magical thinking

The violence of colonialism and capitalism has always sought to erase the inherent value of the world. Empire continues targeting those with deep and wide understandings of kinship, uprooting people from the lands they love, destroying their olive groves, using weapons of sexual and gender violence, and mass murdering those who resist. Our collecti... See more

Enchantment is not apolitical. Disenchantment from ourselves and the world is a tool of colonialism.

Enchantment is a practice, and a collective one. We will have to return our attention to the places of beauty and pleasure and joy and magic and empowerment. We will have to do it again and again. This is not a solitary practice. We will have to lean on each other - human and more than.

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?

At heart , magic embraces the power that small solidarity networks have to change the world through changing their own perceptions of reality .

Our enchantment is a form of nourishment. Our enchantment is medicine. Even experiencing just a few moments of this world’s beauty can reorient us. Our enchantment resources us, nourishes our capacity to hold complexity, and to respond creatively to activation and heartbreak. When we are able to sense ourselves and the world as full of magic, even ... See more

At its heart, belief magic is a combination of community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore.