SW: For the lay person, who doesn’t know a lot about magick, how would you describe your belief system and practices?
EA: The most general yet still accurate description of my work is as ‘practical spirituality.’ As we listen to the symphonies of every spiritual path, we can notice that the differences between them are dwarfed by the gravity of the messages that resound through all of them. Of course, embedded into these systems are sociological control mechanisms that have been and still are quite useful, there are standards of living and being that we have in common, but there is something much more important happening in spirituality than social cohesion and civic accountability.
Spirituality, religion, and the supernatural have always been my fascination, but I’ve found the most meaning and value in the specific methods, practices and principles, which, if practiced, do produce tangible, positive, and often life-changing shifts in our lives. Whether we’re talking about prayers, rituals, amulets, casting spells, or communing with our gods, these spiritual practices are tools, pieces of technology passed down to us from before recorded time, so that we can better master ourselves, better manage our circumstances, and so we can interface directly with other dimensions of our reality.
Long before humanity had invented the wheel, our ancestors engraved idols and talismans to facilitate fertility, to provide a bountiful hunt, to heal the ill and wounded, and to make contact with supernatural entities and forces. These are very real powers and very real entities, and their presence and effect is stunningly obvious, once we learn how to interact with them. The use of magickal ritual and tools to effect change in the world and the self mysteriously emerged and spread through mankind, not as a passing curiosity, but as a necessary element in the successful outcome of any important venture. Our species had discovered a tool so important that every civilization that survives implements spiritual practices into the foundations of their empires. Today, ancient magickal symbols are obvious in nearly every public square, incorporated into brand logos, and printed on currency. Magick is everywhere, but we’re only now able to have meaningful conversations about it.
My work is to act as a lightning rod, to thrust myself into every spiritual path that pulls me, and then I get to work dismantling the system as it transforms me, understanding the mechanisms of transformation by stepping into it with everything I’ve got. What I’m able to do with that in a way that brings value to others, is I am able to reverse engineer the practices, discover what specifically each spiritual practice does, and how anyone with any or no experience can use that specific practice with reliable and sometimes miraculous successes. I have witnessed miracles that I cannot deny, nor can I explain. But what I can do – and what I feel I am meant to do – is share my experiences, and in doing so I have helped countless people transform their lives in some of the most unbelievable ways.
SW: So many people aspire to be spiritual teachers and authors. Do you remember when you first realized that you could not only make a living doing what you love but be very successful in it?
EA: To be honest, that’s something I feel just about every day, and I’m stunned by it. It humbles me that my message, the practices that I teach, and the principles that I espouse are so valuable to so many people. I am amazed, but not very surprised. From the moment I was born, the chips were all stacked against me, and by four years old I was not expected to survive, to walk straight, or to feed myself, and all of my ‘support systems’ facilitated and encouraged that belief, that I would be lucky to make it to adulthood, at best. I wouldn’t accept that. I pushed myself to walk, to run, to do cartwheels on the lawn, and to do help others. There is nothing at all as satisfying as being able to help someone because I have developed a skill or a strength, because I pushed myself.
Again, to be completely candid, the negative and abusive language spoken and shouted about me and to me throughout my childhood makes it sometimes difficult for me to even notice when I am successful. I sometimes have to struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings of unworthiness or even worthlessness, and in those moments I can judge myself as a complete failure, regardless of the evidence. There is likely additional complication in the reality that I don’t measure my success by the standard metrics of income or production output, but in the change for the good that my message creates in the lives of others.
I’m very actively engaged in working through the core of those sorts of unhelpful beliefs and self-criticisms, though, so most of the time I’m overflowing with gratitude and living my purpose, but sometimes I need to be reminded to take inventory of my life and my work for me to see the impact that I am having.
In my earliest spiritual or religious experiences, I found myself turning to spiritual practices for a sense of hope, as impossible at it might seem. As I investigated and experienced every supernatural, mystical, and transcendent practice, it didn’t take long at all before the evidence was abundant and consistent that specific practices produce mysterious results in the physical world. I began charting my map of experiences, finding the exact methods that produce reliable results in the real world, and I had in my hands a tool by which I could navigate any problem with predictable otherworldly guidance and power.
As soon as I could see that I was on to something, around 15 years old, I couldn’t keep myself from sharing it with anyone who would listen. From the very start of my journey to this very day, a predicable percentage of people instantly reject or ignore my message, but there is also a very reliable percentage of the population who lean in with curiosity, allow themselves to accept the possibility of the fact that magick is real and that here is how you do it, and every single person who earnestly engages in these practices is thereafter changed for the better.
Through my lifelong struggle to find, understand, and communicate these powerful spiritual practices, I’ve been dumbfounded by the fact that there are specific practices capable of unlocking our ability to steer our own personal evolution and to harness reality at the program-code level… and nobody was really talking about it. Until the last century, all occult information has been hidden from the masses, hoarded away by church and state while torturing and executing practitioners of the most ancient faiths. These practices are so powerful that if everyone knew that they could access godhood within, and thereby have greater control over their own lives, there would be no need for church or state. These secret rituals and simple spiritual methods were often difficult to discover and to record, usually kept behind walls of initiations into secret orders, blood oaths, and other devices meant to hide our own power from us.
The same tenacity I had as a child to overcome my own bodily limitations was instrumental in learning every secret practice, sharing it with anyone who wanted it after I had picked it apart, experimented with it, and proven its value in my own life.
What has surprised me the most is that these strange and sometimes insane experiences are validated by more people than I imagined possible. I believe that our species is on the cusp of an evolutionary leap that will encompass all aspects of the human experience, and becoming intentional operators within the spiritual realms as physical beings is at least a step in that evolution, if not the total expected outcome itself.
SW: When you first started Become A Living God, what were your visions for it’s future and did you ever imagine how huge it would become?
EA: My mission objective with Become A Living God was and is simple: Upload all of my spiritual insights, teachings, practices, and principles to the internet. I have a few motivations behind this. What I have learned has been of irreplaceable value in my life, and magick has allowed me to do the impossible, and I am uniquely capable of teaching others how to have their own transformative experience with these practices. I can and do share my experiences and understandings to my daughter, friends, and as always, to anyone who will listen, but I also accepted that I am going to die, and what I’ve learned is simply too important for our species and for every person that I couldn’t allow what I’ve learned to die with me. At first, I felt like I was just using the internet to store my books, ritual videos, instructional videos, vlogs, interviews, and every resource
I could collect or create, with the hopes that a few people might find it valuable.
We intentionally launched Become A Living God with the ethics of freedom, individuality, and power as our core cultural ethics, represented in our straightforward model of making all of my knowledge available to anyone, anywhere, through which they could practice some of the most sacred, secret, and powerful rituals, if they wanted, when they wanted, from the comfort of their own homes, without ever having to sign a pact or join a cult.
I was very intimidated by filming myself in ritual, but overcoming that obstacle was the true gamechanger. A few figures over the last century have been filmed and photographed in staged ritual, but absolutely no footage existed of real rituals being performed live on camera, but it is essential to show how the ritual is done, how to bring it all together, and what my experience of full spiritual contact is like.
I expected to be mocked and ridiculed, and I was especially afraid that exposing my most sacred and magickal moments to the world would lead to a public consensus that my life’s passion and meaning is foolishness or insanity.
I was and am amazed at how many people from every background have validated and verified the truth and utility of my teachings, after having their own spiritual secrets validated and encouraged by my work. Since starting this project in 2012, the world has changed for the better because of it, by every single person who is curious enough to actually try it.
I am amazed at how hungry so many people are for spirituality with substance, with magick that they can be certain of, and with a spiritual path that is 100% theirs!
SW: What are the main areas of focus / projects you’re working on at BALG presently and in the near future?
EA: Over the last few years Become A Living God has shifted almost exclusively to collaborative works, pooling the knowledge, experiences, and unique perspectives of a collective of artists and authors. While humanity’s competitive spirit has helped us achieve so much, we have to understand that the models that worked well for the industrial revolution will not serve us as well as the current revolution/evolution unfolds. The force multiplier created by great numbers of people doing what they are told is impressive, but it has nowhere near the potential power of individuals cooperating equally and uniquely towards a shared vision.
For the last 10 years, I have filled our catalog and video platforms with books, video courses, pathworkings, rituals, consultations, and physical goods largely by myself, with an occasional release by a guest author. Even though I was perfectly content hogging the spotlight, it was clear that I was my greatest limitation, in how much I could accomplish with my time and energy, but even more significantly, the quality and value of my message itself was limited to my sole perspective, based on my personal experience of each spiritual practice, while at the same time we were receiving an unmanageable amount of submissions from authors and magicians with priceless contributions in the very topics and systems that I wanted to explore.
We committed to a full trial of collaborative projects in 2018 with a 3 year ‘Nine Demonic Gatekeeper’ project of nine releases, each bundling videocourses, books in hardcover and leather, live rituals, and physical products like altar cloths and talismans, with each new release in the series dropping two or three times a year. What our trial showed us increasingly with each release is that cooperation allows us to do more, to do better, and to make our united message more accessible.
Become A Living God just announced our new “World Domination Series” with “Spellbook One: Love Spells” in leather and hardcover, 5+ hours of videocourse material, by Rose Crowley, Maggie Moon, and myself, E.A. Koetting. The World Domination Series is focused on spellcasting, binding, sealing, and manifesting significant successes in every avenue of your life. I’m currently working on Spellbook Two: Wealth & Abundance Spells,” with several more titles planned for the future.
I am also working on a separate compendium altogether called Goblincraft, but I can’t say too much as this one is a ways down the road.
Lastly, a good deal of my focus is being driven towards the integration of spirituality with technology through a variety of existing technologies, as well as unique tech that I am developing through my own independent research and development company. Several products and product lines will emerge from these technological innovations.
The collaborative spark has already extended far beyond work I contribute to, though, as some of the most talented authors and skilled spiritual guides are working on several visionary projects.
What really has me most excited is the rise of the Goddess. Looking around the world, we can see a devastating absence of the goddess, in courtrooms, public offices, corporations, entertainment, and even in too many homes, the Goddess has not been present, has not been honored, and in many cases has not even been invited.
My perspective, in this incarnation, has been locked into a male perspective biologically, socially, etc., but I also have to admit that the lack of the Goddess in the world may be at least somewhat my own projection, as the women in my lives have either been absent, or abusive. This is a challenge for my relationships with women as whole, and I feel like it has been a serious barrier in understanding the Goddess and even knowing how to begin to surrender myself to Her. But the Goddess is rising!
SW: Tell me about your vision for incorporating the Divine Feminine current into BALG.
EA: I’m proud to have created a business and inspired this movement, now 10 years into it, not because of what it has done for me or my ‘brand’, but because we have created a space, a culture, and a corporation that rewards courageous innovators. It is absolutely rewarding when I teach someone something that is going to benefit them for the rest of their lives; to have. Inspiring, encouraging, supporting, and promoting other creators in doing that is a much deeper level of fulfilment and contribution.
I believe that this is the best way that I can incorporate the Goddess into Become A Living God, to inspire, encourage, support, and promote the Living Goddesses amongst us who are much better qualified than I to bring the message of the various goddesses, divine and diabolical, to the world.
One of the first authors to publish through BALG besides me was Asenath Mason, the most devoted and adept Sorceress in the world, and we have published volumes of her material, much of which does exalt the Goddess directly.
When I say that ‘The Goddess is rising,’ I don’t simply mean that we’re scouting females to participate in projects to offset a gender equation or anything silly like that. What I mean is that the actual Goddess, in all of her forms, is merging into our reality now stronger than ever, and those who embody these goddesses are receiving exactly what needs to be transmitted, and in addition to my excitement in being able to help bring these projects to the world, I’m also eager to learn everything that they have to teach me! In fact, you may have a better idea of what the Goddess has in store, as you’ve been at the front lines organizing some of these Dark Goddess compendiums. What can you tell me about them?
SW: We have some very exciting plans to incorporate the Goddess into Become a Living God. I am currently co-authoring the first in a series of books on Dark Goddesses from different cultures. The first in the series focuses on the Celtic Dark Goddesses and will feature Maggie Moon as co-author. This is a project close to our hears as I am Scottish, with Irish heritage and Maggie also has Scottish and Irish roots in ancestry. We are almost at a point of completion and will announce details of the release of the Celtic Dark Goddess book in 2022. The compendiums will include history and background to each Goddess but also our own unique pathworking experiences, gnosis and personally created rituals.
EA: Thank you so much for the opportunity for this exchange, and I am grateful for your time and for your thoughtful questions!
Sincerely,
E.A. Koetting
balg.co
Thank you !
Scottish Witch.