On 10/12/2013 02:53, Morgan Leigh wrote:
Interesting discussion on FB about whether "astral" initiations work:
http://nick-farrell.blogspot.com/2013/12/golden-dawn-astral-initiation-rituals.html
and
http://magicoftheordinary.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/astral-initiation/
perhaps your work relevant to this debate too?
mogg morgan
> Greetings,
> When I started my PhD research about magical practice in virtual worlds
> I got a lot of criticism from the academy that it wasn't a real
> endeavour, but rather some kind of cute, pretend thing that the younger
> generation was mucking around with that wasn't worthy of our attention.
> Essentially that it was 'just a game'. Having spent five years doing
> rituals in virtual worlds I am now in a position to say that rituals can
> be excellently effectual in virtual worlds and though, for some, these
> worlds are 'just a game', for others they are the foundation of strong
> community and real religious activity. This understanding would have
> been impossible without doing the thing.
>
> The way rituals are done in virtual worlds is quite particularly
> different to meatspace rituals and it is only by performing those
> rituals in a virtual space that one learns how the virtual mechanics
> work and how to increase their efficacy. Building interactive props, not
> dissimilar to the technohoodie, is on of those ways. You can't
> stimulate all the senses in virtual space, there is no sense of smell
> for example, so you have to work out ways to increase sensory
> stimulation to compensate for that loss.
>
> The main thing virtual rituals teach one though is to consider more
> widely the nature of the real and not get hung up on things being 'not
> real'. The ancient Egyptian conception of effectiveness is useful in
> this case. A good thing is an effective thing. Don't worry about real or
> not real, but rather see what works and go with it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Morgan Leigh
> PhD Candidate
> School of Social Sciences
> University of Tasmania
>
>
>
> On 10/12/2013 3:40 AM, Pitch313 wrote:
>> Aloha,
>>
>> On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:48:21 -0800, Morgan Leigh <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> I was made - see http://hyperritual.com/blog/technomancer-hoodie/ I like
>>> the idea but its a bit ugly imho.
>> Honestly, I think that this example of clothing that casts magic spells
>> shows
>> us a different vector of occultural learning/practice that I, for one,
>> do not
>> quite know what to make of. The technomage hoodie provides feedback on
>> the practitioner's posture/gesture/performance--so that the spell is
>> accomplished when the practitioner behaves according to the clothing's
>> parameters.
>>
>> Conceivably, a Lodge or Trad or School could encoded the postures/
>> gestures/performances that characterize its magical outlook into the
>> clothing,
>> and use that encoded clothing to pass along its style and outlook.
>>
>> Or the clothing might accomplish something else magical that I haven't
>> imagined.
>>
>> I shared the technomage hoodie holding it to be a sort of stagey accessory.
>> But I can envision it (and similar such clothing) as having
>> possibilities for
>> innovation and the formation of postmodern magical outlooks and
>> organizations.
>>
>> (OK! An example. Here in the USA we hold Pagan Pride Days with parades
>> and festivities. A groups of practitioners wearing technomage hoodies
>> marches
>> in the parade, performing choreographed spells that they have learned from
>> wearing their encoded clothing.)
>>
>> Musing I Suppose That We Ought To Wear Techno-Magical Clothing
>> That Does Effective Magic With Us! Rose,
>>
>> Pitch
>>
>>
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