Amid a hothouse atmosphere of adolescent hysteria, hints
of occultism give way to the revelation that the school's tutors are part of an ancient witch's coven.
He is witheringly critical of astrology, dubbing it, with the rest
of occultism, a «metaphysic of dunces», suggesting «a climate of semi-erudition is the fertile breeding ground for astrology.»
Not exact matches
Burris's girlfriend carries around a thick book
of pop
occultism, and reads aloud about Satan's dominion while Burris shoots up.
[It] has historically been used by their leaders to justify a long succession
of evil systems — including fascism, communism, anarchism, nazism,
occultism, and many others.
And the further interesting thing is that the forms
of religion that are more bizarre or alien to modern Western «scientific» culture — astrology,
occultism, Zen, yoga, Sufism — appeal to the «intelligentsia» and so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats
of that culture).
The pattern
of influence he describes starts with René Guénon, the founder
of modern Traditionalism, and the little world
of French
occultism.
But at the same time the film traffics in the pseudo-psychological mumbo - jumbo that is the standard folk religion
of the film biography, and undermines its interest in reason by dabbling in emotive pop
occultism.
A meek British sound engineer called, improbably, Gilderoy is hired by an Italian film company to deploy his wizardry in maxing up the horror effects on the soundtrack
of a cheap flick about
occultism.
What pulls us into this mélange
of cross-species teen romance, coming -
of - age story, and
occultism is Liang and Zhang's loving, unhurried creation
of an alternative universe.
His works combine autobiographical links to 19th - century
occultism and spiritism with anthropological (sound) studies on the shamanism
of the Lummi Nation und experiments with psychedelic substances in the attempt to visualize synaesthetic and mystic experiences.
Theodor Adorno's 1947 «Theses Against
Occultism» showed Adorno's knowledge
of actual
occultism to be limited, and he tended to lump both ancient and modern occult movements together and link them to German National Socialism and «irrationalism.»
As an ostensibly secular country built around the supposedly rational ideology
of democratic capitalism, a drive across its vast and varying landscape reveals a space steeped in its own mysticism, manifest in any form from the omnipresent evangelism
of the bible belt to the rootless, new aged
occultism of California.
After this anecdote, Mohr digressed into a lengthy speech loosely centered on California, mentioning a disparate range
of cultural figures and ideas that included Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, adolescence, the culture industry, sadomasochism, music, William S. Burroughs, Walter Benjamin, Mickey Mouse, National Socialism,
occultism, imposture, and narcissism — to name a few.
Though Makino is an abstract filmmaker in the subtle tradition
of Stan Brakhage, and Korb riffs on post-internet
occultism, both shows feel like rituals in dialogue with one another, facilitated by the darkness.