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‘Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine’ by David Kinsley
[…] This is because worshipping the Mahavidyas offers access to a world of spirits that is parallel to the physical world and impinges upon it. […] Other features that are particularized here are skulls and severed heads, sexuality and awakened consciousness, the conjunction of death and sexual imagery, the roles of women and reverence for women, and finally the potentially liberating nature of social antimodels.
‘The Magical Theory of Politics’ by Egil Asprem
Asprem distinguishes three camps in the “magic war over the 45th president of the United States” (p. 17): the Cult of Kek, the Magic Resistance, and the Magic Reaction, a taxonomy primarily determining “three phases of the conflict that stand in a chronological and dialectical relationship to one another.” (p. 17)