About
Cael Waring
A forensic engineer and a chaos magick practitioner, working in two fields that rarely speak to each other.
Failure analysis shaped how he approaches everything, and above all it taught him to ask one question of every theory, his own included: how would I know if I were wrong about this?
He brought that to his own esoteric practice and found that a quarter of what he was doing was doing nothing at all — and that two techniques he had nearly abandoned were carrying almost everything.
The Dream Series is what came out of it. Dreamwalking sets out the whole method on one rule: test everything, keep what works. The Dream Journal is the record you run it in.
Both are written in the tradition of the working grimoire: direct, structured, and built for the nightstand rather than the bookshelf. These are not books about theory. Esoteric practice deserves the same honesty and discipline as any other serious craft.
The rule the series runs on
Test everything. Keep what works.
So every protocol comes with its test, in four parts: what it looks like when it works, what it looks like when it doesn’t, how long before you can tell the difference, and what kind of claim it rests on.
Sleep science is cited. Magical results are reported as one practitioner’s logged experience and labelled as such at every appearance. The books never dress one as the other, and where no controlled test exists they say so.
The books
- Dreamwalking — An Introduction to Lucid Dreaming as Magical Practice. 334 pages, 32 plates.
- The Dream Journal — A Working Record. 208 pages of logs, entries and reviews.
- Dreamweaving — The Dreambody, the Depths, and Other Dreamers. In preparation.
The audio companion is free, and gated behind nothing.