magical thinking
Our enchantment with the world can coexist with our DIS-enchantment with violent systems and ideologies. Our grief and love for this world and one another can actually disrupt spells that keep us complicit and passive and disempowered. When we become disenchanted with business as usual, we make room for the world and other ways of being in it that... See more
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
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[Image Description: two black cats sit on a roof and look up at a full moon. 1. in the mood to ask the moon how to engage in revolution 2. in the mood to embrace mystery and commune with my grief 3. in the mood to be guided by my intuition 4. in the mood to dream up a softer, liberated world 5. in the mood to... See more
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Alexandr Wang • Betting on Unknown Unknowns - by Alexandr Wang Betting on Unknown Unknowns
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
Grief and enchantment with the world are not mutually exclusive. Rage and enchantment are not mutually exclusive. Our sense of possibility and magic can swell as our hearts shatter
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
Sympathy is the art of enchantment, of using analogies to change the world. The magician wants something to happen. They make a representation of it in some other action, then act it out in an altered state of consciousness. This creates a sympathetic link between the ritual and the desired effect.
Max Anton Brewer • The Mirror of Language
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
magical knowledge tends to be passed from person to person, rather than disseminated top down.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
When I use the word enchantment, I mean a bunch of things...
I mean a sense of curiosity, imagination, delight, pleasure, wonder, and awe in the ways we sense ourselves, the world, and what’s possible.
I mean a more deeply embodied sensing of the life, animacies, and worlds around us that colonialism and capitalism seek to flatten and erase.
I mean a... See more
I mean a sense of curiosity, imagination, delight, pleasure, wonder, and awe in the ways we sense ourselves, the world, and what’s possible.
I mean a more deeply embodied sensing of the life, animacies, and worlds around us that colonialism and capitalism seek to flatten and erase.
I mean a... See more