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Behind the crystal ball : magic, science, and the occult from antiquity through the New Age
- Title
- Behind the crystal ball : magic, science, and the occult from antiquity through the New Age / Anthony Aveni.
- Author
- Aveni, Anthony F.
- Publication
- Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2002.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 361 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-346) and index.
- Contents
- Middle East exotica -- The ancient art of hepatoscopy -- The Greek paradox -- Magic in the Roman Empire -- The new outcasts -- 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 -- Before Hydesville -- Mr. Sludge -- DDH to HPB -- After the foxes -- My body, my map -- Summary: a light that failed? -- Who's a magician? -- Magic in the twentieth century -- Different time, same channel -- PK wars -- The personalized magic of healing -- You are what you eat -- Come fly with me -- Life after life -- Crystals -- Geomancy -- Summary: on shifting ground -- Is magic a religion? -- Magic and science -- Anthropologists encounter the occult -- Summary: crossing curves in an age of interconnectedness.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-2956
- ISBN
- 0870816713 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002010184
- OCLC
- 50091675
- Author
- Aveni, Anthony F.
- Title
- Behind the crystal ball : magic, science, and the occult from antiquity through the New Age / Anthony Aveni.
- Imprint
- Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2002.
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-346) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-2956