Word: occultation
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...thought and experience among the young which links together the New Left sociology of Mills, the Freudian Marxism of Herbert Marcuse, the Gestalt-therapy anarchism of Paul Goodman, the apocalyptic body mysticism of Norman Brown, the Zen-based psychotherapy of Alan Watts, and finally Timothy Leary's impenetrably occult narcissism...
FIRST TUESDAY (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Something for everyone on the monthly "magazine": airline stewardesses, antismoking programs, teen-agers and the occult, and population control through sterilization of males in India...
Thus far the demands have evoked no formal response. Nor are they likely to. More traditional churchmen consider spiritualism an outright violation of the Biblical injunctions against the occult. If a Christian seeks from spiritualism what he cannot find in his own faith, warns an article in the Anglican quarterly, Modern Churchman, he is not "far from the sin of Lucifer-the sin of pride." Nonetheless, Stockwood claims that his pieces in the Times produced hundreds of letters from believers who are convinced that they too have had ghostly visitors...
Marshall McLuhan, the noted medium, is far less pessimistic. "The current interest of youth in astrology, clairvoyance and the occult is no coincidence," he feels. "Psychic
...form of astrological activity. A former clothing salesman named Bruce King, he turned to astrology during the Depression, when he learned that a certain Professor Seward had amassed a fortune peddling horoscopes on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Now 72, he supervises the distribution of more than 50 zodiacal and occult items and books all over the world. Zolar horoscopes range from $200 for a personal one down to $25 for a stock-market forecast in a plain envelope (ten choices on the New York and American exchanges), $15 for an overall look at next year and $10 for a natal...