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I guess we can overthink these things...and become 'candidates for a mental asylum' to use G's fine phrase

Talking of magic Isabelle Stengers book 'Hypnosis Between Science and Magic' will be published in Translation later this year (first published in 2002).

I was talking about it in relation to Gurdjieff earlier today...

In fact Stengers has another interesting bk 'Capitalist Sorcery' which I also recommend. I translated her 'Power and Invention: situating science' many years ago.

She was impressed by Starhawk, the 'neo-pagan witch'...

Joy and celebration yes...didn't get a sense of that in the foundation...

And then there is Spinoza's question 'how can there be joy in a world of suffering.'

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