{"id":4515,"date":"2012-07-30T20:28:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T02:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2012-07-30T20:28:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T02:28:59","slug":"magic-shows-at-laphams-quarterly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4515","title":{"rendered":"“Magic Shows” at Lapham’s Quarterly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Invocatio<\/em><\/a>: Check the Summer 2012 issue of the online magazine Lapham’s Quarterly<\/em> <\/a>for an issue devoted to magic, small-w witchcraft, wonder-working, spiritualism, and carnivores versus vegetarians.<\/p>\n

Then go back to Invocatio <\/a><\/em>for more news on the study of Western esotericism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Invocatio: Check the Summer 2012 issue of the online magazine Lapham’s Quarterly for an issue devoted to magic, small-w witchcraft, wonder-working, spiritualism, and carnivores versus vegetarians. Then go back to Invocatio for more news on the study of Western esotericism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,72,29],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-esotericism","tag-magick","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1aP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8434,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8434","url_meta":{"origin":4515,"position":0},"title":"CFP: 2017 AAR Contemporary Pagan Studies Group","author":"Chas S. 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To learn more about them, read Andy Letcher's Shroom or the works of Paul Stamets, Dale Pendell, etc. These are metaphorical mushrooms\u2014or mushrooms as metaphor\u2014from an article by Wouter Hanegraaff on the German scholar of esotericism Will-Erich Peuckert (1895-1969): To me, [Peuckert's] book [Pansophie] breathed\u00a0 an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"occultism\"","block_context":{"text":"occultism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=occultism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3969,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3969","url_meta":{"origin":4515,"position":3},"title":"Esotericism for Laughs at The Telegraph","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A fairly lightweight article on Freemasonry in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph produced this classic response in the comments: All MPs are Freemasons. So are all civil servants. It's too late to do anything about it. 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