This work is an anthropological study of magic and consciousness conducted
through an examination of nature spiritualities. Often collectively termed ‘nature
religion’, nature spiritualities are concerned with developing intense personal
relationships with nature, as demonstrated by my own encounter with the Snowdonian
elements above. In Western cultures, nature, the earth, or ‘the environment’
as it is now frequently called, has been progressively devalued by some dualistic
conceptions of the universe that separate humans from nature. A definition of the
environment as ‘all material entities which exist on planet Earth but which are
not human’ reveals the fundamental separation between humans and the natural
world (Simmons, 1993:1). The central theme of this work is to examine how
practitioners of nature spiritualities overcome this cultural alienation and relate
with nature as a living and inspirited cosmos.
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