Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward-神秘：推动文化前进的无形力量

作者：Carl Abrahamsson

书名：Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward《神秘：推动文化前进的无形力量》

中文简介：自从我们史前祖先在大约50000年前创造了第一幅洞穴壁画以来，艺术、魔法和神秘都有着密切的联系。随着文明的发展，这些深奥的力量继续推动文化向前发展，无论是幕前的还是幕后的，从文艺复兴时期的封闭观念，到19世纪象征主义的空灵世界，再到超现实主义者的神秘利益。

英文简介：Explores the role of magic and the occult in art and culture from ancient times to today 

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

• Explores the history of magic as a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with our contemporary soulless, digital monoculture 

• Reveals how the magic of art can be restored if art is employed as a means rather than an end and offers strategies to rekindle intuitive creativity 

In this deep exploration of “occulture”--the liminal space where art and magic meet--Carl Abrahamsson reveals the integral role played by magic and occultism in the development of culture throughout history as well as their relevance to the continuing survival of art and creativity. Blending magical history and esoteric philosophy with his more than 30 years’ experience in occult movements, Abrahamsson looks at the phenomena and people who have been seminal in modern esoteric developments, including Carl Jung, Anton LaVey, Paul Bowles, Aleister Crowley, and Rudolf Steiner. 

Showing how art and magic were initially one and the same, the author explores the history of magic as a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with our contemporary soulless, digital monoculture. He reveals how the magic of art can be restored if art is employed as a means rather than an end--if it is intense, emotional, violent, and expressive--and offers strategies for creating freely, magically, even spontaneously, with intent unfettered by the whims of trends, a creative practice akin to chaos magick that assists both creators and spectators to live with meaning. He also looks at intuition and creativity as the cornerstones of genuine individuation, explaining how insights and illuminations seldom come in collective forms. 

Exploring magical philosophy, occult history, the arts, psychology, and the colorful grey areas in between, Abrahamsson reveals the culturally and magically transformative role of art and the ways the occult continues to transform culture to this day.