Sorcery & Mysticism
Pilgrims in the waterfall By Utagawa Kuniyoshi ( 歌川 国芳 ) Sorcery & Mysticism | Thursday – April 2, 2026 S orcery, Mysticism, Witchcraft, Shamanism, etc... What are they and how are they relevant today? First of all what moderns refer to as "mysticism" is always things about the world that they do not understand or care to understand, and this goes for religion and metaphysics as well: most modern people regard them as artifacts of the past, and really very few people, particularly within the Western world , actually care to even consider religion and the exoteric traditions from the point of view of cultural grounding, and the people who do consider religion from this point of view, the conservatives , have the most backwards and diffused sense of religion, often more so than the raving "hypermodernists". Really, what even is religion ? Yes, truly it should be stated here that religion in the modern and exoteric sense is a kind of mysticism, but not because reli...