Scrying the Screen: Invoking Magic & Power Through Digital Libraries

Moon Cult is excited to welcome Danny Scopelliti, MLIS for a look at digital libraries, archives, and resources for esoteric knowledge and occult research 📚

The digital screen is a potent magical medium. It allows one to gaze into cyber-realms containing artifacts of magic and the occult. By scrying such materials, the practitioner, researcher, and layperson alike may partake in unique and transportive experience. As with any form of magic, a kind of techne, or craft, is required: skills and approaches to aid and enact the full power of the medium.

As such, Scrying the Screen will guide attendees through the realm of digital library collections. This exploration aims to explore how libraries can serve as doorways for exploration centered on the visual & textual cultures of the occult sphere. 

As a feature of the digital humanities, these digital collections usher us towards new vistas of expression, appreciation, and practice. Skills for…