Occult Influence on pop culture

"Pseudoscience/Pseudoscientific Silliness, Quackery and the Occult haunt music, books, comics, cartoons, TV shows, and movies for decade"
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"Joseph's Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces (HWTF) has been incredibly influential since it was first published in 1949. The book is the basis for the popular structure known as The Hero's Journey, and it’s influenced numerous storytellers such as George Lucas, Richard Adams, and Stanley Kubrick. A memo on the book by Christopher Vogler influenced Disney movies such as Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King. In the storytelling world, it's not uncommon to hear Campbell…
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Ayaz Shabutdinov: "Russian popular blogger and get-rich-quick coach was arrested and charged with defrauding clients in Moscow. According to the prosecution, the 32-year-old man duped people by selling high-priced master classes and webinars that cultivated a "false impression" about their ability to "start a successful business and generate guaranteed super high income" (...) His paid training courses ranged from 100,000 rubles ($1,090) to 1.9 million rubles ($20,712)"
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"An extraterrestial, 5000 year old Atlantean etc" Bernard Perona aka Drunvalo Melchizedek (вefore he called himself Drunvalo Melchizedek he called himself Don, Akbar and Hummingbird): "He has authored books [The subject of his books place him squarely in the New Age as an expert in the “evolution of consciousness” circle along with Eckhart Tolle, Sri Aurobindo, Ken Wilber and others] and founded several schools of New Age teaching, such as the School of Remembering. He was formerly…
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American saucerian and founder of OTC Enterprises, who promoted himself as a protégé of Nikola Tesla, autor "Dimensions of Mystery: A Message for the Twentieth Century", a book length collection of his poetry, allegorical stories, and a report on the discovery of "free energy" [Free Energy refers to energy generated without input or with less energy input than is created. It clearly contradicts the first law of thermodynamics, ie. it can't happen], and discoverer of new physics, including…
Arthur (or Artur) Sita [born Arthur Mamedov] aka "Russian Osho" ["Osho left his body in January 1990. With Arthur, in his words, enlightenment happened at the age of 14, closer to his birthday, i.e. by May 1990. It's obvious who Arthur got the baton from to continue helping people. Arthur says that for the moment he is clearer than Osho"], "Enlightened Teacher", "Advaita Master", "Highly Developed Personality", "Buddha Of Our Time", "The Sunday Prophet", "The Modern Day Sage who knows literally everything about the structure of man and life" etc, a Russian New Age guru living in Thailand. "An unique expert in the field of mindfulness, who has already helped thousands of people to improve their lives, personal relationships, business, and restore order in their entire lives" The Occult, Personal Relationship, Music Books, New Age, Helping People, Pop Culture, Mindfulness, Tv Shows, In This Moment
Arthur (or Artur) Sita [born Arthur Mamedov] aka "Russian Osho" ["Osho left his body in January 1990. With Arthur, in his words, enlightenment happened at the age of 14, closer to his birthday, i.e. by May 1990. It's obvious who Arthur got the baton from to continue helping people. Arthur says that for the moment he is clearer than Osho"], "Enlightened Teacher", "Advaita Master", "Highly Developed Personality", "Buddha Of Our Time", "The Sunday Prophet", "The Modern Day Sage who knows…
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"Dennis Wheatley (1897–1977), the author of a number of immensely popular "black magic" novels, such as "The Devil Rides Out" (1934), did a great deal to shape the popular image of occultism and Satanism in twentieth-century Britain, from the 1930s through to the occult revival of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although he portrayed Satanism as evil, the ambience of his books made it seem strangely seductive and luxurious"
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"Conspiracy theorist John Todd's presentations began with what he claimed to be his family history, which he traced back to the witches of Salem, Massachusetts. [The man known variously as Kris Sarayn Kollyns, Kristopher S. Collins, John Wayne Todd, and Johnnie W. Todd]. He then told a remarkable story of his advance through the ranks of witchcraft until he was made a member of the "Grand Druid Council of Thirteen" who "only take orders from the Rothschilds." This was part of an…
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"Many, including Cameron, believed Hubbard had cribbed some of his ideas for Dianetics from what he'd learned during his time kibitzing with her husband, as well as genning up on the initiatory system of the O.T.O. and the Crowley titles in Jack's library. Cameron later recounted to friends how she once caught Hubbard going through the dumpster at the back of the house on 1003, trying to retrieve papers Jack had thrown out. Hubbard certainly didn't conceal the influence of Crowley on his…
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"The allegations against Frithjof Schuon, 84, the Swiss born writer and esotericist, concern religious rites involving what Monroe County Prosecutor Bob Miller called "various states of nudity" by the participants, with children sometimes present (...) Refuting notions that he was the head of a cult, Frithjof Schuon, said the group, known as Tariqa Maryamiyya or The Maryamiyyah Order, "is a spiritual society for prayer which exists for those Sufi followers of my principles." Schuon also said…
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"According to Guénon, we are now in last period – the Hindu Kali Yuga – as exhibited by the forgetting of traditional ways of life and the placing of materialistic and profane values at the centre of our lives. The main cause of this decline has been the placing of the profane above the sacred, with the Renaissance and the Reformation – usually seen as leaps forward in Western culture – here portrayed as the destroyers of the ancient tradition in Europe. Guénon argues that the Renaissance…
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"Boris Kipriyanovich was born in the town of Volzhsky, the Volgograd region of Russia in 1996. His claim, he is a reincarnated Martian: "I used to live on Mars – there are people there, just like us here on Earth, but they are taller ["taller than seven meters"], and they breathe carbon dioxide. There was a global disaster on Mars, and everything was scorched out (...) The Martians were waging wars all the time so I would often have to participate in air raids with a friend of mine. We could travel in time and space flying in round spaceships, but we would observe life on planet Earth on triangular aircrafts." Interestingly, several years ago, Boris predicted two major catastrophes on Earth: in 2009 and then in 2013. As we all now know, the boy’s predictions did not come true" City Of God, Indigo Children, As Above So Below, Newspaper Headlines, Ancient Knowledge, Spiritual Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Music Games, Two Year Olds
"Boris Kipriyanovich was born in the town of Volzhsky, the Volgograd region of Russia in 1996. His claim, he is a reincarnated Martian: "I used to live on Mars – there are people there, just like us here on Earth, but they are taller ["taller than seven meters"], and they breathe carbon dioxide. There was a global disaster on Mars, and everything was scorched out (...) The Martians were waging wars all the time so I would often have to participate in air raids with a friend of mine. We could…
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"Ruth Norman, "whose true spiritual identity is the Archangel Uriel" was a cosmic visionary in the eyes of her friends and followers. She co-founded "Unarius Academy of Science" with her husband [Ernest Norman aka "Archangel Raphael" and/or "The Moderator"; also Ernest Norman had over the years remembered his life as Jesus of Nazareth] and had a cult following on public access television in California in the early 1980s and 1990s. Unarius, a spiritual collective with connections to beliefs…
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"The Uruguayan-born Serge Benhayon came to Australia aged six and grew up in Maroubra, on Sydney's southern beaches, before becoming a tennis coach. Mr Benhayon established his religion, Universal Medicine, in 1999 after allegedly receiving a spiritual epiphany while sitting on the toilet. Mr Benhayon claims to be the reincarnation of Leonardo da Vinci and calls himself the "Ascended Master" or "One of The Hierarchy". He also tells his followers that they have experienced at least 2300 lives…
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Nadezhda Antonenko: "An Orthodox healer. Former founder and the director of "Nadezhda Center of Medicine and Rehabilitation". Nadezhda Antonenko promised miraculous healing even from cancer, and she did it with the help of ordinary tap water, which she injected into a vein for hopeless patients. According to Antonenko, the water dissolved the metastases, and the tumors themselves came out of the patients in the form of fish, snakes and turtles. For 22 years, Nadezhda Antonenko "healing" with…
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Alyona Polyn [born Yelena Sulikova]: "A reality TV star and self-proclaimed witch, and the leader of a group called the Empire of the Strongest Witches, faces up to seven years behind bars on charges of extremism and offending the feelings of religious believers"