‘Applied Magic’ is a series of short essays on magical theory and practice. In the current essay I am reading, ‘The Three Kinds of Reality’, Fortune defines the space in which we exist, and in which occultists practice; the unknown, the unmanifest, and the nonexistent.

Eating the fruit…. Last year I had written a post about the complexities of inheriting colonial knowledge called, The Fruit

About 18 months ago I started a quick and dirty blog-post to answer the question, ‘what exactly is witchcraft?’ I thought it would be simple, a post that I could write in my sleep.

I should have known better, as I tend to overcomplicate everything – but I also don’t like reductive essays or posts such as 10 easy ways to _____________.

I started with the question ‘what is a witch?’, but once I started writing and researching I realized the answer was not as straightforward as I thought.

This essay explores the uneasy question of whether all ideas that were shaped within colonial worldviews are irredeemably compromised, or if it is possible to incorporate ideas one finds useful while acknowledging the ugliness in the source. Through a reflection on Dion Fortune, it examines responsibility, context, and the intentions of our actions and ideas.