You would probably enjoy Mike Sententia. His website and podcast below. He is a scientist who is working on developing a kind of practical magic through repetition and experimentation.
I'll have to do my due diligence and listen to the whole thing but here's my critiques of what I read from the excerpts
"The term ethereal software is essentially the mechanism that
spirit’s use to help with
our requests."
"Greg and Mike discuss the evolution of a relationship with an entity and exactly what that may look like. From contacting random spirits using ethereal software, to moving beyond over time and connecting with a spirit who specializes in communication. Mike details his experience for listeners. Mike also helps offer insight into what implications this has on a spiritual level, how this has molded his paradigm, and what the reality of these spirits may include."
If this stuff is as literal as the rest of the excerpts make it out to be then he has a laughably, pathetically broad definition of the term "Direct." Moreover this is the EXACT thing that I rejected when I first started getting contacted by entities. I rejected any notion that I or anyone else "needed" them. I rejected any and all authority they claimed to have over me or anyone else. I didn't want them to do shit for me, I wanted to do it myself. I wanted to do what they did. Well, their fragile little egos just couldn't handle that. They wanted to feel special. They wanted to feel like they were the ones in control. They wanted to be the ones who decided what happend and why. After all if other lesser people could do what they could do, well, that would be anarchy. It would be chaos and mayhem and the end of the world for everyone! And just like every other idiot, they were allergic to thinking. All it took was a few question, particularly my favorite, "Why?" to make them feel so threatened that they just needed to "put me in my place." Fucking hell in hindsight those people reminded me of things I read about the exploration days of british sailors in the 1600's and how they'd shoot a pistol at the ground near a native of some island they were visiting. Then write about how funny it was that the native was so perplexed and awestruck by it because they didn't understand gunpowder and thus did not understand the briton's "superiority." Then substitute magic for blackpowder and balls of lead and it's pretty much the same attitude.
If anyone wants me to believe that they're a superior being that I should be bowing down to, then they can come down here and prove it. If you wanna know what some of these people are/were like then imagine your average Social Justice Warrior, modern Feminist, etc and then give them the ability to do shit like fly and throw balls and beams of energy and manifest shit like lightning and fire using energy and sure, you start to get something that sounds like a bad anime, but you also start to get the idea. I suppose that's where the crazy stuff starts.
But it's unbelievably satisfying seeing the look on these pathetic retards faces after someone who's supposed to be inferior beats them at their own game in their own realm.
But like I said, I still have to do my due dilligence and listen to the podcast before deciding what I think of their "Direct Magick" ideas, and also probably not continue responding here since I'm pretty sure it's not the point of the thread. Although I could be wrong.