technoshamanic systems and the ethics of magic and mental illness

and a little side quest into Feldenkrais

Welcome to our weekly newsletter full of little portals to guide you to alternate universes. I’m

Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz

, your cosmic tour guide and the head witch in charge at Holisticism.

Today’s email includes:

• technoshamanic systems

• election astrology 🫣

• visual spells 🧚💎🧀

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IN THE ETHER

📝 GUIDE Navigating the Mysteries by Martin Shaw

On meaning making, crafting our own mythologies, and abandoning certainty. Also this featured excerpt feels EXTREMELY Holisticism-coded.

📚 READ This Charmless Woman

I sometimes feel that charm and risk aversion cannot coexist. I am doomed to be responsible because I am too “old” now (26) and the costs of being irresponsible outweigh the short-term benefits.

🔎 EXPLORE TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS New Cosmological Models for Survival

Artist Suzanne Treister is the epitome of “you can do whatever you want” with art. She has works exploring everything from creating an delusional time traveler alter ego to exhibits on museums of the future (that feature some WILD tarot cards). The epitome of “let her cook.”

🔎 EXPLORE Should people with mental illness avoid ALL magic?

Been chewing on a spiritual psychosis series for The Twelfth House that discusses the ways spirituality can turn into a full blown psychotic episode and how to reckon without abandoning one’s practices. Have yet to come to a thesis but adding this into the brain soup.

📚 READ The Astrology of Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential Election

Not to election post but… As a follow-up to Who will win the Presidential Election in 2024 according to Astrology?, Catherine Urban analyzes Kamala Harris’ birth chart wrt the election. I’m ~personally~ less interested in astrology as a predicative practice, more interested in reading this as a “Oh, interesting way to potentially interpret [insert astrology thing here].” Alas, We Live In A Society.

📚 READ Stevie Nicks Has No Idea What Stereophonic Is

Stevie Nicks is literally CEO of being unbothered. Love that equanimous witch.

🔎 EXPLORE Are.na Board of the Week — celestial by 0x z33

it’s giving Aquarius Venus

THE NORTH NODE

Sooo excited for the editorial calendar class this week that I litcherally filmed a reel to post on the ‘gram. See you in the North Node tmrw for Making (And Using) an Editorial Calendar in Notion Without Wanting to Poke Your Own Eyes Out Or Abandon It To Be Slowly Consumed By Digital Moss

What is the North Node? Holisticism’s intuitive business school and community for nonlinear, neurodivergent freaks & fairies.

How do I join? Doors might be closed to the public, but dear reader, the waitlist is open to you! Join now and you’ll be the first to know about exclusive offseason entry.

🔌 JOIN → The North Node Waitlist

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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VISUAL SPELLS

IT AIN'T THAT DEEP ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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