I feel like I'm going to need to find more/go into a bit more about using an urban landscape in magick.

Like, the Urban Witchraft tag on Tumblr was a lot smaller than I was hoping, so I'll just think about some stuff surrounding it

@spiderrobotpig Whatever you find about this, I will be interested in. So much 'urban paganism' stuff I see is 'well here's how you can manage to do nature-based stuff even if you live in the horrible debased city' which... no. >.<

@indi I know I've reblogged some pretty good stuff, and I'm trying to look into Tech Magick as well given that they are linked.

Some stuff was mentioning like, line up your banishing spell with trash days and grab cool shit off the ground.

Mostly stuff like this, which is why I feel like I need to help fill in the gap haha

https://samanthasgrimoire.tumblr.com/post/162170946930/city-witch-100

@spiderrobotpig Yeah, I was just looking through that stuff and there's some good stuff in there, diminished only a bit for me since witchcraft isn't exactly my style. :)

@indi Yeah, I totally get that haha

@spiderrobotpig A bit of synchronicity, by the way, from something I reading just last night that made me do a hell-yeah.

From Phil Hine's "Techniques of Modern Shamanism, Volume 3" (http://philhine.org.uk/writings/pdfs/tbfv1.pdf):

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"We don�t seem to have a magical approach to the complexities of city-life. We�'ve hardly begun to touch the psychic complexities of urban living; how it affects us and generates weird elementals and semi-sentient nexuses of energy. It seems to me that we spend too much time searching for a connection with the past, whilst doing our best to ignore that we are hurtling at breakneck speed into the future."

@indi Damn that's good.

I need to read that

@indi I wonder how much more Modern Shamanism type stuff there is, that seems incredibly fascinating tbh

@spiderrobotpig TBH it's kind of a mess, broadly speaking. When you go looking for 'shamanism', most of what you find will be gross appropriative new-age-y stuff.

But for me, the base approach and worldview makes so much sense that it's worth sorting through the crap.

@indi Yeah, super not a fan of the appropriativeness of shamanism in general, which is why I've mostly avoided it?

But it does give me the same feels that Chaos Magick does, so I definitely need to be able to look into it without stealing from First Nations tbh

@spiderrobotpig The appropriation question gets really hard when it comes to shamanism because when you trace cultural practices back far enough, you'll find that a whole lot of them end up rooting in animism and trance states and the sorts of things that 'shamanic practices' focus on, and we end up in a situation of 'there's no better word even though this word has some problems circling around it'

@indi Yeah, I absolutely get that tbh.

Just as a white American, the way I hear a lot of white shamanic writers talk about shamanism always feels really gross tbh?

This book seems really good though?