Contemporary Witchcraft and Shamanism with Angela Puca (4K Reboot)

Angela Puca, MA, PhD, is a Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University and a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Religious Studies at University of Leeds/Leeds Trinity University. Her doctoral research is on “Autochthonous and Trans-cultural Shamanism in Italy”. She hosts "Angela's Symposium" channel on YouTube. The link is https://bit.ly/32Bz3KC.

Here she explains that there is a small, but growing, interest in academic research on western esoteric traditions. Such research actually has a discernible influence upon those traditions, as practitioners often seek validity from those they perceive as experts. Paradoxically, there is also a strong "post-truth" inclination among such practitioners in which factual observation and expert authority is ignored in favor of compelling narratives.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.

(Recorded on August 22, 2020)

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LINKS TO SOME BOOKS AND VIDEOS DISCUSSED IN THIS INTERVIEW:

Wouter I. Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture – https://amzn.to/353mmty

Kocku von Stuckrad, Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge – https://amzn.to/31T3NXc

Suzanne Owen, The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality – https://amzn.to/2YYBkxh

Philip Hestleton, Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival – https://amzn.to/2Dq1wsY

Margaret A. Murray, The Witch Cult in Western Europe – https://amzn.to/339wuP9

Margaret A. Murray, The God of the Witches – https://amzn.to/2Gso11H

Ronald Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft – https://amzn.to/2EUXHgd

Andy Hilton, Anthropology and Mysticism in the Making of Initiation – https://amzn.to/2GirnnJ

Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy – https://amzn.to/32RGYT6

Charles Leland, Stregheria: Italian Traditional Witchcraft – https://amzn.to/2Z3iTaM

Michael Harner, Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality – https://amzn.to/3lQk5b5