added by Keely Adler · updated 2y ago
Magic, belief systems + web3
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We as North Americans do not believe in magic. We are, however, entertained by it. Anything magical is operatively impossible by definition, and the impossible is many things—scary, in that it can seem powerful because we don’t know how something is done; child-like, in that it has the patently made-up elements of a fairy story or a fable or a nigh
... See morefrom Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility by poetrynw.org
Keely Adler added
- But of the two worlds I’ve been witnessing, I am becoming convinced that the emerging weird world being claimed by lorecraft, with tarot cards and literal magical thinking in the mix, is actually more real, and has been all along.
from Lands of Lorecraft by Venkatesh Rao
Alex Wittenberg added
- There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the wisdom of earlier ages. For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the w... See more
from Ill With Want by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
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Sixian and added
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
- “All [magical] ritual is a kind of language, it therefore translates ideas.” (Marcel Mauss, A General Theory of Magic, 75)
from Amazon Sign In
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