Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:08 pm
I thought that I would post this to the forum, as it prompted some interesting questions to me, and presents an interesting view of the context of witchcraft within the world which we live and practice in today. There did not seem a relevant enough thread for it already in existence, which is the reason for starting this new one, but if one ever comes across that rare occasion of ‘spare time’, this could be an interesting way to spend half an hour or so of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NkPM_UrjZc
I think at times Peter Grey’s conclusions come dangerously close to inferring the practice of witchcraft with politics. However, within a world which is allegedly governed by it, he does present some interesting views of how witchcraft can be seen in context and in opposition to it, if it is forced to come into contact with it at all as a result of the world within which it finds itself framed today.
His idea of a witchcraft that is apocalyptic is interesting in that it does not denote the objective dissolution of all things that many monotheistic religions may suggest, but instead a kind of disclosure of revelation that leads to a unity between practices against what he sees as a common enemy; that which seeks to lay waste to nature and, essentially, spirituality/divinity.
His aim here seems to be a witchcraft that regains strength, rather than the ‘social joke’ he suggests that it has become, via an idea of unity which does in some ways relate to the unity that lies at the heart of many of our paths and searches.
My opinions on this are far from formed, but thought it interesting enough to share, in case others may also find it so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NkPM_UrjZc
I think at times Peter Grey’s conclusions come dangerously close to inferring the practice of witchcraft with politics. However, within a world which is allegedly governed by it, he does present some interesting views of how witchcraft can be seen in context and in opposition to it, if it is forced to come into contact with it at all as a result of the world within which it finds itself framed today.
His idea of a witchcraft that is apocalyptic is interesting in that it does not denote the objective dissolution of all things that many monotheistic religions may suggest, but instead a kind of disclosure of revelation that leads to a unity between practices against what he sees as a common enemy; that which seeks to lay waste to nature and, essentially, spirituality/divinity.
His aim here seems to be a witchcraft that regains strength, rather than the ‘social joke’ he suggests that it has become, via an idea of unity which does in some ways relate to the unity that lies at the heart of many of our paths and searches.
My opinions on this are far from formed, but thought it interesting enough to share, in case others may also find it so.