In my
book A Dictionary of Thought Distortions I
claim that the Sophists used thought distortions as a way of getting on in the
world, while Socrates (the philosopher), used critical thinking. I
consider this book to be a kind of philosophical diary on how I, during my
spiritual crisis, used critical thinking (elenchos, the art of refutation) to
distinguish base magic (New Age), which leaves everything to chance, and may
lead its practitioners to consort with falsity and evil daemons, and higher
magic or theurgy.
Showing posts with label Magic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magic. Show all posts
Monday, March 18, 2019
Monday, December 3, 2018
Why the name change from "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in the UK to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the United States?
In the book Harry Potter and Philosophy, the editors
write in the introductory article The
Magic of Philosophy:
Philosophers,
both Muggles and non-muggles, love Harry, which is more fitting than one might
imagine. When the first Potter book was published in the United States, the
subtitle The Philosopher´s Stone was changed to The Sorcerer´s Stone. The rationale
was that Americans would be put off by reference to philosophy. Philosophy it
was thought, evokes esoteric and daunting images of the ivory tower. This may
have been a miscalculation.
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Witch Power, Occult Awakening and Dangerous Illusions
In Rold Forest we have a
witch. Her name is Dannie Druehyld. In her book Heksens Håndbog (the Handbook of the Witch) she writes that to live
like a witch is to live with the Goddesses, the flowers and the call of the birds
– to live cyclic. To experience everything which happens, as a part of a magical
puzzle, where every splinter of reality, every human being, you meet, is a
piece of your life´s puzzle.
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