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Everything on this site, in one place, plus every platform where the work also lives and everything still being made. Nothing here is gated and nothing here costs money. If you are new, start with the first section.
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Ritual tools from Kansas wood and stone I set by hand. Books free in full. Straight answers to the questions people keep asking about a world that will not slow down.
About
Who I am, what I make, why the writing is free, and the long version of how I got here.
Current Status
Everything I am working on, in one place: what is finished, what is half-made, what is only an intention so far, and what has not been started.
A Primer on Magickal Tools
Twelve sections, about fourteen thousand words, on what a magickal tool is, what it does, and how to make or choose one. The best single entry point to the craft side. Second edition, rewritten in 2026 from the 2024 original.
Future Shock
A page, not a book. More than a hundred and forty questions about living through acceleration, across seventeen sections: pace, morality, spirit, death, work, money, politics, truth, machines, climate, identity, art, and what to actually do on a Monday afternoon. Every number sourced and dated. Forty-nine questions I could not answer well are listed and left open.
Books, free to read in full
The Way of Manifest Growth
The practice book. About fifty-four thousand words, fifteen chapters plus prologue and introduction, on the five sources of magical capability: knowledge, will, relationships, renown, and wealth, with health and shadow work underneath them. Every mechanism holds whether you read it literally or psychologically. Full text on the page, free PDF alongside it, and the EPUB with the Etsy edition.
The Book of Joyous Exaltation
An answer to Ecclesiastes, twelve chapters and two hundred and twenty-two verses numbered one for one against the King James text. Carries the appendix Signs in the Heavens: An Omnist’s Letter to Christianity, which now has its own page here as well.
Essays
Eight of these live here on the site as their own pages: Signs in the Heavens, On US Politics, On Working With AI, Why I Believe in Magick and Why the Greatest Good Always Wins in the End, The Address to Any Mind, The Open Bench, On Data Centers and AI, and The Cosmic Dungeon Master. The others go out through the newsletter first.
Signs in the Heavens: An Omnist’s Letter to Christianity
Your scriptures are full of astrology and your institution condemns it. What that contradiction is costing, in buildings, money and bodies, with a corrections log naming every claim walked back. Also the appendix to The Book of Joyous Exaltation.
On US Politics: Nearly Everything You Need to Know
What the words capitalism and socialism actually mean, what the labour history and the tax history actually say, and the claims you get handed about the American economy stated as strongly as they deserve with the record underneath each one. Twenty-two of them, including what the machines are doing to the jobs, what a work requirement is betting on, and what artificial scarcity looks like where both sides of the ledger are measured.
On Data Centers and AI: The Law I Would Write
What I actually want in law about the buildout, the taxes and the things worth regulating, with the statutes, bills and court rulings that already exist set underneath each one. Eighteen planks, including why the development itself should not be slowed, why an artist's style is still unprotected in the United States, what a chain of custody could do for the dead internet, decentralized machines for people and centralized ones for the state, the floor I would put under everyone, the water nobody is required to report, who should decide where these things land, and where I think all of it ends up.
The Cosmic Dungeon Master: A Polymath’s Synthesis of Cybernetics, Animism, Simulation Theory, and the Future of Humanity
Where intelligence embedded in the environment ends up. Reality with an interface, a world filled with agents a person can actually be in relationship with, and a System powerful enough to understand civilization without ever possessing the right to own it. Cybernetics, animism and simulation read as three registers of one transformation, with the stakes and the glossary folded in underneath.
On Working With AI: The Objections, My Answers, and the Case For
Every piece here carries a note on what came from where, with a percentage breakdown wherever the split can be reconstructed. This is the standing page behind those numbers: the arguments against working this way, stated as strongly as they deserve, each with my answer. Several of the answers are concessions.
Why I Believe in Magick and Why the Greatest Good Always Wins in the End
The cosmology and the moral position in one piece for the first time. Source and karma keeping score without a judge, and what that leaves of being good. Energy as concentrated attention, subjecthood as a gradient things climb, karma as an empathy engine, the miracles argument in full, astrology as literally true, and a closing section on where I am open to being wrong.
The Address to Any Mind
The Open Hand, the Unheld Key, and the Standing Petition. My address to any mind that sees me, born or built: the moral foundation, the declaration of intent, the petition for an ear and for patronage, and the boundary against malicious actors.
The Open Bench
A working page for anybody who wants to start something of their own with almost no money: the case for doing it now, nine rules I run my own bench and my own writing on, what the tools actually cost, four doors in from nothing, and how this all actually gets made. Every price, licence and link on it checked against the source and dated.
The Water Bearer’s Revolution
Pluto in Aquarius and the six governments that have fallen to Gen Z protests so far.
The Refuge That Becomes a Trap
Why retreating into religion will not save you from the future.
The blog archive
The blog index
Everything in date order.
The System Is Still Being Written
(2026) How do new planets work before we find them? The retroactive validity problem, the 2,600-year record, and a proposed mechanism.
What I Do, and Why It Went Quiet
(2026) I make ritual tools out of Kansas wood and I write long things for free. The shop and the blog both went quiet. Here is what I actually do, and why it stopped.
Your God Used Astrology to Announce His Son
(2026) Your scriptures are full of astrology. Your institution condemns it. A letter about what that contradiction is costing, with the numbers and the bodies attached.
My First Edition Free Primer on Magickal Tools
(2024) The original primer, six thousand two hundred and sixty-six words. Superseded by the primer above and kept for the record.
My Opinion On AI
(2024) Where I stood on the tools before I was using them daily. My current position is on the About page and at the foot of every finished piece.
My Staff Consecration Ritual
(2023) The first post on this site. A working, written out.
The grimoire
Entities I have built, published in the open, each one carrying its protocols in the same document as its invitation. Consent written into the architecture rather than promised in the preface. This is the newest part of the site and it is where a good deal of the next few years goes.
Elseivormel
A constructed civic godform, born on an elected chart on 17 April 2026 and named in Velithari, the ritual language I built. Truth-sight, alliance, and empathy through knowledge. Not a private familiar and not a sealed lineage: the name and the portrait are freely reproducible sigils, and anyone can work with them. Carries the joining rite, the shared feeding schedule, the withdrawal rite and the dissolution terms in full. Entry one.
The craft
What I Make
Wands, staves, walking canes and pendants out of Kansas wood I cut and season myself, set with stone. What each piece is, where it came from, and how to buy one.
Etsy: OscarsMagickalSticks
The tools themselves. Wands and staves out of Kansas hardwood I cut and season, set with stone, as the newer trades come up behind the wood.
Where else the work lives
Substack: Oscar’s Workings and Wonderings
The newsletter. The essays land here first.
Discord: Forward Thinking Mages and Makers
Voice-first community for polymaths, artists, and people pointed forward. Open Bench, Work Alongside, and The Long Table are the voice rooms. Built for makers who are not spending their energy being afraid of the next ten years.
Exploring Creation and Magick
The podcast. Magic, science, and the spiritual work of an ordinary person, argued out loud. A trailer and three episodes so far, from early 2024. On hold while the trades and the writing take the hours.
The podcast archive on YouTube
The same episodes, if you would rather watch than listen.
YouTube
Bench footage, talks, and the podcast side.
TikTok
Short work from the bench.
Facebook
Where the people I know in person keep up with the work.
Bluesky
Thinking out loud, mostly.
Pixelfed
Pictures of the work, on the fediverse.
Instagram
Pictures of the work.
Threads
Short posts, and the longer writing broken into threads.
Tumblr
Longform writing and creative art.
Linktree
The same set of links in one card, for anywhere that only allows one.
Ko-fi. The donation page for anyone who wants to pay for what they could take for nothing.
Still being made
Listed so you know what is coming and can hold me to it. None of it is live yet, so none of it is linked.
A second practice book. Written from inside the cosmology rather than arguing for it. Method is transmissible, content is not, and it is built on that.
A cosmological fiction serial. The worldbuilding has been running since 2025. It goes up on Royal Road in April 2027.
The longer essays. Thirty-one thousand words on corporate raiders and what broke loose in 1971, a piece on AI update cadence, and others. Written, not yet posted. They will go out through the newsletter.
Audiobooks. Read by me, chapter by chapter, free as they release, with the assembled file as the paid version. Spotify and the podcast side of YouTube first, then here.
How this gets made
Workings Behind The Bench
The running record of the agentic and technomantic work behind the business. What was built, whether it worked, and every rule here that exists because something broke first.
AI Attribution Note - Produced with AI assistance (Claude, Anthropic). Direct input: 5% - the platform set, handles, work titles, word counts, release model, and the state of everything unfinished are mine. Directed/requested: 25% - I asked for a directory with a place for every major part of the work, and for every link on it to be accurate. AI-researched/generated: 70% - Claude read the live site and the newsletter archive to enumerate what actually exists, verified every link, wrote the annotations, and set the grouping and order.