Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present - Chris Gosden
Category: Spiritual & Religious
Narrator: Clarke Peters
Tags: Spiritual & Religious, History
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Release date: November 10, 2020 Duration: 19:06:47, An Oxford professor of archaeology explores the unique history of magicthe oldest and most neglected strand of human behavior and its resurgence today, Three great strands of belief run through human history: Religion is the relationship with one god or many gods, masters of our lives and destinies. Science distances us from the world, turning us into observers and collectors of knowledge. And magic is direct human participation in the universe: we have influence on the world around us, and the world has influence on us., Over the last few centuries, magic has developed a bad reputationthanks to the unsavory tactics of shady practitioners, and to a successful propaganda campaign on the part of religion and science, which denigrated magic as backward, irrational, and primitive. Magic restores magic to its essential place in the history of the worldrevealing it to be an enduring element of human behavior th
