The Occult Nineteenth Century: Roots, Developments, and Impact on the Modern World 1st Edition 2021

The Occult Nineteenth Century: Roots, Developments, and Impact on the Modern World 1st Edition 2021 – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030553173,3030553175,9783030553180, 3030553183

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• ISBN 10:3030553183
• ISBN 13:9783030553180
• Author: Lukas Pokorny , Franz Winter

Table contents:

1. Introductory Remarks

Part I. Mesmerism

2. Carl August von Eschenmayer and the Somnambulic Soul

3. Priest-Doctors and Magnetisers: Mesmerism, Romantic Medicine, and Catholic Thought in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

4. Animal Magnetism and Its Psychological Implications in Hungary

5. From Fluidum to Prāṇa: Reading Mesmerism Through Orientalist Lenses

Part II. Occultism in America and Europe

6. Total Recall: The “Panoramic Life Review” Near Death as Proof of the Soul’s Timeless Self-Presence in Western Esotericism of the Nineteenth Century

7. Stages in the Development of an Occult Linguistics

8. The Art of Esoteric Posthumousness

9. Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie and Sexual Regeneration

10. The Theosophical Maitreya: On Benjamin Creme’s Millenarianism

11. Martial Arts Spirituality in Sweden: The Occult Connection

Part III. Occultism in Global Perspective

12. A Study into a Transreligious Quest for the Ultimate Truth: Indian, Muslim, and European Interpretations of the Upanishads

13. Occult’s First Foot Soldier in Bengal: Peary Chand Mittra and the Early Theosophical Movement

14. Re-Imagining an Ancient Greek Philosopher: The Pythagorean Musings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho)

15. African and Amerindian Spirits: A Note on the Influence of Nineteenth-Century Spiritism and Spiritualism on Afro- and African-American Religions

Part IV. Occultism and Modern Yoga

16. Sri Sabhapati Swami: The Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism

17. Tracing Vivekananda’s Prāṇa and Ākās´a: The Yogavāsiṣṭha and Rama Prasad’s Occult Science of Breath

18. Guru and Messiah: On the First Yoga Handbook in Polish Language: Wincenty Lutosławski’s The Development of the Power of Will by Means of Psychophysical Exercises (1909)

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