Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward Audiobook (Free)

Explores the role of magic and the occult in artwork and lifestyle from ancient occasions to today

• Examines key numbers behind esoteric cultural developments, such as Carl Jung, Anton LaVey, Paul Bowles, Aleister Crowley, and Rudolf Steiner

• Explores the annals of magic like a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with this contemporary soulless, digital monoculture

• Reveals how the magic of artwork can be restored if artwork is employed as a way rather than an end while offering ways of about Occulture: The Unseen Makes That Drive Lifestyle Forward rekindle intuitive creativeness

Art, magic, and the occult have already been intimately linked since our prehistoric ancestors created the initial cave paintings some 50,000 years back. As civilizations developed, these esoteric makes continued to drive culture forwards, both visibly and behind the moments, through the Hermetic ideas from the Renaissance, towards the ethereal worlds of 19th hundred years Symbolism, to the occult interests of the Surrealists.

Within this deep exploration of “occulture”–the liminal space where art and magic meet–Carl Abrahamsson reveals the integral function played by magic and occultism in the introduction of culture throughout history aswell as their relevance to the continuing success of art and creativity. Blending magical history and esoteric beliefs with his more than 30 years’ experience in occult actions, Abrahamsson looks at the phenomena and people who have been seminal in contemporary esoteric advancements, including Carl Jung, Anton LaVey, Paul Bowles, Aleister Crowley, and Rudolf Steiner.

Showing how art and magic had been initially one and the same, the writer explores the history of magic as a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with this contemporary soulless, digital monoculture. He reveals how the magic of art can be restored if artwork is employed as a way rather than an end–if it really is intense, psychological, violent, and expressive–and presents strategies for creating openly, magically, actually spontaneously, with intention unfettered with the whims of developments, an innovative practice akin to chaos magick that aids both makers and spectators to live with signifying. He also talks about intuition and creativity as the cornerstones of legitimate individuation, explaining how insights and illuminations seldom come in collective forms.

Exploring magical philosophy, occult background, the arts, mindset, and the colorful gray areas in between, Abrahamsson discloses the culturally and magically transformative role of art and the methods the occult continues to transform culture even today.