Considerations of Magic

By Benedikte Eva

This short book aims to answer the questions: Why magic? What do I mean by magic? Am I a nutcase when I believe in magic? I will share some of my personal, philosphical and historical considerations about the belief in magic. Enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Benedikte Eva
• Release date: Mar 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311668158

Benedikte Eva

Magician, musician and artist with a skewed view of the world a love of jazz and a quiet nature loving mind andconscious co-creator of joint reality just like you :-)Love, Joy and Deep Inner PeaceBenedikteEva

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Philosophical, Personal and Historical Considerations of Magic

By BenedikteEva

Copyright © 2013 BenedikteEva

Smashwords Edition

ISBN: 9781311668158

DEDICATION

- To all great minds.

Content:

Prelude

Background

Philosophic Considerations

Personal Considerations

Historical Considerations

Afterword

Appendix A: Mind

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to acknowledge those who asked me questions about magic and even those who called me a nutcase. This book wouldn’t exist without them.

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Prelude

Hi, I’m BenedikteEva.

I have written 4 books about magic and its practical use. One book is in Danish and three in English.

When people ask me what I do in life and I tell them about my books, they typically ask me ‘what do you mean by magic’. My normal response is something like: ’Um well magic is the art of creating the experience of life as we want it’.

Then some might say: ‘Interesting’ could you tell me some more about it’. And I answer: ’I can’t do it in 10 minutes that is why I wrote the books’. Not very polite, but this is mostly because I don’t know where to start when talking about magic and I get kind of shy.

Others might say something like: ‘So you are a nutcase’ I often just answer that by saying: ‘Yes I am a nutcase’ and then simply stop talking about magic with the questioning person.

Some who work a lot with self improvement often asks: ‘Why magic? You can never sell that as self development. People would think about role playing games or paganism or pulling rabbits out of hats when hearing the word ‘magic’ I know that’s what I think’.

And I answer: ‘Because magic is magic no matter what we call it and it has a history that goes back to the beginning of man’.

This book is an attempt to answer some of the questions people might have about the considerations I have had about magic.

Background

The focus of interest

Since I was a little girl both science and magic was of mutual interest to me, especially physics and psychic powers of all sorts. Also magic as it was in