and that was a century ago, the half-life of psychotechnically useful cultural contexts stands at about eighteen months and falling
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wait, Crowley was one of those "let's completely scientificize some random instrumental thing and spend a decade doing it" wotsitsnames?
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His "science" was more fundamental experiment and observation. His outright quackery was limited to selling mail-order pills containing the "elixir of life" (semen), I can't decide if he thought of that as a con https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/crowley/lies/91.htm …
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He still endures in that he gave a universal approach and framework--the foremost modern incarnation of course being chaos magick. His thermometer was the journal, which is universal, since the unit is observed experience.
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Crowley's experiments i.e. rituals certainly won't trigger in the same way today, given the different cultural contexts, but he always emphasized results varied person to person anyways.
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The only thing he was really good at was designing book covers, period.
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