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Well excuse me, science brain

So science brain hasn’t been talking much to me because I’m getting into all this witchy stuff. But look here, science brain, they can totally go together.

Magick as an experiment

Spell didn’t work? Why not? Did you substitute a lot of things? Was your focus all over the place and not consistently on your intent? What else could have gone wrong?

Spell did work? Same types of questions.

Apply also to sigils, forming energy balls, etc. It’s an experiment. All of it.

Keep trying variations. See what works. Repeat the same things. See what works. You can’t do an experiment just once, after all.

Sciencey correspondences

Mineral forms in igneous rocks? Fire correspondence! Sedimentary based mineral or stone? That’s water! Metamorphic stones? Well that’s formed by heat and pressure so…fire again. And energy, so much energy. It’s not easy to change the properties of rocks.

Vibrating energy? Like the vibration of atoms?

Heat, sound, light, are all forms of ‘energy’ in a scientific sense. So of course those things would have power and energy within witchcraft.

Biology time! Plants are considered alive, why wouldn’t they have spirits?

Plants are related (as in the same scientific family classification)? Probably similar correspondences. The Russian sage on the side of the porch isn’t *technically* sage but they’re related. Logical spell substitute.

Keep a journal.

Track your progress.

Your experiments. Failure and success, realizations and confusions, hypothesis, prediction, outcome, repetition.

It is your magick journal lab report notebook.

Remember you can only experience a little. There are so many wavelengths of sound we cannot hear. Visible light is a teeeny tiiiny part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Just because you cannot prove something, does not mean it is incorrect.

The placebo effect being in caused by our own brains doesn’t make it any less of an effect.

Proof I’m not the only one who thinks like this:

“What but how?”

“The science of spellcraft”

Science and magick (an ask)

the fact that the term “science witch” even exists

Don’t forget the experiences you can’t explain. It’s okay to not understand some things. Maybe magick is science we can’t yet explain. And I know science brain has trouble with this, but you don’t have to understand everything, it’s okay if some things don’t make sense.

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I NEED TO LET ALL MY GAY FOLLOWERS ON HERE KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THEMSELVES

sexuality and gender sometimes change

and that isn’t any hippy dippy crunchy granola crap either. that’s fucking science. gender and sexuality aren’t something that can be “pre-programed” as YOU ARE 100% THIS FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY SO HELP YOU GOD (or you know if you don’t believe in that then so help you anything else I guess). but that’s not how the body works. our taste buds change every few years. we shed our skin, literally. we’re made up of bodies that change so frequently that it’s almost impossible to believe that anything can be truly stagnant. and that includes gender and sexuality.

so if you ever begin to question yourself -

you thought you were lesbian but you might be bi

you thought you were aro but you might be ace

you thought you were a girl, but you’re a boy, or maybe you can’t seem to find a gender that fits-

that’s actually okay. and that’s natural. and that’s fucking science. and science is cool as fuck!

so don’t think that you’ve been lying to yourself. please don’t think any less of yourself at all.

these are things that change! you don’t have to embrace it right away. take your time. let yourself explore. no new house was ever loved right away. let yourself put all your bookshelves and comfy chairs in before you really settled down.

you’re valid and you’re loved.

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SCIENCE!

Human Interference Task Force, or Nuclear Semiotics

I was talking with a friend about nuclear waste, its storage and its safety, and we did a bit of googling. Turns out there’s some interesting (and at times, frankly weird) proposals for this already.

The idea behind nuclear semiotics or the HITF is that, with nuclear waste having a very long period of being dangerous to people, how do we communicate to future generations about the dangers of sealed nuclear waste storage sites across tens of thousands of years? Language changes, after all, and symbols also change shape and meaning over time. Humans as a species have only had written language for some 5000 years, give or take some - how do we tell people 10,000 years from now that “behind this enormous vault is extremely dangerous radioactive substances, sealed away forever, please don’t go in or touch anything”, in a way that anyone understands?

To quote the Wikipedia page on the matter, there’s three parts to the message that needs to be conveyed in the first place:

“Three parts of any communication about nuclear waste must be conveyed to posterity:

that it is a message at all

that dangerous material is stored in a given location

information about the type of dangerous substances”

The ISO warning sign about dangerous radiation zone looks like this:

We understand what this means pretty easily today, but when I was talking to my friend about it, I imagined an alternative interpretation from an archaeologist 4000 years from now:

“The symbol at the top is known in some of our oldest texts as the late 20th century symbol for their Sun God, whose rays brought light to the world. The bottom left sign is associated with a slightly earlier time from the 16th century onwards, as a symbol for pirates. Clearly this is a symbol for a prayer, basically that the Sun God will smite pirates and make them flee. Perhaps this area in particular was in danger of pirate raids in those times, or perhaps there is something inside that the builders did not want pirates to take. We should go and investigate.”

There’s some pretty exotic suggestions from very smart people to this solution, with varying likelihoods of success that I’ll leave to your imagination, such as

Forming an Atomic Priesthood to run what amounts to a hierarchical religion with legends and myths about dangerous sites and protection from them

Encoding math-based warnings into the DNA of Atomic Plants that only grow near nuclear waste sites, so future generations can decode it from those

Breeding Radiation Cats (or Ray Cats) that change color when irradiated, and putting this information into songs, art and cultural consciousness across time

Putting up warning signs, and every couple of generations makes new warning signs a bit farther away without removing the old ones so it’s possible to translate through the translations of the translations to get the facts straight

Building storage sites in such a way that only highly technical cultures are able to get into the vaults in the first place, and those cultures ought to already know about radiation so they’ll understand what’s up

I suppose we’ll find out in the near future what they’ll actually come up with, because in 2020s a permanent nuclear waste repository named Onkalo will be built in Finland, the first of its kind in the world. There’s actually a documentary about it, and focusing specifically on the communication aspect of the matter, named Into Eternity, directed by Michael Madsen (no, not that Michael Madsen, I mean the Danish one). I hear it might be on Netflix, so possibly worth checking out if the subject is interesting.

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