Behind the crystal ball : magic, science, and the occult from antiquity through the New Age, Anthony Aveni
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- Behind the crystal ball : magic, science, and the occult from antiquity through the New Age, Anthony Aveni
- Title remainder
- magic, science, and the occult from antiquity through the New Age
- Statement of responsibility
- Anthony Aveni
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-389) and index
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- 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
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- 34150181
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
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- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 406 pages
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- 9780812924152
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- 96002592
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- illustrations
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- .b3016641x
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- (OCoLC)34150181
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