Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xvii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-389) and index. |
Contents |
Middle East exotica : ancient Egypt and magical Mesopotamia -- The ancient art of hepatoscopy -- The Greek paradox : magic confronts science -- Magic in the Roman Empire -- The new outcasts : the rise of secret doctrines -- 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 : the first haunted house -- Before Hydesville : strange forces, new experiments -- "Mr. Sludge" -- DDH to HPB : pipelines to the past -- After the Foxes : from parlor to stage -- My body, my map : "bumpology" -- Summary : a light that failed? -- Who's a magician? : The Houdini legend -- Who's a magician? : Trickster from far Rockaway -- Magic in the twentieth century : what the pollsters say -- Different time, same channel -- PK wars : psychics vs. physics -- The personalized magic of healing : mending the Cartesian split -- You are what you eat -- Come fly with me : UFO abductions -- Life after life -- Crystals : who's scrying now? -- Geomancy : from saws to sausages -- Summary : On shifting ground -- Is magic a religion? -- Magic and science : J.Z. and the Ramsters meet Arch Debunker -- Anthropologists encounter the occult -- Summary : Crossing curves in an age of interconnectedness -- Epilogue : Of Bacon and black holes. |
Subject |
Magic -- History.
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Occultism and science.
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ISBN |
0812924150 (acid-free paper) |
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