How to be more lucky
A Practical Field Manual
Luck is the pooling of energy under the constructive power of consciousness; a momentary breach in the dualistic perception of life. Experiencing luck signifies a shift from a reality of is not to a reality of is, through repeated negation of the properties of crude matter and its transformation to the idealized state.
Last week, I reread Liber Null. In case you’re not aware of this manual, it served as the promulgation of what’s known today as “Chaos Magick”.
Peter Carol’s goals were ambitious, to say the least. He attempted to transform skepticism into a belief. Spirituality into a technology. While many of the ideas and applications in the book are outright childish, he articulated the post-modern idea of God and the divine, through a foray into Jungian psychology and modern Hermetic philosophy.
He stripped away the cultural framework and outlined the mechanics of ritual, worship, and thaumaturgy.
His writing found fertile soil in the early 2000s internet subcultures. The idea of egregores and psychological intelligences present the perfect explanation of what we once thought of as separate entities. A fitting paradigm for the rational uber alles world that was slowly forming online.
But he was overoptimistic in the way his work would be interpreted.
These ideas made sense during that era but crumble when they stand against our current understanding of history and religion. They’re simply… incomplete. And in many cases, infected by the late 20th-century influence of Theosophy, which made Liber Null a post-performative praxeology.
Yet, the training exercises that are outlined found footing in my own conclusions about Fortune, and how certain pathways of it are malleable. But I wanted to take things a step further and remove that particular philosophy from the shadow of the occult.
This post is a collection of exercises, ideas, and mental frameworks that try to leverage Chaos and the realm of possibility.
The Metabolic Properties of Luck
If we think of disease or the non-ideal state of the body as the return to the protozoic gloop of cells, we could then think of a healthy body as a highly differentiated cluster of cells, each one serving a very specific and unique function that spirals the organism towards higher energy.
This constant energetic proliferation produces an anti-entropic structure that can readily interpret reality and the environment per the conditions it chooses, consuming and producing information faster and much more accurately, according to your will.
Luck is to align your will with the natural emergent possibilities of physical reality, which can then be realized by your decisions, both conscious and unconscious.
So, there are two conclusions, and they represent the two fundamental principles of luck:
#1 Luck is High Energy
A high metabolism allows you to view reality accurately and to think about each subject any way you like.
It’s imperative to be as objective as possible in your assessment of reality. But once you’re able to do that, you can bend, twist, and mould the abstract layer of it however you see fit, without interference from the background noise of unfiltered perception.
At the same time, you can accommodate the potential necessities of unrealized events freely without sacrificing the integrity of your mental health. In practical terms, this means that you need high energy to sustain that shift in perception and the chaotic emergence of new contexts at any given moment.
(Caveat: Perhaps nothing in this post will make sense until you experience the feeling of euphoria and unlimited potential high metabolism provides. I’m writing a different article for raising biological energy which I’ll link here once it’s done)
#2 Luck is making more meaningful coincidences happen
I said unrealized events because all is happening and nothing is. At least not until your unconscious becomes aware of itself and realigns with the individual consciousness — this is what people call synchronicity.
A meaningful coincidence is merely your focus lighting up what sits in the recesses of your unconscious. Your peripheral perception scans the environment for the signs you need to see, signs that are meaningful in that they validate what you’re willing to do.
Making more decisions faster is perhaps a fastlane to experiencing more synchronicities.
But that also means taking more risks. Nothing is given without a Promethean Ritual.
Liquid Luck
Now, to the training.
The arbitrary energy you’re summoning remains unstable even when it’s seemingly stable. You cannot invite any sort of influence over your life unless you momentarily give up control.
Of course, the karmic forces that weave our lives cannot be escaped but the force itself can be sped up, transmuted, and redirected.
#3 Luck is Shifting Contexts
Both moral and physical contexts. It can be as easy as indulging yourself in different kinds of music or cultures. Or assuming the morality of your enemies. Concepts you aren’t interested in at all or disagree completely.
But we aren’t talking about an intellectual acceptance of “what is like”. There’s a visceral feeling, quite subtle, that you must grasp. It’s more about “becoming” than anything else.
A simple exercise is to smell the sea when you’re up in the mountains. Or to believe it’s a summer night during a winter morning. There’s a distinct vibe summer has. Almost intangible. And your goal is to align your awareness with the energetic imprint of summer within you.
It’s almost impossible to do it the first time but once you accomplish it once, it becomes much easier.
A trick you can do is to transfer your awareness to a past memory and submerge yourself in the sensorial inputs. The warmth, the light, the smells. That should open you up to experience the experience.
The exercise will serve you well when it’s time to believe your own bullshit.
#4 Luck is Self-Hypnosis
Abundance mindset, law of attraction, the power of self-affirmation. Most of it is New Age spiel. A message that was lost in translation.
But the sentiment itself is valid. Even though you won’t become a millionaire if you think about it real hard, by repeated, mesmerizing exposure to the conditions that’ll allow you to increase your earning potential will effectively restructure your thinking patterns in a way that will alter your perception of reality.
Notice how it’s quite different to stand in front of a mirror and repeat “I’m rich” versus constantly shifting your focus towards a cluster of specific ideas that will saturate your consciousness with the constant flow of the energy (information) you want in your psyche. Self-hypnosis.
A practical way to achieve this is very simple. And most of us are already doing it naturally: Fill your environment with the symbols, images, texts, sounds that are connected to the desired nexus.
Of course, something is missing. Hypnosis implies that you must go under…
#5 Luck is Stillness of Mind
Lots of bullshit around the mythical vacancy of the mind. You cannot silence your mind indefinitely.
What you can do is elongate the empty space between each thought, allowing you, at that moment, to direct your full being into a single idea. You cannot redirect luck when the background noise is too loud. Your focus will be spread thin, and you’ll risk shooting your shot at the wrong target.
There are two ways to accomplish this: Meditation, Physical and Mental exhaustion.
Not all meditation techniques are created equal. My default recommendation is Aro meditation since it’s a free and complete system.
Physical exhaustion means exactly what it sounds like. You become so tired, a sense of relief and lightness overcomes you when you finally succumb to it. The Horse Stance or a HIIT workout are good options.
There are many more ways to go about it. From sexual exaltation to physical pain and terror. But they aren’t really sustainable, plus they don’t teach you the valuable lessons the above will.
#6 Luck is Visualization
Again, plenty of silly talk about visualization. The real purpose of “shape rotation” is to refine your thoughts so emotions can energize them.
There are two kinds of visualization:
Eyes open
Eyes closed
You either “imagine” something in your head or you overlay it over reality.
Naturally, three different exercises will help.
1. This is preliminary and it has to do with breaking down reality into geometrical shapes. For example, an apple is a circle and an ellipse connected vertically in 3D space. Fixating your gaze to an object for 20+ minutes, without your mind wandering, should provide enough data to be able to replicate it by will. A similar process should be followed for the rest of the senses.
2. Once you’re comfortable with the above, start with a simple object. A sphere. Without eyes closed, visualize it in FRONT of you. Pick a unique detail and use it as an anchor. Slowly add the other sense. How does it feel? How does it smell or sound if you’d drop it?
3. Now, repeat that with your eyes open. If it’s too difficult, having the same object in front of you and “cloning” its image right next to it should help.
In the end, you’ll be able to rotate the object, change its colors, cut it open and sew it back together. Taste it, hear it, throw it away.
The goal is to be able to immerse yourself in a real-life scenario and relive it as close as possible and eventually, using what you’ve learned above, shift contexts and infuse the situation with new emotions.
(Jung developed a technique called “active imagination” where he was able to relive and develop events from his memories and dreams. It operates in the same way)
#7 Luck is Changing Behavior
There’s a fascinating second-order effect from raising your metabolism — which is why I said it’s an important step in this process:
Routines and habits dissolve in the sea of Chaos.
Instead of rigidity blocking your path, you get a panoptic view of the map with all of the different alleys, bends, and twists. This is something that happens unintentionally; you go where the energy goes, with short bursts of creativity and desire following you.
But you can speed this up a bit by intentionally cutting down random habits you do subconsciously, thus emptying the space for new possibilities.
Eating with your left hand if you’re right-handed, brushing your teeth with one leg up, calling someone by a different name. Weird? Yes. That’s what you want.
This is also about novelty. Feeling lucky raises dopamine, which registers what you do as a success. Novelty also raises dopamine that you can then transubstantiate into feeling lucky.
Try that disgusting food item. Try watching a movie you’d never pick out. Try learning about a subject that bores you. Tread the line between detachment and desire.
The last method has to do with retroactively directing the cause of the effect back to your conscious will. It’s simple:
You’re about to drink a glass of water. Say “I will drink this glass of water” and proceed to do it. Slowly raise the stakes. Every morning, make a prediction about the weather. Or, that you’ll find a specific parking spot. You’ll be surprised by the results.
#8 Luck is Setting Firm Boundaries
Playing with the unpredictability of Chaos means that you’ll expose yourself to uninvited forces. Practically ALL religions believe in the practice of casting circles. To ground this in reality, it’s about having emotional sovereignty; maintaining your frame.
You do not want to get lost in other people’s identity, ideology, world, framework. You want to maintain your consciousness, yet travel around the world.
#9 Luck is Respecting the Duality of Nature
Mindless positivity is anathema. You cannot feel joy without indulging in melancholy and sadness. You cannot feel excited without getting bored.
It’s imperative to not shy away from the negative experiences life has to offer. This isn’t about magically insulating yourself from the shitstorm.
Duality also gives you the opportunity to transform emotions into pure energy using the alchemical quality of anger and laughter. The two emotional solvents.
Sigilisation
Ah, I think everyone who’s even peripherally aware of Liber Null has heard the term “sigil”.
The word itself is a misnomer. It was first developed as a technique by Austin Osman Spare who borrowed the concept from medieval grimoires and shamanic talismans, altering it into a medium of communication with the subconscious.
The obfuscation and edginess surrounding sigils are unfortunate. In reality, everyone is casting sigils but perhaps not intelligently. Every time you buy an item that looks cool or when you pick certain clothes or you write a tweet you’re effectively channeling the desires of your subconscious.
Sigilisation inverts this process, directing the desire of the conscious to the subconscious.
It’s difficult to achieve without employing technology because our language isn’t accurately translated. You need symbols, images, and emotions.
Sigils become mercurial mediums of ciphered information.
They pierce through the invisible wall separating conscious and subconscious, speaking in the language of symbols and images. We create a psychosphere that influences the course of events by realigning our subconscious choices and actions.
The only reason I’m writing this section is that I expect people to ask about it. But I won’t get into the practical details because it’ll dilute the purpose of this post.
Just know that everything up until this point can be used to charge the vortex that contains the structure you want to energize.
How much of this is “occult”?
It is not occult because you’re literally reading this. It’s not “hidden”. And it’s not “magic(k)” in the traditional sense of the word.
In order to understand this properly, let’s use the concept of karma during the course of one life.
(Leaving aside the metaphysical implications for a moment)
The idea of karma has to do with our inability to process Laplace’s demon practically; we don’t know the precise way an event occurs, we can only observe the cause and the effect, A→B
So, if I punch someone in the face and I go to jail… was it karma? Yes, it definitely was! But it’s also a natural consequence of my actions. In this case, it’s straightforward but when we add layers of separation between action and result, we can’t always track down the series of events that lead to the result.
If you end up being a teacher, was it Fortune or Karma? Yes. The process started when you were a little kid and you were exposed to an environment that fostered the qualities that pushed you towards this occupation. You just can’t know exactly, down to a T, how you ended up in that classroom.
Accepting the Mundanity of Life
Life, for the most part, feels normal until it doesn’t. When weird things happen, through sheer power of will, they don’t feel that weird after the first few times.
That’s the mundanity of life; everything will return to normal. You still need a job, you still need to cultivate healthy relationships, you’ll feel sad and annoyed. This is what’ll ground you to reality and it’s the most beautiful thing.
There are two kinds of people: those who are inclined to believe in the supernatural/metaphysical. And those who reject it a priori.
Both have a common blindspot; they don’t do their due diligence.
I hope that this post will bridge the gap between the two.
What I’ve outlined here either works or it doesn’t.
#10 Luck is (time x outcome) x frequency of failure.
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