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TechnoWitch: Ancient Wisdom, Digital Tools
Look around you. Times change. As the times change, so do the tools of our Craft.
Enter the TechnoWitch.
Do you use technology in your practice?
How much do you know about it?
Could you be using technomagic without knowing?
Can what you don't know hurt you?
Find out!
Join the conversation on navigating magic's changing tides, the future of technology, and your part in it!
Enter the TechnoWitch.
Do you use technology in your practice?
How much do you know about it?
Could you be using technomagic without knowing?
Can what you don't know hurt you?
Find out!
Join the conversation on navigating magic's changing tides, the future of technology, and your part in it!
153 pages, Paperback
Published October 7, 2021
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About the author
E.E. Warren
9 books3 followersAuthor, wife, mom, sister, cat mom - and witch. I live in a rural area of York, PA. I live next door to one of my sisters, and spend lots of time at my husband's rehearsals (he's a musician). In what seems like a previous life, I was an animator, a graphic artist and a video editor in a TV studio.
I love reading; love different genres. Most of my writing will likely skew to the supernatural - I guess that's how my mind is wired! Still, with the release of "Song of the Ancients," my Sci-Fi debut, I hope to prove that I can write other genres!
Favorite authors: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ursula K. LeGuin, Deborah Harkness, Molly Harper, PC Cast, Kathleen McGowan and Chloe Neill. And in the non-fiction arena, anything by Graham Hancock!
I love reading; love different genres. Most of my writing will likely skew to the supernatural - I guess that's how my mind is wired! Still, with the release of "Song of the Ancients," my Sci-Fi debut, I hope to prove that I can write other genres!
Favorite authors: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ursula K. LeGuin, Deborah Harkness, Molly Harper, PC Cast, Kathleen McGowan and Chloe Neill. And in the non-fiction arena, anything by Graham Hancock!
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July 19, 2022
TechnoWitch is a book about using modern technology as tools for witchcraft. The essential theme of the book seems to be that intent is the basis of magic, and intent is seen in our use of technology. It starts with some fairly obvious ideas: that witches can have altars oniine; that an online altar can be accessed at any time due to it being digital; that online games can serve as hosts for altars and sacred spaces, and for practicing magic.
Then it delves into a lot of speculation about magic, including the suggestion that everything posted online is a spell because of the author's intent while sending it out onto the internet. There is some discussion about memetic warfare, which if you don't know, means using online memes to promote information that is intended to support a particular position, political or otherwise, and attack the opponents of that position (thus, "warfare"). There is a conversational discussion among family members of the author about whether those using memetic warfare are using magic, either knowingly or unknowingly. The point is made that these memes are being sent out into the world (by means of the internet) with intent, and therefore they are a form of magic.
I struggled with some of the concepts presented in the book. I find it hard to accept that some images, mp3s, and various writings saved in a digital "sacred space" serve the same purpose as a physical altar with actual objects on it, or a physical sacred space that has been consecrated. But this may be a matter of my preconceived notions. I haven't rejected the concepts the book presents. I need time to let them percolate and sink in.
The book is well written in my opinion. The author takes a conversational approach to us, the readers. While reading I often felt as though we were sitting together in a room having a discussion. And then at the end, there is the actual conversation the author had with her family members.
Finally, there is a wealth of information presented in the Bibliography, consisting mainly of links to websites that give more information on topics addressed in the book.
It is certainly worth reading for all witchy folk. It has given me a lot to think about: new concepts. I liked the observation that witches of old were using the modern technology of their time and would be doing the same if they were here today.
Then it delves into a lot of speculation about magic, including the suggestion that everything posted online is a spell because of the author's intent while sending it out onto the internet. There is some discussion about memetic warfare, which if you don't know, means using online memes to promote information that is intended to support a particular position, political or otherwise, and attack the opponents of that position (thus, "warfare"). There is a conversational discussion among family members of the author about whether those using memetic warfare are using magic, either knowingly or unknowingly. The point is made that these memes are being sent out into the world (by means of the internet) with intent, and therefore they are a form of magic.
I struggled with some of the concepts presented in the book. I find it hard to accept that some images, mp3s, and various writings saved in a digital "sacred space" serve the same purpose as a physical altar with actual objects on it, or a physical sacred space that has been consecrated. But this may be a matter of my preconceived notions. I haven't rejected the concepts the book presents. I need time to let them percolate and sink in.
The book is well written in my opinion. The author takes a conversational approach to us, the readers. While reading I often felt as though we were sitting together in a room having a discussion. And then at the end, there is the actual conversation the author had with her family members.
Finally, there is a wealth of information presented in the Bibliography, consisting mainly of links to websites that give more information on topics addressed in the book.
It is certainly worth reading for all witchy folk. It has given me a lot to think about: new concepts. I liked the observation that witches of old were using the modern technology of their time and would be doing the same if they were here today.
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