Occult Practices Online: Necessary, (Un)recognized and at the Edge of the Seriousness Cover Image

Окултните практики онлайн: необходими, (не)признати и на ръба на сериозността
Occult Practices Online: Necessary, (Un)recognized and at the Edge of the Seriousness

Author(s): Kristina Dimitrova
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Фондация Медийна Демокрация

Summary/Abstract: The article considers some questions related to the contemporary occult practices, such as psychic séances, divinations by cards, influence on karmic conditionalities, etc., and their presence online. Magic today is focused on personal needs mostly belonging to the romantic and professional spheres. Mainly in situations of crisis occult practices compensate for the insufficiencies of the scientific and religious explanations of reality. Between legitimacy and mistrust, being simultaneously ‘sensitives’ and charlatans, practitioners reassure the existence of the individuals, fill them with confidence, and inspire their activity, while turning their basic anxieties into a commodity or into a recreational object.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 61-70
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian