When I was in school, I was tasked with memorizing the first 10 lines of the Odyssey. This was a way of putting myself in the shoes of the ancient bards.

I used something that was lowtech even in my day. A voice recorder. I would speak each line into the voice recorder. Slowly at first. Then, I would recite the lines together with the voice recorder, matching the tempo of my old self. The voice recorder allowed me to control the speed, and I would recite in chorus with myself in many different places.

The ancients held memory in high regard, prizing the ability to recall highly. I suspect that this is the origin of certain magical practices descended from Plato and Pythagoras. They didn't quite have the documentary standards of evidence that we do today though. Today, we can document as well as memorize.

That was 20 years ago. I've recently started using Claude and ElevenReader to read me books I should have read a long time ago. I can listen to them at any time, and allow them to become part of my memory and allow serendipitous co-inciding audio clips and experiences to become part of a greater whole. Over time, I hope to create a bricolage of meaningful phrases wired to meaningful memories that I can listen to on loop and recall verbatim.

Does anyone else use technology like low tech voice recorders, or new tech like ElevenReader?

I wanted to share this article I wrote about how ritual and games sit within the same magic circle.

It wasn't written with technomancy in mind per se, but I think it's a strong foundation for a technomantic practice.

curious about individual opinions on this one -- in your own practices of technomancy, what's the least "tech" stuff that you'd still call "tech"?

where do you draw the line between what you consider "tech" vs everything else? in some contexts a rock tied to a stick is the height of technology; in others it's a sota llm or qubit; in most the line between "tech" and "not tech" is blurry and somewhere in between.

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