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...contact with the occult and the esoteric is extremely dangerous." GABRIELE NANNI, exorcist priest who last week started teaching the first class offered by a Vatican-recognized university to aid priests and seminarians in understanding the occult; guest lecturers will include psychologists and police criminologists

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

Chris: These taste like an occult rainforest tribe sacrificed one of it’s members, threw the corpse into the river to be consumed by piranhas, and then some shaman collected the remaining flakes of skin, dried them out and sold them in bulk to Harvard in return for a Harvard Crew rowing vessel that he could use to cruise around the Amazon and be the awesomest shaman around...

Author: By Nathaniel F. Houghteling, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Love It/Hate It: Generic Cereal | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...Live Presentation followed by a guided tour with modern animated techniques. Historically accurate.” On the tour, it seems as though all of Salem’s high-school drama club members have been stuffed into ill-fitting Pilgrim costumes and are now performing an occult show-and-tell. “My name is Chelsea,” an unhappy girl in a bonnet tells us as she guides us to the museum’s basement. “If you have any questions or concerns during the tour, just let me know...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Witching Sell | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

Emerging after her session, Johnson said her time with the palm reader felt more like a “discussion” than an “occult experience.” She held out her right hand and for about 10 minutes they talked about her personality traits, flexibility, eccentricity and interpersonal skills...

Author: By A. SCOTT Holbrook and J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Yard, Square Come Alive With Annual Arts First Celebration | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...second major arc began at issue 13, when Promethea decides she must follow her recently-deceased friend into the afterlife. It's no coincidence that this new arc begins at this loaded, occult number. Readers of Alan Moore's recent work, most notably "From Hell," have gotten used to his fascination with the connections between physics and metaphysics. For this journey Promethea follows the Kabbalah, AKA "The Tree of Life," a Hebrew glyph of ten interconnected numbers laid out like a hopscotch pattern. Dedicating one issue to each "sephiroth," or number, Moore imagines each one as a real place corresponding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pow! Biff! Enlightenment! | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

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