{"product_id":"the-nature-of-magic-an-anthropology-of-consciousness-9781845200954","title":"The Nature of Magic: An Anthropology of Consciousness","description":"This 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan Greenwood is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sussex.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856902131986,"sku":"9781845200954","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bd91aa20-d8f4-41cc-93a5-caf058d6de70.jpg?v=1737515000","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-nature-of-magic-an-anthropology-of-consciousness-9781845200954","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}