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What is the Historical Study of Science and Magic Good for?

January 19, 2021March 6, 2020 by Andreas Sommer

Christian Jarrett, an editor at Aeon magazine, approached me after reading my response to a Japanese newspaper query on ghost beliefs in the West last year to commission a short article on a similar topic. I was happy to comply, and my Aeon piece on the hidden history of hallucinations and visions went online in … Read more

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Categories Work in Progress Tags Aeon magazine, Age of Enlightenment, Apparitions, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Hallucinations, Historiography, History of medicine, History of Science Society, Mental health, Misdiagnosis, Mystical experiences, Near-Death Experiences, Psychedelics, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Public health, Reincarnation, Salutogenesis, Scientific racism, William James 1 Comment

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