Magick is Meaningless

Magick is Meaningless

This one's dedicated to Ren and The Philosopher's House in Johnson City, TN.

 

“Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.”


― Albert Camus

 

If life is meaningless, then magick is meaningless. Albert Camus saw the human condition as fundamentally absurd. Humans desperately crave answers to the biggest questions about existence while the universe remains coldly indifferent. Instead of falling into despair, Camus regarded this meaninglessness as a blank canvas that welcomes creation. The lack of any pre-existing purpose liberates us to become creators, or what Jangled Jester calls magickians.

In Jangled Jester’s agnostic and physicalist framework, magick is the living and non-living connection between structures of existence and their processes of interaction. Interaction itself forms the essence of spirit, where spirit may not imply mystic or supernatural essence. As new forms emerge and transform, they demonstrate novel design and development that show patterns of physical properties. Although magick appears meaningless in any cosmic or divine sense, it functions as a powerful practical tool for crafting personal meaning and making sense of what does exist or may could. It represents transformance, the union of transformation and performance, and engineering. It is clearly visible with remarkable proof of work, and daily life is an array of magick with atoms being made conscious and spacefaring civilizations.

Jangled Jester roots magick in the shared languages of art and STEM through principles like design, structure, form, shape, essence, process, formulae, and spirit. These are accessible tools that people from all backgrounds or worldviews can apply and use. The philanthropy at Jangled Jester speaks primarily to agnostic and nonmystic enchantment that is deeply centered on American and Appalachian patriotism. Readers are encouraged to explore the origins and uses of magick or physics on their own terms. Camus rejected obsessive attempts to resolve life’s unanswerable riddles, and Jangled Jester extends this to you.

To be a magickian is to create meaning from basically nothingness, or to comprehend how the absurd evolved from practically nothing. It one of the greatest honors and privileges known to creation. Magick, like life itself, may be meaningless at core, but it encourages the highest form of awareness and responsibility over one's life, choices, and purpose.

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