At first glance, Courtney Bender’s The New Metaphysicals might appear narrow and idiosyncratic. After all, it’s an ethnography of spiritual practitioners in Cambridge, Massachusetts—a pairing of the sacred and the secular that can seem as incongruous as Buddhists at boxing matches. What do astral voyagers, shamanistic drummers, and OBEs (Out of Body Experiencers, not to be confused with the equally rarefied Order of the British Empire) have to do with a progressive community anchored by such bastions of rational knowledge as Harvard and MIT?
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June 14th, 2010
Quantum sociology and The New Metaphysicals
posted by Michael SalerTags: Cambridge, Courtney Bender, disenchantment, Max Weber, modernity, physics, quantum mechanics, science, spirituality
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