Ari FreemanPragmatic Magical Thinking
Real Magic Explained
Ari Freeman is a writer, fortune teller, public wizard and autodidact. He has over twenty years of experience as a performing professional musician, and spent seven years as the apprentice to the Wizard of New Zealand, which involved discussing philosophy, politics and magic out on the streets with an enthusiastic general public. ¿Freeman writes about magic and how it can be found in art, science, religion, modern society, as well as the occult and indigenous cultures. His goal is to bridge the gap between magical practitioners and skeptics, towards a world where we can all talk to each other. Ari lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Introduction
CHAPTER 2 - On attention
CHAPTER 3 - A definition of magic for our times
CHAPTER 4 - Useful fictions
CHAPTER 5 - A pragmatist's approach to scepticism
CHAPTER 6 - Memory, narrative, and identity
CHAPTER 7 - Believing different things on different days
CHAPTER 8 - Outside voices vs. inner voices
CHAPTER 9 - Spirits
CHAPTER 10 - Why you aren't just your brain
CHAPTER 11 - Magic is around us every day
CHAPTER 12 - The origins of modern science
CHAPTER 13 - The fake war between science and religion
CHAPTER 14 - Science's on and off again relationship with magic
CHAPTER 15 - Science, magic, and religion compared
CHAPTER 16 - The origins of Christian fundamentalism
CHAPTER 17 - Religion's suspicion of magic: the witch trials
CHAPTER 18 - The cycle of creativity and inspiration
CHAPTER 19 - Ladder cosmologies
CHAPTER 20 -The Kabbalist cosmology
CHAPTER 21 - The chakras
CHAPTER 22 - The sephiroth and chakras compared
CHAPTER 23 - Magic and morality
CHAPTER 24 - Superstition
CHAPTER 25 - Smart people traps
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