Hello. C J here. A few days ago I posted three articles about the real life spirituality and mysticism that inspired me to write the Astral series and to design the Astral setting. Those are now three of the most popular posts I’ve done on the whole website. That took about a day. I was expecting people to be a bit cautious about learning about spirituality or mysticism. I wasn’t expecting the flood of views I’ve seen. I was wrong. Really wrong. So I’m doing some more of them.
I am happy about this. My whole career is based on finding cool spiritual ideas somewhere on the internet or in a book and then finding a way of making them compatible with my stories. I want everyone’s favourite mythology, genre, or pursuit to have a place here. I guess I just never realized that extended to me as well. I like the research and the book time that goes into the job almost more than the job itself.
Science is an amazing thing. I’ve trained in just about every science discipline there is. Anatomy, optics, physics, nutrition, biochemistry, quantum mechanics and molecular chemistry to name only some of them. I love science. The scientific method is a foolproof way of learning about the world that we as a species have been born in. Wherever God is, and wherever Odin went to, I’m sure they are pleased that we want to learn about the world we’re born in here.
But science is done. There isn’t really that much left to learn or invent. We can make better and faster technology but the principals underlying this don’t change. So what is next? What comes after mastering matter, light particles and electrons and making them our friends? Magic. Magic doesn’t run out. The more you look at it the more there is. And this word, magic, is my shorthand for all of the wonderful spiritual things that we don’t know yet. Magic.
To me magic is any change in the world that starts invisible but becomes obviously visible. Magic is the future. Magic isn’t going anywhere. It’s the way all people live and always have. We as a species have done technology properly and are still learning what it can do for us but next up we have even cooler things to do. Magic is the future of all people. Myself and all of us included. This is why I write what I write. I’m bringing it back, no matter how far I have to look into the past to find it again. All of it. Back. More soon.
C J Mcpherson
Hello. C J here. I read a lot of cookbooks. This is done mostly for fun. I’m currently reading a short but really interesting book about traditional Chinese cooking. The book was written by an Indian author who has clearly researched Chinese food very well but some of the translations of recipes or concepts get a bit strange. I’m currently done the soups and starters section and am onto the section labelled ‘food that is saucy.’ Cool? Is it also savvy? There’s a surprisingly large amount of ketchup in the recipes. No I don’t think I want a recipe for hot and sour soup that is thickened ketchup water with vinegar and a bit of cabbage. No I also don’t want to take a slice of white wonderbread, roll it into a tube, stuff it with canned corn, deep fry it and then top it with sesame seeds. What in God’s name do they eat in China? And why is it specifically an image of white wonderbread? China? Are you okay? I managed to take out the vinegar, water and corn starch that makes up most of the h...
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