What's the point of magic? The Wizard finally answers this timeless question with an imminently practical, unbelievably powerful, and ludicrously simple hands-on magical ritual that you can do at home! As the Wizard lays out the steps required to put theory into practice, you'll find yourself manifesting a "slightly better" reality and connecting with the point of magic like never before. This ritual will change your life... if you let it!

For more on the ideas explored in this episode, check out our previous episodes What's the Point? (theory) and The Invocation.

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After 7 years and hundreds of episodes, the Wizard finally gets to the point and lays out his "metaphysics of magic," a theory of everything that not only explains all of existence (at last!), but creates an intellectual foundation for the practice of magic and wizardry, which will be revealed next episode in our imminently practical follow up, What's the Point? (practice).

For more on the ideas explored in this episode, check out our previous episodes The Invocation and What is an LLM?

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The secret power of any holiday tradition is repetition. Endless re-runs of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas or A Charlie Brown Christmas are what engraved them into the cultural consciousness as "classics." So, in a similar spirit, we're re-releasing this very special seasonal ceremony to make your holy days a little more meta and a bit more magical.

Is Santa Claus a wizard? What is the true meaning of Christmas? Did you get me any presents? All of these classic Christmas questions are at long last answered in this very special Meta Modern Xmas Special!

Originally released December 25, 2023

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In this special bonus follow up to The Invocation, the wizard pulls back the curtain and reveals his sources, discussing all of the books, movies, artists, and ideas that inspired this most recent piece of magic. But this is just a preview of that episode, so for the real thing you'll need to check out the Patreon!

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This Podcast is a Ritual began 7 years ago with an Opening Ceremony. Now the true purpose of this ritual is revealed in... The Invocation! Tune in to this episode's magical frequency to better understand the struggles of this Age of Anxiety and how wizardry just might help us find our way to a "slightly better" future.

Recorded live at MaybeItsFate (Louisville, KY) on November 30, 2025.

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Magic is one of the most confusing, confounding, and captivating words in our culture. Every human society works with magic in some way, but what it is exactly is still up for considerable debate. In this preview, the Wizard offers a glimpse into the unique conception of magic that animates this podcast and points the way towards the deeper definitions explored in the full bonus episode on Patreon.

Listen to What is Magic?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144467404

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Large Language Models, or LLMs, are infiltrating every facet of our society, but do we even understand what they are? In this fascinating deep dive into the intersection of technology, language, and consciousness, the Wizard offers a few new ways of perceiving these revolutionary—and worrying—systems.

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The Invocation pulls from the past to foresee a "slightly better" future. As November 30th, 2025 draws nearer, we take one more look back to see This Prophecy is a Ritual, an episode exploring where AI might really be leading us...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

As A.I. infiltrates our reality at an alarming pace, one wizard attempts to give voice to his concerns and conceptions about where this all might be leading in this playful experiment in extemporaneous prophecy...

Originally released June 19, 2023

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Meta-tation is a new practice of imaginative expansion, using one's own natural curiosity to see the present moment from a wider perspective and open up new pathways to a "slightly better" reality. While traditional meditation often takes us "in" to the present moment, trying to experience it without mental chatter, meta-tation leads us "out" of the present moment, far beyond mental chatter and daily frustrations to contemplate a bigger, weirder view of reality.

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Artist, occultist, and psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair joins the ritual for another probing exploration of the strange and symbolic realms of psychoanalysis itself as we move beyond Freud and discuss the other thinkers who mapped our collective unconscious.

Learn more about the RU Center for Psychoanalysis at: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/

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