Community Ritual And Transformative Change: A Primer For Activists
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Ever find yourself feeling stale, out of control or negative towards your community or household? Sabrina Scott addresses this issue from a fresh, educated perspective with options to help you break free of your personal negaverse.
Community Ritual and Transformative Change is deeply rooted in both of Scott’s political and academic passions — activism and magical practices. She believes that before one can tackle social change on any scale, enhancing energy flow through ritualistic practices can be entirely beneficial to increasing your impact. Scott approaches this goal from an academic, almost scientific angle without unnecessary literary flourishes. She precisely addresses the benefit of consciously practicing rituals before engaging in your community; magic is considered creating change, which in this light is not so different from activism.
This primer for activists, while potentially intimidating in terms of terminology, demands that you pay attention and think critically about what you’re engaging in. In the words of Scott: “what’s the point of expending energy, making an effort and directing it towards a cause, if there is no more than five to 10 minutes of thought that goes into it?” Well put, Sabrina. (Andrew Melanson)