Author: Gershon Winkler
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781556434440
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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A spiritual crisis sent Orthodox rabbi Gershon Winkler to remote regions of the Southwest, where he studied with Native American healers. From them he began to recover the long-lost wisdom of what he calls “Aboriginal Judaism”: the religion’s tribal roots. This book tracks his personal journey and draws from a dazzling mix of sources to detail the surprising connections between two seemingly unrelated religions.
Author: Eugene Subbotsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199742170
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Magical thinking and behavior have traditionally been viewed as immature, misleading alternatives to scientific thought that in children inevitably diminish with age. In adults, these inclinations have been labeled by psychologists largely as superstitions that feed on frustration, uncertainty, and the unpredictable nature of certain human activities. In Magic and the Mind, Eugene Subbotsky provides an overview of the mechanisms and development of magical thinking and beliefs throughout the life span while arguing that the role of this type of thought in human development should be reconsidered. Rather than an impediment to scientific reasoning or a byproduct of cognitive development, in children magical thinking is an important and necessary complement to these processes, enhancing creativity at problem-solving and reinforcing coping strategies, among other benefits. In adults, magical thinking and beliefs perform important functions both for individuals (coping with unsolvable problems and stressful situations) and for society (enabling mass influence and promoting social harmony). Operating in realms not bound by physical causality, such as emotion, relationships, and suggestion, magical thinking is an ongoing, developing psychological mechanism that, Subbotsky argues, is integral in the contexts of politics, commercial advertising, and psychotherapy, and undergirds our construction and understanding of meaning in both mental and physical worlds. Magic and the Mind represents a unique contribution to our understanding of the importance of magical thinking, offering experimental evidence and conclusions never before collected in one source. It will be of interest to students and scholars of developmental psychology, as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and educators.
Author: Hugo Letiche
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1839106735
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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Exploring magic as a creative necessity in contemporary business, this book clarifies the differences between magic as an organizational resource and magic as fakery, pretence and manipulation. Using this lens, it highlights insights into the relationship between anthropology and business, and organizational studies.
Author: Duncan Schwann
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Author: Clark Butler
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004493689
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The purpose of this book is to advance responsible rehabilitation of the speculative philosophy of history. It challenges the idea popularized by thinkers such as and Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jean-François Lyotard that historical meta-mythology and meta-narrative are philosophically obsolete. As long as humanity, viewed anthropologically, lives by over-arching narrative, the quest for a version that survives rational criticism remains vital. Here human rights serve as the key to unlock such a version. Despite the fact that the Hegelian philosophy of history has often been derided, something very similar currently functions as the official ideology of the world community: the idea of history as the story of freedom. This book does not retell the world-historical story of freedom. Rather, it uncovers it, beginning with the current age of human rights and working backward through the great role-model civilizations of history. Its conclusion is that a forward retelling of the story of freedom as the story of human rights can be justified by dewesternizing the story. The book contains critical responses from specialized scholars and re-presentative of selected world cultures. The volume includes illustrations, and a guest Afterword by Donald Phillip Verene. It is a companion-volume to the author's Hegel's Logic: Between History and Dialectic (North-western University Press, 1996).
Author: Maria del Pilar Blanco
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441124780
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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The Spectralities Reader is the first volume to collect the rich scholarship produced in the wake of the “spectral turn” of the early 1990s, which saw ghosts and haunting conjured as compelling analytical and methodological tools across the humanities and social sciences. Surveying the past twenty years from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, the Reader displays the wide range of concerns spectrality, in its diverse elaborations, has been called upon to elucidate. The disjunctions produced by globalization, the ungraspable quality of modern media, the convolutions of subject formation (in terms of gender, race, and sexuality), the elusiveness of spaces and places, and the lingering presences and absences of memory and history have all been reconceived by way of the spectral. A primer for the wide readership engaged with cultural interpretations of ghosts and haunting that go beyond the confines of the fictional and supernatural, The Spectralities Reader includes twenty-five groundbreaking texts by prominent contemporary thinkers, from Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak to Avery Gordon and Arjun Appadurai, as well as a general introduction and six section introductions by the editors.
Author: Devon Monk
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101046627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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Magic stirred in me, offering whatever I wanted. With little more than a thought and a gesture or two, I could make magic do anything. So long as I was willing to pay the price… Allison Beckstrom knows better than most that when magic’s involved, nothing’s free. She’s had to pay its price of migraines and forgetfulness while working as a Hound, tracing illegal spells back to their casters. And even though magic has stolen her recent memory—including her history with the man she supposedly fell in love with—Allie isn’t about to give up on Hounding, or the city she cares about. Then the police’s magic enforcement division asks her to consult on what seems to be a straightforward missing persons case. But what began as a way to make rent leads Allie into grave danger when the trail she’s following draws her into the dark underworld of criminals, ghosts, and blood magic. There, Allie discovers it will take more than just magic to survive. “We’re going to be hearing a lot more of Devon Monk.” —New York Times Bestselling Author Patricia Briggs “Monk’s writing is addictive, and the only cure is more, more, more!” —New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Vincent
Author: Harry Eilenstein
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375431517X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 581
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This Volume contains the books: - Meditation for Beginners - Hypnosis for Beginners - Ritual Magic for Beginners - Number Symbolism for Beginners - Schamanism for Beginners - Da'ath Magic for Beginners - Self Knowledge for Beginners - The Synthesis of Physics and Magic
Author: Harry Eilenstein
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3754312545
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Usually magic begins with simple telepathy experiments, the production of talismans, telekinesis experiments and the like. However, these beginnings, which mainly show that magic is possible, can be increased significantly - first by practice, then by recognizing one's own soul, and finally by one-pointedness, invocations, presence, and the like. Thus simple, ordinary magic can eventually be increased to extraordinary magic - to "miracles" such as firewalks, spontaneous healings, and materializations. For this, no craftsmanship, no special rituals or spells, no secret traditions and the like are necessary, but a certain consciousness, which in the Kabbalistic tradition is called "Da'ath". This is the state of letting go and of boundlessness. The way to it can be sudden - which can be felt as a jumping into a bottomless abyss. Or it can be approached gradually - in which case it can be one of the most pleasant states of all ... a smile like Buddha, a boundaryless consciousness like the gods have, a fully conscious collective subconsciousness ... just Da'ath ...
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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