Magical consciousness is affective, associative and synchronistic, shaped through individual experience within a particular environment. This book examines magic head-on, not through its instrumental aspects but as an orientation of consciousness. Magic gets to the very heart of some theoretical and methodological difficulties encountered in the social and natural sciences, especially to do with issues of rationality. How does a mind think magically? The research documented in this book is one answer that allows the disciplines of anthropology and neurobiology to come together to reveal a largely hidden dynamic of magic. Graphic, gritty, bloodthirsty, steamy, and uniquely original, the Witchbound saga is unlike any other horror/paranormal romance series you’ve ever read and is recommended for mature readers. Together they must rouse a Goddess to save the world from a race from another dimension before they consume all life on earth. Kay and her new Guardian soon find themselves up against an unfamiliar enemy who wields a powerful weapon capable of destroying them all. But this new creature isn’t the only new face in town. When Tara accidentally awakens her ancient Guardian from his five-thousand-year slumber, they must contend with their growing dark desires for each other. In search of regaining her blood magic, she soon discovers her hometown isn’t just unwelcoming, it’s downright dangerous. When earth witch Tara Kay returns to her family’s land after the violent theft of her magical abilities, her return isn’t as celebrated as she had hoped. She also tracks magical consciousness in philosophy, myth, folklore, story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity, and asks important questions concerning nature religion's environmental credentials, such as whether it as inherently ecological as many of its practitioners claim.

She combines her own subjective insights gained from magical practice with practitioners' in-depth accounts and sustained academic theory on the process of magic. Greenwood develops a new theory of magical consciousness by arguing that magic ultimately has more to do with the workings of the human mind in terms of an expanded awareness than with socio-cultural explanations. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice and ambiguity respectively. This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'.

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