⚡Eineygður ☯ Flakkari⚡ on Nostr: Nudhul Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado nprofile1q…l49hh :daddy: Sun Yeah true. I'm ...
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Yeah true. I'm using it in the colloquial sense. Even scholars debate about that constantly because it's too ambiguous a term. Like if you say a prayer over a candle, that's magic right? But if you do it in church, it's religion? On closer examination, the line defines in-group vs out-group more than any distinction in the actual phenomenon under discussion. Never mind that it was originally a reference to Zoroastrians, and used by a whole host of people in a pejorative sense to denounce other people's religious practices even 2,000 years ago and more. As to mysticism though, I think that's a different beast. It's more an internal acquisition of knowledge/perspective about the world and relationship with self. Can have some overlap, but not so much about exterior cause and effect as it is about inner change of consciousness.
Anyway, unlike you, I find myself fascinated by this stuff, since infancy. Especially now the intersection between ancient shamanistic practices (incl witchcraft, occultism, western magickal tradition, etc) and it's modern incarnation via the use of media and technology at the hands of the corporatocracy. It's clandestine cultural influence can't be understated. Far from some mysterious secret society lurking in the shadows, the real mccoy is more truthfully lurking in everyone's hands in the form of their so-called `smart` devices.
Yeah true. I'm using it in the colloquial sense. Even scholars debate about that constantly because it's too ambiguous a term. Like if you say a prayer over a candle, that's magic right? But if you do it in church, it's religion? On closer examination, the line defines in-group vs out-group more than any distinction in the actual phenomenon under discussion. Never mind that it was originally a reference to Zoroastrians, and used by a whole host of people in a pejorative sense to denounce other people's religious practices even 2,000 years ago and more. As to mysticism though, I think that's a different beast. It's more an internal acquisition of knowledge/perspective about the world and relationship with self. Can have some overlap, but not so much about exterior cause and effect as it is about inner change of consciousness.
Anyway, unlike you, I find myself fascinated by this stuff, since infancy. Especially now the intersection between ancient shamanistic practices (incl witchcraft, occultism, western magickal tradition, etc) and it's modern incarnation via the use of media and technology at the hands of the corporatocracy. It's clandestine cultural influence can't be understated. Far from some mysterious secret society lurking in the shadows, the real mccoy is more truthfully lurking in everyone's hands in the form of their so-called `smart` devices.