Word: occultation
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...them met 20-year-old H. P. Blavatsky in Hyde Park, and asked her if she would participate in a great work. She would, and did-bringing modern Theosophy to the world. Her successor, English reformer, Annie Besant, teamed up with Charles L. Leadbeater to continue the flow of occult revelations. Their work was crowned with the discovery of the returned Christ in the person of a 14-year-old boy named Krishnamurti. Leadbeater made the discovery clairvoyantly while watching, Krishnamurti frolick on a beach. He and Besant trained the youth for his mission. Krishnamurti complied, learning to love tennis...
...Thus, she writes, life is becoming macabre and grotesque as men sense frighteningly that their spell-binding super-technology, with its awesome unworking complexity, is rendering them helpless. And men, baffled by this technology, turn to cults- or what the Coop's book department has begun to categorize the "occult sciences...
...that way." Mrs. Romm writes, "Chicken Little was right. Impotent we all are. When fallible human thinking does not work, the solution is not to think harder. Western Man must finally return full circle to the glimmerings of primeval occult wisdom, to the time when men knew what to do when the sky was falling...
...study. Although R. D. Laing is the current figure who represents this trend in the academic community, less esoteric and less controversial figures have developed their own theories in the past several decades. Harvard Square, the homing ground for religious drug use, yoga, mysticism, hypnosis, and the occult sciences, appears to be a vital area for those concerned with the ideal union of humanitarian philosophy and scientific technology...
...population matters less than the imagination that propels it. That quality the film has in superabundance. Fellini's style is less theatrical than amphitheatrical. Colossal grotesques leap from private fantasy to public mind. In a set daubed with indelible cerulean and blood red, an albino hermaphrodite possessed of occult powers is abducted-only to wither pitifully in the desert. A quadruple amputee somehow manages a deep...