Your Brain on Magick: 15 Year Magick-Versary Event

What is magick?

https://www.learnreligions.com/magic-and-magick-95856

Does all magic/magick exploit or expand powerful cognitive changes in the human brain?

https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/features/what-magic-has-taught-us-about-how-the-brain-works

### Rituals as Tools for Mental Health and Focus

Rituals, including those in magick, can play a role in mental health:

Nietzsche's Amor Fati.: While the German philosopher tells us to love our fate unconditionally, I'm proposing something more alchemical: co-creation with disappointment. It's not about passively accepting what happens, nor gaslighting yourself into loving the unlovable. Rather, it's asking "what choices do I have in the direction of beauty given the limitations before me in this moment?" I explore how this principle transforms practical enchantment beyond simple success/fail metrics into continuous creation. Whether you're dealing with planetary transits or broken water towers in indigenous villages, this approach connects the Dine concept of the Beauty Way with our magical capacity to participate in the unfolding of reality. Roll your suitcase through cosmic mud with me on this one.