A Witchcraft Manifesto
...and a Reading Group reminder...
Greetings, Initiates!
Reading Peter Grey for the first time exhilarated me. His book, Apocalyptic Witchcraft, gave me strength.
His work gave voice to the bloodthirsty beast inside me, raging in horror at the destruction of the world.
Loving the trees didn’t feel like enough. Listening to the wind didn’t feel like enough. I didn’t want to sit quietly and watch the famines spread and the birds fall from the sky.
I wanted my witchcraft to be a sword in the hand of the valkyries fighting for justice and love.
I wanted to blow up a pipeline.
I’m so excited that tonight in our reading group we get to discuss Apocalyptic Witchcraft together.
It’s a controversial text, which should make this discussion particularly lively. Can’t wait to see you there! 6pm PST, 10/17/23. More info below!
Love,
Amanda
Excerpt from Peter Grey’s “A Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft”
If the land is poisoned then witchcraft must respond.
It is not our way of life, it is life itself which is under threat.
Witchcraft is our intimate connection to the web of life.
We are the Witchcraft.
Our world has forever changed. The trodden paths no longer correspond. Witchcraft thrives in this liminal, lunar, trackless realm.
We are storm, fire and flood.
We will not be denied.
Witchcraft is the recourse of the dispossessed, the powerless, the hungry and the abused. It gives heart and tongue to stones and trees. It wears the rough skin of beasts. It turns on a civilization that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
If you have no price you cannot be bought. If you do not want you cannot be bribed. If you are not frightened you cannot be controlled.
Witchcraft is folk magic, the magic of the people and for the people.
We call an end to the pretense of respectability.
We will not disarm ourselves.
The War is upon us…
Join us tonight to discuss the rest of the text!
Reading Prompts
Tonight’s text is short but packs a punch. See below for a list of questions to help you prepare, and the links you need to read the text and join us…