occultism

That's why there's quite a bit of superficial similarities between hackery and occultism, and an overlap in aesthetics.

The fact of practicing occultism or magic is that it may work by summoning/manipulating evil forces.

The 'roots' and branches of 1920s - 1940s Western occultism is largely a Theosophical society thing.

Same with Jack Parsons and occultism - it helped shaped much of his personality and beliefs.

Maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean by metaphysics and occultism?

Compare that to Pearlman declining the Fields Medal and Newton dabbling with alchemy and occultism, which are both representative of fairly weird behavior.

Voynich's Caucasian characters may have just been following the latest trend in cryptography/occultism.

The Enlightenment age brought about an increased interest in occultism right next to an increased interest in science, often by the same people.

I studied a little bit of occultism, but wasn't as dedicated as you must have been.

Any other religion's mystic branch, or western occultism or alchemy similarly.

Contemporary to the cited Camillo Agrippa, fencing master, was Henrichus Cornelius Agrippa, whose collections on philosophy and occultism are much more relevant to the topic.

Newton practiced alchemy, occultism, and religious heresy.

I looked but I couldn’t find any evidence that “occultism” comes from encryption of heretical ideas.

Most surprising to me were not your beliefs, but that you had coined a term, "Neuro-Occultism," that is utterly ungooglable--the only results returned are your own writings.

Christian teaching has always insisted that magic, witchcraft, or occultism was "false" or superstitious and dangerous, but "false" does not mean "nonexistent" or "impossible".

The Abrahamic religions uniformly forbid superstitions, occultism, witchcraft and all kinds of magic, not because they "are impossible" but because they're uncontrollable and dangerous, for anyone, anytime.

The purpose of Neuro-Occultism is to develop such a rigorous, mathematical model of consciousness and being; and in so doing, deprecate itself.

Occultism is based around personal experiences and beliefs.

Occultism is an extremely broad catch-all umbrella of domains of knowledge that all share in the essential trait of having to do with something that is normally hidden from us.