Spirituality and the Occult - Paperback / softback

Spirituality and the Occultargues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as* medicin* scienc* philosoph* Freudian and Jungian psycholog* radical political movement* imaginative literature.