magical thinking
By community knowledge, I mean beliefs, truths and cures passed down over time.
By solidarity networks, I mean acting with trust, in small self-selecting groups.
By folklore, I mean the ritualistic repetition of the first to build the second.
By solidarity networks, I mean acting with trust, in small self-selecting groups.
By folklore, I mean the ritualistic repetition of the first to build the second.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
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At heart , magic embraces the power that small solidarity networks have to change the world through changing their own perceptions of reality .
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
Keely Adler added 5d
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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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
Keely Adler added 5d
At its heart, belief magic is a combination of community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
Keely Adler added 5d
The Witch is not easy to define or categorise. She’s an idea, a figure, a myth, an archetype, and a reality with her own transgressive epistemology. She thereby serves to shift perception and understanding, or at least invites such shifts, which many believe are essential today as ways to get out of our collective stuckness, and escape our ‘solipsi
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Keely Adler added 5d
Keely Adler added 5d
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
Keely Adler added 5d
Keely Adler added 5d
Enchantment is not apolitical. Disenchantment from ourselves and the world is a tool of colonialism.
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
Keely Adler added 5d