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
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
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
In a mainstream that places insufficient emphasis on communal ritual, we may be losing access to cultural technologies that have been used throughout human history. By consciously attempting to ‘re-enchant the world,’ we can help to create and maintain social bonds as well as our connection to the living earth.
openDemocracy • Why Does Ritual Matter for Social Change?
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
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
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.