[Opinion] Academic Rigor in Occult Texts

[Xenophon]

Those books are more about describing certain phenomena in the NewAge scene and the occulture, less about proving or disproving doctrines. Academics have become very respectful towards magic, and nobody uses the S-word (superstition) anymore.

Got it. I see your point.

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This is another reason why I love my Kindle. You click on the footnote marker, it takes you to the footnote, you read the footnote, you close the footnote and then carry on

Though you mentioned you were reading the Red Book. There Jung (or his editors) put 300+ footnotes at the end of each main division of the book. You can save that for the end of each section and it's almost like another chapter. (Jung has any number of interesting insights; I don't find his prose to follow any particular line of reasoning, so disjunct footnotes are no more meandering than the text they support.)