A rare combination of personal and academic, this book showcases the myriad avenues for transcending the boundaries of reality through direct sensory experience.
• Highlights techniques, rituals, and training of magical practitioners
• Counterpoints the rational with the emotional and compares the past with the present
• Takes a cross-cultural, historical, and anthropological approach that is accessible to all readers
• Includes experiences of academics, shamans, occultists, healers, sorcerers, pagans, medieval magicians, cybermagicians, and indigenous peoples across the world
