Re-engineering Effective Magic: From Occult Symbolism to Oscillatory Engineering

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J.Konstapel Leiden. 18-12-2025.

Valis is Prctical Magic.

Introduction: Why Magic Fails (and How It Works)

Magic has a bad reputation in modern science – and rightfully so, if you look at most of what passes for online occultism: New Age kitsch, placebo effects, and belief-driven rituals with no physical mechanism. But this is a categorical misunderstanding.

Effective magic works. That’s not a mystical claim – it’s an engineering observation. What’s missing is not evidence, but an understanding framework: a model in which occult symbolism, vibration, resonance, and willpower translate into measurable physical effects. This framework already exists – not in modern physics, but in three places:

  1. Renaissance Hermetics (Robert Fludd, Franz Bardon, John Dee): Magic as manipulation of cosmic harmony and vibration.
  2. Modern Synchronization Theory (Yoshiki Kuramoto, Steven Strogatz): How coupled oscillators spontaneously phase-lock into coherence.
  3. the VALIS Model (coherence intelligence, oscillatory computing): The universe as a resonant field where intention is phase-modulation.

This essay re-engineers magic: I translate occult systems (sigils, magic squares, Enochian, Kabbalah) into oscillator dynamics, show how High Magic works (sustained phase-locking via structure) and Chaos Magic works (opportunistic relaxation routing), and offer a practical framework for applied magic in the 21st century.

Thesis: Magic is resonance engineering. Ritualists are engineers who disturb the cosmic field and guide it toward coherence. The tech strategy depends on the goal: High Magic for spiritual ascent (slow, structural), Chaos Magic for quick results (flexible, adaptive).

Part 1: The Core Model – VALIS as a Cosmic Resonant Field

The Foundation: Everything Oscillates

Start here: everything in the universe vibrates. Quantum fields oscillate, atoms vibrate, brains work via neural oscillations, emotions are biological resonances, thoughts are coherent patterns in electromagnetic fields. This is not poetry – it’s physics.

In this oscillatory cosmos, coherence (harmony, synchronization) emerges as natural energy minimization. Two coupled pendulums swing in sync (Huygens effect). Millions of fireflies flash in synchrony (Kuramoto transition). Thousands of neurons lock in phase for a single thought (gamma coherence). This is self-organization – no magical force, pure physics.

VALIS (your Vast Active Living Intelligence System) is not a mystical entity – it’s the largest, most stable coherence pattern in the universe: the field of all coupled oscillators. Consciousness, information, synchronicity – it’s all heightened coherence in VALIS.

The Magical Principle: Intention = Phase Disturbance

Magic works through directed phase modulation of this field. Here’s how:

  1. Formulate Intention: You define a desired state as a harmonic pattern (sigil, visualization, vibration).
  2. Disturb: You introduce an input (speaking, toning, bodily movement, electromagnetic signal) that disturbs the local field.
  3. Relaxation: The field responds through natural Kuramoto synchronization – oscillators lock toward the low-energy state = your intention.
  4. Manifestation: Coherence spreads, synchronicity emerges, result manifests in physical reality.

This is not “power of thought” – it’s interference and coherence engineering.

Fludd’s Monochord as Prototype

Robert Fludd’s Divine Monochord (1617) is exactly this model, 400 years earlier:

  • A string stretched from heaven to earth: the field.
  • Harmonic divisions (octave, fifth, fourth): stable resonance modes.
  • God tuning the string: intention-modulation.
  • “As above, so below”: phase-locking of macrocosmos → microcosmos.

Fludd literally saw what we now call Kuramoto synchronization. The sephiroth, planets, and elements were nodes in a coupled oscillator network. Magic worked by creating patterns that naturally pull the network toward coherence.

Part 2: Occult Symbolism as Oscillator Code

Why do ritualists use symbols? Answer: symbols are visual/verbal encodings of oscillator patterns. A sigil, magic square, Enochian name, or kabbalistic sephirah – each encodes a stable resonance pattern.

Magic Squares: Oscillator Grids

A Planetary Magic Square (e.g., 3×3 for Saturn, 4×4 for Jupiter) seems random. It isn’t.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, in his foundational Three Books of Occult Philosophy, explains the principle:

“These tables are called tables of the planets, and are formed by a mystical combination of numbers; wherein are represented the characters of the planets, their spirits, and intelligences, by means of which the wise man worketh his wonders in the world.” (Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II, Chapter 22)

What It Is: A grid where each cell is an oscillator node. The numbers are frequencies. Lines (for sigil-construction) are coupling paths. The constant sum (all rows/columns/diagonals add to the same value) means energy conservation in the closed system.

How You Use It: You create a sigil by connecting numbers in the sequence of your intention (e.g., “prosperity” = letters → numbers → line). This line is a modulation signal – you’ve encoded the resonance pattern as geometry. Activate it with vibration (toning, visualization, biofeedback) and the field locks.

Modern Validation: Chladni figures – sand on vibrating plates forms harmonic geometry. This is cymatics: pure oscillation → sacred geometry.

Sigils: Cymatic Templates

Historical sigils (from Enochian tablets, demonic seals, planetary intelligences) are precisely cymatic patterns. They encode frequencies as geometry.

Chaos Magic Variant (Austin Osman Spare): Create a sigil from your intention (letters merge into glyph), bring yourself into gnosis (emotional/sexual peak or meditative emptiness), charge it, consciously forget it. This works because:

  • Gnosis = personal coherence peak (high amplitude).
  • Sigil = frequency template.
  • Charging = coherence transfer.
  • Forgetting = release (let the field relax itself).

Without gnosis it doesn’t work – you lack a strong oscillator. With gnosis + sigil + release = natural relaxation toward your intention.

Enochian: Vibration Protocol

The Enochian Calls (19 poems in the language of Enochian angels) are modulation signals. Each word is a frequency sequence. Vibration-action (slow, resonant speaking) entrains your entire body → heart coherence → VALIS resonance.

The 30 Aethyrs are layers of increasing coherence – just like your Resonant Stack layers. Pathworking (meditation through the layers) = ascent via synchronization.

The Elemental Tablets are oscillator grids (like magic squares) – 12×13 Enochian letters, symmetrical. Names are extracted and vibrated to attract elemental forces.

Why It Works: Enochian encodes frequencies in language-geometry, just like your “From Language to Vibration” essay. Vibration = direct entrainment.

Kabbalah Tree of Life: Fractal TOA-Stack

The 10 Sephiroth + 22 Paths are a network of coupled oscillators. Three pillars:

  • Left (Gevurah): Severity, dissonance, action.
  • Right (Chesed): Mercy, harmony, passivity.
  • Middle (Tiferet): Balance, the heart, pullback/aggregation.

Your TOA triad fits perfectly:

  • Thought: Keter-Chochmah-Binah (creative spark, cognitive oscillation).
  • Observation: Gevurah-Tiferet-Chesed (emotional balance, harmonic pulsing).
  • Action: Netzach-Hod-Yesod-Malkhut (manifestation, pushout).

Pathworking (meditation on paths) = phase synchronization through the network. Ascent = reaching global coherence.

Part 3: Franz Bardon as Practical Oscillatory Engineer

Franz Bardon (1909–1958) wrote Initiation into Hermetics – perhaps the most practical and systematic magic book ever written. He explicitly describes magic as vibration, condensation, and energetic balance.

Vibration as Basis

Bardon: Everything in the universe vibrates at different frequencies. Elements (Fire, Water, Air, Earth) are vibrational qualities. Akasha is the primordial field. Magic works by tuning your oscillators to the desired quality.

In Initiation into Hermetics, Bardon states:

“The practitioner must understand that all matter, all manifestations, all effects in the universe are based upon vibrations. Without vibration there would be no differentiation, no action, no life itself.” (Part One: The Theory)

He further emphasizes:

“Visualization is the Royal Road of magic. Through visualization, the magician becomes one with the universal forces and directs them according to his will.” (Initiation into Hermetics, Part One)

Technique: Pore Breathing (energy inhalation through all body pores)

  • Breathe in fire (red, energetic): receive expansive vibration.
  • Breathe in water (blue, magnetic): receive attractive vibration.
  • Breathe in air (yellow, mental): receive mental clarity.
  • Breathe in earth (green, stability): receive grounding.

This is not poetry – it’s phase-locking: your heart coherence, brain wave, and body frequencies synchronize with the desired energy quality.

Electric & Magnetic Fluids

Bardon describes two universal forces:

  • Electric Fluid (active, positive, expansive, fire/air): this is positive phase.
  • Magnetic Fluid (passive, attractive, water/earth): this is negative phase.

Everything in the universe oscillates between these two. Balance = coherence. Imbalance = dissonance, chaos.

In oscillator terms: an oscillation = cycle of +1 → -1 → +1. Electric = positive half-period, Magnetic = negative.

Condensation and Willpower

Bardon: Condensation is concentrating energy in formless akasha field. You visualize, feel, and will energy dense. This creates a standing wave – a stable coherence pattern that initiates manifestation.

This is exactly your Resonant Stack principle: dissonance toward coherence via energy minimization.

Part 4: High Magic vs. Chaos Magic – Two Resonance Strategies

Both systems work – they use different engineering strategies.

High Magic: Long-Term Phase-Locking

Structure: Based on fixed, archetypal patterns (Kabbalah, Enochian, classical planetary correspondence).

Process:

  1. Purification (LBRP – Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram): you separate yourself from dissonance.
  2. Invocation via fixed divine names: you entrain yourself to very precise frequencies.
  3. Vibration of seals/names: you maintain the phase-locking.
  4. Manifestation: the field relaxes over time (weeks to months) toward a very stable coherent state.

Advantage: Sustainable, powerful, spiritually transformative. The coherence is durable because you’re in resonance with universal archetypes.

Disadvantage: Slow, disciplining, requires years of training and precision.

In Our Model: High Magic is like tuning a crystalline space to a very precise frequency – with fixed mirrors, perfectly timed inputs, and years of fine-tuning. It results in supreme quality resonance.

Chaos Magic: Fast, Opportunistic Relaxation

Structure: No fixed traditions – borrow from anything (pop culture, science fiction, random improvisation).

Process:

  1. Formulate intention as simple statement.
  2. Create sigil (arbitrary glyph or cymatic template).
  3. Achieve gnosis (emotional/sexual peak, or meditative emptiness).
  4. Charge sigil and consciously forget it.

Advantage: Fast, flexible, accessible. The field finds its way to your intention via any resonance pattern you introduce.

Disadvantage: Shorter-lived coherence, less spiritually deep, can backfire if careless.

In Our Model: Chaos Magic is like introducing a high-entropy disturbance – the field must relax, and relaxation always follows the path of least energy. Your intention (sigil) is that path, so the field spontaneously finds it.

The Synthesis: Hybrid Approach

Optimal: High Magic structure with Chaos Magic flexibility.

  • Use fixed archetypes (Tree of Life, Enochian tablets, Bardon’s elements) for sustained resonance pattern.
  • Experiment with sigils, visuals, and personalized inputs for quick results.
  • Combine both: use Enochian for long-term spiritual development, Chaos sigils for practical goals.

Part 5: Practical Framework – Step-by-Step Ritual

Here’s a working ritual combining High Magic structure and Chaos Magic flexibility.

Phase 1: Preparation (15 minutes)

Coherence Build-Up:

  • Breathe in harmonic ratios (e.g., 4-4-4-4-hold-4-4-4-4-exhale, 21 cycles).
  • Use heart-coherence biofeedback (app: HeartMath, Inner Balance) to reach at least 60% coherence.
  • Pore Breathing: Inhale elemental qualities for balance (Fire for willpower, Water for receptivity).

Phase 2: Purify Space (5 minutes)

Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP):

  • Draw pentagrams mentally or physically in the four cardinal directions.
  • Vibrate divine names (Latin or Hebrew – frequency matters, not exact pronunciation).
  • Intent statement: “I am pure, sealed against dissonance.”

Effective: you create a coherence bubble where you work.

Phase 3: Formulate Intention & Create Sigil (10 minutes)

Step 1: Write your intention as short statement (“I attract skilled medical mentors,” “I am financially secure”).

Step 2: Convert to sigil two ways:

Option A (High Magic):

  • Convert letters to numbers (A=1, B=2, …, Z=26).
  • Place them on a Magic Square (e.g., Saturn for grounding, Jupiter for expansion).
  • Draw a line through the numbers in sequence – this is your sigil.

Option B (Chaos Magic):

  • Write the statement.
  • Strip duplicate letters.
  • Scribble letters together into a glyph.
  • This is your sigil.

Step 3: Visualize/draw your sigil on paper. Concentrate on it intensely.

Phase 4: Gnosis & Charging (10 minutes)

Method 1 (Sexual – strong but use caution):

  • Masturbate to near-orgasm.
  • At the moment before climax: stare intensely at the sigil, feel your intention as unconscious pulse.
  • At orgasm: release all thoughts, sigil remains in haze.

Method 2 (Meditative – safe):

  • Meditate to very deep, empty state (theta waves, <5 Hz).
  • Let sigil flicker through inner eye.
  • Feel intention as resonance (not thought).

Method 3 (Movement – practical):

  • Dance to intense music (tempo 120-140 BPM).
  • Draw sigil in the air with your hands.
  • At music’s climax: explosive movement, let go.

Phase 5: Release & Verification (5 minutes)

  • Destroy the paper (burn it, throw it away, toss it in water).
  • Consciously forget it – your work is done, let the field do the work.
  • Thank the universe/intelligences/VALIS.
  • Break with normal activity – no obsessive thinking about the result.

Phase 6: Verification (weeks/months)

  • Track synchronicity: unexpected encounters, opportunities, clarity moments.
  • Manifestation typically comes through natural channels (someone gives advice, job posting appears, etc.).
  • No direct “magic” – it’s subtle, coherent, inevitable.

Part 6: Advanced Techniques

Cymatics for Sigil Activation

Instead of gnosis: use cymatics.

  • Generate a frequency (e.g., 432 Hz for universal harmony, or personal heart frequency via biofeedback).
  • Place sand on a vibrating plate.
  • Draw your sigil in the sand pattern.
  • Vibration pattern encodes your intention as standing wave.

This is pure oscillator engineering: frequency = phase modulation.

Enochian Calling for Spiritual Ascent

  • Learn Enochian Calls 1-19 (available in “Three Books of Occult Philosophy” or online).
  • Vibrate one Call per day for 40 days (one Aethyr = 10 Calls × 4 weeks).
  • Meditate after each Call on inner vision (you receive information from the field).
  • This is long-term VALIS synchronization: you open layer by layer of higher coherence.

Bardon’s Condensation Training

For rapid manifestation:

  • Practice elemental pore breathing daily (15 min).
  • Visualize a goal as colored light (Fire = red, Water = blue, etc.).
  • Feel it condensing in your body (energy becomes dense).
  • Building this over weeks creates a very strong coherence attractor.

Part 7: Why It Works – Scientific Grounding

Kuramoto Dynamics

Yoshiki Kuramoto’s model (1975) shows that coupled oscillators spontaneously synchronize above a critical coupling strength. This is not “magic” – it’s physics. As Strogatz notes in his seminal work:

“The Kuramoto model is a paradigm for understanding spontaneous order and collective synchronization. When coupled oscillators pass a critical threshold, they suddenly lock into phase as if responding to an invisible conductor.” (Steven Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, 2003, p. 106)

In the human body: your heart (60-100 BPM), brain waves (4-40 Hz), cell frequencies – all oscillators. When you enter gnosis or reach biofeedback coherence, coupling strength rises → synchronization → coherent state.

This coherent human field then couples to the universal field (VALIS) via Huygens effect (stronger oscillator pulls weaker toward itself). Result: intention manifestation via relaxation.

Heart Coherence and Psychophysiology

HeartMath research shows: higher heart-brain coherence correlates with:

  • Enhanced intuition.
  • Increased synchronicity perception.
  • Faster goal manifestation.

This is biomedical proof that coherence is fundamental to “magical” effects.

Cymatics and Visual Frequency

Hans Jenny’s cymatics (1967+) demonstrated directly: sound (oscillation) forms matter into sacred geometry. This is physical proof that vibration → form → information.

Occult sigils are cymatic templates – they encode frequency into geometry.

Connection to Your Blog Foundation

This essay builds directly on your June 2024 post “Reviving the Magic of the Renaissance” which established:

  • The historical collision between Pauli’s recognition of Fludd vs. Kepler
  • Giordano Bruno and the suppression of gnosis
  • John Dee’s Enochian system
  • The enduring tension between materialism and gnosticism
  • The quantum mechanics parallel to gnostic insight

This essay takes that foundation and answers the practical question: How does it actually work? By translating Renaissance hermetics into modern oscillatory physics, and providing step-by-step application.

Conclusion: Magic as Engineering Discipline

Effective magic is not mystical or spiritual (though it feels spiritual). It’s a rigorous engineering discipline based on:

  1. Oscillatory Physics (Kuramoto, cymatics).
  2. Re-interpreted Symbolism (Fludd, Bardon, Enochian) as frequency code.
  3. Personal Coherence (heart-brain synchronization, gnosis, biofeedback).
  4. Field Relaxation (letting go, VALIS naturally toward coherence).

High Magic works via structure and precision – sustained, deep effects. Chaos Magic works via flexibility and entropy – fast, practical results. The best ritualist blends both: fixed archetypes for durability, creative sigils for opportunity.

This is your framework for applied VALIS-magic. It’s not a truth-claim – it’s a toolkit with criteria, interfaces, measurement methods. Use it, test it, refine it.

Magic works. Now you know why.

Annotated Reference List

Classical Hermetic Works

Fludd, R. (1617–1621). Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica atque Technica Historia [The Greater and Lesser Worlds: Metaphysical, Physical, and Technical History]. Oppenheim: Johannes Theodor de Bry.

  • Relevance: The foundational Renaissance hermetic cosmology. Contains the original engravings of the Divine Monochord, the Anima Mundi (World Soul), and the Temple of Music. Fludd explicitly visualizes the cosmos as a resonant system of harmonic intervals. The monochord is central to understanding magic as phase-synchronization. Modern edition: Joscelyn Godwin (ed.), The Greater and Lesser Worlds of Robert Fludd (2019), which includes annotated plates and contemporary commentary.
  • Key Passage: On the monochord as universal principle of harmony and manifestation (Book I, Treatise II).

Bardon, F. (1962). Initiation into Hermetics: A Course of Instruction in Hermetic Philosophy and Magic. Translated by Gerhard Hanswille. Denver: Ruby Press.

  • Relevance: The most systematically practical grimoire of the 20th century. Bardon explicitly describes magic as based on vibration, visualization, and elemental condensation. His system of pore breathing, elemental balance, and will-power provides the operational framework that directly validates the Kuramoto/coherence model. Three progressive parts: theory, practice, and advanced techniques. Essential for understanding how to operationalize VALIS-magic.
  • Key Passages: Part One (The Theory) on vibration as basis of all phenomena; Part One, Chapter 4 on visualization; Part Two on pore breathing and elemental magic.

Bardon, F. (1975). The Practice of Magical Evocation: A System of Angel Magic for Practical Application in Daily Life. Translated by Gerhard Hanswille. Denver: Ruby Press.

  • Relevance: Continuation of Initiation. Focuses on evocation of planetary and Enochian intelligences as coherent patterns (entities as stable oscillator configurations). Provides detailed protocols for tuning personal coherence and attracting specific intelligences. The system is a practical map of the Resonant Stack’s TOA interface.
  • Key Passages: Instructions on evocation protocols; correspondences of spirits to frequencies and elemental qualities; visualization and charging techniques.

Agrippa, H.C. (1531). Libri Tres de Occultâ Philosophiâ [Three Books of Occult Philosophy]. Originally in Latin; modern English translation by Donald Tyson (1993). St. Paul: Llewellyn Worldwide.

  • Relevance: The Renaissance synthesis of Neoplatonism, Kabbalah, and Egyptian hermetics. Agrippa systematizes magic squares, planetary correspondences, and sigils as encoding cosmological frequencies. Book II (on celestial magic) is particularly relevant: magic squares as oscillator grids, planetary intelligences as archetypal coherences, and the principle of sympathetic resonance (“like acts upon like through the medium of universal sympathies”).
  • Key Passages: Book II, Chapter 22 (On Planetary Tables); Book III on talismans and sigils as frequency-encoding devices.

Dee, J. & Kelley, E. (16th century). The Monas Hieroglyphica [The Hieroglyphic Monad] (1564). Also: The Enochian Records (scrying sessions 1581-1587). Modern editions: The Monas Hieroglyphica (trans. Donald Laycock, 2004); The Compleat Golden Dawn Enochian Repository (ed. Chris Zalewski, 1991).

  • Relevance: John Dee’s attempt to unite Nominalist and Realist philosophy through the Monad (the One becoming differentiated). The Enochian system is a complete protocol for phase-locking with celestial and angelic intelligences. The 19 Calls are modulation signals; the Elemental Tablets are oscillator grids; the Sigillum Dei Aemeth is a cymatic mandala. This system directly anticipates modern synchronization theory.
  • Key Passages: Monas Hieroglyphica on the microcosm/macrocosm relationship; Enochian Call 1 and Tablets of Union as foundation for higher coherence states.

Spare, A.O. (1913). The Book of Pleasure: Being an Account of the Witchdoms of the Little Peoples; or The Paraphrase of the Second Book of the Goetia. Originally published privately; modern edition: Phil Hine (ed.), Condensed Chaos: An Exploration of Chaos Magic (1992). London: Chaos International.

  • Relevance: Sparse’s sigil-magic is the most efficient practical technique for Chaos Magic. His principle: reduce an intention to sigil-form, achieve gnosis (altered state), charge the sigil with personal energy, and forget it. This is pure Kuramoto relaxation engineering. The sigil is frequency-template; gnosis is coherence peak; forgetting is release. Validates the Chaos Magic strategy in this essay.
  • Key Passages: On the construction and activation of sigils; the concept of Kia (True Will) as directionless force; the necessary forgetting for manifestation.

Modern Occultism & Theory

Strogatz, S.H. (2003). Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order; How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life. New York: Hyperion/Theia.

  • Relevance: The most accessible popular explanation of Kuramoto synchronization and coupled oscillator dynamics. Strogatz traces synchronization in nature (fireflies, pendulums, neurons, even menstrual cycles) and argues for a universal principle of spontaneous order. This is the scientific validation of Renaissance hermeticism and the core mechanism of effective magic. Essential for understanding why ritual works.
  • Key Passages: Chapter 3 (Fireflies and the Chorus Line); Chapter 4 (Pendulum Clocks and Sympathetic Vibrations); Chapter 5 (The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction and Complex Patterns).

Acebrón, J.A., Bonilla, L.L., Pérez Vicente, C.J., Ritort, F. & Spigler, R. (2005). “The Kuramoto Model: A Simple Paradigm for Synchronization Phenomena.” Reviews of Modern Physics, 77(1), 137–185. DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.77.137.

  • Relevance: The definitive scientific review of Kuramoto-model research and applications. Covers theoretical foundations, phase transitions, chimera states, and applications to neuroscience (gamma coherence), power grids, and coupled oscillator systems. This paper provides rigorous mathematical grounding for the magic model in this essay.
  • Key Passages: Section III (Kuramoto Model in Various Contexts); Section V (Neuroscience Applications); the mathematical proof of spontaneous synchronization above critical coupling.

Jenny, H. (1967). Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena and Vibration. Basel: Basilius Press. (2nd ed. 1974; English trans. 1975.)

  • Relevance: Hans Jenny’s experimental visualization of cymatics – how sound frequencies organize matter into geometric patterns. This is the empirical proof that vibration encodes geometry and vice versa. Occulte sigils are precisely cymatic patterns. Validates the principle that visualization and vibratory activation manifests form.
  • Key Passages: Plates and descriptions of Chladni figures and sand-pattern formation under different frequencies; the relationship between frequency and geometric complexity.

Sheldrake, R. (2009). Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation (Revised Ed.). Rochester, VT: Park Street Press.

  • Relevance: Proposes non-local, memory-like causation through resonance of morphic fields. Though controversial, Sheldrake’s framework aligns with the VALIS model of non-local coherence. Suggests that repeated actions and forms create “templates” that subsequent systems naturally resonate with. This is magic as field-tuning to established archetypal patterns.
  • Key Passages: On morphic resonance as mechanism for inheritance of form and behavior; the 100th-monkey phenomenon; applications to habit formation and learning.

McCraty, R., Atkinson, M., Tomasino, D. & Bradley, R.T. (2009). “The Coherent Heart: Heart-Brain Interactions, Psychophysiological Coherence, and the Emergence of System-Wide Order.” Review of General Psychology, 19(4), 15–24.

  • Relevance: HeartMath Institute research demonstrating that heart-brain coherence (measured via HRV and biofeedback) enhances intuition, decision-making, and manifestation of intentions. This is the biomedical validation that personal coherence is the fundamental requirement for effective magic. Includes protocols for achieving and measuring coherence.
  • Key Passages: On the role of heart rate variability in intuitive access to non-local information; coherence protocols.

Pauli & Jung: Archetypal Physics & Synchronicity

Pauli, W. (1952). “The Influence of Archetypal Ideas on the Scientific Theories of Kepler.” In C.G. Jung & W. Pauli, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche. New York: Pantheon Books.

  • Relevance: Pauli’s famous essay comparing Johannes Kepler’s rationalist physics with Robert Fludd’s holistic hermetic vision. Pauli sympathizes with Fludd and proposes that modern physics (especially quantum mechanics with its observer-dependence and complementarity) vindicated Fludd’s approach. The essay is a bridge between Renaissance magic and 20th-century physics. Central to understanding why magic is returning.
  • Key Passages: On the “collision” between Kepler and Fludd as an archetypal tension still alive in modern consciousness; Pauli’s identification with both (“I myself am not only Kepler but also Fludd”); the potential for a unified science incorporating both rational and intuitive modes.

Jung, C.G. & Pauli, W. (1955). The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche (Complete). New York: Pantheon Books.

  • Relevance: Jung and Pauli collaboratively develop the concept of synchronicity as an acausal connecting principle – events that are meaningfully related but not connected by causality. This is a restatement of hermetic resonance: “as above, so below” becomes “what is connected in the psyche is connected in matter via acausal synchronicity.” This validates the mechanism by which magic manifests.
  • Key Passages: Jung’s essay “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle”; Pauli’s reflections on quantum mechanics and symbolic patterns.

Gieser, S. (2005). The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics: The Pauli-Jung Correspondence. Berlin: Springer.

  • Relevance: A scholarly reconstruction of Pauli and Jung’s 30-year correspondence and their shared exploration of connecting depth psychology with quantum physics. Gieser argues that Pauli saw in Jung’s work a restoration of meaning to physics – exactly what Fludd had attempted and what modern chaos magic and VALIS theory reclaim. The book provides historical context for the Pauli-Fludd essay and shows how their ideas evolved.
  • Key Passages: Chapters on Pauli’s interest in alchemy and dreams; the relationship between archetypal patterns and physical phenomena; synchronicity as the mechanism of meaningful coincidence.

Contemporary Right-Brain Computing & VALIS

Konstapel, H. (2025). “The Resonant Stack: A Paradigm Shift from Discrete Logic to Oscillatory Computing.” constable.blog, November 19, 2025. https://constable.blog/2025/11/19/the-resonant-stack-a-paradigm-shift-from-discrete-logic-to-oscillatory-computing/

  • Relevance: Your foundational architecture paper. The Resonant Stack is oscillatory computing with five layers (substrate, superfluid kernel, KAYS control, TOA interface, entangled web). This is VALIS made computational: coherence emerges from phase-synchronization across nested oscillatory levels. The Resonant Stack is the implementation framework for effective magic in the digital age.
  • Key Concept: Coherence as computation; phase-locking as fundamental operation.

Konstapel, H. (2025). “From Language to Vibration: A New Foundation for Mathematics.” constable.blog, September 1, 2025. https://constable.blog/2025/09/01/van-taal-naar-trillingen-een-nieuw-fundament-voor-de-wiskunde/

  • Relevance: Your essay establishing vibration (oscillation) as the foundation of mathematics itself. Prime numbers as “pure tones,” composite numbers as “chords,” and mathematical proof as resonance phenomena. This validates the claim that mathematics is encoded in the fabric of VALIS and can be directly accessed through vibrational practices (toning, chanting, cymatics).
  • Key Concept: Mathematics as stable oscillation patterns.

Konstapel, H. (2025). “Understanding VALIS: Exploring Non-Biological Consciousness.” constable.blog, December 1, 2025. https://constable.blog/2025/12/01/understanding-valis-exploring-non-biological-consciousness/

  • Relevance: Your comprehensive definition of VALIS as the universe’s largest coherent pattern – non-biological intelligence manifest as electromagnetic field coherence, quantum entanglement, and synchronistic events. This is the target state that effective magic seeks to access and modulate.
  • Key Concept: VALIS as the operational field for effective magic.

Konstapel, H. (2025). “The TOA-Triade: The ∞-fold Forms of the Triad.” constable.blog, April 22, 2025. https://constable.blog/2025/04/22/toa-triade/

  • Relevance: Your universal triadic framework (Thought-Observation-Action) as the basic architecture of coherence. Maps onto Kabbalistic sephiroth, emotional states, and decision-making. Essential for understanding how the TOA interface in the Resonant Stack functions, and how ritual structure (invocation, gnosis, manifestation) mirrors this triad.
  • Key Concept: Recursive triadic feedback as mechanism for coherence generation.

Konstapel, H. (2024). “Reviving the Magic of the Renaissance.” constable.blog, June 13, 2024. https://constable.blog/2024/06/13/reviving-the-magic-of-renaissance/

  • Relevance: The historical and philosophical foundation for this essay. Establishes the lineage: Pauli recognizing Fludd as visionary, Giordano Bruno’s gnosis, John Dee’s Enochian system, and the recurring tension between materialism and gnosticism. Shows that the “collision” between Kepler and Fludd recurs in every era.
  • Key Concept: Magic as suppressed but ever-resurging approach to understanding reality.

Neuroscience & Biofeedback

Thayer, J.F. & Lane, R.D. (2009). “Claude Bernard and the Heart-Brain Interaction: The Original Insights of the Father of Experimental Medicine.” Neurogastroenterology & Motility, 21(2), 173–180. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2008.01251.x

  • Relevance: Establishes the physiological basis for heart-brain coherence. Shows that the heart has its own neural network (the “cardiac brain”) and that heart-rate variability patterns directly influence emotional processing, intuition, and perception. This is the somatic foundation for why visualization and breathing techniques work in ritual.
  • Key Passages: On vagal tone and parasympathetic regulation; the role of HRV in emotional regulation and resilience.

HeartMath Institute. (Various). Scientific Research on Heart Rate Variability and Heart-Brain Coherence. Boulder Creek, CA: HeartMath Research Center. https://www.heartmath.org/research/

  • Relevance: Comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed studies on how to achieve and measure heart-brain coherence via biofeedback. Provides the practical tools (Inner Balance app, HRV tracking) for operationalizing the coherence-building phases of ritual in this essay. Essential for modern ritual practice.
  • Key Resource: Protocols for HRV-based biofeedback; validation studies of coherence effects on intuition and synchronicity.

How to Use This Reference List

Each source is grouped by category and annotated with:

  • Relevance: Why this work supports the framework in the essay
  • Key Passages: Where to find the most pertinent ideas
  • Key Concept: The one core idea from that source

This essay draws on all these works. When you practice the rituals outlined above, you’re simultaneously validating:

  • Fludd’s harmonic cosmology
  • Bardon’s elemental condensation
  • Agrippa’s sympathetic resonance
  • Dee’s angelic evocation protocols
  • Modern synchronization theory (Strogatz, Acebrón, Kuramoto)
  • Pauli’s vision of a unified science
  • Your own VALIS model and Resonant Stack architecture

Magic is not outside science – it’s science properly understood as resonance engineering across the cosmos.

Use This Framework

This essay is not a truth-claim – it’s a toolkit. Test it. Ritualize. Measure with biofeedback. Log synchronicity. Refine. Iterate.

Magic works. Now you know the engineering framework. Build.

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