We Are Not Alone
Perdita Finn on taking back our magic
An excerpt from Perdita Finn’s Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World.
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Monotheism was the great silencer of the voices of the dead. In monotheism, there was only one God, and he only speaks through his authorized clergy and scriptures. The idols were smashed and the many deities of the pagan world were demoted. Protestantism eliminated even the saints—which had been a powerful route to the ancestral realm for so many of the faithful. To consort with spiritual helpers of any kind other than the Big Guy on High became increasingly suspect, and ever more dangerous. Eventually, atheism managed to eliminate what little was left of the divine and replace a singular god in man’s image with man himself, rational and all-powerful.
To reopen channels of communication with the ancestral realm is to find ourselves not only in communication with our departed loved ones, but in an animate world in which all beings are eternally transmigrating between the land of the living and the land of the dead.
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God may or may not exist. But the dead are real. The ancestors are still here. The land is here with a myriad of beings of all kinds who love us. We have friends. We have helpers. We have allies. We have brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, without end.
We are not alone.
Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World (Running Press, Hachette Book Group, 2023)
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