I can already hear some of the same grunts and groans I heard when my The Dark Side of Reiki post went live, so let me start off with a quick, but gentle, admonition that things may not be what they seem.
Which, I think, is exactly the point… the word occult, does not mean what most people believe it to mean. As Robert Langdon, so eloquently put it:
The word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and ...
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