Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic : Becoming the Magician.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: interpreting the modern practice of Western magic -- A theoretical reflection on the study of modern Western magic -- A methodological approach to the study of modern Western magic -- 1 Western constructions of magic -- 1.1 Origins of the anthropology of magic -- 1.2 Western esotericism and modern magic -- 1.3 Strategies of legitimation in modern magic -- 1.4 Modern magic as a participatory worldview -- 1.5 Magical consciousness as a cognitive shift -- 1.6 Debates on modern magic and altering phenomenal properties of consciousness -- 2 Liber V vel Reguli -- 2.1 The foundation -- 2.2 The ritual -- 3 The Ninth Key of Gabriel and Levaniel -- 3.1 The foundation -- 3.2 The ritual -- 4 The Blessing of Wōđanaz -- 4.1 The foundation -- 4.2 The ritual -- 5 The Apollonian invocation -- 5.1 The foundation -- 5.2 The ritual -- 6 The Mithras Liturgy -- 6.1 The foundation -- 6.2 The ritual -- 7 Anthropology of ritual and the body in modern Western magic -- 7.1 Magic and ritual -- 7.2 Ritual as performance and mediation -- 7.3 Practice of ritualisation of the body -- 7.4 Merleau-Ponty, body techniques, and the ritual habitus -- 7.5 Ritual embodiment and metaphysics -- 8 Phenomenology of ritual in modern Western magic -- 8.1 Mundane and magical worldviews -- 8.2 Ritual entextualisation -- 8.3 Ritual communication -- 8.4 Ritual reverberations -- 8.5 Ritual embodiment -- 9 Phenomenology of the body in modern Western magic -- 9.1 Becoming the magician -- 9.2 Reimagination and reinvention of the magician -- 9.3 Phenomenal field of the magician -- 9.4 Phenomenology of perception and embodiment -- 9.5 Body image and body schema -- 9.6 Modern Western magic as a somatic mode of attention -- 9.7 Embodied pragmatics of becoming the magician.

10 Ritualisation and the subtle body in modern Western magic -- 10.1 Subtle dynamics -- 10.2 Ethnographic representations of the subtle -- 10.3 Subtle embodiment and imaginal perception -- Conclusion: becoming the magician and the logic of Western magical ritual -- Bibliography -- Index.

Starting with an introduction to the study of magic in the Western academy, the book then presents the author's own participant observation of five ethnographic case studies of modern Western magic. It concludes by discussing the phenomenological implications and issues around embodiment that are inherent to the contemporary practice of magic.

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