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This blog is about the need for both the awareness of enchantment, the affirmation of its existence which hopefully could lead to a calculated re-enchantment of our world.

e-infusing our world view with the Sacred is the first step to healing our species and finding the power to accomplish the impossible.

It is my opinion that "magic" and religion is an anthropological universal capacity that can be activated or suppressed through a anamnesis like paradigms.

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    Survey of Western magic - syllabus inside

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    Keef Riffers
    , 02-16-2013 at 02:19 PM (The f*cking witchcraft blog)
    Here is a link to a pretty amazing syllabus from a philosophy class called "philosophy of magic".

    There are hyperlinks to many key essays and entries on the topic and is a pretty exhaustive survey of the whole affair from a European perspective.

    It is my opinion that European witchcraft/magic is unique and primary to the European mindset in that it is a kind of "anti-shamanic" stance towards the preternatural. It is a ti1shamanic in the sense that ...
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    Entry 1

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    Keef Riffers
    , 12-19-2012 at 01:37 PM (The f*cking witchcraft blog)
    here is a (fairly short) essay about language and it's magical effects which speaks to my recent fascination with the metaphysical


    Most sociological theories of magic go Religion---->Magic----->science

    Some switch the order of religion and magic.

    The general idea is that religion is kind of a passive affirmation of the individual as to his/her total reliance on the social. Religion is the passive element of the "religio-magical" ...
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