Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
PART 1: SPEAKING WITH A DIFFERENT RHYTHM: MAGICIANS IN THE MODREN WORLD
1. What makes Magic Reasonable?
2. Initiation Ritual: My Introduction to the Field
3. Journey to Aquarius: the Sociological Context of Magical Groups
4. The Goat and the Gazelle: Witchcraft
5. Meditations on the Tree of Life: the Western Mysteries
6. Space between the Worlds: ad hoc Ritual Magic
7. The Old Ways: Non-Initiated Paganism
8. The 'child within': a Portrait of the Practitioners
PART 2: LISTENING TO THE GODDESS: NEW WAYS TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE WORLD
9. Introduction: the Magician's Changing Intellectual Habits
10. Drinking from Cerridwen's Cauldron: Learning to See the Evidence
11. Astrology and the Tarot: Acquiring Common Knowledge
12. Seeing Patterns in the Jumbled Whole: Becoming Comfortable with New Assumptions
PART 3: SUMMONING THE POWERS: THE EXPERIENCE OF INVOLVEMENT
13. Introduction: Working Intuitively
14. New Experiences: Meditation and Visualization
15. 'Knowing of': Language and Imaginative Involvement
16. Ritual: Techniques for Altering the Everyday
17. The Varied Uses of Symbolism
PART 4: JUSTIFYING TO THE SCEPTICS
18. Introduction: Coping with the Dissonance
19. The Magical Plane: The Emergence of a Protective Metaphor
20. In Defence of Magic: Philosophical and Theological Rationalization
PART 5: BELIEF AND ACTION
21. Interpretice Drift: The Slow Shift Towards Belief
22. Serious Play: The Fantasy of Truth
23. Final Thoughts
Bibliography
Index