Wednesday, 12noon – 2pm PT JULY 8 , 2015 host Gerry Takano
early 20th century Mysticism Spiritualism and Reincarnation
"by the end of the nineteenth century, Victorians were
seeking rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical
ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud
was developing his innovative models of the conscious and unconscious mind. And
anthropologist James George Frazer was subjecting magic, myth, and ritual to
systematic inquiry… in this quintessentially modern moment, late-Victorian and
Edwardian men and women became absorbed by metaphysical quests, heterodox
spiritual encounters, and occult experimentation". The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern, Alex Owen
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