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Israel Regardie (1907–1985), occult writer, magician, pupil of Aleister Crowley [47] C. F. Russell (1897–1987), American occultist and founder of the magical order G.B.G. [48] Alex Sanders (1926–1988), founder of Alexandrian Wicca; Phyllis Seckler (1917–2004), American occultist and writer, and a lineage holder in the A∴A∴ tradition ...
Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation is a 2009 book by Mitch Horowitz published by Bantam Books.The book is focused on the role that new religious movements play in the history of the United States; Horowitz argues that these movements, often marginalized or ignored by mainstream culture, played a substantial role in shaping American society.
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New Age - Western esoteric religious movement based off occultism, Spiritualism, New Thought and Theosophy that grew rapidly in 1970s and was started due to the counterculture of the 1960s New Thought - 19th century religious movement in the United States that combined elements of ancient Greek , Roman , Chinese , Taoist , Hindu , Buddhist and ...
Esoteric schools of thought are schools, currents or movements which have an occult system of thought based on esoteric knowledge. They aid to prepare the individual toward spiritual evolution . It almost always deals with some system of esoteric cosmology and contain some common themes as rebirth , occult history of human evolution, planes of ...
The New Believers: A Survey of Sects, 'Cults', and Alternative Religions, is a book by David V. Barrett covering the origin, history, beliefs, practices and controversies of more than sixty new religious movements, including The Family International (previously known as the Children of God), International Church of Christ, Osho (Rajneesh), Satanism, New Kadampa Tradition, Wicca, Druidry, chaos ...
Author Mitch Horowitz in Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped our Nation writes that rather than “seeing mystical ideas as a means to narcissistic power or moral freedom ...
Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History is a 2000 nonfiction book by historian of religion Philip Jenkins. It was published by Oxford University Press . [ 1 ] The book argues that the anti-cult movement in America starting in the 1970s extends farther back in American history to at least the seventeenth century.