Occult America : the secret history of how mysticism shaped our nation / Mitch Horowitz.
Horowitz, Mitch.
2009
BF1434.U6 H67 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Occult America : the secret history of how mysticism shaped our nation / Mitch Horowitz.
Author Horowitz, Mitch.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780553806755 (alk. paper)
0553806750 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Bantam Books, c2009.
Language English
Description 290 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number BF1434.U6 H67 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 130
Summary From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board,"Occult America" briskly sweeps from the nation's earliest days of mystical and esoteric movements to the birth of the New Age era, tracing the many people and episodes that continue to exert such a powerful pull on the public today.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: What is the occult? (and what is it doing in America?)
The psychic highway
Mystic Americans
Don't try this at home : Ouija and the selling of spiritualism
The science of right thinking
The mail-order prophet
Go tell pharaoh : the rise of magic in Afro-America
The return of the "secret teachings"
New deal of the ages : politics and the occult
The masters among us
Secrets for sale
"The greatest mystic who ever lived in America"
Epilogue: Aquarius rising : the new age dawns.

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