and indeed borrowing the personal occult symbol of that wizard as his own personal cipher, as historian Walter W. Woodward ...

Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon ...

Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Belief in the occult—whether it’s astrology, tarot or other mystical practices—can be a source of comfort, guidance and meaning for many.

The essays in this volume present a collective study of one of the major problems in the recent history of science: To what extent did the occult 'sciences' (alchemy, astrology, numerology, and ...

It’s worth considering Winthrop’s example and the forgotten occult origins of the American experiment, and in particular, how magic has counterintuitively allowed for the imagining of ...