“It can be done badly, and when done badly it can cause harm,” Ms. Thurston said. “For example, ‘How can we be in deep community if I can fire you?’”
This beats any shitty meme I could make from this article. Thanks for sharing.
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Ezra Bookman founded Ritualist, which describes itself as “a boutique consultancy transforming companies and communities through the art of ritual,” last year in Brooklyn. He has come up with rituals for small firms for events like the successful completion of a project — or, if one fails, a funeral.
The cult alarms are blaring in my brain.
Messages on the start-up’s Instagram feed read like a kind of menu for companies who want to buy operational rites a la carte: “A ritual for purchasing your domain name (aka your little plot of virtual land up in the clouds).” “A ritual for when you get the email from LegalZoom that you’ve been officially registered as an LLC.”
Ceremonial magic but for the corporate world.
I'd post more but I'm disgusted with the entire thing and stopped reading. I have a special kind of distaste for people that try to profit off of spiritual practices. I also can't help but think about the MKUltra program and the CIA's ties to cults whenever I read shit like this.
Talking about more guns, I had this vision in my head of me, with one of those old timey wooden crates laid with straw (or these neat boxes), going to each of my neighbors with a rifle, either AR15 or an AKM variant, and giving each one rifle along with a combat load in ammunition.
Ceremonial magic but for the corporate world.
A four-hour PowerPoint presentation, but the projector is pointing into a giant scrying mirror, and instead of a laser pointer, the presenter is using a copper-bladed sword with the Enochian sigil for Mammon engraved on it.
Good post, I too find those who profit off spirituality abhorrant. As the aquarian age comes to pass those seeking an external god shall dwindle whilst those who seek within shall be rewarded with a raise & a management position.
Visualizing an Apple branded monolith while deep in meditation so that Saint Jobs (pbuh) will grant me his blessings.
One of the founders of these firms co-hosts a Harry Potter podcast. Satire is indistinguishable from reality.
Guaranteed to be in overtime instead of being able to go home.
It hurts to read. It inspires anger and disgust in me. I am sadder for the experience.
This is some high grade Shadowrun shit. Wake me when the blood magic starts.
"Looks like someone needs to spend an extra 10 minutes in the 'Seen and Heard' booth, mister!"
I don't know if that's better it worse than trying to pretend Jesus wouldn't have been a communist today, but it's incredibly cancerous
Not to nerd out, but the Christian chuds have a point when they say Jesus wasn't into politics, but not for the reasons they think.
Jesus was a Jewish Apocalypticist. Meaning, he thought the world was coming to an end in the present generation. Like, within years of when he was doing his thing. So yeah, if I thought the world was coming to an end within a few years I wouldn't be too concerned about politics or wealth either.
Of course the end of the world never happened. So Christians have to come up with implausible explanations for all the times Jesus talked about the kingdom of god coming soon (hey, 2,000 years can be soon!). The plain reading of the gospels is "sell everything you have cause this is all gonna be over with soon". Since that doesn't really work anymore, Christians today just kinda pretend Jesus never said that.
my phone browser crashed while reading the article, and in the spirit of this post i'm going to take that as a sign and log off for a while
I'm excited to extend my failures into the spiritual realm. I was feeling a bit constrained failing only in personal and professional regards.
