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Developing Magical Consciousness

Author : Susan Greenwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351628011
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Developing Magical Consciousness written by Susan Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new template for future exploration, Susan Greenwood examines and develops the notion that the experience of magic is a panhuman orientation of consciousness, a form of knowledge largely marginalized in Western societies. In this volume she aims to form a "bridge of communication" between indigenous magical or shamanic worldviews and rationalized Western cultures. She outlines an alternative mythological framework for the latter to help develop a magical perception, as well as giving practical case studies derived from her own research. The form of magic discussed here is not fantastic or virtual, but ecological and sensory. Magical knowledge infiltrates the body in its deepest levels of the subconscious, and unconscious, as well as conscious awareness; it is felt and understood through the connection with an inspirited world that includes the consciousness of other beings, including those of plant, animal and the physical environment. This is anthropology from the heart rather than the head, and it engages with the messy area of emotions, an embodiment of the senses, and struggles to find a common language of listening to one another across a void of differences. The aim is to provide a non-reductive structure for the creative interplay of both magical and analytical modes of thought. Passion is a motivator for change, and a change in attitude to magic as an integrative force of human understanding is the main thread of this work.

Magical Consciousness

Author : Susan Greenwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317517210
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Magical Consciousness written by Susan Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a mind think magically? The research documented in this book is one answer that allows the disciplines of anthropology and neurobiology to come together to reveal a largely hidden dynamic of magic. Magic gets to the very heart of some theoretical and methodological difficulties encountered in the social and natural sciences, especially to do with issues of rationality. This book examines magic head-on, not through its instrumental aspects but as an orientation of consciousness. Magical consciousness is affective, associative and synchronistic, shaped through individual experience within a particular environment. This work focuses on an in-depth case study using the anthropologist’s own experience gained through years of anthropological fieldwork with British practitioners of magic. As an ethnographic view, it is an intimate study of the way in which the cognitive architecture of a mind engages the emotions and imagination in a pattern of meanings related to childhood experiences, spiritual communications and the environment. Although the detail of the involvement in magical consciousness presented here is necessarily specific, the central tenets of modus operandi is common to magical thought in general, and can be applied to cross-cultural analyses to increase understanding of this ubiquitous human phenomenon.

Soul Dust

Author : Nicholas Humphrey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156379
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Soul Dust written by Nicholas Humphrey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically new view of the nature and purpose of consciousness How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust, the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, proposes a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves inside our own heads. This self-made show lights up the world for us and makes us feel special and transcendent. Thus consciousness paves the way for spirituality, and allows us, as human beings, to reap the rewards, and anxieties, of living in what Humphrey calls the "soul niche." Tightly argued, intellectually gripping, and a joy to read, Soul Dust provides answers to the deepest questions. It shows how the problem of consciousness merges with questions that obsess us all—how life should be lived and the fear of death. Resting firmly on neuroscience and evolutionary theory, and drawing a wealth of insights from philosophy and literature, Soul Dust is an uncompromising yet life-affirming work—one that never loses sight of the majesty and wonder of consciousness.

The Nature of Magic

Author : Susan Greenwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000189821
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Magic written by Susan Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Nature of Magic

Author : Susan Greenwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Magic written by Susan Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Magic and the Mind

Author : Eugene Subbotsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190453117
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Magic and the Mind written by Eugene Subbotsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magical thinking and behavior have traditionally been viewed as immature, misleading alternatives to scientific thought that in children inevitably diminish with age. In adults, these inclinations have been labeled by psychologists largely as superstitions that feed on frustration, uncertainty, and the unpredictable nature of certain human activities. In Magic and the Mind, Eugene Subbotsky provides an overview of the mechanisms and development of magical thinking and beliefs throughout the life span while arguing that the role of this type of thought in human development should be reconsidered. Rather than an impediment to scientific reasoning or a byproduct of cognitive development, in children magical thinking is an important and necessary complement to these processes, enhancing creativity at problem-solving and reinforcing coping strategies, among other benefits. In adults, magical thinking and beliefs perform important functions both for individuals (coping with unsolvable problems and stressful situations) and for society (enabling mass influence and promoting social harmony). Operating in realms not bound by physical causality, such as emotion, relationships, and suggestion, magical thinking is an ongoing, developing psychological mechanism that, Subbotsky argues, is integral in the contexts of politics, commercial advertising, and psychotherapy, and undergirds our construction and understanding of meaning in both mental and physical worlds. Magic and the Mind represents a unique contribution to our understanding of the importance of magical thinking, offering experimental evidence and conclusions never before collected in one source. It will be of interest to students and scholars of developmental psychology, as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and educators.

The Nature of Magic

Author : Susan Greenwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100018319X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Magic written by Susan Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Magical States of Consciousness

Author : Melita Denning
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780875421940
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Magical States of Consciousness written by Melita Denning and published by Llewellyn Worldwide Limited. This book was released on 1985 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Psychic Skills for Magic & Witchcraft

Author : Cat Gina Cole
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738767786
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Psychic Skills for Magic & Witchcraft written by Cat Gina Cole and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhance Your Magical Life with Powerful Psychic Skills Develop your natural intuitive abilities and use them to expand your witchcraft with this book's magical secrets and hands-on tutorials. Filled with techniques for all skill levels, Psychic Skills for Magic & Witchcraft guides you through an impressive number of topics, including mantic arts and kinesis, pathworking, remote viewing, aspecting, channeling, astral travel, and dreamwork. Cat Gina Cole shows you how to strengthen the five faculties of the mind—perception, reason, intellect, discernment, and will—which together form your intuition. Learn strategies for shifting your consciousness and removing psychic blocks. Discover how to work with the clairs and apply your talents to mediumship, divination, and deities. Featuring practical exercises and thought-provoking discussions, Psychic Skills for Magic & Witchcraft helps you explore your potential, build your expertise, and apply your gifts for a more empowered and fulfilling life. Includes a foreword by Phaedra Bonewits, a High Priestess of the Coven of the Rising Phoenix and coauthor of Real Energy

The History of Magic in the Modern Age

Author : Nevill Drury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780731810567
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The History of Magic in the Modern Age written by Nevill Drury and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of magic and exploration of the resurgence of magical belief in the modern age. Traces the development of today's magical consciousness from the Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn through to the revival of Wicca, the Celtic religious traditions, and the re-emergence of Goddess worship. Profiles figures such as Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman, Anton LaVey and H. R. Giger. Includes glossary, bibliography, notes and index. The English-born author is an Australian resident. Previous books include 'Exploring the Labyrinth' and 'Pan's Daughter'. First published in the UK in 2000.

Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

Author : Evelyn Underhill
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1773560042
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness written by Evelyn Underhill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remaining a classic in its field, this book explains first how mysticism relates to such things as vitalism, theology psychology, symbolism and magic. This treatment may seem unusual for Christian mysticism, but it relates widely to the world as we know it and the different practices therein. Part Two explores the awakening, purification and illumination of yourself and gives solid groundwork for such things as voices, visions dreams and other mystical experience.

Mysticism

Author : Evelyn Underhill
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486123707
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism written by Evelyn Underhill and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVClassic introduction to mysticism and mystical consciousness: awakening of the self, purification, voices and visions, ecstasy and rapture, dark night of the soul, much more. /div

Experiencing the Impossible

Author : Gustav Kuhn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026203946X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing the Impossible written by Gustav Kuhn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the scientific study of magic reveals intriguing—and often unsettling—insights into the mysteries of the human mind. What do we see when we watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or read a person's mind? We are captivated by an illusion; we applaud the fact that we have been fooled. Why do we enjoy experiencing what seems clearly impossible, or at least beyond our powers of explanation? In Experiencing the Impossible, Gustav Kuhn examines the psychological processes that underpin our experience of magic. Kuhn, a psychologist and a magician, reveals the intriguing—and often unsettling—insights into the human mind that the scientific study of magic provides.Magic, Kuhn explains, creates a cognitive conflict between what we believe to be true (for example, a rabbit could not be in that hat) and what we experience (a rabbit has just come out of that hat!). Drawing on the latest psychological, neurological, and philosophical research, he suggests that misdirection is at the heart of all magic tricks, and he offers a scientific theory of misdirection. He explores, among other topics, our propensity for magical thinking, the malleability of our perceptual experiences, forgetting and misremembering, free will and mind control, and how magic is applied outside entertaiment—the use of illusion in human-computer interaction, politics, warfare, and elsewhere. We may be surprised to learn how little of the world we actually perceive, how little we can trust what we see and remember, and how little we are in charge of our thoughts and actions. Exploring magic, Kuhn illuminates the complex—and almost magical—mechanisms underlying our daily activities.

Space/Time Magic Foundations

Author : Taylor Ellwood
Publisher : Taylor Ellwood
ISBN 13 : 1724423886
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Space/Time Magic Foundations written by Taylor Ellwood and published by Taylor Ellwood. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to get consistent results with space/time magic. In Space/Time Magic Foundations, Taylor Ellwood walks you through how to apply the elements of time, space, memory, and imagination to your magical practice so you that can turn desired possibilities into consistent results. You will learn the following: · Advanced sigil magic techniques that help you line up possibilities and turn them into reality. · How to use dream consciousness to connect with the past and future. · How to be in the right space and right time for your desired results. · Who the spirits of space/time are and how to work with them. · And much more. In Space/Time Magic Foundations, you’ll learn how to apply the fundamental practices of space/time magic to get consistent results that change your life.

Defining Magic

Author : Bernd-Christian Otto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317545036
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Defining Magic written by Bernd-Christian Otto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today. The texts have been selected on the strength of their success in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided into chronological sections and each essay is separately introduced for student readers. Together, these texts - from Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology - reveal the breadth of critical approaches and responses to defining what is magic. CONTRIBUTORS: Aquinas, Augustine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dennis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Edward Evans-Pritchard, James Frazer, Susan Greenwood, Robin Horton, Edmund Leach, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Christopher Lehrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Plato, Pliny, Plotin, Isidore of Sevilla, Jesper Sorensen, Kimberley Stratton, Randall Styers, Edward Tylor

Personal Magic

Author : Jennie Marlow
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595293182
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Personal Magic written by Jennie Marlow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally recognized psychic and teacher, Jennie Marlow, expands our understanding of the soul with groundbreaking information on the new manifesting. Her guides, Spotted Eagle and Grandfather White Elk, show how the soul works in the higher dimensions to bring us possessions, relationships, health and experiences. They offer simple exercises and meditations that connect us to the unlimited resources of the soul. They teach us how to dissolve the blocks to personal creativity that are standing between us and the life we desire. Learn how to work on the level of energy to create anything you truly desire. Conquer fear, anger and sadness. Release the fear-based thought-forms that are creating your present reality. Create new thought-forms from the energy of your soul. Discover your life purpose and understand how it unleashes the power of your personal magic. Learn your magic type, and see how your magic creates and manifests in its own unique style. Gain insight into the strengths, challenges and life lessons your magic represents. Discover the authenticity of Spirit that is essential to manifesting. Personal Magic ushers in a new era of co-creating the lives of our dreams as we walk the path of our spiritual evolution.

Introduction to Magic

Author : Julius Evola
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620558572
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Magic written by Julius Evola and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rites, practices, and texts collected by the mysterious UR group for the use of aspiring mages. • Rare Hermetic texts published in English for the first time. • Includes instructions for developing psychic and magical powers. In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian intellectuals formed the mysterious UR group. Their goal: to bring their individual egos into a state of superhuman power and awareness in which they could act "magically" on the world. Their methods: the practice of ancient Tantric and Buddhist rituals and the study of rare Hermetic texts. So successful were they that rumors spread throughout Italy of the group's power, and Mussolini himself became quite fearful of them. Now for the first time in English Introduction to Magic collects the rites, practices, and knowledge of the UR group for the use of aspiring mages. Included in Introduction to Magic are instructions for creating an etheric double, speaking words of power, using fragrances, interacting with entities, and creating a "magical chain." Among the arcane texts translated are the Tibetan teachings of the Thunderbolt Diamond Path, the Mithraic mystery cult's "Grand Papyrus of Paris," and the Greco-Egyptian magical text De Mysteriis. Anyone who has exhausted the possibilities of the mundane world and is ready to take the steps necessary to purify the soul in the light of knowledge and the fire of dedication will find a number of expert mentors here.