This text traces the origins and legends of wizards, charting their myriad expressions through time and across cultures. It also includes a number of meditations and practices at the end of each chapter that enable us to make use of some of the legendary skills of the wizard.

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Throughout the ages and across the world in many shapes and guises, as healers, mystics and literary figures, wizards have played an important part in real-life communities and in the imagination of many cultures. Often illuminating the future and explaining the past, wizards have always had a very powerful role. This text traces the origins and legends of wizards, charting their myriad expressions through time and across cultures. It also includes a number of meditations and practices at the end of each chpater that enable us to make use of some of the legendary skills of the wizard. Drawing on the history of this ancient and universally recognized figure, the author shows how wizards still influence us. From the great figure of Merlin, King Arthur's wizard, to the diminutive modern-day Harry Potter, "Wizards" explores the variety of guises in which wizards have appeared and examines their effect on our lives today.