Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-236) and index.
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Introduction -- Nature religion and underlying influences -- Connection with nature -- 'Calling to be remembered' : place, ancestors, and tradition -- Magical consciousness -- The wild hunt : a mythological language of magic -- Learning to be indigenous -- A tangled web : paradoxical elements -- Nature in the city : a globalizing postmodern world?
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice and ambiguity respectively.
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