The Three Laws of Sympathetic Magic

The three Laws of Sympathetic Magic are Contagion, Similarity, and Opposites. Descriptions of a consistent pattern of beliefs, thoughts and practices observed across a wide range of traditional cultures. Their widespread occurrence suggests that they may constitute laws of human thought.

Source: Sympathetic Magic

The author is the first to apply Cultural Psychology’s Laws of Sympathetic Magic to information warfare. These are not superstitions but cognitive routines as binding as legal statutes — hence ‘Jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic.’ Academic sources: Frazer (Golden Bough), Levi-Strauss, Marcel Mauss, Nemeroff and Rozin (University of Pennsylvania).


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