Integral Magick

This is the sound of me saying nothing about the current dust-up in the Integral community…

In its place, here’s a quote from kaidevis who is doing some groundbreaking work on an Integral Magick saying things I wish I’d said about the absence of the Western Hermetic tradition from the palette of integral spiritual practices.

Wilber has, essentially, discarded all of the Western mystical and magickal tradition outside of a very small slice — Christian mysticism (because he can’t ignore it) and Qabala (because everyone knows about it; though he sticks to the rabbinical views). Everything else he ignores and does not address, filing it away under “Belief in magick: infantile”. His study of western esotericism does not seem to contain *any* information about magick as it has existed within the past century — by that standard (tossing out the last century’s advances in theory and practice), *any* field of human endeavour could be easily devalued and ignored. If I were to write my own book and only cover psychology as it existed up until the first years of the twentieth century, I would have missed all the excitement and definitely all of the relevant information. The same is true when psychologists such as Wilber write about magick and only bring their research about magick current to the nineteenth century. Magick has grown just as much.

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