This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion – Western witches, druids, shamans – seek to relate spiritually with nature through ‘magical consciousness’. ‘Magic’ and ‘consciousness’ are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice and ambiguity respectively. Greenwood develops a new theory of magical consciousness by arguing that magic ultimately has more to do with the workings of the human mind in terms of an expanded awareness than with socio-cultural explanations. She combines her own subjective insights gained from magical practice with practitioners’ in-depth accounts and sustained academic theory on the process of magic. She also tracks magical consciousness in philosophy, myth, folklore, story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity, and asks important questions concerning nature religion’s environmental credentials, such as whether it as inherently ecological as many of its practitioners claim.
Susan Greenwood
Nature of Magic [EPUB ebook]
An Anthropology of Consciousness
Nature of Magic [EPUB ebook]
An Anthropology of Consciousness
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 256 ● ISBN 9781000189827 ● Casa editrice Taylor and Francis ● Pubblicato 2020 ● Scaricabile 3 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7994746 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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