June 2025
Most magick is concerend about influencing the future from the perspective of the present, but it may be more fruitful to do the reverse: reify the past from the perspective of the future. I call this concept reverse magick, and it is one example of timeline magick.
It may help to clarify the model that we are working in. You are currently sitting in the present, and extending into the future are an infinite number of outcomes, each with a corresponding probability. In the end, your conscious perspective will travel down one of these timelines. To achieve reverse magick, your future self in these possible timlines will perform magick to amplify their own probabilities.
Concretely, here is how to do reverse magick:
- Choose a reification date, the point in time at which reification will begin. This is typically the current date.
- Write down a list of success criteria. If these criteria are met at a future time, the you in the future will perform reification to make the timeline more probable.
- Wait either a pre-determined or undetermined amount of time for your goals to be met.
- Once the goals are met, perform past reification. Use the Oshan servitor for this purpose, or reify from a state of gnosis/meditation.
Reverse magick may actually be safer than normal magick. As an example, consider the classic monkey paw of money magick leading to the death of a family member, but giving you a large inheritence. This may occur because in typical magick, the path of least resistance/highest probability is often taken. In reverse magick, this does not happen. In the timeline where your family member died, you would simply not perform the reification. In this way, reverse magick is more participatory than typical magick.
The name reverse magick comes from reverse mathematics. In typical mathematics, propositions are proved by building up from a set of fixed axioms. In constrast, in reverse mathematics the goal is to determine the axioms required to prove a theorem.