Parapsychology And Occultism

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Recently, Russia has seen an unusually high burden of occultism in all its manifestations, including occult treatment. Like mushrooms after rain, we have different occult exercises, schools, currents, including Satanine. So what is occultism?

Officially registered in Moscow, the Satan Church, the Masonic Spoon. Newspapers and magazines publish advertisements of witches and magovs inviting people to visit them with a view to removing " glazing " , " healing " from all sorcerers, love visits, etc. The occult newspapers and magazines are published ( " UFO " , " Tail " , " Oracle " , " Anomaly " and " other " ) and a large number of books are printed in the fields of magic, witchcraft, psychoscentrics, ufology and the Association of Unidentifiable Ecology. International Institute for Space Anthropology. International Institute for Human Standby. Alfa Center for Non-Conventional Studies, Astronaut Foundation International, International Association of Psycheniosugestology, Multiple Dianetic Centres. Academy of Parapsychology, Academy of Energy Information Sciences, Ufological Centres, etc.

All these centres, societies, associations, academies, magazines, newspapers are engaged in " research " , " practicing " and disseminating occult knowledge to the people. But what is occultism?

The great Soviet Encyclopedia (1974, i.e. 18, p. 348) defines the word “occultism”.

Occult (from the Latin word occultus - secret, protected) - a common title of exercises that recognize the existence of hidden forces in humans and space that are not accessible to ordinary human experience, but accessible to " converted " , through a special initiation (translation) and special mental training. At the same time, the purpose of the ritual of initiation... is seen in the attainment of a higher level of consciousness that allows access to so-called " secret knowledge " .