magic) to get the desired results.

Smarter servitors will work more like a continuous effort to align those doors than merely a one-shot deal. The time limit still applies, though. Let's say you give a servitor one month to find something for you. Now, if you set this time limit, you have assumptions that finding that particular item or experience is possible within that month. If the servitor doesn't produce results, you should not assume that something was wrong with you, only that some detail in the process was off. Maybe, the item or experience with the specific requirements was not available. Perhaps, the something did manifest, but you were not able to recognize that it had manifested. Either way, "there is no failure, only feedback" (Andreas and Faulkner 1994). After the time limit, the servitor should be reabsorbed to help with the feedback process, and any physical anchors should be destroyed.

By the same token, once a servitor is finished with the task assigned to it, usually the magician will want to reabsorb the servitor in the same way we did in the last chapter. There are several good reasons for this. First, once a servitor completes a task, it has a limited cognitive ability and self-awareness for what its purpose was. Some human beings are sometimes intelligent enough to adapt and move on to a different task after they have finished one task. A servitor may not be able to adapt. It may just "burn itself out," or it may just try to mimic the task given for other people. Sure, a love-drawing servitor might be great for a single guy, but this can wreak havoc on a happy couple if the servitor doesn't understand the difference. While the servitor might not work for you, it might gracefully wreak havoc in another situation. It's really just good housecleaning.

Building servitors in this way means that the servitor is not as linked to the magician as in the previous chapter. However, treading slightly back into the book for a minute, let's assume that such a servitor still is a link to the magician. First of all, a servitor will want to live. Given that it is semi-intelligent, it most probably will want to "exist" This is especially true if the servitor has been around for a while. In this way, a simple servitor will probably go back to where it knows it can get energy and feeding. That's right, the creator. Now, unless a magician is very aware of his or her own mental states, a servitor who still has a link to the magician might well try to "create" states of mind congruent to what its purpose was, in order to gather more energy for itself. It is possible to be manipulated by one's own creations that are trying to survive. A magician might be weak and tired as a result of this, or may seek out patterns that are undesirable. Reabsorbing the servitors is one way to avoid this process.

To go back to earlier parts of the book, certain thought processes that seem to be "self-repeating" might also act like servitors. Think about that one for a minute.

States of Mind, States of Reality?

It might appear that because I am talking about states of mind, I purely associate these techniques with working with other people and influencing them. To close out this chapter, I want to take a step back from that assumption. For me, creating servitors in these ways has worked in situations that aren't solely influencing other people.

For a minute, and just a minute, try to expand possible explanations of how this can work without direct influence over other people. If everything is a weave of interconnected information and energy, and there is something more than the tangible universe, then these servitors can alter the informational patterns around a magician within the chaotic threads of the multiverse. Sending the "information" out attracts similar informational patterns and energy to the magician in the ebb and flow of information and energy. Even quantum physics doesn't seem to fully understand all the rules of the game. You could explain it by saying you are making subtle choices that are different and more productive, and that might explain situations well enough until the universe, chaoswhatever you want to call it-throws a monkey wrench into that equation (which it always seems to do). Although influencing other people is an effective method of enchantment, I have often achieved results from enchantments that did not use influencing other people as the means of manifestation.

Another way to approach it is to ignore the explanation altogether, accept that there is probably an infinite number of explanations, and just go for the results. I like that approach a lot.