This is me, Dave. In most of my online, esoteric, and artistic endeavors, I use the pseudonym Vargr, or more specifically Vargr23. This is an Old Norse word with both literal and metaphorical English translations. It means both wolf and outlaw. It indicates someone who has been expelled from respectable society. Incidentally, to prevent the recurrence of past misconceptions, I am not a lycanthrope, a furry, a Norwegian metal icon, or a Traveller enthusiast. I was once declared an outlaw by the Gothi of a certain Kindred, and I decided to lean into it.
I’m a Gen X nerd. I design and build databases and the means by which data flows into and out of them. I have a profound interest in information itself, the processes by which matter and consciousness emerge from it, and the possibility that directed intent can exert some degree of control over this emergence. I’m also a writer, leatherworker, researcher, and practicing sorcerer. I’ve worked magic via various forms and faiths since 1985. In the 1990’s I was involved with the body modification community. I co-founded the body play performance group CrimsonMane with my partner in 1997. I was also in the SCA for nearly 20 years, so if you think you may know me from there or via BME in the old days, you very well might.
This site is an amorphous experiment in self-expression and a vector for disseminating various magical operations. I assert that the world of consensus reality that is experienced by billions of people every day is a mass fabrication. I want to help others find their own mental and magical tools so that they can at least entertain this notion themselves, and hopefully begin to manipulate their own corner of this reality to their own best interests.
