The re-enchantment of everyday life

Introduction: Magic and enchantment. Part 1 - Nature. Nature spirits. The waters of life. Trees that talk. Blood from stones. Part 2 - Home. Ecology's home. The enchanted child. The interiority of food. The presence of the hand. Part 3 - Habitat. The eternal house. Ruins and memory. A garden paradise. Noise and silence. Part 4 - World. The spirituality of politics. The business of enchantment. Mystic transport. The particularity of place. Part 5 - Psyche. Sex and soul. Mars and agression. An education in dreams. The therapist's chair. Part 6 - Art. Archetypes and mysteries. Objects of art. Musica humana. Furniture music. Part 7 - Word. Everyday mythologies. Stories imperfect and impossible. Books and calligraphies. Sense in nonsense. Part 8 - Sacred. The holy well. Everyday shrines and tabernacles. Temenos and sanctuary. Numinosty and luminescence. Part 9 - Ritual. Theology of the world. Astrology's truth. Miracles of sport. Earthen spirituality. Part 10 - Spirits. The mediation of angels. Devils of enchantment. The divination of certainty. This magical life. Conclusion

'...applying the principles of caring for the soul to our surroundings and the concrete particulars of how we live. Starting from the premise that we can no longer afford to live in a disenchanted world, Moore shows that a profound, enchanted engagement with life is not a childish thing to be put away with adulthood but a necessity for our personal and collective survival.'

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