What is Post-Modern Magick?
Defining Magick: (Magic is defined as the process of shaping reality to the will of the user of said magic. Whereas the word spell means the tangible result of such use of the will, magic is the process in which the spell is completed. One might argue that science is a process that produces useable data, and therefore is magic. The one difference between magic and any other process, thus the one thing defining it as magic, is the fact that it is an occult process. Everyone knows or has the ability to learn or discover normal or scientific processes, magic by its nature as an occult element of reality, is secret and difficult to learn or command. For the Initiated, meaning those who have delved into the occult realms of reality and have learned those secrets, such a process is an option.)
Post-modern magick is an eclectic and deconstructionist non-system of reality shaping. While there is no fundamental structure or form, an illusory and pragmatic construct must be presented in order to accomplish basic communication in the literary medium. So it follows that this book itself is a work of postmodernism, and in no way should be seen as the singular valid vessel of knowledge where post-modern magick is concerned.
This book is intended to serve as a primer, given that the essence of post-modern magick is individual personal relevance. As such, there can be no authoritative text on post-modern magick, only presentations of the Crafts of individual post-modern magi who hope to teach by example. This being said, post-modern magick has a somewhat simple fundamental magical theory, and an essentially Hermetic, or Western Mystic, approach to the study and use of magick. Though not at all trapped by dogma or inflexibility in either aspect.
Do not be mistaken, post-modern magi are very committed people, and do not suffer from the relativism that cripples many of the more eclectic practitioners in other traditions. While post-modern magick is based on the deconstruction of existing systems, it is done will full knowledge of these systems and a deep-seated drive to rediscover, invent, and evolve.