Behind the Crystal Ball : : Magic, Science, and the Occult From Antiquity Through the New Age
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Middle East exotica -- The ancient art of hepatoscopy -- The Greek paradox -- Magic in the Roman Empire -- The new outcasts -- Knowledge through number and the Word -- Pathways to knowledge -- Resurrection of the Kabbalah -- Music of the spheres -- Two sides of the coin of Alchemy -- Rise of the Clear Seer -- Medieval astrology -- The devil and the proliferation of good and evil -- It's witchcraft -- Summary: who turned on the lights? -- Rochester rap -- Before Hydesville -- Mr. Sludge -- DDH to HPB -- After the foxes -- My body, my map -- Summary: a light that failed? -- Who's a magician? -- Magic in the twentieth century -- Different time, same channel -- PK wars -- The personalized magic of healing -- You are what you eat -- Come fly with me -- Life after life -- Crystals -- Geomancy -- Summary: on shifting ground -- Is magic a religion? -- Magic and science -- Anthropologists encounter the occult -- Summary: crossing curves in an age of interconnectedness.
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PUBLISHED
Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: xvii, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0870816713 (softcover)
SUBJECTS
Magic -- History.
Occultism and science.