Not asking for detail, just a bit of chronology: you had a religious experience before looking into magic, then were introduced to JMG and took seriously first the magic and later the peak oil hypothesis? Seems we're now at "energy-wise we're fucked, but we might still figure out this spiritus/awen/önd [I couldn't find an Anglo-Saxon term] thing".

"On the other hand, I worry about cases like "I dunno, bro, but if you push this pedal and turn this key, it makes a loud sound!" being all we have of internal combustion engines." - stuff I find depressing shouldn't be this funny. :)