A .guide to the magical practices of contemporary women which gathers together all the disciplines of European witchcraft.
Drawing on examples from many places and times, this work argues for the continuing tension across historical contexts between movements emphasizing ritual and movements emphasizing sincerity.
In the popular culture, many people confuse ritual and ceremony, which can cause mistrust of the work of transforming words and actions. Ceremonies typically use volumes of words with little real action or depth, but rituals are ...
Copying rituals has allowed cultural groups to proliferate over time.
In Susceptible to the Sacred, Bani Shorter, a well-known Jungian analyst, examines the psychological experience of ritual in contemporary life and how this promotes awareness of the individual's natural potential.