Name: Battlefield Magick: Operational Enablement at the Tactical Edge
Start: 2026-07-17T16:00:00-0400
End: 2026-07-17T17:00:00-0400

Battlefield Magick: Operational Enablement at the Tactical Edge

Friday July 17, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Ravinia E

What does magical practice look like when it is stripped of ceremony, ideal conditions, and extended preparation—and forced to function under pressure, uncertainty, and risk? This workshop examines magic as an applied, embodied practice operating at the tactical edge, one that is embedded in daily life, trained, and judged by outcomes rather than theory. Drawing on over thirty years of military service across multiple continents and operational environments, WR Neumann explores how an animistic and folk-magical framework translates into real-world capability when time, resources, and margin for error are limited. Topics include divination under uncertainty, perceptual and psychological influence, probability shaping, healing and stabilization, camouflage and concealment, shielding and warding, and methods of maintaining magical readiness with minimal preparation. Historical and contemporary vignettes are used as case studies, not as mythic narrative, but as practical examinations of what holds up under stress and what fails. Rather than presenting magic as exceptional or separate, this session frames it as an integrated skill set and one that prioritizes perception, adaptability, and survivability, and that evolves through use rather than abstraction. The emphasis throughout is on responsibility, realism, and the ethics of power when practice moves from sacred space into contested terrain.

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WR Neumann

WR Neumann has been an animistic folk magic practitioner for nearly a half-century since being apprenticed by his mother into family practices and traditions preserved for over eight generations. His military career spans thirty years, from US Army special operations to the US... Read More →

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