When I requested this book, I thought it was an exploration
of how occult beliefs have infiltrated our culture- things like why we have a
pyramid topped with an eyeball on our basic currency. Turns out, that’s not
what this is, even though the description on the Amazon page makes it sound
that way. There are some references to that- like how the first art that we
know of, cave paintings, were of magical intent. But the ‘occulture’ that is
referred to is a post-modern movement, not the spiritualists of yore- but I had
to look elsewhere for this explanation as it’s not laid out explicitly in the
book.
It wasn’t an easy read for me. I didn’t understand an awful
lot of it, and because of that it bored me and I almost didn’t finish it. YMMV.
Also, it’s wasn’t written originally as a book; the chapters are conference
papers given at various events in the last few years, which results in chapters
not flowing into each other. Three stars.
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Thanks for the review - not tempted
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