Word: occultism
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...Fleet Street, we didn't think anything was extraordinary," laughs Burt. "It was the American journalists who thought we were unusual. Most of them are corrupted by journalism school into dreary, humorless utopians out to save the world. They are Puritans who should stay on Plymouth Rock. Ghosts? The occult? We don't say these stories are true; we just report them." The methods tabloids use to substantiate their sometimes unlikely stories are often ingenious. To prove UFOs have been frolicking in Wisconsin, reporters will wrangle a policeman or pilot to say "Sure." And in a pinch, some editors have...
...wasp hovers above the children"), Hoffman establishes a rhythm of inevitability. She sketches a bosky world in Massachusetts, populates it with wholesome families and engaging eccentrics. One young woman with modest paranormal powers seems like a character prewired for film directors who might want to plug in an occult package. But in the book she represents a sensitivity to mysteries of life and death that Amanda's family is too preoccupied to appreciate...
Historically, retreats into the occult and the mystic have often been correlated with times of social stress, such as during the height of the Dark Ages, and I fear this is one more sign of a "malaise" we have been trying to deny. The casual acceptance of ignorant superstition at the highest political level speaks of an intellectual retreat, for which the Reagan Administration has often been criticized. We have seen the emergence of a blind faith that "it"--the debt, the decaying environment, the nuclear menance, the drug trade--will all work out somehow, as if by magic; perhaps...
Like other believers, many New Agers attach great importance to artifacts, relics and sacred objects, all of which can be profitably offered for sale: Tibetan bells, exotic herbal teas, Viking runes, solar energizers, colored candles for "chromotherapy," and a Himalayan mountain of occult books, pamphlets, instructions and tape recordings. Some of these magical products are quite imaginative. A bearded Colorado sage who calls himself Gurudas sells "gem elixirs," which he creates by putting stones in bowls of water and leaving them in the sun for several hours, claiming that this allows the water to absorb energy from...
...always preferred the skeleton to the witch costume, perhaps you would be more comfortable spending this Hallowe'en in a cemetary, rather than a store of the occult. Cemetaries are particularly appropriate places to spend Hallowe'en as it is the time when the dead are commemorated, remembered, and are seen walking the earth again. Both pagan and Christian philosophies believe this, so it must be true...