In Search of Magic: Where stories meet time

What if magic begins with the way we see the world?

Before it became a word for the impossible, magic was woven into everyday life: an offering beside a spring, a whispered prayer, a ritual of remembrance, a search for healing.

In In Search of Magic, Konstantinos Fotiadis traces this enduring human impulse across cultures and centuries. From ancient Greece and Egypt to the spiritual traditions of India, Buddhist practice and the songs of the North, the journey unfolds through stories of ordinary people encountering grief, uncertainty, wonder and change.

As the narrative moves towards modern psychology and contemporary life, a question emerges: what connects these different ways of seeking meaning? Through evocative storytelling and reflective prose, the book explores the relationships between ritual and memory, nature and belief, healing and the inner world.

For readers drawn to mythology, spirituality, cultural history and the mysteries of the human mind, In Search of Magic offers an invitation to look more closely at familiar things—and to consider what our search for the unseen reveals about ourselves.