…It follows, therefore, that it is only those collective needs, experienced by a whole community, which can persuade all the individuals of this group to operate the same synthesis at the same time. A group’s beliefs and faith are the result of everyone’s needs and unanimous desires. Magical judgments are the subject of social consensus; the translation of a social need under the pressure of which an entire series of collective psychological phenomena are let loose. This universal need suggests the objective to the whole group. Between these two terms, we have infinity of possible middle terms….
M.Mause
(A General theory of Magic: Pg. 157)
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