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If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
It seems only right that technology should restore to us the enchanted world that technology itself destroyed. Perhaps the very forces that facilitated our exile from Eden will one day reanimate our garden with digital life. Perhaps the only way out is through.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
In a mainstream that places insufficient emphasis on communal ritual, we may be losing access to cultural technologies that have been used throughout human history. By consciously attempting to ‘re-enchant the world,’ we can help to create and maintain social bonds as well as our connection to the living earth.
openDemocracy • Why Does Ritual Matter for Social Change?
Morgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things
The true trauma of disenchantment is that the world, as seen through the lens of modern science, is devoid of intrinsic meaning.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
To be human is to inhabit some narrative enchantment of the world. Christian worship fuels our imaginations with a biblical picture of a world that, in the words of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, is “charged with the grandeur of God.”
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Because now that the whole world has been disenchanted and we have been encased in a flattened “nature,” I expect it will be forms of reenchanted Christianity that will actually have a future.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Like nibbling on a magic mushroom, turning an art eye on reality makes you feel as if the world is performing just for you.