1st Edition

The Nature of Magic An Anthropology of Consciousness

By Susan Greenwood Copyright 2005
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
IntroductionNature Religion and Underlying Influences Reconnection with Nature'Calling to be Remembered': the Past, Ancestors, and Tradition Magical Consciousness The Wild Hunt: a Mythological Language of MagicLearning to be IndigenousA Tangled Web: Paradoxical ElementsNature in the City: Concluding Reflections

Biography

Susan Greenwood is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sussex.