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Wouter Hanegraaff on Western Esotericism

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture

I was completely ignorant about these things and I was just fascinated by the fact that nobody talked about it. It's the kind of an elephant in the room you walk around it and you act as if it's not there. Why is that? That has sort of fascinated me. So okay I got into this then I realized at one point that I was research although not that much. The term rejected knowledge had been coined by English historian James Webb who had written two very pioneering books your cult movements of the 19th and 20th century. He never developed beyond that because he committed suicide so he never really went beyond that. Those are the titles for my book, Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture

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