The unknown has attracted man since time immemorial. No matter how frightening any phenomenon was, the person still sought to get to know him better and tried to explain it somehow.
Unknown and attractive
The occult sciences are an attempt to explain everything unknown, supernatural, while not paying attention to the laws of physics or chemistry. Simply put, occultism is concerned with explaining extraordinary phenomena through others, no less incomprehensible. For example, if an adherent of this “science” were asked why people sometimes see prophetic dreams, he would answer that they have the gift of clairvoyance, to which the physicist would most likely shrug and talk about incredible coincidences. The occult sciences are very diverse, and some of them originated even when the future Homo sapiens could not even speak articulately. Of course, then everything was surprising for a person, and only magic could give a more or less intelligible answer to most questions. But what is happening today? Whether the occult sciences are still practiced to this day, or has this unusual field of activity safely sunk intoFly?
Rapid pursuit of the past
No, this activity has not yet sunk into oblivion. This may seem surprising, because science has made such progress today that only a poorly educated or simply very naive person who still stands in a child's cradle can believe in the effectiveness of magical rituals, curses or the same prophetic dreams. The occult sciences for such an individual are a kind of door to the desired other world, which he learned about from the same books on occultism. On the one hand, a modern person can believe in the veracity of magic for a while - for example, when watching a thematic movie or reading similar literature. However, scientific and technological progress has gone too far, closing all paths for the occult. But, be that as it may, solemn rituals are carried out even now. Even if we take it less globally, then human superstitions are still cultivated in society, and people are still waiting for a mystical sign from above, which should tell them what to do in this or that situation.
Complex approach to simple things
Occult sciences are very different, depending on the direction of activity and the range of questions to which she is trying to find adequate answers, from her point of view. For example, a very famous offshoot of the occult is alchemy. The main goal of alchemists, as the classics testify, is to find a recipe for creating the philosopher's stone. Howeverthis combination is impossible, and educated people know this. Some continue to amuse themselves with hope, living in a fairy tale. Since occultism studies forces and phenomena unknown to orthodox science, sometimes it places itself much higher than this very science. Among the adherents of this knowledge, there are quite a few who believe that atheists and people who trust only dry scientific facts are limited and not able to think broadly. However, let's think about it … What is worse: to think that lightning is the roar of the devil, or to know that this phenomenon is just a powerful spark of electrical discharge? The answer, it would seem, suggests itself, but supporters and lovers of the occult will never agree with this thesis.
Secret knowledge on Wikipedia
Today it is very easy to find out what the occult sciences are - an incredible number of books have been written about this, and thematic programs are still broadcast on television. If a person with a scientific approach such shows cause only a skeptical smile, then superstitious people - trembling in the knees and sweat on the forehead. Amazingly, the more these people believe in the veracity of the existence of supernatural forces, the greater their chance of actually becoming their witness. However, this does not mean that what they see will be exactly what they think. An inflamed consciousness can see what is not there, and no one has yet canceled hallucinations based on panic fear. This is how all these "eyewitnesses" appear: at first they sincerely believe in something, and then just as sincerely invent something superfluous. Occultismbroadcasts that "secret knowledge" is available only to people with special abilities, therefore all their initiates are the chosen ones, and the rest of the honest people are heretics and skeptics.
When the owl arrives…
Such "teachings" of the occult as astrology, spiritualism and Kabbalah are widespread. We read about astrological "research" in local weeklies. Sagittarius is interested in what such a good thing will happen to them on Wednesday, and Taurus - what magical woman was written about again in the horoscope. Here the placebo principle comes into play: a person sets himself up in advance that he will have some kind of “pleasant meeting”, so he will even fit a meeting with a pretty courier of the opposite sex under this category. Fortune-telling on cards, palms or even daisies is also very common. On the one hand, it is not so bad, because sometimes it gives us additional hope. It is necessary to ring the alarm bells when a person claims for several years in a row that there is an academy of magic and occult sciences, from where they are about to send him a letter with an owl. If extra hope is a good thing anyway, then waiting for a letter from the school of wizardry already smells a little crazy.
A pool of despair, or How to earn fast
This area of human activity has been studied up and down, but some interesting questions are still in the air. Various programs are trying to answer them, which are especially oftenthe Ren-TV channel shines. One of these projects, broadcast on this channel, was called: “Unsolved secrets. Why did the Bolsheviks study the occult sciences? The question itself already sounds ridiculous, not to mention what is being discussed in the program itself. Today science is so well developed that so-called occultism is often used to fool naive people who still believe in magic. The unfortunate victims bring handfuls of jewelry to the gypsies, give the keys to their own apartments, and fortune tellers are paid big money to help them make a fateful decision. Of course, everyone has the right to believe in what he pleases. But does this mean that you need to let everything go with the flow, wait for a sign from above or a prophetic dream? Of course, you can wait. It will have no negative impact as long as you do something else…
