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The essays and articles collected in this volume sum up the first not-quite decade of John Michael Greer's career as a writer on magic and occultism. While they cover a range of subjects, all of them share a common theme and were shaped by certain experiences that remade Greer's spiritual life just before the first of them was written. They record a remarkable period in the life of a scholar and will provide inspiration and entertainment to students of the occult as well as anyone interested in magic or writing. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Of the remaining essays the one of most value to the general reader is "Magic, politics, and the origins of the 'mind-body problem'" In the modern world, one of the major philosophical problems is to explain how mind and body are related to one another. Since this is a problem for our top thinkers we tend to assume that such has always been the case: that humans have always experienced themselves as a material body somehow inhabited by a mind, soul, spirit, etc. Greer's essay does not review the arguments around this concept itself but rather discusses the history of political, religious and social alliances that led to the victory of one world view over its competitors. Of course, as soon as one thinks "this idea is taught because this group of people gained more power" one must realize that economic or social power is not a reliable test of ideas about the nature of the world. ( )