Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space

@spiderrobotpig@witches.town OMG I did not know that sort of thing was actually a thing! (cc @somekindofcrow)

@spiderrobotpig@witches.town 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.

@spiderrobotpig@witches.town 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.

@spiderrobotpig@witches.town 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.

@spiderrobotpig@witches.town The series is 3 PDFs, 40-something pages each, and they're literally some of the best stuff on modern spiritwork that I have EVER READ, and that's my main area of focus.

So, yeah. :)

@spiderrobotpig@witches.town

"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."

@spiderrobotpig@witches.town 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):

@spiderrobotpig@witches.town 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. :)

@spiderrobotpig@witches.town 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. >.<

@ghost@anticapitalist.party Yeeeeah, I feel this 100%; I'm in Seattle. :|

@celesteh Oh, yeah, I'd seen that part already, it's not QUITE as bad as it sounds, but there's still some weird white triumphalism inherent in that name.

Also, as far as it being a native settlement... sure, but they probably didn't have an expectation of unbridled population growth to over a million people. :)

@PhoenixTril Hey, THOSE ones will get MORE liveable over time. :|

I read more. It gets worse.

If anyone else thought that outfti looks a little... Confederate Uniform, then, well, good job. 😩

He wanted to name the city Stonewall. 😩 😩 😩

And finally, "in light of the rebirth of a town after the collapse of the Hohokam civilization, the name Phoenix predominated." 🤦

(Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Phoenix,_Arizona#The_founding_of_Phoenix)

After having a semi-frustrating conversation centering around the livability of Phoenix Arizona, me and some friends naturally wondered: "whose dumbass idea was it to build a city in the middle of the desert anyway?" https://awoo.space/media/r0HB29GsgiU2O3WV9Es https://awoo.space/media/1n82hUGbGTdx-KzebwM

@Thaminga I mean, pretty much. :) Now I'm hoping for a War in Heaven or an endgame crisis to shake things up again. ;)

@mawr This is basically what I did with Stellaris. ^.^

I can't stop looking at the new Night Physics.O.O

http://nightphysics.tumblr.com/post/162092345513/volta-part-1-by-the-way-happy-solstice

(link CW: drug use, fire)

Ah, Summer Solstice, the day when I snark incessantly about mainstream paganism, apparently.