I see the Venn diagram a little differently: Occultism is crucial because it deals with the realm between the material world that science investigates and the spiritual world that religion discusses. That middle realm is where enchantment and disenchantment take place, and it's precisely because our culture pretends that the middle realm doesn't exist that we're so clueless about enchantment and disenchantment -- and also why our sciences and our religions are so detached from one another.
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branchandroot
Re: Occultism's relative importance
Date: 2023-03-20 10:03 pm (UTC)Occultism is crucial because it deals with the realm between the material world that science investigates and the spiritual world that religion discusses. That middle realm is where enchantment and disenchantment take place, and it's precisely because our culture pretends that the middle realm doesn't exist that we're so clueless about enchantment and disenchantment -- and also why our sciences and our religions are so detached from one another.