In «My Shamanic Healing» (August / September), Matthew Schmitz attempts to account for the rise in popularity
of occult practices by doing some first - person reporting.
The former spiritualist now Christian Laura Maxwell responds to recent media stories
about occult practices More
This commandment prohibits not just swearing but also the misappropriation of religious language in order to commit a crime, participating
in occult practices, and blaspheming against places or people that are holy to God.
There may be a few hypnotists and / or hypnotherapists that
incorporate occult practices into their scripts but I can guarantee you that this is NOT the case with Hypnobabies and is completely separate from the art and practice of hypnosis.
The individual works pay great credence to both the fin - de-siècle and more modern history of
occult practices impinging on cultural daylight.
From left to right: Theaster Gates, Tar Mop and Bucket, Heirloom, 2014; Theaster Gates,
Black Occult Practice Form # 1, 2016.
The former spiritualist now Christian Laura Maxwell responds to recent media stories about occult practices
I am a yoga teacher, I know a little bit about how
the occult practices work.»
However, her caretakers are actually performing pseudo-scientific experiments that rely on brainwashing and
occult practices to obtain their desired results in their patients.
Not trying to understand the motives and intentions of
occult practices is like sticking your head in the sand and hoping the problem will go away.
But then the good guys protect their city by setting wards — which is normally
an occult practice.
Language of the Birds embraces the cultural commodification of the occult, but it also helps to think about the complexity of
occult practices, such as magic: primitive and pre-rational, magic is a bedrock of human experience.
But what of the commercialization of
occult practices, the kind done by corporations, the illegitimate posturing by en vogue gentrifier covens, mystics, and bro - cults?
Ritchie's encyclopedic project (continually expanding and evolving, like the universe itself) stems from his imagination, and is catalogued in a conceptual chart replete with allusions drawn from Judeo - Christian religion,
occult practices, Gnostic traditions, and scientific elements and principles.