absolutely re the cross-fertilisation aspects, for a metaphor i am a good (but
not in any way qualified) cook of Indian food, and i recently had an Italian
visitor at my home who is a great cook of their national cuisine. Over several
bottles of wine we talked and exchanged foody ideas, and both of us cooked
some stuff, and watched the other do some cooking; a great learning
experience, even though many ingredients are hugely suited to one or other of
the styles
you get paid to write academic papers? as in 'have an academic job where
writing for publication is a core part of the job description' or *paid by
publishers*
if the latter, than *please share where* since it's damnably rare....
Dave E (who is away for the weekend now)
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From: D G Mattichak jr <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:42:23 +0100
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] FW: [Pagan Studies] Feature on what
rituals may have sounded like at Stonehenge
> I am not employed as an academic (although I get paid to write
> academic papers) and I have come to this site as a practicing
> occultist with many years of study and experience behind me and it
> is exactly that mix of scholars and non-academic students of magick
> that I find gives this site its value to me. There are probably
> hundreds of discussion forums that I could spend my time on, most
> will be pretty useless really, so a site like this that offers the
> possibility of a quality debate with informed people is an excellent
> place to spend my time. I would imagine that there is only so much
> that someone can learn about magick from just reading books and that
> to many academic scholars the opportunity to chat with practicing
> magicians must be of some benefit too. I appreciate that often this
> will mean that discussions will get off topic (as is presently
> happening) but I feel that that is the price for having the
> opportunity to be involved in one of the few really intelligent
> forums on magick.
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