Routledge Library Editions: Occultism

✍ Scribed by Various Authors

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 703
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Occultism
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1978 and 1992, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the occult and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The collection examines occultism from a broad range of disciplines, from shamanism and the occult tarot, to the esoteric and spiritualism. It includes volumes across the disciplines of religion, covering new religious movements, spiritualism, ritual and magic practices. The three books that comprise this set include investigations into the evolution of occultism, as well as the history and practices of the occult as a religious movement. This collection brings back into print insightful and detailed books and will be a must-have resource for academics and students, not only of religion and anthropology, but also of history and psychology.

✦ Table of Contents

Volume Cover
Volume 1
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Original Title
Original Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 The World of the Shaman
2 Shamanic Trance
3 Magical Symbols and Ceremonial
4 Techniques of Magical Trance
5 New Directions: From Atavistic Resurgence to the Inner Light
Postscript: Why the Shaman?
Appendix A: Shamanism, Magic and the Study of Consciousness
Appendix B: Major ‘Mythological Correspondence’ in Western Magic
Appendix C: Organisations and Groups
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Volume 2
Cover
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Title
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Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part 1 Source Areas
ESP
Meditation and Biofeedback
Dreams
Reincarnation
The Origins of Magic
Supernatural and Occult Beings
Ritual Magic
Ritual Consciousness
Magical Equipment
The Golden Dawn
Magical Cosmology
The Qabalah
The Tarot
The Tattvas
Magical Attack
Sexual Magic
Aleister Crowley: Lord of the New Aeon
Hypnotism, Auto-suggestion and Relaxation
Trance Consciousness
Out-of-the-Body Consciousness
Drugs and Mystical Consciousness
Shamanistic Magic
Ghosts and Hauntings
Spiritualism
Possession
Exorcism
Faith Healing
Vampires
Traditional Witchcraft
Modern Witchcraft
Traditional Satanism
Modern Satanism
Voodoo
Eastern Mysticism
Eastern Influence on the Occult
Theosophy
I Ching
Astrology
Numerology
Palmistry
Lost Continents
Inner Space Rock Music
Occult Art
Part 2 Who's Who in the Occult
Index
Volume 3
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CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF TABLES
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1. OBSERVING AND PARTICIPATING IN THE CULTIC MILIEU
A Methodology of Participant Observation
Exploring the Cultic Milieu
Uncovering Networks of Occultists
Becoming a Member of the Esoteric Community
Analyzing and Interpreting Fieldwork Products
2. THE ESOTERIC SCENE IN AMERICA
A Theory of Esoteric Culture
Meanings and Sources of Esotericism
Early American Magics and Occultism
New Religious Movements
Oriental Lights, the Golden Dawn, and Scientific Anomalies
The Contemporary Esoteric Scene
3. THE ESOTERIC COMMUNITY IN THE VALLEY
Theorizing about Cults, Sects, and the Cultic Milieu
Esoteric Culture and the Cultic Milieu
The Esoteric Community
Assessing the Cultic Milieu
4. CONFEDERATED NETWORKS OF OCCULTISTS
The Hermetic Assembly
The Augur Alliance
The Metaphysic Affiliation
Psychic Fairs
Networks of Occultists in Perspective
5. BECOMING A TAROT DIVINER
Becoming the Phenomenon
Encountering the Tarot
Learning Divination
Reading the Cards
Membership in Perspective
6. THE OCCULT TAROT
Tarot Cards
A Hermeneutics of the Tarot
Occult Appropriation of the Cards
The Symbolic Key to Arcane Wisdom
Deliberating on the Occult Tarot
7. OCCULT THEOSOPHIES OF THE TAROT
Vocabularies of Occult Meaning
Grammars of Occult Meaning
Horizons of Occult Theosophy
8. INTERPRETING THE OCCULT TAROT
A Sociological Perspective on Occult Practices
Hermetic Study and Meditation
Tarot Divination
Deciphering Occult Claims to Knowledge
9. ESOTERIC CULTURE AND A POSTMODERN WORLD
Reflections on Methodology
Esoteric Culture and Modernization
The Social Organization of Esoteric Culture
The Future of Esoteric Culture
APPENDIX A: Esoteric Community Survey Form
APPENDIX B: Tarot Card Reader Interview Schedule
REFERENCES
INDEX