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I find it’s generally a good idea to banish before any magical act in order to remove any lurking ‘influences’ afterwards (unless of course you want whatever it is you have summoned to linger around). Banishing, like all acts of magick, can take any number of forms, the limit of which is your imagination.
Advanced Magick for Beginners
Alan Chapman
These are two different worlds. Nothing really prepares us for the differences. As F. A. Hayek pointed out in The Fatal Conceit, a modern person has to inhabit two worlds at the same time—a world that is intimate and a world that is distant, a world that is held together by love and a world that is held together by prices and monetary incentives. Hayek argued that we have an urge to take the norms and culture of our intimate family life and try to extend them into our less intimate commercial life. By that he didn’t mean being nice to the cashier at the grocery (assuming your grocery has a cashier) or kind to your co-workers. He meant that we have an urge to try to make the macroeconomy more like the microcosm of the family, taking the egalitarian norms of the family and extending those norms, via the political system, to society at large.
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Russ Roberts
Consumption is also a practice of appropriation.
Consumption is not just the greedy ingestion of the Other that leaves the consuming subject unchanged. The things we appropriate, with which we surround ourselves, create the substance of our selves in the first place.
Hyperculture
Byung-Chul Han and Daniel Steuer
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