It occurred to me that, given a cell phone's nature as a two-way device, it might be more akin to a wand of double power than an athame. (Or, perhaps the more complex the device, the more complex of wand it might resemble.) One might use, for example, stun gun or electric baton for athame, dagger, sword ...
But, if one looks at any ritual tool as a set of design goals, one could then design a response using anything; and then one might, I think, explore and note the unique differences and emergent characteristic of that tool in use, which for me would really be a large part of the process, and largely the point of the experiment.
Anyhow, one could go through a list of tools within one's tradition and apply some design thinking toward what else might fill specific roles, and then one might apply some value engineering toward asking what else one might do with the new implements.
I think immediately of going through, for example, Aleister Crowley's Book 4, Part II and brainstorming from the description of each ritual tool what else might fill those roles. Similar such lists exist for whatever tradition(s) one might be working within.
Of course, one can imagine direct analogues, such as ebook reader or tablet for grimoire, for example, and simple swap in equivalent upgrades; or, one might be more creative and try to completely re-conceive the implements asking, "If I didn't already know what implement fills this role, what might I create to fill that?" |
