magical thinking
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
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
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
At its heart, belief magic is a combination of community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
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
It’s not always easy to wade into wonder, to merge with mystery. It is tempting to overthink, overcomplicate, to distance, to hedge, to hesitate. But the unknown is the only destination for any maker, and one must pursue it with faith and enchanted abandon.
Pam Grossman • Magic Maker
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
“ Enchantment is just the measure of the quality of our attention.
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #91
I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.
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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... See more