This is an episode I hesitated putting out for all kinds of reasons. This practice is something I mostly keep to myself as a personal thing but I'm getting more and more people contacting me about it so I figured it's time to let the cat out of the bag.

In it, I explore the idea of what it means to relate to an animate world that is magical and responds to all kinds of ritualized actions. It's about sorcery, magic, animism, and sentient agency in the so-called external world. This is obviously a little bit of a taboo topic, particularly in the west where we have convinced ourselves that the world is dead and therefore we can do what we want with it, or on the other side we have been told that anyone who interacts with this perspective is evil somehow. 

I talk about how different frames can change the description of what happened (spirits vs energy vs god vs nature) but that essentially at the base the essence is more or less the same even though it gets dressed up in different ways.

I mentioned a few resources (hopefully I didn't forget any, I recorded this a few weeks before I wrote these shownotes):

Josephine McCarthy & the Quaeria school:

https://josephinemccarthy.com/

https://www.quareia.com/ 

Glitch Bottle Podcast:

https://www.glitchbottle.com/podcast 

Aidan Wachter (recommend his book Six Ways to start):

https://www.aidanwachter.com/ 

Denis Poisson (great youtube channel for basics):

https://www.youtube.com/@FoolishFishBooks 

The Emerald Podcast (specific episode linked here, highly recommended):

https://www.themythicbody.com/podcast/animism-normative-consciousness-re-released/ 

Please drop me a message if you're interested in this topic! Enjoy