How Solitary Witches Lost Their Magic: A History

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🕰️ CHAPTERS 🕰️
00:00 The Meaning in Witchcraft: Solitary Witches and Capitalist Individualism
00:39 New Age and Manifesting
04:08 The Fight for the Narrative
08:07 Covid Pandemic and Witchcraft
10:40 1800s Victorians and Spiritism
13:02 Protestantism and Capitalism
17:18 Witchcraft Act 1542
21:52 World War I and Futurism
24:59 1920s Consumerism
26:01 1930s Nationalism
27:40 Adonism
34:03 World War II
42:34 Gerald Gardner and Wicca
48:41 Individualism vs Community
52:00 Margaret Thatcher and Neoliberal Individualism
57:26 The Kendal Project
59:27 Erhard Seminars Training EST
01:05:27 Self Expression
01:10:22 Individualism in Spirituality

📚BIBLIOGRAPHY📚

Christopher Partridge - The Re-Enchantment of the West Volume 1 Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture
https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/97805...

Christopher Partridge - The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2 Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture
https://bookshop.org/a/115825/9780567...

Ethan Doyle White - Wicca. History, Belief & Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
https://bookshop.org/a/115825/9781845...

Scott Cunningham - Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
https://bookshop.org/a/115825/9780875...

Bessel van der Kolk M.D. - The Body Keeps the Score
https://bookshop.org/a/115825/9780143...

Devon Price Ph.D. - Laziness Does Not Exist
https://bookshop.org/a/115825/9781982...

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‪@STRANGEONS‬A Very Deep Dive Into Reality Shifting
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