ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the challenges involved in a study of magical consciousness between the dense interactivity between psychology and anthropology. With respect to universals, anthropologist Donald Brown points out that anthropology has traditionally fallen victim to three main assumptions that have precluded the study of universals. The universals are in fact universals in human nature that include a dense interaction between culture, psychology, and biology. These are the universals of experience, which includes magical thinking as well as analytical thinking. Carl Jung noticed that dream thought is largely metaphorical thought; such is the case in magical thought from the analytical perspective. Dreams and spontaneous expressions of the collective element often contain this feature they contain musical, visual, and somatic communications that cannot be fully expressed in words without losing meaning. The collective element contains both generational cultural elements as well as various biological constants that are universal to all humans that have combined with those cultural elements.
