Source Magic: The Origin of Art, Science, and Culture

This is an exploration of how magic can be found within all human activities. It offers a “magical-anthropological” tour from ancient Norse shamanism to the modern magick of occultists like Genesis P-Orridge. It looks at how human beings are naturally attracted to magic and how this attraction can be corrupted by both religious organizations and occult societies and examines magic as it relates to psychedelics, Witchcraft, shamanism, pilgrimage, Jungian individuation, mortality, and the literary works of Beat icons like Burroughs and Gysin.

The author looks at how human beings relate to and are naturally attracted to magic. He examines in depth the consequences of magical practice and how the attraction to magic can be corrupted by both religious organizations and occult societies. The author looks at magic and occulture as they relate to psychedelics, Witchcraft, shamanism and many more metaphysical aspects.