ANGELA’S SYMPOSIUM 📖 Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult
What can psychology tell us about Paganism? Does science study Magic Spells and their effect? Are Pagans happier?
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00:00 Dr Charmain Sonnex covers the following topics:
1:52 Spellcasting and the Efficacy of Pagan Healing Spells
3:47 Research Methodology
6:50 Search for core concepts of Pagan Spell Casting
8:54 Double-Blind Methodology
10:00 How the healing spells worked
11:23 Timing of Healing Spells
12:40 How were the people to be healed selected?
14:20 Research Findings and conclusions to the study
17:20 Relationship between religious orientation, nature connectedness and happiness
18:12 The concept of Eudaimonia. What is Eudaimonia?
24:00 Can Pagan Practices foster Eudaimonia?
25:09 Self-acceptance. How Pagans’ connection to Nature allows to embrace all the elements of the self and the body (e.g. sex, body positivity, ageing)
26:30 Autonomy and Environmental Mastery. Paganism highlights the personal agency
27:39 Positive Relations in Paganism and Sense of Community
28:23 Interconnectedness whereby Magic works
28:41 Purpose in Life
31:14 Why do people believe in and practise Paganism?
33:31 What’s the current state of research in the field of Psychology on the matter of Paganism and Magical practices?
34:50 The ‘Coming Home’ Theory. People report encountering Paganism made them feel like they were coming home
35:53 The concept of Flow
36:12 The importance of studying Paganism from a scientific and psychological point of view
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REFERENCES
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1975). Beyond boredom and anxiety. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Ezzy, D. (2014). Sex, death and witchcraft: A contemporary pagan festival. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Harrington, M. (2002). The long journey home; a study of the conversion profiles of 35 British Wiccan men. Revista de Estudos da Religião, 2, 18-50.
Ryff, C. D. (1989). Happiness Is Everything or Is It? Explorations on the Meaning of Psychological Wellbeing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 1069-1081.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.57.6.1069
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