Sure; I would go with Ginzburg & say that the prevailing element of Western magic-- by which I mean, European, & colonies outward, not really "Western" but close enough-- is that ecstasy. With the tensions between ritual & frenzy, transcendental & immersive. All of which, right, if you went to see Sleep No More-- immersive contact improv dance theater about Macbeth-- you would see a lot of those elements on display. I don't know, I'm not contradicting, but rather saying it is a very robust metaphor. Or actually not even that much of a metaphor. A metafor.

I wonder then about other competing phylogenies, like Being? I feel like Being comes up out of India & across Asia (into Greece?) as a definitive trait? Or I don't know-- I'd maybe go with Being & Nothing as core to my experience, though not from an Eastern or pseduo-Eastern paradigm.