07-13-2013, 12:00 AM
MS, DD,
Tell me if you have the same impression...
I did review that material with the hope that it was going to offer revealing insights with another perspective. But after skimming it's content, I found the author to be in the usual university mode. By that I mean they are all academic technique and no substance whatsoever. The paper may have made a fine dissertation for a grade in a classroom, but the author obviously knew nothing whatsoever about magical practices. I'm sorry to say it is yet another case of over-educated folly, (not controlled by any means)...it was 15 tons of theory and not one ounce of wisdom based upon actual practice. This guy would have learned far more in a single session with Mescalito, than he did in four years of textbook, "didactic anthropological reductionism".
Tell me if you have the same impression...
I did review that material with the hope that it was going to offer revealing insights with another perspective. But after skimming it's content, I found the author to be in the usual university mode. By that I mean they are all academic technique and no substance whatsoever. The paper may have made a fine dissertation for a grade in a classroom, but the author obviously knew nothing whatsoever about magical practices. I'm sorry to say it is yet another case of over-educated folly, (not controlled by any means)...it was 15 tons of theory and not one ounce of wisdom based upon actual practice. This guy would have learned far more in a single session with Mescalito, than he did in four years of textbook, "didactic anthropological reductionism".