The workshop vocabulary: a short definition and a practical note for each term.
A definition
Egregore
A group construct generated by shared attention, symbol and ritual.
What it is
A group construct generated by shared attention, symbol and ritual.
In practice
A group needs a charter more than it needs a sigil. Write the boundaries, the moderation and the closing before the first ritual.
Related entries
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
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More in Glossary
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Kill switch The pre-agreed condition and action that ends a construct.
- Charter The written agreement that binds a group construct: purpose, members, feeding, boundaries and closing.
- Feeding The attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active.
- Tulpa A willed companion developed through sustained attention and experienced as having its own voice.
- Servitor A purpose-built construct with one task, a name, a sigil, a feeding method and a kill condition.
- Daemon A background process, and by extension a working that runs without being watched.
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