Name the common features of the following: Earth Day, Manson cultists, theistic evolution, astrology, busing, Carlos Castaneda, consciousness expansion, psychic healing, genetic planning, mind-bending drugs, and social engineering.
Give up? The answer is that each and every one of them, in addition to being prominent on our modern social landscape, has something to do with magic, in the broadest meaning of that term. Not conjurers’ tricks, you understand, but serious magic in the sense of esoteric knowledge geared to power. And since that pretty much describes the ruling impulse of the age, it follows that we are living in a culture well suffused with magic.
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