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PAGANISM & PSYCHOLOGY. Psychological Research on Spells, Magic, Witchcraft with Dr Charmaine Sonnex
ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM π Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult
English - July 23, 2023 05:14 - 38 minutes - 22 MB - β β β β β - 1 ratingReligion & Spirituality Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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 Pagansβ 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 Whatβs the current state of research in the field of Psychology on the matter of Paganism and Magical practices?
34:50 The βComing Homeβ 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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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 ReligiΓ£o, 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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