Bringing about a creative dialogue between the anthropologist's own experience of magical consciousness and theoretical analysis, this book is a poly-vocal study in which the voices of the neurobiologist, anthropologist as anthropologist, anthropologist as native, and various spirit beings weave an alternative narrative displaying the process of magical thinking.

Susan Greenwood is a past lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London and University of Sussex.

Erik D. Goodwyn is Assistant Professor at University of Louisville.

Introduction: Magic in Consciousness Part One: A Dialogue Between Anthropology and Neurobiology 1. The Analogical Reason of Magic 2. The Magical Mind-Body Problem 3. Dense Interactivity: Interdisciplinary Challenges 4. Mind, Matrix, and Metaphor: Integrating Patterns of Experience Part Two: An Ethnography of Mind 5. The Anthropologist's Story: Prologue 6. Looking Into the River 7. Grandpa's Magical Desk 8. Dragon Source 9. Imagination 10. The Doors of Perception 11. A Mythological Language 12. Confrontation 13. Forging Anew 14. Cyclical Return 15. Ancestors Part Three: Conclusions 16. A Creative Synthesis: Analysing the Magical Mode