1st Edition

Developing Magical Consciousness A Theoretical and Practical Guide for the Expansion of Perception

By Susan Greenwood Copyright 2020
226 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Section I: A Bridge of Communication;  1. On the Trail of the Rainbow Serpent;  2. Towards a Place of Connection;  3. Moving out of the Hall of Mirrors: The Practice of Magic;  4. Liberating Magical Imagination;  Section II: Lifting "Mind Forg’d Manacles";  5. Healing the Sleep of Rationalism;  6. "Opposition is True Friendship": Integrating the Psyche;  Section II: Working with Magical Consciousness;  7. "Re-Dreaming": A Language of Communication;  8. All Knowing is Personal: Participating with Spirit Worlds;  9. Working between Two Worlds: Interactions of Cultures and Environment   

Biography

Susan Greenwood is an anthropologist who lectures internationally. She is a Lecturer and past Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, and a former Lecturer and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her books include Magical Consciousness: An Anthropological and Neurobiological Approach with Erik D. Goodwyn (Routledge, 2017)