The conceptual categories have changed, several times; the original impulse remains valid; the project continues, such as it is.
One of the complexities of the social world is that magic is simultaneously real (as in, an activity that humans actually do and that has practical impacts in the social world), and the vast majority of the magical thinking that occult communities engage in is utterly complete make-believe bullshit....
The essence of Real Magic (not fabulist bullshit) is something like the art and science of understanding and utilizing the actual real feedback loop between our imaginations and our socially (and materially) constructed world. Which ironically fabulists are tapping into when they traffic in bullshit
