magick
One of my heuristics for growth is to seek out the magicians, and find the magic. Often without noticing, your progress in aspects of life or all of it unconsciously becomes linear. You made a certain amount of money last year, so you aim to make some ‘reasonable’ proportion more this year. But you are largely using the same tools to get 2x as you... See more
autotranslucence • Becoming a magician
519 - Access Imagination and Intuition that Ai Can’t Touch with Angus Fletcher PhD
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“Imagination is story, story is plot, plot is plan, imagination is planning. The brain evolved imagination in order to make plans.” Anger and anxiety are threat responses, our brain wants to deal with the threat through planning, we have to use our imagination. Kids don’t have a lot of anxiety or anger because when they have a threat response, they imagine something.”
Hope requires a doable plan - when hope is gone it’s time to imagine some new possibilities.
imagination as a tool - in magick, not is it true but is it useful?
study the past to connect with histories and traditions that have been oppressed, erased, or neglected at the feet of a seemingly disenchanted modernity.
Thorn Mooney • Witches Among Us
Some witches also happily embrace the placebo effect! Sometimes just the act of doing the spell can make us feel better, focus us, motivate us, and encourage us to expect positive change, and this should not be dismissed or discounted.
Thorn Mooney • Witches Among Us
being an armchair occultist who spends more time constructing arguments on Facebook than they do doing magic.
Jason Miller • Consorting with Spirits: Your Guide to Working with Invisible Allies
Witches with heavily land-based practices may work to learn about local wildlife and native plant life in order to serve as caretakers. Many witches believe that incorporating a local element into magic makes it more effective and personal, for example using native plants or minerals instead of importing herbs or crystals from other parts of the
... See moreThorn Mooney • Witches Among Us
Many practitioners frame their witchcraft within the bounds of psychology—a creative way to alter their thought patterns to be more productive and healthier, to address and recover from past traumas, or to develop a stronger sense of self and personal value.
Thorn Mooney • Witches Among Us
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
... See moreJonathan Rowson • Witch Envy
Why is it, after all, that some seemingly fantastical things get categorized as magic and others are called religion? Why do we say that a witch lighting a candle to make something happen is doing magic, but someone making a wish over their birthday candles isn’t?