Richard Seddon wrote:
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> Tim & Charles
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> First, the Occult is alive and well written about. Visit any bookstore and
> you will find a large section devoted to Tarot cards, Crystals and the
> Secret writings of (fill in the blank). People write (usually not well) of
> the occult and secret history/tradition all the time. The secret and the
> mystical seem to fascinate.
All sorts of things are alive and well in this sense. Creationism,
evolutionary psychology, social darwinism, astrology, mental telepathy,
virulent racism, homophobia, misogyny, the death penalty, emptying 5
million year old aquifers under the great plains, casual bombing (by the
u.s.) of this, that, or the other defenseless people, etc etc etc.
Carrol
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