PAGANISM & PSYCHOLOGY. Psychological Research on Spells, Magic, Witchcraft with Dr Charmaine Sonnex

What can psychology tell us about Paganism? Does science study Magic Spells and their effect? Are Pagans happier?

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00:00 Dr Charmain Sonnex covers the following topics:

1:52 Spellcasting and the Efficacy of Pagan Healing Spells

3:47 Research Methodology

6:50 Search for core concepts of Pagan Spell Casting

8:54 Double-Blind Methodology

10:00 How the healing spells worked

11:23 Timing of Healing Spells

12:40 How were the people to be healed selected?

14:20 Research Findings and conclusions to the study

17:20 Relationship between religious orientation, nature connectedness and happiness

18:12 The concept of Eudaimonia. What is Eudaimonia?

24:00 Can Pagan Practices foster Eudaimonia?

25:09 Self-acceptance. How Pagans’ connection to Nature allows to embrace all the elements of the self and the body (e.g. sex, body positivity, ageing)

26:30 Autonomy and Environmental Mastery. Paganism highlights the personal agency

27:39 Positive Relations in Paganism and Sense of Community

28:23 Interconnectedness whereby Magic works

28:41 Purpose in Life

31:14 Why do people believe in and practise Paganism?

33:31 What’s the current state of research in the field of Psychology on the matter of Paganism and Magical practices?

34:50 The ‘Coming Home’ Theory. People report encountering Paganism made them feel like they were coming home

35:53 The concept of Flow

36:12 The importance of studying Paganism from a scientific and psychological point of view

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REFERENCES

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1975). Beyond boredom and anxiety. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Ezzy, D. (2014). Sex, death and witchcraft: A contemporary pagan festival. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Harrington, M. (2002). The long journey home; a study of the conversion profiles of 35 British Wiccan men. Revista de Estudos da Religião, 2, 18-50.

Ryff, C. D. (1989). Happiness Is Everything or Is It? Explorations on the Meaning of Psychological Wellbeing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 1069-1081.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.57.6.1069

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