Category: Magic, Spirituality, Religion
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Can the New Age Be Decolonized? A Comparison of Indigenous and New Age Epistemologies
Introduction We are living at a time when the term decolonization is on the tip of almost everyone’s tongue, whether or not the speaker understands the concept fully or supports its political agenda. Simply put, decolonization can be understood as the process of dismantling the institution of the colonial states. Parallel to this process of…
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Queering Ancestral Connection for Decolonial Healing
This article was originally published in Airmid’s Almanac, Samhain 2021 issue. Many of us who engage in the work of reconnecting to Irish ancestral traditions find ourselves at the intersection of multiple contested identities. For myself as a queer settler living on the stolen lands of the Abenaki people here in so-called Vermont (U.S.), I…
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Magic Kills Industry
What does it mean to align our magical practice against oligarchy, against empire, to dismantle the patriarchy and the capitalist-colonial machine? How did our ancestors utilize their animistic understandings of the world in defiance of the capitalist project to objectify and desacralize Nature? I find this quote from Silvia Federici inspiring: “Eradicating [magical] practices was…
Sylvan Revolutions 