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instagram.comIt's true that the history of civil rights campaigns and revolutionary movements of the era is tightly intertwined with the proliferation of magical societies, mystery cults, Theosophical and Swedenborgian organizations, and other occult communities. The popularity of spirituality during this time is given a diversity of explanations, from the
... See moreJessa Crispin • Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year
In this era of deconstruction and recentering attention on figures shut out of oppressive structures, the occult woman is a paragon of lost wisdom.
Jessa Crispin • Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year
The witch has turned from being a figure of alienation and marginalization to one of aspiration. No longer does the witch manage the divide between the material and the divine, acting as an intermediary. She’s just another identity that requires only declaration and no real action, like feminist , like creative . The witch without knowledge is just
... See moreJessa Crispin • Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year
I just kind of know that there’s a Universal Consciousness, that we’re all a part of it, and that the world is more magical than we’ve been led to believe.
This is not my own idea. It’s not even a new idea. It’s a very old one. This is what Jesus was saying, and the Buddha, and Rumi. It is the Perennial Philosophy: all major religious and spiritual
... See morePacky McCormick • The Return of Magic
This year, 2024, set the stage. It’s the year the Vibe Shifted. In his In his year-defining essay, Vibe Shift, Santiago Pliego wrote:
... See moreFundamentally, the Vibe Shift is a return to—a championing of—Reality, a rejection of the bureaucratic, the cowardly, the guilt-driven; a return to greatness, courage, and joyous ambition.
The Vibe Shift is the
Packy McCormick • The Return of Magic
“to hone sensory receptivity to the marvelous specificity of things.” I would argue that this is another way of talking about learning to pay a certain kind of attention to the world. In so doing we may find, as Andrew Wyeth once commented about a work of Albrecht Dürer’s, that “the mundane, observed, became the romantic”— or, the enchanted.
L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
How can we begin to understand magic as a way of becoming radically embedded in our web of relations, rather than as a way of manipulating the elements from a distance?
