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Welcome back to the It Could Happen here. spooky special. I'm Garrison Davis. I hope you had a pleasantly frightful Halloween. I just got back from Berlin and had a very scary time at the Amsterdam airport and will forever hold a grudge against the Dutch people. But in Berlin, I attended

the 2025 Acculture Conference, which seeks to explore the relationship between occultism and

culture. My first Acculture episode, last week, gave an overview on the subject of a culture and talked with a panel of

artists and magic practitioners about some of the dominant topical currents throughout the

conference, namely William S. Burroughs, the cut-up method, and the tension around generative

AI. This episode will follow up on discussions of AI and digital technomancy and compare those to

the other large current throughout the conference, the revival of traditional occult practices.

Then the panel of Ryan, Delta, Elaine, and myself will debate the role of occult practice in 2025 and the current

ability of occultism to influence and shape culture and politics.

Now back to the panel.

Fast forwarding to Saturday, there was another block that focused on LOM's and digital technomancy

called Pop Magic Language and Reality Hacks.

The first discussion was titled SIGILs of the Cyberspace,

How Modern Magicians Hack Reality with Pop Culture,

which was put on by a guy in a graduate program, if I recall

correctly, specifically on internet magic and digital chaos magicians, who was based

a lot of his research on magicians that he'd come across on Reddit and Discord.

He gestured towards me magic and discussed what he called techno-pantheism, these forms

of internet gods.

I mean, his focus was specifically on modern esoteric studies and his focus on video games

and how video games work and their interactions with magic for digital anthropology,

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