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...David Belden In Moriarty’s book, there aren’t two worlds, only one. Magic isn’t a counter-culture. It is everyone’s folk culture. At first it seems that it is a culture in the process of being banished as the machine age gathers speed, as in so many modern fantasy stories, from Peter Pan onward...

... to say I didn’t have much Jewish background would be an understatement. But Camp Swig hit me like a revelation. There was something magical about it. I could feel it especially on Friday afternoons when we sang together in a big circle under the redwoods; everyone cleaned up and dressed in white. I...

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... of testimony, the Warren Commission sanctified Oswald’s instant conviction in spite of the extreme implausibility of the magic bullet theory, the apparently contrary evidence of the Zapruder film, and other factual information such as the near impossibility of Oswald’s firing even three bullets (assuming...

...; using a you’re a black teenager.” punch line. Examples from Jesus is graphic account of oral sex to revisit the “W hen God gives you AIDS—and Magic, her 2005 feature film, include: com m on anxiety...

... stand. For example, from what Wilber (following the integral approach developed by the philosopher Jean Gebser) calls the magical stage, God looks like the provider who answers all of your...

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..., the experience of taking medications, the role of insurance companies and America’s can-do attitude in the promotion of cognitive-behavioral therapy, how yesterday’s phrenology compares with today’s neuroscience and neuroimaging, and even how a magical afternoon taking ecstasy and fooling around with a room full...

... in believing that technological innovations—from solar panels and wind turbines to electric cars and bio-diesel fuels—will save the day. Technological change is certainly necessary to help heal the planet, but believing in a technological fix to a systemic crisis is magical thinking and false hope...

..., in their separateness. They have decided to embrace an ambiguous, labyrinthine identity—to enjoy their transactions with the Anglo environment. Down with political activism and radical rage, welcome to fashionable exoticism. . .. The fever that once surrounded Latin America’s magic realism. . .. has been eclipsed...

... in the Justice System B u t t h e l a w i n T e x a s m a k e s i t t h e d u t y o f t h e p r o s e c u t i n g a t t o r n e y “ t o see that justice is done.” That is why I first ran for district attorney thirty-two years ago, and it’s why I stayed so long. Those words were magic to me...

... and movingly of what we might lose, what we can save. We must challenge the debasement of language, the manipulations and confabulations generated by Trump and his alt-right alternative-reality gurus. Truth as a sieve, a sifter. We must not let words be spirited away by the dark magic of alternative truths...

... of us thought of as magic tion, and it says take a handful of fine flour, mix it with oil, tricks when we learned about them in kindergarten or the first sprinkle spices, and turn it to smoke upon the altar—th at’s a grade—these things called the Ten Plagues that were done by pancake...

... long ago, the economy occupied a limited area within the bounds of ethical, social, and religious considerations. Through some magical trick, we’ve now inserted society into the economy, instead of having the economy as a part of society. The global economy claims to be above all things, and yet...

... twentieth-century figures like Farid al-Atrash, Wadi al-Safi, Asmahan, the magical art of Simon Shaheen s mas­ Sayyid Darwish and Da’oud Husni were Fairuz, and Leyla Mourad. This rich and tery of this brilliant musical tradition. the progenitors and the inspiration for glittering tradition of song...

... certainty (“ you know what ?”) that gives expression to the “desperate clutch of childhood simplicity”? By inserting her voice in the strategic places where his own knowing mind would refuse this comfort, Eitan manages to both hold onto it and to transcend it. He is able to indulge in magical thinking...

...Mimi Kennedy Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 E lection year is different from all other years. Awash in propaganda from global profiteers, we’ll be sold magical individuals who’ll promise to restore our national identity and save our souls. The media will invite progressives...

... in a magical now in groups limits their scope and effectiveness The swami’s understanding of Hindu which I was suddenly a girl or w om an- in various ways. John D’Emilio said the law coincides with that of legal historians, fantasies I expected to come true the mo­ movement’s current focus on goals...

..., the cat returns with a magic machine and restores order. When mother does return, and asks what the children did, they are uncertain what to tell her. Then, in the last two lines of the book, another voice asks us all a dreadful question: “What would you do if your mother asked you?” The children...

... e than I do in Israel, though I am magically and inextricably draw n to regularly be in Israel) all th at people asked me, in one way or another, was w hether I thought the conflict w ith the Palestinians would ever end. After sixty years of independence this question casts a shadow...