Magic psychology

A thorough treatment of the truly magical process of self-transformation through combination of depth psychology and alchemcial operations. 

Eckblad, M. L., St Chapman, L. J. (1983). Magical ideation as an indicator of schizotypy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 51, 215-225. 

Yerba mora is Black Nightshade or Solarium nigrum , illness can be physical, psychological or magical. There is a more detailed description of crushing the... 

Miller, G. A. (1956) The magical number seven, plus or minus two Some limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological Review 63(2), 81-97. 

We have all read about primitive cultures in which people have secret names. These primitives are supposedly so foolish that they think they would lay themselves open to magical attack if unfriendly people knew their secret name. Is it superstition, or more psychological sophistication than we have. ... 

Iron, which was the metal symbolising strength in magical systems, used to be given to people suffering from weakness, and no doubt many were benefited, some psychologically (placebo reactors) and others because the weakness was due to iron deficiency anaemia. The rational use of iron could not begin tmtil both the presence of iron in the... 

Following his experiments with magic mushrooms in Mexico during the summer of 1960, T. Leary returned to Harvard University and began to study psilocybin as a variable in the administration of standard psychological test batteries. His initial focus was diluted when he continued to expand his experiments to include increasingly broader settings and applications. In... 

For many, the impact of scientific evidence, after invention of the telescope, was too sudden to shake their traditional beliefs, established over millenia. Even today there are those in the western world who feel more comfortable with fiat-earth cosmology and who regulate their fives arormd magical practices. There is a psychological reluctance to give up private beliefs, based on personal observation of the world, in favour of unfamiliar ideas, derived from poorly understood experiments, performed by strangers. 

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