Welcome to the first Chaotopia newsletter of 2019!
May at least some of the exciting things awaiting you this year be very, very good.
Archive of Newsletters since September 2018.
Archive of Newsletters up to August 2018
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The Big News: Magic, Witchcraft, Chaos and Beyond #4
Tickets are fast selling out for next Saturday's (9th Feb) day of workshops with Cat Vincent, Anwen and me on 'Real Magic in the Real World'. Tickets available here.
Cat will be talking about 'The Urban Cunning. Expect a lot on street spellcasting, Landscape Punk (which is psychogeography without the academics), nicking everything not nailed down in urban fantasy and the like. Then, we'll nip down the road, find somewhere with some buddleia and do a thing.'
The beastlike face below is from a sycamore in my local woods. It's just one spirit I shall be mentioning in my presentation 'Half-Formed Spirit and Aimless Wandering', about found magical objects and the spirits of landscape.
And in other news:
For anyone who has a copy of my booklet/CD 'Connect Your Breath! Breathwork, Ecstasy and Healing': I have a nice new de-noised version of the CD.
If you bought this off of me (it's only available from http://www.chaotopia.com/publications/) and therefore have the old, noisy version, and you would like a free download of the nice new one, email me at david23lee@chaotopia.com.
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BLOGS
Why do we honour Eris? Some thoughts on my blog.
On the Runa-Eormensyl blog's Storm-Moon issue, an excerpt from Christopher Smith's excellent book ' Icelandic Magic'.
Great post on IOT-BIS blog by Frater Kite, on the Welsh spirit-horse Mari Llwyd.
AND OTHER GOOD STUFF
Also, the essay's brief mention of chaos magic at least positions CM correctly in modern pagan history - which is something few have managed. And so it should - this is Cat Vincent, who has seen close-up how much of that scene evolved.
This lengthy essay is to read and then to keep for reference.
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WORLD OF 23
Sheffield is going to be a centre of the Discordian multiverse again this Summer. Announcements will be made of a Festival 23 party, I am told. The Stone of Ecclesall Woods is getting even more powered up.
This month if you are in Dublin, you might want to check out the Film Festival for a film by Paul Duane about the Toxteth Day of the Dead and the pyramid of dead Discordians that Cauty and Drummond have started building.
John Higgs has a new book out - 'The Future Starts Here, Adventures in the 21st Century.' He writes: 'The future hasn't happened yet. The idea that our civilisation is doomed is not established fact. It is a story we tell ourselves.'
'In the 1980s, we gave up on the future. When we look ahead now, we imagine economic collapse, environmental disaster and the zombie apocalypse. But what if we are wrong? What if this bleak outlook is a generational quirk that afflicted those raised in the twentieth century, but which is already beginning to pass? What if we do have a future after all?'
Well, there's a hell of a question. I shall have to read it and find out.
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