Generation Hex

Generation Hex is a collection of essays, both practical and autobiographical, which explore the overwhelming levels of interest in magic and shamanism in youth culture.

The book is a collective portrait of initiation, and what it means to rediscover the dizzying heights, primal terrors and recursive ironies of the magical landscape in a world that has largely forgotten its connection to spirit. It is also a practical grimoire for engaging with the psychic and occult undercurrents of the world, and a template for an emergent shamanic Ultraculture.

Generation Hex assembles some of the brightest magical talents of the current youth generation, who ask not only what magic is and what place it holds in the Twenty-First Century, but also how it feels to engage with magic.

Within the anthology’s pages, editor Jason Louv situates the current moment as the emergence of a new magical culture, describes his experiences as a shamanic apprentice in the foothills of Mount Everest and blueprints the alchemical wedding of magic and genetics;

Christian Sedman shows what happens when the onslaught of magical initiation collides with the life of an American high school student;

Scott Treleaven lists the benefits and pitfalls of instigating international sex magic rituals for fun and profit; Stephen Grasso unveils the occult landscape teeming beneath the modern urban area, and proclaims the role of the modern shaman in our thoroughly troubled world;

Rachel Haywire describes her years of travel through the lunatic psychic underground of millennial America and her coming-of-age both as a young woman and a chaos magician;

James Curcio tackles the mythic structures of the modern world, and shows the duty of the modern magician as one who is able to create meaning in a cultural void;

Angelina Fabbro explores the processes of ritual magic from the hard language of cognitive science and physics, showing just what’s going on at both the quantum level and in the body of the magician within the temple space; Elijah discloses the process of attaining to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, the central goal of magic, and outlines the skills that must be mastered by the budding magician;

Shaun Frenté escorts the reader into the world of Disco Discordia, and shows just what can happen when hundreds of revelers break through into group magical consciousness;

George Holochwost describes the vicious interplay of the Fool and the Magus;

Micki Pellerano examines the role that entheogens play in the process of magical initiation, and discusses the social need for "other level" experience;

Atman and Simon Forrester describe the ins and outs of high-octane group psychedelic ritual magic;

and Chris Arkenberg discusses what it’s like to conduct a guerrilla attempt to enlighten a malevolent corporation.

Generation Hex is an ongoing networking point, developed to both initiate and continue a morphogenetic dialogue—"where to evolve next?"—which has been continuous since the beginning, but is currently in need of direct and immediate attention.