There was a time years and years ago when there were basically two decent occult resources pages on the net: mine, and Anders Sandberg's. We had a sort of friendly rivalry; when a new site popped up somewhere with good stuff, we both jumped on it. But we were pretty much it in 1994-5 or so. Other sites out there that tried to be indexes of occult resources ... well, they sucked. ;) Bad HTML, broken links, too much fluffy-bunny editorializing ... bah.
I was out of the online occult business for several years ... and I blame no one, ultimately, but myself. I could have told her "No. I will live my life as I like. Bite me." at any time. One of these days I need to do a writeup about the similarities between my experiences from 1995-2001 and The Abyss of Golden Dawn/Crowleyan metaphysics.
When I came back I found there were a lot more occult sites out there, and a lot more indexes for them. There's still a ton of crap, but now there's so much more stuff in general that separating the wheat from the chaff is a Herculean task. One that takes a damn sight more free time and a lot more desire to be online than I have.
As some of you recall, I started writing a book on the subject of "Magick for Beginners" in 2001 after my liberation. But it went by the wayside for a while for a couple of reasons. I've been thinking about getting back to that. As you will recall, I attended Crucible earlier this summer and had a great time. I've actually been taking lessons under the tutelage of an old pal who's been working on a new and interesting system of magick. And there's more.
But the website ... eh. I no longer have the drive to have the biggest or the best Occult Resources index. It's far too much work for no reward. I don't really use the links myself, either - I have my own (slowly rebuilding) collection of books on the subject, which I read as I desire. I do have my Gematria Calculator, which I actually use, and I'm proud to be the inventor of the Magic Code, which people all over the 'Net are still using. But the rest of the stuff is kinda pointless.
So in the coming days I'm probably going to start dismantling the page, ditching the links to external content and stuff I didn't write myself. :)
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August 2nd, 2003 · 07:32 am [Link]
IMO, your page reflects the intersection between the Occult thought out there and your personal views and experiences to begin with - after all, you're already culling what you see as fluffy bunny. I'm not sure that a shorter list of "what Shawn currently finds compelling" would be much less interesting than "everything Shawn will acknowledge is at least not crap" :-)