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 Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 9:04 pm
Well, I was cruising the Writing sub forum and checking out all the sweet posts in it, and, being a packrat, I was thinking about how to best deal with all that info. I also though about the website, and about the FAQ (Both deliciously beautiful features the like of which I've seen no where else) and was thinking about this.
What if we decided to write a book? What would it be about? What could we put in it? How many people would we need? I know we'd need a few full to part time authors, one or more full time editors, and such, as well as a lot of proof reading, literate people and groupwork, but I see it as a possibility in our misty future. How long should it be? What should it look like? Title? Anyone know how to make .pdf's? (My favorite type of book file) Discuss, my members.
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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 9:47 pm
That'd be kind of a good idea. The question is, would we want to stick all the info into one book or make seperate books that discuss different topics? It'd be nice to help promote some non-fluffy resources out there and some of the info from this guild is pretty cool~
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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 9:53 pm
I think we could start out with a few pages or maybe a chapter, and if something's really popular develop it out and split it to sperate books. Don't set your thoughts too high, though. ^ ^
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 6:21 pm
I support this idea.
I will volunteer as an editor, if/when the time comes.
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:50 pm
Ok, so next step is to pick a list of topics slash potential chapters. Then we will see what text we already have in our writing and articles, both in the guild or available for use outside, and go from there.
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:15 pm
we could include the Keys of Solomon and Summa Perfectionis if anyone has them and if you mean putting writings into one place
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:07 pm
Ok, let me try to think of some topics.
Kinetics
Meditation techniques
energy training regimen(s)
6th senses
energy shields
focusing attention
necromancy
I ching, tarot, other oracular systems
herbs and incense
There's a start.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:19 pm
First I've read of this topic, sorry it took a while.
This sounds like a fairly good idea. If I hadn't stop researching, practicing, writing, reading and coding I'd be able to help with this a lot.
And... Josh, you forgot the "About Us" part in the topics list.
I suggest we use inspiration from Franz Bardon's Initiation Into Hermetics (I have the PDF if anyone's interested), I haven't finished reading it, but I think I got to page 140 something and it is an awesome book 3nodding .
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:50 am
Anything concerning folklore, social interaction, history of religions/beliefs/rituals, the psychology of magic etc... please, give me a buzz and I will see what I can do. wink Anything on Buddhism too, of course.
I can't really tell anyone much about magic, psionics or anything of the sort. But I can tell everyone a lot about how it fits into human behaviour.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:38 am
Count me in, I suppose. I'm reasonably literate, I have a broad scope of info, and I hopefully will have some free time this summer after we get our puppy his invisible fence and stuff.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:18 am
This idea reminds me a whole lot of Disinformation 's "The Book of Lies", which was a very sexy idea.
Count me in, I'm all for rambling about chaos magick or postmodern magick (although you could probably write a bit more eloquently in the former of those two, Josh) , and I'm a fair sport for editing/proofreading if need be.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:35 am
Ok, now I know i've been the voice if disagreement several times before. BUT! I actually like this idea. biggrin
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:55 am
Lust herself Ok, now I know i've been the voice if disagreement several times before. BUT! I actually like this idea. biggrin So...a book teaching magick is fine, but a wiki teaching it is bad? -.-
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:53 am
[BlkCat] Lust herself Ok, now I know i've been the voice if disagreement several times before. BUT! I actually like this idea. biggrin So...a book teaching magick is fine, but a wiki teaching it is bad? -.- Well, with wiki it's all out there. with a book you can provide basic and advacned levels to follow in due time,. with a book you hold more control.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:55 am
Lust herself [BlkCat] Lust herself Ok, now I know i've been the voice if disagreement several times before. BUT! I actually like this idea. biggrin So...a book teaching magick is fine, but a wiki teaching it is bad? -.- Well, with wiki it's all out there. with a book you can provide basic and advacned levels to follow in due time,. with a book you hold more control. No...with a wiki you hold more control, you can change it anytime you want.
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