RE: haptocracy. Holy moly, I am delighted for a word describing this, and shall adopt it. Yes. This is particularly a chronic disability/neurodivergence issue - but even when you consider everyone. There's generally a better way of working which is unique to each person, and it's most beneficial for all to allow them to do so.
One day, I will meet a line manager who understands this. Thank you for your kind words on the job; it was 9 months of pretty much this thing. "We can't make the changes you requested in week one, and whenever we discover you adapting a task independently we will require you to stop. Now, shall we discuss some goals for improving your wellbeing and work performance? But not the things you were already doing". It was in a very large old library, and the loss of the books and the building is raw indeed.
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Hehehe it's the Ritual Magic Workbook by Dolores Ashcroft Nowicki; like many books in the ceremonial tradition, it reads more like self-insert fanfiction about an imaginary group the author would like to run, than an actual working tradition. i.e. she describes herself as Director of Studies for her tradition - and while I understand and share the fantasy of a Harry-Potter style real magical subculture, that's not actually how it works.
I've kept it because in the first "month", she writes "Now set aside a room in your house for your temple" - and every subsequent month has a DIY project like, now it's time to make your columns. Get a large roll of corrugated card and place a football atop them, and spray paint one white, one black. It's really charming; a touch silly; but every time I've moved house, I've thought "perhaps I should set aside one room as a temple", so I shouldn't make too much fun, as the idea clearly appeals to me.
Anyway. WRT Harry Potter. She has a chunk in month 11 about how to set up a working group, and it is again a kind of fan-fiction in which, perhaps, there truly were networks of students under her aegis; and if there were they could do this, and that, and collect subs so the group could buy books together and go on coach trips to Stonehenge.
Well, I accept that in an earlier time both the cost and rarity of new age books - especially Occult ones - might have made this more sensible. And I often think about founding a magical library, as I'm sure many do. And I share her "writing fanfic" approach too, and cannot fully judge it for it is important to strengthen a sense of make-believe.
I would only attempt a group library if we also had group premises. At that stage, the books would belong to the location. My origami society has a library - they are national, but when you go to meetings it's very much like a bunch of buddies. And indeed, where the library goes became a problem when the existing person - who had it in their garage - resigned. My LGBT group also does - it's at the meeting place. Both are legal entities, however.
With the drop in book cost, the internet, and the public domain accessibility of the older grimoires, I don't think a coven library is a good idea. If there are essential books, which are expensive/hard to find, then maybe have a lending copy. Much better to just lend books to friends when required.
Re: Size of group implications
One day, I will meet a line manager who understands this. Thank you for your kind words on the job; it was 9 months of pretty much this thing. "We can't make the changes you requested in week one, and whenever we discover you adapting a task independently we will require you to stop. Now, shall we discuss some goals for improving your wellbeing and work performance? But not the things you were already doing". It was in a very large old library, and the loss of the books and the building is raw indeed.
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Hehehe it's the Ritual Magic Workbook by Dolores Ashcroft Nowicki; like many books in the ceremonial tradition, it reads more like self-insert fanfiction about an imaginary group the author would like to run, than an actual working tradition. i.e. she describes herself as Director of Studies for her tradition - and while I understand and share the fantasy of a Harry-Potter style real magical subculture, that's not actually how it works.
I've kept it because in the first "month", she writes "Now set aside a room in your house for your temple" - and every subsequent month has a DIY project like, now it's time to make your columns. Get a large roll of corrugated card and place a football atop them, and spray paint one white, one black. It's really charming; a touch silly; but every time I've moved house, I've thought "perhaps I should set aside one room as a temple", so I shouldn't make too much fun, as the idea clearly appeals to me.
Anyway. WRT Harry Potter. She has a chunk in month 11 about how to set up a working group, and it is again a kind of fan-fiction in which, perhaps, there truly were networks of students under her aegis; and if there were they could do this, and that, and collect subs so the group could buy books together and go on coach trips to Stonehenge.
Well, I accept that in an earlier time both the cost and rarity of new age books - especially Occult ones - might have made this more sensible. And I often think about founding a magical library, as I'm sure many do. And I share her "writing fanfic" approach too, and cannot fully judge it for it is important to strengthen a sense of make-believe.
I would only attempt a group library if we also had group premises. At that stage, the books would belong to the location. My origami society has a library - they are national, but when you go to meetings it's very much like a bunch of buddies. And indeed, where the library goes became a problem when the existing person - who had it in their garage - resigned. My LGBT group also does - it's at the meeting place. Both are legal entities, however.
With the drop in book cost, the internet, and the public domain accessibility of the older grimoires, I don't think a coven library is a good idea. If there are essential books, which are expensive/hard to find, then maybe have a lending copy. Much better to just lend books to friends when required.
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RE: officialdom
Yes, that's the right balance I think.