We live in a culture of more or less instant gratification, and it makes us lazy; dumbed down even. Why bother looking through more layers or angles of an issue when someone (or something) else could tell us the answer immediately, or even do the work for us (or suggest expensive remedies)? In my forthcoming magical autobiography, Meetings with Remarkable Magicians – Life in the Occult Underground, I touch upon this conundrum: ”And there they were in my own life: Crowley, Spare, P-Orridge, LaVey, Anger and a whole other army of poetically minded truth sayers, artists, and magicians; pushing on because they had to, without necessarily needing to understand why. That was exactly what I was striving for. And that’s why contemporary platitudes like ”Work smarter, not harder” have no meaning for me; it simply sounds like a euphemism for cutting corners. In my mind it’s always much better and much more rewarding to work harder.” My approach has always been seeing the work itself a blessing...
