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

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Magic practitioners have to face the issue and the stigma of holding beliefs and engaging in rituals that contrast the dominant paradigm

So, how are these beliefs maintained and what makes them thrive in hostile mainstream culture?

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00:00 Introduction and Greetings

04:20 Lecture

33:00 Questions & Answers

REFERENCES

O’Connor, C. and Weatherall, J. O. (2018) ‘Scientific polarization’, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 855–875 [Online]. DOI: 10.1007/s13194-018-0213-9.

Stringer, M. D. (1996) ‘Towards a situational theory of belief’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 217–234.

Stringer, M. D. (2008) Contemporary Western Ethnography and the Definition of Religion, Continuum.

Weatherall, J. O. and O’Connor, C. (2020) ‘How to beat science and influence people: policymakers and propaganda in epistemic networks’, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 71, pp. 1157–1186.

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#witchcraft #magick #neoplatonism

NEOPLATONISM, Plotinus, Iamblichus, Marsilio Ficino, Monism, Emanation, The One in Magick, Esoteric, Witch and Occult practices.

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REFERENCES

Cocco, G. (1992) ‘La Struttura Del Mondo Soprasensibile Nella Filosofia Di Giamblico’, Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, Vita e Pensiero – Pubblicazioni dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, vol. 84, no. 2/3, pp. 468–493.

Copenhaver, B. P. (1984) ‘Scholastic Philosophy and Renaissance Magic in the De vita of Marsilio Ficino’, Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 523–554 [Online]. DOI: 10.2307/2860993.

Gregory, J. (1999) The Neoplatonists: A Reader, Psychology Press.

Mebane, J. S. (1992) Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare, U of Nebraska Press.

Yates, F. A. (1999) Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Taylor & Francis.

Zambelli, P. (2007) White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance, BRILL.

00:00:00 Introduction: The Influence of Neoplatonism on Esotericism

00:07:35 The origin of the school

00:09:26 The founding philosophers

00:10:49 The Great Chain of Being

00:17:45 Negative theology

00:23:01 Question break

00:31:32 Monism

00:37:35 Ethics

00:41:51 The problem of evil

00:45:43 Question break

00:56:31 Iamblicus

01:00:21 Marsilio Ficino

01:05:54 The influence of the planets

01:06:02 Neoplatonism in contemporary Esotericism

01:15:37 Final questions

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00:00 INTRO WITH ECHO (SORRY!)

03:28 INTRO (ECHO ISSUE FIXED)

06:27 WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW - PARADIGM?

14:50 WHY DOES IT MATTER?

19:28 CAN MAGICK LEAD TO 'ENLIGHTENMENT'?

26:18 ATHEISM - ANALYSING WORLDVIEWS

34:20 WHICH PARADIGMS OF THE WORLD UNDERLIE MAGIC PRACTICES?

38:12 TRANS-CULTURAL SHAMANISM - ANALYSING WORLDVIEWS

43:28 CHAOS MAGIC / LEFT-HAND PATH - ANALYSING WORLDVIEWS

53:17 WICCA - ANALYSING WORLDVIEWS

57:35 LAW OF ATTRACTION - ANALYSING WORLDVIEWS

1:08:14 CAN DIFFERENT PARADIGMS OF REALITY CLASH? WHAT THEN?

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REFERENCES

Alexander, J. C. and Seidman, S. (1942) Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates, Cambridge University Press.

Berger, P. L. (1967) The Sacred Canopy, Stated First Edition., Doubleday.

Griffioen, S. (2012) ‘On Worldviews’, Philosophia Reformata, Brill, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 19–56.

Neville, R. C. (2009) ‘Worldviews’, American Journal of Theology & Philosophy, University of Illinois Press, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 233–243.

Puca, A. (2018) ‘Scientism and Post-Truth. Two contradictory paradigms underlying contemporary shamanism?’, Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR), vol. 20, pp. 83–99 [Online]. DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v20i0.30.

von Stuckrad, K. (2014) The Scientification of Religion, Boston, Berlin, De Gruyter.

Wolters, A. M. (1983) ‘On The Idea of Worldview and Its Relation to Philosophy’, in Marshall, P. (ed), Stained Glass [Online]. Available at /paper/On-The-Idea-of-Worldview-and-Its-Relation-to-Wolters/a2cd05ddda031514bcb7bd1fe2c33ac50805eac6 (Accessed 12 September 2020).

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Why did the world stop believing in magic? Max Weber and Myth of Disenchantment, Peter Berger and Secularism, Storm and Aprem on Re-enchantment.

00:00 INTRO (low volume, apologies)

04:15 LECTURE

41:14 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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REFERENCES

Max Weber ‘Science as a Vocation’

Jason Josephson Storm 'The Myth of Disenchantment'

Peter Berger ‘The Sacred Canopy’

Egil Asprem ‘The Problem of Disenchantment’

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#death #afterlife #occult

Concepts of Afterlife, Death and Near-Death Experiences across religions and cultures.

SPEAKERS

Chris Deacy, Head of Religious Studies at the University of Kent. Currently leading a module/course focused on Death, Afterlife and Near-Death Experiences.

David Wilson, Religious Studies PhD at the University of Edinburgh and author of the book ‘Redefining Shamanisms’. David specialises in Spiritualism & Western mediumship as forms of shamanism.

Giorgio Scalici, Post-doctoral Researcher at Nova universidade de Lisboa. He specialises in Death rituals in Indonesian shamanistic traditions.

email: [email protected] and website www.giorgioscalici.eu

Jeffrey Albaugh, program manager for the Conference on Current Pagan Studies and the co-chair for the Pagan Studies Unit of the American Academy of Religion, Western Regional.

Jennifer Uzzell, Doctoral Researcher at Durham University. She specialises in death rites in Druidry and owns a Progressive Funeral home!

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Shanell Papp, Canadian video and textile artist. Her research and art are focused around death images, the grotesque and labour.

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Veenat Arora, Lecturer at Chandigarh College, India. She is a Sociologist of religion, specialised in Death philosophy within Indian traditions.

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00:00:00 Introduction: 10 000 subscribers celebration

00:01:44 Panel members from academia

00:04:02 Inner Symposium (Patreon) members

00:06:09 Afterlife beliefs in Pagans

00:13:26 Reincarnation

00:20:48 The possible influence of Christianity on afterlife beliefs

00:23:09 Afterlife beliefs in an indigenous culture in Indonesia

00:27:50 The idea of linear vs circular time in concepts of eternity

00:30:16 Marriage in the afterlife

00:42:23 Relationships between the living and the dead

00:44:59 Art’s role in dealing with death

00:48:38 Methods of body disposal

00:51:54 Spiritism

00:53:46 Manipulating death with pacts and ritual

01:11:16 The Hero’s Journey

01:17:04 Hauntings

01:20:27 Obligations of the living toward the dead

01:25:54 The prevalence of negative NDEs

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I'm Angela Puca, Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University.

On this Podcast, I'll be sharing thoughts and reflections on Esotericism, Witchcraft and Magic-related topics.

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