magical thinking
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?
David Abram • Magic As Radical Embedding In Our Web Of Relations · advaya
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It is the emotional and sensuous elements of ritual that are being explicitly drawn on as tools with which to confront the existential challenges we face collectively.
openDemocracy • Why Does Ritual Matter for Social Change?
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The witch is malevolent not because she is simply evil, but because she threatens incumbent power and the ways of knowing it relies on.
Jonathan Rowson • Witch Envy
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At its heart, belief magic is a combination of community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
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Both then and now, belief magic is ultimately decentralised and community-led (just ask a modern practitioner how they feel about the Magic Circle’s elitism). Just like the homemade pamphlets that circulated and enabled citizens to criticise the monarchy or church, their information channels do not rely on conventional means.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
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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.
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
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The Witch is not all hubble hubble toil and trouble. Sometimes what’s in play is a subtle shift in perception, a newfound openness to experience, and enchantment in the more-than-human world
Jonathan Rowson • Witch Envy
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Grief is a portal, an altared state, through which we can come to experience more magical understandings of this world and ourselves, as we realize our immersion in a world that is multidimensional, mysterious, animate, always changing.
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
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