At its heart, belief magic is a combination of community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
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At its heart, belief magic is a combination of community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore.
This belief is central to Web3 ideology, and we should be heartened by the sheer longevity of magic, despite the best efforts of large institutions, to bring together like-minded people in service of the best possible futures.
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
Magic is not a procedure that produces effects, but a symbolic system with a social function
Philip Ball • Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
In the closed logic of the folktale, magic is normal: people use it, sometimes they suffer for it or are fooled by it, but they are never very surprised by it.
Philip Ball • Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
knowledge is always a kind of magic,
Bridget Collins • The Binding: The most captivating novel of 2019
But if at the heart of every world religion is a mystical tradition, at least one or many, then at the heart of the mystical traditions, one finds—always—the magical tradition, which is a particular form of mysticism. It's the mysticism of this world, of the body's world, the body's engagement with the Earth around it. It's a mysticism that has no
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A person ‘of high degree’ in traditional knowledge may find a song in a dream if they are profoundly connected to land, lore, spirit and community. But that song must then be taken up by the people and modified gradually through many iterations before it becomes part of the culture. Besides, that song can only be found through a ritual process deve
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