The Occult, Games, and Human Play: Part I, Consecrating the Playground

One of the most fascinating aspects of the occult is its tendency to transform ordinary things into sacred ones. Brooms become ritual tools. Rooms become temples. Games and play become gateways to spiritual experience.

A long and close relationship exists between the games, sports, and performances people turn to for entertainment, and the sacred arts and rituals that ceremonial magicians, witches, and esoteric priestesses use in their spiritual and magical work.