The unknown has been attracting people since time immemorial. No matter how frightening any phenomenon was, a person still sought to get to know him better and tried to somehow explain it.
Unknown and attractive
The occult sciences are an attempt to explain everything unknown, supernatural, while not paying attention to the laws of physics or chemistry. Simply put, occultism is committed to explaining extraordinary events through others that are no less obscure. For example, if the adherent of this “science” was asked why people sometimes see prophetic dreams, he would answer that they have the gift of clairvoyance, to which the physicist would most likely spread his arms and talk about incredible coincidences. Occult sciences are very diverse, and some of them originated even when the future Homo sapiens could not even speak articulate. Of course, then everything was surprising for a person , and only magic could give a more or less intelligible answer to most questions. But what is happening today? Are occult sciences practiced to this day, or has this unusual field of activity safely sunk into oblivion?
Racing past the past
No, this activity has not yet sunk into oblivion. This may seem surprising, because science has made such progress today that only a poorly educated or just a very naive person who with one foot still stands in a cradle can believe in the effectiveness of magical rituals, curses, or those same prophetic dreams. Occult sciences for such an individual are a kind of door to the coveted other world, about which he learned all from the same books on occultism. On the one hand, a modern person can for some time also believe in the truth of magic - for example, when watching a thematic movie or reading similar literature. However, scientific and technological progress has gone too far, closing all paths for occultism. But be that as it may, solemn rituals are held now. Even if we take it less globally, human superstitions are still cultivated in society, and people are still waiting for a mystical sign from above, which should tell them what to do in a given situation.
Sophisticated Approach to Simple Things
Occult sciences are very different, depending on the direction of activity and the range of questions to which she is trying to find adequate, from her point of view, answers. For example, a very famous branch of occultism is alchemy. The main goal of the alchemists, as the classical works testify, is to find a recipe for creating a philosopher's stone. However, this combination is impossible, and educated people know about it. Some continue to revel in hope, living in a fairy tale. Since occultism studies forces and phenomena unknown to orthodox science, sometimes it puts itself much higher than this science itself. Among the adherents of this knowledge there are quite a few who believe that atheists and people who trust only dry scientific facts are limited and incapable of broad thinking. However, let us ponder ... What is worse: to think that lightning is the roar of the devil, or to know that this phenomenon is just a powerful spark electric discharge? The answer, it would seem, suggests itself, but supporters and lovers of the occult will never agree with this thesis.
Secret Knowledge on Wikipedia
Today it is very simple to find out what the occult sciences are - an incredible number of books have been written about this, and themed programs are still being broadcast on television. If in a person with a scientific approach, such shows cause only a skeptical smile, then in superstitious people - trembling in the knees and sweat on the forehead. Surprisingly, the more these people believe in the truthfulness of the existence of supernatural forces, the greater their chance of really becoming their witness. However, this does not mean that what they see will be exactly what they think. An inflamed consciousness can see what is not there, and nobody has yet canceled hallucinations based on panic fear. And so all these “eyewitnesses” appear: at first they sincerely believe in something, and then in the same way sincerely invent the superfluous. Occultism broadcasts that "secret knowledge" is accessible only to people with special abilities, therefore all their initiates are chosen, and heretics and skeptics remain to the rest of the honest people.
When the owl arrives ...
Such “teachings” of occultism as astrology, spiritualism, and Kabbalah are widespread. We read about astrological "research" in local weekly journals. Sagittarius is interested that such good things will happen on Wednesday, and Taurus - about which magical woman they again wrote in the horoscope. Here the placebo principle begins to operate: a person preconfigures himself that he will have some kind of “pleasant meeting”, therefore, under this category he will even push a meeting with a pretty courier of the opposite sex. Fortune-telling on cards, palms or even daisies is very common. On the one hand, it is not so bad, because sometimes it gives us additional hope. You need to sound the alarm bells when a person for several years in a row claims that there is an academy of magic and occult sciences, from where they are about to be sent a letter with an owl. If additional hope is good in any case, then waiting for a letter from the school of magic already smells a little crazy.
A pool of despair, or How to make money fast
This sphere of human activity has already been studied far and wide, but some interesting questions still hover in the air. Various programs are trying to answer them, with which the Ren-TV channel especially shines. One of such projects broadcast on this channel was called: “Unsolved secrets. Why did the Bolsheviks study the occult sciences? ”The question itself already sounds ridiculous, not to mention what the broadcast is about. Today, science is so well developed that the so-called occultism is often used to fool naive people who still believe in magic. The unfortunate victims take out handfuls of jewelry to the gypsies, give the keys to their own apartments, and fortunetellers pay huge amounts of money to help them make a fateful decision. Of course, everyone has the right to believe in what he pleases. But does this mean that you need to let everything go with the flow, wait for a sign from above or a prophetic dream? Of course, you can wait. This will not have a negative impact while you do something else ...