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    AliceKnewIt
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    Very interesting article:
    "Varieties of Magical Experience" – a new article on Crowley, magic, and psychologisation

    heterodoxology.com/2011/12/26/varieties-of-magical-experience-a-new-article-on-crowley-magic-and-psychologisation

    The article talks about an ongoing debate on the transformation of magic in modernity, and in particular the theme of the psychologisation of magic... an idea that “magic” had survived in the modern West primarily by having been “psychologised”. This type of psychologisation was premised on the idea of withdrawing the content of magic from the empirical everyday world to the internal and subjective world of the individual magician’s psyche – thus effectively saving magic from confrontation with a rational and “disenchanted” worldview.
    Against this type of psychologisation, which the author terms “psychological escapism”, the author says that a seminal modern magician such as Crowley was driven by something quite the opposite: namely, a naturalisation of magic in which everything hinged on whether or not one could translate and reconceptualise magical experiences into terms that could be intersubjectively tested – and even devising methods by which such testing could be performed.

    The article has highlighted links to other articles referenced, so there's a lot to read, if you so wish...

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    Quintessence
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    Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

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