I don't know what appropriate means in the context of
free and open inquiry into phenomenon.
--- Mogg Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> The problem I have with this discussion, is that i
> see Magick as a
> 'religion'
> - or path to spiritual enlightenment and liberation
> - i'm pretty sure many
> other of the magi see it in a similar way (and even
> some academic
> commentators). Given this, i wonder how appropriate
> these questions about
> 'mechanism' really are - would they be directed at
> other religions??
>
> 'Love and do what you will'
>
> mogg
>
> PS: Ritner (the author of a prize winning book on
> the mechanics of egyptian
> magick) says that in the Egyptian context, its study
> has not been well
> served by anthropologists such as Malinowski et al.
>
>
>
>
>
> had a similar take. Magic is seen as a
> psychological mechanism for confidence building in
> the
> face of uncertainty.
>
> That said, I'm interested in the interface between
> magic and PSI, or parapsychological studies which
> addresses things such as remote viewing, healing at
> a
> distance, synchronities, ect. Biogenetic
> structuralism provides one potential theoretical
> framework for discussing how inner change within
> one's
> own wetware potential influences the world at large
> through nonlocal channels.
>
> I don't know of any research that's been done on
> practicing ceremonial magicians with regards to PSI,
> but organizations like the Institute of Noetic
> Sciences (www.noetic.org) have a growing databased
> of
> studies on the role of the mind in nonlocal
> phenomenon.
>
> --- Richard Ramsay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to catch up on emails. This seems
> > to toch on Stuart Vyse's Believing in Magic. The
> > psychology of superstition. He talks about a
> > baseball player using magic or ritual as it's an
> > uncertain world on the pitch.
> >
> > I suppose that one can undertake activities in a
> > de-spirited sense but isn't there a hymn (by
> George
> > Herbert of Bemerton?) that says something like,
> >
> > 'Who sweeps a room in the name divine
> > Makes that and the action fine'?
> >
> > But I suppopse that here I'm onflating magic and
> > religion.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > RR
> >
> > In an email dated Thu, 16 2 2006 11:15:04 pm GMT,
> > Amy Hale <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> >
> > >Absolutely! Or potato peeling, or treadmill
> > jogging, or hedge cutting...If
> > >dancing, why not racquetball?
> > >
> > >Amy
> > >
> > >On 2/16/06, Al Billings <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Mark wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > If it involves your nervous system, as
> > everything
> > >> > does, it involves conscioussness.
> > >>
> > >> So Volleyball is magic? :-)
> > >>
> > >> Al
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
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