Category: witchcraft
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Words to Live By: Audre Lorde’s ‘A Litany for Survival’
I also think about the word “speak” and how it could be replaced with “act”. We should take action for the things we care about, including making a more equitable world. But this applies to our witchcraft, too. We are not supposed to be here, but here we are, and with our magic, we can…
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Invoking Balance: Why We Need to Complicate the Light/Dark Binary
Darkness has come to mean things in culture, often through metaphor, just as light has. But has the association between darkness and light as a binary opposition which then maps onto such concepts as fearful/awesome, evil/good, death/life, rebellion/order, primal/spiritual and others always been so? Well, in short, no it hasn’t. And is it a quite…
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The Danger Within: A Critical Assessment of the Witch as a Monstrous Other
As walkers between worlds—that of life and death, here and the Otherworld, mundane and magical—the witch is naturally a monster. They also even traverse the lines between human and animal, with their ability to turn themselves or others into animals, thereby crossing even the border between the natural order of God and the unholy powers…
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I am Blessed, I am Damned: On Having Psychosis With Religious Themes When You’re a Witch
…psychosis with religious or spiritual themes is exceedingly common in those with this form of mental distress: the linked article above, from the website Living with Schizophrenia, explains that around half of people with schizophrenia will have some form of religious delusion at some point.