Word: occultism
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...workers of Dracula's Castle had an unusual explanation for their attraction to the occult...
There are limits to Mormon sociability. In 1993 the church capped a harsh campaign of intellectual purification against dozens of feminists and dissidents with the excommunication of D. Michael Quinn, a leading historian whose painstaking work documented Smith's involvement with the occult and church leaders' misrepresentation of some continued polygamy in the early 1900s. The current crackdown, some analysts believe, stems from fears of loss of control as the church becomes more international. Most think it will get worse if, as is likely, the church's hard-line No. 3 man, Boyd Packer, someday becomes President. Some wonder...
Cults are on the rise; so is interest in aliens, witchcraft, New Ageism, Satanism and anything having to do with the occult. Spiritual hunger is a natural part of the human psyche, but so are self-centeredness and obstinacy. Rather than turn to God, we try to fill the hole in our souls with money, prestige, sex, drugs, alcohol, food, pop culture, occult knowledge--virtually everything. Where does this lead us? To a decaying society rife with addicts and 39 dead Trekkies. It's time to get our heads out of the stars and turn back to that old-time...
...often in religious thinking, the sky figures importantly in the New Apocalypse. For centuries the stars have been where the meditations of religion, science and the occult all converged. Now enter Comet Hale-Bopp. In an otherwise orderly and predictable cosmos, where the movement of stars was charted confidently by Egyptians and Druids, the appearance of a comet, an astronomical oddity, has long been an opportunity for panic. When Halley's comet returned in 1910, an Oklahoma religious sect, the Select Followers, had to be stopped by the police from sacrificing a virgin. In the case of Hale-Bopp...
...play explores the classic romantic triangle but with a twist: The "other woman" is an ectoplasmic ex-wife. Charles Condomine (Robert Bouffier) is a writer researching the occult for his next novel. Together with his second wife, Ruth (Sheila Ferrini), he summons the delightfully eccentric medium Madam Arcati (Mara Clark) to perform a seance in his home. Through some mysterious circumstances, his first wife Elvira (Dee Nelson) appears--and refuses to leave. One disaster after another ensues as Elvira and Ruth fight it out for their husband--fertile ground for Coward to flex his comic muscle...