Contemporary Witchcraft and Shamanism with Angela Puca

Angela Puca, MA, PhD Candidate, 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). (Recorded on August 22, 2020) For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listin.... If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to [email protected]. Check out our new website for the New Thinking Allowed Foundation at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions. There, you can also subscribe to our free, weekly Newsletter! To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see   / 1953031791426543   To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n.... You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner, click here: https://amzn.to/31UJb0u. LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS AND VIDEOS DISCUSSED IN THIS INTERVIEW: Antoine Faivre, Western Esotericism: A Concise History – https://amzn.to/32RJHvL Wouter I. Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture – https://amzn.to/353mmty Marco Pasi, Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics – https://amzn.to/2Z5mS6x 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 Carlos Casteneda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge – https://amzn.to/31V8i3p Philip Hestleton, Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival – https://amzn.to/2Dq1wsY Kocku von Stuckrad, The Scientification of Religion – https://amzn.to/34XBIjo 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 Museo Chileno, Mapuche: Seeds of the Chilean Soul – https://amzn.to/359rs7w 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 (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) Our Facebook page:   / newthinkingallowed   Our Twitter page:   / newthinkallowed   Our Instagram page:   / jeffreymishlove   Our LinkedIn discussion group:   / 13860770   Our Discord channel:   / discord