Generation Hex

By Jason Louv

If the modern world is crumbling, then magic is what's growing up between the cracks. In Generation Hex , editor Jason Louv assembles a collection of dispatches from the edge - a generation of young... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932857206
• ISBN13: 9781932857207
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Disinformation Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Mmm Content

I sat on that fence. I sat on that fence through the majority of chaos magick, I sat on that fence through feckin' silver ravenwolf's piles of fluffy crap, and slowly became disgusted with the whole business of occulture in general. I loved it, but couldn't find my place in it, couldn't find my belief in it, despite the fact that I did and do have a huge faith and belief in magick. It's so easy to get bogged down by Lewellyn's joke of a publishing company and just figure that magick really is nothing but make believe. It's terribly easy to remember the "witches" in highschool who had their vapid little witchy wars, binding and hexing eachother like they were starring in "The Craft" pretending to be possessed by whichever demon du jour. I tired of it, didn't know what was real and what was fake, and just let it go. I'd come back again, and become disgusted... again. Over and over, and I'm only in my 20s. I picked up this book, because if anyone was going to do it right, Disinfo would. They didn't let me down. No small press books written by snotty prats with bad grammar, no fluffy ish, just experience, and truth. I don't agree with every essay, and didn't *like* EVERY essay, but they all had truth to them in some way. You don't have to like or agree with everyone to take something away from this book. I've found myself within the occult *finally*. I knew it was there somewhere, but the avenues presented to me in the past only lead me to dead ends, presented me with uncertainty in myself and within the validity of the whole experience. This book presented me with everything I needed, tossed my uncertainty out the window and helped me grow in my practice. From Christian Sedman, to Crucio to Louv (whom I've developed a ridiculous girly crush on) there is so much to think about and digest, it just leaves you completely satisfied, like after a really good Thanks giving dinner, all fat and happy.

Possibly the beginning of a shared legacy.

If you read this book, chances are you'll pick up an idea of what Magick is, and how you can apply it to your life. But from my perspective, as a contributor to the project, it's not really a "how to" book. This is instead a snapshot, a cultural tapestry that spotlights what it is to come into awareness outside a commonly accepted domain. In other words, this is what happens when a generation goes "what the f***?" and isn't satisfied by any of the answers provided. So they plumb deeper, and deeper. Magick is simply a system of looking at and working with reality both open and skeptical enough to allow this process to take place. I can't say what the end of this story is, as I said this is a snapshot and it's unclear at this point whether "we" are converging or travelling off in various interesting configurations. However for anyone that is interested in picking up the pen, wand, or guitar to change their world (and through that, THE world), this book is a must read.

blew my mind

if you don't know anything about magic, read this book. if you do know a thing or two, read this book. if the whole idea makes you laugh, or freaks you out, please read this book! i have been around these ideas for awhile but reading this actually was the catalyst that inspired me to pick up this path on my own. i like some essays more than others, but all in all, it is a profound, exciting, beautiful collection, that leaves me feeling very hopeful about this generation.

Wait! It's not about capes and fangs...

I've only ever had a passing interest in Magick with a k, since most of the literature--until now--has seemed esoteric and cliquey. But I guess that the Disinformation Company has made it its mission to make the underground accessible to people like me... Because, from the first few lines of editor Jason Louv's intro, I felt drawn into this world, welcomed and warmed by these adventures. Part bildungsroman, part how-to manual, this book reveals magick's playful and self-actualizing substance. At the risk of sounding pun-ish: I'm charmed...

Amazing Book!

"Generation Hex" embodies elemental fire! In it, Jason Louv shares with us the visceral experience of magick through the lives and stories of modern magickians. He instructs not through dry analytical explanation, but through vital demonstration! Each section being a taste of what magickians have found when they've stepped through the gates of magick. Far from being stylistically isolated, the book presents a number of voices ranging from the Discordian to the Hermetic, yet each voice is profoundly alive! If you feel that your magickal path is lagging, and that you need an inspirational boost, then you need this book!