The Occult: A HistoryRandom House, 1971 - 601 من الصفحات The Occult is in three parts. In the first, Wilson argues the connection between creativity and psychic sensitivity, the tapping of the subconscious mind for the forces that are normally inaccessible to consciousness. The second part is a history of mages and adepts--among them Nostradamus, Dr. John Dee, Cagliostro, Anton Mesmer, Aleister Crowley, Gurdjieff--set in their historical background. The third part concerns witchcraft, werewolves and vampirism, the history of spiritualism, the problem of ghosts and poltergeists. The last chapter, "Glimpses," takes up the metaphysical questions that arise out of occultism, as well as the problem of time, and gives concluding statements on the nature of man's latent powers.--From publisher description. |
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... never allowed to look over the fence and see it as a whole . And the narrowness lulls us into a state of permanent drowsiness , like being half anaesthetised , so that we never attempt to stretch our powers to their limits . With the ...
... never allowed to look over the fence and see it as a whole . And the narrowness lulls us into a state of permanent drowsiness , like being half anaesthetised , so that we never attempt to stretch our powers to their limits . With the ...
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... never be the same person again . Deeper levels of my being would be permanently shaken into life , never to fall asleep again . For having glimpsed such wonders , I could never sink back into my previous state of un - wondering sloth ...
... never be the same person again . Deeper levels of my being would be permanently shaken into life , never to fall asleep again . For having glimpsed such wonders , I could never sink back into my previous state of un - wondering sloth ...
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... never questioned the ' spirits ' ; he never did any serious thinking . He remained a socialite , rushing around Europe , dining with royalty . What would he have dis- covered if he had been a ' mental traveller ' like Jung ? Jung's ...
... never questioned the ' spirits ' ; he never did any serious thinking . He remained a socialite , rushing around Europe , dining with royalty . What would he have dis- covered if he had been a ' mental traveller ' like Jung ? Jung's ...
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INTRODUCTION | 21 |
Unseen forces of ancient man Scientific rationalism has made man | 22 |
MagicThe Science of the Future | 37 |
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