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The Nature Of Magic : An Anthropology Of Consciousness
Paperback Edition: 1/2005
This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion--Western witches, druids, shamans--seek to relate spiritually with nature through "magical consciousness." 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 and story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity.
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Pages : 242
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Publication date : 2005-05-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Religion & Beliefs, Sociology, Philosophy Of Mind, Magic, Alchemy & Hermetic Thought, Occult Studies, Anthropology