Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff Grant Morrison: The Enemies of Humanity Are Wielding Occult Power
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Mar 11, 2026 
Grant Morrison, comic writer and chaos magician known for The Invisibles, joins to map how imagination and ritual shape culture. He argues magic is collective agreement and warns that tech elites use algorithmic binding spells. Conversation covers gods as idea-energies, networked creativity versus centralized power, reclaiming narrative, and practical rituals for weakening elite stories.
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Magic As Collective Agreement
- Grant Morrison defines magic as the everyday technology of collective agreement shaping reality rather than supernatural phenomena.
- He compares magicians to specialists like Olympic sprinters who train to reliably access and amplify innate human states across cultures and time.
Grant's First Working Proved The Practice
- Grant Morrison recounts personally testing ritual injunctions after skepticism and experiencing the described effects, which launched his lifelong study of magic.
- He used conjurations, observed results, then spent decades reading grimoires and verifying what worked versus what was superstition.
Gods As Persistent Patterns Of Consciousness
- Morrison explains gods as persistent non-local complexes of ideas (eg. Hermes) that embody recurring states of consciousness shared across cultures.
- Rituals access those persistent patterns to induce predictable states like rhetoric, negotiation, or grief without invoking supernatural agency.