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Lädt ... The End of Magicvon Ariel Glucklich
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Throughout history, magic has been as widely and passionately practiced as religion. But while religion continues to flourish, magic stumbles towards extinction. What is magic? What does it do? Why do people believe in magic? Ariel Glucklich finds the answers to these questions in the streets of Banaras, India's most sacred city, where hundreds of magicians still practice ancient traditions, treating thousands of Hindu and Muslim patients of every caste and sect. Through study and interpretation of the Banarsi magical rites and those who partake in them, the author presents fascinating living examples of magical practice, and contrasts his findings with the major theories that have explained (or explained away) magic over the last century. These theories, he argues, ignore an essential sensory phenomenon which he calls "magical experience": an extraordinary, though perfectly natural, state of awareness through which magicians and their clients perceive the effects of magic rituals. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)133.4301Philosophy and Psychology Parapsychology And Occultism Specific Topics Witchcraft - Sorcery Witchcraft and Magickal PracticeKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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There may be something to that, but in my opinion it misses the primary question. Whatever the scholarly explanation is, the ordinary person expects a magic ritual/spell to "work", and not just give you a warm fuzzy feeling about how everything in the world is all of one piece. He suggests that asking if magic works is beside the point, but I rather believe that those who have sought out these services, usually in circumstances of stress and crisis, would not agree. They are hoping for results -- healing, money, love, revenge, justice, something -- and are not likely to be satisfied with a psychedelic water color running all into itself. So he leaves untouched whether any of the magic rituals he witnessed actually resulted in anything tangible. And that's a shame. ( )