Description: Varieties of Magical Experience : Indigenous, Medieval, and Modern Magic, Hardcover by Hume, Lynne; Drury, Nevill, ISBN 1440804184, ISBN-13 9781440804182, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 uniqu 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 th'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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Book Title: Varieties of Magical Experience : Indigenous, Medieval, and Moder
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Varieties of Magical Experience : Indigenous, Medieval, and Modern Magic
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Mysticism, Shamanism, Magick Studies, Divination / General
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.1 Oz
Subject Area: Body, Mind & Spirit
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Nevill Drury
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
