Occultism and Modern Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Occultism and Modern Science write by Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich. This book was released on 1923. Occultism and Modern Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Magic, Mystery, and Science
Magic, Mystery, and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic, Mystery, and Science write by Dan Burton. This book was released on 2004. Magic, Mystery, and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[P.D. Ouspensky's] yearning for a transcendent, timeless reality—one that cancels out physical disintegration and death—figures into science at some fundamental level. Einstein found solace in his theory of relativity, which suggested to him that events are ever-present in the space-time continuum. When his friend Michele Besso passed on shortly before his own death, he wrote: 'For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.'" —from Magic, Mystery, and Science The triumph of science would appear to have routed all other explanations of reality. No longer does astrology or alchemy or magic have the power to explain the world to us. Yet at one time each of these systems of belief, like religion, helped shed light on what was dark to our understanding. Nor have the occult arts disappeared. We humans have a need for mystery and a sense of the infinite. Magic, Mystery, and Science presents the occult as a "third stream" of belief, as important to the shaping of Western civilization as Greek rationalism or Judeo-Christianity. The occult seeks explanations in a world that is living and intelligent—quite unlike the one supposed by science. By taking these beliefs seriously, while keeping an eye on science, this book aims to capture some of the power of the occult. Readers will discover that the occult has a long history that reaches back to Babylonia and ancient Egypt. It proceeds alongside, and frequently mingles with, religion and science. From the Egyptian Book of the Dead to New Age beliefs, from Plato to Adolf Hitler, occult ways of knowing have been used—and hideously abused—to explain a world that still tempts us with the knowledge of its dark secrets.
A Science for the Soul
A Science for the Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Science for the Soul write by Corinna Treitel. This book was released on 2004-04-20. A Science for the Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In A Science for the Soul, historian Corinna Treitel explores the appeal and significance of German occultism in all its varieties between the 1870s and the 1940s, locating its dynamism in the nation's struggle with modernization and the public's dissatisfaction with scientific materialism. Occultism, Treitel notes, served as a bridge between traditional religious beliefs and the values of an increasingly scientific, secular, and liberal society. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, Treitel describes the individuals and groups who participated in the occult movement, reconstructs their organizational history, and examines the economic and social factors responsible for their success. Building on this foundation, Treitel turns to the question of how Germans used the occult in three realms of practice: Theosophy, where occult studies were used to achieve spiritual enlightenment the arts, where occult states of consciousness fueled the creative process of avant-garde painters, writers, and dancers and the applied sciences, where professionals in psychology, law enforcement, engineering, and medicine employed occult techniques to solve characteristic problems of modernity. In conclusion, Treitel considers the conflicting meanings occultism held for contemporaries by focusing on the anti-spiritualist campaigns mounted by the national press, the Protestant and Catholic Churches, local and national governments, and the Nazi regime, which after years of alternating between affinity and antipathy for occultism, finally crushed the movement by 1945.
Occultism and Modern Science 1921
Occultism and Modern Science 1921 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Occultism and Modern Science 1921 write by T. Konstantin Oesterreich. This book was released on 2014-03. Occultism and Modern Science 1921 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
Occult Scientific Mentalities
Occult Scientific Mentalities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Occult Scientific Mentalities write by Brian Vickers. This book was released on 1986-06-27. Occult Scientific Mentalities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 natural magic) contribute to the scientific revolution of the late Renaissance? These studies of major scientists (Kepler, Bacon, Mersenne, and Newton) and of occultists (Dee, Fludd, and Cardano), complemented by analyses of contemporary official and unofficial studies at Cambridge and Oxford and discussions of the language of science, combine to suggest that hitherto the relationship has been too crudely stated as a movement 'from magic to science'. In fact, two separate mentalities can be traced, the occult and the scientific, each having different assumptions, goals, and methodologies. The contributors call into question many of the received ideas on this topic, showing that the issue has been wrongly defined and based on inadequate historical evidence. They outline new ways of approaching and understanding a situation in which two radically different and, to modern eyes, incompatible ways of describing reality persisted side-by-side until the demise of the occult in the late seventeenth century. Their work, accordingly, sets the whole issue in a new light.
