Hi,
I’m a fan of sigils, and recently I was watching a video where comic artist/author Grant Morrison described how he used his comic, “Invisibles” as a hypersigil. Later on I read more of his comments about it in “Pop Magik”.
The idea looks pretty straighforward, but I’m unclear about how you charge and launch a hypersigil like this. We all know that with regular sigils you use sexual energy, or fear, or exhaustion, etc… But how does it work when the sigil is something like a comic or a novel or a poem, for example? Or do you not have to launch it at all?
I’d be very grateful for any advice you can share on this topic.
Hmn, the BALG go to tutorial just has you charging it and opening it with the magickal gaze, no particular kind of energy. I’s very simple… He just used sigils as an example of something that worked.
This is cool and he’s a good speaker, but I think this isn’t the right video, he doesn’t use the word “hypersigil”… do you have a link to the one you’re thinking of?
So let’s see…
He seems to be using the authoring of the comic, or in fact any writing, as a kind of Law of Attraction.
He told stories about writing and manifesting what he wrote in the comic.
Then he described how to make a regular sigil out of a written phrase or sentence (take out the vowels and repeats)
Then described company logos as sigils (that control us pulling us into the companies’ magickal results)
So in this sense, I think… he’s not saying any old comic book is a sigil… he’s making an analogy between using the creative process for written media as a way to focus your attention and intention on an outcome to get it to manifest which is magic. As an alternative to visualisation then.
You write your own poem or novel to describe the goal you want as if it’s happened already.
To create a hypersigil, you essentially weave the same intent throughout your art, prose, or narrative through intense focus and concentration, usually called “gnosis” in the Chaos paradigm.
Thanks for your help, Mulberry. The video you linked was the one that originally got me interested: the way he describes how he put himself into the comic he was writing and then a lot of it started playing out in his real life. Later I read a 10 page article that I found on pdf, called “Pop Magic”, written by Grant Morrison, where hyper sigils are mentioned. He says his comic “The Invisibles” was a six-year long sigil in the form of an occult adventure story which “consumed and recreated” his life over that time. He described it as an “immensely powerful and sometimes dangerous method of altering reality in accordance with intent”.
Yes, come to think of it, I’ve had a few similar experiences too. Not just about ideal people, but about other situations as well. I once wrote a few articles about some project that a friend of mine was involved with. Later on, I noticed that what I wrote started playing out in my real life.
I don’t do the LOA thing so I had to look it up, but based on this description, I think so yes.
There’s an extra piece in here that’s interesting: without clearing blockages first, “scripting is just words on paper”. This makes sense to me.
I would say it also has to comply with the laws of the universe, which is why superman didn’t show up yet. But it does kinda feeds into the chicken and egg question about Star Trek communicators and voice responsive computers.
