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Witch House: Thoughts on Where to Go Next for Those Looking for the Next Step

Please consider this a public service announcement for those who are currently involved in the various occult subcultures that have been broadly labeled Witch House. (Yes, I know you don't like the term Witch House, I know it's already dated, and I know you've already got a thousand new sub genres you've generated, but the term "Witch House" is a convenient enough handle, so I'm going to use it here.)

From my outside analysis of the Witch House subculture, it seems like you've all congregated together and spontaneously created an environment to experiment with the idea of occultism as a lifestyle. Whether or not any actual initiation is happening, I have no real way of knowing, though I've been waiting for the signs. A lot of you probably did some type of magic or Wicca in your teenage years and are now running around in a hand-crafted "magical" scene. This is good. We were pushing for this in the 90s and 2000s, and now it's happening. In the 90s we called it Occulture, in the 00s I suggested it drop the spooky veils (in my book Generation Hex) and called it Ultraculture, and you've got your own, constantly changing, undefinable version of it.

Like with any subculture, most of you are passing through magick and witch house because it happens to be the flavor of the moment, looking for good times and sex in your late teens and early 20s, and will likely move on, burn out or turn into a normal member of society by your 30s. For you, the nominally occult trappings of your subculture provide a mystique, a sense of tribal community, a way to get high and connect with peers, and potentially a commercial venue for your chosen art form. You may even do some basic forms of magic like sigils or intention-driven art actions, or contextualize certain flow states (ecstatic states at parties, or a heightened ability to network and spread memes) as magic, and that's fine.
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These abilities may fade with time or be carried over into professional careers. On the other hand, I suspect that there will be a few of you-maybe less than a handful, maybe just one or two-who will stick with it, and make the transition into hardcore, practicing magicians, and it is to you in particular that I feel a certain responsibility to write this essay for. As a member of the generation immediately preceding yours, I kind of have a duty to pass on some hard-won information. Most of you will probably ignore it, or not even be ready to listen to it, but I feel like I should put this out there for whatever greater purpose it serves.

May all beings in all worlds achieve peace, freedom and happiness.

1. You are not the first people that this has happened to. When the synchronicities get increasingly unlikely, reality seems like it's talking to you directly, events are lining up in a way that seems impossible, and so on, remember: people have been doing this all over the world since before recorded history. You might be on your own, but you're not alone. Others have been here before you and others will be here after you. Be humble as you pass through the stream.

2. Darkness takes its toll. There is a thin line between ironically getting off on the Witch House imagery and the vibe of demonology and ending up in a world defined by those ideas and images. Repeated enough, symbols will manifest. Judeo-Christian society says that anything which is "magical" is automatically "demonic," so a lot of you instinctively take on the demonic vibe; combined with the general pre-existing apathy and anti-empathy of hipster culture, you've got a heavy load there. A lot of that is toxic backwash from a dying culture.

You need to be aware of that and you need to manage your spiritual hygiene, because there's only so long you can play with darkness before it bites you. I'm not saying become a white lighter, but what I am saying is know yourself, know your intentions, know your limitations and stay healthy. As Daniel Johnston once said, "Don't play cards with Satan-he'll deal you an awful hand." Satan is a dull, monochromatic motherfucker. Mick Jagger is an irrelevant prick and always was. You don't need the Darkness™ to do magic, or some godawful batch of spirits, you just need yourself-your real self.

3. Read the classics. World religion. Philosophy. History. The stories of the big cultural movements of the 20th century. The sorcerers who came before you: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, the Chaos magicians, Robert Anton Wilson, Dion Fortune, Crowley, Reich, Castaneda. Ground yourself in solid theory. The basic reading list in the back of Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice, if you've got the patience (and you should cultivate it), will stand you in better stead than just about any other occult reading program in the world (or many a college degree, for that matter). Once you understand your own culture's magical history, learn that of elder cultures- the Hindus, the Mayans, etc. That said, don't be afraid to follow your own intuition over the dead words of others, or to break the rules-but learn the rules first.

4. Drugs. At a certain point it's likely that your crew is going to drift away from the all-is-love-we're-all-in-this-together acid and ecstasy parties and into ketamine, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine or the abuse of prescription opiates. Maybe these boundaries are already blurry for you; maybe the boundary was never there at all. However, you need to remember: This is what killed the sixties, and it's been repeated for just about every crew of conscious tripper beings that's popped up since.

The pattern goes like this: You open up and expand into the universe with psychedelics, you expand too far, you contact harsh reality with raw nerves, you crash and contract painfully, and then you decide to numb out. This is a tricky line, but you don't want to make your initiatory career more difficult than it needs to be. Bear in mind that when people go on about the "dangers of magic" or "oh dear god that Crowley guy was such a fuckup/evil/nasty etc.," much of what they're observing is the wear-and-tear of hard drugs on the body and personality, not magic itself. Stay clean. If you have the patience-and I realize that this is like telling bodybuilders not to use steroids-do magic completely sober, and skip the fast-expansion, fast-contraction rollercoaster for slower but more steady progress.
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5. Cults. Don't fuck with cults. If they say they're not a cult, they're a cult. If they say they know something you don't, remember: They don't, or at least don't know anything you couldn't find out for yourself. Keep your power. Don't prostitute it to the esoteric flavor of the month. They're going to give you a grade? Fuck grades. You don't need grades. "Out here, there are no grades-just alive, and dead." - Anne Hathaway in Get Smart. (Note that "cults" can also just as easily mean "personality cults" or "consumer cults" like those surrounding bands, writers, public figures or even brands.)

6. Learn the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. If you take nothing else from the traditional schools of magic, learn this ritual. Memorize it. Perform it until it's second nature. Use it if things get out of hand. Use it to keep things from getting out of hand. Use it.

7. Keep a record. Write down the rituals and art actions you do. Write down your dreams, experiments, sexual experiences, synchronicities, ideas, insights-everything. You're gonna want to have it to refer back to, and, ultimately, you owe your research to those who come after you, so they can hopefully skip the mistakes you're about to make.

8. Meditate. Start an insight-based meditation practice and keep at it every day. Start with five minutes. Aim for an hour a day. 30 minutes is good if you can't do that. But do it every day. This will keep you centered, keep your consciousness from getting dragged around, keep you from taking things too seriously, and build up the mental toughness, clarity and inner happiness that will last you and stand you in good stead long after the parties have ended, your looks have faded, and the "magical potions" stop working in quite the same way they used to. Real spiritual practice-whether that's meditation, prayer, bodywork, yoga, therapy, devotional practice or all of the above-is something you want to transition to as early as possible, because, frankly, you're going to want a sustainable route to gnosis.

9. Not everybody is going to come with you. Your family will likely not understand. Your friends will likely not understand. Society will definitely not understand. Of those who do understand, some will pass through the trials-by-fire and some will not. Some will go wrong, some will go back to being norms, and some will die. Deal with it.

10. Patience. Cultivate it. Don't take things at face value. Wait and see if your visions and insights still hold up months or years down the road. Don't hit people over the head with them.

11. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Spending your twenties in the underworld (whether it's Witch House or goth or whatever sub genre happens next) is a pain in the ass, kind of like living through a combination of Lou Reed's Berlin album and the Necronomicon. But if you make it to the other end, maybe you'll even get to be the cranky asshole re-writing this essay for the next batch of kids. Be proud. You're a soldier in a war against forces of mediocrity and dogma which may yet kill us all. Burn bright, don't burn out, and maybe we'll burn a hole right through this monochrome world.

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KIND OF DEFINITION: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Health%20Goth
TEN COMMANDMENTS: https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/deathface-wants-you-to-stop-eating-carbs
THE DUDE: http://www.papermag.com/meet-the-crown-prince-of-health-goth-chicago-dj-johnny-love-1427427764.html
THE MERCH: http://www.healthgoth.com/

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Origins: Tumblr, DJ Julian Foxworth, Twitter, Rihanna

Connected to: Electronic music, vapourwave, environmentalism, Westcoast party scene.

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Following up our recent look at Normcore, we examine five other youth subcultures whose inception can be traced back purely to the internet.

Perhaps the most universal claim made about the internet is its ability to transmit cultural congruence. Unlike the pre-millennial era, nowadays we have a platform through which people can create, share and voice common interests (no matter how eccentric or niche), entirely free from the traditional constraints of location, demographic or distance.

As the image-sharing capabilities of the web have improved, some of the most noteworthy subcultural movements of recent years have been pushed into the limelight. Often driven by a vanguard community of individuals keen to fetishize specific elements of art, music, fashion and popular culture - notoriously through social media platforms like Tumblr and Facebook - these fledgling collectives frequently find themselves snowballing into a full-blown force majeure by a trend-obsessed society ever-hungry to be fed the "hottest new thing."

Taking a look at the genesis (and exodus) of five internet-generated subcultures of the modern era, we look at how they first gained traction, what came to define them, and what lead many of them to disappear off the trend radar altogether.
Witch House
So you've arrived at an undisclosed (likely illegal) Brooklyn venue that you discovered while eavesdropping on a group of recording music majors at an NYU cafeteria. Struggling against a billowing nimbus of stage smoke that consumes the space's minimal square meter count, your retinas wrestle with the strobing lights of a crudely-edited video montage of obscure, color-inverted '80s Italian horror films. The lineup includes†‡†, oOoOO, ∆AIMON, and a handful of other Google-confounding names, and emanating from a makeshift stage come sounds of smothered synthesizer droning, Codeine-gurgled lyrics and hellish Top 40 pop samplings. The recurring DJ uniform, meanwhile, appears to be an assortment of oversized hooded sweatshirts, tattered V-neck tees, ankh and pentagram necklaces, and limbs embellished with a variety of occult and Egyptological symbol tattoos...

Once the initial rush of bewilderment subsides, you return home to scour the blogosphere for a definition of this cavernous new aesthetic. After scrambling through several obscure forums and subreddits for a label (drag, zombie rave and rape gaze were a few preliminary tags, mercifully discarded), you discover the cyber realm consensus has settled on "witch house." The term came thanks to artist Travis Egedy (commonly known by stage name Pictureplane), who jokingly described his musical style in such a way back in 2009. But what started as an online joke quickly spiraled into a Tumblr-fueled internet frenzy, where cryptic band names, hazy chopped-and-screwed remixes and esoteric collage art surfaced en masse to form a unified whole.

Soon, everywhere from Pitchfork to The New York Times began weighing in on the macabre new subgenre, and Givenchy even featured a track by de-facto witch house poster-band SALEM during their Spring/Summer 2011 runway show. Though it's perhaps glib to discredit the authenticity of th0se artists whose experimentation with dark, genre-bounding soundscapes ultimately resulted in such a niche aesthetic, "witch house" eventually morphed into a clichéd pop culture meme, widely appropriated and lampooned by music writers, hipster trend followers and bedroom producers seeking to cash in on its popularity.
Seapunk
It's often been noted that subcultural trends are more likely to magnetize public attraction when linked to a captivating origin myth, and in the case of #seapunk, this myth can be traced back to a bizarre 5 a.m. tweet by DJ and touchscreen-happy Twitter maverick Lil Internet. Early one morning, Internet tweeted news of a dream he had where he wore a "Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be." Soon afterwards, a small sect of Twitter users who were in on the joke began ping-ponging the hashtag around the social media platform, which then developed into a private Facebook group, which led to a record label, which eventually crashed into the imaginations of the blog-savvy cyber youth.

Back then, a cursory click of the #seapunk hashtag would shower computer screens with '90s 16-bit aquatic video game GIFs, mops of turquoise Manic Panic dye jobs, and retro-futuristic 3D collage art featuring floating dolphins and chrome-metallic geometric shapes. This "rave-in-Atlantis" aesthetic crashed into the cyber sphere with all the force of a leviathan, leaving it to seep out between the cracks of its Netscape aquarium and wash up on shore IRL.

By late 2011, seapunk had acquired niche ubiquity. As a microcosmic music genre emerged, seapunk-billed parties began popping up in urban hubs like New York, Chicago and LA, with trend forecasters hinting at the oceanic style's arrival in the mainstream. Meanwhile, the fashion industry dipped its well-manicured hand into the seapunk pond as brands like Proenza Schouler and Versace began incorporating elements of the subculture into their own campaigns and designs. Perhaps the most notable appropriation, however, came as myriad pop musicians shoehorned the movement's trippy, nautical aesthetic into their own performances and music videos (see Rihanna' s 2012 SNL gig or Azealia Banks's "Atlantis").What started as a joke that fed off of its own fantasy morphed into a trend toyed with by top-tier mainstream pop audiences, only to then fade away as the green hair dye began to wash down the drain.
Vaporwave
Once seapunk beached onto the shores of pop culture mainland and evaporated into the ether, it was only a matter of time before a more evolved heir took its place. Creeping curiously out of a succession of blogs and Last FM tag clouds, "vaporwave" soon became the next micro-genre to pique the interests of the world's trend zealots. This was partially due to a heavy post-internet aesthetic not entirely dissimilar to that of its aquatic predecessor, but owing more to the diversity and ambiguity of its attitude and message.

Coined from the word "vaporware" - a term used by tech companies to describe publicly announced soft- or hardware that never actually materializes - the subgenre typically relied on the clichéd sonic ephemera of the '80s and '90s (think elevator music, late-night infomercials, "call waiting" soundtracks, etc.), incorporating elements of yuppie culture and New Age music as a means to parody hyper-capitalism while simultaneously fetishizing many of its artifacts. As such, vaporwave has been described as everything from "post-elevator music" to "corporate smooth jazz Windows 95 pop," with its chopped-and-screwed layering and spacey hyper-glassine sound highlighting a sense of soulless techno-corporatism. ( Listen here if you can't quite get your head around that.)

Accompanying visuals often included glitch art, Renaissance sculptures, '90s web design, palm trees, virtual model home blueprints and Japanese lettering that, when amalgamated, formed a mystical, cyberpunk-inspired realm defined by futurist acceleration and capitulation to a globally commercialized Tomorrowland. Often denounced for its enigmatic political agenda and sonic rigidity, many have since claimed that vaporwave was over even before it began. However, contrary to this notion, the micro-genre appears to have gained increasing momentum within the blogosphere since its post-seapunk emergence a few years ago - a fact made apparent by an active subreddit page and recent influx of Bandcamp downloads from anonymous entities lurking on the internet.
Soft Grunge
Place '90s grunge through a Tumblr-powered centrifuge, sift and bake the remaining dregs in an Easy-Bake Oven, sprinkle on some ennui, and out comes its contemporary,pastel-hued, Lolita-baiting counterpart - otherwise known as "soft grunge."

A millennial's appropriation of the original musical subculture, what's perhaps most ironic about soft grunge is its almost diametric opposition to the ideologies of its Gen X predecessor, trading the anti-image and angst for vanity and disinterest. Originating in 2010 (what is perhaps Tumblr's golden year), the satirical style was at once both an iconoclastic reaction to the past and a nostalgic ode to the childhood of its audience, clashing band T-shirts and Doc Martens with flower headbands and ombré hairstyles in one idiosyncratic mix of influences.

While the idolatry of original grunge and alt rock is commonplace in the soft grunge community, knowledge and genuine interest in any of these bands is thin on the ground. Often championed by alterna-pop "cool girl" singers of the contemporary blog era - Sky Ferreira, Charli XCX and Lana Del Rey all being good examples - the style has since been commercialized by trend-conscious entities like Urban Outfitters and UNIF as a response to the popularity of hipster irony (the nucleus of soft grunge) and music festival culture. To this day, Coachella and SXSW are still the mecca for blogger subcultures and "alleged" indie music fanatics, and soft grunge owes a lot to their continued success.
Health Goth
The latest subcultural trend to be seized upon by the fad-thirsty masses - landing second place in the most Googled fashion trends of 2014, no less - is one whose meaning and origin has been so modified and misconstrued that its creators could easily give up the fight out of sheer exhaustion.

With a genesis that dates back to a Facebook page created in 2013 by video artist Chris Cantino and Portland-based musicians Mike Grabarek and Jeremy Scott (no, not that Jeremy Scott), "Health Goth" was first formed purely as an aesthetic curation of images that were meant to "[reference] evolution and relate it back to subcultures, things like bio-enhancement technology, anti-aging medication, and how it all feeds into this ideal of 'pursuing perfection'."

Frequent themes of the page were BDSM, sterile net art graphics, visions of cyborg-like physical idealism, and monochromatic technical sportswear, with interests in trans-humanism and accelerationist theory driving the overall credo. Running contrary to the original health goth agenda, however, is the widely misappropriated notion of "gymming for goths," which has been frequently credited to a rival website launched by Chicago-based producer and party promoter Johnny Love. According to health goth's actual founders, Love cashed in on their aesthetic (via branded apparel and a "Health Goth Fitness Bible") once it started to gain traction, spawning the idea that many attribute to the name today.

Now parodied, plagiarized and plucked from its cyber-generated petri dish by mainstream media outlets, health goth has gone from being a niche community of abstract art enthusiasts to a full-blown fashion trend. Everything from muscle-bound gym heads donning head-to-toe Rick Owens at Planet Fitness, to Alexander Wang's H&M collaboration, to an inverted Nike Swoosh began appearing under the #HealthGoth hashtag. Even OG health goth pioneers were being summoned by the head honchos at adidas's Portland HQ to consult about the look. Though still retaining a pulse in the current trend circuit, like many of its social media-fueled forerunners it will only be a matter of time before health goth's momentum wanes and its mesh-lined bionic suit begins to stagnate.

And then, just like all those that came before it, this "hottest new trend" will find itself consigned to the depths of a desktop "inspo" folder, while eager eyes and index fingers search elsewhere for new ideas.

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"Every Poem Needs A Title But This One Has Many. But If I Have To Give It  A Title, It Has To Be "Jugemu Jugemu Unko Nageki Ototoi no Shin-chan no Pantsu Shinpachi no Jinsei Balmunk Fezarion Isaac Schneider San Bun no Ichi no Junjou na Kanjou no Nokotta San Bun no Ni wa Sakamuke ga Kininaru Kanjou Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru you de Shiranai no wo Boku wa Shitteiru Rusu Surume Medaka Kazunoko Koedame Medaka... Kono Medaka wa Sakki to Chigau Yatsu Dakara﻿ Ikeno Medaka no Hou Dakara Raa-yuu Yuuteimiyaouki Mukou Pepepepepepepepepepepepe Bichiguso Maru" or "That Poop-Throwing Monkey's Long-Ass Name From "Gintama""

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"Every Poem Needs A Title But This One Has Many. But If I Have To Give It  A Title, It Has To Be "Jugemu Jugemu Unko Nageki Ototoi no Shin-chan no Pantsu Shinpachi no Jinsei Balmunk Fezarion Isaac Schneider San Bun no Ichi no Junjou na Kanjou no Nokotta San Bun no Ni wa Sakamuke ga Kininaru Kanjou Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru you de Shiranai no wo Boku wa Shitteiru Rusu Surume Medaka Kazunoko Koedame Medaka... Kono Medaka wa Sakki to Chigau Yatsu Dakara﻿ Ikeno Medaka no Hou Dakara Raa-yuu Yuuteimiyaouki Mukou Pepepepepepepepepepepepe Bichiguso Maru" or "That Poop-Throwing Monkey's Long-Ass Name From "Gintama""

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"Serve $ Protect" after several changes made to it - Feddy

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