{"product_id":"the-nature-of-magic-an-anthropology-of-consciousness-9781845200947","title":"The Nature of Magic: An Anthropology of Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Susan Greenwood\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 workings of the human mind in terms of an expanded awareness than with socio-cultural explanations. She combines her own subjective insights gained from magical practice with practitioners' in-depth accounts and sustained academic theory on the process of magic. She also tracks magical consciousness in philosophy, myth, folklore, story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity, and asks important questions concerning nature religion's environmental credentials, such as whether it as inherently ecological as many of its practitioners claim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46895458386071,"sku":"9781845200947","price":20397.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781845200947.webp?v=1770353953","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-nature-of-magic-an-anthropology-of-consciousness-9781845200947","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}