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The Varieties of Magical Experience - Indigenous, Medieval, and Modern Magic (Hardcover)
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The Varieties of Magical Experience - Indigenous, Medieval, and Modern Magic (Hardcover)
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A rare combination of personal and academic, this book showcases
the myriad avenues for transcending the boundaries of reality
through direct sensory experience. The Varieties of Magical
Experience: Indigenous, Medieval, and Modern Magic provides a
comprehensive volume that examines magic in all its aspects.
Through detailed case studies, verbatim accounts of personal
experiences, and first-hand experience from the authors' own active
participation in many alternative religious rituals and ceremonies,
this unique book reveals how magic can be a universal phenomenon
that crosses cultural, historical, and spatial boundaries. The work
is organized in five sections that embrace several broad themes:
indigenous magical and shamanic practices; medieval witchcraft;
sorcery and hermetic magic; and contemporary Western magical
practices, including the role of sexuality, trance, and meditation.
The introductory section explores the idea of magic, other
realities, and the employment of all the senses, while the final
section discusses contemporary issues of ecology and cybermagic.
The authors give voice to the powerful emotions and feelings that
result from a magical encounter, providing engaging and accessible
information to general readers, while those well versed in the
opaque world of magic and occultism, consciousness studies, and
imaginal and disembodied realms will appreciate the book's content
at a deeper level. Highlights techniques, rituals, and training of
magical practitioners Counterpoints the rational with the emotional
and compares the past with the present Takes a cross-cultural,
historical, and anthropological approach that is accessible to all
readers Includes experiences of academics, shamans, occultists,
healers, sorcerers, pagans, medieval magicians, cybermagicians, and
indigenous peoples across the world
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