Urban paganism

Introduction

Urban paganism is very similar to City Magick. If you want a distiniction I'd say that the paganism side is knowing, respecting and loving your environment, and the magick side is using that relationship to enact change.

Urban paganism is treating the urban environment as if it were the real world (it is). I don't feel closer to nature around trees and fresh streams. Nature is everywhere, you can't get away from it. You can find it exactly where you are. Showing the same respect to a traffic light as you would to a tree. A car is as natural as a fish, a ring-pull is as easy to charge as a crystal. A discarded kebab contains as much of the divine as a unspoilt waterfall.

Related Pages

• Nightclub Grounding Ritual
• Ley Veins
• Urban Bestiary
• Ring-pull

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External Resources

(origional list nicked from the barbelith wiki)

Barbelith threads

• General:
  • City magick:the personal project
  • Urban Occultism

• Books:
  • City Magick and Grant morrison
  • Urban Primitive

• Divination:
  • Divination techniques
  • How the Mediamancy works?

• Leylines:
  • Finding leylines and powerpoints?

• Totems:
  • Animal Magick
  • Psychotic theorem hour: Humans as insect/reptile hybrids

• City Gods:
  • technocitytotems - taxi
  • technocitytotems - IXAT, an odd message

• Traditional Gods:
  • contacting the gods
  • Bacchus: A Simple Working

• Psychogeography:
  • Psychogeography of London
  • Ghosts and psychogeography

• Surrealist Techniques:
  • Magick, Cut-Ups, & Collages

• Related:
  • Magic for the Flat Broke
  • grafitti
  • Club Magick: Dancing your way to becoming a better magician
  • Piercing and Spirituality.

Websites

• Surrealist Techniques:
  • Critical Paranoia

Books

(don't forget to put the AmazonLinks that give money to barbelith)

• Children of Chaos - Douglas Rushkoff
• Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: a Spiritual Survival Guide
• Touched by Fire - Phil Hine (ebook)