On the craft of magick in social activism

Christopher Penczak, author and
co-founder of New Hampshire-based Temple of Witchcraft

I have learned so much this morning from these leaders in the neopagan movement--including Christopher Penczak, whose work I've long admired, and Gwion Raven, a West Coast witch and priestess who is new to me. So many smart, talented, committed people are speaking out in this way, thinking globally, locally and, most of all, forward about magick as an awareness, orientation and philosophy that can and must infuse social justice action.

Please visit the link below at Intersections. Read, enjoy and work with the questions posed and wisdom offered.

Bright blessings,
Eva
                                                                                                                                                                  
Twelve Healing Stars, Part 1: Pagans Speak Out on Magick and Social Justice
by Tim, Intersections, October 12, 2014

Marina Warner's ‘Stranger Magic’

Gardens of Unearthly Delights: ‘Stranger Magic’ by Marina Warner
by Harold Bloom, The New York Times, March 23, 2012

What if the dance dances us?

Lake Lowell, Idaho (c)2011, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

"...perhaps the most vital task of the sleight-of-hand magician is precisely to startle the senses from their slumber, to shake our eyes and our ears free from the static, habitual ways of seeing and hearing into which these senses have fallen and the deadening influence of abstract and overly-objectified ways of speaking and thinking.

"Yet perhaps such magic is also, now, the province of all the arts..."

--David Abram, Ph.D., Alliance for Wild Ethics

A wonder: Do we find ourselves caught up within and experienced by the dancing that we see?

Does the dance we see also see us?

And, if so, how might that make awareness and transformation available to us?

I welcome you to read an essay by David Abram--"Animism, Perception, and Earthly Craft of the Magician"--and to consider his thoughts as well as my questions and how they might relate to our experience with dance.

Please feel free to post your responses as comments here and/or on this post as it appears on my Facebook wall.

Thank you!

Eva's Book Club (3)

Dance folks, what are you reading?

Latest on my nightstand:

The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2003)
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the culture of slavery. Highly recommended.

Just completed:

The Accidental Masterpiece: On The Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman (The Penguin Press, 2005)

Magic Power Language Symbol: A Magician's Exploration of Linguistics by Patrick Dunn (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2008)

Use the Comments feature to tell us what you're reading!