The Wizard Of Boone's Book Of Magick: Origin Tale
Universal travelers and seekers of knowledge, love and light, I am the one they call The Wizard...The Wizard of Boone, author and psychedelic mastermind behind The Wizard of Boone's Book of Magick.
Bringing this book into the world has been an incredible experience to not only participate in, but to lay witness to as well. This book of mine started out as a blank journal from a local art store. I started writing this book as a tripping companion...something to flip through when encountering unpleasant headspace and rabbit holes that go down a bit deeper than anticipated.
This was never intended to go public.
However, things in life, as we come to find them, have a strong chance of going a different way than anticipated. Along my spiritual path, I carried this journal with me everywhere. I would take it to local bars, house parties, and other varying locations and events. When I finally got the idea to use it as a tool to uncover the secrets of the universe, I let my friends become a very big part of this book's creation. The goal was no longer just a matter of transcending the negative...we were on a manhunt for the meaning of life!
The premise I gave all contributors to the book was simple at face value: teach the universe the most important lesson it has taught you. The one you value most in your heart, mind and soul when hard times fall upon you. With this information, nearly 80 of my closest friends (the Boone 150) chimed in with their thoughts, and brought more to the table than I was expecting. At the time...no one, to include myself, knew where this was headed...but seeing as how super high most of us may or may not have been, it sure was a fun grounding activity for the brain to chew on...especially at our favorite house down the street where only the best of the best in house parties and local underground music took place.
When the journal was full, it became exactly what I had set out to make it into. It was the psychonaut's best friend. A cover-to-cover trip-sitter for the 21st century. It helped me out of some rough patches as I fought through a dead vehicle, unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and whatever else the universe had put on my plate. "You'll eat it, and you'll like it...either way, you'll grow" I think was the point it was trying to make. Nonetheless, I have been on such a long journey of self-empowerment and discovery of the unknown...equipped with some of the headiest and heaviest psychedelics known to man, alien, and beyond. Having the journal completely filled turned it from a project into a psychedelic relic. I remember leaving it in my friend's living room to go and shower (see, not just some wook) and when I returned, everyone was huddled around it. They looked at me with wide eyes and told me that I needed to publish this as part of the mission that us spiritual psychonauts are carrying out...awakening the masses to the ideas of spirituality and open minded creativity in the highest.
...To which I whole-heartedly replied:
"Nah."
Publishing this book was farthest from my idea as it could possibly have ever been. As I brought more and more attention to this book, the more and more people kept saying the same thing...publish this.
17 people later...it wasn't until I was contacted by a dear friend of mine, Mr. Ben Loomis of Free Radical Books...who reached out to me to simply say this: "we have the technology...let's burn it to good use while it's here and accessible.”
Enough was enough...and I cried out to the heavens of the universe: "Fine...if this is truly what you are telling me from all subjective angles, than it simply cannot go ignored or unacknowledged. You'll have your book to the masses as soon as I can bring it to them...and Ben and I began the work we needed to do.
What was just newly considered a final product was now once again far from finalised. It seems that there was still a lot more work to be done, and as I didn't want to leave a single subjective conscious soul behind, I put out a message to the collective that if anyone else wanted their own page, even though the book is full, we have room to spare. I encouraged everyone in my circle of friends to chime in and message, email, text etc. their contributions to the nicknamed "Book of Boone". We were overwhelmed in transcriptions from screens to scrap paper...making sure that we didn't forget a single soul in our construction of this good work being done.
It took a flight from Portland, Oregon for my publisher and I to reunite in our beloved rainforest college town to put the final pieces of this puzzle together...and now that our work is done, we present it to you. The Wizard of Boone's Book of Magick in and of itself, has become a living entity. It has the ability to flip to exactly the page you need to read.
90 percent of this book is handwritten...all entries come from the original texts in the hardcover journal. Flipping randomly through this text allows its universal abilities to flow between book and reader. This has all been one action-packed adventure of self-discovery, as well as an accidentally-accepted mission to share with the universe the knowledge I have come to wrap my head around after years of pain, growth, conditioning by society, and the defiant will to say "Yes" in a world chock-full of "No".
Say yes with me.
Embark on a journey of your own...but keep in mind at all times, that even though this journey is one of self-empowerment, the goal is the same as the journey it took to publish this. To inspire others to hop on that same bus. And despite the fact that this is in fact a self help experience, it is dangerous to go alone...so take a book with you. The Wizard's book is a gift from me personally to you and everyone else around. So that when you need a break from spirit school, you have something to "come down" or "trip out" with over a morning coffee or evening spliff. You don't need to be "woke" to understand everything contained within. Just open. Allow this book to help you become a beacon of hope for your hometown and let your higher self ascend as far as you like. My only request is this: don't keep it secret...just keep it safe!
