Rejected Religion Spotlight Occulture Series - Netflix's Archive 81 & Stranger Things 4

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As the Rejected Religion platform is concerned with what is known as 'occulture,' or how the occult is represented and portrayed in popular culture, this video highlights some of the occult references found in two recent Netflix series, Archive 81 and Stranger Things. Please see the 'References' section below for more detailed information concerning these topics.

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REFERENCES

1. Celestial/astronomical magic

- Ninian Nijhuis (99+) Western Sidereal Astrology: From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern West | Ninian L Nijhuis - Academia.edu

- Nicholas Campion Astrology | 67 | The Occult World | Nicholas Campion | Taylor & Franci (taylorfrancis.com)

- Wouter Hanegraaff (see in particular pp.392-395) New Age Religion and Western Culture – Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought | Brill

2. Witchcraft
Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements - Oxford Handbooks

3. Spiritualism

- Egil Asprem (99+) The Society for Psychical Research (Chapter 24, The Occult World) | Egil Asprem - Academia.edu
- Cathy Gutierrez The Occult World (routledgehandbooks.com)

- Catherine Albanese A Republic of Mind and Spirit (yale.edu)

HBO No One Dies in Lily Dale - No One Dies in Lily Dale (2011) - IMDb

4. Spirit Art
5. Spirit Photography
- Tessel Bauduin (99+) The Occult and the Visual Arts | Tessel M . Bauduin, PhD - Academia.edu

- The Spiritual in Art The Spiritual in Art, Maurice Tuchman | 9780896596696 | Boeken | bol.com

Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation

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6. Theosophical Society
- Olav Hammer The Occult World (routledgehandbooks.com)

- Catherine Albanese A Republic of Mind and Spirit (yale.edu)

- Wouter Hanegraaff New Age Religion and Western Culture – Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought | Brill

7. Ritual Magic(k)
Golden Dawn:
-Francisco Santos Silva William Wynn Westcott | 24 | The Occult World | Francisco Santos Silva (taylorfrancis.com)

Samuel Liddell Mathers | 26 | The Occult World | Francisco Santos Silv (taylorfrancis.com)

- Robert Gilbert The Occult World (routledgehandbooks.com)

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8. Agape Lodge No. 2:
- Christian Giudice The Occult World (routledgehandbooks.com)

- Nicolas Goodrick-Clarke The Occult Roots Of Nazism : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

- Nicolas Campion The Occult World (routledgehandbooks.com)

- Manon Hedenborg White (99+) From Chorazin to Carcosa. Fiction-Based Esotericism in the Black Pilgrimage of Jack Parsons and Cameron | Manon Hedenborg White - Academia.edu

Amazon.com: The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism): 9780190065027: Hedenborg White, Manon: Books

- Hugh Urban (99+) Magia Sexualis | Hugh Urban - Academia.edu

9. Mankind United
Mankind, Unite! | Lapham’s Quarterly (laphamsquarterly.org)

Mankind United Index (sacred-texts.com)

California cult : the story of "Mankind United" : Dohrman, H. T : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

10. Satanic Panic

- Philip Jenkins (pp.221-241) in Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements - Oxford Handbooks

- Jesper Aagaard Petersen The Occult World (routledgehandbooks.com)

- Jeffrey Victor The Occult World (routledgehandbooks.com)

- Christopher Partridge The Occult World (routledgehandbooks.com)

- Joseph P. Laycock Dangerous Games by Joseph P. Laycock - Paperback - University of California Press (ucpress.edu)

- Peter Bebergal Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll: Bebergal, Peter: 9780399174964: Amazon.com: Books

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