/x/ - Paranormal / Occult

This is a good source for non-Hermetic Qabalah. It gave me a wider perspective.

http://www.workofthechariot.com/TextFiles/Teachings-Introduction.html

My recommendations for starting out in Chaos Magick, in no particular order:
* Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine
* Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Chapman
* Liber Null by Peter Carroll
* The Psychonaut Field Guide by Bluefluke
* Principia Discordia by Malaclypse the Younger

For Qabalah:
* The Chicken Qabalah by Lon Milo DuQuette (beginner)
Followed by…
* A Garden of Pomegranates by Isreal Regardie (intermediate)

>>1633
Chaos magick is cool but it seems like all the books on it are really basic?

>>1616
Actually just read religious texts instead of conspiracy theorist bullshit for the love of god(s)

>>1616
Magick Without Tears by Aleister Crowley
https://hermetic.com/crowley/magick-without-tears/index

>>1744
I couldn't tell you, anon. I wish this board was more active; you could likely get some answers then. The only active /x/ board anymore seems to be 4chan's. I fear that I may be one of the last left lurking here. Please, tell your friends about this board, I wish to see it alive again.

>>1744
Try using sigil magic.
https://runesoup.com/2012/03/ultimate-sigil-magic-guide/

>>1750
I'm no expert but I suspect that beckoning some unsatisfied spirit is more plausible than real magic.
OP if you ever find out how please let us know. I would have thought I made this thread myself if not for the picture.

>>1744
This probably already came to mind but what about tulpas?

This isn't really "creepy", but it's definitely weird.
>Watching a green caterpillar go about it's day
>It goes onto the pavement and hides under a leaf
>I pick the leaf up
>Caterpillar is gone

What do you think it was? I know what you're thinking, but there were no cracks in the pavement, nothing nearby for it to slink under and it wasn't on the underside of the leaf. It really just disappeared and I have no explanation.

>>1707
He was probably on the leaf, they have good camo index's so they blend in well. Assuming that the Caterpillar was paranormal and tp'd out of there is kind of a stretch.

>>389
Ok so while I was working at home since covid I chose to sit with my laptop in my brother's room, room vacant since he moved.
It might have been my brain making shit up since the utter boredom of my job but I saw a shadow figure cross the room very fast, it was very tall but I also saw its refection in the window, so that makes me think it was real. Never had any paranormal occurnaces in the house before.
Also that job was call center and I had some weird morse code kind of calls that day, also just incoherent static that sat there for like 30 minutes since I didn't want to do my job.

My lifetime wish/dream is that someone stalks you and stabs you repeatedly in the skull with a knife and rapes ur corpse in front of your mother's grave lol

>>1748
bet

Film yourself while you sleep. Did anything happen recently to warrant this?

>>1740 Filmed myself, nothing out of the ordinary happened.
I recently went hiking out in the woods, but I do that once every month so unless someone hid a body out there, I doubt it's that.
It's getting worse, though. Whenever I'd leave my room something gets moved around or footsteps could be heard right behind me. I'm not one to get scared of the dead but it's taking a toll on my health. Might try to communicate with it at this point.

Schizophrenia

Update, I have acquired my grandmother's tarot and her advice. Long story short, it's not the spirit of the dead but rather an angry fae. joy.
It really was the hike in the woods.
>>1742 Hilarious suggestion, but unfortunately not. I was tested negative for it years ago.

Update, things have calmed down after I returned to the woods last month. Not sure what I did, or how I made it all stop, but life is back to normal. GB

>>1241
It is suspcious that I get 404'd when I click the bottom link, and none of the PDFs exist anymore, seemingly.

>>978
info?

digging required huh. gonna buy earphones

I'm CIA. You don't get to have audio files. I'm flying over to bring you in now.

Could you post a small snippet? like, just one of the sound files where he talks?

egg

This isn't a story this is the pretentious voiceover for a shitty B horror movie.

Try again when you actually know how a narrative works.

>>430
Why don't you try again when you know what "pretentious" means.
It's not a very good story, but you're way too mad about it.

>>366
classic image.

>>1713
Must be a SW Trilogy lover

He's not really the reason I don't come around anyway. That incident did cause me to leave for a few months, and when I got over it, I came back and found I didn't really enjoy uboachan much anymore. People had changed, the tone had changed, and I had changed. These things are inevitable. I have new places to hang and new groups that I talk to. I do miss when uboachan was my favorite site and I miss being really into Yume Nikki, but I'm also enjoying great people and things and online places now. Just different ones than here.

These things are inevitable, like infestations by toothpick larvae and finding out your dog is actually an SCP.

>I came back and found I didn't really enjoy uboachan much anymore. People had changed, the tone had changed, and I had changed.

I wasn't trolling back then when I said uboachan was changing; but everybody dismissed my message. I'm glad I'm not the only one who actually thinks like this, or at least not the only one posting about it.
It's really a shame, it happened so fast most of us suddenly started to feel the site was some kind of alien place; different. I often find myself wondering where most of the userbase is right now, those from the old times when this was our home and we were a big family.
I really miss you, anons. Were those words simply chat for you, guys? Did you really mean you loved this site, or it was just escaping from your reality, and now you've found something new to run to?
Ah, well, it cannot be helped. I guess people started to feel this place was an impediment to advance in their lives, or maybe they forgot about everything on this site, or they simply got bored of us. Either way, those lying words feel so empty now.

Anyway, I'm glad you're doing well, booger, and while it's kind of sad to know you don't come here everyday anymore like in the old days, it's good to hear that the creep incident didn't recluse you in some kind of way, though it sure was nasty. I'm really sorry for that. I hope you keep shining with happiness around wherever you are now, and the best of luck for all your projects.
Just don't forget the good times you've had here, and the people you've met. I'm sure that this way, the time everybody has spent here will actually have some kind of value, even if minimal, even if useless. I think that this is how uboachan will be kept alive even long after the users here had grew up into old people, or changed their lifestyles, or whatever happens to them. Even if nobody visited this place anymore, I know that while we acknowledge the joy of this site in our hearts, it will be alive.

Damn man, I've been having negative thoughts ever since this year started.

>>984
well this might make you happy, because i'm a newfag here

>>351
Can I chose them all.

>>984
I miss the old Uboachan too. I miss it a lot. The feeling is especially bitter since it's finally really hit home that a lot of the changes were due to my own mismanagement, things that I could have prevented if I'd paid more attention or known what to do, or had less garbage opinions, or not been so indecisive and so easily swayed. It's been really sad losing all those people and watching Uboachan become less welcoming. Shuttering the /cos/ board was especially difficult, and I wish I could bring it back but I'm not sure this is the place for it anymore.

My favorite SCP is SCP-342, A Ticket to Ride.