‘Mystic unity was based on participation (Lévy-Bruhl) and on an association between persons and things that in Western thought would be logically distinct; it created a fundamentally different relationship between the individual and society, based on the notion that mana or energy suffuses the individual and his/her body and the whole environment.’
Greenwood, S. (2020). The Nature of Magic: An Anthropology of Consciousness, Routledge.
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