ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM 📖 Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult

#jesus #bible #witchcraft

Did Jesus practise sorcery or witchcraft? Are exorcism and healing endeavours in the Gospels spellcasting or miracles?

Foucault and Discourse Analysis will provide us with a new perspective.

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The Order of Things

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LIST OF REFERENCES

Bond, H. (2012) The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed, London, Bloomsbury.

Foucault, M. (2001) The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences, London, Routledge.

Horsley, R. A. (2014) Jesus and Magic: Freeing the Gospel Stories from Modern Misconceptions, Eugene, Oregon, Cascade Books.

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#sufi #sufism #esotericism

When was Sufism incorporated into esoteric magic traditions? Sufi practices of Tariqa and occult reinterpretations.

René Guénon, Theosophical Society, Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Ibn al-ʿArabī, Neoplatonism, Hermetic Philosophy.

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00:00 Introduction: Sufism, Magic and Western Esotericism

01:00 Collaboration with Let’s Talk Religion

01:18 The origin and meaning of Sufi

02:47 Incorporation in Western Esotericism

04:45 Role of the Theosophical Society

06:53 The Muslim Sweethearts of perennial philosophy

07:13 He and Not He

09:26 Macrocosm & Microcosm

10:51 Support Angela’s Symposium & Lets’ Talk Religion

REFERENCES

Chittick, W. C. (2005) The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination, State University of New York Press.

Chittick, W. C. (2016) ‘Sufism’, in Magee, G. A. (ed), The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 83–94.

Duggan, C. (2013) ‘Perennialism and Iconoclasm: Chaos Magick and the Legitimacy of Innovation’, in Asprem, E. and Granholm, K. (eds), Contemporary Esotericism, London, New York, Routledge, pp. 91–112.

Faivre, A. (1964) Access to Western Esotericism, State University of New York Press.

Hanegraaff, W. J. (2013) Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed, London ; New York, Bloomsbury Academic.

Saif, L. (2019) ‘What is Islamic Esotericism?’, Correspondences, vol. 7, no. 1 [Online]. Available at https://correspondencesjournal.com/ojs/ojs/index.php/home/article/view/74 (Accessed 7 April 2021).

Sedgwick, M. (2017) Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age, Western Sufism, Oxford University Press

Werbner, P. (2006) ‘Seekers on the path: Different ways of being a Sufi in Britain’, in Malik, J. and Hinnells, J. (eds), Sufism in the West, Routledge, pp. 127–141

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00:00 Intro with Michael York

01:38 Definition of Paganism

07:52 Magic in Paganism: Gnostic vs Telluric

18:33 Magic: Pantheism & Panentheism

21:15 Magic: Atheistic Pagans

24:10 Philosophy & Theology in Paganism

27:14 Ethics & Morals in Paganism

34:55 Patrons: Animism, Reality of Gods, Wicca

57:30 Wider Impact of Paganism

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#lilith #bible #demonology

Is Lilith a rebellious woman in the Bible, a Pagan Goddess or a feminist icon? Babylonian Sumerian Lilitu, Liliyyot, wardat Lili, Lamashtu.

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ERRATUM: '(De Gruyter, 2018) is incorrectly referenced. Check the first reference below to get the correct one. Apologies for the mistake.

REFERENCES

Constance M. Furey, Joel Marcus LeMon, Brian Matz, Thomas Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski (2018) Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Lectionary – Lots, De Gruyter, vol. 16.

Patai, R. (1964) ‘Lilith’, The Journal of American Folklore, University of Illinois Press, vol. 77, no. 306, pp. 295–314.

00:00 Introduction: Lilith in the Bible

00:54 The wife of Adam

02:25 Lilith in the book of Isaiah

04:05 Origin in Akkadian Lilitu

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00:00 Intro with Jefferson Calico

01:55 Overview of Heathenry – Difference with Heathenism

05:50 Asatru, Odinism & forms of Heathenry

06:53 Is it a form of Paganism?

08:48 Magic in Heathenry

15:35 Nithing Pole: nidstang or scorn pole and digital uses

21:53 Goddess & God magic – Hard Polytheism

32:21 Runes: galdring or vocalizing runes, divination, and healing

38:32 Seidr magic: oracular seidr as epistemology - volva stav as healing magic

52:41 Folk Metal Music, QAnon, Counterculture & Revivals, Yggdrasil, Ancestors, Ethics

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#miracle #witchcraft #bible

Was Jesus practising magic, sorcery or miracles? Did the writers of the Gospels have these two concepts at the time?

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‘Jesus and Magic’ by Richard A. Horsley

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00:00 Introduction: Can we distinguish between witchcraft and miracles

00:32 Was there a concept of miracles in New Testament times?

03:16 The Latin term miraculum

04:18 Pre and post-Enlightenment ideas

05:50 Summary

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#witchcraft #bible #hebrew

Is the Bible really against Witchcraft? Is the Old Testament against magic and divination? What does the Hebrew Bible say about magick crystals healing?

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‘Ancient Jewish Magic’ by Gideon Bohak

00:00 Introduction: Is all witchcraft forbidden in the Old Testament?

02:01 The matter of translation

03:12 Identity

05:39 Summary

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#magick #witchcraft #paganism

Does Magick oppose a Monotheistic belief system? Is a Polytheistic worldview more suited to witchcraft and occult practices? Where does magic come from? Paganism, Pagan Religions and Esotericism.

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#religion #invented #popculture

Prof Carole Cusack tackles Invented Religions, Provisional Beliefs, Magical Practices and Witchcraft in the contemporary Western world

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00:00 “Invented Religions” with Prof Carole M. Cusack

03:18 Provisional Beliefs & Contradictory Beliefs

13:19 Invented Religions

18:31 Discordianism, Church of the World, Scientology

23:00 What makes a Religion ‘Real’

30:30 Magic, Witchcraft & Invented Religions

37:47 Does Magick contradict Science?

40:15 The Development of Magic: The Chaos Paradigm

45:48 Magical Thinking

49:15 The Use of Labels to understand Traditions

53:22 Patrons’ Questions: Belief & Belonging, Conspiracy, Researcher as Guru

Carole Cusack's Contact Details and Publications:

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#cyber #magick #witchcraft

How does technology reshape magic practices? is the internet changing esoteric traditions? TechnoPaganism, TechnoWitchcraft, Magic in the Digital & Virtual Domain.

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REFERENCES

Anna, J. and Gosetti-Ferencei (2004) Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a New Poetics of Dasein, Fordham University Press.

Augé, M. (2008) Génie du paganisme, Paris, Folio.

Chesher, C. (1997) ‘The Ontology of Digital Domains’, in David Holmes (ed), Virtual Politics: Identity and Community in Cyberspace, SAGE, pp. 79–93.

Cowan, D. E. (2004) Cyberhenge : Modern Pagans on the Internet, Taylor & Francis Ltd.

Herman, A. and Swiss, T. (eds.) (2000) The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power, New York, Routledge.

Klassen, C. (2002) ‘Cybercoven: Being a witch online’, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, SAGE Publications Ltd, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 51–62 [Online]. DOI: 10.1177/000842980203100104.

McSherry, L. (2002) The Virtual Pagan: Exploring Wicca and Paganism Through the Internet, Red Wheel Weiser.

Seargeant, P. and Tagg, C. (eds.) (2014) The Language of Social Media: Identity and Community on the Internet, Palgrave Macmillan UK [Online]. DOI: 10.1057/9781137029317 (Accessed 17 January 2021).

Turkle, S. (1995) Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, New York, Simon & Schuster.

00:00 Introduction: How does cyberspace affect Paganism and Witchcraft?

01:44 Modernism & postmodernism

02:15 Heidegger’s Technē and Poiēsis

06:36 How it affects pagan traditions

09:45 Initiation and ceremonial Magick

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