Spiritual Education

Spiritual Education


Within harry potter and other works that align to the spiritual education archetype the students are faced with supernatural challenges as well as ordinary challenges. The supernatural challenges often seem to reflect those that we go through on a daily basis yet are portrayed in the light of the supernatural. The work I examined for class was The Magicians. The television adaptation does a better job of relating to the spiritual education archetype and is quite refreshing for using a college setting instead of an elementary or primary school setting, Quentin is interrupted from his normal non-magical life when his Princeton interview is swapped for one with Brakebills. Like most spiritual education texts the person introduced into the magical world has little or no understanding of it yet needs to escape from the world they are currently inhabiting. They feel out of place and use escapism as a means of fighting real world issues like depression, social anxieties and behavioral problems.

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