So being at home sick, I've been watching a lot of TV in between doctor's visits.
I watched a bit of
DisinfoCon on dvd and found a lot of it to be full of pompous "intelectual sophisticate" bullshit (gawd Richard Metzger may have his finger on the pulse of the nifty, but he's such a douche!) but I really enjoyed Grant Morrison's talk about magick and sigils.
Here's his summation of magick:
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And a brief tutorial on how to create the easiest magick, the
sigil:
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they work.